neil young

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!

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.
A whole set of cycles! Thanks Ponch; seems like an obvious point, but some people I know just forget again, and go on and on and on about how they loves them some Neil and totally get him, but why does he have to do this shit and that shit and some other shit when he could and should be doing etc---and all I can say is, "Hang on, he'll get back to you." Like the song says, "Take a cold tater and wait." The sooner he does a A Letter From Home and a Storytone (both of which I like), the sooner he gets back to the heavy (also like).

Like the song says, "Take a cold tater and wait."

lol wut?

Cold tater, look at my life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBi_CyJe604

http://www.uncut.co.uk/news/neil-young-debuts-new-songs-at-small-club-gig-67820

NYC is goin' Neil Movie crazee for a week

http://www.ifccenter.com/series/the-bernard-shakey-film-retrospective-neil-young-on-screen/

woohoo! so is the new material good, is it abt breaking up/falling in love again, is it abt pono?

always weirded out by these poll results - 1 vote for harvest srsly???

the movies took up quite a bit of space in waging heavy peace and while i found neil's thoughts and memories interesting none of what he wrote made me want to watch the movies

i like Greendale fwiw, only of those ive seen

(liked the first concert doc Demme did too)

you should def see Human Highway, it's better (and loopier) than both of those

Greendale is a great record too (have not seen movie) a shame it got zero vote in this poll. Saw Heart of Gold (the Demme doc) in local theatre when it came out and it was great. Also remember enjoying Year of the Horse, but the soundtrack cd was pretty crap last time I checked so maybe the movie wasn't too good either and I was just blinded by early onset fandom when I saw it years back.

HH:

Directed by: Bernard Shakey & Dean Stockwell

:o

human highway is ... something, that's for sure. worth seeing!

haha wow, the SLO tribune is reporting that neil played "ordinary people" last night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDOor5xMMZg

whoah

yeah, raging

sounds like down by the river?

yeah, down by the river for sure

Who is the backing band?

lukas nelson and the promise of the real (whose name still makes me wince), who neil played w/ at one show last year. he's supposed to be making a record w/ them.

Hmmm, terrible name but whatever. If it gets results then fine. Neil looked pretty on in that clip.

movin around a lot for an old guy!

Neil, Lukas & co. at Harvest of Hope, the anti-Keystone show, purty cool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjrKWs-MuY8

more incredibly exciting neil young news
http://recordmecca.com/products-page/museum-quality-collectibles/neil-young-unreleased-give-to-the-wind-album-cover-proof-1978-one-of-two-known/
http://recordmecca.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Scan-Feb-16-2015-11.56-AM-page26.jpg
only $3000

the flamingos look just like the lady on the cover of zuma!!

you're right! hmmmm...

only they're flying in the other direction...
hmmmmmm

going to take the rest of this friday afternoon to ponder this one out. might have to go up to the roof.

$3K in keeping with Neil's vinyl pricing structure

go up to the roofcool euphemism, though shouldn't nec. in "Rocky Mountain H-i-i-igh, Colo-rad-o."

Neil w Lukas & Promise Of The Real play "Walk On," "the song our band was named for, " according to Lukas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC38lRm7op0&app=desktop

I used to line up and get my latte everyday
But yesterday was my last one
Starbucks has teamed up with Monsanto to sue Vermont
and stop accurate food labeling.

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

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Saturday, November 15, 2014 7:41 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, November 15, 2014 7:44 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, November 15, 2014 7:53 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

― Temple of Infinite Grohls (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, November 15, 2014 7:54 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Neil delivers!

2015-04-16, SLO Brewing Co., San Luis Obispo, California, USA
w/ The Nelson Brothers
1. Country Home
2. People Want To Hear About Love*
3. New Song 2 - New Day For The Planet ??*
4. Down By The River
5. New Song 3 - Too Big To Fail ??*
6. New Song 4 - GMO-Starbucks ??*
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7. Walk On
8. Monsanto Years*
9. New Song 6 - I Don't Know You ??*
10. New Song 7 - Seeds ??*
11. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
12. Wolf Moon*
13. Love And Only Love
14. Workin' Man*
15. Country Home
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16. Roll Another Number

* - song debut

Pocahontas, Monsanto And Me

That short clip w Lukas Nelson was amazing
You can tell when Neil's really going in, he always looks like he's a deep see fisherman and his guitar is a swordfish he's fighting

Oh man that clip makes me so happy