neil young

Picked up a DVD of the TransBand Berlin this weekend. It's../quite something.

Interpretative Dance!

Ben Keith in a New Wave shirt and skinny tie!

Bruce Palmer trying to be Little Steven!

Germans clearly not getting the Trans material!

The whole thing's here, but if you want a taste...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om2Lt94Ltw4

that is an incredible set. Nils Lofgren's interpretive dancing is a real showstopper.

Germans clearly not getting the Trans material!

lol can you blame them?

Picked up a DVD of the TransBand Berlin this weekend. It's../quite something.

I've got on video!

Hey Tyler Spooking the Horse is fantastic, the version of Natural Beauty brought a tear to my eye last night and Neil's (well I assume they're Neil's) solos on Throw Your Hatred Down are something else. Thanks.

Got the third ORS CD box in the mail yesterday. Currently listening to Comes A Time, the one 70s Neil I hadn't heard. "Motorcycle Mama" is like a T.Rex Country song!

Open Culture
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Dec 15

Neil Young Offers His Entire Catalog of Music Free Online (Until June), at the Highest Digital Audio Quality Possible. ICYMI http://bit.ly/2yFHClc"> http://bit.ly/2yFHClc

The archive, Young says, “is designed to be a living document, constantly evolving and including every new recording and film as it is made.” All of this music is currently free, until June 30th, though you’ll have to create an account. After that date, users can subscribe for an unspecified but “very modest” cost.

shit doesn't even work on mobile smh

Only works on MobilePONOS.

dow we liveblogged the archive experience starting around here: NEIL YOUNG ARCHIVES BOX: IT'S REALLY HAPPENING

To return to the results of the poll, only now do I notice that Zuma didn't do very well at all. I think it's up there with the best of his 70s run. Any love for that record? I suppose Cortez the Killer might overshadow the rest of the albums material?

"album's"

Harvest, Comes a Time, Harvest Moon, Freedom, Stars 'N Bars all got robbed, don't think this old poll is v representative of anything

I mean Doghouse wasn't even a poll option

I think the top three are pretty undeniable, but yeah it's perhaps representative only of what an amazing body of work he's produced

Sleeps with Angels is good 90s Neil, but I don't hold it up with the 70s stuff.

The self titled debut is a really good record and it got no votes. The strings and production on that one are really unique for his discography, it's kinda the only time he made a record with a bunch of ringers. Earl Palmer and Carol Kaye play on that record, which is pretty neat to think for a Neil Young album.

Singer songwriters were all over the place in that time using bands. It was more common for the singer songwriter to use studio ringers with maybe 1-2 persons from their live bands or not cutting their LPs. Neil used some guests, but most of the time his live band was who made his records.

the self titled definitely benefitted the most from the remaster

Sleeps With Angels is my favorite post-'70s Neil album. it's a slow burner and vv beautiful i think.

kinda think Time Fades Away would've placed higher if it'd gotten the same reissue treatment On the Beach did back in the early 00s.

Earlnash otm

Time Fades Away is so amazing

xxpost I dunno the Stray Gators were all bonafide studio pros

Every Generation Gets The Human Highway It Deserves: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-daryl-hannah-western-movie-to-premiere-at-sxsw-w516214

"Time is fluid in this far-fetched, whimsical western tale of music and love," reads a brief plot description released by the filmmakers. "Somewhere in the future past, The Man In the Black Hat hides out between heists at an old stagecoach stop with Jail Time, the Particle Kid, and an odd band of outlaws. Mining the detritus of past civilizations, they wait… for the Silver Eagle, for the womenfolk, and for the full moon's magic to give rise to the music and make the spirits fly."

Imagine The Weed Budget!

are Jail Time and The Particle Kid two people, or is it Jail Time, The Particle Kid? Because I hope it's the latter.

did we ever listen to this? it is cray
https://open.spotify.com/album/1AWbIu7wKGqsL7be4NlEyY

i tried to listen to it, don't think i made it all the way through

better news:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWLDincU8AEybu7.jpg:large

nice

from this rant over here: https://www.neilyoungarchives.com/#/news-article?id=VINYL%20IS%20KING&_k=2v324e

uuugh, i can't even read the news without signing up for a neilyoungarchives.com account?

neeeeeeeeeeeeeeil

lol yeah ... i can't even copy and paste the story!
here's the blog post about the blog post: http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2018/02/vinyl-is-king-says-neil-young.html

but it seems like the good news is that neil is committed to releasing physical product? i had a sinking feeling that he was going to be like "here's homegrown, available for premium level subscribers in hi-rez only mwahhahaha!"

pono fomo?

ha! yes.

HAPPY PARADOX SOUNDTRACK DAY EVERYONE!!!!

hmm...we're starting with....an almost identical version of "Show Me" off Peace Trail

classic neil

movie's streaming on netflix now too omg

okay now we got some formless jamming going on while people randomly yell "HEY!" over the track, digging this

pls to continue liveblogging this

and now....an instrumental version of "Show Me" that lasts one minute

now some solo neil electric just going "bum bum" on one note over and over and then some feedback

now a little porch pickin song with someone who's not neil singing "digging in the dirt/that's our way of life" that's a minute and a half long

these recurring instrumental thingys are called "paradox passage 1" etc etc....this one literally sound like Neil aimlessly playing acoustic on the couch while watching TV or something, give him a deal with feeding tube!

lol

neil talking to some dude:

"looks like a full corn moon"

"yeah, a full barley moon"

"a magic time"

lol yes

now another cover of a song he just released in 2016 - "Peace Trail", again almost identical so I guess if you wanted Neil to re-record that album with a worse drummer you are in luck!

what's the level of bongo content here

haha definitely some bongo action in the mix!

like this is fine but Peace Trail is his best thing in recent memory specifically because of the vibe of Keltner's odd/cool approach to drums on that record and the weird use of autotune

next up....Pocahontas! starting out with some pipe organ noodling...there was just some live applause but sounded fake (maybe?)....this is basically him doing Pocahontas just like he did the doomy pipe organ version of Like a Hurricane on Unplugged

now some solo neil electric just going "bum bum" on one note over and over and then some feedback

gonna be honest, this is like the platonic ideal of electric neil to me