neil young

it does seem like neil has thought about it a lot haha ... during an interview last week he repeated the story, adding something like "uhh can you tell me if it's a good song, bob?"

Speaking of "Hitchhiker" the song, I just noticed he dropped a ref to Carrie Snodgress in the Le noise version, subbing "while the summer passed" for "with my Chicago lass".

Also: Picked up the Uncut w/Tyler's Neil piece this weekend. Good stuff, but docked a few points for no sidebar on the mysterious lineage of "Doghouse".

Completely enamored with Hitchhiker, it's a real fly on the wall experience.

Just for fun:

Hitchhiker			Earliest official appearance
Pocahontas		3:27	Rust Never Sleeps	(1979)	3:22
Powderfinger		3:23	Rust Never Sleeps	(1979)	5:30
Captain Kennedy		2:52	Hawks & Doves		(1980)	2:50
Hawaii			2:38	n.a.
Give Me Strength	3:40	n.a.
Ride My Llama		1:50	Rust Never Sleeps 	(1979)	2:29
Hitchhiker		4:37	Le Noise		(2010)	5:31
Campaigner		4:19	Decade			(1977)	3:30
Human Highway		3:17	Comes A Time		(1978)	3:09
The Old Country Waltz	3:37	American Stars 'N Bars	(1977)	2:58

Ultimately I guess it's a good thing this didn't come out at the time as we might have been robbed of the Crazy Horse Powderfinger

man this thing just sucks you in right away

the version of "Campaigner" is really really good

xpost Which we also might not have had if Lynyrd Skynyrd had recorded it as planned.

will be interesting when/if we get to hear "powderfinger" as recorded by neil and crazy horse during the Zuma sessions ...

also, if you haven't seen this, it's back on yoututbe for the time being:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EpdLMHJLrc

will be interesting when/if we get to hear "powderfinger" as recorded by neil and crazy horse during the Zuma sessions

[desire for archives vol ii intensifies]

"Shit...did he say, 'That's real honest, Neil,' like he was being sarcastic? Or was it more, 'That's real honest, Neil,' which would be a compliment? Maybe it was, 'That's real honest, Neil,' which could be taken either way...?"

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 11 September 2017 15:10 (yesterday) Permalink

And esp considering how much coke he was on a the time and in general his tendency to edge toward paranoia I can easily see Neil turning this comment over in his head like this for decades.

"And then came paranoia, and it ran away with me
Bob said he liked this song, or was he just fucking around with me?"

ok fine I guess I will try to find a free dl of this somewhere...

Check the internet.

why don't you buy it and help support high-definition digital music players and saving the environment with electric cars

i can't keep track of neil's decisions (can anyone?) - i see this (and all) his albums on spotify, didn't he remove them at some point? when did they get back on there?

xpost To be fair, Neil releasing this is a little like recycling.

i can't find the vinyl anywhere now, i hope it's temporary and Neil's not going to consign it to the land of the Sleeps with Angels and Year of the Horse LPs.

yeah he made a huge stink about taking them off streaming...said streaming was worse quality that AM radio (haha)...

then quietly all the stuff reappeared. i took it to mean that he accepted that PONO was a failure and that Spotify cut him a big check.

You can't spell Spotify without the P and O from PONO.

xxp I got it for 18 bucks in my local store yesterday, sooo much cheaper than his previous vinyl

yeah for a while the geffen albums were all that spotify had, which was quietly beautiful in its own way. but now it's all up there, i think?

currently have no money to spend on records and don't feel *too* bad about not giving money directly to Neil tbh.

xp

i'm sure it'll be around...the LP was $15.99 on Amazon and i was waiting for my next round of points to hit, and then i look at it's $4 more and it's unavailable. i appreciate that this one isn't $80!

xp seems like listening on spotify free and giving neil your ad money would be the better moral compromise

I see you are unfamiliar with my opinions on spotify

I am all too familiar with those opinions

And esp considering how much coke he was on a the time and in general his tendency to edge toward paranoia I can easily see Neil turning this comment over in his head like this for decades.

― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, September 12, 2017 2:18 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

As Ginsberg said about Dylan on the Rolling Thunder tour, "His munificence was engorged with snow"

nomar - audiophile online retailers can be a good source when most of the regular places are sold out, looks to be in stock at musicdirect.com

i have bought vinyl here before

https://www.musicdirect.com/vinyl/Neil-Young-Hitchhiker-(Vinyl-LP)

Forgot about Farm Aid! Neil and Promise etc "Like A Hurricane" in progress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg6-hljSb9E

right now willie nelson is backing up someone who sucks really bad. i feel bad for willie

oh, the performer is "willie nelson & family"

sorry if i dissed your son or something, willie, if you're reading this

yeah, it was lucas nelson

sorry nelsons

i miss fucking crazy horse.

sorry again nelsons

Re-run of tonight's "Like A Hurricane" sounding good.

To "Rockin' In The Free World", also solid.

i click on that expecting to see some Willie and I get Dave Matthews.

ok it's for a good cause

Reminds me, my fave version of "Hitchiker" is from FarmAid 25: http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=HAqa1IuWFT8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=HAqa1IuWFT8

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/live-reviews/neil-young-roars-back-to-life-with-blazing-farm-aid-set-w503624

CTRL+F dog: 0 results :(

reading tylerw's Hitchhiker piece reminded me how good that 92 version is. It's super dark and haunting and always makes me imagine Neil as an old hermit warning people from a mountaintop. There was a version of Revolution Blues from the solo Trans tour on youtube a while ago that had that same vibe. I've often thought about making a compilation of stuff that carries that feeling (Pushed It Over from the Bitter End show would be another).

Also, found some innaresting youtube clips I hadn't seen before:

I read about this in Shakey but never saw it until today - it's a French interview circa 82 where he discusses his love of the Human League and Flock Of Seagulls among others, while sitting at home with a Hagstrom II in his lap:

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

Here's a psa video he did for the National Academy of Child Development, with a one-off version of I Am A Child:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMrIRPp47dA

and a promo spot from MTV where they give away the Shocking Pinks' Cadillac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu_0X0dLkPs

thanks for the 1992 hitchhiker tip. i hadn't heard it before and it's really really good!

aw shit, sorry, realized that was in reference to tyler's piece on the song (http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2017/09/11/neil-young-a-hitchhiker-on-the-road/), which i somehow missed above! looking forward to going through that tonight :)

that 82 French Trans era interview has a lot of Cocaine Thoughts from Neil

Slated for Archives 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=66&v=oHebRiT5Vmw

whoops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHebRiT5Vmw

Finally getting to Hitchhiker and it is indeed a very mighty thing to behold.

New Neil & Promise-O-The Real: https://pitchfork.com/news/neil-young-announces-new-album-the-visitor-shares-already-great-listen/

Also this: https://pitchfork.com/news/neil-young-auctioning-hundreds-of-his-model-trains/

hooboy those song titles...