neil young

sounds like down by the river?

yeah, down by the river for sure

Who is the backing band?

lukas nelson and the promise of the real (whose name still makes me wince), who neil played w/ at one show last year. he's supposed to be making a record w/ them.

Hmmm, terrible name but whatever. If it gets results then fine. Neil looked pretty on in that clip.

movin around a lot for an old guy!

Neil, Lukas & co. at Harvest of Hope, the anti-Keystone show, purty cool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjrKWs-MuY8

more incredibly exciting neil young news
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only $3000

the flamingos look just like the lady on the cover of zuma!!

you're right! hmmmm...

only they're flying in the other direction...
hmmmmmm

going to take the rest of this friday afternoon to ponder this one out. might have to go up to the roof.

$3K in keeping with Neil's vinyl pricing structure

go up to the roofcool euphemism, though shouldn't nec. in "Rocky Mountain H-i-i-igh, Colo-rad-o."

Neil w Lukas & Promise Of The Real play "Walk On," "the song our band was named for, " according to Lukas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC38lRm7op0&app=desktop

I used to line up and get my latte everyday
But yesterday was my last one
Starbucks has teamed up with Monsanto to sue Vermont
and stop accurate food labeling.

Throw some more lyrics and some sick crazy horse guitar into the mix and a harmony-laden chorus and I be the can get a 12 jam out of this song

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Saturday, November 15, 2014 7:41 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm predicting a anti-Monsanto concept album, performed with a big band appearing next year in lieu of Archives II.

― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, November 15, 2014 7:44 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Throw some more lyrics and some sick crazy horse guitar into the mix and a harmony-laden chorus and I be the can get a 12 jam out of this song

It's vastly more detailed and nuanced than all of Greendale.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, November 15, 2014 7:53 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If we get a ten minute song with Cortez the Killer vibes about Monsanto I'm totally down

― Temple of Infinite Grohls (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, November 15, 2014 7:54 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Neil delivers!

2015-04-16, SLO Brewing Co., San Luis Obispo, California, USA
w/ The Nelson Brothers
1. Country Home
2. People Want To Hear About Love*
3. New Song 2 - New Day For The Planet ??*
4. Down By The River
5. New Song 3 - Too Big To Fail ??*
6. New Song 4 - GMO-Starbucks ??*
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7. Walk On
8. Monsanto Years*
9. New Song 6 - I Don't Know You ??*
10. New Song 7 - Seeds ??*
11. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
12. Wolf Moon*
13. Love And Only Love
14. Workin' Man*
15. Country Home
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16. Roll Another Number

* - song debut

Pocahontas, Monsanto And Me

That short clip w Lukas Nelson was amazing
You can tell when Neil's really going in, he always looks like he's a deep see fisherman and his guitar is a swordfish he's fighting

Oh man that clip makes me so happy

wow, those Promise of the Real sounds bad...

http://www.promiseofthereal.com/

Neil Young has teamed up with Promise of the Real, a band featuring Lukas and Micah Nelson (sons of the legendary Willie Nelson), to record an album titled The Monsanto Years, as Rolling Stone reports. As you might guess, the album is composed of songs criticizing food industry giant Monsanto, which Young has spoken out against for years. The record will be out June 16, with Young and Promise of the Real touring to support it. (Band of Horses will open on a handful of dates.) Check out their schedule below.
Some songs that might appear on the album debuted at a recent show in San Luis Obispo, California. They include titles such as "Rock Starbucks", "Monsanto Years", "Too Big to Fail", and "Seeds", as fan site Sugar Mountain points out.

two colorado shows! definitely going to one of them, been too long since i've seen neil in person.

the lyrics on this are gonna be goony for sure but all these clips sound great, maybe some young kids who just dig on classic rockin' neil jams will do him some good

http://pitchfork.com/news/59348-neil-young-announces-monsanto-themed-lp-recorded-with-willie-nelsons-sons/

he looks a little slmmed down too

offtopic, but

i've been listening to on the beach a ton lately. i always heard ambulance blues as the standout track in a near-perfect album of standouts, but now i think the title track beats them all. this is probably a stupid question, but what do you all think "i hope it don't turn away" means, in the first part of the song? along with the "now i'm living out here on the beach/but those seagulls are still out of reach", it makes me think of destitution, real loss of family and friends and security. but in the context of the rest of the song, and the album itself, maybe those lines are more like daydreams about escapism?

Roger Mexico ‏@roger_mexico 21m21 minutes ago

In my head Neil Young and Bob Dylan are having some kind of a contest to release the weirdest albums before they both die.
5:56 PM - 20 Apr 2015 · Details

Don Allred ‏@0wlred 2m2 minutes ago

@roger_mexico Yay!

xp

I always interpreted it as more like

please don't let me lose touch with the things I love and am familiar with, please don't let me die alone and unloved

hope it don't turn away

so good

if yr in NYC
https://scontent-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/11174781_10152701145856441_644484205627854608_n.jpg?oh=461ffffc01fa99701b387bd71f2632dc&oe=559F35DC
of course, there's an accompanying Monsanto Years movie...

They need a Neil Young Archives DVD/Blu Ray set

Never really get the love for Rust Never Sleeps. Great individual songs but I find the arrangements sluggish, and I kind of hate the tinny, busker-y acoustic guitar tone on the first side. There's a lighter, groovier tone on Tonight's The Night/On the Beach/Goldrush, and I miss it when it's not around.

Admittedly I have a horrible 99p vinyl copy which probably didn't help. But I prefer the Live Rust versions of everything here.

early reports are ... not good.
The film Neil premiered was basically a 60-minute music video for the new album. I'll just say the lyrics make "hip-hop haircut" seem deep. Musically it was by-the-numbers electric Neil and the lyrics were probably the worst I've ever heard.

I dunno, I'd be genuinely surprised if Neil's filmmaking skills suddenly blossomed at this stage of his, er, "development" as a "filmmaker."

(But I liked Greendale.)

is warner bros actually going to put out an album named THE MONSANTO YEARS?

apparently Warner Music isn't owned by Time Warner anymore but by Access Industries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_Industries

curious just how far up the chain an artist's decision to make an album calling out another corporation goes

xp maybe Neil told them that Darren Monsanto was this killer guitarist he used to play with at his zuma beach house or something

xpost
and Access Industries owns 14% of LyondellBasell, another enormous chemical company.

Shakey's still "got it," cuz the first hour of Human Highway is quite a pain.

I'm not hearing the awesomeness in the Nelson's boys back-up band artistry based on the clips I have heard, frankly. Maybe if they played harder and bopped less, they'd sound better.

hey nice, godspeed:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-neil-young-stephen-stills-autism-benefit-april-25-20150423-story.html

You can download the secret gig here: http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=2297

Thanks! BigO still has the Neil x Willie x Lukas & POTR set from Harvest of Hope, the anti-Keystone XXL show excerpted upthread, in that 10-minute jam (those Neil & Lukas YouTube posts aren't showing up in my Firefox this morning, but they are in Chrome)
Here;s the HoH set:
http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1989 Looks like they've also still got a bunch of other Neil and Neil-related sets.

new song - "Big Box" on spotify

lyrics are clunky to say the VERY least
um i dunno sometimes it kind of works despite itself, as do many of neil's songs

production is sort of grey and odd in places

overall reminds me of, natch, something off Mirror Ball

We are as far now from Mirror Ball as it was from Zuma

Let that sink in.

da croupier rates every Neil album:

http://anthonyisright.tumblr.com/

sad to see him rate Dead Man so low - just dug that CD out the other day and love it

yeah wish there were at least three more zoned out instrumental neil records like that...

I SAID it'd make a great podcast!

love Dead Man as well. this could be a terrible idea, but has anyone ever tried playing a few copies of it at once, in different spots of the same song, at a low volume? a lot of the songs have a meandering quality to them and stick with the same key, so it might actually sound kinda cool.

tylerw otm!