neil young

the laughing gnome himself?

Paul williams?

there's also the 'captain crunch' anecdote re: someone macking on carrie snodgress later in the book

Yeah, and "Captain Whoopee", who became Neil's "boat buddy", and bled him for $$$$ while looking for a second boat.

I'm gonna light up some Zuma tonight!

Slowly making my way through Shakey. I’m glad to read that Neil shares my opinion of Tell Me Why.

Yeah - who is "captain crunch"?

Ragged Glory on the deck..

I like thinking that S. M. Collier walks around sharing brief anecdotes about late one night at the Whisky in 1972 apropos of nothing in particular.

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Not looking so much at this bootleg, but the PICTURE! Did not realize he went through a phase in which he basically established the platonic archetype of a Phishhead.

that flying V looks so tiny

dude he is a giant, he wrote a song and everything

Happy 67th, old man. Been playing this for the students all day (skipping over "Southern Man"):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpNdiXLBDC4

3 out of 8 songs in Time Fades Away mention Canada: "back in canada i spent my days", "Now I'm goin' back to Canada", "When we got to Winnipeg"

I wonder if this is Neil's highest Canada ratio

Good call. I'm trying to think of others: "Helpless," "Ambulance Blues," "Born in Ontario" on the new album...must be forgetting a few.

“You took that guitar and you put it in your arm, Bruce."

Oh man, a google image search for "Cowgirl in the Sand" results in some horrific, horrific fucking garbage.

Anyone got a copy of the Liverpool show from '73? My best googling has only yielded broken links.

Try here

Sorry, that's Manchester '73. I've only ever heard the Manchester and London shows from that tour.

Oh wait - I have the Toronto show too.

Just curious--where did he play Toronto in '73? Was it Massey Hall or somewhere bigger?

my info says Maple Leaf Gardens. May not be correct.

yeah he played there on the time fades away tour, i think, not on the later tonight's the night tour. don't think i've heard the liverpool show, just the manchester and london gigs.

and there's a queens college tonight's the night show that would be amazing if the sound quality wasn't awful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3z09VRZ6to&feature=plcp

aw, nice clip. also, insaaaaane model railroad setup. don't know if i've ever actually seen it before.
on the less warm n fuzzy side
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the 70s!

Love that clip with Neil and his son and the trains. Very cool

They are communicating on a different plane, not by the means you or I might use. I have some friends with kids who have disabilities, and even though it may be a challenge, they would not change a thing.

aw, nice clip. also, insaaaaane model railroad setup. don't know if i've ever actually seen it before.

I think that's actually bigger than the model train set at the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry (which is massive).

Always weird to see Neil not playing Old Black

http://sugarmtn.org/instruments/gretsch_6120/gretsch_6120_1985_2.jpg

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Believe the Gretsch precedes Old Black by several years.

Yeah, he had that back in the Buffalo Springfield days, right? What an awesome-looking guitar that is. Like the pristine flipside to grizzled, battered Old Black.

Yeah, I guess I meant it's weird seeing Neil with a Fender.

That's for sure. Sort of like seeing Springsteen with anything but a Fender.

The strat pic is the weirdest to me. He looks genuinely unhappy to be holding it.

On the other hand, I really love jimmy page's brief telecaster phase

Not that brief! First two albums and bits of the rest ("Stairway to Heaven" solo, etc.). I think he got the Tele from ... Jeff Beck? I believe Beck was playing a Tele around that time, too, but of course embraced the Strat. Page had his own brief Strat phase at the end. Did Neil play a Strat c. the Shocking Pinks?

Page looks cool in any guitar, but the strat is hard to pull off

I'm glad he had it but Page with a Tele seems so odd. Not to indulge in guitar cliches but it's hard to think of Led Zep as a Tele band at all - maybe tele deluxe/custom? Keith rocked that one. This is basically an image thing tbh.

Yeah, but Page's Tele was painted all psychedelic.

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Saw Neil Young & Crazy Horse last night in Philly. Holy shit. If he is playing anywhere near you on this tour, GO. I haven't been listening to the boots, so I don't know how this compares to the other dates from this year, but really, unless you're not down with monolithic noise jams, this is more than worth the ticket price. A brief (3-song) acoustic interlude in the middle, but other than that, pretty much relentless heaviness for 2 1/2 hours.

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

Wow, I think I found a copy of the elusive "Southern California Brings Me Down:"

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Southern California Brings Me Down

I need someone to live with me
To keep my bed warm
And keep my shorts clean
I need a maid to give for free
And sew patches on my jeans

I dreamed I saw my cowgirl housewife
I was drivin' in my pickup through L.A.
I wanna love you while I can, babe
Before I become an old man

Southern California brings me down
Southern California brings me down
Southern California brings me down

Ooh, I need some place to go
Oh, north Ontario
It's safer than Alabama
It's safer than Ohio, ohh...

Gonna go home now
Where I can grow old
With the cowgirl of my dreams
I'm gonna stay stay stoned now
Just stare out my basement window and scream
Ahhhh.....

Southern California brings me down
Southern California brings me down
Southern California brings me down

Oooh, ooh, gotta get away now
Southern California brings me down
Ooh, ooh, babe
Ooh, gotta get away...

Topanga Canyon freaks, you won't see around no more

haha, this is pretty good.

ha never heard of that, pretty good, they get a lot of neil songwriting tics down pat