Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana

jesus christ Neil is a force of nature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUSj164pwEM

hey guys...this is from thrasherswheat....um....says its a transcript of WB execs hearing the album and asking Neil about it...but like this is kinda nuts and I can't quite tell if it's some super insider parody/fantasy thing or real, but it's presented as real...wtf

http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2012/04/behind-scenes-at-americana-album.html

Do we owe it to the song, the song's author or the music fan to prostrate ourselves before the energy that created that piece of music and deliver it into the 21st century in a way that retains, and even helps to convey or preserve a clear idea of the song and its history? Or, more importantly, to not undermine reality or contribute to confusing, or even rewriting, history?

nobody speaks like this in conversation, much less Neil Young

I wouldn't be surprised if that was the official press notes. It's a hoot.

(I mean, obviously it's "fake," but I wonder who wrote it. Tom Waits?)

It was written by Neil, who is turning into his dad. It happens to all of us -- but Neil's dad was cooler than most.

Dudes, look at the date of that post.

Do they celebrate April Fool's Day in Canada?

Christmas, Easter, Halloween--we're all over that stuff.

Ah, the Neil & Phish "Down By The River" is indeed still on YouTube, now from several sources, several lengths--and this one even includes an "Arc' jam. Whole thing's from Farm Aid '98:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoMSBkEQboQ

haha oh god i remember watching that down by the river with Phish, they are just such a terrible rock band i almost feel bad for them

yeahhh. there's also this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQfpaZGKhVk

haha the girls on acid are getting emotional in that vid

it was an important day in the 90s

neil really should have changed the lyrics at least once to "forever meeeeeeee, forever meeeeee!"

the arc jam w/phish has it's moments so far...too bad phish's drummer is such a fucking china crash piddler stop it dude god was that woodblocks u turd?

tyler do you know a lot about the dead? i'm no expert or anything but i like them...but were they a pretty pathetic operation towards the end? that vid is pretty terrible

Yeah, never liked that one, Re Phish, Hang in there for "River" (disclaimer: never seen the "Arc" part before)

re: the dead, i think they had their ups 'n' downs towards the end there. that performance is definitely terrible, but it may have been literally unrehearsed.

but back to neil young, y'all see this? www.themidnightcafe.org/?p=3639

Some of this stuff works better w YTC, YouTube Converter. The free version from cnet just converts to mp3, paid might do more--anyway, sometimes seems better when you don't have to see it, for some reason (I get tired of highlighted beardos livin' the dream)

i might try that, i find phish pretty grating just to look at so it could be poisoning the well of sweet exploratory jams

cool link tyler! that was one of my big disappointments on Archives 1, having no mynah birds...but maybe it was a problem with licensing and motown I guess...still that was kinda the band that i'd heard the most about and with the bruce palmer/rick james tie-in i think most fans were most curious about

yeah it is pretty cool stuff -- some of it sounds kinda Love-ish, though that was probably a coincidence, I don't think Love even had records out when the Mynah Birds were recording (could be wrong, not sure about the dates).

yeah i think that would have been pretty early for a love influence...seemed like randy bachman was neil's main influence at that time based on shakey

it is a pretty weird chapter in Neil's career -- you'd have to think that everyone in the Mynah Birds was like -- "Motown! We've made it!" And then, nothing.

too bad the deal fell through, because both The Fall and Neil Young being Motown artists would be the best lol thing ever

yeah, James Jamerson joins Crazy Horse! Hex Induction hour, produced by Quincy Jones!

I think Love did have some stuff out by them, but Mick Jagger was once asked about some songs like "Who's Been Sleeping Here?" having a Dylan influence, and he said it was more a matter of vocalists and songwriters the same age group, same sort of background and influences sounding like each other in some ways. I thought BS at the time, but later seemed more likely--especially back then, when the market and pool of records were smaller, plus the rise of To 40 and the border and other super AM stations in North America (could get those all over the place at night, way before rock FM), and the few legal stations in the UK, few pirate, for that matter. Didn't realize Bruce Palmer was in the Mynah Birds!

"stuff out by *then*"

yeah, I think this is the clip I saw before, minus "Arc," which might be trickier, being more freeform than "River"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YK_XPZ_Xhg

oh susannah - http://soundcloud.com/oldmanemu/oh-susannah-web-preview
can't really crank this since it's the kid's naptime (lol dadrock). but it sounds nice and loose.

Sounds good! Vibe reminds me of Farmer John...choir isn't nearly as over the top as living with war

Yeah, the choir is unobtrusive, and everything else is nice and loud.

Yeah, this is basically exactly like I expected it to sound. I never had any doubts.

video for oh susannah! i like this song
http://youtu.be/ei2PVpSKkF4

haha smoking toddlers!

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i'm glad we live in a country where stoned old men butchering children's folk songs with electric guitars can be released on a major label

^^^

Neil's career is really amazing

the first 20 seconds are the best because it's like jesus guys you didn't even bother to learn the song did you?

i guess Bruce and his band don't smoke up, huh

i thought springsteen claims to have never smoked pot

either way bruce is sooo not a stoner

his stimulant of choice is diet coke iirc

i wasn't implying he WAS. just saying that you're maybe overstating the craziness of a classic rock icon releasing a major label album of folk covers when an album like that hit #3 on Billboard a few years ago.

will the secretary treasurer please record some dude's reservations in the notes of our meeting?

neil young, always riding the boss's coattails

lol sorry neil stans, continue geeking out

tbh there's no point in being a neil young fan if you're not going to be a total stan/dork about it.

we've already established that neil conceptualized this album sometime in 1964 after eating several cheeseburgers at a Toronto diner.

Wow, "Walk Like A Giant" really is good. Definitely bodes well. Wasn't that excited for "Americana" but am hepped up now.

And another Le Noise song borrows from "Like An Inca."

It's actually the other way around: "Hitchhiker" came first and "Like An Inca" borrowed from it.

Weird, didn't know that. I've been digging into his 80s stuff lately, and his stockpiling tendencies/choices are kind of bewildering (e.g., releasing something like "T-Bone" in favor of, say, "Country Home").

I know I am really late, but..

It'd be awesome if his next album was called "Canadiana," and included covers of, like, Barenaked Ladies, Rush, Leonard Cohen and BTO.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, April 12, 2012 4:05 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymns_of_the_49th_Parallel

no barenaked ladies, no credibility. or are they the backing band? [jk! that album is quite good imo]

daaaamn now that I see these setlists I might have to get tickets to one of the Brooklyn shows

er one of the new york shows I mean. one at MSG and one at the new Barclays Center in BK.

BNL wrote no one's favourite Canadian songs when we've so much else to choose from ;)

might be seeing one of the NY shows so I'm still debating whether to hear these previews or let new Neil hit me live in person the way he'd like it.

I don't think I'll listen to the bootlegs but before I would consider getting tix I had to see that the setlists weren't 90% Americana ...

You know, dumb question, but I've always wondered why "Hey Hey My My" namechecks Johnny Rotten and not Sid Vicious, when the latter (rhyme scheme aside) makes more thematic sense. Johnny Rotten never burned out or faded away, and I sometimes wonder if Neil realized he got the wrong guy and just thought, hey, it's a great song so fuck it.

if wiki is correct sid hadn't died yet when the album was recorded

plus i get the sense neil didn't even *know* that much about the pistols, he just felt something in the wind and wrote about it

Yeah, isn't the track about Elvis, really?

So it sounds like Ralph Molina is using Hot Rods exclusively, instead of sticks. Don't really see it as an aesthetic choice...maybe he's protecting his hearing?

new album according to sampedro, will be called "Psychedelic Pill"
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-neil-young-and-crazy-horses-new-album-and-tour-20120814

Don't really see it as an aesthetic choice...maybe he's protecting his hearing?

Too little, too late, dude. You're in Crazy Horse!

i'm so in love with the 2nd night of the colorado bootlegs

someone just sent me a 35 minute mix of all the feedback jams at the end of Walk Like A Giant entitled Arc 2012. Noise album of the year?

Without a doubt. The "Giant" jams make Fushitsusha sound like the Magnetic Fields.

Let me be the upmteenth person to note that the noise-jam ending of "Walk Like a Giant" is completely awesome.

kind of sounds like they're slaughtering a whale

Dude, which "Walk Like A Giant" has this slaughtered whale moment, wanna listen! I guess I will listen to all of it, glowing recs, but I don't think the version I listened to reached quite those heights.

Well, there's a hair of hyperbole at work here. We're not really talking Fushitsusha (I hope). It sounds more like, dunno, Masaki Batoh. Or Neil Young.

ok judge for yourself -- here's Arc 2012: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/29629148690/arc-2012-for-nearly-two-decades-now-fans-have

Brilliant. Thanks for posting that!

I should admit that I've totally come around to "Americana" and now sort of view it as the closest we're going to come to a whole album of stuff like the "Farmer John" cover. As major an album as minor albums get.