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― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 17:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
i thought about getting tickets to the MSG show (never seen Neil live) but holy cow it's expensive
― da croupier, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:06 (11 months ago) Permalink
it is pretty amazing tho you should go
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 23:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/q-a-crazy-horses-frank-poncho-sampedro-on-37-years-with-neil-young-20120614funny that sampedro was kevin eubank's personal assistant.
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 June 2012 17:15 (11 months ago) Permalink
I've seen Neil live a grand total of once - a "surprise" show in Santa Cruz with Booker T and the MGs sometime after Harvest Moon came out - and he was amazing, played a great range of material (including "I Believe in You"!)
but ever since then I've been unable to bring myself to cough up the huge amounts of money necessary to see him in some venue I'll probably hate. really can't imagine a scenario that would ever top the show I saw
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 17:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
^ ditto. Saw him with Crazy Horse in 1991. His last encore was "Welfare Mothers," with the (huge basketball arena) house lights on. If I'd never seen them before, I'd find a way to see this tour, but cripes, $70 for nosebleed seats?
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 14 June 2012 17:40 (11 months ago) Permalink
yeah, i'm still on the fence. totally want to go, but the cash! i have a family to feed here, neil!
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 June 2012 17:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
He'd feel bad for you if you were a farmer.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:07 (11 months ago) Permalink
i'm growing tomatoes in my backyard this summer.
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
You'll be too far away to throw them at him.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
Tyler, how are the tomatoes doing? That may have some bearing on getting a break on tickets.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
TERRIBLE. Help a farmer out, neil.
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:59 (11 months ago) Permalink
""Homegrown" wasn't about tomatoes. Sorry dawg."--Neil
― Electro-Shock Rory (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:03 (11 months ago) Permalink
tell neil you're inventing a car that runs on tomatoes, maybe he'll go into business with you
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
these tomatoes make mp3s sound like vinyl
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:18 (11 months ago) Permalink
but can only be chewed using a special blu-tooth setup
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
yes but does your tomato patch have a model train track running around it
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
yes
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:28 (11 months ago) Permalink
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― tylerw, Thursday, June 14, 2012 3:18 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
genuine lol
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
I've still got my ticket stub for Neil's pre-Rust show at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens, Oct. 1 '78. Centre floor, 25 rows back. $9.00.
― clemenza, Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
i bet the show was awful though, wasn't it? totally sucky.
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
Terrible. I was about to turn 17, stoned, he led with "Sugar Mountain," and then played strange new songs about Johnny Rotten. The worst.
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/neil-young/1978/maple-leaf-gardens-toronto-on-canada-5bd1e72c.html
― clemenza, Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:59 (11 months ago) Permalink
your story checks outChum and Chum!
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 June 2012 23:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
were you all like PLAY THE HITS! CINNAMON GIRL! WOOOOO!
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 June 2012 23:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
that sounds like torture
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 14 June 2012 23:02 (11 months ago) Permalink
That's amazing, Tyler--I thought at first it was something I'd posted. I was row Y, seat 16, sitting with my friend Steve--not too far at all from whoever that ticket belonged to.
I just remember being awestruck the whole night. I don't think we were the kind of people who'd call out requests, but I'm sure I hoping for lots and lots of Tonight's the Night, Zuma, and Gold Rush (and, yes, "Cinnamon Girl").
― clemenza, Thursday, 14 June 2012 23:05 (11 months ago) Permalink
"was hoping"
― clemenza, Thursday, 14 June 2012 23:06 (11 months ago) Permalink
haaard times
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 14 June 2012 23:07 (11 months ago) Permalink
Don't google "Chum and Chum" unless you want to be disappointed.
― geode maze (cwkiii), Friday, 15 June 2012 01:44 (11 months ago) Permalink
Saw him with Crazy Horse in 1991. His last encore was "Welfare Mothers," with the (huge basketball arena) house lights on.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, June 14, 2012 12:40 PM (2 days ago)
so i'm just catching up w/ this thread right now, busy week, but man this post kinda depressed me!
I was at the same tour, the one with Social Distortion and Sonic Youth opening up. And yeah, we got "Welfare Mothers" at the end with the lights on.
But it really felt like an organic thing -- like, after the last encore (which I think might have been "Sedan Delivery"??), people were SO psyched about the show that they kept on clapping and clapping and clapping, even after the lights had come back on, that Neil and band were almost forced to come back out for one last one.
Like, you just never see that. Like ever. The whole business about "encores" is so rote and perfunctory and scripted. That Neil Young show -- when he came out with all the bright lights one to do "Welfare Mothers" -- is the one and only time I've ever felt that that scriptedness was done away with. And I've always regaled friends with the tale of how awesome it was ever since. So it kind of bums me out, Tarfumes, to hear you got the same deal, like it was just maybe something he *did* on that tour...
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 16 June 2012 21:03 (11 months ago) Permalink
unless, of course I guess, you were actually at the same show as me -- Rosement Horizon??
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 16 June 2012 21:05 (11 months ago) Permalink
Rob, I want to say he may have done the same thing when he did the show in Philly?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 16 June 2012 21:44 (11 months ago) Permalink
Hmm, looks like the encore of the second night may have been "Welfare Mothers" followed by "Like a Hurricane." First night was just an encore of "Tonight's the NIght." No idea which one I saw, but I do remember the crowd being super diverse (for white people). Hippies dancing to Sonic Youth, bikers getting down to Social Distortion, old boomers boogieing to Neil at his grungiest ...
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 16 June 2012 21:49 (11 months ago) Permalink
I saw that same tour, in Madison Square Garden. One of the loudest shows I've ever seen.
― 誤訳侮辱, Saturday, 16 June 2012 22:11 (11 months ago) Permalink
this album is great!
― da croupier, Monday, 2 July 2012 04:15 (10 months ago) Permalink
^^ it really is, I love it.
As a sidenote, it looks like Eldorado is pretty much impossible to get anymore with this RIAA crackdown? Short of shelling out $40 for it on eBay. I knew there was something I should've looked for before this summer!
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 26 July 2012 03:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
"Oh! Susanna" is the fuzz-laden will-she-come song he's been wanting to write since Ragged Glory
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2012 03:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
Wonder what he thinks of Neil Fallon and Actual Springsteen's cover of "Whip My Hair"? In the spirit of Americana (compliment to all concerned)
― dow, Thursday, 26 July 2012 03:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
will-she-come song wait a sec1) what does this mean2) i always thought the lyrics were "when she comes" -- she'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes, she'll be riding six white horses when she comes, etc.3) am i missing something?
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Thursday, 26 July 2012 13:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
it's sototown
― nakhchi little van (some dude), Thursday, 26 July 2012 13:09 (9 months ago) Permalink
where everyone can come!
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2012 13:09 (9 months ago) Permalink
sounds like a great place to live
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Thursday, 26 July 2012 13:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
i always thought the lyrics were "when she comes" -- she'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes, she'll be riding six white horses when she comes, etc.
I wasn't quoting the lyrics, just interpreting what it's about. It reminds me of "Over and Over."
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2012 13:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
you're wel come
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2012 13:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
Tired of enduring his botched attempts, I gave up on Neil successfully writing that fuzz-laden will-she-come song around 2005. Listening to Americana, I almost spit out my brandy when i realized he'd accomplished the task, at the same time choking on the delicious irony that he'd done so without actually writing it.
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 July 2012 13:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, June 16, 2012 5:05 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yes, same show! I remember the place was maybe 2/3rds full, and Sonic Youth killed -- still the best performance of theirs I've seen. During their set, an older guy next to me (probably mid-40s; I was 18) said, "You like this shit?!" He was wearing a shirt from the previous tour (3rd Greatest Garage Band). A couple of kids in front of me only came for Social Distortion and left after their set. At the time, "Welfare Mothers" was my favorite NY/CH song, so that encore just blew me away (and was definitely unscripted; I've never seen an audience so determined to hear more, even with the house lights up, before or since). I still have my t-shirt and ticket stub, and *might* still have an audience tape somewhere. The setlist I found online omits "Days That Used To Be," which I remember being played in a kind of understated way.
― Sun? Sun? It's your cousin, Marvin Ra (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 26 July 2012 13:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
neil has talked about the religious implications of "she'll be coming round the mountain" -- ie the second coming of christ. get your minds out of the gutter and into the LORD!
― tylerw, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
I listened to this once through on YouTube a couple of weeks ago (someone put the whole thing up in a 50-minute clip). It didn't sound very good to me, though I wasn't listening very closely.
― clemenza, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
damnnn, dude is playing a ton of new songs live! http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1178
― tylerw, Friday, 10 August 2012 15:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
omg "Ramada Inn" - 18:04
― tylerw, Friday, 10 August 2012 15:23 (9 months ago) Permalink