The official Carnegie Hall 1970 release is good. I haven't bought it though, I just streamed it because I'm wary of whether it's redundant. I lean towards his electric recordings, but so many of these live recordings have been solo acoustic and I'm not sure if I can really distinguish some of them in memory.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 2 October 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/neil-young-and-crazy-horse-announce-new-album-barn/
― willem, Thursday, 14 October 2021 07:56 (two years ago) link
Track list.
01 Song of the Seasons02 Heading West03 Change Ain’t Never Gonna04 Canerican05 Shape of You06 They Might Be Lost07 Human Race08 Tumblin’ Thru the Years09 Welcome Back10 Don’t Forget Love
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 14 October 2021 08:20 (two years ago) link
08 Shape of You
Ed Sheeran cover?
― J. Sam, Thursday, 14 October 2021 11:51 (two years ago) link
“Canerican” has “Doghouse” potential
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 14 October 2021 17:00 (two years ago) link
Song of the Seasons is up on NYA. it's fine I guess, very acoustic, something he would have done with Stray Gators rather than the Horse
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 October 2021 18:42 (two years ago) link
Interesting. I was hoping for full on Psychedelic Pill Horse running wild.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 14 October 2021 18:54 (two years ago) link
it's basically Colorado part II — maybe a bit stronger in the songwriting department. a mix of acoustic and electric stuff. favorite thing so far is the 8+ minute slow burner "Welcome Back", some "Danger Bird" vibes, really expressive guitar work.
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 October 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
That one sounds promising!
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 14 October 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
Thanks Tyler! Did you like Colorado though? ("I Do" was the only keeper for me.)
― birdistheword, Thursday, 14 October 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link
I liked the mellower, more delicate moments of Colorado — most of the "rock" stuff was a bit of a miss.
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 October 2021 19:26 (two years ago) link
Song of the Seasons is an alright acoustic cut. Not brilliant but not bad. Standard Young vocal melody.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 October 2021 18:18 (two years ago) link
lol at the cover. nice barn neil, looks like a vrbo tbh.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Saturday, 16 October 2021 17:19 (two years ago) link
Can't wait for the follow-up, More Barn!
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 16 October 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
American Stars 'n' Barns
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 16 October 2021 17:39 (two years ago) link
searched airbnb for "mancave" and that barn came up, $350 a night
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Saturday, 16 October 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
Seeing a couple new videos, may be more:currently listening to thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDeWaQLO7H8
― dow, Friday, 29 October 2021 19:55 (two years ago) link
Rechewing his cruchy granola mellowness, not as flavorful now----prefer this "good ol days. good ol days" barn rock!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7NT5wfdUzM
― dow, Friday, 29 October 2021 20:02 (two years ago) link
Best thing about the previous is video water can't wait!
― dow, Friday, 29 October 2021 20:17 (two years ago) link
Was putting together my year-end lists for The Wire tonight - 10 new releases and 10 "archival" releases and I gave a lot of thought to putting Way Down in the Rust Bucket on the latter list. It ultimately didn't make it, but I really do think it's the best thing Neil's released in 30 years.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 6 November 2021 00:36 (two years ago) link
Yes Rust Bucket is already in the pantheon of great Crazy Horse live albums to me
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 6 November 2021 02:35 (two years ago) link
I’d rank it above Weld easily
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 6 November 2021 06:59 (two years ago) link
So is that Nils playing piano on "Heading West?" I love how Nils' two long standing band gigs are for acts that really don't need his guitar virtuosity. Which reminds me, if Springsteen tours, as expected, in 2022, then I guess that mean Neil and Crazy Horse ... won't?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 November 2021 12:30 (two years ago) link
Promise of The Real, baby!
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 6 November 2021 15:14 (two years ago) link
Ugh, I hate that band
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 6 November 2021 15:36 (two years ago) link
Fun fact: Neil x Drive-By Truckers=back-up band on Booker T's Potato Hole, which, despite the downhomely title, is mostly gleaming arena rock, good of its kind, and occasionally making me wonder about the orange label mix of Boston's s/t, which was said to be better, if not even better than the regular blue label. Archive.org also had some good shows backed by the Truckers, dunno of Neil ever did that (of course Booker T.& The MGs did back him).
― dow, Sunday, 7 November 2021 20:32 (two years ago) link
So we started talking about Dean Stockwell over on ILE's Harry Dean Stanton thread, and then he turned up dead, and somebody quoted a couple things, one about his co-writing Human Highway, and the following Tweet (although if you've read more of Shakey than I did, this may well be old news):In Peru, Dennis very strongly urged me to write ascreenplay," Stockwell recalls, "and he would get itproduced. I came back home to Topanga Canyon[in the mountains outside LA] and wrote After TheGold Rush. Neil was living in Topanga then too,and a copy of it somehow got to him. He had hadwriter's block for months, and his recordcompany was after him. And after he read thisscreenplay he wrote the After The Gold Rushalbum in three weeks."
Stockwell's screenplay is long lost. Young'sbiographer Jimmy McDonough was told that itwas "an end-of-the-world movie" which endedwith a tidal wave crashing towards its hero as hestood in the parking lot of the Topanga hippies'favourite hang-out, the Corral, whose regularsincluded Young and Joni Mitchell, Stockwell'sfriend Russ Tamblyn was set to play a rockerrecluse living in a castle, and wild-haired totalartist George Herms was meant to haul a "tree oflife" like Christ with his crucifix across theCanyon.
"lt'J not a linear, regular storytelling kind of film,"StoIkwell explains, "Really what was in my mindwas that the gold rush in effect created CaliforniaAnd the film took place on the day California wassupposed to go into the ocean. So that's whathappened after the gold rush."
― dow, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 02:59 (two years ago) link
It was meant to be part of Universal's short-lived "Youth Pictures" division, which was shuttered after practically all of their releases (among them Hopper's The Last Movie, P.Fonda's The Hired Hand, and Two-Lane Blacktop) bombed.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 03:36 (two years ago) link
Hopper's The Last Movie, P.Fonda's The Hired Hand, and Two-Lane Blacktop
Inspired a young Jim Steinman to write "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad." (Truthfully, I haven't seen The Last Movie.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 03:40 (two years ago) link
Iirc the other produced films were Forman's Taking Off, and Diary of A Mad Housewife, which of course has a big Neil connection too.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 03:43 (two years ago) link
There's a funny bit in Shakey about Stockwell giving some clueless execs a tour of prospective shooting locations in Topanga, and introducing them to locals he wanted to cast, "This is Janis Joplin...Yes, she's very famous & she's going to be in the movie!"
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 03:46 (two years ago) link
Iirc, Stockwell was the guy who introduced Neil to the music of Devo.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 03:50 (two years ago) link
#onethread
― just staying (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 05:28 (two years ago) link
Hey now now hey now now
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 05:49 (two years ago) link
don't dream it's over it dream it's over now dn't
― just staying (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 05:56 (two years ago) link
Iirc the other produced films were Forman's Taking Off
Love this movie
― thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for (stevie), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 11:22 (two years ago) link
HBD Neil!
Spotify just threw "Heading West" from Barn at me: A happy version of "Don't Be Denied"?
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 13 November 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
"Doobie Denied"! Doctor took another look in his head, "Better cut that out, " he said, so leaving the weed after 50-odd years, he wrote Waging Heavy Peace instead, he said in the intro. Happy results for me, not everybody.
― dow, Saturday, 13 November 2021 00:43 (two years ago) link
Truthfully, I haven't seen The Last Movie
The Last Movie is amazing, although maybe a happy accident if you give somebody who made a road movie on drugs more drugs and free time with a camera where there are even more drugs. At times like Jodorowsky made a film within a film about a cargo cult
It's the reason why Stockwell's quote begins "In Peru..."
There's a Stockwell/Hopper/Marjorie Cameron link to the Stones and Kenneth Anger too.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Saturday, 13 November 2021 00:56 (two years ago) link
I thought The Last Movie was good too.
― Exploding Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 November 2021 00:58 (two years ago) link
Hopper had supposedly completed a conventional edit of The Last Movie when he showed it to Jodorowsky, who was visiting his home in Taos. Jodorowsky criticized this version of the film so harshly that Hopper decided to recut the film in its final form, so no one could accuse him of "selling out".
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 13 November 2021 02:00 (two years ago) link
Random thought...The Breakfast in America thread had me checking Billboard to see where it ended up on the year-end album list, which in turn had me checking other years, and it still astounds me that Neil Young once topped such a year-end list.
https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1972/top-billboard-200-albums
― clemenza, Saturday, 13 November 2021 04:08 (two years ago) link
Mere seconds before the house was burned down...
pic.twitter.com/AWXroeRSv1— SNL Hosts Introducing the Musical Guest (@snlhostsintro) November 12, 2021
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 13 November 2021 04:34 (two years ago) link
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2s8diq
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 13 November 2021 04:36 (two years ago) link
This was the first episode of SNL I ever watched. It was a big moment for me at the time, as a 10-year-old. Unfortunately I had zero interest in Neil Young (who I'm sure I knew only from "This Note's for You") and skipped this historic performance completely. 4 years later I saw him do the same song on MTV and he would eventually become one of the main musical touchstones of my life.
― Chris L, Saturday, 13 November 2021 04:47 (two years ago) link
I didn't realize this until McDonough wrote about it in Shakey, but the original broadcast is even more amazing. Neil was moving so fast and so wild, the cameras struggled to keep up with him. I guess they recorded something like the video equivalent of a multi-track because for the re-broadcasts, they went back and re-edited the performance so that Neil is always centered for whichever rigid camera shot was chosen.
Most YouTube uploads have come from Comedy Central re-runs or the SNL 25th anniversary music DVD box set, but I know at least one person out there who uploaded a VHS copy of the original broadcast - quality was low, but I was able to rip it and put it somewhere on a drive.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 13 November 2021 06:48 (two years ago) link
I remember reading about that before I saw the clip; it was less that the cameras struggled to keep up with him and more that he was purposely fucking with the cameras, ducking out of shot whenever possible. I first saw it on a 1990 rerun on NBC, and was confused: Neil was squarely in all the shots. I still haven't found/seen the original live broadcast, but yeah, SNL made sure that even the first reruns on NBC had Neil in frame.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 13 November 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
I think I saw it live as it broadcast. Does he break almost every string on his guitar in the retake version?
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 13 November 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
It was the same exact performance for both versions, they just re-edited the multi-camera footage. I know because when I found the crappy YouTube upload of the original broadcast, I swapped the audio out with the audio from the SNL 25th Anniversary DVD and it was a perfect match. I still need to find it - the video quality was so poor (looks like a dub of a VHS dub, etc.), I never felt compelled to watch it that often.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 13 November 2021 18:01 (two years ago) link
OIC
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 13 November 2021 18:03 (two years ago) link