Search and destroy: Neil Young

http://pitchfork.com/news/58515-neil-young-partners-with-streetwear-line-supreme/

Is this the story of Johnny Spud?

Human Highway is a v fun movie

if you haven't seen it already

http://pitchfork.com/news/58515-neil-young-partners-with-streetwear-line-supreme/

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, March 18, 2015 4:04 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ugh.

This Shirt's For You

I say this as a huge Neil fan and a defended of even his more questionable musical turns but, what the fuck is going on with this guy? Mid-life crisis several decades late?

divorce is expensive

neil is planning on living to be 146 years old, so this is right on schedule.

Those LincVolt dealies cost $40k each to convert, and I can't imagine Pono's anywhere close to turning a profit.

tbf he's not singing for spud yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-QYAWXK7fo

http://www.supremenewyork.com/random/neil_young

this interview seems to suggest he's a) doin' it for the kids and b) miserable

I hear that releasing Archives II in recognizable & viable formats has the equivalent effect of a year's supply of Prozac.

dammit he doesn't wanna look back at the damn mid-70s and all those songs about pegi and carrie he wants to save the world in an electric car with the skateboard kids

didn't he have to sell off some of his ranch land a few years ago because he needed the dough?

all the money he continually sinks into boondoggles like Lionel, LincVolt, PONO, etc have to hurt after awhile even for a guy who made a lot of money

but that said it's like he was never outside of Harvest like a mega album act like the Eagles or Fleetwood Mac either

man, broke/single/bitter/old neil is going to make some heavy albums. the new ditch trilogy! just gonna be moans and feedback.

i imagine neil young has made as much $$ from cover versions as from his own albums.

also CSNY

This Shirt's For You

― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, March 18, 2015 1:39 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thought this was 'This Shit's For You' and figured it was a wash either way

man, broke/single/bitter/old neil is going to make some heavy albums. the new ditch trilogy! just gonna be moans and feedback.

― tylerw, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 21:50 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'd totally listen to this tbh

moans and feedback

I'm stealing this

He should just put out more volumes of "Arc."

is arc on pono yet?

i wonder if they will ever release the "real" authentic Weld David Briggs which were apparently only ever on the VHS film version?

but seriously not to harp on this again but I was just listening to the excellent 2CD basement tapes raw by dylan which i got for $20 and i think about how amazingly awesome dylan's bootleg shit is being handled and how pissed i am at neil sometimes

yup

does dylan get really involved with that stuff or is he like, "as long as i get paid and can release ten of my hot sexy new jams every two or three years"

general impression is that he isn't super involved, likely for the best

in general dylan doesn't seem like the kind of guy that would want to fuss with that stuff

He painted a new cover for the Self Portrait box, he's contributed to liner notes for a few of his sets, and presumably he has to give his OK for anything to get released. But I can't imagine Dylan himself trawling through boxes of tapes, or doing any listening beyond a cursory airing of the finished project.

oh yeah i mean i don't know he approves everything but in general he's not like neil who basically retained some guy to live on his ranch and work on the archives full-time for like 20 years and apparently fucked with said dude and changed his mind about stuff like a zillion times

i wonder what neil would say if you noted how comparatively neurotic he is about this stuff than dylan

he would instantly open the vault

or say some shit about quality v quantity

then write a song about it

he would instantly open the vault

or say some shit about quality v quantity

then write an song album about it

Dylandale

"Me and Bob, we got an innarresting history/heard him sing on the radio in my Dodge in '63/Hey now now hey now now"

we got an innarresting history. Indeed they do. For instance, some book, maybe Shakey, lays out a couple of evenings in California, think it was: some place D. hadn't played for a while, and everybody's all excited, it's going well, and, then top it all, a surprise appearance by "Neil Younnng, everbuddy, here he izz!" So they launch into a tune, it goes on for a while, turns out great. And then---Neil kicks off another. And stays for a long time, maybe the rest of the show.
Second show (next night, I think): "Oh wow, here's NeilYoung again, folks! Ah..."

haha yeah i just re-read that and neil was like cool bob that was great see ya tomorrow night! and bob was ummmmm

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1F0kKiRnvEU/TW7V5sUn3lI/AAAAAAAAApc/EvwuHrfKroM/s400/bob-neil-4-1-86.bmp

tight bros from way back when

Dylan in a 1985 interview:

The only time it bothered me that someone sounded like me was when I was living in Phoenix, Arizona, in about '72 and the big song at the time was "Heart of Gold". I used to hate it when it came on the radio. I always liked Neil Young, but it bothered me every time I listened to "Heart of Gold." I think it was up at number one for a long time, and I'd say, "Shit, that's me. If it sounds like me, it should as well be me."

i think i know what dylan means there, but at the same time, "heart of gold" doesn't seem like a total dylan copycat.

Young's a much better singer than Dylan

also songwriter and guitarist but i suppose that's debatable

Isn't there a story about Dylan kind of stalking Neil around that time? "Heart of Gold" doesn't sound like Bob all that much but something about it really punched his buttons.

yeah i remember that quote and honestly I don't really get it, unless Dylan just in his head lays claims to the entire swatch of US folk rock (which, you know, he COULD in a way), but neil's chord voicings, that real heavy half palm muted downstrokes on the one-and + kenny buttry's boom-bap drums, and sort of dreamy half-coherent lyrical approach are so unique to neil

neil's basic acoustic rhythm playing is SOOOO good, it's nothing fancy or super complex fingerpicking or thrilling like his full-flight crazy horse jamming but that's why he's so great on the harvest style/goldrush/etc material, he has a "heavy" right hand and conveys a certain heaviness and rock solid rhythmic drive to stuff that nobody else from that era, like whoever you want james taylor etc, had

yeah i mean, maybe the closest thing is john wesley harding (which buttrey played on as well) but that's not really dylan's signature "sound"...
don't know about stalking... dylan showed up unannounced during the zuma sessions in 75.

Dylan: "Wait a minute, it sounds like he's wearing my harmonica holder!"

I feel like basically all classic rock stars were constantly drunk and coked up from 72-76 and all running into each other in the larger LA area

def the time and place I'd go to if able