neil young

Not sure this will show (it's from discord), but it recounts how the phrase "Rust Never Sleeps" came to Neil.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/867990960531988530/1024157147753365554/IMG_6565.jpg

I've undoubtedly posted this elsewhere, but "Down by the River" was an actual (minor) hit single up here in '71.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxi6V3Xi1Vs

that's pretty great!

Always liked it too. I don't know if that's what he means by "North Country Funk," but he gets at something in the song that's a little different from Neil's original.

(By the way, when Joey Gregorash wasn't covering Neil, he was doing uncanny CCR imitations: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mSCRc6Wq-k.)

And I just noticed the last line of the article I posted, so never mind (but still funny).

That Gregorash cover is killer!

This is one of the weirdest DBTR "covers" if you can call it that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcggWoM73s8

Still the Neil cover to beat for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS_dmViKZXI

Christ, that's excellent...

A Crazy Horse-backed thing called World Record is now up for preorder.

Young made a cameo on the Broken Record podcast a couple weeks ago. Rick Rubin was interviewing Jack White, and Young wandered in — maybe World Record is what he was doing at Shangra La.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oscgx4g4fDk

maybe World Record is what he was doing at Shangra La.

― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Thursday, September 29, 2022 11:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i saw a press release story, it was recorded there

if you found things to like on colorado and barn, you'll find things to like on World Record — not a late-period masterpiece by any stretch, but it's good! nice overall vibe, good backing vocals, pretty mellow for the most part.

love earth is pretty charming, obviously slight but melodically solid. it's interesting to hear him use crazy horse to do music that would have been more of a stray gators thing years ago.

yeah, and having Nils in Crazy Horse really does change things.

the 15-minute jam "Chevrolet" has some great moments, kind of a more refined version of "Drifting Back" haha ...

they definitely gained some subtlety but i fear they lost that mysterious caveman heavy psych quality that the classic era had

nils is too good!

haha agreed

yeah he might be too accommodating — like, he can do almost anything, whereas Poncho mostly just did that one thing (maybe two things).

Previously uncirculated bootleg of Tonight's The Night-era show shows up at Canadian record store and blows up on TikTok: https://www.thespec.com/entertainment/local/2022/09/29/hamilton-neil-young-mcmaster-1973.html

wow

Where does he keep tape?

don't put it up on tiktok, dude, put it up on DIME

there was a stunt foot man for some scenes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTouMWlq754

That headline from the Hamilton student paper is great: "Disorganized Neil Young."

(Buried in the link.)

https://images.thestar.com/PU6eBF2VoaHOzF2FaIS8qTOluL0=/850x638/smart/filters:cb(1664475261112):format(webp)/https://www.thespec.com/content/dam/thespec/entertainment/local/2022/09/30/hamilton-neil-young-mcmaster-1973/the_silhouette_vol_44_no_8_p6_2_nov_1973.jpg

I don't know, he looks very organized to me.

lol "Nils Lofgren, the leader, looked and acted as though he had taken a double dose of amphetamines before the show, while the other two guitar players appeared to be spaced out on Marijuana."

a really delightful read

lol "Nils Lofgren, the leader, looked and acted as though he had taken a double dose of amphetamines before the show, while the other two guitar players appeared to be spaced out on Marijuana."

"It was very unprofessional - at least to those who had seen the GUESS WHO perform last month, with their closely-knit, well-rehearsed act."

"They had hoped to hear Neil sing numbers from his Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young days."

HOPED-FOR HAMILTON SETLIST:

Helpless
Country Girl
ENCORE - Ohio

A balanced, tour-tight band should include musicians on stimulants, depressants, and hallucinogens of many varieties

XP Don't forget "Sea of Madness"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ5RETXaZOE

^^Clip NSFW (montage of hippie ass near the end)

two things:
1. Rust Bucket Never Sleeps.
2. What about Toast and why did I plumb forget about it and why is no one talking about it here?//

It's tough keeping up with the flood of releases, but Toast is actually good. Not a lost masterpiece, but it's a nice one for discerning fans.

(xposts) Ages ago, when searching for stuff was a fun challenge, "Sea of Madness" was a phantom Neil song for me. I saw it once in the Big Sur film--and I can't remember how I saw that--then spent years wondering if I was remembering correctly.

...and there it was, sitting unloved on the Woodstock soundtrack the whole time.

This would have been early '80s, when I'd seen the Woodstock film but only knew whatever made it onscreen. (Never did buy the soundtrack.)

It's a weird inclusion. They didn't play it at Woodstock; the recording itself was from a Fillmore East show a month later, and was remixed to sound like was recorded outside.

clemenza, Citytv showed Celebration at Big Sur a number of times late at night.

Then I guess that's where I saw it.

(also: Neil Young)

Crazy Horse & @thesonicyouth chilling backstage, 1991 pic.twitter.com/dSo4YLoMEM

— QueenCityJamz (@QueenCityJamz) October 12, 2022

Neil & CH look way more grungy

man that Big Sur movie has one of my all-time favorite concert film moments (right after they play "Sea of Madness", I think) - a hippie starts heckling CSNY about being rich and Still jumps down into the crowd and starts fistfighting him until the terrified crew manages to pull them apart. Then when Stills cools off and is back onstage he's strumming some chords and dopily rambling about peace & love, and says something like "I almost got pulled into a trap there, but luckily I had some friends around me who were able to love me out of it."

xp I love how he still has the Elvis shirt. He may be the old guy in this photo but he looks so young, moreso when I've see the now-much-older Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley at a recent show.

I maintain that, accounting for income, Neil Young and Crazy Horse was the worst-dressed band in rock for many years (I say with affection).

um...you sure about that?

https://i0.wp.com/liveforlivemusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-28-at-3.44.10-PM.png

from about the same tyme as with Youth--here's thee homegrown style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVE7MYBrroQ

He may be the old guy in this photo but he looks so young, moreso when I've see the now-much-older Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley at a recent show.

Neil's only 45 there.