Neil Young: Waging Heavy Peace

but you can feel it maaan

there are already places where you can buy 24bit high-res downloads from the major labels:

https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=9624albums

not sure if any sell 196khz

Archives II will only be available built into the dashboard of an electric car.

Anyone catch the Neil's next book will be about his favorite cars?

also after i noticed that this nice marantz CD/DVD player i bought on clearance online could play SACDs, i've gotten a couple

SACD rules! it's like the good things about vinyl and the good things about digital!

the RS article reminds me of a cool story: my chemistry teacher in high school was kind of audiophile and he set up his system in class one day, telling us our minds were going to be blown by the sound quality. and then he played "here i go again" by whitesnake.

True audiophiles don't listen to music; they listen to their systems.

whitesnake, right up there with aja, breakfast in america and famous blue raincoat as a classic reference record

I feel like there is an analog wrt guitarists who tell you about their awesome rigs and then play "here i go again" by whitesnake

usually thru some kind of awesome maxed out digital chorus effect

it sounded pretty amazing tbh, like the whole class was going down the only road we'd ever known ... together. and then we went back to talking about the periodic table or something.

dude in the future we will all run our Pono digital music players through a Line 6 Pod

Pono by Dr. Shakes

Pono is a Hawaiian word commonly rendered as "righteousness"

I'm convinced, I'm rebuying everything in Pono.

http://cog-ff.com/images/hungeringg-for-righteousness.jpg

Neil and Dave, gabbin' 'bout Pono.
http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1453695/Screen_20Shot_202012-09-28_20at_2010.04.19_20AM.png

anyone in NYC going to the central park free concert tonight?

oh hey Fuse is airing Neil's set from Central Park right now

Oh shit

Dude thanks, the onscreen listings on my cable mistakingly says queen of the damned lol

How long had it been going? I started taping halfway through powder finger

the festival broadcast was on the schedule til 9, they're letting him go long -- i didn't tune in too long ago so i didn't know how long Neil's been on

Ah damn :-(

Damn they are going in

Fuckin up....greatest rock band ever

KEEP HOPE ALIVE

Another encounter with Terry Gross. One or two fairly gross questions way in there, but he handles them well, as he did re Americana. Stick around for Ed Ward's li'l history of the English Beat, good talk/music ratio.
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/01/162082545/in-memoir-neil-young-wages-heavy-peace

does Neil cover "Save It For Later"????

Another encounter with Terry Gross. One or two fairly gross questions way in there, but he handles them well, as he did re Americana. Stick around for Ed Ward's li'l history of the English Beat, good talk/music ratio.
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/01/162082545/in-memoir-neil-young-wages-heavy-peace
― dow, Monday, October 1, 2012 9:02 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Heard part of this -- "When you play with fuzz tone, do you ever feel like you are giving your guitar a seizure?" \o/

That's the main one I was referring to--and it follows a discussion of his epilepsy. Cool to know he was methodically exploring guitar chaos very early on--listen up!

hey i bought this today! most exciting thing from idly flipping through the pages -- the photo of neil and joni mitchell jamming during the tonight's the night sessions.

Aw man, I was waiting to see that photo in it's rightful place hidden in a virtual file cabinet in the Pono Cloud edition of Archives II!

Speaking of Neil Young, I can only imagine his ridiculous ticket prices are why he hasn't sold out this Thursday's Crazy Horse hockey shed show. Heavy peace is expensive.

i heard there's a lot of car talk in the new book (yawn)

Neil should have been on Car Talk instead of Fresh Air. Click, Clack & Y.

Good New Yorker review:

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/10/the-vexing-simplicity-of-neil-young.html#ixzz29gTO54KH

that actually hits on something I've felt before at times about Neil Young.

hm interesting article. though neil does recommend the mists of avalon in waging heavy peace, so he totally reads.
just finished this book on the plane this week. it's ummm not a masterpiece, but it is very Young-ian, so I enjoyed it. Basically a collection of blog posts.

I read the book. I was a little shocked at how "simplistic" Neil seems. The fact he's not a reader is weird, since his father was a prolific author. Strange book, interesting guy.

And he's really into this new music platform he's apparently building. And cars. And cars.

Did i mention cars?

so Neil has never read his dad's writing? innaresting

I read the book. I was a little shocked at how "simplistic" Neil seems. The fact he's not a reader is weird, since his father was a prolific author. Strange book, interesting guy.

― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Thursday, October 18, 2012 4:46 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, I mean sometimes I get a simplistic vibe from some of his songs, and there are times when it just works perfectly, and then there are other times where it's like "Is he playing a character? Is this affected? Is it ironic?" and I can't tell.

there's a difference between simplistic and simple
some people are just plain spoken and uncomplicated, i always figured he was one of those people and it's something i genuinely like about him!

there's also something about the way he speaks in interviews that makes me think it's partly mental illness that's at play. I almost wonder if he avoids reading because of how strongly it affects him.

he also buys a clive cussler book at some point.
for all its faults, i did appreciate that the book is pretty obviously written (typed even) by Neil himself, as opposed to a ghostwriter.

and then there are other times where it's like "Is he playing a character? Is this affected? Is it ironic?" and I can't tell.

^its apparently not ironic. Sometimes he's able to pull a work of genius out of the air, sometimes he just really has a clunker. I dont think he has a sense of irony, now that ive read his book.

there's also something about the way he speaks in interviews that makes me think it's partly mental illness that's at play. I almost wonder if he avoids reading because of how strongly it affects him.

― michael bolton's reckless daughter (Hurting 2), Thursday, October 18, 2012 3:53 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there was a similar thing in Shakey where thurston moore was talking about going on tour with crazy horse and he was like "neil doesn't really know anything that's going on in music" like you could tell he only had the vaguest idea about what "punk" was when he wrote hey hey, my my, but it was just the idea of it more than the actual music that influenced him in his weird neil way

He's somewhat childlike. I'm anticipating when i get around to Townshend's book it's gonna be a 180 degree difference

Townsend's more of an adolescent