neil young

Checking Amazon, that ACL thing doesn't look legit. Might be worth picking up before the lawyers find out about it.

Some of that show (starts about a minute in)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIdICuePM6A

https://youtu.be/NIdICuePM6A

That's some fancy struttin' Tim Drummond (?) is doin'.

Sounds good!

Just realized this ACL version of "Down by the River" is the first one I ever heard -- when I was a teen a good friend / Neil stan put it on a mixtape before I'd ever heard the original. Still fantastic.

Oh shit my man Drummond is on this?!

I think this was before he quit because he didn't want to play 'Nashville Eat Shit Bass'.

Am I the only one who never noticed that the International Harvesters, like Buffalo Springfield, are both named after tractors?

Meanwhile, I still want to know if the short-lived Neil Young and the Restless were named after the soap opera.

amazon is weird about those "import" bootlegs ... there are a bunch of shady neil albums for sale there. don't buy 'em, just download them on the internet for heavens sake.

in the UK anything thats been broadcast on the radio (?) slips through some loophole so you get lots of semi-legal cd releases sold in normal stores. i guess those are the imports you're seeing. there are a ton of springsteen ones available.

yeah, they're pretty corny

fuck Amazon tbh, nobody should be buying anything from them

Austin City Limits episodes/content is controlled by the producing studio, KLRU Austin (a PBS affiliate), and Producer Terry Lickona's company Lickonavision. They have an almost exclusive deal for releasing their shows on physical media with New West. There have been occasional exceptions, such as Sony releasing Stevie Ray Vaughan's performances, and Neil included a couple of tracks from this ACL performance on A Treasure. There have also been some dodgy-looking import DVDs of ACLs featuring Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen, and this Neil title looks to be of the same stripe.

anyhoo, new neil and crazy horse "single" out in the world today. "rainbow of colors" ... not very good! https://neilyoungarchives.com/info-card?track=t2019_0425_02

tracklist from an ROIO site that I've always found reliable:

Neil Young and The International Harvesters
Austin City Limits, Austin TX
1984 September 25

01 Are You Ready For The Country?
02 Hawks And Doves
03 Comes A Time
04 Bound For Glory
05 Fingers
06 Are There Any More Real Cowboys?
07 Heart Of Gold
08 Amber Jean
09 band introduction
10 Roll Another Number
11 Southern Pacific
12 The Needle And The Damage Done
13 Helpless

xx 01 California Sunset(removed)
14 It Might Have Been
15 Soul Of A Woman
16 Field Of Opportunity
17 Old Man
18 Powderfinger
19 Get Back To The Country
20 Down By The River

Anthony Crawford - guitars, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, vocals
Spooner Oldham - piano, organ
Ben Keith - pedal steel
Karl "Junkyard" Himmel - drums
Tim Drummond - bass
Rufus Thibodeaux - fiddle

Original lineage unknown
shn>flac level 8 July 2007 by Richard Flynn using TLH

From a bootleg called "Last Of A Dying Breed".
This set omits all of the non-Austin City Limits songs that were on the bootleg.
The source was probably a soundboard recording for the television show - what was
eventually broadcast on TV did not include all of the songs on this set.

Go to this link to choose in flac or mp3---listings are alphabetical by first name:
http://www.ousterhout.net/music-menu.html#Newest_files:
(Brace yrself---this guy's got a lot of stuff!)

A Treasure is at least in part an authorized bootleg: Neil's People said they got a lot(?) of it off YouTube.

Dale Crover from the Melvins played young Neil in the Harvest Moon video, apparently! https://www.instagram.com/p/B2ueR0jj38K/?igshid=14fo5z8128g3x

haha wtf, that's amazing...

!!!

He's even wearing Neil's clothes right? I remember that from back in the day...as a 16 yr old who was obsessed with Neil & the Melvins this was intense information to process.

Unrelated:
What if, theoretically, a person, let's call them...Steve? spent like a couple weeks listening to NY & CH obsessively and what if, IF mind you, Steve had come to the conclusion that Greendale was the best Crazy Horse record?

lol, that'd be ... crazy. but i was listening to a live Greendale show recently, and it was sounding pretty good ... long solos on "carmichael" were great.

I...uh I mean STEVE, hadn't listened to Greendale in forever and it was just hitting all the right spots this wknd? Obv it is insane to think it is the best CH lp...obv

i was thinking that Greendale might the thing in his creative life that neil has committed most heavily to. i mean, it's an album, a movie, a graphic novel, a multimedia tour ... he definitely hasn't tried anything remotely like it since.

PONO

missed the PONO graphic novel, but I'm sure it's in the archives

I feel like his model train ventures were way more personal and near to him than PONO esp given the connecting to his son's disabilities

I remember seeing a pre-screening of the "Greendale" film at the opera plaza in SF. it was.... innaresting

it's pretty doofy but it's pure neil

it's really the lip-syncing that, er, sinks it imo. Just a bad (and unnecessary) aesthetic decision.

i was thinking that Greendale might the thing in his creative life that neil has committed most heavily to. i mean, it's an album, a movie, a graphic novel, a multimedia tour ... he definitely hasn't tried anything remotely like it since

and he even released them all, right?

he did!
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/rando-ems/greendale-4-large.jpg

EARTH, OR WHATEVER YOUR NAME IS

~Yerth shook his head in exasperation~

I've only interacted with the album not the ancillary media, within that framework I feel like it succeeds pretty well, story-wise.

It should be noted that weird, rambling "concept" or story records, esp from an artist who doesn't really tread those waters often are 100% my shit, ymmv.

Greendale and Prairie Wind are probably the post-2000 neil albums that I pull out the most often.

I have a friend who still makes fun of me for being excited to see Neil perform on a latenight show when Greendale was out, and he came out and did "Be the Rain" with the whole stage show and props and actors and dancers all over the stage, and it was pretty embarassing

Neil Young trivia, kind of:

The Brian de Palma movie "The Fury" not only starred Carrie Snodgrass, but it was Daryl Hannah's first movie.

! What do you mean kind of!?

A Man Needs A Maid meets A Man Needs A Mermaid

Angry Neil in the studio..:

Watch a glimpse into the Mountain Top Sessions with Crazy Horse recording ‘Colorado’. Out 10/25.

Taking care of the music: https://t.co/QBps0Ck5J7

‘Colorado’: https://t.co/4atUah0q7P#NeilYoung #NeilYoungArchives #CrazyHorse #Colorado pic.twitter.com/5Di2apkKzu

— Neil Young Archives (@NeilYoungNYA) October 7, 2019

Cool, I'm in.

Yep. Same here

love it

"This is a band, this is not a recording"

Kinda hope that vibraphone makes an appearance, but I'm doubtful.

Though I've got to admit it's more than a little lol that Neil Young, who has exemplified a meat and potatoes approach for 50 years, with one of the most meat and potatoes backing bands of all time, infamous for their meat and potatoes recordings, would yell at the engineer in 2019 that they're not capturing their meat and potatoes loud-band-in-a room sound right.

You're makin' our T-Bone sound like hamburger!

still extremely jarring to see the horse without poncho :(

there's vibraphone on the new album!

xpost Amen :/

I am reading Shakey at the moment, and am struck by how often everybody around NY regards Ralphie and Billy as utter clod-hopping stumblebums. Including Neil frequently…Cros in particular can't stand 'em, which is a stupendous recommendation as far as I am concerned…I didn't know before this book that those guys and Danny hadn't been playing instruments for very long before EKTiN…so as much as I often can't believe how rudimentary their playing is live, their harmonizing on the live Tonight's the Night record is exceptional…they sound EXACTLY like that record…

I never heard Landing on water til last week…while I can see that Geffen was setting him up for some Building the Perfect Beast shit with Kootch and that doesn't sit well with Neil stans, I liked it! Also kinda liked Life, which I hadn't heard since 89, but those two are interesting for being the digital/ Synclavier extravaganzas that he would foreswear. Hadn't heard Trans since the 80s either, and that record is fantastic…