neil young

New album sounds like a soundboard bootleg - is it? - and I'm all about it. The Horse marches on!

Kind of, I assume:

The album was recorded at a private birthday party held at the Rivoli in Toronto, Canada on November 4, 2023.

Surely the internet has identified the birthday girl or boy in TO?

it was the CEO of Canada Goose clothing, who is apparently one of the richest people in Canada

ain't singing for Pepsi, am singing for goose

Ahem

"Ain't singin' for Pepsi, ain't singin' for Coke
I will sing for Canada Goose, 'cause goddamn those are some nice coats"

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, November 13, 2023 3:58 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I humbly apologize for badly redoing the same thing, months later :-(

That's ok. It's a pretty obvious connection/joke.

Saw Young & Crazy Horse tonight @ the huge Jiffy Lube Amphitheatre in Virginia 40 minutes or so from Washington DC. Nice rocking version of Powderfinger with the band, and tuneful takes of "I am a Child" and "Helpless" solo

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/neil-young-and-crazy-horse/2024/jiffy-lube-live-bristow-va-7bab9a4c.html

I was there. Fantastic show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAXvSd118Ko

US Secretary of State Blinken playing “Rockin in a Free World “ on guitar with a bar band in Ukraine, and then Neil Young adding that song as an encore in US had Young trending a bit on Twitter x.

i was there for that encore last night and i confess the name antony blinken did not cross my mind. pretty much exactly as great as so many other crazy horse shows i've seen thru the decades. that man and that band are miracles of nature. a little more low-end noise and feedback than usual, maybe, and they had to power through some annoying sound system glitches in the final 20 minutes, which they did with zen-like grace. neil miming and playing acoustic air guitar during the first breakdown was adorable. damn that version of "sedan delivery" during the encore -- ragged glory, as it were. and "vampire blues," hell yeah.

i was there too. was very pleasantly surprised to hear "vampire blues." bold move to start your show with the best song ever ("cortez the killer"), but he pulls it off.

one of my favorite moments was when the mic wasn't working so he thanked the crowd by shouting into his les paul pickups

thanked the crowd by shouting into his les paul pickups

oh yes that was great

i almost forgot about the organ dangling from the scaffolding for "like a hurricane." that was cool and amusing.

that was the only song that used the organ and it hung by the horse's head for the whole show

i was checking resale tickets for tonight's show but the price and for standing in the rain had me make other plans. obviously regretting it.

I heard tonight's show was supposed to be much better than last night's. Video for last night's is up FWIW:

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

FWIW, here's them in 2012, and I was at this show, about the same distance away too but in the center. They still sound great but seeing how much they've aged, I feel like this could be the last time they play NYC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23FrtI9lENE

yeah, that was a big factor. i've only seen NY/CH once and it was on the absurd greendale tour but from the videos i've seen i may just have to settle for that.

i was there too on tuesday. the best part of the PA outage was when they cranked up the stage amps and tore into "hey hey, my my." direct from neil's amp to my ears.

his voice sounds better live (in the 2024 video) than it does on that ragged glory redo

love that video of tuesday's show. good to hear "hey hey my my" from someone who was close enough to hear it right from the amps.

i was trying to figure out how neil would cue the halftime parts on "sedan delivery," seems like he just gives ralph a look and boom, it slows down. it always takes billy and the guitar player a second to catch up haha

Looking into seeing him next week, cheapest tickets I saw were $205. Not my favorite venue in the area and the timing would suck due to other commitments, so don't think it'll happen. Just crazy to think it would cost me more to see Neil than what I paid to see Dead & Co. at the Sphere.

good to hear "hey hey my my" from someone who was close enough to hear it right from the amps.

i was way up in the bleachers but the sound was reaching me all the way up there. not with the clarity of the PA, but i could immediately identify the song. it was like seeing the beatles! (who also played the forest hills stadium once, iirc.)

120 bucks in OR for lawn GA. far less than i was expecting and i didn't have to fight scalpers or bots really

At show I was at Neil didn’t let them use video screens, but it looks like they were used at his New Orleans Jazz Fest gig .

Is it crazy to think it would cost more to see NEIL YOUNG than phish? Is it crazy?

(not excusing the shitty ticket prices here, but come on son)

i've now realised where you wrote Dead & Co, I read phish. still.... point stands

Eh, my point was more the venue than the band really, the Sphere was an expensive ass thing to build and with all the hype I feel like they could have justified a higher price point. If it was any other bog standard venue, I would naturally expect Neil to cost more. But this specific event/venue did surprise me (and I understand your main point is more a dig at the relative quality of the music, which I don't disagree with, but I also think my point still stands).

i was way up in the bleachers but the sound was reaching me all the way up there. not with the clarity of the PA, but i could immediately identify the song. it was like seeing the beatles! (who also played the forest hills stadium once, iirc.)

― Thus Sang Freud, Thursday, May 16, 2024 11:00 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes i could hear too! but the p.a. was cutting in and out, which was distracting

At show I was at Neil didn’t let them use video screens, but it looks like they were used at his New Orleans Jazz Fest gig .

― curmudgeon, Thursday, May 16, 2024 9:46 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah i was bummed about this at the phx show, they really just way out there and you dont see any of the guitar faces or band interactions or pickup switching or expressions. i enjoyed the show but it couldve been way better with the screens on.

When I saw him in 2012, I was genuinely surprised that he was still using as stage decor the giant amps from the Rust-era. I knew he used them for the Ragged Glory tour preserved on Weld, but I hadn't seen any video or pictures of recent shows, just audio from a ton of bootlegs, so it was actually a pleasant surprise for me. From a certain distance it probably looks hilarious if you're not jaded by it - tiny Crazy Horse rocking out among the amps - but I can see how it's a drag if it supplants any screens that would've been helpful.

I saw him in 2001 and there were no giant amps that I recall - but in 2013 he had all the giant stage props and istr scientists with clipboards and lab coats scurrying around! really appreciated the dumbness of it!

2001 had a fantastic setlist of all the songs you'd want them to play but 2013 was the better show for me - the psychedelic pill material really gave the set purpose and cohesion

So they just dropped "Everybody's Alone" on streaming as a single with a vintage black & white cover pic of the Whitten-era band with the title "Early Daze"...

Facebook banner describes it as a "Historic Collection of Early Recordings from 1969" and it's out via Reprise on June 28th.

A bit more information here:

https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/neil-young-and-crazy-horse-early-daze/

Very excited to see them in a few days, along with my dad. Will be my first time seeing Neil, his second - the first was at Woodstock. Was thinking about that yesterday and getting really tripped out about it, wondering if I'll be lucky enough to see 2 shows by the same artist 55 years apart, the mind reels

This early crazy horse single sounds great, look forward to the album

Kind of a slacker indie 90s vibe tbh

https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/neil-young/listening-to-neil-young-after-coming-out

UMS and I drove to the Chicago gig, which was "postponed" but of course wasn't announced as such until we were at the venue and the whole rest of the trip was, at times a challenge and UMS kept saying "man, none of this would be bugging me if we had seen a great Neil Young show last night"

Hopefully everyone is ok

lol such a bummer, we were all just sitting in the uber stunned when we saw the "concert cancelled" sign

oooof. feels like neil should be gifting everyone who was canceled on a free year of archives subscriptions or something. and a hand-rolled joint? someone else i know flew to austin only to have lightning cancel the show.

He should let us decide what the next Archives release is

I admit I'm a little bit concerned about this, plz post any updates here

Man I would like to have a concrete update, naturally a lot of rumors flying out there without anything official to fill the vacuum.

from a facebook neil group guy: "For those just a little concerned over the lack of any news, I have heard from someone definitely in the know that in terms of the reported illness, “everything is ok and nothing serious”."

Yeah weirdly the lack of updates convinced me that it wasn't anything to be alarmed about, though obv these are some well-rode horses so it is always a concern but seems like a "no news is good news" sitch

I also drove through 3 hours of some the worst driving weather I've experienced in a long time so I trying to be philosophical about the whole deal