neil young

Mr. Young had a bit of a crooked grin through segments of the Demme concert film "Heart of Gold," but it's doubtful he was all that amused when this parody came out.
i dunno, he would probably think it was funny. he likes jimmy fallon's impression.

But would '70s Neil Young think it was funny?

he would've wept sensitive singer-songwriter tears

wau at this

ULTIMATE SPINACH!

Never knew this was online: Greil Marcus's original review of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere for Good Times, August 1969:

http://www.zodiackillerfacts.com/The%20San%20Francisco%20Express%20Times%20aka%20Good%20Times.htm

Really, it's more of a career overview plus a review of "Cowgirl in the Sand."

cool find!

The only word I have for Stills’ music is “perfect.”

hmmm...wait a couple years their Greil

there

sigh

*imperfect*

Man, I checked out a copy of CSN's greatest hits after reading Shakey. It's pretty astounding to me that they were where Young went to earn his money, just in terms of them being an enormous going concern during the late 60s/early 70s. I couldn't make it through a song without rolling my eyes.

yeah, i'm pretty much with you. every once in a while i go back through CSN (w/ or w/out Y) and try to gain some new appreciation, but it's a struggle. they're not bad or anything but neil young is so, so much better that it's a constant question of "why don't i just divide both sides of this equation by CSN so i can just be left with Y?"

Agree that "the American Beatles" and all that was way overdone--Deja Vu was a bigger story than Loaded in 1970, which now seems silly--but I really think they had a bunch of good to great songs beyond just Neil's on their first two studio albums.

Greil Marcus' Woodstock wrapup from RS #42, 9/20/69 on CSNY:

"Visually they are one of the most exciting bands I have ever seen."

So there's that.

^^Neil wore a great ruffled shirt at that show. Probably contributed to the cited visual excitement.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7rw9uQ1XU1qbm3br.jpg

...along w/Stills' poncho.

show was awesome last night. i know they could get goofy, but shit got REAL goofy during "fuckin up." does neil mime a fart (with appropriate guitar sound) very often?

hahahahaha i've never seen that

neil whispering "poncho.....poncho.....poncho" while poncho does blues loverman shit. why couldn't there be more of that on Psychedelic Pill instead of excerpts from his biography?

that said the psychedelic pill stuff sounded pretty strong live, even if the lyrics weren't his finest

To everyone who loves music –

I’m very happy to bring you some good news. All of us at Team PONO have been focused on getting everything right for our early 2014 launch of Pono.

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Our mission is also to make PONO just as accessible as any music you buy and listen to today. So we’ll be launching both the PONO portable player – an updated version of the one I showed on David Letterman’s program – and an online library, with all your favorite music available in PonoMusic quality. Everything you need to feel music anew.

Stay tuned for more updates. And be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter for the latest information. We hope you’ll try PONO when it comes your way, and that it brings you the soul of music.

Yours, for PonoMusic –
Neil Young

yes!

"early 2014 launch of Pono" is Neil-speak for "right after Archives 2 comes out"

i'm not even joking archives is gonna be a fucking pre-loaded Pono mark my words :(

lolling @ Neil writing "And be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter for the latest information."

haha esp cuz he was such an asshole on his twitter thing

Neil's LincVolt broke down, and he was stranded in the desert.

do people know about this curio? it's pure canadian cheese, but kind of .. errr ... affecting? margo timmins of the cowboy junkies doesn't get to come to the video shoot proper, but gets to sing backup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7ewuZS49aE

Here's the heavier version, still cheesy, but I think this performance better suits the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVgjD8wdNzo

aw that's sweet

in shakey it sounds like everyone worshipped bachman back in the garage days

My guitar teacher told me that wherever Randy grew up, there was literally one guitar teacher, this jazz cat with serious chops, so apparently Bachman got really technically good really fast, and was the only young guitarist around with any real skills. Which of course he applied to BTO.

Lenny Breau is the dude your guitar teacher was talking about. He's kind of a tragic figure in the 60s Canadian jazz scene, and pretty awesome actually. Bachman definitely could've learned from worse. And then, yeah, BTO was the result, I guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=limCRMZD1Ec

while we wonder what neil is going to do for his carnegie hall appearances this week ... this shot showed up on Matt Sweeney's instagram over the weekend
http://distilleryimage10.ak.instagram.com/848e307675aa11e3bcb212887d20911a_8.jpg
is neil going to be jamming w/ endless boogie?!

Or just "Like a Hurricane."

matt sweeney's fascinating life continues. right before neil he was jamming with group doueh in the sahara

haha, i know, he seems to have life figured out

Pump organ "Mr. Soul"!

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

Don't recall Neil being in the middle of a political controversy here--a couple of times in the States, but not here, I don't think.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/neil-young-blasts-oilsands-expansion-launches-fundraising-tour-1.2493638

From Neil's fb today:

Stew
15/01/14

The Chief’s making stew in the crock pot on the bus. Smells fantastic. We’re rolling west after a night of cold clean air and good sleep in Thunder Bay. Nobody’s tired, nobody’s complaining, no downers on this ride – there is a lot of love in the camp. That’s what happens when music and cause come together.

It confuses me to hear people shouting at us that musicians should just shut up and entertain. Where the hell did that lame-ass idea come from? Music was, is and always will be about social condition and cause and change. Music speaks for the oppressed and downtrodden. Music launches revolution. Woody Guthrie and Hank Williams and Bob Dylan and Joan Baez and Johnny Cash and Joni Mitchell and Willie Nelson and John Lennon and Eddie Vedder and Neil Young and all the giants of the art know this. What the fuck kind of
music and musicians are these boneheads actually listening to?

Just wonderin’.
Onward
The Passenger

Is that about the pipeline? I know somebody in Canada who I think was protesting that

Eddie Vedder, giant of the art

It's signed The Passenger, and I thought that was iggy

It's more about the oil sands, and honouring treaties regarding land use consultation with the native population in the area of the oil sands and the proposed BC pipeline.

If you're interested, you can watch him here:

http://www.straight.com/blogra/564946/video-neil-young-condemns-oil-sands-developments-comparing-their-effects-hiroshima

My class is actually in the middle of a Native unit right now, so I played a few minutes of that for them.

He's being interviewed on The National tonight.

A+ username, crypto.

Thanks! :-)

Billy Talbot has suffered a mild stroke, and won't be playing the European dates with Crazy Horse.

:(
i got a ticket for neil and crazy horse for july 10

I'm sure they'll still be amazing! the bassist from the CSNY tours is covering for Billy.

Rosas has been playing with Neil, in the studio and on stage, for years.

Yeah, he was on the Buffalo Springfield tours too.

oof, reminder that these guys are not getting any younger. rosas will be fine, i'm sure, but kind of wild that these will be the first crazy horse shows w/o talbot ... ever?

hmm
The Crazy Horse line-up will also be enhanced by backing vocalists, Dorene Carter and YaDonna West, best known for their memorable work with their own group Mahogany Blue.