neil young

"early 2014 launch of Pono" is Neil-speak for "right after Archives 2 comes out"

i'm not even joking archives is gonna be a fucking pre-loaded Pono mark my words :(

lolling @ Neil writing "And be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter for the latest information."

haha esp cuz he was such an asshole on his twitter thing

Neil's LincVolt broke down, and he was stranded in the desert.

do people know about this curio? it's pure canadian cheese, but kind of .. errr ... affecting? margo timmins of the cowboy junkies doesn't get to come to the video shoot proper, but gets to sing backup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7ewuZS49aE

Here's the heavier version, still cheesy, but I think this performance better suits the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVgjD8wdNzo

aw that's sweet

in shakey it sounds like everyone worshipped bachman back in the garage days

My guitar teacher told me that wherever Randy grew up, there was literally one guitar teacher, this jazz cat with serious chops, so apparently Bachman got really technically good really fast, and was the only young guitarist around with any real skills. Which of course he applied to BTO.

Lenny Breau is the dude your guitar teacher was talking about. He's kind of a tragic figure in the 60s Canadian jazz scene, and pretty awesome actually. Bachman definitely could've learned from worse. And then, yeah, BTO was the result, I guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=limCRMZD1Ec

while we wonder what neil is going to do for his carnegie hall appearances this week ... this shot showed up on Matt Sweeney's instagram over the weekend
http://distilleryimage10.ak.instagram.com/848e307675aa11e3bcb212887d20911a_8.jpg
is neil going to be jamming w/ endless boogie?!

Or just "Like a Hurricane."

matt sweeney's fascinating life continues. right before neil he was jamming with group doueh in the sahara

haha, i know, he seems to have life figured out

Pump organ "Mr. Soul"!

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

Don't recall Neil being in the middle of a political controversy here--a couple of times in the States, but not here, I don't think.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/neil-young-blasts-oilsands-expansion-launches-fundraising-tour-1.2493638

From Neil's fb today:

Stew
15/01/14

The Chief’s making stew in the crock pot on the bus. Smells fantastic. We’re rolling west after a night of cold clean air and good sleep in Thunder Bay. Nobody’s tired, nobody’s complaining, no downers on this ride – there is a lot of love in the camp. That’s what happens when music and cause come together.

It confuses me to hear people shouting at us that musicians should just shut up and entertain. Where the hell did that lame-ass idea come from? Music was, is and always will be about social condition and cause and change. Music speaks for the oppressed and downtrodden. Music launches revolution. Woody Guthrie and Hank Williams and Bob Dylan and Joan Baez and Johnny Cash and Joni Mitchell and Willie Nelson and John Lennon and Eddie Vedder and Neil Young and all the giants of the art know this. What the fuck kind of
music and musicians are these boneheads actually listening to?

Just wonderin’.
Onward
The Passenger

Is that about the pipeline? I know somebody in Canada who I think was protesting that

Eddie Vedder, giant of the art

It's signed The Passenger, and I thought that was iggy

It's more about the oil sands, and honouring treaties regarding land use consultation with the native population in the area of the oil sands and the proposed BC pipeline.

If you're interested, you can watch him here:

http://www.straight.com/blogra/564946/video-neil-young-condemns-oil-sands-developments-comparing-their-effects-hiroshima

My class is actually in the middle of a Native unit right now, so I played a few minutes of that for them.

He's being interviewed on The National tonight.

A+ username, crypto.

Thanks! :-)

Billy Talbot has suffered a mild stroke, and won't be playing the European dates with Crazy Horse.

:(
i got a ticket for neil and crazy horse for july 10

I'm sure they'll still be amazing! the bassist from the CSNY tours is covering for Billy.

Rosas has been playing with Neil, in the studio and on stage, for years.

Yeah, he was on the Buffalo Springfield tours too.

oof, reminder that these guys are not getting any younger. rosas will be fine, i'm sure, but kind of wild that these will be the first crazy horse shows w/o talbot ... ever?

hmm
The Crazy Horse line-up will also be enhanced by backing vocalists, Dorene Carter and YaDonna West, best known for their memorable work with their own group Mahogany Blue.

Billy was a big part (well, half) of CH's backing vocals, so it kind of makes sense to bring additional singers.

i was wondering if they were in place before all of this went down, and maybe there's some new material about to be debuted.

Though Talbot's doctors expect him to make a full recovery, they have advised Talbot to sit this tour out and recover his strength.

i liked the backing vocals on the road rock vol 1 lp, maybe the backing singers here will be in that vein?

yeah, i mean, he's had his wife and others doing backup vocals on various tours, so this might not really be significant news. i've just been wondering what the sets will be like, since the last CH tour kicked off with a bunch of surprise new tunes.

WTF. Last time one of them (Sampedro?) hurt his finger or something and a whole run of shows were cancelled. At the time NY said this bloke couldn't be replaced and so the show couldn't go on. Obviously this doesn't apply to Talbot?

bass is only four strings

canceling 2 euro tours in a row might've been even too much for neil.

Since this is today's revived Neil thread, here's where I'll pass along the news that he's on Jerry Lee Lewis's Rock and Roll Time, out Oct. 28:
5. BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY (with Neil Young and Ivan Neville)

Also on Chrissie Hynde's new album, which I hope to check d'rectly.

Setlist from last night in Reykjavik looks pretty exciting. A little bummed that most of Psychedelic Pill has been set aside, but whatever.

1.Love And Only Love
2.Goin' Home
3.Days That Used To Be
4.Don't Cry No Tears
5.Love To Burn
6.Separate Ways
7.Only Love Can Break Your Heart
8.Blowin' In The Wind
9.Heart Of Gold
10.Barstool Blues
11.Psychedelic Pill
12.Who's Gonna Stand Up And Save The Earth?
13.Rockin' In The Free World
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14.Like A Hurricane

Who's Gonna Stand Up And Save The Earth? is a brand new song.

The first thing I did when I saw the setlist was look and see if anyone had posted a video of that song, but nothing so far.

pretty cool set -- don't know when the last time he played "separate ways" was. love that song. and "goin home" definitely deserves to be in regular rotation (which is more than I can say about most 21st century neil songs).

figured this bump would be for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ortY6H5jkEw#t=118

Good to see that Jimmy Fallon isn't running that gag into the ground.

good to see that c, s and n still don't mind being 2nd, 3rd and 4th bananas even when y isn't around.

lol