neil young

love earth is pretty charming, obviously slight but melodically solid. it's interesting to hear him use crazy horse to do music that would have been more of a stray gators thing years ago.

yeah, and having Nils in Crazy Horse really does change things.

the 15-minute jam "Chevrolet" has some great moments, kind of a more refined version of "Drifting Back" haha ...

they definitely gained some subtlety but i fear they lost that mysterious caveman heavy psych quality that the classic era had

nils is too good!

haha agreed

yeah he might be too accommodating — like, he can do almost anything, whereas Poncho mostly just did that one thing (maybe two things).

Previously uncirculated bootleg of Tonight's The Night-era show shows up at Canadian record store and blows up on TikTok: https://www.thespec.com/entertainment/local/2022/09/29/hamilton-neil-young-mcmaster-1973.html

wow

Where does he keep tape?

don't put it up on tiktok, dude, put it up on DIME

there was a stunt foot man for some scenes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTouMWlq754

That headline from the Hamilton student paper is great: "Disorganized Neil Young."

(Buried in the link.)

https://images.thestar.com/PU6eBF2VoaHOzF2FaIS8qTOluL0=/850x638/smart/filters:cb(1664475261112):format(webp)/https://www.thespec.com/content/dam/thespec/entertainment/local/2022/09/30/hamilton-neil-young-mcmaster-1973/the_silhouette_vol_44_no_8_p6_2_nov_1973.jpg

I don't know, he looks very organized to me.

lol "Nils Lofgren, the leader, looked and acted as though he had taken a double dose of amphetamines before the show, while the other two guitar players appeared to be spaced out on Marijuana."

a really delightful read

lol "Nils Lofgren, the leader, looked and acted as though he had taken a double dose of amphetamines before the show, while the other two guitar players appeared to be spaced out on Marijuana."

"It was very unprofessional - at least to those who had seen the GUESS WHO perform last month, with their closely-knit, well-rehearsed act."

"They had hoped to hear Neil sing numbers from his Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young days."

HOPED-FOR HAMILTON SETLIST:

Helpless
Country Girl
ENCORE - Ohio

A balanced, tour-tight band should include musicians on stimulants, depressants, and hallucinogens of many varieties

XP Don't forget "Sea of Madness"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ5RETXaZOE

^^Clip NSFW (montage of hippie ass near the end)

two things:
1. Rust Bucket Never Sleeps.
2. What about Toast and why did I plumb forget about it and why is no one talking about it here?//

It's tough keeping up with the flood of releases, but Toast is actually good. Not a lost masterpiece, but it's a nice one for discerning fans.

(xposts) Ages ago, when searching for stuff was a fun challenge, "Sea of Madness" was a phantom Neil song for me. I saw it once in the Big Sur film--and I can't remember how I saw that--then spent years wondering if I was remembering correctly.

...and there it was, sitting unloved on the Woodstock soundtrack the whole time.

This would have been early '80s, when I'd seen the Woodstock film but only knew whatever made it onscreen. (Never did buy the soundtrack.)

It's a weird inclusion. They didn't play it at Woodstock; the recording itself was from a Fillmore East show a month later, and was remixed to sound like was recorded outside.

clemenza, Citytv showed Celebration at Big Sur a number of times late at night.

Then I guess that's where I saw it.

(also: Neil Young)

Crazy Horse & @thesonicyouth chilling backstage, 1991 pic.twitter.com/dSo4YLoMEM

— QueenCityJamz (@QueenCityJamz) October 12, 2022

Neil & CH look way more grungy

man that Big Sur movie has one of my all-time favorite concert film moments (right after they play "Sea of Madness", I think) - a hippie starts heckling CSNY about being rich and Still jumps down into the crowd and starts fistfighting him until the terrified crew manages to pull them apart. Then when Stills cools off and is back onstage he's strumming some chords and dopily rambling about peace & love, and says something like "I almost got pulled into a trap there, but luckily I had some friends around me who were able to love me out of it."

xp I love how he still has the Elvis shirt. He may be the old guy in this photo but he looks so young, moreso when I've see the now-much-older Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley at a recent show.

I maintain that, accounting for income, Neil Young and Crazy Horse was the worst-dressed band in rock for many years (I say with affection).

um...you sure about that?

https://i0.wp.com/liveforlivemusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-28-at-3.44.10-PM.png

from about the same tyme as with Youth--here's thee homegrown style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVE7MYBrroQ

He may be the old guy in this photo but he looks so young, moreso when I've see the now-much-older Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley at a recent show.

Neil's only 45 there.

So he is the old guy in the photo, but he and the other CH guys weren't _that_ old. FWIW, everybody in Sonic Youth are looking like 8-10 years younger than Neil & co.

looking

Neil is like 7 years older than Kim Gordon.

Yeah, and Kim actually knew and was friends with Bruce Berry in the early '70s.

Yeah, and Kim actually knew and was friends with Bruce Berry in the early '70s.

whoa, really? that's a sweet piece of trivia. bookmarking the "neil young" thread delivers _again_

yeah say what????

truth rating: ZERO Pinnochios

It’s not an especially chatty book; there aren’t long recreated conversations. But every subject is handled with careful introspection, detail and real feeling. We’re in Gordon’s head as she figures out the world around her. There’s an early Sly Stone song called “Plastic Jim” where he describes a phony poser: “Plastic Jim / Will give you a conversation / To avoid a situation / That needs contemplation.” There’s no plastic here. Even when the material verges on Forrest Gump territory, full of celebrity cameos — during one short stretch in the late ’60s and early ’70s, she’s dating Danny Elfman in high school, then hanging out with Bruce Berry, the roadie whose overdose inspired Neil Young to write “Tonight’s the Night” — it never feels forced or showy. She’s clear on how the people around served her as artistic inspirations, sparking her ideas and giving her the confidence to ­express herself.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/books/review/kim-gordons-girl-in-a-band.html

sorry, to be clear: a Truth Rating of Zero Pinnochios is equivalent to a 100% truth factor

lol that took me a minute to figure out

there are all sorts of truth systems

ZERO PINOCCHIOS WITH THEIR PANTS ON FIRE!

it's very simple. there are 4 pinnochios with very long noses. But none of their pants are on fire, so

there are four pinocchios but none of them got no t bone