neil young

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

uh

(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.

Archive website will just be "released" material for the moment I guess. He had teased unreleased stuff before.

Unreleased Stuff: 30 minutes of Neil figuring out how to turn on the Synclavier.

I didn't think the old CDs sounded bad necessarily, but yeah, the Official Release Series is stunning.

(I heard the Stills-Young thing for the first time on that set...holy hell, Stills' songs are horrendous and embarrassing.)

Archive website will just be "released" material for the moment I guess. He had teased unreleased stuff before.

Neil Young?! Teasing archives, or anything with the word "archives" in it?! Well, I never.

xp I have a soft spot for "Black Coral"; I know a lot of people knock the lyrics on that one but I think they're ridiculous in a good way, if that makes sense.

And I will always admire Neil's effort to salvage the otherwise execrable "Make Love to You" with his backing vocals on the chorus.

And before we eviscerate "Black Coral" again...

Search and destroy: Neil Young

:)

72 today.

Every time I watch a documentary with David Crosby in it I think, dammit, Neil, why would you not wanna be friends with this dude?

whole lotta neil young items up for auction!

http://www.juliensauctions.com/auctions/2017/neil-young/flipbook/

also! i put together this really important compilation of Crazy Horse oddities from 96-97
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/167556275202/neil-young-crazy-horse-spooking-the-horse-so-i

jeez that’s a lotta trains neil

haha, it might just be the tip of the iceberg ... he's probably keeping all the *really* cool ones.

yeah i have little doubt that he still has barns full of trains

some of the expected pricing on the music gear seems surprisingly reasonable tho

yeah, i was thinking that, too ... some of the guitars seem like what you'd pay for a guitar that wasn't previously owned by Neil Young. some sweet golf shoes too!

wait was neil actually singing for bud??? what's that dean electric gtr on p137?

Here's your cover art for Spooking the Horse

https://img1.etsystatic.com/054/1/7992421/il_340x270.740053523_17aj.jpg

"All Visitors Welcome as Neil Young Streams Worldwide December 1"
http://www.bellmedia.ca/pr/press/all-visitors-welcome-as-neil-young-streams-worldwide-december-1/

Oh look, The Visitor is streaming, but can't listen yet, too full of Thanksgiving leftovers, gotta go hit the exercycle first (urrrp): https://www.npr.org/2017/11/23/565992202/first-listen-neil-young-promise-of-the-real-the-visitor

I couldn't make it through the stream. At this point I think I'm done with slogging through whatever Neil shits out.

that's not a nice thing to say?

peace trail had some jams

It's not nice of Neil to release so much dreck the past 20 years.

heresy

Picked up a DVD of the TransBand Berlin this weekend. It's../quite something.

Interpretative Dance!

Ben Keith in a New Wave shirt and skinny tie!

Bruce Palmer trying to be Little Steven!

Germans clearly not getting the Trans material!

The whole thing's here, but if you want a taste...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om2Lt94Ltw4

that is an incredible set. Nils Lofgren's interpretive dancing is a real showstopper.

Germans clearly not getting the Trans material!

lol can you blame them?

Picked up a DVD of the TransBand Berlin this weekend. It's../quite something.

I've got on video!

Hey Tyler Spooking the Horse is fantastic, the version of Natural Beauty brought a tear to my eye last night and Neil's (well I assume they're Neil's) solos on Throw Your Hatred Down are something else. Thanks.