neil young

my first Neil album that I personally bought was Ragged Glory, although my parents had a copy of Harvest (I do not recall them ever listening to it though)

as is (maybe?) usual, i originally confused neil young with neil diamond ...
my brother: "this guy has some crazy guitar records!"
me: "the 'sweet caroline' guy?!"

― tylerw, Friday, December 4, 2015 10:53 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My brother and sister-in-law made this mistake recently. They texted my wife when they were out someplace, and said "don't you guys like Neil Diamond?" I guess they saw a t-shirt or poster or something and wanted to buy it for us. Ha!

I told her she should have said, "no, it's Neil Hagerty we like." (also true)

lol, there should definitely be one of those bob marley / jimi hendrix t-shirts with neil young / neil diamond

Would totally buy a black-and-silver Jazz Singer-style shirt that said Neil Young & Crazy Horse

oh yeah, maybe this, with "Tonight's The Night" replacing "The Jazz Singer"
http://www.buildthesong.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Jazz-Singer.jpg

My first Neil show was the first night of the "Weld" tour, Jan 22 1991, totally awesome. I believe the only time they did "Campaigner" on tour, which is something I only really appreciate now. Sonic Youth opened, only made through a handful of songs cuz Kim was having amp problems, I remember her storming offstage and Thrust dealing with hecklers.

I was fully into "Ragged Glory" at that point, probably still one of the best shows I've ever seen.

"'Doghouse' put me back in the middle of the road," Young wrote in the liners to his 1997 greatest hits collection Still Doggin'. "Traveling there was rockin' so I stayed right there. Awoooooo!!!!"

A+

Should be a Young Diamond band---like, say, Beatallica, but moreso.

#DoghouseDoghouse
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, December 3, 2015 8:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There is an alternate universe where "This Note's For You" sold a little better and instead of "Freedom" Neil made a second Blue Notes lp. The first single of which was "Doghouse" and on the back of a hugely popular video of Neil interacting with a cute/funny animated dog ("Video of the Year" winner), "Doghouse" becomes a number one hit song for weeks, becoming far and away Neil's most famous song. To the point that everyone thinks of him as "that guy with the dog song".

And there is a current day alternate ILM where tyler & UMS are constantly trying to convince people that Neil is more that "just that "Doghouse" song guy"

― chr1sb3singer, Friday, December 4, 2015 9:19 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i want to live in this world

like neil's david foster wallace costume in this booker t gig

my first neil record was Decade, got it for Christmas because a friend told my mom to pick it up for me. that is a bro.

Decade really is the best greatest hits kinda deal -- just a great listen from beginning to end.

yeah it's still my standby neil mix. plus doghouse

would be cool if it turned out neil wrote "doghouse" during the zuma sessions, but he felt like it was too heavy to put out at the time. "this shit is too real! too real!"

lost ducks demo on archives 2

Got a feeling it went a little more like this:

Frank: "Hey Neil check out, I can use the synth to make a dog barking noise!"
Neil: "I will write a song called "Doghouse" and we will play it every night, it's done, I've already finished writing it."

lollll

I have never even heard of this song before this thread, but you guys are making me want to hear it

If anything we are under selling it

http://www.datadoggie.com/images/doghouse.gif

do we know who did the "Dog house...dog....house" vocal on that song? or was it a sample?

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/02/16/25BBD1A100000578-0-image-m-14_1424098655267.jpg

It seems like a sample...please let it be Poncho though, please

Decade really is the best greatest hits kinda deal -- just a great listen from beginning to end.

― tylerw, Friday, December 4, 2015 1:01 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

True, but it's misleading if you hear it too early and you think songs like "Down To The Wire" and "Broken Arrow" and "Star Of Bethlehem" are somehow canonical Neil. I mean, they are, to people like us, but....

yeah, true -- i think that's why i still enjoy it, just the mix of deep/unreleased cuts + the hits makes it interesting/entertaining, as opposed to just "cinnamon girl" + "heart of gold" + "after the gold rush" etc, which would be kinda boring. decade is just nicely sequenced/selected.

my first Neil joint was Ragged Glory. jeez that album blew my mind. then I went right to Tonight's the Night and it's been a volatile, sometimes disagreeable, but overall vv strong love affair ever since.

I really really need to dig deep into post-90s Neil more for sure.

Le Noise & Psychedelic Pill are both awesome imo

First Neil: Rust Never Sleeps, used CD, late '97, because I liked hearing "Hey Hey, My My" on the radio. Gradually acquired more, with getting a used Decade a couple years later being the real dealmaker in becoming a fan for life.

It seems like a sample...please let it be Poncho though, please
god, feels like we need DOGHOUSE: An Oral History of Neil Young's Greatest Song ... I'll put together my pitch for Rolling Stone.

le noise is so close to classic, just needed a few more great songs

but man i love the sound of it, "hitchhiker" is deeply psychedelic to me

I had uploaded Bluenote Cafe to my Google Music account....I have "Doghouse" access anywhere, anytime.

listening right now, feels good man

the little horn line and turnaround that comes after the dog barking sound effect is a nice little bit of stax

I just remembered that when I brought Weld home and thought it was fucked, I then tried it out on my dad's swanky Fisher deck. He pulled a face, because he always hated Neil and thought he ruined CSN, who he loved.

I think my second Neil purchase was the Buffalo Springfield Retrospective CD.

I already knew For What It;s Worth from the Muppets' cover version

Le Noise: Side 2 >>>>>>> Side 1
Bluenote Cafe: Disc 2 >>>>>> Disc 1

Neil makes you work for it sometimes

It seems like a sample...please let it be Poncho though, please
god, feels like we need DOGHOUSE: An Oral History of Neil Young's Greatest Song ... I'll put together my pitch for Rolling Stone.

― tylerw, Friday, 4 December 2015 19:48 (46 minutes ago) Permalink

"Hey Neil we got an interview request from Rolling Stone...yeah...no Fricke's not there anymore...no...no they want to ask about...no not the new record...uh they want to talk about "Doghouse"? The song. Yeah...just that song. Really? OK, I'll have him call you"

"you want him to come to the ranch? now? okay ... "

what are the chances he recorded his vocals inside an actual doghouse

this is the kind of thing the oral history would reveal

Niko Bolas: So the next thing I know, Neil has a team of contractors out to the ranch and they're buildin' a fuckin' doghouse that Neil designed! Price tag was 250 grand by the time we got it all rigged with microphones. By that time, it was 1992 and Neil was not interested in recording his vocals in a doghouse.

Crazy Horse did see fit to record a solo album there in '96...sadly the tapes disappeared when the dog house was bulldozed to make way for an annex for the train barn.

Molina:"We did this record in the Doghouse, best fucking thing we ever did, Neil really wanted to get back to that 70s feel, the songs were so good, but that was last I heard of it. There was this song called "Rocking in the Free World", so great. A few months later Neil was on tour with Stills, I never heard from him again"

Neil: "Poncho had just gotten this digital sampler, he was gettin' stoned a lot and listenin' to a lot the new hip hop stuff...anyway, one day he's messin' around with it and makes this dog barking sound. I thought...well now this is kinda inneresting"

Bolas: There was a whole David Briggs freestyle breakdown that we had to cut. It got pretty raw. But that dude could spit fire ...

Bolas: Briggs kept talking about getting "hip-hop haircut" just over and over, Neil thought it was hilarious

Talbot: Neil kept busting Ralph's balls about the drum part through the whole session, he wanted Ralphs to do two quick hi-hat accents times to the "Doghouse...dog...house" sample...Ralph just couldn't do it and Neil kept getting pissed. Finally told Ralph to go home and flew Steve Jordan in from L.A. to cut the track.

Jimmy McDonough: I didn't know it at the time, but Neil had originally envisioned Shakey as part of the prospectus for this doghouse building concern he and Crosby were trying to get going. Something about how we needed more American-made ones or something. But then the Lionel thing happened, Crosby's hanging with Nash again, and somehow I'm out $75 bucks that gets repaid in Purina stock.

Crosby: I never understood the whole Doghouse thing

David Briggs: Neil has never even spent a minute in a doghouse!

Nash: I think the doghouse is inside us all.