neil young

le noise is so close to classic, just needed a few more great songs

but man i love the sound of it, "hitchhiker" is deeply psychedelic to me

I had uploaded Bluenote Cafe to my Google Music account....I have "Doghouse" access anywhere, anytime.

listening right now, feels good man

the little horn line and turnaround that comes after the dog barking sound effect is a nice little bit of stax

I just remembered that when I brought Weld home and thought it was fucked, I then tried it out on my dad's swanky Fisher deck. He pulled a face, because he always hated Neil and thought he ruined CSN, who he loved.

I think my second Neil purchase was the Buffalo Springfield Retrospective CD.

I already knew For What It;s Worth from the Muppets' cover version

Le Noise: Side 2 >>>>>>> Side 1
Bluenote Cafe: Disc 2 >>>>>> Disc 1

Neil makes you work for it sometimes

It seems like a sample...please let it be Poncho though, please
god, feels like we need DOGHOUSE: An Oral History of Neil Young's Greatest Song ... I'll put together my pitch for Rolling Stone.

― tylerw, Friday, 4 December 2015 19:48 (46 minutes ago) Permalink

"Hey Neil we got an interview request from Rolling Stone...yeah...no Fricke's not there anymore...no...no they want to ask about...no not the new record...uh they want to talk about "Doghouse"? The song. Yeah...just that song. Really? OK, I'll have him call you"

"you want him to come to the ranch? now? okay ... "

what are the chances he recorded his vocals inside an actual doghouse

this is the kind of thing the oral history would reveal

Niko Bolas: So the next thing I know, Neil has a team of contractors out to the ranch and they're buildin' a fuckin' doghouse that Neil designed! Price tag was 250 grand by the time we got it all rigged with microphones. By that time, it was 1992 and Neil was not interested in recording his vocals in a doghouse.

Crazy Horse did see fit to record a solo album there in '96...sadly the tapes disappeared when the dog house was bulldozed to make way for an annex for the train barn.

Molina:"We did this record in the Doghouse, best fucking thing we ever did, Neil really wanted to get back to that 70s feel, the songs were so good, but that was last I heard of it. There was this song called "Rocking in the Free World", so great. A few months later Neil was on tour with Stills, I never heard from him again"

Neil: "Poncho had just gotten this digital sampler, he was gettin' stoned a lot and listenin' to a lot the new hip hop stuff...anyway, one day he's messin' around with it and makes this dog barking sound. I thought...well now this is kinda inneresting"

Bolas: There was a whole David Briggs freestyle breakdown that we had to cut. It got pretty raw. But that dude could spit fire ...

Bolas: Briggs kept talking about getting "hip-hop haircut" just over and over, Neil thought it was hilarious

Talbot: Neil kept busting Ralph's balls about the drum part through the whole session, he wanted Ralphs to do two quick hi-hat accents times to the "Doghouse...dog...house" sample...Ralph just couldn't do it and Neil kept getting pissed. Finally told Ralph to go home and flew Steve Jordan in from L.A. to cut the track.

Jimmy McDonough: I didn't know it at the time, but Neil had originally envisioned Shakey as part of the prospectus for this doghouse building concern he and Crosby were trying to get going. Something about how we needed more American-made ones or something. But then the Lionel thing happened, Crosby's hanging with Nash again, and somehow I'm out $75 bucks that gets repaid in Purina stock.

Crosby: I never understood the whole Doghouse thing

David Briggs: Neil has never even spent a minute in a doghouse!

Nash: I think the doghouse is inside us all.

Stills: I'll tell you about doghouses, son--you don't know the meaning of the word 'til face down in the dirt a yard of hard outside Da Nang with Charlie nippin' at your heels when you're number seven with a literal bullet back home in the Billboards withe Springfield!

Joni Mitchell: I remember Neil and Stephen doing a Jimmie Rodgers style version of a song called "Doghouse" in the old Thunder Bay days, it was as trifle. They were just silly boys, getting stoned and pretending to be dogs. I would have never guessed it would evolve into Neil's greatest work.

i love u all

^^^

Rusty Kershaw: Now, Stills will tell you that he named "Doghouse" but that's bullshit. Boy, that fat motherfucker couldn't name his dick if he was standin' on his own balls. Here's what happened: I ain't seen Neil in years, and he suddenly calls me up in 87 to come up to the ranch. First two days go just fine, third night Briggs shows up with a couple grams and a bottle of whisky. Now you ain't gotta guess how long it took us to make that disappear. Next thing you know, we're tearing ass around in this old pickup truck Neil kept around the ranch. Briggs is driving, out of his head. All of a sudden this deer jumps across our path, Briggs swerves and we crash that fucker right into the front porch of the guest house! They hear the noise and come runnin', and boy Pegi is fit to be TIED. Neil asks us what the fuck just happened and Briggs can't stop laughing. I just look at him and say, "Boy, you in the doghouse now" Neil just shakes his head and walks off but he had that look he gets when he's workin' something out in his head...

thread has clearly gone off the rails

DON: We admired Neil. Linda loved Neil. Although we thought his aesthetic was too sloppy, we understood that he was a songwriter with major chops, one of the best. He had competition though. It was a heady time.

GLENN: I'll say it was head-y!

DON: Well, yeah.

Damn, beat me to it...

DON: I really reconnected with Neil in the '80s. We both had signed on with Geffen at around the same time, and were experiencing somewhat similar problems with the company. Sure, he'd gone in for Reagan in a way that left me puzzled, but then again he'd picked up on Danny Kortchmar after hearing him on Building The Perfect Beast, so he wasn't too far gone yet. [laughs]

He'd managed to break away from the label much sooner than I was able to, but we kept in touch. I was deep in the midst of The End of The Innocence sessions when he happened by the studio with some Blue Notes tapes. There was the one track, "Doghouse", that made me think his ordeal with David & Co. had perhaps done a little more damage than previously thought.

GLENN: I was the one who got Neil into fitness. He'd seen my "Living Right" video and realized gettin' in shape was where it was at. I also think I inspired him to utilize horns, as my records were very horn-y at the time, not unlike yours truly!

DON: Well, yeah.

If only for perfectly capturing the feel of L.A., the Eagles are the one band that’s carried on the spirit of the Buffalo Springfield.
— Neil Young ’75

“Sometimes I wonder if we don’t take ourselves too seriously,” Henley muses after hearing the Beatles’ nonsense song “You Know My Name (Look Up My Number)” on his car radio. “Who knows, maybe Art is just a dog on Neil Young’s porch.
-Don Henley '75.

Bluenote Cafe: just finished first spin of Disc 1. The sameness of so many heavy shuffles, despite good touches, turns, and solos (horns and guitar),especially on headphones and high volume, got to me eventually, way before the end. But the more supple "Don't Take Your Love From Me" was lovely, ditto "One Thing," while "Bad News Comes To Down" is perfect, prob "Twilight" too--when he really blends Neiliness with blusiness, rather than basically just tweaking a very familiar and long-winded late-60s-early 70s blooze approach, results awes.

But prob some more of this disc will grow on me (I'd just rather get a live album all at once, like I'd rather get it all at once if I'm at the show).

You haven't even got to "Doghouse" yet...!

It's kind of amazing how flexible "On the Way Home" is, obv the original is great, love the folky version on Massey Hall & as I said upthread the soul version here is great as well

Disc 2 does meld the horns and keys into Neilness more, might be prob is better, seems more consistent for sure, though wouldn't want to be without those 4 that I initially picked on Disc 1, or most of the rest of it probably. Dawghouse!

doghouse
dog....house

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killing it guys xD

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Neil Young & The Doghouse Boys

Omfg that is amazing
Seems bizarre there are only 2 fedoras in that pic

Is Neil wearing a piano tie?

haha yeah i think so

think poncho has a cartoon dog on his shirt, hard to tell

Sampedro: Yeah, Neil had all these sleeveless cartoon Doghouse shirts made up -- we were all supposed to wear 'em at the photo shoot! Of course, I show up and I'm the only motherfucker who remembered.

who's the sad guy on the far left

"i'm in the dog....house....i guess...nothing really matters [sigh]"

guy on the right in the panama is obv. the band's dealer

Bolas: That dude was mysterious -- no one knew his real name, he just went by "Nobody." So whenever Neil announced that the next song was sponsored "by Nobody" he was actually letting the band know he had snorted a huge rail before the show.

<3

Not to re-rail this beautifully de-railed thread, but wasn't part of the issue with the Blue Notes the struggle to keep everyone in the band from getting too...er, loose before they played? I feel like I read that an interview with Neil a long time ago.

I mean that pic certainly makes them look like they were totally straight edge