neil young

welp, looks like Neil and Crazy Horse are playing Fresno at the beginning of May... No rehearsal!

http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2018/04/the-horse-is-out-again-says-neil-young.html

in other neil news, the tonight's the night — live release is totally amazing.

Nice very excited

Cortez the Killer is a fantastic jam, but the lyrics often remind me of a child retelling a fascinating documentary he saw on tv but didn't quite understand, at some point the story acquires a life of its own and he starts projecting his own desires into the world he's describing:
And the women all were beautiful

― niels, Saturday, April 14, 2018 9:59 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think it really works in the context of the relationship arcs that zuma explores. it's sort of this big, maybe all the shit that drags love under is the fault of some original sin colonizer. the historical imagination in the song is pretty simplistic, not even remotely based on any kind of historical record as far as i can tell, but still really powerful imo. idk i'm inclined to hear a little bit of truth in every dopey thing neil sings so ymmv.

i sure hope i get the chance (and the $$) to see him in concert before he keels over.

when I was younger I definitely heard a lot of truth in Neil's description of how the Aztecs built up with their bare hands what we still can't do today

in a way Neil may be otm here:

What the fuck am I doing writing about Aztecs in "Cortez the Killer" like I was there, wandering around? 'Cause I only read about it in a few books. A lotta shit I just made up because it came to me.

Very inneresting...

The great news is I am jumping back in with #CrazyHorse @Neilyoung I will be there . Beyond honored. Nothing like playing with old friends. A friend just reminded me, at this age you can’t coast. https://t.co/JO9CZZFzi5

— Nils Lofgren (@nilslofgren) April 24, 2018

ha, pretty interesting — I'm assuming he's not replacing sampedro? that'd be pretty weird.

It's weird having him there at all, really. Three guitarists, two primative, one virtuoso?

As long as he isn't secretly a Willie Nelson offspring I'm cool with it

^^^^

maybe neil will just bring him out to play piano on "southern man"

i mean of all the shit neil's done in the last decade i'm not mad about brining nils lofgren back into the fold!

awright Nils!!

I figure Neil misses the sideburn battles he and Stills use to have and figured Nils would be up for it.

speaking of stills, here they are last week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep7owt3Knd0

the CSNY beef is basically just neil being pissed as #croz for talkin greasy abt hannah at this point correct?

i feel like someone's mad at nash too. or at least nash thinks someone is mad at him and that makes him sad.

isn't that kind of Nash's default state though? No offense (well, a little).

crazy horse AND nils holy shit

I smell some interpretative dancing.

i feel like someone's mad at nash too. or at least nash thinks someone is mad at him and that makes him sad.

― tylerw, Tuesday, April 24, 2018 12:32 PM (forty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I read an interview with Nash in our local paper recently and I got the distinct impression that Nash was pissed at Croz for being #CROZ and that everyone was also was mad at Croz for different, if probably somewhat similar, reasons and that that it seemed like all of them were mostly tired of dealing with #CROZ.

Like these dudes are my dad's age and are still dealing with their one friend who has being pulling the same shit for *checks watch* 50 yrs.

i wish jeff bezos would pay $5M each for neil and croz to appear on dr. phil together

funny that stills is looking like the totally chill one these days

Welcome to Miami Beach...

https://s9.postimg.cc/uag6pfnr3/croz.jpg

lolz
my buddy is putting heavy pressure on me to fly out for one of these fresno shows ... maybe if it wasn't right in the middle of the week, neil! jeez.

fresno. wtf

off-off-off-off-off-broadway

Nils in...and Poncho out:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-plots-new-crazy-horse-gigs-with-nils-lofgren-w519538

Pretty strange but I guess nils was in Crazy Horse before poncho! Wonder if it’s a health thing for Sampedro.

Stills might be chill via recent refreshment of at least the professional side of his relationship with Judy Collins, recording and touring. I saw him and Cooder backing her in the late 60s. Stills played bass on that occasion, put some some eerie guitar notes on her excellent recorded version of "Pretty Polly."
oh yeah, Neil & CH: will the Fresno show be *kind of* an xpost Roxy-promotional reexamination of Tonight's The Night, or would that be too obvious? Maybe he'll settle for one of those 30-odd minute tests of the title song (then "Dog House," "Cortez," half of Greendale etc.)

Crosby was recently on Live From Here (offspring of Prairie Home), and kept talking in a bad-tooth old man hillbilly twang, in between singing just like The Croz, which was a little disappointing, far as I was concerned.

No reason was given for Poncho's absence from the Fresno shows. In 2013, the group had to call a world tour short when a road manager accidentally slammed a tour bus door on Sampedro's left hand. "When I looked at my fingers – from the tip of the fingernail to the cuticle – they were pointed straight up in the air," he told Rolling Stone in 2014. "They were just smashed to death." They returned to the road the following summer, though Talbot suffered a minor stroke and had to sit out the tour weeks before they were scheduled to begin. He was replaced by Rick Rosas, who died just months after it ended.

the wind of mortality fair whips about this para

if the price of nils is poncho then the price is too damn high imo

when i saw neil and crazy horse a few years ago poncho struck me as being the world's chillest dude

hopefully all this means is that he just wants to spend more time on his garden

Crosby was recently on /Live From Here/ (offspring of Prairie Home), and kept talking in a bad-tooth old man hillbilly twang, in between singing just like The Croz, which was a little disappointing, far as I was concerned.

Ugh link didn’t work, maybe this will:
https://bit.ly/2HBrXsq

hahaha

Malkmus gettin swole

what would be worse, being the guy the cros doesn’t remember or being the guy who the cros really vibes with and wants to spend more time with

what makes that even funnier is that Malkmus had to have been the one to suggest that they sing “What Are Their Names?”

Croz prob also hit Malkmus up for money

can't believe all the stuff that beat out zuma. you guys cray...

old ways 3
harvest 1

who’s the maniac who voted for re-ac-tor ffs

Old Ways is such a piece of shit

Skot otm Zuma getting one is crazy
Ilm overrating Sleeps With Angels, Dead Man, and Trans are pvmic tho

is re-ac-tor the first straight up Bad neil album?

i’d say so, yeah

I like Shots a lot