neil young

On a huuuge Neil Young kick these days after years of not really caring - mea culpa - and kicking myself for missing him here in Amsterdam just a few nights ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCpquw6jdrE

huh

https://i.imgur.com/yeX2fCPl.jpg

https://etcanada.com/news/482496/neil-young-postpones-crazy-horse-tour-while-he-works-on-15-new-film-projects-promises-return-to-the-road-in-2020/?fbclid=IwAR0PcSUDU49TG-yjrBITqFyAsxVwQGq40Iuur8b4GeToOAs_2pkQ9e0ayk4

15 new films!!

Yeah, right on, man, fuck a Crazy Horse tour, what I want is 15 Neil Young movies.

(Cries Crazy Horse tears)

13 of those movies will only be available on Neil's streaming video service, VOYO

but whats the over/under on how many will actually be finished in the next 8 years? 3?

dunno if you can postpone a tour that was never even announced in the first place.
those films would be cool, I guess ... especially the Boarding House stuff (which is 1978 not 1977, Neil, come on now).

and hey here's a look at side one of COLORADO

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EA0S-nlWwAUl1qf?format=jpg&name=large

also in re: to the films, would be great if neil just put them up permanently on the NYA site, as opposed to having them appear for a lame 24-hr window and then disappearing again.

I miss everything on that site!
Really irritating

13:36 long song...hell yeah give it to me

he played "she showed me love" with promise of the real last month — pretty bad lyrics, but the jams are good.

how bad on a scale of 1 to 5 hip hop haircuts

gonna give it a 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvQYM4WnzYU

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/8/9/monsanto_fusion_center_surveillance_of_critics

...Monsanto ran a “fusion center” to surveil and discredit journalists and activists who criticized or wrote damning reports about Monsanto, as well as legendary singer-songwriter Neil Young, who released an album in 2015 called “The Monsanto Years.” Monsanto monitored Young’s Twitter activity and even analyzed the lyrics of his album.

"Sir, in order to analyze Mr. Young's lyrics we're going to need to purchase large quantities of the strongest marijuana available ... in order to 'get in his head.'"

"Sir, we've found some blatant misinformation in Young's music. His hometown was not in North Ontario after all"

Wow so they read his twitter and the lyrics to the album?

can’t believe monsanto killed the pono, smdh

Lol

If the fidelity got too high, ppl might have been able to hear jthe Truth

Monsanto ceased their investigation when they gave up trying to navigate the Archives website.

There must be a copy of Mirror Ball somewhere on the shelf of albums I've downloaded and burned--I don't know how else I'd know "Scenery," where I got the title for the Neil Young poll I ran a few years ago. I found a cheap used copy of Mirror Ball (also Broken Arrow) today. I somehow missed "Truth Be Known" first time around--excellent. Haven't played Broken Arrow yet.

Amazon's got Neil Young (and the International Harvesters, says on the cover shot), Live at Austin City Limits listed for Sept. 13--dunno how much, if any, of it's on 2011 A Treasure, but I do treasure that, so want to check this--take it way, Blazin' Bezos:

2CD SET FEATURING NEIL YOUNG S ENTIRE ACL SHOW FROM 1984 Austin City Limits, started as a showcase for country and roots performers, invited Neil Young to perform in 1984, a man never reluctant to mix and match his genres. Young had released the least popular and poorly received albums of his career in the years prior to this performance, lastly the rockabilly infused Everybody s Rockin - an album which clocked in at a mere 29 mins - and before that the synth pop infused Trans. But for his ACL show Young had a hell of a band backing him in The International Harvesters. This group of Nashville cats may not have blown down arena doors with the same ferocity as Crazy Horse, but as this 1984 concert proves, they could more than hold their own with Neil Young, even on an extended version of concert favourite, the rocker Down By The River. Not previously released on CD, this quite sterling performance is now available in its entirety on this two-disc-set, displaying perfectly what a wholly competent and enthralling outfit Neil Young & The International Harvesters were during this period, even if the album they recorded together, which was released the following year, Old Ways, was panned by fans and critics alike and seen as yet another vanity project in a string of similar weird releases from Neil in the 1980s.

“wholly competent”

Checking Amazon, that ACL thing doesn't look legit. Might be worth picking up before the lawyers find out about it.

Some of that show (starts about a minute in)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIdICuePM6A

https://youtu.be/NIdICuePM6A

That's some fancy struttin' Tim Drummond (?) is doin'.

Sounds good!

Just realized this ACL version of "Down by the River" is the first one I ever heard -- when I was a teen a good friend / Neil stan put it on a mixtape before I'd ever heard the original. Still fantastic.

Oh shit my man Drummond is on this?!

I think this was before he quit because he didn't want to play 'Nashville Eat Shit Bass'.

Am I the only one who never noticed that the International Harvesters, like Buffalo Springfield, are both named after tractors?

Meanwhile, I still want to know if the short-lived Neil Young and the Restless were named after the soap opera.

amazon is weird about those "import" bootlegs ... there are a bunch of shady neil albums for sale there. don't buy 'em, just download them on the internet for heavens sake.

in the UK anything thats been broadcast on the radio (?) slips through some loophole so you get lots of semi-legal cd releases sold in normal stores. i guess those are the imports you're seeing. there are a ton of springsteen ones available.

yeah, they're pretty corny

fuck Amazon tbh, nobody should be buying anything from them

Austin City Limits episodes/content is controlled by the producing studio, KLRU Austin (a PBS affiliate), and Producer Terry Lickona's company Lickonavision. They have an almost exclusive deal for releasing their shows on physical media with New West. There have been occasional exceptions, such as Sony releasing Stevie Ray Vaughan's performances, and Neil included a couple of tracks from this ACL performance on A Treasure. There have also been some dodgy-looking import DVDs of ACLs featuring Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen, and this Neil title looks to be of the same stripe.

anyhoo, new neil and crazy horse "single" out in the world today. "rainbow of colors" ... not very good! https://neilyoungarchives.com/info-card?track=t2019_0425_02

tracklist from an ROIO site that I've always found reliable:

Neil Young and The International Harvesters
Austin City Limits, Austin TX
1984 September 25

01 Are You Ready For The Country?
02 Hawks And Doves
03 Comes A Time
04 Bound For Glory
05 Fingers
06 Are There Any More Real Cowboys?
07 Heart Of Gold
08 Amber Jean
09 band introduction
10 Roll Another Number
11 Southern Pacific
12 The Needle And The Damage Done
13 Helpless

xx 01 California Sunset(removed)
14 It Might Have Been
15 Soul Of A Woman
16 Field Of Opportunity
17 Old Man
18 Powderfinger
19 Get Back To The Country
20 Down By The River

Anthony Crawford - guitars, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, vocals
Spooner Oldham - piano, organ
Ben Keith - pedal steel
Karl "Junkyard" Himmel - drums
Tim Drummond - bass
Rufus Thibodeaux - fiddle

Original lineage unknown
shn>flac level 8 July 2007 by Richard Flynn using TLH

From a bootleg called "Last Of A Dying Breed".
This set omits all of the non-Austin City Limits songs that were on the bootleg.
The source was probably a soundboard recording for the television show - what was
eventually broadcast on TV did not include all of the songs on this set.

Go to this link to choose in flac or mp3---listings are alphabetical by first name:
http://www.ousterhout.net/music-menu.html#Newest_files:
(Brace yrself---this guy's got a lot of stuff!)

A Treasure is at least in part an authorized bootleg: Neil's People said they got a lot(?) of it off YouTube.

Dale Crover from the Melvins played young Neil in the Harvest Moon video, apparently! https://www.instagram.com/p/B2ueR0jj38K/?igshid=14fo5z8128g3x

haha wtf, that's amazing...

!!!

He's even wearing Neil's clothes right? I remember that from back in the day...as a 16 yr old who was obsessed with Neil & the Melvins this was intense information to process.

Unrelated:
What if, theoretically, a person, let's call them...Steve? spent like a couple weeks listening to NY & CH obsessively and what if, IF mind you, Steve had come to the conclusion that Greendale was the best Crazy Horse record?

lol, that'd be ... crazy. but i was listening to a live Greendale show recently, and it was sounding pretty good ... long solos on "carmichael" were great.

I...uh I mean STEVE, hadn't listened to Greendale in forever and it was just hitting all the right spots this wknd? Obv it is insane to think it is the best CH lp...obv

i was thinking that Greendale might the thing in his creative life that neil has committed most heavily to. i mean, it's an album, a movie, a graphic novel, a multimedia tour ... he definitely hasn't tried anything remotely like it since.

PONO

missed the PONO graphic novel, but I'm sure it's in the archives

I feel like his model train ventures were way more personal and near to him than PONO esp given the connecting to his son's disabilities