Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana

i'm growing tomatoes in my backyard this summer.

You'll be too far away to throw them at him.

Tyler, how are the tomatoes doing? That may have some bearing on getting a break on tickets.

TERRIBLE. Help a farmer out, neil.

""Homegrown" wasn't about tomatoes. Sorry dawg."--Neil

tell neil you're inventing a car that runs on tomatoes, maybe he'll go into business with you

these tomatoes make mp3s sound like vinyl

but can only be chewed using a special blu-tooth setup

yes but does your tomato patch have a model train track running around it

yes

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these tomatoes make mp3s sound like vinyl

― tylerw, Thursday, June 14, 2012 3:18 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

genuine lol

I've still got my ticket stub for Neil's pre-Rust show at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens, Oct. 1 '78. Centre floor, 25 rows back. $9.00.

i bet the show was awful though, wasn't it? totally sucky.

Terrible. I was about to turn 17, stoned, he led with "Sugar Mountain," and then played strange new songs about Johnny Rotten. The worst.

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/neil-young/1978/maple-leaf-gardens-toronto-on-canada-5bd1e72c.html

your story checks out
http://www.sugarmtn.org/extras/19781001stub.jpg
Chum and Chum!

were you all like PLAY THE HITS! CINNAMON GIRL! WOOOOO!

that sounds like torture

That's amazing, Tyler--I thought at first it was something I'd posted. I was row Y, seat 16, sitting with my friend Steve--not too far at all from whoever that ticket belonged to.

I just remember being awestruck the whole night. I don't think we were the kind of people who'd call out requests, but I'm sure I hoping for lots and lots of Tonight's the Night, Zuma, and Gold Rush (and, yes, "Cinnamon Girl").

"was hoping"

haaard times

Don't google "Chum and Chum" unless you want to be disappointed.

Saw him with Crazy Horse in 1991. His last encore was "Welfare Mothers," with the (huge basketball arena) house lights on.

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, June 14, 2012 12:40 PM (2 days ago)

so i'm just catching up w/ this thread right now, busy week, but man this post kinda depressed me!

I was at the same tour, the one with Social Distortion and Sonic Youth opening up. And yeah, we got "Welfare Mothers" at the end with the lights on.

But it really felt like an organic thing -- like, after the last encore (which I think might have been "Sedan Delivery"??), people were SO psyched about the show that they kept on clapping and clapping and clapping, even after the lights had come back on, that Neil and band were almost forced to come back out for one last one.

Like, you just never see that. Like ever. The whole business about "encores" is so rote and perfunctory and scripted. That Neil Young show -- when he came out with all the bright lights one to do "Welfare Mothers" -- is the one and only time I've ever felt that that scriptedness was done away with. And I've always regaled friends with the tale of how awesome it was ever since. So it kind of bums me out, Tarfumes, to hear you got the same deal, like it was just maybe something he *did* on that tour...

unless, of course I guess, you were actually at the same show as me -- Rosement Horizon??

Rob, I want to say he may have done the same thing when he did the show in Philly?

Hmm, looks like the encore of the second night may have been "Welfare Mothers" followed by "Like a Hurricane." First night was just an encore of "Tonight's the NIght." No idea which one I saw, but I do remember the crowd being super diverse (for white people). Hippies dancing to Sonic Youth, bikers getting down to Social Distortion, old boomers boogieing to Neil at his grungiest ...

I saw that same tour, in Madison Square Garden. One of the loudest shows I've ever seen.

this album is great!

^^ it really is, I love it.

As a sidenote, it looks like Eldorado is pretty much impossible to get anymore with this RIAA crackdown? Short of shelling out $40 for it on eBay. I knew there was something I should've looked for before this summer!

"Oh! Susanna" is the fuzz-laden will-she-come song he's been wanting to write since Ragged Glory

Wonder what he thinks of Neil Fallon and Actual Springsteen's cover of "Whip My Hair"? In the spirit of Americana (compliment to all concerned)

will-she-come song
wait a sec
1) what does this mean
2) i always thought the lyrics were "when she comes" -- she'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes, she'll be riding six white horses when she comes, etc.
3) am i missing something?

it's sototown

where everyone can come!

sounds like a great place to live

i always thought the lyrics were "when she comes" -- she'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes, she'll be riding six white horses when she comes, etc.

I wasn't quoting the lyrics, just interpreting what it's about. It reminds me of "Over and Over."

you're wel come

Tired of enduring his botched attempts, I gave up on Neil successfully writing that fuzz-laden will-she-come song around 2005. Listening to Americana, I almost spit out my brandy when i realized he'd accomplished the task, at the same time choking on the delicious irony that he'd done so without actually writing it.

unless, of course I guess, you were actually at the same show as me -- Rosement Horizon??

― Stormy Davis, Saturday, June 16, 2012 5:05 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, same show! I remember the place was maybe 2/3rds full, and Sonic Youth killed -- still the best performance of theirs I've seen. During their set, an older guy next to me (probably mid-40s; I was 18) said, "You like this shit?!" He was wearing a shirt from the previous tour (3rd Greatest Garage Band). A couple of kids in front of me only came for Social Distortion and left after their set. At the time, "Welfare Mothers" was my favorite NY/CH song, so that encore just blew me away (and was definitely unscripted; I've never seen an audience so determined to hear more, even with the house lights up, before or since). I still have my t-shirt and ticket stub, and *might* still have an audience tape somewhere. The setlist I found online omits "Days That Used To Be," which I remember being played in a kind of understated way.

neil has talked about the religious implications of "she'll be coming round the mountain" -- ie the second coming of christ. get your minds out of the gutter and into the LORD!

I listened to this once through on YouTube a couple of weeks ago (someone put the whole thing up in a 50-minute clip). It didn't sound very good to me, though I wasn't listening very closely.

damnnn, dude is playing a ton of new songs live! http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1178

omg "Ramada Inn" - 18:04

That is awesome, those setlists.

omg "Ramada Inn" - 18:04

?!?!?! what is this??? is this actually new or something that's been floating around for a long time like "ordinary people"?

yeah what is that

new song. all the new stuff sounds great.

don't think any of these new things are songs that have been kicking around, afaik.

first show is here as well http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1176
walk like a giant is appropriately massive.

man awesome bootleg...his first solo on powderfinger is great so far :) :)

the lyrics to born in ontario are LOL