shit I thought it was widely available? I'll have to look when I get back to my main library, gonna be a few days though.
― Euler, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
well i dunno, i've got a live version i thought was from the hollywood palace, not the hollywood bowl. maybe it's the same?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
― tylerw, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 22:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
out oct. 2, 2012!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 22:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol this should be a real humdinger
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 22:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ha, his bio comes out exactly one week before Townshend's!
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 23:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
The problem with being uber-venerated is that no one wants to be the one to say, "Neil, you've got to do something about the title. It's a little better than Cannabilistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers, but a little worse than Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes."
― clemenza, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 23:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha. will be interesting to see what angle this thing has. would be hilarious if it was this really gossipy tell-all. not likely though! i'm predicting a kind of vignette-y thing a la chronicles.
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 May 2012 02:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
waging heavy peace
think about it man
― balls, Thursday, 3 May 2012 02:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
I would think vignettes too, with a tone at times of a wide-eyed fan. Much more openly nostalgic than Dylan, though, without Dylan's arm's-length relationship (to put it mildly) to the hippie moment.
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 May 2012 02:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
w/out "waging" it'd be kinda cool in a thurston moore kinda way
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 3 May 2012 02:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
kinda
The original title was Channeling Heavy D, but they were afraid that would just confuse people.
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 May 2012 03:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Does Neil's hat say Rinse Dream?
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 3 May 2012 03:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Best pun since Eyes Wide Shut.
― caro's johnson (Eazy), Thursday, 3 May 2012 04:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
that would be the best hat
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 3 May 2012 04:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha, i guess that thing in his hat actually says "Hippie Dream". hmm.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 16:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
hey it's the best song on landing on water!
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
rumor is the book is told from the point of view of neil's dog, who was present for the recording of landing on water.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dude's neck looks photoshopped
― da croupier, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 18:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
dude's neck has looked unreal since before photoshop was invented tbf
― some dude, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 18:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
guess you can read an excerpt on your kindle here? http://www.amazon.com/Buzz-Books-2012-Pre-Publication-ebook/dp/B0084F3N2Ki don't have a kindle tho.
― tylerw, Monday, 21 May 2012 21:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Archives II will be Kindle-only.
― Leslie Mann: Boner Machine (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
read it and weep
― tylerw, Monday, 21 May 2012 21:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
I am honestly a bit concerned about it being limited to that new high def audio format he's supposedly inventing....or maybe the box set will be packaged in an electric car
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 02:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
hey here's a page from the excerpthttp://ow.ly/i/E0lzmodel trains. later he talks about CSNY's American Dream! thrills.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 22:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
lord that is boring.
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 22:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
haaaa. he also talks about some old cars and his new alternative to the mp3.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 22:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
That excerpt totally reminds me of Ellington's writings on food/restaurants in Music Is My Mistress.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 23:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
So basically this book is going to be like the end of Keith Richards, when he's just rambling? "So this one time I hung out with Paul McCartney in Jamaica ... did I ever tell you my bangers and mash recipe ... "
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 23:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
hey this is out today!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:24 (7 months ago) Permalink
Would love a review of this from folks here (especially those who have read "Shakey" too). Have a feeling it will end up as a birthday or Christmas present if I don't intervene, and if its really boring I would just ask for my own copy of "Shakey" instead. So yeah, get on it people.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:37 (7 months ago) Permalink
You need Shakey regardless; it's really essential! I'll probably end up getting this for Christmas; in no hurry to pick it up tbh.
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:39 (7 months ago) Permalink
yeah shakey is definitely one of the better rock bios out there -- even with all its flaws, it's by far the ultimate neil book. i'm going to get waging heavy peace sooner or later.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:40 (7 months ago) Permalink
I already read Shakey btw, just a borrowed copy. Loved it, flaws and all of course.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:11 (7 months ago) Permalink
if anything looks like waging heavy peace has some cool pictures
― tylerw, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:00 (7 months ago) Permalink
also important http://twitter.com/neilyoung
this one's kinda rad - american star n bars sessions
― tylerw, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:05 (7 months ago) Permalink
Shakey is terrific. Waging Heavy Peace, the little I've seen of it has been pretty disappointing.
On the tour with Sonic Youth: "We were a great bill; people got a real show. It rocked. How original are they? Very."
Like, really, that's the main takeaway from that tour? I thought people were booing the opening bands and losing their shit. Maybe he gets into that later (I only saw one page, posted on Lee Ranaldo's Instagram, lol).
Anyhow. I dunno. Book doesn't seem promising.
― dmr, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:31 (7 months ago) Permalink
When I saw the Crazy Horse/Sonic Youth/Social D tour, people were into all of it. There were hippie girls twirling and dancing to Sonic Youth, Neil Young biker fans getting down to Social Distortion.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:36 (7 months ago) Permalink
Nobody booed SY on the show I saw, but the guy next to me said, "You like this shit?". And a couple of kids in front of me left after Social Distortion's set.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:38 (7 months ago) Permalink
maybe I am exagerrating what I had heard the reactions were, but in any case the prose seems very vanilla
completely not fair to judge based on one silly page screen shot but hey
― dmr, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:43 (7 months ago) Permalink
Hah, never had time for Social Distortion, impossible for me to imagine that that was the band anyone, kids or no, was excited to see on that bill. Wonder where those kids are now, and what is on their iPod/turntable/car stereo?
― grandavis, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:44 (7 months ago) Permalink
Social Distortion.
― taking tiger mountain (up the butt) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:59 (7 months ago) Permalink
Haha, yeah, their appeal completely escaped me (and still does). It was baffling/hilarious to watch these kids' reactions: "All right! They're playing 'Drug Train'!". And immediately after the set, they bolted, like they wanted to make sure they split before accidentally catching any ofNYCH's set.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 18:05 (7 months ago) Permalink
Hah Alfred, probably true.
Tarfumes, is that last post implying that Social Distortion went on AFTER Sonic Youth, not before, of just that those kids could not even risk a whiff of the NYCH set. Have trouble wrapping my head around the idea of SY going on first.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 18:10 (7 months ago) Permalink
"... or just that those kids"
― grandavis, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 18:11 (7 months ago) Permalink
I don't know Social Distortion was one of those bands that I would never mind hearing when they came on, but can't imagine ever getting worked up enough to become a "fan".
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 18:13 (7 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, SY definitely went on first. SD had a sort-of hit at the time ("Ball & Chain"), but that was one more sort-of hit than SY had.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 18:27 (7 months ago) Permalink
social d = dadpunk rock
― tylerw, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 18:31 (7 months ago) Permalink
SPOILER ALERT: it doesn't.
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 18:45 (6 months ago) Permalink
ha, yeah, don't hold your breath. i don't know, it's worth it, you can just skim the pono. short version: pono is so cool.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 18:46 (6 months ago) Permalink
It's harder to skim through an audiobook.
At least Keith sounds like such a badass when he says "biomass".
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 18:49 (6 months ago) Permalink
is the audio book in pono? i hear you're only getting 5% of carradine's badassness if not.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 18:50 (6 months ago) Permalink
Sounds like its about a 64kbps mono mp3. Surprised Neil allowed it.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 18:51 (6 months ago) Permalink
I actually didn't mind the constant shilling for Pono and the endless digressions about cars or toy trains. It kind of confirmed my long-held suspicions that Neil might be kind of a drag to spend any significant length of time with, no matter how much I love his music.
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 18:53 (6 months ago) Permalink
haha, yeah there were times when i imagined his friends/wife saying to him while he writing: "are you sure you don't want to smoke a little weed and calm down?"
― tylerw, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 18:55 (6 months ago) Permalink
Sadly, his digressions into fears of dementia seem incredibly relevant based on the book so far. :(
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 18:55 (6 months ago) Permalink
He seems to have written literally anything that came into his head and it was edited really minimally. It has an unusually intimate effect, like you're sitting beside him as he rambles on about his life; it's just that he rambles so often about his obsessions that it becomes absurd and hilarious. A "Waging Heavy Peace" drinking game based on taking a shot every time Pono, cars or model trains are mentioned would get you life-threateningly shitfaced in no time.
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 19:00 (6 months ago) Permalink
yeah, i can't imagine anyone edited this thing. i just think of it as neil spending an hour a day writing, and barely thinking about what he's already written about. so sometimes it's interesting, sometime's it's not.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 19:03 (6 months ago) Permalink
i honestly wonder if he would have put more work into it if his dad were alive, but then i doubt he even would have tried
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 19:10 (6 months ago) Permalink
I hate to say it but this is pretty dire.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 19:23 (6 months ago) Permalink
I think it's fair to say that Shakey remains the definitive book on Neil, yeah.
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 19:29 (6 months ago) Permalink
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OTM, LOL
I considered buying the audiobook but found the book cheap-ish on eBay ($12 with shipping) and just bought the damn thing. It hasn't arrived yet but I'm looking forward to it. I like the idea of it being a window into Neil's famously ornery, cantankerous, uncompromising psyche, and by all accounts, that sounds like just what it'll be.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 19:45 (6 months ago) Permalink
Its not really ornery, cantakerous and uncompromising: its more like depressed and childlike.
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 14:33 (6 months ago) Permalink
He's rarely cantankerous, unless he's talking about the sound quality of MP3s or the televising of the rock and roll hall of fame ceremony. I think Bill's on point with the childlike poutiness; there's a simplicity to his whole presentation of "the Neil Young experience" that makes me wonder how real this all is.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 15:17 (6 months ago) Permalink
I do recommend the Gregg Allman book. Definitely a cool guy who admits to some serious missteps in the past.
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 19:33 (6 months ago) Permalink
oh god, another chancee!Neil Young will do a Book Club Twitter Chat, sponsored by Blue Rider Press and Penguin Online, on Wednesday, the 28th of November, 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm (ET), when he will be taking questions about Waging Heavy Peace. To participate and for updates, follow @BlueRiderPress, @PenguinUSA, @NeilYoung#WagingHeavyPeace
― tylerw, Monday, 26 November 2012 22:30 (5 months ago) Permalink
Did this happen? Didn't see anything on Twitter! Don't tell me I'm following Penguin books now for nothing.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 29 November 2012 14:15 (5 months ago) Permalink
Penguin Books USA @penguinusaUnfortunately our chat with @NeilYoung on Wed, 11/28 at 7:30 PM is postponed. We hope to announce a new date soon. #WAGINGHEAVYPEACE
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 29 November 2012 14:23 (5 months ago) Permalink
He was on the Daily Show last night. Only caught a few seconds, where Stewart asked him about Pono. He neglected to ask the necessary follow-up, "How the fuck do you know what it sounds like? You've gone on record has having permanently damaged hearing!"
― and I scream Fieri Eiffel Tower High (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 29 November 2012 15:53 (5 months ago) Permalink
if you're anywhere near philly: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/entertainment/music_nightlife/Neil-Young-books-Hurricane-Sandy-benefit-at-the-Borgata.html
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 November 2012 15:55 (5 months ago) Permalink
I did some dramatic readings of the book on-air last week. I forgot what I picked because everything about this book is nonsensical in the best way possible.
― Maria Tesla Pizzeria, Thursday, 29 November 2012 15:55 (5 months ago) Permalink
That would be an excellent blurb--would get me to read the damn thing, unlike most other posts, and the mopey cover, and the sheer heft--but also, having read it, I think it does make (enough)sense. It's a jam, man, with recurring themes, images, segments of timelines--establishing a groove for a while, then we jump back to different roadtrips, incl in Lincvolt (for fun and possible profit), forward again to the band histories--but now we're with the Squires in Manitoba, where the trees always look like the wind's howling through them even when it isn't, and the people do too, and the bandstand starts shaking (just a polar bear, being chased out from under the building) and a guy's leaning up against a telephone pole, frozen in August--now Buffalo Springfield on the fabulous Sunset Strip, now rehearsing with the Horse, trying to find himself without weed, and without thinking too much (doesn't work with the Horse), now recording with Briggs, who hates him when he isn't daring to be great. His birth family, his marriages (frankness about his own shortcomings), his kids, his friends, great joy and smash-ups (he comes back to the death of Danny Whitten,just when and how I thought he wouldn't). It's all about bringing the resources of the past, present and future together, living up to and through it all, so far. Sure this involves some repetition, and vamping 'til he finds another telling turn of phrase, another story coming through the typing, another doggie door, rainbow, whatever. It's not pot but it's not bad.
― dow, Thursday, 6 December 2012 20:27 (5 months ago) Permalink
Actually it may be pot.
― dow, Thursday, 6 December 2012 20:38 (5 months ago) Permalink
I can only imagine how nonsensical this would be if Neil was still a stoner. Egad.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 6 December 2012 20:49 (5 months ago) Permalink
He might not have written it if he were still getting high, or he might have done the usual: light up, kick back and Skype with the journo, who hopefully knows what to ask, when to shut up, how to edit. He's looking for a new way to deal with the new, alarming sideffects of sobriety: "I walk the halls of straightness", but does eventually hear some new songs calling. He stopped smoking and drinking because of something his doctor spotted in his brain, so he's trying not to think about that too much. he has fun recalling musical adventures, but this leads him to and all around the departures of Whitten, Briggs, Palmer (thus Buffalo Springfield, basically), Tim Drummond, who's still around but drinking and in a wheelchair, having given up music when his wife left him. He wants to turn young people on to the glory of old sound made new, like he wants to feel inspired again, also not to be an imperious asshole to the people who work with and for him. He wants to play with his toys, and keep 'em nice. For instance.
― dow, Thursday, 6 December 2012 22:22 (5 months ago) Permalink
i like dow's take on this book. anyway, more PONO news: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-youngs-pono-plans-take-shape-with-new-trademarks-20121219I like this quote from neil's manager: "It's too early for me to talk about it, to give you anything that's based on reality," Roberts tells Rolling Stone. "Who knows what kind of problems there might be or might not be?"
― tylerw, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 19:45 (5 months ago) Permalink
He should release an album called PONOgraphy.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 20:59 (5 months ago) Permalink
awesome posts dow
― Andrew WKRP (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 21:14 (5 months ago) Permalink
Tom Petty, Beastie Boys' Mike D, Kid Rock and members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers were among those consulted.
Pass.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 21:16 (5 months ago) Permalink
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Pono
― tylerw, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 21:19 (5 months ago) Permalink
PONO's Boutique
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 21:20 (5 months ago) Permalink
I'll never read this, but like Everest it was there.
― clemenza, Friday, 1 March 2013 00:45 (2 months ago) Permalink