A fair assessment. I don't know the BS stuff as well as I should.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
He also auditioned for the Monkees, so he gets many bonus story-telling points. Sorry--can't believe I forgot "For What It's Worth."
― clemenza, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
Listened to After The Goldrush again today. It ruled.
Also heard a live solo version of "Ohio" w/o those nails on chalkboard CSN harmonies and it was such an improvement.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
I can listen to "For What It's Worth" thanks to (a) The Muppets (b) Public Enemy's interpolation
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
I just did some online reading about Stills' Monkees audition and had a major misconception corrected (I think--it's the internet). I was always under the impression that he was turned away--you'd even often read that they said no because he actually knew how to play music. I found two different sources, though, that said he in fact landed one of the four parts and had to drop out because of another record contract he'd already signed.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Stills and Dewey Martin actually played on some Tork/Monkees sessions in '67-'68.
― Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't mean for "because he actually knew how to play music" to come across as sarcasm. I love the Monkees.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
[x-post]Wow, sorry for the triple post. :-O
― Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
Stills basically didn't realise that being an amazing guitarist didn't mean he also had to try to be a songwriter
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
tbh I don't really dig For What It's Worth all that much. it's so over-exposed I can't really find a way into enjoying it.
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
Stop Shakey what's that sound
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
the melodious keening of sasquatch
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
it's so over-exposed I can't really find a way into enjoying it.
if you weren't vice-prez of the Forrest Gump fanclub you probably wouldn't have to hear it so much
― In the long run, we will all be cyberpunks (Z S), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
Agree that "For What It's Worth" is badly overexposed--it, "Purple Haze," and "Somebody to Love" (or "White Rabbit") are the default songs for any footage involving Vietnam or hippies or LBJ. I wish somebody would have the imagination to use something like "Trouble Every Day" or "Omaha" instead.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m0yCM5uhQU
― i drive a wood paneled station dragon (La Lechera), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
My introduction!
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWTqj5lvkFs
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
I feel like I oughta know, but who's the host?
― clemenza, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
the guitar bit on that 2nd track sounds like a direct rip of Jumpin Jack Flash. what's the chronology?
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
"Mr. Soul" predates "Jumpin' Jack Flash" by over a year.
Also, it's weird how certain aspects -- the lead vocals, part of Neil's solo -- are live, and the rest is canned. And I've never heard that little backwards-guitar bit before.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnH--RjdmTc
always loved this song - his version is fine enough, but the isleys (and aretha, for that matter) made it fly.
― low content wine racing (stevie), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 07:22 (twelve years ago) link
The Seger version is pretty nice too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Wp-MhcZ6g
― Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 07:30 (twelve years ago) link
I thought Mr. Soul was an obvious rip of Satisfaction, not Jumpin Jack Flash...?
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i think stills didn't want to do that song because the riff was so similar to satisfaction. the riff is definitely derived from it, but once the song gets going i pretty much forget about it.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
I like a lot Stills' songs for Buffalo Springfield, it's his voice I don't like
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
I'll rep for this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbXKEjIApac
Rock and Roll Woman
― Lee547 (Lee626), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
love loads of stills' buffalo stuff... 'hot dusty roads' is great.
― assume makes an ass out of u and me (but mainly u) (stevie), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
here's a comp i made of (mostly) lost songs from 1973-1980. mainly avoiding chrome dreams stuff. http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/11101846032/sad-movies-a-secret-history-of-neil-youngsome incredible songs/performances. crazy that it's just scratching the surface of unreleased material from that period. bring on archives II!!!!
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
ooh!
yr a prince
― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks!
― Brad C., Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
thanks tyler! i added your blog to my reader at some point but then i stopped checking it, so i am always glad when you repost stuff.
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Thursday, 6 October 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
cool. there's some key stuff on this comp, some of it more readily available than others, but all in all it's pretty solid. even all the CSNY 74 songs are great. at that point he could write a total throwaway like "hawaiian sunrise" and it would still turn out amazing.
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 October 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
man, I love "Heavy Love" and "Cocaine Eyes."
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 October 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
had no idea White Line was such an old song!
― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, so many of those ragged glory tunes are old. here's the crazy horse version of white line from 75 or 76https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aaoi1_P8qY8
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
holy shit this is awesome tyler
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
basically at this point, i want neil to release a 10-disc archives for every year from 1973-1978. he could totally do it.
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
I think YOU should do it
― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
i would if i had access to the tapes! who can give me access?!
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 October 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks for posting this! Can't wait to dig in.
crazy that it's just scratching the surface of unreleased material from that period. bring on archives II!!!!
I share your optimism, but we all know Neil well enough to know that "Archives II" ≠ "unreleased material."
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 6 October 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
hee hee, well, yeah, but this next volume really is going to have to include a lot of unreleased stuff. unless neil just hates us all.
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 October 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
heh... Neil moved his operation out of the studio my buddy was working at. to a studio around the corner from my house lol.
― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 6 October 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
oh man this Home on the Range version
― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 6 October 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
Do you think acts like Neil, Prince and the prolific like have it in their wills or whatever just what to do with what's in their vaults after they die?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 October 2011 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
I'd bet yes with those particular examples
― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 6 October 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
Prince especially, since he doesn't have any children
― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 6 October 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
i mean, prince will definitely be buried with his master tapes. don't know about neil, i'm sure there's a fairly elaborate plan for all of that.
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 October 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
Stevie Wonder has a clause in his contract that all unreleased material is to be destroyed when he dies.
(all of his unreleased material, that is)
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 6 October 2011 20:33 (twelve years ago) link