hell no
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 May 2013 21:59 (ten years ago) link
Never understood Social D. hate. The band is fine.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 31 May 2013 03:32 (ten years ago) link
If you've got access, here's a new Kim Gordon profile. She confirms that those Neil Young shows were rough on the band.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/06/03/130603fa_fact_halberstadt
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 June 2013 13:22 (ten years ago) link
I saw the Meadowlands stop of that NY/SY/SD tour. I went with my best friend (dead now), my mom and my aunt. Both my friend and I were big into all three bands, but Social Distortion were dwarfed by the arena stage and made basically no impression at all, and Sonic Youth were just bad. A noisy (but not in a good way), boring and underpowered set. And it seemed obvious to me that things were tense backstage too, as during Neil's set, he said something like "Hey, I can do that, too!" and ripped out a huge burst of very Thurston Moore-ish guitar noise mid-song. He did this more than once, in fact, as I recall, and it definitely didn't feel like affectionate teasing - it felt like "Hey, fuck you, kid."
― 誤訳侮辱, Saturday, 1 June 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
is the weld tour the only time neil's done an entirely electric set? not sure i can think of any other tour where there weren't at least a handful of acoustic numbers...
― tylerw, Thursday, May 30, 2013 4:29 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Ha, just remembered their 1970 tour was probably all-electric, if the Fillmore set is an accurate representation. (I used to have a boot of either a Cleveland or Cincinnati stop on that tour that was also all-electric)
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 1 June 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link
Mommy's Little Monster album > any Pearl Jam
― curmudgeon, Thursday, May 30, 2013 2:54 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, May 30, 2013
hell yes! great, great album.
― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Saturday, 1 June 2013 19:55 (ten years ago) link
xp, neil would do an opening acoustic set for those 1970 crazy horse shows
― tylerw, Saturday, 1 June 2013 22:33 (ten years ago) link
Ah, didn't know that. I also thought about the Time Fades Away tour, but remembered "Journey Through The Past."
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 1 June 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link
"Till the Morning Comes" off After the Gold Rush: contender for the best 1 minute song ever?
― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Sunday, 2 June 2013 01:50 (ten years ago) link
It's great, but Wire owns that category
― Z S, Sunday, 2 June 2013 03:16 (ten years ago) link
http://www.magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/1996/05/bobpollard378.jpg*ahem*
― waterprick (stevie), Sunday, 2 June 2013 08:34 (ten years ago) link
I saw the Meadowlands stop of that NY/SY/SD tour. I went with my best friend (dead now), my mom and my aunt. Both my friend and I were big into all three bands, but Social Distortion were dwarfed by the arena stage and made basically no impression at all, and Sonic Youth were just bad. A noisy (but not in a good way), boring and underpowered set. And it seemed obvious to me that things were tense backstage too, as during Neil's set, he said something like "Hey, I can do that, too!" and ripped out a huge burst of very Thurston Moore-ish guitar noise mid-song. He did this more than once, in fact, as I recall, and it definitely didn't feel like affectionate teasing - it felt like "Hey, fuck you, kid."― 誤訳侮辱, Saturday, 1 June 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 誤訳侮辱, Saturday, 1 June 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Well at least he was driven to do something else. Weld is the only thing I bother with.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 2 June 2013 09:01 (ten years ago) link
Going to see NY and Crazy Horse this evening. Really stoked. Only my second NY gig and first with Crazy Horse.
― Duke, Sunday, 2 June 2013 14:12 (ten years ago) link
"Till the Morning Comes" off After the Gold Rush: contender for the best 1 minute song ever?― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Saturday, June 1, 2013 9:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkIt's great, but Wire owns that category― Z S, Saturday, June 1, 2013 11:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Saturday, June 1, 2013 9:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Z S, Saturday, June 1, 2013 11:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I just dissed Moby Grape in another thread, but "Naked If I Want" might be the correct answer here. The revelation of something like "Field Day for the Sundays"--the fact that 1/5th of a full punk song is still a full punk song--is p profound, but I'm not sure it matches "I ain't got no money now, but I will pay you before I die"
― Drugs A. Money, Sunday, 2 June 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link
Was there really that much musical difference between NY and Sonic Youth in the 90s though? Why the OTT hate? Were these gigs attended by a bunch of Harvest nostalgics?
yes!!! for a very long time (and maybe still; i haven't seen him in a long time) neil's gigs were very very heavily attended by harvest nostalgics who didn't have a lot of interest in hearing neil play feedback for five minutes, never mind hearing sonic youth play feedback for a lot longer.
and whether there was much musical difference between ny and sy -- and there was -- is somewhat beside the point. his audience was very much a classic-rock audience. and theirs was not.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 3 June 2013 07:32 (ten years ago) link
!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=doPtRvVPlhY#!
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 21:15 (ten years ago) link
i mean:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=doPtRvVPlhY
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 21:16 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doPtRvVPlhY
haha, yeah i'd only seen a clip or two of that, never the whole thing. strange! hal asbhy directed!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 21:17 (ten years ago) link
neil jamming on the synth drums and then coming out w/ the shocking pinks...such a weird era.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link
...after starting out singing "heart of gold" on acoustic guitar. i think it was even weirder then than it looks now.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 21:26 (ten years ago) link
it is funny -- in these internet days, we can know all about what an artist is going to be doing during a tour, but back then people probably saw an ad in the paper that said neil young was playing in their town and that was all they knew. and then they got ... this.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 21:28 (ten years ago) link
excited to watch this
lol'ing at interminable length of opening credits....
― Mr. Scarf Ace is Back (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link
I've seen video footage of Trans stuff being performed on the European tour (Nils Lofgren does some interpretive dancing) that is just amazing
― Mr. Scarf Ace is Back (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
Is this the same footage as that DVD of the same tour?
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
no, there's the Berlin video, which is the euro tour, this is after that... don't think this has ever been on DVD.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 21:53 (ten years ago) link
yeah I was referring to the Berlin video
― Mr. Scarf Ace is Back (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 21:57 (ten years ago) link
This blows the Berlin stuff away. Deeply weird, but the audience gets their money's worth.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
― tylerw, Wednesday, June 5, 2013 5:19 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
He's pretty much begging Geffen to sue him at this point.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 22:13 (ten years ago) link
lol @ synthdrum fills on Don't Be Denied
― Bathory Tub Blues (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 22:16 (ten years ago) link
so weird to see Neil w/a microphone and no guitar
― Bathory Tub Blues (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
omigod!
xpost
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 22:27 (ten years ago) link
hmm this Willie and the Hand Jive ripoff is pretty good
― Bathory Tub Blues (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 22:37 (ten years ago) link
shocking pinks do seem like they'd be fun live...
― tylerw, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 22:38 (ten years ago) link
gonna be able to watch this tomorrow and i can't wait
― da croupier, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 22:41 (ten years ago) link
confession: I have never heard the shocking pinks album
― Bathory Tub Blues (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 22:41 (ten years ago) link
this is a lot better, really.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 22:43 (ten years ago) link
seems as though the shocking pinks numbers (get gone and don't take your love) included on the Lucky 13 comp are from this show.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 22:45 (ten years ago) link
More on NY/SY tour http://thrasherswheat.org/jammin/sonic_youth.htm
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
"This thing here is called a Synclavier."
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 23:05 (ten years ago) link
goddamn it clip taken down :(
― unfinest DN (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 7 June 2013 20:10 (ten years ago) link
shakey pictures websherriffed it
Don't want hurt the sales of Archives III in 2061.
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 7 June 2013 20:12 (ten years ago) link
damn. well now that neil knows there is a ravenous demand for this era, maybe he'll put it out on PONO Ray.
― tylerw, Friday, 7 June 2013 20:13 (ten years ago) link
i would love to hear trans outtakes, c'mon neil!!
― unfinest DN (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 7 June 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
PONO!
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 7 June 2013 21:43 (ten years ago) link
i would happily buy that video to play on my ponograph machine.
Trans is ace.
Listened to Comes a Time today, which I haven't in a long, long while. It feels like the natural successor to Harvest in many ways, and I'm sure it's what a lot of people had expected as the follow-up to 1972's best-selling album, rather than the Ditch Trilogy (I believe it was the first of Neil's albums to reach the top 10 since Harvest). It's very good, but I never hear much about it from NY fans. Opinions?
― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Friday, 7 June 2013 22:53 (ten years ago) link
i LOVE Comes a Time.. it's a glorious and wonderful record. <3 four strong winds <3 lotta love <3 the title track..
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Friday, 7 June 2013 22:55 (ten years ago) link
comes a time is classic -- could probably do without motorcycle mama, but everything else is awesome. one of neil's breeziest/easiest (even moreso than Harvest, really) but it kind of sneaks up on you.
― tylerw, Friday, 7 June 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link