neil young

yeah he played there on the time fades away tour, i think, not on the later tonight's the night tour. don't think i've heard the liverpool show, just the manchester and london gigs.

and there's a queens college tonight's the night show that would be amazing if the sound quality wasn't awful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3z09VRZ6to&feature=plcp

aw, nice clip. also, insaaaaane model railroad setup. don't know if i've ever actually seen it before.
on the less warm n fuzzy side
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdrhourlTY1rrchtqo1_400.jpg
the 70s!

Love that clip with Neil and his son and the trains. Very cool

They are communicating on a different plane, not by the means you or I might use. I have some friends with kids who have disabilities, and even though it may be a challenge, they would not change a thing.

aw, nice clip. also, insaaaaane model railroad setup. don't know if i've ever actually seen it before.

I think that's actually bigger than the model train set at the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry (which is massive).

Always weird to see Neil not playing Old Black

http://sugarmtn.org/instruments/gretsch_6120/gretsch_6120_1985_2.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2701/4088494197_08f48e7d1a_o.jpg

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRFFV7B386WeoRGrKhZsj0M-jsQ1-9jKp8WRPF9qaWMtvIFxp2s7w

Believe the Gretsch precedes Old Black by several years.

Yeah, he had that back in the Buffalo Springfield days, right? What an awesome-looking guitar that is. Like the pristine flipside to grizzled, battered Old Black.

Yeah, I guess I meant it's weird seeing Neil with a Fender.

That's for sure. Sort of like seeing Springsteen with anything but a Fender.

The strat pic is the weirdest to me. He looks genuinely unhappy to be holding it.

On the other hand, I really love jimmy page's brief telecaster phase

Not that brief! First two albums and bits of the rest ("Stairway to Heaven" solo, etc.). I think he got the Tele from ... Jeff Beck? I believe Beck was playing a Tele around that time, too, but of course embraced the Strat. Page had his own brief Strat phase at the end. Did Neil play a Strat c. the Shocking Pinks?

Page looks cool in any guitar, but the strat is hard to pull off

I'm glad he had it but Page with a Tele seems so odd. Not to indulge in guitar cliches but it's hard to think of Led Zep as a Tele band at all - maybe tele deluxe/custom? Keith rocked that one. This is basically an image thing tbh.

Yeah, but Page's Tele was painted all psychedelic.

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSzUs0PLvxkiOwbaffOLVojS_EA7osfp5Vjs_RnloQCowWFuC9VaQ

Saw Neil Young & Crazy Horse last night in Philly. Holy shit. If he is playing anywhere near you on this tour, GO. I haven't been listening to the boots, so I don't know how this compares to the other dates from this year, but really, unless you're not down with monolithic noise jams, this is more than worth the ticket price. A brief (3-song) acoustic interlude in the middle, but other than that, pretty much relentless heaviness for 2 1/2 hours.

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

Wow, I think I found a copy of the elusive "Southern California Brings Me Down:"

hxxps://www.box.com/shared/48xvyh8xva

Southern California Brings Me Down

I need someone to live with me
To keep my bed warm
And keep my shorts clean
I need a maid to give for free
And sew patches on my jeans

I dreamed I saw my cowgirl housewife
I was drivin' in my pickup through L.A.
I wanna love you while I can, babe
Before I become an old man

Southern California brings me down
Southern California brings me down
Southern California brings me down

Ooh, I need some place to go
Oh, north Ontario
It's safer than Alabama
It's safer than Ohio, ohh...

Gonna go home now
Where I can grow old
With the cowgirl of my dreams
I'm gonna stay stay stoned now
Just stare out my basement window and scream
Ahhhh.....

Southern California brings me down
Southern California brings me down
Southern California brings me down

Oooh, ooh, gotta get away now
Southern California brings me down
Ooh, ooh, babe
Ooh, gotta get away...

Topanga Canyon freaks, you won't see around no more

haha, this is pretty good.

ha never heard of that, pretty good, they get a lot of neil songwriting tics down pat

i wonder who the musicians are...?

yeah i was gonna say the band & esp the guitar playing is pretty awesome

Thank you, Tony Scheuren for NOT tossing a "wine/whine" pun into this thing.
His song from the 70's National Lampoon "Goodbye Pop" lp skewers the ego behind Neil Young's notion of "A Man Needs a Maid."
It references "After the Goldrush" (with the "patches on my jeans" back cover) and loads up on recognition humor ("Neil" longs to live in "North Ontario. It's safer than Alabama. It's safer than Ohio"). If you don't know "Old Man" or "Cowgirl in the Sand" some lines here won't raise a smile.

Mr. Young had a bit of a crooked grin through segments of the Demme concert film "Heart of Gold," but it's doubtful he was all that amused when this parody came out. What sacrilege, to take a poke at a sensitive singer-songwriter, and even do an elbow in the musical rib over CSN&Y's anthem about four dead students at Kent State.
Scheuren is not just "a comic." He began his career as a musician, and at 19 sang lead vocals with "Chamaeleon Church," a group that did release an album on MGM in 1968. He also toured with Ultimate Spinach and is on "Ultimate Spinch III." For most, his most vivid work remains with the Lampoon, both their discs and radio show.
And remember, unless you live in some still hippie-esque canyon, or behind the gates of a Beverly Hills or Malibu home, you'll agree with the faux Neil here, that...
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BRINGS ME DOWN Si, muchachos, es verdad.

Mr. Young had a bit of a crooked grin through segments of the Demme concert film "Heart of Gold," but it's doubtful he was all that amused when this parody came out.
i dunno, he would probably think it was funny. he likes jimmy fallon's impression.

But would '70s Neil Young think it was funny?

he would've wept sensitive singer-songwriter tears

wau at this

ULTIMATE SPINACH!

Never knew this was online: Greil Marcus's original review of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere for Good Times, August 1969:

http://www.zodiackillerfacts.com/The%20San%20Francisco%20Express%20Times%20aka%20Good%20Times.htm

Really, it's more of a career overview plus a review of "Cowgirl in the Sand."

cool find!

The only word I have for Stills’ music is “perfect.”

hmmm...wait a couple years their Greil

there

sigh

*imperfect*

Man, I checked out a copy of CSN's greatest hits after reading Shakey. It's pretty astounding to me that they were where Young went to earn his money, just in terms of them being an enormous going concern during the late 60s/early 70s. I couldn't make it through a song without rolling my eyes.

yeah, i'm pretty much with you. every once in a while i go back through CSN (w/ or w/out Y) and try to gain some new appreciation, but it's a struggle. they're not bad or anything but neil young is so, so much better that it's a constant question of "why don't i just divide both sides of this equation by CSN so i can just be left with Y?"

Agree that "the American Beatles" and all that was way overdone--Deja Vu was a bigger story than Loaded in 1970, which now seems silly--but I really think they had a bunch of good to great songs beyond just Neil's on their first two studio albums.

Greil Marcus' Woodstock wrapup from RS #42, 9/20/69 on CSNY:

"Visually they are one of the most exciting bands I have ever seen."

So there's that.

^^Neil wore a great ruffled shirt at that show. Probably contributed to the cited visual excitement.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7rw9uQ1XU1qbm3br.jpg

...along w/Stills' poncho.

show was awesome last night. i know they could get goofy, but shit got REAL goofy during "fuckin up." does neil mime a fart (with appropriate guitar sound) very often?

hahahahaha i've never seen that

neil whispering "poncho.....poncho.....poncho" while poncho does blues loverman shit. why couldn't there be more of that on Psychedelic Pill instead of excerpts from his biography?

that said the psychedelic pill stuff sounded pretty strong live, even if the lyrics weren't his finest

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yes!

"early 2014 launch of Pono" is Neil-speak for "right after Archives 2 comes out"

i'm not even joking archives is gonna be a fucking pre-loaded Pono mark my words :(