neil young

i didn't go see neil the last time he was in town because tix were $100 bucks ... i had just bought the archives so I had blown my neil budget for the year, really.

I missed this poll. I realize that there's no accounting for personal taste, but I do find it unsettling that somebody counts Everybody's Rockin' as his/her favourite Neil Young album.

The cheap seats here in Houston are $69 w/service charge. The big problem though is it's a frontgate event and they don't have outlets in town, so you have to either go to the venue (Jones Hall) or purchase online. According to the seating chart, I've got a nice balcony seat.

Not that I'd have voted for it but shocked that Freedom pulled a zero on this one too, esp with Trans pulling in two votes.

ha, didn't even look at these results ... they are a little ridiculous, but what the heck. (Only 1 vote for Zuma?)

Yeah, those too. Everybody's Rockin'-1 and Old Ways-3, and, at the other end, Zuma-1 and Freedom-0--these are all very puzzling. Everything else, even albums I dislike (Trans) or consider overrated (On the Beach), more or less makes sense.

only one vote for harvest 'makes sense'?!

I would say so, yes. I think most people who are going to take the time to vote in a Neil Young poll would choose something else as their favourite. If, on the other hand, you surveyed 100 random music fans, undoubtedly it finishes first.

yeah, i wouldn't vote for harvest as my fave neil young album ... not sure what i'd vote.

You'd think with an environment as committed to scientific results and objectivity as ILM that the poll results would make SOME KIND of SENSE!!

Point taken, sure--but all of that aside, I still find it hard to believe that there's someone who a) cares enough about Neil Young to click on this thread and cast a vote, and b) counts Everybody's Rockin' as his greatest album. It's just funny-weird.

Or maybe it was just meant as a joke, and all my puzzlement is the punch line.

being someone who voted for popeye in the robert altman poll, I get it

and yeah the poll results are wacky but almost a third of all votes went to ditch trilogy releases which is:

a) about right from a macro-career perspective
b) unsurprising for ILM
c) frighteningly consistent with the results of this poll: Best of Neil Young studio records

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a6A6oTFdcw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39VjfTW0Xys&feature=related

Next Young wanted to release Old Ways, a country record he cut in a two-day Nashville session. He felt it was a strong, commercial work, part of a series that included After the Gold Rush and Comes A Time. Geffen felt differently. They rejected it.

"They said it scared them," says Young. "They wanted more rock and roll. Okay, fine. I'll give ya some rock and roll. I almost vindictively gave them Everybody's Rockin'." He greased back his hair, put on shades, and went out on the road with a '50s-styled band called the Shocking Pinks. "I got way into that guy," says Young. "I was that guy for months. He was out there. It was a movie to me. Nobody saw it but me, but who gives a shit."

that Wonderin' video is hilarious

Let me add: "Wonderin'" is fantastic (song and video). I always counted it as Everybody's Rockin''s one reason for being. Discovering, via Archives and Fillmore East, that's it's been around forever was a surprise. And now Everybody's Rockin' may have lost its one reason for being.

yeah, "wonderin'" is a pretty perfect little tune.

<3

anyone catch the neil young trunk show? i feel like that entire set was him working through relationship issues! the shot of the autistic kids. gorgeous "oh lonesome me" and "mellow my mind" on the side. i think i voted 'dead man' in this but with spring and such i'd go with zuma atm.

as a middle finger to the record company it's classic neil tho

like an 80s version of heading for the ditch

xxp

I'm going to the first show of this tour on the 18th- can't wait. I even splurged for the expensive seats! The one other time I saw Young was with Crazy Horse at the end of the Horde Fest in '97 and I wasn't nearly as big a fan as I am now, not to mention I was like a mile from the stage and exhausted from a long day of boozing...

Just back from the Houston gig. Fantastic show of course. He busted out old black and a white gretsch for extended electric segments, included a version of "Hitchhiker"! He did a bunch of new songs that have a weird religous bent. I'll imagine they'll sound pretty interesting once Lanois gets done with 'em.

Saddest thing: no real "ditch trilogy" numbers.

oh fuck, I kinda forgot about Neil!! I was trying to look at the dates in Nashville or Austin for maybe a quick vacation... totally forgot about them as I got caught up in work plus have been spending mad money lately anyway. Wait, Ticketbastard is showing a new date now? July 19th ( a Monday?), may need to try to make that one happen. Probably no Bert Jansch tho? No matter, I can see Bert here in Chicago before he plays the Eric Clapton 'Crossroads' festival the next day....

Roomfull, did you see Bert too? how was he?

oh ,forgot to post.. that July 19th is in Portland .. even better reason...

some him last week, it was really good. i loved the way he built from the acoustic openers up to crazy howling electric stuff. it was much more of a rock show than i expected. "cortez" was A+++.

Suprising to see Time Fade Away, part one of the Ditch Trilogy, getting so much less love than On the Beach and Tonight's the Night.

i'm think maybe a buncha people haven't heard time fades away, since it's barely ever been released on cd. seems more forgotten about by the general public than TtN and OtB, to me

That's true. It still hasn't received a proper release on cd. Probably never will in Neil's lifetime. I grabbed a digital copy of the internet, which is better (or no worse) than giving money to bootleggers for a pirated vinyl transfer to a cdr.

I mean the digital copies on the internet are obviously vinyl rips as well.

there's an hdcd rip out there too - it was prepped for release at some point in the 90s and pulled at the last minute.

Yeah, I read that on the wikipedia page after I posted my comment. They went as far as pressing test cds back in the Nineties. I'll have relisten to my copy on headphones to see if I can tell it's source. It boggles the mind as to why they just don't go ahead and release the thing at this point.

Roomfull, did you see Bert too? how was he?

Jansch was very good. Like most of the audience, I'm not really familiar w/his stuff, but enjoyed what I heard. He did "Black Water Side". He talked a little with the audience and at the end thanked us for not throwing anything at him.

super cool that neil is bringing jansch on tour ... hopefully the audiences are respectful. guess neil and bert aren't playing any songs together though? that'd be interesting.

Neil at the Fox Theater in Oakland=hooray! Tix $90-$200=fuck that. I know Neil loves his big ticket prices, but seriously for 2 people I could get a fucking subscription to the opera for that rate.

ha, i know -- was sort of afraid that he'd schedule a date in my neck of the woods and then i'd have to freak out about whether i could actually afford it. but he hasn't scheduled one yet. amazing that people pay so much for tix to these shows -- i'm a HUGE fan, but I have trouble spending more than $50 for any concert.

yeah i'm kind of realizing i might never see him again because of ticket prices

now you're depressing me ...

$50 + surcharge is as high as I will go for rock n roll.

Sleeps With Angels is way too high. And Freedom is way too low.

― kornrulez6969, Thursday, June 21, 2007 9:18 AM (2 years ago)

Funny news from the merch table: They were selling copies of the Archives BluRay box for $250.

such a bummer

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/09/BAAQ1G9C6V.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea

yeha, brutal. this will probably set archives vol. 2 back at least three decades.

none of the archives stuff was in this warehouse fwiw

well, for purely selfish reasons, i'm glad! hope nothing totally irreplaceable was lost.

"Yeah, I'd like to declare 3 cars, 20 guitars...a whole lot of posters and stuff...and, uh, all the masters of Times Fades Away, yeah, every damn copy I had...that's the ticket..."

here's the official word:

1-despite the damage, most everything of real value survived.
2-the archives are safe and not there.
3-some video and film was onsite and is ok.
4- Lincvolt was parked over night there and did not fare well in the fire.
5-no precious guitars were on site.
6- I foresee a yard sale in our future and imagine that you will hear abut it
thru me or other official channels.
7- everyone is ok

Happy 65th!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY4U--ACpsE