Search and destroy: Neil Young

I just did some online reading about Stills' Monkees audition and had a major misconception corrected (I think--it's the internet). I was always under the impression that he was turned away--you'd even often read that they said no because he actually knew how to play music. I found two different sources, though, that said he in fact landed one of the four parts and had to drop out because of another record contract he'd already signed.

Stills and Dewey Martin actually played on some Tork/Monkees sessions in '67-'68.

Stills and Dewey Martin actually played on some Tork/Monkees sessions in '67-'68.

Stills and Dewey Martin actually played on some Tork/Monkees sessions in '67-'68.

Didn't mean for "because he actually knew how to play music" to come across as sarcasm. I love the Monkees.

[x-post]Wow, sorry for the triple post. :-O

Stills basically didn't realise that being an amazing guitarist didn't mean he also had to try to be a songwriter

tbh I don't really dig For What It's Worth all that much. it's so over-exposed I can't really find a way into enjoying it.

Stop Shakey what's that sound

the melodious keening of sasquatch

it's so over-exposed I can't really find a way into enjoying it.

if you weren't vice-prez of the Forrest Gump fanclub you probably wouldn't have to hear it so much

Agree that "For What It's Worth" is badly overexposed--it, "Purple Haze," and "Somebody to Love" (or "White Rabbit") are the default songs for any footage involving Vietnam or hippies or LBJ. I wish somebody would have the imagination to use something like "Trouble Every Day" or "Omaha" instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m0yCM5uhQU

My introduction!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWTqj5lvkFs

I feel like I oughta know, but who's the host?

the guitar bit on that 2nd track sounds like a direct rip of Jumpin Jack Flash. what's the chronology?

"Mr. Soul" predates "Jumpin' Jack Flash" by over a year.

Also, it's weird how certain aspects -- the lead vocals, part of Neil's solo -- are live, and the rest is canned. And I've never heard that little backwards-guitar bit before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnH--RjdmTc

always loved this song - his version is fine enough, but the isleys (and aretha, for that matter) made it fly.

The Seger version is pretty nice too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Wp-MhcZ6g

I thought Mr. Soul was an obvious rip of Satisfaction, not Jumpin Jack Flash...?

yeah, i think stills didn't want to do that song because the riff was so similar to satisfaction. the riff is definitely derived from it, but once the song gets going i pretty much forget about it.

I like a lot Stills' songs for Buffalo Springfield, it's his voice I don't like

I'll rep for this:

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

Rock and Roll Woman

love loads of stills' buffalo stuff... 'hot dusty roads' is great.

here's a comp i made of (mostly) lost songs from 1973-1980. mainly avoiding chrome dreams stuff. http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/11101846032/sad-movies-a-secret-history-of-neil-young
some incredible songs/performances. crazy that it's just scratching the surface of unreleased material from that period. bring on archives II!!!!

ooh!

yr a prince

Thanks!

thanks tyler! i added your blog to my reader at some point but then i stopped checking it, so i am always glad when you repost stuff.

cool. there's some key stuff on this comp, some of it more readily available than others, but all in all it's pretty solid. even all the CSNY 74 songs are great. at that point he could write a total throwaway like "hawaiian sunrise" and it would still turn out amazing.

man, I love "Heavy Love" and "Cocaine Eyes."

had no idea White Line was such an old song!

yeah, so many of those ragged glory tunes are old. here's the crazy horse version of white line from 75 or 76
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aaoi1_P8qY8

holy shit this is awesome tyler

basically at this point, i want neil to release a 10-disc archives for every year from 1973-1978. he could totally do it.

I think YOU should do it

i would if i had access to the tapes! who can give me access?!

Thanks for posting this! Can't wait to dig in.

crazy that it's just scratching the surface of unreleased material from that period. bring on archives II!!!!

I share your optimism, but we all know Neil well enough to know that "Archives II" ≠ "unreleased material."

hee hee, well, yeah, but this next volume really is going to have to include a lot of unreleased stuff. unless neil just hates us all.

i would if i had access to the tapes! who can give me access?!

heh... Neil moved his operation out of the studio my buddy was working at. to a studio around the corner from my house lol.

oh man this Home on the Range version

Do you think acts like Neil, Prince and the prolific like have it in their wills or whatever just what to do with what's in their vaults after they die?

I'd bet yes with those particular examples

Prince especially, since he doesn't have any children

i mean, prince will definitely be buried with his master tapes.
don't know about neil, i'm sure there's a fairly elaborate plan for all of that.

Stevie Wonder has a clause in his contract that all unreleased material is to be destroyed when he dies.

(all of his unreleased material, that is)

for real? crazy.

A ton of Young's albums on his MySpace. Not every track on each album, but most are complete (I think). 125 tracks from Archives, 35 from Decades, and a lot of original albums, so some duplication, but not too much (plus studio vs live presentations of Greendale etc)

okay that news about stevie is pretty depressing

little (or big, i guess) addendum to that comp of unreleased tunes i made: http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=919
Road Of Plenty: The Unreleased Songs (1966-2010 & Live Rarities 1969-1984) [The Godfather Box, 6CD]
one or two things that i missed for my 70s comp -- "homefires" and "lady wingshot", though i think the recording quality on both is pretty dire. also some tunes that were written in the 70s but not performed until much later. "try" is particularly good, i think that's an outtake from "homegrown". they seem to have left out "pushed it over the end" which is a major miss!