neil young

i will never learn the ilm html tags...

weird

it was the only American-based band to approach the overall societal impact of the Beatles

In their time their American album sales were HUGE. Their cultural cachet was such that their public greeted "Ohio" as a major statement. I'm wary of statements like AllMusic's, but the Shakey bio also makes the same suggestion.

CSNY were huge because the Byrds, the Hollies, and the Buffalo Springfield had all been huge before.

Dead Man = Neil's best electric work?

look at the bill for this thing
http://www.vancouver2010.com/more-2010-information/cultural-festivals-and-events/event-listings/hal-willner's-neil-young-project-_70660zv.html

I'm assuming thats a different Chris Brown, otherwise o_O

yeah, probably?
a mix of eh, cool! and whaaaa?
Sam Beam of Iron & Wine
Chris Brown
Vashti Bunyan
Robert Burger
Brendan Canning
Fred Cash
Jason Collett
Julie Doiron
Kevin Drew
Sam Goldberg
Shahzad Ismaily
Eric Mingus
Sun Kil Moon
Jenni Muldaur
Ambrosia Parsley
Justin Peroff
Ben Perowsky
Joan as Policewoman
Elizabeth Powell
Bill Priddle
Lou Reed
Alasdair Roberts
Ron Sexsmith
Teddy Thompson
James Blood Ulmer
Andrew Whiteman
Doug Wieselman

hoping for a mingus/blood ulmer/reed jam on down by the river

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j//msnbc/Components/Video/071107/tdy_chrisbrown_song3_071107.vmodv4.jpg

A MAAAAAAAAAID

Yeah, some good names on there and some wtf ones as well. I scanned it quickly the first time and saw "Bill Priddle" as "Mark Prindle".

http://celeb.wohoo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/chris-brown.jpg
can i get a heart of gooooold?

IT'S THE WOMAN IN YOU THAT MAKES YOU WANNA PLAY THIS GAAAAAME!

TAKE IT, ULMER!

haha

wish they would substitute teddy thompson for richard thompson

Neil Young and Bert Jansch, May 24 at DAR Constitution Hall ($83.50-$193.50)

Don't think I want to spend that much to see him on this solo tour.

great bill tho

man i would love to see bert jansch

Neil has always been at the vanguard of steep ticket prices.

geez that is a ridiculous ticket price

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8nveweVvh0

there is a single $248 seat available at the worcester mass show

thank god I have plans that night

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+++.

https://i.postimg.cc/RZHqH6qD/rejected.jpg

Rejected by Neil--now I know how David Crosby felt.

“Funny how some things that start spontaneously end that way. Eat a peach. Love Neil.”

I caught Neil’s Hyde Park London show on Friday…Very much agree with Willem above. I was in a bad mood for the show because of terrible work issues that were causing repetitive intrusive thoughts…But the show charmed me and I was completely drawn into it - and even felt the emotional power of the songs.

(xpost) They really ought to replace "Your credit card on file has been declined" with that!