neil young

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

dude he is a giant, he wrote a song and everything

Happy 67th, old man. Been playing this for the students all day (skipping over "Southern Man"):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpNdiXLBDC4

3 out of 8 songs in Time Fades Away mention Canada: "back in canada i spent my days", "Now I'm goin' back to Canada", "When we got to Winnipeg"

I wonder if this is Neil's highest Canada ratio

Good call. I'm trying to think of others: "Helpless," "Ambulance Blues," "Born in Ontario" on the new album...must be forgetting a few.

“You took that guitar and you put it in your arm, Bruce."

Oh man, a google image search for "Cowgirl in the Sand" results in some horrific, horrific fucking garbage.

Anyone got a copy of the Liverpool show from '73? My best googling has only yielded broken links.

Try here

Sorry, that's Manchester '73. I've only ever heard the Manchester and London shows from that tour.

Oh wait - I have the Toronto show too.

Just curious--where did he play Toronto in '73? Was it Massey Hall or somewhere bigger?

my info says Maple Leaf Gardens. May not be correct.

yeah he played there on the time fades away tour, i think, not on the later tonight's the night tour. don't think i've heard the liverpool show, just the manchester and london gigs.

and there's a queens college tonight's the night show that would be amazing if the sound quality wasn't awful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3z09VRZ6to&feature=plcp

aw, nice clip. also, insaaaaane model railroad setup. don't know if i've ever actually seen it before.
on the less warm n fuzzy side
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdrhourlTY1rrchtqo1_400.jpg
the 70s!

Love that clip with Neil and his son and the trains. Very cool

They are communicating on a different plane, not by the means you or I might use. I have some friends with kids who have disabilities, and even though it may be a challenge, they would not change a thing.

aw, nice clip. also, insaaaaane model railroad setup. don't know if i've ever actually seen it before.

I think that's actually bigger than the model train set at the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry (which is massive).

Always weird to see Neil not playing Old Black

http://sugarmtn.org/instruments/gretsch_6120/gretsch_6120_1985_2.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2701/4088494197_08f48e7d1a_o.jpg

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRFFV7B386WeoRGrKhZsj0M-jsQ1-9jKp8WRPF9qaWMtvIFxp2s7w

Believe the Gretsch precedes Old Black by several years.

Yeah, he had that back in the Buffalo Springfield days, right? What an awesome-looking guitar that is. Like the pristine flipside to grizzled, battered Old Black.

Yeah, I guess I meant it's weird seeing Neil with a Fender.

That's for sure. Sort of like seeing Springsteen with anything but a Fender.

The strat pic is the weirdest to me. He looks genuinely unhappy to be holding it.

On the other hand, I really love jimmy page's brief telecaster phase

Not that brief! First two albums and bits of the rest ("Stairway to Heaven" solo, etc.). I think he got the Tele from ... Jeff Beck? I believe Beck was playing a Tele around that time, too, but of course embraced the Strat. Page had his own brief Strat phase at the end. Did Neil play a Strat c. the Shocking Pinks?

Page looks cool in any guitar, but the strat is hard to pull off