Neil Young On The Beach Reissued On CD

Entirely by accident I ended up listening to this album earlier this evening. Yes to praising David Crosby's rhy gtr on "Revolution Blues"! But even more praise for the bass playing, listening to which I found myself thinking, "Is that Rick Danko?" And sure enough, it's Rick Danko!

ilx is a #croz positive space

crozitivity

can I praise David Crosby for his electric rhythm work on "Revolution Blues"?

Rhythm guitar not the guitar solo. He was always a good rhythm guitarist.

yeah, i got that - the solo is obviously neil, i was just taken aback that croz is playing the hairy rhythm guitar

pretty sure Crosby plays rhythm on "Cowboy Movie" which is nice gnarly & chunky

neil has an endless number of lyrics that are sort of banal but also somehow incredibly moving and deep and full of meaning to me

these are all the best lyrics imo

It can change you in the middle of the day

I think the main rhythm guitar figure in Revolution Blues, the spidery, scratchy one, is still Neil. There's another, muddier one behind it that's probably Croz playing chords. If you listen, the main rhythm guitar drops out right before the solo. There's even a little pause where Neil sounds like he's just taking a second to stomp on his pedal. Either way, not knocking Crosby, but I suspect all the more noticeable guitaring is Neil.

i feel like #Croz - If I Could Only Remember My Name is the sister album to On the Beach (at least in my mind)

totally

I'm a vampire baaabe

the sleazy dragging lethargy of vampire blues is so great, like the whole band is fighting its way through tar from start to finish

amazing anti-guitar-solo too

He's one of those rockers of that generation who tried mightily to avoid 12-bar blues, so when he succumbs it's kinda cool.

would love to hear just raw session tape from On The Beach.
crazy that neil has only played "motion pictures" live once! maybe he'll dig it out in boston tonight.

Maybe this is in "Shakey", I can't remember, but is Neil having CROZ playing on Revolution Blues some kind weird twisting the knife cuz weren't CROZ & Stills (and probably half the rock stars in Topanga Canyon circa '69) convinced that they were on the Manson Family hitlist?

I don't know what the fuck about "Revolution Blues" apparently scared Crosby to death – might be coke paranoia.

yeah i think stills and croz went out and bought shotguns or something after the manson killings.

xpost I imagine this line

"Well, I hear that Laurel Canyon
is full of famous stars,
But I hate them worse than lepers
and I'll kill them
in their cars."

wasn't CROZ's fave

ask him on Twitter

If he just blocks me does that mean he really was scared?

David Crosby = worst Byrd

In contrast, didn't Neil say Manson was kind of an OK guy?

(xp) Have you heard those songs Skip Battin wrote with Kim Fowley?

I don't know what the fuck about "Revolution Blues" apparently scared Crosby to death – might be coke paranoia.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, July 11, 2018 10:23 AM (thirty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think crosby was tight w/terry melcher, and obv neil had hung w/manson and dennis wilson...

Crosby's father was an award winning cinematographer, their family was very much in the film industry, which was one of the Manson cult's big targets. he straddled the line -- like many artists -- between old money and youthful revolutionary. pretty understandable that he would be scared when people are being brutally murdered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Crosby

Was just listening to the title track and although the ramble of it, the repetition, would probably make Auden blush, it did make me think of sections of the Age of Anxiety:

... The fears we know
Are of not knowing. Will nightfall bring us
Some awful order - Keep a hardware store
In a small town... Teach science for life to
Progressive girls -? It is getting late.
Shall we ever be asked for? Are we simply
Not wanted at all?