Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill, Oct. 2012

The covers record could be good! Who knows? A lot of Neil's career is bad ideas that somehow ended up great.

The PonoPlayer has 128GB of memory and can store 1000 to 2000 high-resolution digital-music albums Neil Young albums.

Love the poorly-tagged files on the players they used for that promo photo.

love that a 2014 marketing rollout is using dire straits and bob dylan as the two names to display in their ads (with neil himself lurking on the player in the background). guess they know their target audience.

also, that looks like the least portable portable player i've seen since the sony discman.

you just put it on your head and wear a top hat

The PonoPlayer has 128GB of memory and can store 1000 to 2000 high-resolution digital-music albums bob lefsetz columns.

Sorry, every time I see the word Pono, all I can think about is Chris Farley as Howard Heflin in SNL's Clarence-Thomas-confirmation-hearing sketch: "Do you think that pono is the way to go?"

Just got this order from Warner Bros!

TUNE-IN RIGHT NOW:
To Watch Neil Young Deliver the Keynote Address at SXSW
5PM CDT
http://sxsw.com/live

Today @ 5pm CDT
Rebroadcasted: 7pm CDT Wednesday & 7am CDT Thursday
(other stuff will be on here too, apparently)

http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs155/1104983095347/img/525.jpg

He's already talking to a guy about "loudness wars."

I wish he'd talk to a guy about Archives II.

....which turns out to be yet more PONO talk, followed by a Q&A with the audience (about PONO), and no keynote. Scroll down, and you'll see listings of more talk by others tomorrow, and eventually some music---but tomorrow night's showcase on NPR is a better bet
http://www.npr.org/event/music/279055940/npr-music-presents-live-from-sxsw-2014

Neil has a limited amount of years left on the planet, wish he wouldn't waste 'em on pono

^ this. I read an interview with him after Ragged Glory came out where he said something like, "I'm real happy with this record, and hey, you never know, it could all end tomorrow -- I'd be proud to go out on an up note. I'm just glad I didn't get hit by a bus after Everybody's Rockin'."

Man, which Neil Young thread ...

Anyway, vinyl box delayed, surprising no one, until November. Maybe he's focusing on PONO? Maybe he's figuring out a better way to print vinyl? Maybe he's just fucking with us?

March 19, 2014 - (Burbank, CA.) -- Neil Young and Warner Bros. Records have announced that they must delay the release of Young's upcoming Neil Young Official Series 2 Vinyl Box Set, which was intended to come out on Record Store Day, due to several other projects that Young has in the works that he wishes to focus on. A November release date for the set, which includes the classic albums Time Fades Away, On The Beach, Tonight's The Night and Zuma, will be announced soon. Rest assured, it will be worth the wait!

According to a post on Thrasher's Wheat,

At this time we are still planning on physical release for NYA V2 and yes it will be available on Pono, too in full 24/192 sound quality. I'm happy to report that we are in full on production of NYA V2 right now. Maybe I'm biased, but I think V2 might be the best one. A plethora of previously unreleased tracks.

did you guys hear about his sci fi novel

Maybe I'm biased, but I think V2 might be the best one.

Ha. Me, I'd put it in the top two or three. Maybe the top 5. I mean, there have been so many ...

Sci fi Neil is going to be so sick! The Harvest Moons of Saturn.

^^^^

A plethora!?

sounds like at least two

There better be Oceanside/Countryside & Homegrown

With Neil, I think it's safe to assume "there better be" = there won't be.

had both the NY archives box and the recent Lee Hazlewood box out next to each other a week ago, and was just like, why can't the archives be like this? beautiful book, great music, unreleased stuff, session info... doesn't seem that complicated. and the hazlewood and archives box cost pretty much the same.

who wants great packaging when you can watch weird DVDs of music on your crappy TV speakers??

it's just crazy, if you had no idea who lee hazlewood and neil young were and saw those box sets, you'd think hazlewood was by far the more famous dude.

there's a good argument to me made that an artist should not be involved in creating their own box sets

Absolutely. Pretty sure Dylan is hands-off whenever a Bootleg Series set is being developed, and those have been uniformly praised.

Springsteen sticks his nose in and re-records shit. Townshend unnecessarily adds shit to his old demos.

bootleg series has gotta be up there in terms of excellently done archival releases...it's pretty much been all home runs as far as i'm concerned

miles has a lot of cool stuff....

i guess the dead? maybe that's just quantity though

dylan probably has veto power over the bootleg series, but i'd be willing to bet he doesn't give a shit at this point.
neil should've just been doing his bootleg series since 1993 or whatever.

Nobody's "hands off" a Bootleg Series like Miles. I don't think he even knows they exist.

Ha, although Teo Macero complained loudly about some of the boxes, saying that material was unreleased for a reason.

He had a point, but I'm glad he wasn't in a position to mess with their contents or keep them from being released. I can't think of a single piece of music on any of the Miles boxes that I thought shouldn't have seen the light of day.

dylan probably has veto power over the bootleg series, but i'd be willing to bet he doesn't give a shit at this point.

"What?! I'm not going to release those horrible 1966 shows! I was booed! I have a reputation to uphold! Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a batshit Chrysler ad to film."

i don't think dylan's that precious about shit

i remember reading this thing with some vet rock writer who got to do an article on dylan recording infidels and after the thing's done he's listening to the final with dylan and the writer is going nuts because he realizes dylan's leaving off "blind willie mctell", dylan says something along the lines of "listen man, it's just an album, i've made 20 of them"

haha that's awesome

*smokes blunt*

Oh well, guess I'll roll another number for the road, and this:
https://www.youtube.com/user/neilyoungchannel

goddamn i love 'ramada inn' so so much

finally hearing this whole thing. This is... really good?

definitely has some high points... kind of wish driftin back was just an instrumental (or just the chorus). lyrics are kind of a vibe killer.

idk those are bad in a very Neil way

haha yeah... i mean, the guitar sound makes up for the lyrics.

I kind of wish "Driftin Back" were twice as long and completely it's own thing, but yeah I was just listen to this not that long ago.

The phased out vers of the title track is totally dumb

"Ramada Inn" is amazing

yeah ramada inn is heavy... still wouldn't mind hearing him break that one out as an acoustic number too.

gah i still haven't listened to the monsanto years... for some reason i just don't wanna.

Yeah, this is my favorite Neil album since harvest moon

Local sports radio morning show uses the title track as bumper music occasionally

Yeah, this is my favorite Neil album since harvest moon

― brimstead, Monday, October 5, 2015 7:04 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Mine too

though I really love most of Le Noise too

Monsanto album has at least one nice track on it "Wolf Moon", and some bad lyrics, band sounds good, young & a bit sloppy, perfect for Neil. Haven't heard it all but I will soon. I'm seeing the tour on Thursday, will report back.