neil young

i liked the backing vocals on the road rock vol 1 lp, maybe the backing singers here will be in that vein?

yeah, i mean, he's had his wife and others doing backup vocals on various tours, so this might not really be significant news. i've just been wondering what the sets will be like, since the last CH tour kicked off with a bunch of surprise new tunes.

WTF. Last time one of them (Sampedro?) hurt his finger or something and a whole run of shows were cancelled. At the time NY said this bloke couldn't be replaced and so the show couldn't go on. Obviously this doesn't apply to Talbot?

bass is only four strings

canceling 2 euro tours in a row might've been even too much for neil.

Since this is today's revived Neil thread, here's where I'll pass along the news that he's on Jerry Lee Lewis's Rock and Roll Time, out Oct. 28:
5. BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY (with Neil Young and Ivan Neville)

Also on Chrissie Hynde's new album, which I hope to check d'rectly.

Setlist from last night in Reykjavik looks pretty exciting. A little bummed that most of Psychedelic Pill has been set aside, but whatever.

1.Love And Only Love
2.Goin' Home
3.Days That Used To Be
4.Don't Cry No Tears
5.Love To Burn
6.Separate Ways
7.Only Love Can Break Your Heart
8.Blowin' In The Wind
9.Heart Of Gold
10.Barstool Blues
11.Psychedelic Pill
12.Who's Gonna Stand Up And Save The Earth?
13.Rockin' In The Free World
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14.Like A Hurricane

Who's Gonna Stand Up And Save The Earth? is a brand new song.

The first thing I did when I saw the setlist was look and see if anyone had posted a video of that song, but nothing so far.

pretty cool set -- don't know when the last time he played "separate ways" was. love that song. and "goin home" definitely deserves to be in regular rotation (which is more than I can say about most 21st century neil songs).

figured this bump would be for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ortY6H5jkEw#t=118

Good to see that Jimmy Fallon isn't running that gag into the ground.

good to see that c, s and n still don't mind being 2nd, 3rd and 4th bananas even when y isn't around.

lol

Was going to say, second banana to a fake Neil Young is kinda ouch.

Also, whose voice has held up the best? C, S, N or Fallon's?

Pretty sure they prefer that to being second banana to real Neil Young.

ha!

LOL the idea of Young trolling these guys even when he's not there

good to see that c, s and n still don't mind being 2nd, 3rd and 4th bananas even when y isn't around.

Hey, they've got a box set to push.

so i guess he will cancel the show in Israel now

Nash sounds amazing in that clip but my money'd still be on David Crosby, whose feel for harmony is just incredible

idk though I'm spotifying that new Crosby record - the harmonies are solid but he's double-tracking the lead lines so he may be losing volume

i kinda dug how unfashionable that new crosby record was, there were some good songs on it

6.Separate Ways

SOMEDAY LOVE WILL FIND YOU

I saw CSN this past weekend and they sounded pretty rough at times. I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt and blame the volume or their monitors or whatever but they struggled through "Guinnevere" with just one acoustic guitar for accompaniment (which Crosby seemed to be having difficulty playing). :(

(xposts)

Also, Crosby really does not appreciate it when people yell requests for Neil's songs, fyi.

i kinda dug how unfashionable that new crosby record was, there were some good songs on it

yeah it's pretty remarkable - the playing is predictably great, the songs are really earnest but also dark and personal - kinda Mould-y really in the way he's wrestling with his own thoughts in the lines imo. the production is uninspired but that transparent style is basically the best you can hope for from vintage dudes it seems, generally - still this is a diggable record of good playing, nicely written slow tunes..."unfashionable" is right, this will win over exactly no-one, but it seems to come from a really sincere place

they sounded pretty rough at times
listening to the 1974 set now and they sound kinda rough then. funny that they are this band that is known for their "perfect harmony" but i don't know if i've ever heard a live recording where they were really dead-on.

neil stuff on CSNY 1974 is excellent -- wouldn't think something like "On The Beach" would translate well in a stadium setting but it is a monster. pretty ferocious "revolution blues" too.

Yeah, the songs from On The Beach were by far the highpoints of the CSNY show I saw in '74(the "harmonies" were not). Made me really want to check out the album, after fearing an attempt to replicate Harvest and its success. In hindsight, seems like (for me, anyway) this live taste of OtB is where the arc of achievement and acclaim began to build, in terms of *sustained* momentum, all the way to Rust Never Sleeps and the Road Eyes etc. tour.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynJlnGuxzEM

New song
Live last night

instant classic!

from Warner Bros:

For Immediate Release:

NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE CANCEL CONCERT IN TEL AVIV

13th July, 2014 -- (BURBANK, CA) -- Due to the current security situation in Tel Aviv Israel, Neil Young & Crazy Horse have been forced to cancel their concert appearance originally scheduled for July 17th in Hayarkon Park.

A spokesperson for Young's camp said: "It is with heavy hearts and deep sadness that we must cancel our one and only Israeli concert due to tensions which have rendered the event unsafe at this time. We'll miss the opportunity to play for our fans and look forward to playing in Israel and Palestine in peace."

"I will be making donations to both the Louise Tillie Alpert Youth Music Centre of Israel, and Heartbeat", said Mr. Young, "two organizations that teach music to Palestinian and Israeli youth simultaneously by enabling them to play music together."

New song is pretty cool! And this rules:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hfezGgvrLo

neil playing a Telecaster!

"Whatever we do, we shouldn't go near the Mideast. It's probably better we just keep on rockin' in the free world."

- Poncho, in light bulb moment for Neil described in Shakey.

Wait, where is Neil playing a Telecaster?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynJlnGuxzEM

New song
Live last night

― nostormo, Friday, July 11, 2014 3:44 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

btw, when she was little for some reason i ran out of songs to sing to my daughter singing her to sleep so i started singing "after the gold rush"

now it's kind of a tradition "the song that daddy sings"...but she's almost 4 now and i'm realizing what a bummer the lyrics are so i've done some changes so she won't be all warped and depressed and shit

Well, I dreamed I saw the knights
In armor coming,
Saying something about a queen.
There were peasants singing and
Drummers drumming
And the archer split the tree.
There was a fanfare blowing
To the sun
That was floating on the breeze.
Look at Mother Nature [having fun]
In the nineteen seventies.
Look at Mother Nature [having fun]
In the nineteen seventies.

I was lying in a [cozy] basement
With the full moon in my eyes.
I was [listening to the Replacements]
When the sun burst thru the sky.
There was a band playing in my head
And I [was a lucky guy]
I was thinking about what a
Friend had said
I was hoping [that he'd say "Hi!"]
Thinking about what a
Friend had said
I was hoping [that he'd say "Hi!"]

Well, I dreamed I saw the silver
Space ships flying
In the yellow haze of the sun,
There were children [laughing]
And colors flying
All around the chosen ones.
All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun.
They were flying Mother Nature's
Silver seed to a new home in the sun.
Flying Mother Nature's
Silver seed to a new home.

now's the time he should be opening shows with "Mideast Vacation."

I was [listening to the Replacements]

lol

now that there's a cease fire and Peace and Love finally arrived to the middle east - will he cancel the cancellation?

that electric "gold rush" is pretty nice - that really must be the first time he's ever done anything with that song other than just play it on piano. maybe he'll do an electric "needle and the damage done" soon. that's really the only way I'd get excited about seeing that one on a setlist these days.

also, great re-write, UMS. look at mother nature having fun.

now's the time he should be opening shows with "Mideast Vacation."

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, July 14, 2014 4:39 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Rick Rosa's on Keytar! MAKE IT SO.

omg i love that ums

people on my facebook feed complaining that neil played a 28 minute down by the river in london on saturday night COMPLAINING fuckers they don't deserve to see neil

ha yeah seriously...
at least the uncut reviewer liked it
there is time for one more, 20-minute song - a version of "Down By The River" that might rank as the deepest I've ever witnessed, for the dramatic highs and lows, the graceful tension, the jazzy space and nuance which is introduced into Young, Sampedro and the staunch Rosas' tight little face-offs. In spite of all the whims and tangents, it's at this point that a thought occurs about one of Neil Young's most enduring skills - how his shows, his ever-evolving songs, manage to be wildly unpredictable but, at the same time, hugely reliable.
http://www.uncut.co.uk/node/20506#O1goZiIZvYj9AuxR.99