NEIL YOUNG ARCHIVES BOX: IT'S REALLY HAPPENING

at least neil is working hard on archives vol II now ... oh wait no he's not, he's driving cross country in his weirdo electric car

"hey, let me show off how ecologically responsible I am by traveling cross country in this car that runs on renewable energy. what's that? oh, that's my diesel tour bus."

You'd have figured Willie Nelson had turned Neil onto bio-diesel by now.

or hemp oil.

It's my impression that Pono had sorta replaced the electric car as neils pet project

http://lincvolt.tumblr.com/

Of course, everyone has the right to an opinion, and my opinions, based on real science and scientific research, are always open to attack or misinterpretation. With this in mind, I visited a church in Iowa looking for a sign. I wanted a sign to tell me if I was doing the right thing by campaigning for cleaner fuels and more responsibility with regard to fossil fuel abuse and carbon waste. I drove my car to a little church on a hilltop in the middle of a cornfield. I parked right in front and walked up the steps and sidewalk to the white wooden church, with its impeccably manicured grounds, no litter, completely clean and well cared for. I opened the door, took off my hat and walked in. The church was empty and silent. I looked at the neat rows of pews, immaculate in their order and cleanliness, and imagined the congregation, small as it must be, gathering for worship on a Sunday. In my mind I asked for guidance, something I am not in the habit of doing.
After a few silent and peaceful moments, I turned towards the door, signed the guestbook, Neil Young, California. Then I made a contribution in a small wooden box. As I opened the door and exited the church I put my hat back on and walked along down the perfectly trimmed sidewalk back to the steps I had initially climbed. Looking down at my feet I saw something out of place. A small piece of corn stover, a cob with no kernels left, was there on the step. I felt a rush of something I had not experienced before as I stooped down to pick it up. It was light in my hand and looked exactly like the corn stover I had seen the day before in a laboratory at POET Ethanol where I had gone to learn how Cellulosic ethanol was made. I had learned how this stover was carefully collected, used and managed so enough was left in the field to replenish the soil. I am not a very religious man in the normal sense, but to me this was a sign I felt in my soul, a spiritual feeling that I was doing the right thing. I give thanks to the Great Spirit.” ~ My driver and bff Neil Young.

Moses had a burning bush. Neil had a used corn cob.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/9ce8b2334a3f0212f2969efe74e19459/tumblr_ml7a81Pmmu1qzxikdo1_1280.jpg

When did Neil turn into skinny Van Morrison?

He found a corn cob in Iowa?! Yeah, definitely a sign.

neil is a corny dude

It's uh. . .

http://pitchfork.com/news/52163-neil-youngs-digital-music-service-to-launch-in-2014/

https://www.facebook.com/NeilYoungPono/posts/626518460715191

To everyone who loves music –

I’m very happy to bring you some good news. All of us at Team PONO have been focused on getting everything right for our early 2014 launch of Pono.

Which is why the first two albums we are releasing on PONO are Homegrown and Oceanside-Countryside

The simplest way to describe what we’ve accomplished is that we’ve liberated the music of the artist from the digital file and restored it to its original artistic quality - as it was in the studio. So it has primal power.

Hearing PONO for the first time is like that first blast of daylight when you leave a movie theater on a sun-filled day. It takes you a second to adjust. Then you enter a bright reality, of wonderfully rendered detail.

This music moves you. So you can feel. That’s why so many musicians are behind PonoMusic – this is important work that honors their art. This is the way they wanted you to hear their music.

PONO starts at the source: artist-approved studio masters we’ve been given special access to. Then we work with our brilliant partners at Meridian to unlock the richness of the artist’s music to you. There is nothing like hearing this music - and we are working hard to make that experience available to all music lovers, soon.

Our mission is also to make PONO just as accessible as any music you buy and listen to today. So we’ll be launching both the PONO portable player – an updated version of the one I showed on David Letterman’s program – and an online library, with all your favorite music available in PonoMusic quality. Everything you need to feel music anew.

Stay tuned for more updates. And be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter for the latest information. We hope you’ll try PONO when it comes your way, and that it brings you the soul of music.

Yours, for PonoMusic –
Neil Young

Old man take a look my wallet

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdO9orWQ-Nk

goddamn it neil

wait ok waterface did you add the line about oceanside countryside and homegrown?

Our mission is also to make PONO just as accessible as any music you buy and listen to today.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume Mr. $90-triple-vinyl doesn't mean "accessible" in financial terms.

So are these just going to be 24/192 wav files with weird DRM?

Neil is acting like he's invented something that already exists

wait ok waterface did you add the line about oceanside countryside and homegrown?

― My Little Pono (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:47 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*winks*

*bans*

Wow this is so weird being banned

goodbye, waterface

but srsly excited to hear this one in pono
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/23682421/Goodbye+Waterface+2550twi.jpg

love you guys, i'm listening to Homegrown as we speak up here in heaven it's fuckin sweet!

*spliff*

Hearing PONO for the first time is like that first blast of water in your face when you leave a movie theater on a sun-filled day.

^^Neil pays a guy to do that to him.

^^Sometimes he has him do it inside a 1952 Buick

Hearing PONO for the first time is like that first blast of water in your face when you leave a movie theater on a sun-filled day.

― tylerw, Thursday, September 5, 2013 2:29 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Why, when I read that, do I get the feeling Neil means "it actually super sucks at first and sounds really fucking weird but you get used it"

I can't stop pronouncing it ponyo in my head.

"hearing PONO makes you want to retreat into whatever dark place you just emerged from"

is PONO BLU RAY because BLU RAY

POCO ON PONO!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/Poco_1970.jpg

YOKO PONO
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/19/Yoko_Ono_Fly.jpg

LARRY, ADAM, EDGE AND PONO
http://www.concierto.cl/wp-content/blogs.dir/104/files/2013/01/u2-2.jpg

PLASTIC PONO BAND

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/17763319/John++Yoko+Plastic+Ono+Band+2plasticonoband.jpg

i can't see the word without getting MacArthur Park stuck in my head

"and I'll never play that MP3 again...PONO!!!!"

off-topic @tylerw: according to my virus program the aquarium drunkard (that's where you write occasionally, don't you?) contains malware, sophos blocks the site.

Neil Young's electric Lincoln broke down in the Sierra:

http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/newsletter/7928624-113/lincvolt-car-neil-officers

There's a metaphor in there somewhere.

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQlwdq7YycGlRlnh_axBMeQfLUEivY1-aE_tRzxKsEH_WMJiPOy

is this something I'm going to mispronounce for years like vimeo

How do you mispronounce vimeo?

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

I know right

vuh mayo

or vim ayo I guess

I pronounce it like "video," but with an m.

mideo

xxxxxxp to alex - hmm, i'll let the guy know. i know he was having trouble with it before, but thought he had it sorted.

the pun only occurred to me after somebody mocked me for mispronouncing it like, uh, last year

POno poNO vimeeo vimayo let's call the whole thing off

So are these just going to be 24/192 wav files with weird DRM?

Neil is acting like he's invented something that already exists

― My Little Pono (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, September 5, 2013 3:11 PM (1 hour ago)

if he managed to marry spotify to hdtracks.com that would pretty f'kn sweet tho

wait isn't he acting like he invented something that doesn't exist

haha yeah that's what i meant

is pono streaming?

i don't know!

pono is a mystery.