neil young

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

Was going to say, second banana to a fake Neil Young is kinda ouch.

Also, whose voice has held up the best? C, S, N or Fallon's?

Pretty sure they prefer that to being second banana to real Neil Young.

ha!

LOL the idea of Young trolling these guys even when he's not there

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

Hey, they've got a box set to push.

so i guess he will cancel the show in Israel now

Nash sounds amazing in that clip but my money'd still be on David Crosby, whose feel for harmony is just incredible

idk though I'm spotifying that new Crosby record - the harmonies are solid but he's double-tracking the lead lines so he may be losing volume

i kinda dug how unfashionable that new crosby record was, there were some good songs on it

6.Separate Ways

SOMEDAY LOVE WILL FIND YOU

I saw CSN this past weekend and they sounded pretty rough at times. I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt and blame the volume or their monitors or whatever but they struggled through "Guinnevere" with just one acoustic guitar for accompaniment (which Crosby seemed to be having difficulty playing). :(

(xposts)

Also, Crosby really does not appreciate it when people yell requests for Neil's songs, fyi.

i kinda dug how unfashionable that new crosby record was, there were some good songs on it

yeah it's pretty remarkable - the playing is predictably great, the songs are really earnest but also dark and personal - kinda Mould-y really in the way he's wrestling with his own thoughts in the lines imo. the production is uninspired but that transparent style is basically the best you can hope for from vintage dudes it seems, generally - still this is a diggable record of good playing, nicely written slow tunes..."unfashionable" is right, this will win over exactly no-one, but it seems to come from a really sincere place