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NEWS YOU CAN TRUST TENT:
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someone plz take a pic of these wares

Is this the paper the homeless sell? Is it good?

Final Call, Redbook, Popular Mechanics

What Hi-Fi

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got tickets for Oct. 8th, check out this unbelievable setlist from July:

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/neil-young-promise-of-the-real/2015/susquehanna-bank-center-camden-nj-2bf6dc0e.html

SO PSYCHED

Is there any way we can write Bardo Pond in as his next backup band?

man lot of covers lol

hah yeah don't know what's up with that

listening to The Monsanto Year right now, gonna liveblog some choice couplets

"too big to fail
too rich for jail"

really this record has a good sound, but a lot of the lyrics are painful earnest-Neil style

still it's kinda winning me over, and "Wolf Moon" is really pretty, he's been doing it along with "Harvest Moon" in the live sets and it fits.

"corporations have feelings
corporations have souls
that's why they're like people
but harder to control"

no good couplets from "Workin' Man" but it rocks super hard, got that herky-jerky rhythm hiccup and a lotta dense guitar, also upbeat tempo

"out of balance, money grows
corporations take control"

(btw everything else abt this track, "Rules Of Change", is excellent - light harmonics mixed with serious fuzz, a fragile delivery, good melody

OK lyrical clunkers aside, this record is great, dude is on a roll in the 2010's

"corporations have feelings
corporations have souls
that's why they're like people
but harder to control"

― sleeve, Monday, October 5, 2015 8:48 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

MY FRIEND

This album is one vocoder away from being the Trans sequel of my dreams.

what else has neil young done similar to the dead man soundtrack? i love it too much

Closest thing is probably Arc, which isn't even really that close -- lots of long instrumental passages, but few repeated melodies. That one descending figure on Dead Man is one of the most beautiful things he's ever come up with. That record is one of my favorites, up there with Tonight's the Night.

(I do love Arc, it's just a different animal with similar skin, from a distance)

haha yeah I was totally gonna say Arc

Tyler you really should give this new one a listen!

yeah Dead Man sdtk is p unique in his catalog. Arc is similarly abstract but yeah it's working w a pretty different sonic palette.

Monsanto is really good. There are some clunkers but on the whole it's excellent.

show was unbelievable. hit after hit, band was on fire, one of the young Nelsons did a showstopping version of "September Song" on piano, and they encored with "Vampire Blues" ((last time played 1974/03/26)

I feel like The Promise Of The Real is perfect for him, they were all having so much fun and totally locked in to each other, lotsa guitar-heavy jamming

setlist:

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/neil-young-promise-of-the-real/2015/matthew-knight-arena-eugene-or-bf4111e.html

!!!!! vampire blues !!!!!!

I KNOW!!!!!

was it good?

fuck yeah it was good! I couldn't believe it.

jealous

funny, i imagine 10% of the crowd was losing it, while the rest were like "uhhh which one is this?"

haha totally

the people over at Jambase are freaking out about the set:

http://www.jambase.com/Articles/126698/Neil-Young-and-Promise-Of-The-Real-Treat-Eugene-To-Dream-Setlist

there were a lotta surprises and rare tracks

the version of "Walk On" killed it as well

next holy grail for him to pull out is "tired eyes." hasn't done it since '73.

holy shit they're playing in Oakland ON MY BIRTHDAY

er Berkeley

it was so good, you should go

I want to but unfortunately it's kind of complicated, unlikely I can get there at 8pm for one thing

they were pretty prompt starting, then I think they played for over three hours...

hmm the only tickets left are general admission/pit (which are >$100 but whatever it's my birthday) - I've never been in the pit at the Greek, is it decent? I guess we'd be super up-close.

jesus christ total is like $300, now I remember why I never go to huge shows anymore

...and it was still worth it! for both of us anyway...

ok family CFO has approved purchase...

congratulations, sir

wow seeing the markup on these tickets (200%) is insane, what a bunch of gangsters

THUG LIFE

http://images.wolfgangsvault.com/neil-young-and-the-bluenotes/promo-print/memorabilia/ZZZ002355-PP.jpg

eh it's not Neil - tix face value is $50. What did I end up paying? over $150 apiece.

all to some jackass front outfit that essentially scalps tickets

Seriously, how in the fuck is ScumHub legal?

Is that what they're calling Ticketmaster these days?

Stubhub

it is pretty crazy -- i really can't fathom how they get away with it.

Complete lack of regulation, bribes to government officials, people willing to pay stupid high prices, etc