neil young

what else would a crazy horse album be?

Greendale?

o, yeah. even though greendale is mentioned in all the press for the new one i forget that it was crazy horse.

even though molina and talbot play on it, it still seems weird to call it a crazy horse album.

Without Sampedro (and with Molina using hot rods instead of sticks), it barely feels like Crazy Horse. Good record, though. Definitely prefer it to Living With War.

liner notes
http://www.uncut.co.uk/neil-young-on-his-new-album-americana-news

I'd prefer an album of this stuff to an album of "Greensleeves" variants.

first listen!
http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/wild-mercury-sound/neil-young-crazy-horses-americana-first-listen

An enticing description, but we can't actually listen? Subscribers Only, maybe--?

If by "enticing" you mean "sneaky, deceptive" description. Fuck John R. Mulvey.

oh ha, it's just that dude's first listen. us little people can't listen yet.

Young and Crazy Horse can be simultaneously horny-handed yet elegiac.

hmm

lol yeah that is a weird britisher expression, i think. not meaning that your hands are lookin' for sex, but that you've been out working in the fields or something. the british!

tbf i wouldn't be surprised if neil was horny-handed in the lookin' for sex sense

Well, I was just skimming, squinting, translating from rockcriticese--looks like it's along the lines of whar I'd hoped for (though hopefully not *too* "elegiac," prob meaning moon-eyed warbly; raunch it up, please)

wait, what does horny-handed mean?!

it's when you have sex a bunch but you never wash your hands, and other people can start to smell it

well kudos to them i guess
at least we know what they smell like
still wonder what it sounds like

i just spent a liiiiiitle too long trying to think of a pun involving sex and ears

A wellknown gnome like pop star, angry that Port had spurned his advances one night at the Whisky, had threatened to have her “taken care of.”

quoted from Shakey. Who was the gnome-like pop star?

You might have to narrow that down a little.

At the point I've read to in the book, that's all they give up. I don't expect it will be revisited. Just wondering if anyone had any insight.

Paul Simon? He *is v v small...

Sonny Bono?

the laughing gnome himself?

Paul williams?

there's also the 'captain crunch' anecdote re: someone macking on carrie snodgress later in the book

Yeah, and "Captain Whoopee", who became Neil's "boat buddy", and bled him for $$$$ while looking for a second boat.

I'm gonna light up some Zuma tonight!

Slowly making my way through Shakey. I’m glad to read that Neil shares my opinion of Tell Me Why.

Yeah - who is "captain crunch"?

Ragged Glory on the deck..

I like thinking that S. M. Collier walks around sharing brief anecdotes about late one night at the Whisky in 1972 apropos of nothing in particular.

http://www.collectorsmusicreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/090908050109.jpg

Not looking so much at this bootleg, but the PICTURE! Did not realize he went through a phase in which he basically established the platonic archetype of a Phishhead.

that flying V looks so tiny

dude he is a giant, he wrote a song and everything

Happy 67th, old man. Been playing this for the students all day (skipping over "Southern Man"):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpNdiXLBDC4

3 out of 8 songs in Time Fades Away mention Canada: "back in canada i spent my days", "Now I'm goin' back to Canada", "When we got to Winnipeg"

I wonder if this is Neil's highest Canada ratio

Good call. I'm trying to think of others: "Helpless," "Ambulance Blues," "Born in Ontario" on the new album...must be forgetting a few.

“You took that guitar and you put it in your arm, Bruce."

Oh man, a google image search for "Cowgirl in the Sand" results in some horrific, horrific fucking garbage.

Anyone got a copy of the Liverpool show from '73? My best googling has only yielded broken links.

Try here

Sorry, that's Manchester '73. I've only ever heard the Manchester and London shows from that tour.

Oh wait - I have the Toronto show too.

Just curious--where did he play Toronto in '73? Was it Massey Hall or somewhere bigger?

my info says Maple Leaf Gardens. May not be correct.

yeah he played there on the time fades away tour, i think, not on the later tonight's the night tour. don't think i've heard the liverpool show, just the manchester and london gigs.

and there's a queens college tonight's the night show that would be amazing if the sound quality wasn't awful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3z09VRZ6to&feature=plcp