Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana

(And I don't want to listen to "LIving with War," either)

dunno, guess it's pushing the right crazy horse buttons for me.

How were you on the electric car record? (xpost)

Not that OK in it, but this is better than that. Guy always has a track or two I dig, but this album is pretty half-assed by design in a weird way. Would have had more symbolic weight if he had given it away on his website.

josh did you ever listen to the re-release of living with war that didn't have the choir?

No, actually. That was another one just sort of spat out after the fact that I totally would have listened to were it not yet another $18 Neil Young CD on the shelves. Of all the acts you'd think would be operating outside the major label system, you'd totally think it would be Neil Young, but from his longtime relationship with Warners to his premature embrace of premium, proprietary formats to that fucking boxed set, habits like releasing an album twice in the span of months is ironically one of the reasons I stopped buying CDs!

Is the "War" re-release good? Probably!

Maybe he can release this one again in six months, comprising the second takes of all these songs.

Fans purchasing their concert tickets online will receive a copy of the brand new CD - AMERICANA, available in stores Tuesday, June 5th. Tickets for Neil Young & Crazy Horse will go on sale starting June 8th in select markets at Ticketmaster.com and LiveNation.com. General admission floor tickets available in all markets with the exception of Los Angeles.

I wonder if the tour tickets will be real expensive as he has done in the recent past?

yes, they are expensive. cheapest tix for the red rocks shows (in the nosebleeds) are $65. Best seats are over $200.

tbh, i don't know if people consider $65 "expensive" these days, but i have a hard time shelling out that much for shows. still might end up going, i haven't decided.

Springsteen tix this current tour are $45 to $105, give or take. And there are 15 people in his band.

Maybe he can release this one again in six months, comprising the second takes of all these songs.

haha what second takes

Springsteen tix this current tour are $45 to $105, give or take. And there are 15 people in his band.

you're counting wife Patty and her acoustic guitar/tambourine twice.

She's home with the kids! That's why they could shave so much off the ticket price.

i think the living with war reissue is worth hearing at least....it's on spotify

Ugh. Closest he's getting to me is a 3-hour drive. Also, I only go to concerts during a full moon.

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/05/30/neil-young-cd-10-neil-young-lp-42/

I'm really not sure what LP is worth $42, but not this one.

Yeah, new Neil vinyl is crazy expensive.

man the highs of this are awesome but the bad shit...yikes, just listened to get a job and this land is your land

Why couldn't he have just put out an album of covers of things like, I dunno, "Wooly Bully" and "Louie Louie?" He could have still called it "Americana."

Because then he wouldn't be the halfway batshit Neil we all know and love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDTZLsscFz8

he already did!

Meh, save it for the Ramones. I wanna hear Crazy Horse do one-take covers of caveman rock.

that is but one of the 15 versions of that song i listened to yesterday, not the best one really

lol that version is pretty hilarious. i like the idea of americana being everybody's rockin': the phantom menace.

this is way better than everybody's rockin'!

that or old ways are my for-real least favorite neil albums

yeah both of those are pretty bad.
so, I'd say odds are 50/50 that Neil announces another album w/ Crazy Horse in the next couple weeks.

didnt' he already say there was another one?

did he? i'm getting confused.

It's Mexicana, where he and the Horse play banda tunes.

would listen the shit out of a Neil narcocorrido cover

the solo on "Las mañanitas" is so killllller.

Can you imagine Crazy Horse trying to play a mariachi tune? Can we make Mexicana happen?

ha, well, there's this live "road of plenty"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2FnCTTEI2A

tyler i read somewhere he said they did an album' worth of original crazy horse stuff including a 26 minute thing

xpost Yeah, I was going to say, "Eldorado" is total Crazy Horse meets mariachi.

this probably won't happen, but it'd be cool if neil & crazy horse played one or two of the le noise tracks live on the upcoming tour.

tbh, I have no idea what they might play. I assume many of the usual suspects, but I doubt many of the "Americana" songs.

I want to say the last time the Horse toured, doing that greatest hits tour, ticket sales were weeeeeeeeeak. They played a half-empty arena here.

Neil just interview on "Fresh Air." I know he is a tough interview, but Terry Gross still sucks.

xp the greendale tour?

No, no. Maybe I'm thinking a Neil and friends sort of tour? They did arenas some time after Greendale but before Neil headed to theaters with his band of Molina, Rosas, Keith and Peggy and whomever.

oh right his "electric band." they were great on the boots I've heard, really a nicely varied set.

OK, 2008 hits tour. Guess that was more or less the same band, but with Cromwell instead of Molina. Half full Chicago hockey arena. It's been theaters ever since then.

He doesn't seem the type to vary setlists much, unfortunately. Part of it is due to constantly filming shows for various projects, which means keeping the camera cues and stuff the same. The setlist behind "Le Noise" was immutable, which made it even weirder when Neil would pretend to be debating which instrument to pick up. Good show, but still.

yeah he stuck strictly to the script on that tour. seemed like he shook things up a bit w/ the electric band thing http://bbchron.blogspot.com/2008/12/neil-young-2008-european-winter-tour.html

I wonder, though, how many of those he played each night, and how many he swapped out each set. Like, was it 95% the same each night, with a different encore epic or two? That's how I remember it. I also remember it being a great show! (That boot looks awesome)

Alas, those links are dead ...

yeah, it's a bummer, that guy has had all his links taken down multiple times.