neil young

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). :(

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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

telegraph reviewer didn't like it:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopreviews/10964605/Neil-Young-and-Crazy-Horse-British-Summer-Time-review-down-the-guitar-rabbit-hole.html

it cracks me up how NY and CH still dress like teenagers from the 90s

just saw neil, the long guitar jams are the best and most contemporary part of seeing neil young live in 2014

yeah, it seems he and the band are now in the Ragged Glory/Weld tour atmosphere which is great

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

― a biscuit/donut hybrid called “bisnuts” (stevie), Monday, 14 July 2014 22:07 (13 minutes ago) Permalink

Yeah when he played the RDS in Dublin 2 years ago, there was a bunch of people complaining about how the solos were too long. Gobshites. His gig in Cork last week was excellent, maybe he was taking those complaints on board tho. He played 2 or 3 numbers alone on acoustic.

well so much stuff out there SOUNDS LIKE THAT NOW — whatever wooden shjips, nu-swans, akron family, white hills, jim jarmusch's new band, etc — it's like a mini version of the whole "i invented grunge" days of 1995

yeah -- and to me, that stuff is much closer in sprit to what Neil is up to than any of the grunge stuff.
this set seems pretty even-handed really -- closer maybe to the tours w/ booker t in the early 90s than the Weld period where he didn't even touch an acoustic guitar.

Speaking of the tour w Booker T & The MGs, yall might wanta check this show:

http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1891

the first three songs in London lasted about 55 minutes. he then said 'You sad bastards out there stop crying and complaining. This one's for you sad bastards'
and did a few acoustic tracks. I love that man,

haha nice

Mr. Soulman

Booker T tour was the only time I ever saw Neil live and it was amazing. It was in Santa Cruz during finals and a friend of mine barged into my room announcing that there was a surprise show that night and if we went down to the venue right away we could get tickets and as it happened everything worked out and we got in and it was dope. Never thought I would see him do "I Believe in You" much less with Booker T and the MGs.

yeah i probably saw the show right before or after the one you saw -- seriously mindsplitting. it may have just been because it was the first time i saw him, but i think it was a better performance than the crazy horse gigs i've seen.

From the Telegraph review: "Neil Young is still a master musician, but there was enough guitar soloing at this gig to fill out a Van Halen album"

What's the age range of people who need the concept of long Neil Young solos explained by way of Van Halen?

haha yeah i thought that was weird

also because, i mean, outside of some stuff like eruption...eddie usually solos within the normal confines of a pop song, like i dunno 16 bars or something, not like van halen is this really bloated prog band

if i had to pick two "mainstream" rock guitarists who were pretty much the opposite of one another it'd be neil and eddie van halen.

these people do not deserve their ears

was the telegraph reviewer a certain infamous telegraph music critic? ahem.

i mean hey if long guitar solos are not your thing, OK. but complaining about them at a neil young concert (much less a neil young & crazy horse concert) is clueless. the guy plays long guitar solos.

sinister porpoise your gold rush variation is A+++

The "was a lucky guy"/"that he'd say 'Hi!'" really is top notch. There surely is some money in this kind of thing.

photo from latest recording sessions?
https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10574212_805685119463108_8834444688953672874_n.jpg?oh=340daf994f0bc8db5483a61025d78ae0&oe=547AE690&__gda__=1417347609_8f46fb20bfe16c9ed56aa375615c2797

described as "awesomely loud big band" music. hmm.

huh! had there been talk of this?

i hand't heard anything. this is the dude who is arranging: http://www.chriswalden.com/ChrisWalden/Home.html
he's worked with Diana Krall, Christina Aguilera, Michael Bublé, Aretha Franklin, Paul Anka, Stevie Wonder, Rihanna and Barbra Streisand!