Search and destroy: Neil Young

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?

Side A of Comes a Time is one of the best sequences of songs in Neil's back catalogue. It does feel like a sequel to Harvest but it's missing the more melodramatic moments, it's breezier on the whole. Silver and Gold and Prairie Wind are very much in the same mold I think.

Comes A Time also his first genuine hit since Harvest; it paved the way for RNS-LR.

I think the proper sequel to Harvest was Oceanside/Countryside which is supposed to be on the next Archives, I think that's the one Neil thought was ”too good” to release

Never heard of Oceanside/Countryside before, did any material get reused on later albums?

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

― unfinest DN (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, June 8, 2013 8:41 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Love Chrome Dreams. Hangs together so much better than AS&B, and that version of "Too Far Gone" is tremendous.

Theres also the unreleased album Homegrown from that era

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown_(Neil_Young_album)

i dunno, i think stars and bars is a totally strong album, even the throwaways are fun. and the guitar sound on the crazy horse/saddlebags tracks is A++++. chrome dreams is probably a bit better, tho, yeah. i'm under the impression that several of the oceanside/countryside tracks ended up on side 1 of hawks and doves.

I do like AS&B, but once I heard Chrome Dreams, Neil's vision became that much clearer.

That said, I'm glad he put out AS&B and held back some of the Chrome Dreams stuff for Rust Never Sleeps; ultimately, it was worth it.

I saw a track listing of oceanside online but it had to be fake cuz there were way too many songs on each side to fit on a vinyl record

The Neil gig was pretty good and I've been digging into hitherto unexplored areas of his catalog; mostly the post-Rust Never Sleeps era. I bought Hawks and Doves and am liking it, although at a mere half hour, it feels like a slight addition to his oeuvre.

Anyone have any particular favourite Neil albums between 1980-88?

We're trying to figure it out!

STYLE Change FASHION change: Neil Young's Eighties Albums

oh, nice one.

tonight was great, some nice rarities. might do it again at the next london show in august.

Love and Only Love / Powderfinger / Psychedelic Pill / Walk Like a Giant / Hole in the Sky / Red Sun / Comes a Time / Blowin' in the Wind / Singer Without a Song / Ramada Inn / Cinnamon Girl / Fuckin' Up / Mr. Soul / My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) / Like a Hurricane / Roll Another Number (For the Road) / Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Dates cancelled (from Warner Bros pub)

http://press.wbr.com/media/cms/images/201203/photo-credit-danny-clinch-extralarge_1331574075548.jpg

August 19, 2013 - (Burbank, CA) - Neil Young & Crazy Horse regretfully announce that in addition to canceling the remaining dates on their European tour, they must also cancel their upcoming U.S. tour dates due to a hand injury sustained by guitarist Poncho Sampredo, whose doctor has indicated that Sampredo's hand requires additional time to heal properly.

"We are sorry for any inconvenience this causes to our fans or the Festivals where we were scheduled to appear," the band has said in a statement. "As you must be, we too are disappointed at this unfortunate turn of events."

The tour dates that have been canceled are as follows:

8/31 Dundas, ON Greenbelt Harvest Picnic

9/02 Port Chester, NY Capitol Theatre

9/04 Ottawa, ON Ottawa Folk Festival

9/07 Arrington, VA Interlocken Music Festival

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On D1mead0zen at the minute.

The Ducks (short-lived band of Neil Young, Bob Mosley, Jeff Blackburn and Johnny C. (Craviotto).
"July, 1977" compilation
Santa Cruz, California, USA

EX soundboard! - Previously uncirculated!

This just came my way from a friend who I recently met here in Santa Cruz. It came from outside of the "tape collecting world" from cassettes squirreled away many years ago and were just transferred to share for the first time. The other three members besides Neil Young were associated with Moby Grape and this band only did perhaps 20 shows or so at most, and all in the Santa Cruz area. No soundboard recordings of live shows have circulated til now and nothing has ever been released in any form by this band. I transferred two 90 minute compilations of live tracks that were not well labeled but they are from more than one night with the likely venues being The Catalyst and The Crossroads. (This torrent is from two 46 minute cassettes and was labeled as being from July, 1977 but some of it actually may be from August, 1977.)

CD1 - 40:40
101 [1:08] announcer intro, talk, tune ups and applause
102 [3:43] Poor Man
103 [3:51] Tore Down
104 [4:47] Your Love
105 [5:11] Two Riders
106 [4:12] Gone Dead Train
107 [0:15] Neil talk
108 [4:36] Little Wing
109 [3:37] Truckin' Man
110 [0:17] talk
111 [2:31] Hey Now
112 [0:21] talk before end of set
113 [5:54] Silver Wings
114 [0:17] thanks and applause at end of set

CD2 - 53:02
201 [4:27] Wild Eyed And Willing
202 [4:25] Human Highway
203 [2:52] Gypsy Wedding
204 [3:42] Honky Tonk Man
205 [4:44] Hold On Boys
206 [4:05] I'm Ready
207 [4:28] Windward Passage [cut]
208 [5:19] Mr. Soul
209 [3:02] Car Tune
210 [0:32] talk
211 [5:44] Leaving Us Now
212 [6:06] Sail Away
213 [0:24] talk before end of set
214 [3:12] Do Me Right [cut on last notes]

Neil Young - guitar, harmonica, vocals
Bob Mosley - bass, vocals
Jeff Blackburn - guitar, vocals
Johnny C. (Craviotto) - drums, vocals

yeahhh, you can get the whole thing here too : http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f90/neil-young-amp-the-ducks-1977-santa-cruz-soundboard-163509.html
it is pretty good, definitely the best sonic representation of this band. lots of tasty guitar work from neil, though some of the other dudes' songs are not amazing.

There are another two Ducks recordings on the tracker as well from the same source.

yeah there's a whole other set
301. announcer intro, talk, tune ups and applause
302. Poor Man
303. Tore Down
304. Your Love
305. Two Riders
306. Gone Dead Train
307. Neil talk
308. Little Wing
309. Truckin' Man
310. talk
311. Hey Now
312. talk before end of set
313. Silver Wings
314. thanks and applause at end of set

401. Wild Eyed And Willing
402. Human Highway
403. Gypsy Wedding
404. Honky Tonk Man
405. Hold On Boys
406. I'm Ready
407. Windward Passage [cut]
408. Mr. Soul
409. Car Tune
410. talk
411. Leaving Us Now
412. Sail Away
413. talk before end of set
414. Do Me Right [cut on last notes]
their version of mr soul verges on punk.

second set seems to be the better/tighter performance....

306. Gone Dead Train

^^woah that's a deep cut

403. Gypsy Wedding

is a Mosley jam from the Grape's 20 Granite Creek

http://youtu.be/QphAfZq_HUI?t=27s

pretty fun sidetrip for neil overall, don't know exactly how into it was, but he seems to be having a good time being a guitar player in a band.
i guess he was into it enough to have pants made though
http://www.sugarmtn.org/extras/197708220p003.jpg

"Jimmy Page has dragon pants? Big deal! I've got Duck pants!"

Until he breaks out some PONO pants I'm not taking that endeavor seriously.

new song. kinda sounds like zz top.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pLVpVtstNw

what? performing in a small club?! when!? why?! who?!

the lady there is his wife -- he usually plays with her if he's not on tour, i think...
that's johnny d's in beautiful somerville, ma.

yeah
Pegi Young & The Survivors

A friend of mine was there. He's the Fenway Park organist and a huge Spooner Oldham fan, and was pretty pleasantly surprised to see Neil show up. Posted about 20 fb updates with many exclamation points.

haha, awesome, yeah thought that was spooner there. i would post lots of exclamation points if i was seeing neil young play guitar at a club that size. johnny d's is probably , what, 300 capacity? when i lived out there, i saw richard buckner play there, if that gives any indication.

It was funny, all the fb comments were "Neil played in a club?! How did I not know about this?!"

I can't even fathom how mindblowing that would be to see Neil just pop out of the shadows like that.

Oof that song is pretty bad

I like it

in a dumb-boogie-about-cars way

it's better than "hole in the sky" the other new song he's been playing this year, that's for sure.

Neil takes a journey through the past:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ufauKwn28E#t=51

Full transcript:

"This is good."
"I like this one."
"This is a good one."

George Harrison wasn't a fan (at 14:00)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xYUglwhHpuw

that's pretty funny

anyone going to these carnegie hall shows in January? i'm assuming it'll be on the folkier spectrum of things, but who knows?

neil totally missed his chance to celebrate the 30th anniversary of everybody's rockin

George complaining about Neil's voice is pretty rich

haha yeah. though it is interesting to hear classic rock dudes talk a little shit -- you get the impression everyone's buddy buddy sometimes. obviously neil was the best thing about that bobfest tribute (w/ a little competition from lou).

who's the other half of that conversation - sounds Scottish...? Is that Dave Stewart?

but yeah this kind of candid convo seems pretty rare, nice to see George just hanging out talking shit

George didn't hide his opinions.

It's Bob Geldof, for some reason.

xp

George probably just hated Neil because McCartney dug him:

Neil,
Linda and I have been listening to Live Rust over and over, side four kicks ass.
Lotta Love,
Paul

in fairness i think i did hear george say "he sings even worse than me" or something like that

is this why neil wasn't asked to be a traveling wilbury!? hold on, i'm going to pitch an investigative piece to mojo magazine.