neil young

i want that so bad and can't afford it :(

haha, hmm, yeah, it looks nice, but no way.

I'm dating Daryl Hannah / Gotta jack up the box set price
Hey now now hey now now

place I went to was applying black friday sale prices to RSD releases. $99. I feel dirty but I love these albums, esp time fades away.

that's not too bad @ $25 per LP

For classic rock artists on new vinyl that's pretty much the cheapest you'll get.

Damn was that chain or indie?

indie. first time I've ever done the RSD thing, so I'm not sure if that's unusual or not.

no place within 100 miles got any of the neil young t-shirts. of course the fucker is only selling them online bundled with the boxset. you are killing me neil.

Neil's first 14 albums remastered...as PONO EXCLUSIVES

haha neil you DICK

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C0jnwyTQkfg/VEAU9uOyB4I/AAAAAAAAKR8/J-EV24aZFDQ/s400/dreamforce-2014-pono-flow.png

Cool it's compatible with my Grammy.

the new grammy's are blue tooth enabled

Pretty sure that's a bong.

who knew that daryl hannah pono would be nsfw

NEIL?

I mean a gis for that, duh

PONO WORLD TIMES

Great interview, lots of behind the scenes stuff:

http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/the-view-from-here/a-long-interview-with-neil-young-guitarist-poncho-sampedro-most-people-turn-

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i tried to sum up neil's weird 2014
http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/607-the-year-in-young-neils-weird-2014/
definitely missed a few things!

haha neil young's weird 1965-2014

So weird, Uncut link worked for me.

Transcribed here: http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2014/12/full-interview-transcript-poncho.html

How did Neil introduce a new song to you?

Neil starts playing it. He stares at you. You start playing along with him. You plug through it a couple of times. Then he’ll stop. I remember he stopped and I said, “Neil, what is that riff that you played at the beginning?” He said, “Which one?” I started playing something like I thought was the riff and he goes, “That’s about it.” It’d be nice if we played it together. “No, no. That’s fine.” Billy had some questions about the descending line, and then we played it a few more times. Honestly? On the whole tour, he did tell us – let me see – there was one that we did somewhere and he said, “Listen to that one.” He said, “That’s the way it really goes, that’s the order, that’s the form.” I listened to it, and I understood what he was saying. When to come in and when to lay out and all that. But I don’t think Rick ever took it seriously. We definitely really got it. I think the last night we played it pretty good. But Neil never took the time at a soundcheck to say, “Okay, this is it, we’re going to play this four times, then three times, then this happens, then that happens.” He never really laid it out and said, “This is it.” He never did that on that song. So it was always a little unsettled.

What about the inclusion of “Only Love Can Break Your Heart”?

I shit my pants. Neil says, “Play it on piano,” like the night before we did it. I said, “I haven’t played piano in 15 years!” He goes, “Aww, you can do it.” I was scrambling to find a keyboard to get to my room to try and practise. Oh, man. Then there you are, less than 24 hours later, standing in front of thousands of people. I love that song. I play it on the guitar with my girl. We’ve learned how to play it really well. All those things were interesting and I love a challenge, I really do. But it’s not like a big party. It’s super intense, and it’s a lot of pressure and a lot of stress goes into it. On that tour, I think I rehearsed almost every night in my room, hours and hours, because there were so many different changes, so many different songs. I was exhausted when I got home. But he knows what he’s doing, he doesn’t have to rehearse it that much.

Great piece, tylerw! It's like Neil compressed all his 80s wackiness into a single year.

Somewhere, David Geffen is screaming, "SEE?! SEE WHAT I MEAN?! YOU WOULD'VE SUED HIM, TOO!"

The Poncho thing gets into Neil's weird year, too.

Niko Bolas told me he thought Neil might put music on hold to concentrate on environmental issues...
I don’t know. Honestly, some of my last conversations with Neil, when we were just talking like guys, I can’t help but look him in the face and say, “Neil you’re a great song writer. You’re a great musician. I think you should keep writing songs and stay out of business.” That’s from my heart, that’s from my heart. He puts so much energy and passion and love into the Pono project, into Lincvolt project and writing, all these other things. I think it takes a little away from his music. That’s really what his calling is. He’s a great artist. I hope he doesn’t. But at the same time, but if he can make a difference, if he really did change something, more power to him. Like I said, I understand all the problems. I don’t know where to find the solution.

Best line:

Neil gets bored with other projects. He always comes back to you guys…

There’s a whole set of people he comes back to. He has other bands that he plays with too. I don’t think he ever really falls out with us, it’s just a cycle. I think the people that he’s not playing with get pissed off, and then it seems like it’s a falling out but he’s just going on his cycle.

He’s a contrary bugger…

Most people turn a corner, Neil ricochets.

this is my favorite part of the piece:

We sat on the couch, Neil and I, and we were talking. That’s when he was first starting to sell Pono records. He got up and started going, “So I walked into Warner Bros, here’s the sales pitch I gave them…” He pretended he had a blackboard and everything, and I said, “Neil, man, that sounds great. But I haven’t listened to a record in probably 20 years.” After that, he never really talked to me about it again.

haha, that is crazy. poncho definitely seems like the ultimate "stumbled into a music career" guy.

totally. the way shakey introduces him as a character is just fuckin brilliant

http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/videos/neil-young-and-jimmy-fallons-neil-young-perform-old-man-together-20150204

http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/02/neil-young-teams-with-the-roots-for-kick-ass-performance-on-fallon-watch/

this rocks. With a choir and a horn section

plus the interview with Fallon

They're doing "Who's Gonna Stand Up" from Storytone

A friend bought this for me:

http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-400/1933-1/2EB/4D3/41/%7B2EB4D341-A194-4E36-B579-C4D42B9448C5%7DImg400.jpg

Don't know about the writing yet, but the photos--esoteric picture sleeves, concert posters, various artifacts--are fantastic.

that looks cool

I have that! It's fun to flip through, haven't sat down and read it yet.

great book cover!

There’s a whole set of people he comes back to. He has other bands that he plays with too. I don’t think he ever really falls out with us, it’s just a cycle. I think the people that he’s not playing with get pissed off, and then it seems like it’s a falling out but he’s just going on his cycle.
A whole set of cycles! Thanks Ponch; seems like an obvious point, but some people I know just forget again, and go on and on and on about how they loves them some Neil and totally get him, but why does he have to do this shit and that shit and some other shit when he could and should be doing etc---and all I can say is, "Hang on, he'll get back to you." Like the song says, "Take a cold tater and wait." The sooner he does a A Letter From Home and a Storytone (both of which I like), the sooner he gets back to the heavy (also like).

Like the song says, "Take a cold tater and wait."

lol wut?

Cold tater, look at my life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBi_CyJe604

http://www.uncut.co.uk/news/neil-young-debuts-new-songs-at-small-club-gig-67820

NYC is goin' Neil Movie crazee for a week

http://www.ifccenter.com/series/the-bernard-shakey-film-retrospective-neil-young-on-screen/

woohoo! so is the new material good, is it abt breaking up/falling in love again, is it abt pono?

always weirded out by these poll results - 1 vote for harvest srsly???

the movies took up quite a bit of space in waging heavy peace and while i found neil's thoughts and memories interesting none of what he wrote made me want to watch the movies

i like Greendale fwiw, only of those ive seen

(liked the first concert doc Demme did too)

you should def see Human Highway, it's better (and loopier) than both of those

Greendale is a great record too (have not seen movie) a shame it got zero vote in this poll. Saw Heart of Gold (the Demme doc) in local theatre when it came out and it was great. Also remember enjoying Year of the Horse, but the soundtrack cd was pretty crap last time I checked so maybe the movie wasn't too good either and I was just blinded by early onset fandom when I saw it years back.

HH:

Directed by: Bernard Shakey & Dean Stockwell

:o