neil young

^^^

Rusty Kershaw: Now, Stills will tell you that he named "Doghouse" but that's bullshit. Boy, that fat motherfucker couldn't name his dick if he was standin' on his own balls. Here's what happened: I ain't seen Neil in years, and he suddenly calls me up in 87 to come up to the ranch. First two days go just fine, third night Briggs shows up with a couple grams and a bottle of whisky. Now you ain't gotta guess how long it took us to make that disappear. Next thing you know, we're tearing ass around in this old pickup truck Neil kept around the ranch. Briggs is driving, out of his head. All of a sudden this deer jumps across our path, Briggs swerves and we crash that fucker right into the front porch of the guest house! They hear the noise and come runnin', and boy Pegi is fit to be TIED. Neil asks us what the fuck just happened and Briggs can't stop laughing. I just look at him and say, "Boy, you in the doghouse now" Neil just shakes his head and walks off but he had that look he gets when he's workin' something out in his head...

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DON: We admired Neil. Linda loved Neil. Although we thought his aesthetic was too sloppy, we understood that he was a songwriter with major chops, one of the best. He had competition though. It was a heady time.

GLENN: I'll say it was head-y!

DON: Well, yeah.

Damn, beat me to it...

DON: I really reconnected with Neil in the '80s. We both had signed on with Geffen at around the same time, and were experiencing somewhat similar problems with the company. Sure, he'd gone in for Reagan in a way that left me puzzled, but then again he'd picked up on Danny Kortchmar after hearing him on Building The Perfect Beast, so he wasn't too far gone yet. [laughs]

He'd managed to break away from the label much sooner than I was able to, but we kept in touch. I was deep in the midst of The End of The Innocence sessions when he happened by the studio with some Blue Notes tapes. There was the one track, "Doghouse", that made me think his ordeal with David & Co. had perhaps done a little more damage than previously thought.

GLENN: I was the one who got Neil into fitness. He'd seen my "Living Right" video and realized gettin' in shape was where it was at. I also think I inspired him to utilize horns, as my records were very horn-y at the time, not unlike yours truly!

DON: Well, yeah.

If only for perfectly capturing the feel of L.A., the Eagles are the one band that’s carried on the spirit of the Buffalo Springfield.
— Neil Young ’75

“Sometimes I wonder if we don’t take ourselves too seriously,” Henley muses after hearing the Beatles’ nonsense song “You Know My Name (Look Up My Number)” on his car radio. “Who knows, maybe Art is just a dog on Neil Young’s porch.
-Don Henley '75.

Bluenote Cafe: just finished first spin of Disc 1. The sameness of so many heavy shuffles, despite good touches, turns, and solos (horns and guitar),especially on headphones and high volume, got to me eventually, way before the end. But the more supple "Don't Take Your Love From Me" was lovely, ditto "One Thing," while "Bad News Comes To Down" is perfect, prob "Twilight" too--when he really blends Neiliness with blusiness, rather than basically just tweaking a very familiar and long-winded late-60s-early 70s blooze approach, results awes.

But prob some more of this disc will grow on me (I'd just rather get a live album all at once, like I'd rather get it all at once if I'm at the show).

You haven't even got to "Doghouse" yet...!

It's kind of amazing how flexible "On the Way Home" is, obv the original is great, love the folky version on Massey Hall & as I said upthread the soul version here is great as well

Disc 2 does meld the horns and keys into Neilness more, might be prob is better, seems more consistent for sure, though wouldn't want to be without those 4 that I initially picked on Disc 1, or most of the rest of it probably. Dawghouse!

doghouse
dog....house

http://churchm.ag/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/duck-hunt-dog.jpg

killing it guys xD

http://41.media.tumblr.com/dcb18847fc5f50c182833ca7b30f7aae/tumblr_nynbwsv3Y41qzy30io1_1280.jpg

Neil Young & The Doghouse Boys

Omfg that is amazing
Seems bizarre there are only 2 fedoras in that pic

Is Neil wearing a piano tie?

haha yeah i think so

think poncho has a cartoon dog on his shirt, hard to tell

Sampedro: Yeah, Neil had all these sleeveless cartoon Doghouse shirts made up -- we were all supposed to wear 'em at the photo shoot! Of course, I show up and I'm the only motherfucker who remembered.

who's the sad guy on the far left

"i'm in the dog....house....i guess...nothing really matters [sigh]"

guy on the right in the panama is obv. the band's dealer

Bolas: That dude was mysterious -- no one knew his real name, he just went by "Nobody." So whenever Neil announced that the next song was sponsored "by Nobody" he was actually letting the band know he had snorted a huge rail before the show.

<3

Not to re-rail this beautifully de-railed thread, but wasn't part of the issue with the Blue Notes the struggle to keep everyone in the band from getting too...er, loose before they played? I feel like I read that an interview with Neil a long time ago.

I mean that pic certainly makes them look like they were totally straight edge

I also realize that struggle probably existed with every Neil band

also I'm pretty sure the guy standing right to our left of Neil is James Hetfield in disguise

it's actually Jesse from the Eagles of Death Metal, who built a time machine and travelled back in time to join the band after hearing Doghouse for the first time.

i think that might not be his first priority had he a time machine

Guilty lol.

come on now, my neil young fan-fic is supposed to help me escape from the real world, guys

Keep on fan-fictin' in the free world...

We were reading mother natures fan fiction thread to a new home in the sun.

Lol

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hmm wonder if it embeds...

https://media.giphy.com/media/nQ7dVsB81c8sE/giphy.gif

I'm really hung up on what the hell actually was on Poncho's shirt.

yeah, want to say it's a cartoon dog w/ a backwards baseball cap riding on a barrel? but maybe i'm just seeing what i want to see.

I want such a shirt, also one feat. Carrie Fisher and her French Bulldog Charlie (they'll house you):
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/carrie-fisher-dishes-return-star-wars-35576204

new all-time dream gig:

Neil Young & the Bluetones at the Double Deuce, the bar from Roadhouse w/Patrick Swayze, Jeff Healey could still open for them

http://www.pingeek.com/film/road.jpg

Neil Young & Swayze Horse

Sounds like a good band name for Whiney's post-AnCo thread

Eh, maybe it's a stretch.

John Cameron Swayze Horse, "Timex Not Fade Away":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT9B9EK3BVI

Fair assessment of Bluenote Cafe here (ditto VU Matrix Tapes, by the same writer: Hermes really upping his game, as the kids say[I think]). "'Doghouse' could be a song by Neil's old band mate, Rick James":

Damn, sorry! Here's the link:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/neil-young-bluenote-cafe-20151208

Just found this in a sale bin:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/68film.jpg

Completely forgot about this--I think I was aware of it when it came out (1988). From the case: "A powerfully personal drama about peace and love, race and rage, and a nation coming-of-age as the entire world is coming apart." With Neil as an "enigmatic biker"--really, how could it not be great?

what???? never heard of that

yeah me neither wtf