neil young

what a great interview, jealous you got to speak to poncho!

this was a perfect 4/20 present, makes me wanna crank up some live Horse

I still want a Poncho shirt but I have a hunch Poncho has the only one.

just chiming in to say how much i enjoyed that interview

i only saw crazy horse twice - 2001 and 2012

2001 was a really solid selection of older songs - 2012 i really loved the psychedelic pill songs, it felt like it got close to that arc/weld feeling of touring a great new album where the (then) contemporary songs kinda feel like instant classics

oh whoops it was 2013! anyway time clearly meaningless for Crazy Horse

i saw them on that tour too, they were fucking great

they boiled a lot of boomer piss in the audience that night by playing 10 minutes of wailing feedback in the middle of the show instead of 'heart of gold' or whatever, there were numerous walkouts

just listening to the budokan set on archives ii now after reading the poncho interview and man he's really playing his ass off on 'drive back', the acid clearly agreed with him that night

xpost - it's kind of remarkable how long he's played crazy loud shit with crazy horse and how oblivious a significant portion of his audience seems to be shocked that he's not doing harvest

I've mentioned a friend before who claims to like Neil Young but "only his acoustic stuff," which really is actually not that much, especially considering this friend has without a doubt not bought anything by Neil Young in (er) decades, and is therefore probably only thinking of his '70s output. So, yeah, Harvest.

it was v funny to see some of the outraged faces around me as wave after wave of coruscating feedback crashed over them

speaking of which, a 2013 Crazy Horse show is the "Timeline Concert of the Week" at the Neil Archives site now ...

That Poncho interview is so great, tylerw. And imagining Neil and Crazy Horse playing "Tangled Up In Blue" with Dylan, fuuuuuuuck.

I love the idea of Dylan just sitting in a van out in front, listening to the Horse run loose.

I'm listening to Neil Young, I gotta turn up the sound
Someone's always yellin' "Turn it down"

Love that Poncho interview, great stuff. Being in Crazy Horse sounds amazingly like what you'd expect.

Great interview Tyler!

On another note, anybody know what's going on in this photo?

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Ill-fated Turtles reunion?

the exact moment neil decided to ditch the stills-young band in the middle of their 1976 tour?

lol

“Only three more songs before I kick your ass, pal.”

Flo & Eddie have an eerie ability to look photoshopped into every photo they are in

I saw the Turtles live about 15 years ago, and they played a faithful cover of "Cinnamon Girl" which they said they'd just recorded for a tribute album (that I think ultimately didn't happen).

There is a connection, Johnny Barbata was in the Turtles & played with CSN&Y and half of "Time Fades Away"

flo & eddie seem like the kind of guys who had a really good drug connect

who does the “whoa-oh-oh” response vocals in the verse of “farmer John”? Not sure how to google this lol

I think that's, like, the audience? I noticed that as well but haven't registered

"re-listened" dammit

judging from the catalyst video it's all of Crazy Horse trading off on those backing vocals.

afterwards i did think about a book — seems like you miiiiiight be able to do a Crazy Horse bio without it being too redundant after Shakey. Not sure. Someone should do it.

just about to sink my teeth into yr interview Tyler, but why not pitch to ghostwrite Poncho's memoir? Seems like you'd know the questions that led to the best answers...

Kinda want to start a separate thread for albums that are in the “tonight’s the night”-ditch trilogy vein from around that time period. I briefly started digging through acts Ben Keith did sessions from the 70s hoping to find something but no luck so far.

Just got Rust Bucket on vinyl. This is going to be the album of the summer; windows open, hot day, cold beer. The more you drink the better it sounds.

i listened to it many times recently! i have to admit i enjoy it more as it gets near the last half, and it was hard to tell whether crazy horse was settling more into it as the set went on, or because i was much more familiar with the songs. either way , it sounded like a good ol' drunken time. i gotta admit, early 90s/grunge-associated Neil isn't my favorite (although i still love things from that era, like Harvest Moon), but i've gained a greater appreciation of what was cool and unique about that era for him

I mean it's no Ditch trilogy, but for a late (mid?) career revival, especially one that hits hard, it's ace.

I'm going to be that guy: the sound of the guitars is just perfect.

xpost you don't like Ragged Glory? that don't compute

^yeah! if you're gonna be that guy, you might as well be right. i wish i knew who was playing what (neil or poncho) during some sections, but either way it all sounds great

xp i do like it! i'm just saying..it's not my favorite :D

I mean Joe Bonamassa has wet dreams of this tone.

90s neil is my favorite sometimes, so much feedback and wind whipped hair

the only 90s neil i really go for is the dead man soundtrack tbh

I should say 90s live horse

nearly a year later, i'm finally getting to homegrown and yep: it rules.

also flipping through the neil cds at barnes and noble yesterday, holy hell there's been a shitton of live archive releases lately. i knew the frequency of releases had picked up, but not like that. got some catchin' up to do i reckon.

yeah the floodgates are finally coming open! there's a lot of shit.

homegrown's more than alright with me

oh shit, i didn't realize that's robbie robertson playing along on "white line"!

makes sense, i suppose

never really got into the ditch stuff before for some dumb reason but I’ve been playing a disc from archives ii every day since I got in a couple of months ago and it’s like why even bother listening to other music

I was you some 8 years ago or so. And clemenza sent me Time Fades Away vinyl in the mail. This was before you could stream it! <3 to clemenza down in the rust bucket.

That is a good ilxor.

A quandary

1. I will buy anything the dude puts out.

2. I hate Greendale. It just goes tunelessly on and on forever. 8 minutes declaiming through a bullhorn is about 7:59 too much.

Do I have to get Return to Greendale?

I quite like the solo acoustic greendale live show (Dublin) but none of the other versions :-(

I think Return to Greendale is an improvement over the album but it's not like it's Live Rust or something, if you dislike the material it's probably not enough

greendale is rotten. first time i saw him aged about 17 i was so hyped, but it was the first run of greendale acoustic solo shows before the LP was even out. he played the whole thing with 5 minute chats between each song about what the lyrics mean (as if every single on that lp isn't extremely obvious). I had exams the next day and had to leave just as he started playing old stuff for the encore, and still missed my train, had to wait 2 hours in waterloo station until the next one. had a little cry.

thankfully he's made up for it every other time i've caught him. but yeah, it sucked.