neil young

oh yeah, that was the most interesting part of the Q&A -- I had a boarding house release pegged for a future performance series release ... the bootlegs are great (though not great sound quality). typical that we are watching an elaborate roll out of freaking Human Highway but the "tonal qualities" of the Boarding House recordings aren't up to snuff, haha.
also interesting thing i noticed as the credits rolled -- Harp: Dorothy Ashby

Yeah, the movie would have been way better if it was just about Neil playing a show, and then getting thrown around at a Devo concert afterwards. (Seriously, that '78 Devo show appears to smoke righteously.)

yessss! totally agree.

"It's like a live show, but it's not like a live show. Imagine it's a live show where the audience is full of every living thing on earth — all of the animals and insects and amphibians and birds and everybody — we're all represented. And also they overtake the music once in a while and play the instruments. It's not conventional ... but it is based on live performance."

hmm yeah. don't know what he's talking about but i guess it sounds like it could be cool. too long for itunes! finally getting around those pesky itunes time limits...

"In critical other ways, it's like nothing that I've done," Young said. "It's more like a giant radio show. It has no stops. The songs are too long for iTunes, thank God, so they won't be on iTunes. I'm making it available in the formats that can handle it.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-talks-effortless-new-lp-with-promise-of-the-real-20160302#ixzz41mKh8FGh

The songs are too long for iTunes, thank God, so they won't be on iTunes. I'm making it available in the formats that can handle it.

Curious what this means, given that you can get, for example, Miles Davis's Pangaea (one 42-minute track, one 47-minute track) on iTunes.

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He had no qualms about splitting "Driftin' Back" into two parts for vinyl.

guys he's neil young, if he says it's too long for itunes, it's too long for itunes

true

"we had some of the best guys over at apple look into it, and they came back and said there was nothing they could do. innaresting."

I know there's some rule about iTunes singles having to be shorter than 10 minutes; David Bowie ran into that w/ Blackstar (and shortened it as a result) iirc. Maybe that's what he means?

That's possible; the Davis tracks are labeled "Album Only."

i love u neil you crazydog, doghouse freak

"I want to put out a 40 minute single that's got all the animals and insects and plant life on Earth playing on it at the same time and Apple says that's crazy!!!"

^^That sounds like that unsubmitted "New Age" album he did for Geffen that's briefly touched on in Shakey.

would love to hear that one, i think sampedro referred to it as "the sound of crickets farting"

hey, here's my report from Monday! http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1043-watching-neil-young-movies-with-the-aarp/

man that devo clip is so nuts

latest from neil, sounds pono-tastic!
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look forward to the songs on the album performed by insects

#PONObalancedmode

Here's the full announcement:

Neil Young will release a new album, entitled EARTH, on June 17th via Reprise Records. The album features performances of songs from a range of Young's albums, including last year's The Monsanto Years, 1990's Ragged Glory, and 1970's After the Gold Rush. The audio was captured during Young's 2015 tour with The Promise of the Real, fronted by Lukas Nelson (vocals/guitar) and Micah Nelson (guitar, vocals) - Willie Nelson's sons. The tour included Young performing solo and with the band for a full electric show.

A new take on some of Young's most beloved songs, EARTH features the live recordings, along with added musical overdubs, as well as sounds of the earth, such as city sounds like car horns, sounds of insects, and animal sounds from bears, birds, crickets, bees, horses, cows - creating a very strange, yet beautiful atmosphere.

"Ninety-eight uninterrupted minutes long, EARTH flows as a collection of 13 songs from throughout my life, songs I have written about living here on our planet together," says Young. "Our animal kingdom is well represented in the audience as well, and the animals, insects, birds, and mammals actually take over the performances of the songs at times."

On Friday, May 6th, in Los Angeles between 7:00pm - 9:00pm, The Natural History Museum Los Angeles County will present "An Evening With Neil Young", as part of their "First Fridays" event series. "First Fridays" is a monthly event at the Natural History Museum that includes live music, DJ sets, and scientific discussions/presentations. For this event, Young will present the first public playback of his upcoming release, EARTH in its entirety in Pono high definition fidelity audio. Young will deliver the opening portion of the program with his insights and explanation of the making of EARTH, and its contents. This will be the first-ever public album preview by Young in his career and the first event of its kind for NHM. For tickets and further details, go to: "First Fridays".

Coming out one week prior on June 10th are two rare films - the critically acclaimed post-apocalyptic musical comedy Human Highway and the concert feature Rust Never Sleeps- for the first time on DVD and Blu Ray via Reprise Records. Neither film has been available or viewed in years. Human Highway is Young's 1982 comedy starring Russ Tamblyn, Charlotte Stewart, Dean Stockwell, Dennis Hopper, and Devo, which has been digitally restored for the DVD and Blu Ray release. Rust Never Sleeps isthe full-length feature about Young's 1978 concert tour and includes such classic young Young's most popular songs, showcasing classic hits such as "I Am a Child," featuring Crazy Horse, "Cinnamon Girl," "Like A Hurricane" and both the acoustic and electric versions of his landmark song "Hey Hey, My My." Both are currently available for pre-order through Neil Young Store and Amazon.com. Special bundles are available exclusively through Neil Young Store only.

The track-listing for EARTH is as follows:

"People Want to Hear About Love" (from The Monsanto Years)
"Big Box" (from The Monsanto Years)
"Mother Earth" (from Ragged Glory)
"The Monsanto Years" (from The Monsanto Years)
"I Won't Quit" (previously unreleased)
"Western Hero" (from Sleeps With Angels)
"Vampire Blues" (from On The Beach)
"Hippie Dream" (from Landing On Water)
"After The Gold Rush" (from After The Gold Rush)
"Wolf Moon" (from The Monsanto Years)
"Love & Only Love" (from Ragged Glory)

looks like a good selection ... wonder how it's almost 100 minutes long, though? "love & only love" is the only epic there, i think. maybe there's a lot of this animal kingdom stuff.

oh sweeeeet, that's the killer pump organ version of Mother Earth. this was a great tour and show, I will buy the hell out of this.

and Neil fans who are still avoiding The Monsanto Years should really check it out

agree about Mother Earth that was great on this tour

stoked!

neil on facebook:

"We made a live record and every creature on the planet seemed to show up.
Suddenly all the living things of Earth were in the audience going crazy.
Then they took over the stage, letting their wild sounds mingle with the Vanilla Singers perfect corporate harmony.
Earth's creatures let loose, there were Bee breakdowns, Bird breakdowns and yes, even Wall Street breakdowns, jamming with me and Promise of the Real!
The show was non stop bliss for 98 minutes, no breaks.
EARTH does not fit on iTunes.
It breaks all their rules
(and couldn’t all really be heard that way anyway)
No one who was there will ever forget the love, wonder and beautiful madness of EARTH.
I know I won’t.
Neil"

plants and birds and rocks and things.

Every living creature on Earth? I am assuming that means dogs too right Neil? And yet you didn't play "Doghouse" #forshame

Also are "Bee Breakdowns" like blast beats?

The cover is up on Amazon..."warning: contains modified content"

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Lukas Nelson: There was an amazing, 18-minute version of "Doghouse" originally slated to be on Earth ... but Neil was disappointed with the synth barks. He flew Sampedro in from Hawaii, but Poncho didn't seem to know what "Doghouse" was.

Poncho: I have never heard that song in my life, Neil kept ranting and raving about "doghouse" this, "doghouse" that, I was pretty confused. Then Crosby tweeted something and that was pretty much the end of the day. I was on a plane home that same night.

just got my tickets for this:

Neil Young to preview new album 'Earth' at L.A.'s Natural History Museum

not a live perf. just a listening party. but still.

not a live perf. just a listening party. but still.

Well, he wanted to perform the whole thing, but the L.A. Zoo wouldn't loan out the necessary animals.

wondering where in LA he found someone to loan out the pono listening system, or if he'll have to bring his own.

Lukas Nelson: There was an amazing, 18-minute version of "Doghouse" originally slated to be on Earth ... but Neil was disappointed with the synth barks. He flew Sampedro in from Hawaii, but Poncho didn't seem to know what "Doghouse" was.

seriously love this

Just got a follow-up email:

Revised track-listing for EARTH is as follows:

"Mother Earth" (from Ragged Glory)
"Seed Justice" (previously unreleased)
"My Country Home" (from Ragged Glory)
"The Monsanto Years" (from The Monsanto Years)
"Western Hero" (from Sleeps With Angels)
"Vampire Blues" (from On The Beach)
"Hippie Dream" (from Landing On Water)
"After The Gold Rush" (from After The Gold Rush)
"Human Highway" (from Comes a Time)
"Big Box" (from The Monsanto Years)
"People Want to Hear About Love" (from The Monsanto Years)
"Wolf Moon" (from The Monsanto Years)
"Love & Only Love" (from Ragged Glory)

One song removed, three songs added, running order shuffled.

haha, hmmm

fuuuuck i love hippie dream

#SEEDJUSTICE
#DOGHOUSE
#MODIFIEDSOUNDS

Love "Don't Spook The Horse," even if it's not on here.

also "Hippie Dream" seems to indicate that the #CROZ beef is still hella active in the streets

@thedavidcrosby is definitely still in the #doghouse

Well this is how we gonna do this
Fuck CROZ, fuck Stills
Fuck CSN as a staff, record label and as a motherfucking crew
And if you want to be down with the Rides, then fuck you too
Kenny Wayne Shepard, fuck you too
Barry Goldberg, fuck you too (take money, take money)
All of y'all mother fuckers, fuck you, die slow, motherfucker
My .44 make sure all y'all kids don't grow

lolll

I'm seeing Neil & Real at this years Roskilde Festival - he's got a 3 hour slot and I'm psyched!

you guys reckon there's guitar/vocal overdubs or just dog barks on EARTH? I guess #nooverdubs is #rockist but all the same...

I emailed this to UMS yesterday but...the animal/insect noise on this better be mixed crazy loud and intrusive.

"I don't like to go down to flats/Cuz I can't pa-MOOOOO!!!! BUZZZZZ!!!!/Instead getting a roll-WOOOF!!WOOOFF!! pay the bill"

#BeeBreakdowns

you guys reckon there's guitar/vocal overdubs or just dog barks on EARTH? I guess #nooverdubs is #rockist but all the same...

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it says Warning: Altered Content so buyer beware