neil young

The recent jam posted on his site might be a taste of the other album, or a tease, but yknow if they tour, they might well kick oot the jams anyway. Don't remember Airplane's studio "High Flyin' Bird," but they did it great on several live sets, ditto another Fred Neil song, "The Other Side Of This Life," esp on Bless Its Pointed Little Head, one of their best albums. Would like to hear Neil do that, or Fred's greatest hit cover, "Everybody's Talkin'."

Wait, "High Flyin' Bird" was written by Billy Edd Wheeler, but goes well w "The Other Side Of This Life."

I don't understand "God Save the Queen". Why not "My Country 'Tis Of Thee"?

I mean, there has to be some mistake. Other than that, I'm looking forward to this more than the other new Neil album.

he's canadian, so...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IloIoGj5Mj0

hmm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=lQzHnDl-QBk

They've borrowed the tune from Venus by Shocking Blue.

subtract the so bad and hated from that clip and i can kind of imagine crazy horse doing a good version of that arrangement.

Yeah, it was a lot better than I thought it was going to be, so who knows?

She'll Be Comin 'Round The Mountain

AWESOME! This song is the effing jam.

Wish he was doing "I've Been Working on the Railroad".

wtf is dave matthews doing at the beginning of that clip???

just doin' that dave matthews thang.

huh that o suzanna is not bad really! but it's not really the song it's just like he wrote a neil young crazy horse song and used the lyrics to the old song

yeah, totally. really, if that is all amped up with distorto guitars and long solos, i can dig it.

what else would a crazy horse album be?

Greendale?

o, yeah. even though greendale is mentioned in all the press for the new one i forget that it was crazy horse.

even though molina and talbot play on it, it still seems weird to call it a crazy horse album.

Without Sampedro (and with Molina using hot rods instead of sticks), it barely feels like Crazy Horse. Good record, though. Definitely prefer it to Living With War.

liner notes
http://www.uncut.co.uk/neil-young-on-his-new-album-americana-news

I'd prefer an album of this stuff to an album of "Greensleeves" variants.

first listen!
http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/wild-mercury-sound/neil-young-crazy-horses-americana-first-listen

An enticing description, but we can't actually listen? Subscribers Only, maybe--?

If by "enticing" you mean "sneaky, deceptive" description. Fuck John R. Mulvey.

oh ha, it's just that dude's first listen. us little people can't listen yet.

Young and Crazy Horse can be simultaneously horny-handed yet elegiac.

hmm

lol yeah that is a weird britisher expression, i think. not meaning that your hands are lookin' for sex, but that you've been out working in the fields or something. the british!

tbf i wouldn't be surprised if neil was horny-handed in the lookin' for sex sense

Well, I was just skimming, squinting, translating from rockcriticese--looks like it's along the lines of whar I'd hoped for (though hopefully not *too* "elegiac," prob meaning moon-eyed warbly; raunch it up, please)

wait, what does horny-handed mean?!

it's when you have sex a bunch but you never wash your hands, and other people can start to smell it

well kudos to them i guess
at least we know what they smell like
still wonder what it sounds like

i just spent a liiiiiitle too long trying to think of a pun involving sex and ears

A wellknown gnome like pop star, angry that Port had spurned his advances one night at the Whisky, had threatened to have her “taken care of.”

quoted from Shakey. Who was the gnome-like pop star?

You might have to narrow that down a little.

At the point I've read to in the book, that's all they give up. I don't expect it will be revisited. Just wondering if anyone had any insight.

Paul Simon? He *is v v small...

Sonny Bono?

the laughing gnome himself?

Paul williams?

there's also the 'captain crunch' anecdote re: someone macking on carrie snodgress later in the book

Yeah, and "Captain Whoopee", who became Neil's "boat buddy", and bled him for $$$$ while looking for a second boat.

I'm gonna light up some Zuma tonight!

Slowly making my way through Shakey. I’m glad to read that Neil shares my opinion of Tell Me Why.

Yeah - who is "captain crunch"?

Ragged Glory on the deck..

I like thinking that S. M. Collier walks around sharing brief anecdotes about late one night at the Whisky in 1972 apropos of nothing in particular.

http://www.collectorsmusicreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/090908050109.jpg

Not looking so much at this bootleg, but the PICTURE! Did not realize he went through a phase in which he basically established the platonic archetype of a Phishhead.

that flying V looks so tiny