neil young

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

Sleeps With Angels is IMO thee shit but I’d never vote for it in this poll. In a ‘90s poll maybe?

re-ac-tor rules yall are crazy.

Roll on southern pacific

ain't got no t-bone

I actually like Opera Star as well. No way is re-ac-tor straight up bad imo

Reactor is great. Everybody’s rockin is the first bad Neil Young album

As some of us agreed, maybe on this very thread, A Treasure rescues good stuff from that wobbly niche---take it, Wiki:
The album results from a tour following Young's recording what he later called the first Old Ways, an album of country music that his record company refused to release since they claimed it wasn't commercial enough. In this period, the early to mid-eighties, Young played music in many different genres.[5] His backing band, the "International Harvesters", consisted of professional country musicians from Nashville some of whom had also played (as "The Shocking Pinks") on his rock and roll album Everybody's Rockin'. The album contains old Young songs and newer songs from Old Ways.[3] It contains five previously unreleased songs (tracks 1, 5, 8, 11, and 12).

According to Young, the album's name comes from Ben Keith. "I hadn't heard these takes in 25 years, but when we unearthed them co-producer Ben Keith said, 'This is a treasure.

Ditto the overall excellence of Bluenote Cafe, although some of those horn arrangements sound as dated as they did at the time.

Although the horns' beer commercial association was apparently deliberate, at least in part---after all, "This Note's For You." Tee hee, stop it you scamp!

Loving this Roxy set. Not exactly worlds apart from the album as released, but weird to hear these very bleak tunes rendered this way. The band sounds like they're having a good time. There are some flubs (mostly lyrical ones) that actually bug me, but that's only because I know the original TTN as well as I know any record.

The banter is pretty classic, too. I love when Neil says "thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, it's been real average." What a dick

Lol yeah real average def goes in the Neil banter hall of fame

did anyone watch the livestream?? i missed it...trying to find clips on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljc1FgaoJBQ

this is great also lmao at Nils' Lon Chaney outfit and goth organ

yeah i love the goth organ, wish it was louder, like i always want everything to be louder. they're old though, i understand.
ugh i love this song so much!!

livestream was pretty great, shaky handheld cameras and all. stereogum has a good collection of fan video.

https://www.stereogum.com/1994333/neil-young-crazy-horse-reunite-in-fresno-watch/video/

watched a bit of it last night — sounded good, a little wobbly at times, but that is OK! little bit worried about billy talbot, he's looking pretty aged.

the final shot of billy, hobbling offstage with obvious difficulty, made me think touring would not be easy.

Many XPs They've always had the goth organ (actually a stringman synth)... Poncho played it in the Rust movie.

Also: More concert films should have Steadicam shots of aimless wandering around the theater during long songs.

Haven't watched but per the stereogum piece, did they really not rehearse before hand? I mean I wouldn't be shocked its just funny with a "new" member in the band

"Yeah Nils, just show up at like 5...yeah, well I dunno Like A Hurricane probably...yeah...I'll email you the link to the Archives. Cool, see you next week."

lol

that is totally how it went down

i love Neil's hair here, blowing like an aged god on the peak of a high mountain

"I'll bring my guitar Neil..."

"no...not the guitar."

haha, yeah, they must have had some kind of pre-game situation before last night — even without nils, they hadn't played a few of those songs in ... 20+ years? The Broken Arrow jams haven't been played in forever, anyway.

"Hey Nils you know that Broken Arrow record? No...ok no worries just watch me for the changes...ok let's start the concert"

maybe nils had an earpiece with sampedro feeding him the chord changes from hawaii — "Em! A! Em! A! Em! A!"

More concert films should have Steadicam shots of aimless wandering around the theater during long songs.

^^^this

I really don't think Nils needed that much rehearsal, if any.

Billy: "Hey Neil Nils keeps ending the song after three measures!"
Nils: "But that's how it is on the record"
Neil: "Goddammit Nils stop confusing them"