Neil Young - On The Beach

I like to think "Hitchhiker" is "Don't Be Denied Pt. II: The Drug Years".

― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, October 30, 2012 9:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you read this somewhere and forgot it, this is almost a direct quote from a Neil interview. let me see if I can dig this up.

didn't take long at all:

Q. But Don't Be Denied for example is one of your best songs. It's also your most openly autobiographical...

A. Yeah, certainly. It's one of them, anyway. The other one's called Hitch-Hiker. It's a contemporary of Don't Be Denied from 1975 and it was all about all the different drugs that I took. I started at the beginning and ran right through my years of drug usage up to that time, drawing parallels with other stuff. It's a very interesting song (laughs). Eventually I mutated it partly into a song called Like An Inca [on Trans]. Only the chorus lived, though all the verses were gone. Hitch-Hiker is now probably bootlegged 'cos I played it six or seven times on some acoustic tour I did in the '90s.

http://thrasherswheat.org/tfa/mojointerview1295pt2.htm

(interview from 95 btw)

direct quote is overstating my case, my bad.

La Lechera: if you've been searching for a copy of Hall & Oates' Ooh Yeah! for most of your life, your ship has just come in.

i have an extra copy of rumours as well

Will trade you for one Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack, drunkenly purchased one night for $0.25. "You don't understand! Harold Faltermeyer! Harold..."FUCKING"... Faltermeyer. HUGE influence on dance music today. This is a fucking FIND."

Happy halloween to me!
I have a spare copy of Liza Minelli THE SINGER that someone must want

Anyone?
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so is you're so vain on there twice? I'm really confused.

Just once, toward the end of side 1. She was just really excited about singing it so it's on the cover twice.

one of the versions of You're So Vain is with a full orchestra and a fuzzbox on her vocals, the other rendition is nearly a capella, accompanied only by a faint, authentic lyre

First one not too far off - there are cartoonishly cheesy horns and some sick drumming. Segues awkwardly into Where Is the Love To really keep the good times flowing.

I'll throw in The Sterile Cuckoo sdtk if someone sends me a copy of Ragged Glory.

thread got awesome

liza is cuuuute on that album cover. did she ever cover neil young?
he was pretty into her mom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ9AV7C7EX8

She does look super cute on the cover, that's why I posted the photo! She was cute in Sterile Cuckoo too -- one of the original MPDGs iirc. I don't know how Neil Young would feel about that, he seems like he likes his women a little more down to earth, but what do I know.
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She did work with Alice Cooper

she was dating scorsese at the time of the last waltz, maybe she was backstage? important things to know.

We're getting off topic but I love her hair and moves here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR_mjkxc7Ys

Sorry to add to the somewhat surreal derailment--started by me, perhaps...--but I find Liza much more attractive in The Sterile Cuckoo than in Cabaret.

Guys if this thread gets derailed where will we be able to talk about Neil Young?

liza on the beach
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she is 4'4"

not that there's anything wrong with that

"Pocahontas, Liza Minelli and me"

she is 4'4"

she once recounted to Neil her deep desire to "walk like a giant"

As a person of short stature, I can identify with that.

she isn't 4'4" really is she?

Damn I just looked it up and she's taller than I am!

Google tells me she is 5'4" (1.63 m)

In a further thread-derail, and having found how easy it is to Google people's height..., I'm disappointed to learn that Iggy Pop is not actually Five Foot One, but 5'7".

Prince is 5'2" right?

You never know......

40 years young today

He should have taken a chance and held it back for three weeks--could have released it the day Nixon resigned.

heh heh.
i've been listening to this album for 20+ years now... still so good.

Motion Pictures should have been much, much higher

What would've been perfect: if Altman had interspersed the title track into The Long Goodbye the same way he used "The Stranger Song" in McCabe & Mrs. Miller

(Though I guess this album was released a year too late for that...)

Robert Altman came to my school for a Robert FIlm Festival and said that the idea for McCabe and Mrs. Miller appeared to him (in snowy images of the title characters) while listening to an LP by L. Cohen, forget which one, He was high at the time but he remembered (made notes).
As said on CSNY thread, I saw them on tour in Memphis, about five weeks after OTB was released, I think, although I hadn't heard it, and it was so exciting to encounter some of those surgin' songs in the midst of all that porridge. Y warbling true after all the "harmonies," then S-Y guitar wars wah-wahing all over C & N's hapless handclaps (okay, some of the group efforts worked, but best on Young & Stills songs). I realized that he wasn't just gonna run that Harvest sound into the ground, or turn into James Taylor. And the audience as a whole really woke up for his new stuff (though prob some wanted to get back to the mellow).

Robert Altman Film Festival, not just any Robert.

Neil Young, 6' 0" (1.82 m)

Stood in a record store and held the Ditch box set in my hand yesterday. So much money--$179. Happily, no need for it.

The Pono versions won't be near as expensive.

Idk it's hard to imagine the long goodbye having any other theme song than the long goodbye.

Wow I thought Neil was taller, not that 6 feet is short but I guess the ppl he's in band's with must by short

i'd rather start all over again

the world is turning

yow, neil played "revolution blues" last night in texas ... first time since 1987. those promise of the real-ers must be real on the beach heads.

really dug the show I saw w them even tho we didn't get any deep cut/rarities like that honestly I might put them just behind Crazy Horse as his best backing band

I like every song on this record, but could probably agree if they were ranked according to these poll results.