Search and destroy: Neil Young

oh man midnight on the bay is a stone groove

Stills' voice is fucking gross.

haha black coral is hilarious

take it easy DOWN THE-AH
you've only SO MUCH AIR

goddamn these lyrics are next level

Have you ever been down deep?
I mean way down under the ocean
Just inside Odin's reach
Better beware of this potion

And remember you don't belong
It always seemed so unfair
The fishes around will always remind you
Got to go slow, take it easy down there
You've only so much air

When you get a little deeper
If you slow down you might keep her
The sea, unforgiving and she's hard
But she'll make love to you
Show you glimpses of the stars

At about two hundred feet
You realize the peril
But seductive is the deep
That shark over there holds no terror

For a while you really belong
The ocean will always share
You become one like friends and lovers
But remember, take care, she'll try to keep you there

The deeper you go
'Cause of the pressure of the air
The nitrogen comes and goes, gets you high
It's an alien atmosphere

They call it rapture of the deep, be you not afraid
You're too far down by now to be scared
Two hundred and eighty-seven feet
I saw Jesus and it made sense that He was there

So belong but don't be long
There's plenty of ocean to share
Please take heed, there's mouths to feed
The ocean, she'll provide
Don't take more than you need
'Cause Heaven just might be the sea

you take that midnight on the bay, lotta love, and ocean girl and you have the beginnings of neil's great lost yacht rock album.
this could be the cover
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls1o32NzB51qf4c00o1_500.jpg

he has the best face!

maybe he could have repurposed "Kahuna Sunset" by Buffalo Springfield from the archives too

yeahhh, and "wind through my sails" and "sail away" would probably work in there too. there actually was supposed to be a geffen era album called "Island In The Sun."

i love this idea

and lol @

Have you ever been down deep?
I mean way down under the ocean

dancing across the water

and windward passage!

I saw Jesus and it made sense that He was there

BETTER BE-WEAH OF THESE MOOHHTIONS

i'm gonna start using "Have you ever been down deep? / I mean way down under the ocean" when i meet new people

I saw Jesus and it made sense that He was there

I actually like this line! It's my favorite part of the song, along with the weird instrumental intro/outro thing. As gross as Stills' voice is, the delivery helps; the whole song looks fucking ridiculous on paper but...ehh I give up. :)

It's Friday, Defend Stephen Stills Why Not?

That shark over there

Stills' voice is fucking gross.

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Something happens at 1:54 here that makes this^^^ feel like an understatement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NinBbafMn3c

YouTubes of each (though a couple have already been removed), next to brief commentaries by Andy Greene (page by page, but loading pretty quickly this afternoon):
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/20-insanely-great-neil-young-songs-only-hardcore-fans-know-20140515/1-kansas-0315696

how many of these are on Tyler's Sad Movies comp

not all of 'em but if you throw in the bad news and the homegrown comps, i think that about covers it. can't believe "give me strength" isn't on the RS list.

the bad news and the homegrown comps Eh? Where are these?

yonder!
http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/32393488141/homegrown-the-lost-album-neil-youngs-memoir-is
http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/24071228066/bad-news-neil-young-in-the-1980s-as-a-follow-up

lol @ Neil in leather pants btw

lol yeah i like everything about that pic

Thanks! I've got Sad Movies, but don't remember seeing these at all, although Neil's pants ring a bell (not in a good way). Here he is, blazin' a 12 minute "Homegrown" with Willie and the Horse at Farm Aid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uALLzqB9GvY

dang near 13 min., that is.

http://m.rollingstone.com/music/videos/neil-young-teams-with-new-kickstarter-campaign-to-save-the-rainforest-20140728#ixzz38nZJFctQ

Says he's gonna make an album with Willie Nelson's sons, Lukas and Michah. Lukas's voice and lead guitar is differently quirky than his Pa's, to whose Heroes he contributed rolling drama, like a somewhat diffently stoned Jimmy Webb. Hope his group Promise Of The Real get to pitch in, maybe Willie will too. Was more familiar with Micah as visual artis, but he's been showing up live with his relatives and Neil, doing his share. Pono's out now---text and more on the video, though haven't watched yet:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-recording-new-album-with-willie-nelsons-sons-20150108?utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=010815_16&utm_medium=email&ea=YmFtYWxsYW1hQGFvbC5jb20=

*are* differently quirky, duhhh

jeez typos fuc u fone

here's a show from last year w/ the nelson boys' band. "the promise of the real" is like the worst band name of all time, but I can imagine neil thinking it was real cool. http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1989

Silver & Gold came on shuffle yesterday. Much better than I remember it.

Album cover art done with the Game Boy printer

i enjoy random tracks from silver and gold when they come on unexpectedly, yea. but whenever i put it on intentionally i tend to get bored.

i remember being a little bored with comes a time when i first got it, too, but that one gets better and better the more i listen to it

Yeah, some of those albums really require some time and room to grow on me. The thing about Lukas is, judging by his own albums and appearances, live and studio, with his father, seems like he could participate at whatever level Neil requires: as a co-writer, duet partner (vocal and/or guitar), strictly as a sideman, or in the trad country way, as opening act, then as director of his and Neil's backing band, during Neil's set. (What I'd like even more: new Traveling Wilburys incl. Neil and Willie, or at least Neil.)

i hope promise of the real is involved just so they can call it Promise Of The Neil.

here's a show from last year w/ the nelson boys' band. "the promise of the real" is like the worst band name of all time, but I can imagine neil thinking it was real cool. http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1989

I wonder how many people showed up for that Neil Willie + Young Nelson gig.

Oh yeah, I finally got around to checking A Letter From Home on Spotify (don't buy; sound quality's not worth it). From my P&J comments, soon for bloglivian:

A Letter Home: Mostly well-chosen chestnuts, though Jerry Lee’s version of “Early Morning Rain” is the only one that totally keeps the song’s I-been-there aspects from eventually turning into schlock of recognition via droning mildew accumulation of self-pity: he goes from firm declaration, “cold an’ Drunk, as Ah can be,” while sounding all-too-cold sober (worked up to a tolerance level again?) to getting tickled at the sad truth that "Naw, yew cain’t hop a jet plane, like no freight train."
Also mostly good performances, starting with an impromptu but sincere-sounding letter to Mom, advising her that it’s time to talk to Dad again, since they’re finally in the same place, and "Remember how we used to watch the weather report together, up in Winnipeg?” Telling her ‘bout how there’s a weatherman for the world now, named Al, and people getting mad at him when things go wrong, and they’re going real wrong, all over the world. (He’s in a record booth in Memphis, and being history-minded, maybe thinking about how, when Elvis first recorded at Sun, he was making these same auto-dispense records for his own Mom.)
But the sound quality is sometimes distracting, especially when his acoustic guitar sounds out of tune, if not warped. Really self-indulgent, and he should have made it a free download---although that wouldn’t appease vinyl freaks, so here y’all are.
Nice surprise: his piano does sound in tune, rollicking through “Reason To Believe,” of all sad songs---inappropriate, but who cares. Also good piano on “On The Road Again,” good neck harp too, and Jack White picks and sings bits there too. Young leads me through some lyrics I don’t remember noticing before, like when he and White do the Everlys’ “I Wonder If I Care As Much” (teven in the moments he thinks he can’t bear, even then,“I wonder if I care”: depression as self-defense, self-medication?) But think I’d think about more if the surface noise and wobble didn’t come through even on digital files. “Don’t overthink it,” he’d prob advise. So that's all.

welcome to the desert of the promise of the real

Didn't they release a clean-sounding version of this album? They called it Audiophile version, IIRC.

i really love A Letter Home, and the sound quality seems as intrinsic an element as the lo-fi quality of prime GBV, which I also love (so ymmv)

Noise of recording mechanism etc. is more noticeable with this kind of music; I don't mind it w garage rock. Good to know there's an audiophile version of this, though prob pricey.

R.I.P. Tim Drummond:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tim-drummond-bassist-neil-young-bob-dylan-dead-20150112

yeahhh bummer. rough time to be a neil young bassist -- first talbot has a stroke, then rosas dies and now this!
drummond had an amazing career -- from james brown to neil to dylan (and that's just scratching the surface).

Yeah, totally. Tim was with Brown for the Boston '68 show (the night after Dr. King's assassination) and the Vietnam tour (where they were supposedly shot at) -- after that, dealing with Neil's mood swings must've felt like a vacation.

so many good drummond quotes in the csny doom tour oral history:
"The promoters supplied us with cocaine if we wanted it. I was like, 'I'm not putting this shit up my nose.' I was into cocaine back then, but I got my own. Then they all came to me wanting some of mine! I had to send somebody out to help these guys out. There was an ample amount. You could find it anywhere. I did my share, and I'm still here. It's all a matter of how smart you were. There wasn't any heroin, though. That took you the other way."

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-oral-history-of-csnys-infamous-doom-tour-20140619#ixzz3OdXqOh7Z

hahaha holy hell:

Drummond: "He played us all the songs from Blood on the Tracks on acoustic guitar. We were on twin beds, across from each other. Oh God, I can't tell you how great it was. At one point Stephen said something to him about the songs not being good. I was so Goddamn embarrassed. He was probably coked out. Dylan, being the arrogant man that he was said, 'Well, Stephen, play me one of your songs.' That was the end of it. Stephen couldn't even find one string from another at that point."

they should do a quantum leap type show where stills travels from time period to time period negging shakespeare, genghis khan, etc