Search and destroy: Neil Young

i mean:

!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=doPtRvVPlhY

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

haha, yeah i'd only seen a clip or two of that, never the whole thing. strange! hal asbhy directed!

neil jamming on the synth drums and then coming out w/ the shocking pinks...such a weird era.

...after starting out singing "heart of gold" on acoustic guitar. i think it was even weirder then than it looks now.

it is funny -- in these internet days, we can know all about what an artist is going to be doing during a tour, but back then people probably saw an ad in the paper that said neil young was playing in their town and that was all they knew. and then they got ... this.

excited to watch this

lol'ing at interminable length of opening credits....

I've seen video footage of Trans stuff being performed on the European tour (Nils Lofgren does some interpretive dancing) that is just amazing

Is this the same footage as that DVD of the same tour?

no, there's the Berlin video, which is the euro tour, this is after that... don't think this has ever been on DVD.

yeah I was referring to the Berlin video

This blows the Berlin stuff away. Deeply weird, but the audience gets their money's worth.

neil jamming on the synth drums and then coming out w/ the shocking pinks...such a weird era.

― tylerw, Wednesday, June 5, 2013 5:19 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He's pretty much begging Geffen to sue him at this point.

lol @ synthdrum fills on Don't Be Denied

so weird to see Neil w/a microphone and no guitar

omigod!

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hmm this Willie and the Hand Jive ripoff is pretty good

shocking pinks do seem like they'd be fun live...

gonna be able to watch this tomorrow and i can't wait

confession: I have never heard the shocking pinks album

this is a lot better, really.

seems as though the shocking pinks numbers (get gone and don't take your love) included on the Lucky 13 comp are from this show.

More on NY/SY tour http://thrasherswheat.org/jammin/sonic_youth.htm

"This thing here is called a Synclavier."

goddamn it clip taken down :(

shakey pictures websherriffed it

Don't want hurt the sales of Archives III in 2061.

damn. well now that neil knows there is a ravenous demand for this era, maybe he'll put it out on PONO Ray.

i would love to hear trans outtakes, c'mon neil!!

PONO!

i would happily buy that video to play on my ponograph machine.

Trans is ace.

Listened to Comes a Time today, which I haven't in a long, long while. It feels like the natural successor to Harvest in many ways, and I'm sure it's what a lot of people had expected as the follow-up to 1972's best-selling album, rather than the Ditch Trilogy (I believe it was the first of Neil's albums to reach the top 10 since Harvest). It's very good, but I never hear much about it from NY fans. Opinions?

i LOVE Comes a Time.. it's a glorious and wonderful record. <3 four strong winds <3 lotta love <3 the title track..

comes a time is classic -- could probably do without motorcycle mama, but everything else is awesome. one of neil's breeziest/easiest (even moreso than Harvest, really) but it kind of sneaks up on you.

Motorcycle Mama isn't bad it's just out of place on the record

I dunno, that record never really did it for me. Love "Lotta Love" and "Look Out For My Love" especially, but the arrangements on the rest (especially the jaunty strings on "Comes A Time") felt too syrupy.

This is definitely one of the few times when record executives made a suggestion to a major artist(that Neil supplement his solo acoustic recordings with a rhythm section) which turned out to be the correct move.

From 1969's Everybody Knows This is Nowhere through 1979's Rust Never Sleeps and including eight studio albums, Neil must have one of the greatest streaks in rock history, no?

Tarfumes, I can see why someone would think that. Are you more a fan of Neil's heavier stuff?

Generally yeah, I'd say so, but not to the exclusion of his acoustic side. I love the Massey Hall and Riverboat sets, and "Thrasher" is probably in my top 5 (with "Pocahontas" close behind). That said, "Sail Away" is my least favorite song on Rust, ditto "Through My Sails" on Zuma (but I love "Pardon My Heart"). There's a certain approach he takes in some of his acoustic stuff that's just a little too smooth for me.

I'll have to re-listen to those tracks and see if I can spot what you're saying, I'd be interested to compare it with some of his other acoustic numbers and pick out the differences.

god, I've never listened to the Massey Hall set in full, although I've listened to bits on Spotify. People seem to go crazy for it, but never actually sat down and listened to it through yet...I should do that tomorrow.

It's been a long time since I listened to Comes a Time in its entirety. "Comes a Time" and "Look Out for My Love" stayed with me--love both--the rest I only remember dimly. Except "Motorcycle Mama," which I really hated.

"goin back" and "already one" are songs that really stood out the last time i played it.

Comes a Time is easy to underrate, considering what's before and directly after.

yeah, i might rate it as his least essential 70s album, but it is still totally essential.

well, AS&B is his least essential.

sometime i'm going to have to listen to side a of American Stars and side b of Hawks and Doves back to back.

though side a of Hawks & Doves followed by side b of American Stars would obviously be a cooler album

was gonna say!

The unreleased Chrome Dreams might be a top 5 neil record, had some stuff from as&b

For some reason I always think of "Comes a Time" as the start of his '80s period. Like, a salve after "Rust Never Sleeps," before Neil drinks deep from the mug of mediocrity. If anything, the disc serves as a reminder that he's always been weird and erratic. Did "Rust Never Sleeps" take people by surprise?