neil young

xp LOL

i've been digging into early to mid 80s stuff over on doom & gloom recently — we all know it, but it is still kind of astonishing how many directions he was going in at once between 1982 and 1987. Trans, The Trans Band tour, the Solo Trans tour, the Shocking Pinks, the Catalyst Crazy Horse stuff, the International Harvesters, Landing on Water, Rusted Out Garage tour, Life, the Bluenotes .... it really is a crazy five-year stretch.

Maybe the only comparable stretch
would be Le Noise (2010) to the present?

between 66 and 71 you've got buffalo springfield, his solo career, csn&y, picking up with crazy horse... then the five years after that are crammed too i guess? he's always been going in a million directions at once

yeah, true

trans aside, i've def explored 82-87 much less intensively than most of the rest of neil's career tho

it's pretty wild stuff. would definitely recommend checking this show out, if you haven't heard it: https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/167050336972/neil-young-crazy-horse-the-catalyst-santa

awesome, thx tyler!

I love Bluenote Cafe probably way more that I should

I listen to Bluenote so much when people ask me if I like Neil Young now I say "The horn guy? Yeah he's cool"

hahaha

A Treasure, from his mid-80s tour with the International Harvesters, is really good: astutely chosen material,suitable for reveries and arenas. also, the Harvesters were A-list Nashville Cats, but/and no prob getting away from the hit factory. Bluenote Cafe is more uneven, since some of the horn arrangements were already dated, but still mostly good-to-terrific performances, incl. of songs I had't heard elsewhere (and yeah as I think was said upthread, both of these go back to/redeem turns that didn't go as well in the studio).
Ye olde Live In Berlin videotape and various boots indicate the Trans band tour is worth legit excavation as well.

yeah, i'm all for neil re-writing his 80s history with those performance series releases. the catalyst 84 stuff would actually be a good idea for an official release too. hell, i bet one of the shocking pinks shows would make an argument for that period. the video that was on youtube a while back smoked.

seeing him live during that mid-'80s stretch was way, way better than listening to his records.

This is good.

https://youtu.be/oZHf3dDVcmg

https://pitchfork.com/news/dram-and-neil-young-announce-new-song-together/

haha, can't wait

holy shit yeah that is REAL good

(referring to "Already Great" btw)

the lyrics are so terrible

it's hilarious though the whole "i was one of the lucky ones who came to freedom land" lol you'd think neil escape from soviet era czechloslovakia or something

like dude you were in a band signed to motown with rick james

winnipeg in the mid-60s was no joke dude

ol' gord up the road there had a cow go missing once

dawg he was exiled from sugar mountain!

"barkers" were actually starving rabid dogs

#InTheDoghouseOnSugarMountain

Oh, to live on Doghouse Mountain

i thought he hightailed it off sugar mountain to go murder his girlfriend near a river

man, i just remembered how much i love neil young because i was listening to him on my endless (100 min) commute to work on friday

also because i have a real q - is anyone else haunted by "rockin in the free world" after seeing that video of trump & melania descending on an escalator before he made that horrifying speech? a friend of mine told me she saw someone play a cover of it at a show and i asked if she was haunted and none of my friends knew about the video. for me, it's like branded on my brain :( i really don't want to ruin the song for anyone, so i apologize in advance -- click with caution.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/watch-donald-trumps-grand-escalator-entrance-presidential-announcement-31802261

watching this again helped! i love how they are all so into it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ggbts1v3aw

i have managed to avoid that trump video (i had heard about it).

that's good
i feel like i am getting to the point where maybe i am post-trump video, like i am through the hard part. hope so :)

that SNL video would definitely help — i never get tired of that one. so amazing.

i am amused by the memory of me at 13 or 14 watching that performance and lovin it

haha, i was listening to Ragged Glory a few days ago and was sort of wondering why 12 year old me loved it so much. (still love it of course, just wasn't sure what grabbed me about it at that age. I guess guitars).

that snl performance is one of the best live music things ever to appear on tv imo

for me, it was very much the chugginess and weird nature of the guitar solos -- i had never heard anything like that and i discovered that i liked it
also it was a song you could get lost in + i was very into angry political lyrical content at the time
f trump and his stupid escalator

Ragged Glory was my first Neil Young record. I went in completely blind, never had (knowingly) heard him before. the guitar really grabbed me but i do think that Neil's secret weapon is still his voice. so my first exposure to his singing was "I don't like to go down to the flats/cuz i can't park on a hill" and i was grabbed even more, after the initial reaction of "this guy can't sing a note!" then i realized he's really one of the best singers.

my first Neil was Decade, sometime in the early 80s, shit blew my mind

my dad gave me his vinyl copy of After the Gold Rush when I was 18, fan ever since

i also remember that i did not realize that he was the same guy who sang "heart of gold" and "old man" - i knew those songs via radio and this was a crazy rocker man, not a gentle acoustic man.

i don't think i fully got neil young until i was a senior in college and became obsessed with harvest. idk where it came from because i was listening to a lot of really loud stuff at the time, but i think i listened to it almost every night of my senior year of college before i went to sleep.

since then the guy has really kept me company! <3 neil young

watching this again helped! i love how they are all so into it

This is burned so deeply into my brain. That thing Steve Jordan does at 3:32...it's my favorite thing any Neil drummer has ever done.

so simple and yet so right!
the best part is that i know i have had this conversation before and i don't even care -- such is the balm of neil young

sort of amazing how un-bored I am with Neil Young after all these years.
just discovered this fantastic Crazy Horse version of "Natural Beauty"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nlrUz3csUE

oh wait wrong link!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6s5TtuXXY4

He's my favourite guitarist. Acoustic and electric. Both just right

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(via FB)

Hi there,
December 1st will be a big day for me. The Visitor will be coming to your town. I will be going to my town. You will be able to hear me and see me. My archive will open on that same day, a place you can visit and experience every song I have ever released in the highest quality your machine will allow. It’s the way it’s supposed to be. In the beginning, everything is free.
Lots of Love,
neil

Inarresting.

I got the CD version of the Ditch Trilogy +1 box for my birthday. Each album comes in its own little box- sleeve with reproduction inserts (the booklet from TTN is slightly smaller than the original). Zuma and TTN have way more presence & ambience than the old CDs. They even remastered OTB, which to sounds a little less shiny the the earlier disc.

you talkin' about this one?

https://www.discogs.com/Neil-Young-Official-Release-Series-Discs-5-8/master/771571

In the beginning, everything is free.

this sounds like the slogan of a corporate overlord

XP Yeah, that one.