neil young

I'm predicting a anti-Monsanto concept album, performed with a big band appearing next year in lieu of Archives II.

Throw some more lyrics and some sick crazy horse guitar into the mix and a harmony-laden chorus and I be the can get a 12 jam out of this song

It's vastly more detailed and nuanced than all of Greendale.

If we get a ten minute song with Cortez the Killer vibes about Monsanto I'm totally down

Yeah but you know you're gonna get
Gotta stop Monsanto
Gotta shut em down
Gonna stop Monsanto
Gonna shut em down
Who's gonna shut em down

It Lives!

https://scontent-b-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10153918_10152511500630878_7888455928563281563_n.jpg?oh=0439f3b7e94575b35892038d0eb02493&oe=55203E93

I can't make out what's on the tag in the upper left-hand corner, but I assume it reads "MSRP: Your First-Born, or a Numbers-Matching '60 DeSoto"

pretty sure it just says "fuck you"

We got it at work today in advance of Record Store Day. $160 I think.

You could also walk out of the store with very nice copies of all of the originals for $50 or so.

where is Homegrown i ask?!

Well, while we're waiting, see what you think of this "imaginary version," linked from Tyler's invaluable blog (download link still works, or it did just now). The 'legger researches tales of lost albums, explains his reasons for conjectural downloads, carefully selecting and sequencing tracks from hither and yon (also good backstory here: making and unmaking of the original):http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/32393488141/homegrown-the-lost-album-neil-youngs-memoir-is

XPS But those copies weren't pressed at the World's Premiere Pressing Plant all the way over in Germany!

I wonder if TTN will come with the long-promised bag of glitter?

BECAUSE GLITTER MATTERS

pretty sure it just says "fuck you"

― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, November 26, 2014 2:55 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh, you finally want to hear the long out-of-print Time Fades Away? FUCK YOU, PAY ME.
Your old copy of Zuma has a skip? FUCK YOU, PAY ME.
You'd rather have these on CD? FUCK YOU, PAY ME.

i want that so bad and can't afford it :(

haha, hmm, yeah, it looks nice, but no way.

I'm dating Daryl Hannah / Gotta jack up the box set price
Hey now now hey now now

place I went to was applying black friday sale prices to RSD releases. $99. I feel dirty but I love these albums, esp time fades away.

that's not too bad @ $25 per LP

For classic rock artists on new vinyl that's pretty much the cheapest you'll get.

Damn was that chain or indie?

indie. first time I've ever done the RSD thing, so I'm not sure if that's unusual or not.

no place within 100 miles got any of the neil young t-shirts. of course the fucker is only selling them online bundled with the boxset. you are killing me neil.

Neil's first 14 albums remastered...as PONO EXCLUSIVES

haha neil you DICK

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C0jnwyTQkfg/VEAU9uOyB4I/AAAAAAAAKR8/J-EV24aZFDQ/s400/dreamforce-2014-pono-flow.png

Cool it's compatible with my Grammy.

the new grammy's are blue tooth enabled

Pretty sure that's a bong.

who knew that daryl hannah pono would be nsfw

NEIL?

I mean a gis for that, duh

PONO WORLD TIMES

Great interview, lots of behind the scenes stuff:

http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/the-view-from-here/a-long-interview-with-neil-young-guitarist-poncho-sampedro-most-people-turn-

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i tried to sum up neil's weird 2014
http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/607-the-year-in-young-neils-weird-2014/
definitely missed a few things!

haha neil young's weird 1965-2014

So weird, Uncut link worked for me.

Transcribed here: http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2014/12/full-interview-transcript-poncho.html

How did Neil introduce a new song to you?

Neil starts playing it. He stares at you. You start playing along with him. You plug through it a couple of times. Then he’ll stop. I remember he stopped and I said, “Neil, what is that riff that you played at the beginning?” He said, “Which one?” I started playing something like I thought was the riff and he goes, “That’s about it.” It’d be nice if we played it together. “No, no. That’s fine.” Billy had some questions about the descending line, and then we played it a few more times. Honestly? On the whole tour, he did tell us – let me see – there was one that we did somewhere and he said, “Listen to that one.” He said, “That’s the way it really goes, that’s the order, that’s the form.” I listened to it, and I understood what he was saying. When to come in and when to lay out and all that. But I don’t think Rick ever took it seriously. We definitely really got it. I think the last night we played it pretty good. But Neil never took the time at a soundcheck to say, “Okay, this is it, we’re going to play this four times, then three times, then this happens, then that happens.” He never really laid it out and said, “This is it.” He never did that on that song. So it was always a little unsettled.

What about the inclusion of “Only Love Can Break Your Heart”?

I shit my pants. Neil says, “Play it on piano,” like the night before we did it. I said, “I haven’t played piano in 15 years!” He goes, “Aww, you can do it.” I was scrambling to find a keyboard to get to my room to try and practise. Oh, man. Then there you are, less than 24 hours later, standing in front of thousands of people. I love that song. I play it on the guitar with my girl. We’ve learned how to play it really well. All those things were interesting and I love a challenge, I really do. But it’s not like a big party. It’s super intense, and it’s a lot of pressure and a lot of stress goes into it. On that tour, I think I rehearsed almost every night in my room, hours and hours, because there were so many different changes, so many different songs. I was exhausted when I got home. But he knows what he’s doing, he doesn’t have to rehearse it that much.

Great piece, tylerw! It's like Neil compressed all his 80s wackiness into a single year.

Somewhere, David Geffen is screaming, "SEE?! SEE WHAT I MEAN?! YOU WOULD'VE SUED HIM, TOO!"

The Poncho thing gets into Neil's weird year, too.

Niko Bolas told me he thought Neil might put music on hold to concentrate on environmental issues...
I don’t know. Honestly, some of my last conversations with Neil, when we were just talking like guys, I can’t help but look him in the face and say, “Neil you’re a great song writer. You’re a great musician. I think you should keep writing songs and stay out of business.” That’s from my heart, that’s from my heart. He puts so much energy and passion and love into the Pono project, into Lincvolt project and writing, all these other things. I think it takes a little away from his music. That’s really what his calling is. He’s a great artist. I hope he doesn’t. But at the same time, but if he can make a difference, if he really did change something, more power to him. Like I said, I understand all the problems. I don’t know where to find the solution.

Best line:

Neil gets bored with other projects. He always comes back to you guys…

There’s a whole set of people he comes back to. He has other bands that he plays with too. I don’t think he ever really falls out with us, it’s just a cycle. I think the people that he’s not playing with get pissed off, and then it seems like it’s a falling out but he’s just going on his cycle.

He’s a contrary bugger…

Most people turn a corner, Neil ricochets.

this is my favorite part of the piece:

We sat on the couch, Neil and I, and we were talking. That’s when he was first starting to sell Pono records. He got up and started going, “So I walked into Warner Bros, here’s the sales pitch I gave them…” He pretended he had a blackboard and everything, and I said, “Neil, man, that sounds great. But I haven’t listened to a record in probably 20 years.” After that, he never really talked to me about it again.

haha, that is crazy. poncho definitely seems like the ultimate "stumbled into a music career" guy.

totally. the way shakey introduces him as a character is just fuckin brilliant

http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/videos/neil-young-and-jimmy-fallons-neil-young-perform-old-man-together-20150204

http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/02/neil-young-teams-with-the-roots-for-kick-ass-performance-on-fallon-watch/

this rocks. With a choir and a horn section

plus the interview with Fallon

They're doing "Who's Gonna Stand Up" from Storytone

A friend bought this for me:

http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-400/1933-1/2EB/4D3/41/%7B2EB4D341-A194-4E36-B579-C4D42B9448C5%7DImg400.jpg

Don't know about the writing yet, but the photos--esoteric picture sleeves, concert posters, various artifacts--are fantastic.

that looks cool

I have that! It's fun to flip through, haven't sat down and read it yet.

great book cover!