I only wish Neil would release the original version of "Box Car" - that's the only Times Square track that hasn't been properly released.
FWIW, here's the disc I made based on a Japanese bootleg of that rough-sounding acetate. I pieced it together from official sources, but I also made two changes for my own listening preferences - I subbed in the electric version of "Crime in the City" from Bluenote Café (the definitive version of that song IMHO - "I got thrown out of Bible school / For givin' a finger to the preacher") and also replaced "Someday" with "No More." I never understood why Neil included "Someday" - he perversely derided it as one of his Perry Como tracks even before it was released.
1. El Dorado2. No More3. Crime In The City (Sixty To Zero) - live, electric 1988 version4. Box Car5. Don't Cry - unedited version from the El Dorado EP6. Heavy Love7. Wrecking Ball8. Cocaine Eyes9. On Broadway
Bonus tracks:
10. Rockin' In The Free World - from the Saturday Night Live: 25 Years of Music DVD11. Needle And The Damage Done - from the 1989 Saturday Night Live broadcast12. No More - from SNL25: Saturday Night Live, The Musical Performances, Volume 2
― birdistheword, Thursday, 10 November 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link
Yeah, that's a strong (and dark!) album there — though I do have a soft spot for "Someday" ... At some point Neil put up a "sneak preview" of "Fuckin' Up" recorded with the SNL 89 band (I think) that would fit right in there, too.
― tylerw, Thursday, 10 November 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
I know - even without my tweaks, I always thought Times Square was like THE album to showcase the appropriately named "Old Black." I'll have to find that preview of "Fuckin' Up" - I'm still waiting for him to follow through on that promise to put those sessions out in their entirety.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 10 November 2022 15:53 (one year ago) link
still waiting for him to follow through on that promise
honestly, this could be appended to the thread title
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 10 November 2022 15:55 (one year ago) link
I too dig "Someday." I wasn't crazy about it at first; the tinkly arrangement grated initially, but I soon realized it was perfect for the bleakness of the third verse.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 10 November 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
yeah, that verse is incredible — "smog might turn to stars ..." kind of brutal.
― tylerw, Thursday, 10 November 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
tyler, apologies if I've already missed it, but will you be reviewing World Record anywhere?
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 10 November 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
not a review, but I just interviewed Billy Talbot yesterday! I'm slowly working my way up to Neil, haha. Should be up on Aquarium Drunkard towards the end of the month.
― tylerw, Thursday, 10 November 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link
nice
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 10 November 2022 17:03 (one year ago) link
Neil Young & Promise of the Release
― nickn, Thursday, 10 November 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
I prefer that touring lineup over BDSM & Young
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 10 November 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
^^50 Shades of Neil
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 10 November 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
xp - nice! can't wait to see that interview
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 10 November 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
Crazy Horse Glamour Shot, 1994 pic.twitter.com/AY1JJ5iY9h— QueenCityJamz (@QueenCityJamz) November 11, 2022
― bible fumes (stevie), Friday, 11 November 2022 20:38 (one year ago) link
How do you do, fellow kids?
― StanM, Friday, 11 November 2022 23:41 (one year ago) link
Harvest Time gets a couple of theatrical showings here next month--have to skip the first, so lucky I can catch the second.
― clemenza, Saturday, 12 November 2022 13:51 (one year ago) link
Very enjoyable Neil Young birthday program from WFMU’s Joe Belock. https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/121440
Happy Bday Neil!
― mizzell, Saturday, 12 November 2022 14:09 (one year ago) link
https://www.cbc.ca/music/neil-young-says-he-will-no-longer-tour-unless-the-venues-are-clean-1.6652645
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 17 November 2022 05:59 (one year ago) link
I see you, Morrissey, and I will one-up your demands.
So I guess this means we will likely never see Neil Young tour again, unless he tours farmers markets, which would be cool.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 November 2022 13:13 (one year ago) link
Just picked up World Record today so I haven't had a chance to spin it yet but, lol Neil spreading out a 46 minute album over two CDs. The second disc, consisting of the final two songs, is a whopping 17 minutes.
Did someone tell him spreading out over more CDs helps fidelity too?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 20 November 2022 22:42 (one year ago) link
Saw a trailer for Harvest Time tonight, looks fantastic. I do wonder if there'll be lots of overlap with Journey Through the Past.
― clemenza, Monday, 21 November 2022 01:10 (one year ago) link
there's some overlap with JTTP on Harvest Time, but plenty of fresh footage and all presented in a much more pleasing fashion than that previous movie. A great watch, really takes you into the famed barn.
― tylerw, Monday, 21 November 2022 13:47 (one year ago) link
That's great to hear, I always hoped there'd be extra footage of Neil sitting on his car hood eating strawberries.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 21 November 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2022/11/30/billy-talbot-of-crazy-horse-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 1 December 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
That's a great interview, thanks Tyler!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 1 December 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link
thanks, fun to talk to Billy!
here's a little crazy horse mix I made this week, too: https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/702450351410954240/through-hills-and-valleys-over-creeks-and-rivers
― tylerw, Thursday, 1 December 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
nice!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 1 December 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
I'm going to see Harvest Time at Alamo Drafthouse this weekend. Looks fantastic.
― ilxor, Friday, 2 December 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
"Chevrolet" is so great.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 2 December 2022 19:24 (one year ago) link
Don't read this if you want to see Harvest Time cold.
First thing that made me happy: in a theater that seats ~200 (196 to be exact, if I counted rows and columns correctly), I'd guess there were 70 or 80 people there tonight. I've been in a lot of near-empty theaters the last three years, so I thought that was pretty great. (The venue added two more screenings after their first two.)
Towards the end, I started thinking they could have cut maybe 20 minutes: a couple of jam-type things I didn't recognize (not sure if they were actual songs), and when you circle back to "Words" for the fourth time, I thought once again I'd never make it through Peter Jackson's Beatles film. But that was about it.
I questioned returning to "Alabama" a second time (which I love, by the way; I love "Sweet Home Alabama" even more, and love that Neil was smart enough to cry uncle and start playing Skynyrd's song live), but then it cut to CS&Y in the studio laying down backing vocals, and that was great. I thought Stills and Crosby were living under a mountain of cocaine at this point, but they seem perfectly lucid and musically engaged in the film--Stills gets off a good line later where he calls Neil on stealing from himself. I also think Stills in a black cowboy hat is one of the coolest looks ever. I love "Are You Ready for the Country"; I think like "Cripple Creek Ferry" and "Till the Morning Comes," it's one of those throwaways that captures Neil's early-'70s genius as well as anything. The most moving few minutes for me was Neil recording "A Man Needs a Maid" with the London Symphony Orchestra playing right alongside him; I'd probably always taken it for granted that the song was constructed through transcontinental overdubbing. And Neil beaming when they get it right (he was initially unhappy because he thought the LSO was lagging by half-a-second) is beautiful. The two Elliots are both in the film, Mazer and Roberts, though of course not in the same room, because that's never happened. Neil's deadpan intro to the film--the Neil of today--killed me; almost Bidenesque in its rambling, aw-shucks, is-he-losing-his-memory? folksiness. (Funniest line in the film proper was Neil saying the only thing he had to hide from the world was the fact he was a rich hippie.) There's a scene with a kid DJ (or something) in Nashville that's great, including "Maggie May" playing in the background. I so wanted Neil to say something about the song--he does bob his head a couple of times.
I'm glad drugs are minimized; except for maybe Chet Baker in Let's Get Lost, watching someone high on screen has always had minimum appeal for me. Tim Drummond (I think) pulls out his drug paraphernalia at one point, and Neil is clearly high when playing "Out on the Weekend" on the banjo, but I think that's it.
Maybe it was intentional to lead up to "Heart of Gold" and "Old Man" right at the end, but they wait so long, they almost seemed tacked on out of a sense of obligation. I wouldn't have missed them (liked hearing "Journey Through the Past" much more). Only song MIA: "The Needle and the Damage Done." Not sure what that means.
The little bit of Carrie Snodgress is touching. I wanted more, of course.
― clemenza, Sunday, 11 December 2022 03:01 (one year ago) link
Oh--Neil's ginormous muttonchop in profile when he plays "Out on the Weekend" is reason enough in and of itself to see the film.
― clemenza, Sunday, 11 December 2022 03:02 (one year ago) link
Wish they had provided captions when Neil was talking to the LSO conductor. In the space of a few seconds, did manage to pick up the names of Art Tatum, Ravel, Debussy, Merle Haggard (I might have misremembered that one), and Pink Floyd, who to that point Neil says he hadn't yet heard.
― clemenza, Sunday, 11 December 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link
Some excellent new interviews up on YT. A few weeks old at the most. Sorry if these've already been posted. Great to hear him open up about process an his past.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu5qoYtMw94
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 15 December 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
Something's not right, he's smiling, not scowling.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 December 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
New album's fine and loud. "Chevrolet" is long and loud (it's good).
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 December 2022 17:26 (one year ago) link
Maybe Rubin will introduce Neil to Candace Owens too
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Thursday, 15 December 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
Has this been posted before? Just saw it today, from the SNL dress rehearsal:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwuhk5W3_q0
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 7 January 2023 20:33 (one year ago) link
I think I posted it here somewhere, along with the other rehearsal clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiey2l4mLBc
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 7 January 2023 21:28 (one year ago) link
Three dear, old friends and bandmates for over 50 years, Ralph Molina, Billy Talbot and Nils Lofgren, kept writing and recording songs in their homes during the ongoing pandemic and are proud to share this collection of their music. Their lifelong friend and bandmate Neil Young, added a special track to complete this 10 song compilation.For friends with deep bonds, though at times on different paths, they found that, All Roads Lead Home.ALL ROADS LEAD HOME is available for pre-order now and is outMarch 31 on NYA Records via Reprise Records.CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDERCLICK HERE TO STREAM "YOU WILL NEVER KNOW"
All Greedy Hand Store purchases of ALL ROADS LEAD HOME come with free hi-res digital audio downloads from theXstream Store © at NYA.ALL ROADS LEAD HOME track listing:1. RAIN - Billy Talbot2. YOU WILL NEVER KNOW - Nils Lofgren3. IT’S MAGICAL - Ralph Molina4. SONG OF THE SEASONS - Neil Young5. CHERISH - Billy Talbot6. FILL MY CUP - Nils Lofgren7. LOOK THROUGH THE EYES OF YOUR HEART - Ralph Molina8. THE HUNTER - Billy Talbot9. GO WITH ME - Nils Lofgren10. JUST FOR YOU - Ralph Molinatake a ride"CHEVROLET (radio edit)"
1. RAIN - Billy Talbot2. YOU WILL NEVER KNOW - Nils Lofgren3. IT’S MAGICAL - Ralph Molina4. SONG OF THE SEASONS - Neil Young5. CHERISH - Billy Talbot6. FILL MY CUP - Nils Lofgren7. LOOK THROUGH THE EYES OF YOUR HEART - Ralph Molina8. THE HUNTER - Billy Talbot9. GO WITH ME - Nils Lofgren10. JUST FOR YOU - Ralph Molinatake a ride"CHEVROLET (radio edit)"
― dow, Friday, 17 February 2023 18:45 (one year ago) link
from Michael Galluci's review of Molina, Talbot, Lofgren and Young's All Roads Lead Home, in Ultimate Classic Rock:
...Since none of the album's 10 tracks include pairings of any two of the artists, All Roads Lead Home essentially plays like four solo records collected in a single home. That makes for a scattered and occasionally unfocused listen, already a characteristic of recent Young and Crazy Horse albums. And without leader Young at the helm, the LP often comes off like something thrown together by a local bar band in their spare time.There is some ragged appeal to the setup: Guitars crackle and pop, and split duties mean everyone is free to explore new musical avenues. Not that anyone here strays too far from their folk, rock and country comfort zones. That solo intimacy rarely translates to the one-take, mistakes-and-all spontaneity heard on recent Young and Crazy Horse albums, however.,,,Still, the best songs arrive as individual moments (Talbot's weather-beaten voice on "Rain," the slide guitar assisting Lofgren throughout "You Will Never Know"), rather than as a satisfying whole, though Molina's "Look Through the Eyes of Your Heart" comes closest to classic Crazy Horse, complete with a savage guitar solo. It's enough to tide over fans until Young's next album with the band – which, if recent history is an indication, will be here before long.
There is some ragged appeal to the setup: Guitars crackle and pop, and split duties mean everyone is free to explore new musical avenues. Not that anyone here strays too far from their folk, rock and country comfort zones. That solo intimacy rarely translates to the one-take, mistakes-and-all spontaneity heard on recent Young and Crazy Horse albums, however.,,,Still, the best songs arrive as individual moments (Talbot's weather-beaten voice on "Rain," the slide guitar assisting Lofgren throughout "You Will Never Know"), rather than as a satisfying whole, though Molina's "Look Through the Eyes of Your Heart" comes closest to classic Crazy Horse, complete with a savage guitar solo. It's enough to tide over fans until Young's next album with the band – which, if recent history is an indication, will be here before long.
― dow, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 17:33 (one year ago) link
I just read about the "CSG mix" of the 1968 s/t which was quickly replaced by a mix without Haeco-CSG processing -- has anyone here heard it? Is it worth seeking out? Just a curio?
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Sunday, 2 April 2023 21:49 (one year ago) link
just a curio, I used to have one, the different mixes (only a few tracks iirc? sounded more muted to me
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Sunday, 2 April 2023 22:13 (one year ago) link
you're talking about the pressing with just his pic on the cover and no "Neil Young" title on top, right?
yes and no
The first release of the album used the Haeco-CSG encoding system. This technology was intended to make stereo records compatible with mono record players, but had the unfortunate side effect of degrading the sound. Young was unhappy with the first release. "The first mix was awful", he was reported as saying in Cash Box of September 6, 1969. "I was trying to bury my voice, because I didn't like the way it sounded".[2]The album was therefore partially remixed and re-released without Haeco-CSG processing. Most of the songs from the original album were re-released as-is, only without the Haeco-CSG processing. Only three were remixed, which were replaced on the master tapes: "If I Could Have Her Tonight",[3] "Here We Are in the Years", and "What Did You Do to My Life?".[4] The words "Neil Young" were added to the top of the album cover after what was left of the original stock had been used up, so copies of both mixes exist in the original sleeve. Copies of the original mix on vinyl are now rare and much sought-after by Neil Young fans who believe that the remix diminished the songs, especially "Here We Are in the Years".
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Sunday, 2 April 2023 22:31 (one year ago) link
that's one revision i'm a fan of.
i was in a position to have access to a lender of a copy with the original mixes in advance of committing to buy it and was very appreciative of the opportunity to save myself fifty bucks. glad i held onto my $5 70s reissue with the replacement mixes, which i will definitely agree sounded clearer and just overall better.
(granted this was all over a decade ago, so take that however)
― ''i am the kanye west kanye west thinks he is.'' (Austin), Sunday, 2 April 2023 23:39 (one year ago) link
xxxpost that is an extraordinarily bad ranked list of Neil Young albums, I don't know how you could do much worse
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 3 April 2023 02:11 (one year ago) link
xxp you can tell by the matrix numbers, I definitely had the early mix and I agree w/Austin and not the "Neil Young fans who believe that the remix diminished the songs"
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Monday, 3 April 2023 04:52 (one year ago) link
anytime i visit ILX and see this thread and the yearly rolling obituaries thread in close proximity i get brief panic attack.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 3 April 2023 04:55 (one year ago) link
this is one thread where i don’t have that reaction, i must think of neil as immortal. i guess it will be pretty shocking when (if?) i’m proven wrong
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 3 April 2023 12:30 (one year ago) link
Allmusic today:
Somewhere Under the Rainbow 1973 Review by Fred Thomas [-]Recorded at London's Rainbow Theater in November of 1973, Somewhere Under the Rainbow captures Neil Young at the height of the Tonight's the Night era, having finished that tumultuous album just months earlier and already taking the material to the stage. The Santa Monica Flyers, Neil's backing band on this tour, consisted of pedal steel player Ben Keith, bassist Billy Talbot, drummer Ralph Molina, and Nils Lofgren jumping between piano, guitar, and even occasional accordion. As with so many of the entries in Neil Young's Official Bootleg Series, Somewhere Under the Rainbow circulated as a rough audience recorded bootleg for decades before this official release, and professional mastering can only polish the raw sound quality to a certain point. For this kind of live document, the imperfections are part of the charm. Though boomy renditions of "Albuquerque" and "Mellow My Mind" sound like they're transmitting from the other side of a football field, there's a warm gelling of the vocals and instruments that doesn't happen with more defined multi-track recordings. Anyone deep enough into the Neil bootleg rabbit hole is probably already aware of Roxy Tonight's the Night Live, a far clearer recording of a club date that happened a few months after the Rainbow gig. Roxy has the same backing band and a similar set list, but the two nights carry significantly different energies. While Neil seems to be in loose, jokey form on both, Somewhere Under the Rainbow tones things down for a string of acoustic numbers that weren't a part of the more rocking Roxy date. This begins with a long, ghostly take on "Tonight's the Night" (the second time in the set the band plays the tune), the Buffalo Springfield-era song "Flying on the Ground Is Wrong," the always moving "Helpless," and several others. The night ends with a burning rendition of "Cowgirl in the Sand." Neil's voice cracks a little, and there's an especially wobbly quality to the way the band moves through the 12-plus-minute jam on the song, but it works with the rest of the set. Somewhere Under the Rainbow manages to feel intimate and hushed even when it's rocking hard and spilling out messily. All of the Official Bootleg Series releases are valuable documents of various phases of Neil's career, but this one has a personality that sets it apart.
― dow, Friday, 14 April 2023 17:42 (one year ago) link