Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana

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.

lol this terry gross interview is awkward. "you've taken these simple songs and made them complicated." insightful. http://www.npr.org/2012/06/06/154420889/neil-young-the-fresh-air-interview

i admired how he handled that question! he corrected her language, but didn't embarrass her or make apologetic overtures for correcting her.

yeah, neil handled the interview well, he's good at interviews!

He's good at interviews on his own cryptic, elliptical terms. I find Terry Gross can be frustrated pretty easily when she gets a less than forthcoming subject - on the flipside, her inexplicable reputation as an interviewer stems almost entirely from landing subjects who are generally very forthcoming - but Neil fucks with interviewers more than most.

Q: Like, babble babble, when I first saw that "God Save the Queen" was on this, stall babble, you know like um I first though of um, you know, the Sex Pistols?

A: Who are the Sex Pistols?

Q: (nervous laugh)

a: (crickets)

ha, i loled at that

at least she didn't explain it to the audience amirite

For the listeners just tuning in, the sex pistols were a punk rock band that had a song called God save the queen.

is this the story of Terry Gross?

Saw him interviewed by Patti Smith at Book Expo yesterday. Neil was typically droll but told a great story about how he came to write "Ohio." David Crosby and marijuana were involved.

haha wait did Neil seriously pretend lack of awareness of the Sex Pistols

yes indeed he did

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m598k5BJBg1qav5oho1_500.jpg

sweet serape

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m59moasEZC1qdf09mo2_500.jpg

from a bbc interview

Young was clearly inspired while making Americana as straight afterwards they recorded another album’s worth of original Neil Young material.

“It will have to be a double CD because of its length,” he admits. One track, he reveals, is 26 minutes long.

In the same interview, he said he used to have to sing "God Save the Queen" in school every morning... that has got to be bullshit, British schoolchildren have never had to sing "God Save the Queen" (unless we're talking Victoria) let alone Canadian schoolchildren?

Haven't heard this yet--Christgau gave it a great write-up today:

http://social.entertainment.msn.com/music/blogs/expert-witness-blogpost.aspx?post=9a263a12-84c0-40c5-8df3-73dd94f0e5b9

Christgau is wrong, but then, this album is total Christgau bait.

In general, I've found him pretty reliable when it comes to Neil over the years; outside of Trans, I don't recall majorly disagreeing with him. Which is not say I'll like this.

haha wait did Neil seriously pretend lack of awareness of the Sex Pistols

hey hey my my is about the OTHER johnny rotten, a car mechanic from toronto

Xgau OTM (although Seegerstein's "sanctimonious overkill" is more a matter of slick instrumentation and slack "arrangements" doing it to death, like many a longwinded CD, however pure or not)Also, I got into "Susannah" right away, duh-huh, hey Beavis he said, "B.A.N.J.O. on my knee," huh-huh. Really likie the way he chooses all the right verses, incl those expunged; I knew the one about both sides of the sign in "This Land" (always figured it was a particular inspiration for early Bobby D.), but didn't realize the whole thing was "a protest song," as Neil says in the Fresh Air interview. So far, "Tom Dula" does get tedious, and at first I was put off by the vocal's detachment from doomy guitar on "High Flying Bird," but compartmentalization happens: "Look at me/I'm rooted like a tree," yeah tell me about it. But "Get A Job" is the scariest ol' folk song of all!

hey hey my my is about the OTHER johnny rotten, a car mechanic from toronto

― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, June 13, 2012 8:28 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lool

top five debut this week