neil young

shots is an amazing song!!!!!

i think you gotta at least throw "surfer joe" in there as a great reactor song... and hey "southern pacific" too! though that one is better served by the int'l harvesters version.

I actually haven't heard Re-ac-tor in years, but the only songs that left a positive impression were "Shots" and "Opera Star." The rest I either don't remember or are, ahem, "T-Bone."

yeah, it sounds weird -- in a rusted out garage tour, i think.

Some details from Shakey:

"Live from a Rusted-Out Garage" came complete with huge props, a couple of humanoid mice that chattered incomprehensibly and...remote-control cockroaches. In between songs, the band was harassed by Young's "mom" as well as by visits from exterminators. In a large picture window, a psychedelic slide show by Sandy Mazzeo clicked away.

That sounds totally amazing. Wish I'd been able to see that tour.

yeah the bootlegs i have sound cool, if not totally inspired. ecelctic setlists, w/ stuff from landing on water, Life, Trans reactor, etc. lotta stuff he never played live again.

ha, this bootleg dvd sounds wild: http://www.geetarz.org/reviews/neilyoung/rusted-out-garage-dvd-r.htm
Radio Controlled cockroaches, gigantic mice dancing on stage, and a continually barking dog may have been amusing stagecraft at the time, but do tend to detract a bit from what otherwise is a great rock and roll show. Of note is a worthy cameo from Sam Kineson as a pissed off neighbor complaining about the noise. A Geetarz Production. Recommended.

I can see how some of that might spoil the flow of a concert, bizarrely fascinating though it might be. The show I saw in 1991 was pretty stripped-down...which is to say, just the massive Fenders. And if he'd followed "Love And Only Love" with a dancing mice, I would've been pissed.

hey apparently there's some sort of new neil + crazy horse thing streaming on neilyoung.com now! not an album, maybe a rehearsal or something. i can't currently listen on my aged laptop.

thanks for the tip! nice horsing around

almost tempted to say they should just release rehearsal jams, nevermind the songwriting. it'd be like an endless boogie record.

doesn't sound that different from Broken Arrow tbh

I didn't pay much attention to this when someone posted the link on Facebook earlier today, but it's pretty great drone. (From when?) I'm downloading it right now, and should have an mp3 in about 10 minutes.

hook me uppppppp

now into a Cortez jam...hoping they'll tour & do a 3 hour Cortez, endless dancing across the water

that'd be rad. instead of neil + crazy horse play one album from start to finish, it'd be neil young + crazy horse play one song from start to finish.

I'll get it out to you, Tyler. The Cortez segment sounds vintage enough to be right from '75.

whoa, Neil is singing Cortez now

based on Neil's vocal, I'd be surprised if this were 1975, but I dunno, he's sounded like an old man for a lotta years now

I'm only 5 minutes in and it's already streets ahead of Greendale. And I liked Greendale.

thx clemenza!
btw if you didn't see it here's a roundup of neil bootlegs still available via my blog: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/16178035631/shakey-friday-heres-a-roundup-of-still-active

Hello Mr. Soul: Neil Young Covers, vol. 1-3

It Might Have Been: The “Lost” Neil Young & Crazy Horse Album

Sad Movies: A Secret History of Neil Young, 1973-1980

Satisfaction In Every Detail: Neil Young’s Extended Dance Mixes

Neil Young & The Restless: Seattle, WA, 1989

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cortez, cortez. what a KILLER!

there is something about that song that makes it very special in the neil catalogue. i think it's the apotheosis of his song art. at the same time it has got this soothing, flowing quality and something devastating and incredibly naive about it. neil in a nutshell.

Thirty years ago, I loved "Cortez" and "Like a Hurricane" equally. As time went on, "Hurricane" lost something, but "Cortez" is as perfect today as it was then.

Damn, I've never heard Frank tear it up like this before!

Clemenza, how did you download this? I've clicked and cursored all around, no go so far.

About 6:19 in--so far, they're vamping on what sounds like the intro to "Rumble," version on The Link Wray Rumble, one my faves of the '70s, which is saying a lot. Never issued on CD, even a boot, far as I know.

Real Player lets you upload it as an FLV video, then I converted it to mp3.

Download, I mean.

Thanks. Now it's def "Cortez", but although I liked it in the middle, getting lulled again...

this is a fucking EPIC JAM

This is fantastic. I take it to mean that the Horse are in recording at the ranch, and Neil has wisely decided that since it could all go to garbage very quickly, why not release a good day's work so folks can hear what he hears? The visuals are necessary -- the Neil's eye view at the end telling.

perhaps tyler could end up sharing clemenza's mp3 for the more technically challenged of us?

am working on a piece about Weld for my (fitfully updated) live albums blogged... first neil record i ever owned (i was 16 or 17, i think), and still remember cortez blowing my mind wide open the first time i heard it - just the way this guy who'd been clanging with such noisy force for several sides could pull back and get super-eloquent and just move me to tears, even before i had the first clue what the song was actually about.

I dream of Michio Kurihara sitting in with Neil and Crazy Horse, even though I know it'll never happen.

perhaps tyler could end up sharing clemenza's mp3 for the more technically challenged of us?

^^^

webmailed both of you -- all thx to clemenza!

this sounds rad

just neil young + crazy horse as a force of nature.

This sounds fantastic!

I was sort of hypnotized by the wandering close-ups of his home studio gear ... some of that stuff looks absolutely amazing.

Can I get a copy as well? Thanks!

One for me too!

...Please! (stupid phone)

There are now credits on the front page: the video is called "Horse Back", and it was made this month. Oh yeah.

I was sort of hypnotized by the wandering close-ups of his home studio gear ... some of that stuff looks absolutely amazing.

Great to see the Whizzer up close (the footswitch-operated dealie that physically changes the knobs on his amp).

me too me too

thx to tyler and clem

gah i want to hear this but it;s not loading on my computer.

check yr webmail

I hope Neil's lawyers don't catch wind of any of this.

They came dancin’ across the water
With subpoenas in their hands
Lookin’ for clemenza
And some rabid Shakey fans

And they served them by the dozens
Tracked them down and then they’d pounce
No more sharin’ files
Emptied out their bank accounts

hope it's cool to pass it around, at least for today! don't think that something that will likely never be for sale is going to be a problem.

I'm mostly kidding (I think). When artists put up something like that on their own website, they can't be oblivious to the fact that if it's something that can be downloaded, it's going to start circulating immediately. Especially tech-savvy Neil, creator of Trans.