neil young

"Sleep" def suffers a bit from mid-90s cd bloat, but when I am in the mood for it I wish it were twice as long.

"Broken Arrow" has some great tunes, "Big Time", but yeah overall isn't as great a record

Seeing him solo this Sunday...

setlist from st. louis last night looked nice — "Homefires"!

last time I saw him was a solo tour, the tour where he had all these instruments arrayed on stage and spent a lot of time walking back and forth between them, looking as if he was trying to decide what he was going to play, even though the setlist remained more or less static from night to night. I think it was because he was filming it?

haha yeah, i think that's at least partly schtick at this point

I saw him at Arroyo Seco last week and it just reinforced the fact that I am not into Promise of the Real. They opened with a 30-minute version of “Like the Inca” - cool jam I guess but yeesh, those lyrics. Did a great Cortez the Killer but then Neil turned it over to his band to do two of their own songs which kinda ruined everything for me.

Listening to Le Noise this morning, that one holds up really well, too!

yeah, that is probably my fave from this decade ... he seems to have rediscovered it in the past couple weeks! lotsa le noise in the setlists.

Well, it is a truly totally solo album - his only? - and he's on a solo tour, so ...

Storytone is totally solo, isn't it? Man, I literally have not heard a note of his last five records.

he was doing full band versions of le noise tunes w/ promise of the real, though — haven't heard 'em yet, but i'd be interested.

I remember being kind of bummed out by "Le Noise" when I first heard it but I revisited it a few yrs ago and loved it and I can't recall now what bothered me so much about it.

I stump for "Peace Trail" of his more recent records

le noise is also my favorite of his recent records, really going all the way back to harvest moon

psychedelic pill is pretty close, though

cosign both those posts

the bottom-end sound of that custom Lanois guitar thing is really something if you crank that record up

I remember reading about but not quite understanding Lanois's approach. Something quietly radical with a tricked out Gretsch Falcon?

"The other thing that was very important for the sound of the album,” added Lanois, "was the white Gretsch Falcon that Neil was playing, which had two pickups, one for the bass and the other for the treble strings, each of them going through one of the two Fender Deluxe amplifiers that we had put in the sweet spot in the room. The Falcon was our secret weapon. It was used on all the tracks, apart from 'Hitchhiker', on which Neil played his black Les Paul, and the two acoustic songs, 'Love And War' and 'Peaceful Valley Boulevard,' on which he played my Guild acoustic, which has an LR Baggs magnetic pickup, so we could mic the guitar and also have an isolated source of sound from the pickup.”

I guess there was also lots of mixing on the fly, tossing in effects here and there a la dub. I'd never watched this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU5B53b9ntQ

I never listen to Broken Arrow, but my recollection is that it fails at the same thing this album succeeds with.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, June 29, 2018 7:13 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think Broken Arrow is a bit more rambling and loose but yeah it's similarly understated. however i think the Broken Arrow songs themselves really called for a lot more energy, they're performed like the band just woke up from a nap. Sleeps With Angels has songs that really benefit from being delivered in the way they are, it's really got a fantastic late night noirish atmosphere throughout.

Safeway Cart is a great Neil deep cut, too

so dark

picked up a copy of Live Rust recently, not sure that Cortez the Killer is improved with the addition of a cod-Jamaican accent, sorry Shakey

Neil Young & Creggae Horse

give us some creggae!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xXRoEAvVro

WHAT A KILLER MON

Kind of right before I got into Neil circa "Freedom" I was at this summer camp & these slightly older teenage burn out dudes would jam "Live Rust" all the time & specifically they loved that reggae break down, they lived for it, they probably would have referred to Neil as their second, or probably third after Clapton, favorite reggae artists.

It's always fun when shows I had on a bootleg cassette turn up on YouTube. This one's really good, all acoustic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdXrqDW7Ut8

Rasta Never Sleeps

Skankin' In The Free World

Lookout Jah

Hey Hey, I & I

Ride My Ska-ma

after the acapulco gold rush

Zuma-zungguguzungguzeng

Down By the Rivers of Babylon

I-man I-way

https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/08/neil-young-and-daryl-hannah-married/

the wedding party?
https://78.media.tumblr.com/b512f7871bece1007a9858daa10023b9/tumblr_og6hc9m4Ja1qzy30io1_640.jpg

congrats neil and daryl

*too bad* my invite got lost in the mail, but it's fine, it's fine

I hope Wall Street wasn't the part she was playing that he could understand.

i haven't looked into this yet but it seems appropriate to bump the thread

If you're a Neil Young fanatic (and I mean fanatic, not just fan), all the back issues of the legendary Broken Arrow zine have now been scanned and put online. https://t.co/7d4iMEyMsR

— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) September 14, 2018

tylerw you might be interested in these though! i'm just skimming through but the first issue includes a review of various bootlegs, rated 1-10, and it appears to be a recurring feature across the issues.

there's a good bootleg summary in issue 004 (btw i love the optimistic 3 digit numbering system)

the results of the first Broken Arrow fan poll, from issue 3:

https://i.imgur.com/v71Rt5E.png?1

...and the final results, from issue 6:

https://i.imgur.com/JIj79KS.png?1

i'll stop summarizing (or i'll continue, if people find it helpful) but it's actually a really good, kickass zine! there are lots of things in them that i really appreciate, like full transcriptions of radio interviews, attempts to exhaustively list all the covers of neil's songs (starting in issue 006), the aforementioned bootleg reviews, xeroxed copies of nme reviews, extended interviews with people like dave fanning (issue 029), etc

Nice! I had a couple of these back in the day, thanks for the heads up ....

ned retweeted it, so it's him we have to think.

i love a good zine. these are all fresh to me. i wish more fanzines would be digitized like this.

think thank

Yeah the VU what goes on zine would be good too ...
Maybe it’s out there somewhere.

my dream job, which i just thought of, is for someone to pay me the bare minimum livable amount to seek out full collections of those kinds of zines and make them available online

i would guess that the difficult part is obtaining permission to make them available online from the artists and zinemakers, rather than the difficulty of finding them

otm, although older stuff can be very hard to find (e.g. older role-playing games & related scifi fanzines)