Is this the story of Johnny Spud?
― a cocoanut rink (how's life), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 20:05 (nine years ago) link
Human Highway is a v fun movie
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 20:05 (nine years ago) link
if you haven't seen it already
http://pitchfork.com/news/58515-neil-young-partners-with-streetwear-line-supreme/
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, March 18, 2015 4:04 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Ugh.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 20:12 (nine years ago) link
This Shirt's For You
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link
I say this as a huge Neil fan and a defended of even his more questionable musical turns but, what the fuck is going on with this guy? Mid-life crisis several decades late?
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link
divorce is expensive
― Brad C., Wednesday, 18 March 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link
neil is planning on living to be 146 years old, so this is right on schedule.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link
Those LincVolt dealies cost $40k each to convert, and I can't imagine Pono's anywhere close to turning a profit.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 20:46 (nine years ago) link
tbf he's not singing for spud yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-QYAWXK7fo
― da croupier, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link
http://www.supremenewyork.com/random/neil_young
this interview seems to suggest he's a) doin' it for the kids and b) miserable
― da croupier, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 21:02 (nine years ago) link
I hear that releasing Archives II in recognizable & viable formats has the equivalent effect of a year's supply of Prozac.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 21:11 (nine years ago) link
dammit he doesn't wanna look back at the damn mid-70s and all those songs about pegi and carrie he wants to save the world in an electric car with the skateboard kids
― da croupier, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
didn't he have to sell off some of his ranch land a few years ago because he needed the dough?
all the money he continually sinks into boondoggles like Lionel, LincVolt, PONO, etc have to hurt after awhile even for a guy who made a lot of money
but that said it's like he was never outside of Harvest like a mega album act like the Eagles or Fleetwood Mac either
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
man, broke/single/bitter/old neil is going to make some heavy albums. the new ditch trilogy! just gonna be moans and feedback.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link
i imagine neil young has made as much $$ from cover versions as from his own albums.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link
also CSNY
― Brad C., Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:16 (nine years ago) link
This Shirt's For You― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, March 18, 2015 1:39 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, March 18, 2015 1:39 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Thought this was 'This Shit's For You' and figured it was a wash either way
― totally unachievable goals and no incentive to compromise (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:36 (nine years ago) link
― tylerw, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 21:50 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'd totally listen to this tbh
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:41 (nine years ago) link
moans and feedback
I'm stealing this
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Thursday, 19 March 2015 13:11 (nine years ago) link
He should just put out more volumes of "Arc."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 19 March 2015 13:38 (nine years ago) link
is arc on pono yet?
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 19 March 2015 13:57 (nine years ago) link
i wonder if they will ever release the "real" authentic Weld David Briggs which were apparently only ever on the VHS film version?
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 19 March 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link
but seriously not to harp on this again but I was just listening to the excellent 2CD basement tapes raw by dylan which i got for $20 and i think about how amazingly awesome dylan's bootleg shit is being handled and how pissed i am at neil sometimes
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 19 March 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
yup
― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Thursday, 19 March 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
does dylan get really involved with that stuff or is he like, "as long as i get paid and can release ten of my hot sexy new jams every two or three years"
― da croupier, Thursday, 19 March 2015 18:41 (nine years ago) link
general impression is that he isn't super involved, likely for the best
in general dylan doesn't seem like the kind of guy that would want to fuss with that stuff
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 19 March 2015 18:44 (nine years ago) link
He painted a new cover for the Self Portrait box, he's contributed to liner notes for a few of his sets, and presumably he has to give his OK for anything to get released. But I can't imagine Dylan himself trawling through boxes of tapes, or doing any listening beyond a cursory airing of the finished project.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 March 2015 18:45 (nine years ago) link
oh yeah i mean i don't know he approves everything but in general he's not like neil who basically retained some guy to live on his ranch and work on the archives full-time for like 20 years and apparently fucked with said dude and changed his mind about stuff like a zillion times
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 19 March 2015 18:48 (nine years ago) link
i wonder what neil would say if you noted how comparatively neurotic he is about this stuff than dylan
― da croupier, Thursday, 19 March 2015 18:49 (nine years ago) link
he would instantly open the vault
or say some shit about quality v quantity
then write a song about it
― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Thursday, 19 March 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
then write an song album about it
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 March 2015 18:54 (nine years ago) link
Dylandale
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 19 March 2015 18:55 (nine years ago) link
"Me and Bob, we got an innarresting history/heard him sing on the radio in my Dodge in '63/Hey now now hey now now"
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 19 March 2015 19:04 (nine years ago) link
we got an innarresting history. Indeed they do. For instance, some book, maybe Shakey, lays out a couple of evenings in California, think it was: some place D. hadn't played for a while, and everybody's all excited, it's going well, and, then top it all, a surprise appearance by "Neil Younnng, everbuddy, here he izz!" So they launch into a tune, it goes on for a while, turns out great. And then---Neil kicks off another. And stays for a long time, maybe the rest of the show.Second show (next night, I think): "Oh wow, here's NeilYoung again, folks! Ah..."
― dow, Thursday, 19 March 2015 20:50 (nine years ago) link
haha yeah i just re-read that and neil was like cool bob that was great see ya tomorrow night! and bob was ummmmm
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 20 March 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1F0kKiRnvEU/TW7V5sUn3lI/AAAAAAAAApc/EvwuHrfKroM/s400/bob-neil-4-1-86.bmp
― tylerw, Friday, 20 March 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link
tight bros from way back when
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 20 March 2015 16:03 (nine years ago) link
Dylan in a 1985 interview:
The only time it bothered me that someone sounded like me was when I was living in Phoenix, Arizona, in about '72 and the big song at the time was "Heart of Gold". I used to hate it when it came on the radio. I always liked Neil Young, but it bothered me every time I listened to "Heart of Gold." I think it was up at number one for a long time, and I'd say, "Shit, that's me. If it sounds like me, it should as well be me."
― Brad C., Friday, 20 March 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
i think i know what dylan means there, but at the same time, "heart of gold" doesn't seem like a total dylan copycat.
― tylerw, Friday, 20 March 2015 16:21 (nine years ago) link
Young's a much better singer than Dylan
― IHeartMedia, the giant broadcaster formerly known as Clear Channel, (stevie), Friday, 20 March 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
also songwriter and guitarist but i suppose that's debatable
Isn't there a story about Dylan kind of stalking Neil around that time? "Heart of Gold" doesn't sound like Bob all that much but something about it really punched his buttons.
― Brad C., Friday, 20 March 2015 16:25 (nine years ago) link
yeah i remember that quote and honestly I don't really get it, unless Dylan just in his head lays claims to the entire swatch of US folk rock (which, you know, he COULD in a way), but neil's chord voicings, that real heavy half palm muted downstrokes on the one-and + kenny buttry's boom-bap drums, and sort of dreamy half-coherent lyrical approach are so unique to neil
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 20 March 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link
neil's basic acoustic rhythm playing is SOOOO good, it's nothing fancy or super complex fingerpicking or thrilling like his full-flight crazy horse jamming but that's why he's so great on the harvest style/goldrush/etc material, he has a "heavy" right hand and conveys a certain heaviness and rock solid rhythmic drive to stuff that nobody else from that era, like whoever you want james taylor etc, had
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 20 March 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
yeah i mean, maybe the closest thing is john wesley harding (which buttrey played on as well) but that's not really dylan's signature "sound"... don't know about stalking... dylan showed up unannounced during the zuma sessions in 75.
― tylerw, Friday, 20 March 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
Dylan: "Wait a minute, it sounds like he's wearing my harmonica holder!"
― Brad C., Friday, 20 March 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link
I feel like basically all classic rock stars were constantly drunk and coked up from 72-76 and all running into each other in the larger LA area
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 20 March 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
def the time and place I'd go to if able
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 20 March 2015 16:40 (nine years ago) link
a huge mistake perhaps
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 20 March 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link