neil young

I'm going to the first show of this tour on the 18th- can't wait. I even splurged for the expensive seats! The one other time I saw Young was with Crazy Horse at the end of the Horde Fest in '97 and I wasn't nearly as big a fan as I am now, not to mention I was like a mile from the stage and exhausted from a long day of boozing...

Just back from the Houston gig. Fantastic show of course. He busted out old black and a white gretsch for extended electric segments, included a version of "Hitchhiker"! He did a bunch of new songs that have a weird religous bent. I'll imagine they'll sound pretty interesting once Lanois gets done with 'em.

Saddest thing: no real "ditch trilogy" numbers.

oh fuck, I kinda forgot about Neil!! I was trying to look at the dates in Nashville or Austin for maybe a quick vacation... totally forgot about them as I got caught up in work plus have been spending mad money lately anyway. Wait, Ticketbastard is showing a new date now? July 19th ( a Monday?), may need to try to make that one happen. Probably no Bert Jansch tho? No matter, I can see Bert here in Chicago before he plays the Eric Clapton 'Crossroads' festival the next day....

Roomfull, did you see Bert too? how was he?

oh ,forgot to post.. that July 19th is in Portland .. even better reason...

some him last week, it was really good. i loved the way he built from the acoustic openers up to crazy howling electric stuff. it was much more of a rock show than i expected. "cortez" was A+++.

Suprising to see Time Fade Away, part one of the Ditch Trilogy, getting so much less love than On the Beach and Tonight's the Night.

i'm think maybe a buncha people haven't heard time fades away, since it's barely ever been released on cd. seems more forgotten about by the general public than TtN and OtB, to me

That's true. It still hasn't received a proper release on cd. Probably never will in Neil's lifetime. I grabbed a digital copy of the internet, which is better (or no worse) than giving money to bootleggers for a pirated vinyl transfer to a cdr.

I mean the digital copies on the internet are obviously vinyl rips as well.

there's an hdcd rip out there too - it was prepped for release at some point in the 90s and pulled at the last minute.

Yeah, I read that on the wikipedia page after I posted my comment. They went as far as pressing test cds back in the Nineties. I'll have relisten to my copy on headphones to see if I can tell it's source. It boggles the mind as to why they just don't go ahead and release the thing at this point.

Roomfull, did you see Bert too? how was he?

Jansch was very good. Like most of the audience, I'm not really familiar w/his stuff, but enjoyed what I heard. He did "Black Water Side". He talked a little with the audience and at the end thanked us for not throwing anything at him.

super cool that neil is bringing jansch on tour ... hopefully the audiences are respectful. guess neil and bert aren't playing any songs together though? that'd be interesting.

Neil at the Fox Theater in Oakland=hooray! Tix $90-$200=fuck that. I know Neil loves his big ticket prices, but seriously for 2 people I could get a fucking subscription to the opera for that rate.

ha, i know -- was sort of afraid that he'd schedule a date in my neck of the woods and then i'd have to freak out about whether i could actually afford it. but he hasn't scheduled one yet. amazing that people pay so much for tix to these shows -- i'm a HUGE fan, but I have trouble spending more than $50 for any concert.

yeah i'm kind of realizing i might never see him again because of ticket prices

now you're depressing me ...

$50 + surcharge is as high as I will go for rock n roll.

Sleeps With Angels is way too high. And Freedom is way too low.

― kornrulez6969, Thursday, June 21, 2007 9:18 AM (2 years ago)

Funny news from the merch table: They were selling copies of the Archives BluRay box for $250.

such a bummer

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/09/BAAQ1G9C6V.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea

yeha, brutal. this will probably set archives vol. 2 back at least three decades.

none of the archives stuff was in this warehouse fwiw

well, for purely selfish reasons, i'm glad! hope nothing totally irreplaceable was lost.

"Yeah, I'd like to declare 3 cars, 20 guitars...a whole lot of posters and stuff...and, uh, all the masters of Times Fades Away, yeah, every damn copy I had...that's the ticket..."

here's the official word:

1-despite the damage, most everything of real value survived.
2-the archives are safe and not there.
3-some video and film was onsite and is ok.
4- Lincvolt was parked over night there and did not fare well in the fire.
5-no precious guitars were on site.
6- I foresee a yard sale in our future and imagine that you will hear abut it
thru me or other official channels.
7- everyone is ok

Happy 65th!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY4U--ACpsE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo6gz1YYVnM

^^^oddly similar melody to Pocahantas

That's just amazing. I looked up the date, and the Pam Dickinson song is 1966. To me, that's a much more credible example of (subconscious, I'm sure) plagarism than George Harrison and the Chiffons. I'm contacting this woman immediately to see if she wants to launch a lawsuit. If she says yes, I'm quitting my job and going to law school.

haha

um the song is written by Carole King

I'm thinking that Neil and Carole are probably good friends; sounds like my lawsuit's a non-starter.

it's just weird - it popped up on this Girl Group Sounds box set and I was like waitaminit I know this melody from somewhere

ha! i've heard that song before, but never made the connection. but yeah, pretty similar.

Dammit, I wanna sue someone. I think I'm going to go after Marlon Brando's estate.

Descendants of Hernan Cortez v. Neil Young & Crazy Horse

More seriously, what do you guys think of "Sea of Madness"? I saw the Big Sur movie on TV probably 30-35 years ago, and it always stuck in my mind; didn't get a hold of it till a couple of years ago, and then it turned up on Archives. I totally love it. The guy dancing at the fifty second mark in the clip above is great beyond words.

love "sea of madness"! i can kind of imagine a motown version of it or something.

I'm thinking that Neil and Carole are probably good friends...

― clemenza, Friday, November 12, 2010 10:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Well they did write "Oh Carole" and "Oh Neil" for each other.

(Or was that Neil Sedaka and Carole Pope? Neil Peart and Carole Bayer Sager?)

It was Neil Sedaka and Carole King. :)

Why do I love being a Neil fan? Because I can hear a song of his hundreds of times and think, "oh this is pretty good" each time, but then suddenly be completely blindsided by how amazing it really is. This happened with "What Have You Done To My Life" this morning.

yeah, that whole s/t album is probably my big neil re-discovery of the last few years. probably pushed its way into top 5 neil albums for me, thanks to that amazing remaster.

that was one of the first Neil albums I bought (80s CD reissue, I think?) but I just HATED the way it sounded and sold it after a couple years. have never gone back to it. maybe I should

i think that's how i first heard it too. it seriously is a major, major improvement. used to sound kinda rinky dink, but now it's big and layered.

It's crazy how much better that remaster sounds, really.

right? the thing just sparkles now, whereas it was pretty flat sounding (even on the vinyl i have). i guess there were a bunch of weirdnesses with the mix when it originally came out.

Yeah, I think having the remaster is a huge reason why the song was such a revelation for me this morning.

hmm searching for a d/l of the remaster is kinda hard...

oh never mind, found it

the claps on cinnamon girls are blowing me away right now, like i never heard the song before