neil young

Pretty interested in this
Pearl Jam era would be sweet

Wonder if label contracts would allow for a MB20

ok gettin kinda excited about this show

he played "time fades away" over the weekend! guess it was played once in 2008, but that was the only other time since 1973.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeKiP0qoJBg

dude playing bass has a really good vibe, was grinning like a fool during the whole show

those guys do seem to be enjoying themselves... must be something to have neil fucking young lock eyes with you during a solo

Wow, that's far better than I expected. The drummer nails that feel.

Is "Time Fades Away" a concert rarity for Neil?

I love how cheers erupt after the first line.

yeah, a rarity! played a bunch on the time fades away tour of course, but then played only once since (in '08).

haha in a perverse way I almost kinda like the result of Neil throwing his hissy fit and pulling all his stuff from Spotify, because now the sum total of his career is represented by:

Lucky Thirteen
Life
Old Ways
Everybody's Rockin'
Trans

....scattered compilation/guest appearances/movie soundtrack etc tracks

it's kind of awesome. like what a weird thing for kids on spotify who haven't really heard neil young before.

did he pull that stuff before or after Taylor Swift's letter? I noticed the other day cuz I was looking for that Fillmore version of "Cowgirl"

iirc "journey from the past" is on spotify thanks to inherent vice - pretty hilarious if one of the few non-geffen tracks you can hear easily is Time Fades Away

from Time Fades Away, i mean

that "journey" is the harvest outtake (not the one from Time Fades Away) but yeah, pretty funny.
all part of neil's master plan.
also part of the master plan -- posting lo-res images on his instagram account to promote hi-res audio
https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xfa1/t51.2885-15/e35/12093674_180447815626826_1927688286_n.jpg

btw there was a PONO booth at the show, along with other tables as part of the "Eco Village" or whatever it was called. I did not engage them, time was short.

Missed Saturday's show due to combination of baby, relatives in town by surprise, and tix costing $$. I could hear Scorpions extremely well from home as I tried to sleep on a Tuesday, but of course Neil was inaudible on a Saturday night.

gah that video is awesome

hope Neil re-embraces contraraianism and plays all of Life.

"we're doin' the spotify set tonight!!!" ***hits opening chords of "kinda fonda wanda"**** ***crowd goes wild****

THAT'S WHY WE DON'T WANNA BE STREAMED
NO NO NO

"you caught a stream trilogy show? neil was really fucked up during that period because his music was being streamed, and then he pulled it when he found out."

Anybody heard the shows excerpted on Bluenote Café? Thinking of pre-ordering the 2-CD.

i've heard the poplar estates one and an audience tape of one of the fillmore shows... and something else, I forget. all very fun, i'm really looking forward to this. and lest you think it's all gonna be sax-ed out...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhfLpOI1Z90

*sigh*...it's Poplar CREEK in Hoffman Estates.

haha my bad. do the bands actually have to play in the creek? seems dangerous.

ha, sorry, no, I think it's just a name, like the name developers would give to a gated development. I don't think there's a creek within 75 miles of the place.

Saw a few shows there -- Yes in 1984 (worst concert I ever saw), Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers in 1985 or 86, and the Kinks in 1993 (their last Chicago-area show). Typical suburban shed with better-than-average acoustics. I do remember, though, the huge cheer that went up when a local DJ at the Yes concert announced Neil as an upcoming show.

Thanks for the vid and info! Lyrics take some uniquely Neilian turns, drums pounding straight ahead like they
re good for you (suggestion of received "Watchtower" portent in ominous chords, redeemed by guitar singin' that riff as refrain). Yeah, it'll prob be pre-ordered as Xmas gift, for my cousin, who is much younger, but still likes the old ways (I may have over-gifted him with the Dead and Neil in recent years' they've been so damn prolific). Rip then give: 'tis the seasonal custom.

Santa Barbara and Las Vegas shows are up on Dimeadozen now... Santa Barbara's encore was a 14-minute version of "Fuckin' Up"!!!

well Neil was very Neil on Saturday in Berkeley. opened with a solo set (After the Gold Rush, Helpless, Old Man, Mother Earth on pump organ), then some guys in hazmat suits came out and sprayed the stage with steam, the band came out and they did a bunch of biggies. Early on Neil switched to that giant hollow-body Gibson for a couple songs (Hold Back the Tears and Alabama iirc). Then he ran into some tuning problems with that, switched to piano and did "Are You Ready for the Country", which was p great. Then he switched to old black and it was time for all the new material, interspersed with like a half hour version of Down by the River and they let Lucas do a Willie song, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, and ended with like a half hour Love and Only Love. In between all that somewhere Neil took some time out to throw seeds at the audience from a wicker picnic basket, and "farmers" moved through the crowd passing out organic seed packets (which Neil emphasized was currently a crime in the state of California). Also during Love and Only Love at one point Neil did a little dance with a potted flower plant. The band is great, they can do all the different "styles" of Neil material very well and their overall sound complements him very well. Neil's voice is in pretty good shape, although he's lost a little of his upper register.

All in all a good time, glad I went, but a bit bummed we didn't get any weird deep cuts (wife and I were holding out hope for something from Trans or at least Comes a Time or On the Beach, instead we got 2/3rds of Harvest).

also no encore. I'm sure that's the venue's fault tho.

Dudes
https://twitter.com/Neilyoung/status/665701648828764161y

"Sorry, that page doesn't exist" :(

Remove the 'y'

Oops!
Anyway it's a photo of the Roxy marquee from saying "Welcome to Miami Beach, Everything is Cheaper Than It Looks" suggesting either Neil is being weird or hinting at a release of the legendary Santa Monica Flyers Tonight's the Night tour

Oh cool. Ws thinking he'd made some offensive/weird remark and it'd been deleted

would be cool if it was a hint of some kind...
the 20 minute bluenotes tonight's the night on the latest performance series is unreal.

Just grabbed that - gonna check it out tomorrow on the morning train.

would be cool if it was a hint of some kind...
the 20 minute bluenotes tonight's the night on the latest performance series is unreal.

― tylerw, Sunday, November 15, 2015 3:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so the set is cool? worth buying?

totally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP5PwNUi11I

listening now, sounds great!

so weird neil's my fav of all time and i'm kinda hating to give him money now cuz he's such a prick w/his vinyl prices and spotify shit

his CDs are still reasonably priced :D
forgot about his spotify stance, still hilarious the albums of his that are available there...

yeah i get his CDs, there is literally no artists i've given more money but post pono i just get a little tired of his shit, cuz i really want to buy the vinyl

it is pretty insane -- $90 for a four LP set! for some reason i thought this bluenote release was slightly cheaper than usual. what kind of nut buys these?
http://www.amazon.com/Bluenote-Caf-4LP-Neil-Young/dp/B016ACSYW2/ref=sr_1_1_twi_lp__3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1447774265&sr=1-1&keywords=neil+young+bluenote+cafe

Maybe because the pressing plant is in Germany, amazon.de has it for way cheaper (less than $50 shipped to the US). Still a lot of bread, but $50 for 4LPs sounds not-completely-unreasonable.
http://www.amazon.de/Bluenote-Caf%C3%A9-Vinyl-Young-Neil/dp/B016ACSYW2/ref=sr_1_2_twi_lp__1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1447774594&sr=1-2&keywords=neil+young+bluenote+cafe

yeah that is still too rich for my blood, but not insane.
i was just listening to that fillmore east performance series and thinking it would be cool to have on LP ... guess that one (just one LP) is only slightly crazy in terms of price -- $30 on discogs anyway. http://www.discogs.com/sell/release/3765182?ev=rb

There's a copy for $15.95
http://www.discogs.com/Neil-Young-Crazy-Horse-Live-At-The-Fillmore-East/release/5789203

so there is! didn't see that. i would buy neil's records on vinyl if they cost $16 for sure.

of course now, i'm flipping through discogs, thinking about buying this
http://cdn.discogs.com/FG_BrD7EzpP-ZONI1SiglPmnt4o=/fit-in/600x524/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-718255-1151502309.jpeg.jpg