neil young

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?

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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.

So he is the old guy in the photo, but he and the other CH guys weren't _that_ old. FWIW, everybody in Sonic Youth are looking like 8-10 years younger than Neil & co.

looking

Neil is like 7 years older than Kim Gordon.

Yeah, and Kim actually knew and was friends with Bruce Berry in the early '70s.

Yeah, and Kim actually knew and was friends with Bruce Berry in the early '70s.

whoa, really? that's a sweet piece of trivia. bookmarking the "neil young" thread delivers _again_

yeah say what????

truth rating: ZERO Pinnochios

It’s not an especially chatty book; there aren’t long recreated conversations. But every subject is handled with careful introspection, detail and real feeling. We’re in Gordon’s head as she figures out the world around her. There’s an early Sly Stone song called “Plastic Jim” where he describes a phony poser: “Plastic Jim / Will give you a conversation / To avoid a situation / That needs contemplation.” There’s no plastic here. Even when the material verges on Forrest Gump territory, full of celebrity cameos — during one short stretch in the late ’60s and early ’70s, she’s dating Danny Elfman in high school, then hanging out with Bruce Berry, the roadie whose overdose inspired Neil Young to write “Tonight’s the Night” — it never feels forced or showy. She’s clear on how the people around served her as artistic inspirations, sparking her ideas and giving her the confidence to ­express herself.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/books/review/kim-gordons-girl-in-a-band.html

sorry, to be clear: a Truth Rating of Zero Pinnochios is equivalent to a 100% truth factor

lol that took me a minute to figure out

there are all sorts of truth systems

ZERO PINOCCHIOS WITH THEIR PANTS ON FIRE!

it's very simple. there are 4 pinnochios with very long noses. But none of their pants are on fire, so

there are four pinocchios but none of them got no t bone

Pinocchio, Marlon Brando, and me

(pretend I got that order right)

(pretend I got that order right)

50th anniversary 'Harvest' box set just announced.

will it be released before or after Ragged Glory II/Smell The Horse ?

That looks like the late Joe Cole in the NY/SY twitter photo.

Eldorado cost me $25 at the time. I've always been fascinated by the choice of formats it was available in. CD-only in Japan (makes sense), vinyl-only in Australia (WTF? OK, Neil).

― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, March 17, 2021 3:20 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

shakey's selling his El Dorado represses at a bargain then!

I just got this used for only $10. (The new CD re-issue seems to have substantially deflated the market value of that original CD pressing.)

I stumbled on my CD copy about 5 or 6 years ago for $18, which I thought was a huge bargain. That said, I'm glad it's in circulation again, it's a killer EP.

I only wish Neil would release the original version of "Box Car" - that's the only Times Square track that hasn't been properly released.

FWIW, here's the disc I made based on a Japanese bootleg of that rough-sounding acetate. I pieced it together from official sources, but I also made two changes for my own listening preferences - I subbed in the electric version of "Crime in the City" from Bluenote Café (the definitive version of that song IMHO - "I got thrown out of Bible school / For givin' a finger to the preacher") and also replaced "Someday" with "No More." I never understood why Neil included "Someday" - he perversely derided it as one of his Perry Como tracks even before it was released.

1. El Dorado
2. No More
3. Crime In The City (Sixty To Zero) - live, electric 1988 version
4. Box Car
5. Don't Cry - unedited version from the El Dorado EP
6. Heavy Love
7. Wrecking Ball
8. Cocaine Eyes
9. On Broadway

Bonus tracks:

10. Rockin' In The Free World - from the Saturday Night Live: 25 Years of Music DVD
11. Needle And The Damage Done - from the 1989 Saturday Night Live broadcast
12. No More - from SNL25: Saturday Night Live, The Musical Performances, Volume 2

Yeah, that's a strong (and dark!) album there — though I do have a soft spot for "Someday" ... At some point Neil put up a "sneak preview" of "Fuckin' Up" recorded with the SNL 89 band (I think) that would fit right in there, too.

I know - even without my tweaks, I always thought Times Square was like THE album to showcase the appropriately named "Old Black." I'll have to find that preview of "Fuckin' Up" - I'm still waiting for him to follow through on that promise to put those sessions out in their entirety.

still waiting for him to follow through on that promise

honestly, this could be appended to the thread title

I too dig "Someday." I wasn't crazy about it at first; the tinkly arrangement grated initially, but I soon realized it was perfect for the bleakness of the third verse.

yeah, that verse is incredible — "smog might turn to stars ..." kind of brutal.

tyler, apologies if I've already missed it, but will you be reviewing World Record anywhere?

not a review, but I just interviewed Billy Talbot yesterday! I'm slowly working my way up to Neil, haha. Should be up on Aquarium Drunkard towards the end of the month.

nice

still waiting for him to follow through on that promise

Neil Young & Promise of the Release

I prefer that touring lineup over BDSM & Young

^^50 Shades of Neil