neil young

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"

Nils:"Hey Billy I think yr hitting the wrong note there"
Billy:"Where? This one?"
Nils:"Yeah I don't think that's right"
Billy:"This is how I always play it"
Nils:"You didn't play it like that yesterday"
Billy: "NEIL!"
Neil: "Goddammit Nils!"

lol
it is pretty funny how different it must be to play in the e-street band compared to crazy horse

I think given Nils' skills they're both pretty amusing to him.

lots of Ds and E minors in both bands, iirc

And Gs! Don't forget Gs!

Plus some As and Cs.

For it is written, in xgau's Rock Albums of the 70s:
Crazy Horse [Reprise, 1971]
The rhythms are deliberately deliberate, and maybe the reason four different guys sing lead is that they don't really trust Danny Whitten with the job. But this should throw a good scare into Neil Young even if they moved on with his blessing. It's literate both verbally (Jack Nitzsche's "Gone Dead Train" is white blues poetry) and musically (they hoe down, they rave up, they phase out, they rock and roll). With temp worker Nils Lofgren pitching them two titles, there's not a bad song on the record. Not a bad cut, either. A- He really didn't like their other albums without Neil (or Danny or Jack or Nils) tho

Look at All the Things is one of the best songs ever

This is so great

I'd forgotten the backstory, never did know that much---how is the Rockets album?? (Bobby Notkoff and his violin were Rockets, only knew him from Michelle's Saturn's Rings, he was buddies with her and Curt Boettcher and Eliiot Ingber and Lowell George and other heads on her album)(but this says he was also on an Everybody Knows... track about the Rockets, so I've heard him there too, without knowing who it was). Don't think I ever knew that Young (according to this) also recorded "Look At All The Things," is it in the Archives? Anyway, they should have their own doc and/or book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Horse_(band)#Early_years

Also educational (among many other details, there's an unreleased first version of this?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonight%27s_the_Night_(Neil_Young_album)

The Rockets album is good stuff, sludgy garage rock with some interesting detours (a couple, er, impressions of the Impressions, and a track called "Stretch Your Skin" which I shit you not is Roxy Music's first album four years too early).

Hurry before it dissapears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhsrENSFUCU