RandallFlagg Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 I SAW COTTON AND I SAW BLACK, TALL WHITE MANSIONS AND LITTLE SHACKS, SOUTHERN MAN WHEN WILL YOU PAY THEM BACK??? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foghat43 Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 (edited) I love Neil...and I've never understood why some people think he's a shitty guitar player. He's actually one of my favorite guitar players.One of my favorite songs...and IMO this version is way better than the studio version he did with CSNY... Edited August 5, 2014 by foghat43 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithium Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Live at Massey Hall is one of my all-time favourite albums.Rust Never Sleeps is also an incredibly beautiful album. My favourite song off of it: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovim Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Neil Young fuck yeah. You can't be 20 on sugar mountain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoSoRose Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Yes, he fuckin' is!One of the last big acts on my "must see" list! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lio Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 (edited) I could never really get into him. Friends of mine are absolutely crazy about him, but I don't get it. Saw him like 20 years ago, but remember little of it. He did a show in Belgium yesterday, and apparently, it wasn't that good. Lots of solos and a 25 minute Down By The River, badly tuned guitars, and Neil Young himself seemed in a bad mood, according to the paper's reviewer. My friends were there too, still have to ask them what they thought, as they've seen him lots of times.EDIT: quite a few reactions on the review from people who say he got it all wrong and it was great. Edited August 6, 2014 by Lio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Lots of solos and a 25 minute Down By The River,It is The Horse. If Neil is with The Horse, expect lots and lots of solos., and expect one or two of them Horse epics to spill over their studio duration. I cannot believe people exist who still turn up to Crazy Horse gigs and are still surprised at the jamming haha. I mean he has been doing this since 1969! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lio Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Lots of solos and a 25 minute Down By The River,It is The Horse. If Neil is with The Horse, expect lots and lots of solos., and expect one or two of them Horse epics to spill over their studio duration. I cannot believe people exist who still turn up to Crazy Horse gigs and are still surprised at the jamming haha. I mean he has been doing this since 1969!Yes, that's what basically a lot of commenters say, that the reviewer obviously has no clue what he's talking about.I just looked it up, when I saw him, it was with Booker T and the MG's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 That would have been around 2000ish. He did an album with the MGs, Are You Passionate? Good shows they were. A bit, Horse-lite, i.e. Horse for casuals, but still good. In my opinion the definitive Tonight the Night was done by that band (it is one a live album, Red Rocks). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lio Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 That would have been around 2000ish. He did an album with the MGs, Are You Passionate? Good shows they were. A bit, Horse-lite, i.e. Horse for casuals, but still good. In my opinion the definitive Tonight the Night was done by that band (it is one a live album, Red Rocks).It was 1993, actually. Yes, we are getting old Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithium Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 I could never really get into him. Friends of mine are absolutely crazy about him, but I don't get it. Saw him like 20 years ago, but remember little of it. He did a show in Belgium yesterday, and apparently, it wasn't that good. Lots of solos and a 25 minute Down By The River, badly tuned guitars, and Neil Young himself seemed in a bad mood, according to the paper's reviewer. My friends were there too, still have to ask them what they thought, as they've seen him lots of times.EDIT: quite a few reactions on the review from people who say he got it all wrong and it was great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facekicker Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Saw him a few weeks back with Crazy Horse. Brilliant gig He played a re-worked electric version of After the Goldrush (it might have been the first time he has done this version) And of course an EPIC version of Rockin In The Free World Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithium Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Been listening a lot to his self-titled debut recently. What an album. His run up until, and including, Zuma is flawless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Neil Young is a terrific album. It is basically an oddity in his discography in that he used, overdubs! He sort of got suckered into the mid-late '60s penchant for over production on his debut, which he obviously abandoned soon after. It was an experiment before he had found his own style. But in a strange way it is one of my favourite albums of his. It has its own niche, its own sound and genius. Neil never returned to this sort of music (and probably never will) so that uniqueness is very distinctive. And there is a great harmonic beauty there with the strings and backing vocals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsh327 Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 There's hundreds, maybe thousands of shows NY & Crazy Horse did together in the vaults, some of them great, some of them not, and the "Year of the Horse" documentary went into that, but they had to have played "After the Gold Rush" before.As far as the self titled goes, you're only talking about a few months after he left Buffalo Springfield when he put that together (the third and last BS album had n the Way Home and I Am a Child) and was probably just beginning to figure out what he wanted, he was just doing acoustic gigs and making a name for himself, then CSNY happened which had to have helped him a bit. CSNY 1974 is awesome especially as far as his songs go. The show had a bad rep for years but been listening to it for the past few weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsh327 Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIwWAX6bHwI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbhutto Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 I love Neil...and I've never understood why some people think he's a shitty guitar player. He's actually one of my favorite guitar players.He's a great "bad" guitar player. But yeah, he's underrated in that department. Tons of guys can do the 1 mil-notes-per-minute wankery antics, but Neil Young makes you feel, goddammit.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KxiEjPCXA8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolio GNR Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 (edited) Great interviewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r10yjyCTcII Edited October 17, 2014 by coolio GNR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Neil Young is a fucking champ. Harvest, Comes A Time and After The Goldrush are some of my favorites. Harvest Moon too. Saw him live twice, which was absolutely spectacular. Especially his live version of Beatles classic A Day In The Life was absolutely mindblowing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 I think I'm gonna give this guys work a proper chance, too many cool people say he's good. Looks a bit of an old hippie though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Dude Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 I think I'm gonna give this guys work a proper chance, too many cool people say he's good. Looks a bit of an old hippie though.Neil Young cannot and should not be pigeonholed. If you want to take a snapshot of a certain point in his career perhaps you could construe that he's a hippie...but that would be a misrepresentation. Essence is the only constant when it comes to Neil Young's work. He's a vessel that never compromised himself (his work) by becoming self-aware in the way that Dylan did. Neil's got the spook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 I've seen the film Dead Man and i know he did the soundtrack to that, which i recall being quite good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Dude Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 That would have been around 2000ish. He did an album with the MGs, Are You Passionate? Good shows they were. A bit, Horse-lite, i.e. Horse for casuals, but still good. In my opinion the definitive Tonight the Night was done by that band (it is one a live album, Red Rocks).Red Rocks!?! You mean the Road Rock release from Red Rocks? Horrendous gig. Undoubetedly the worst live release he ever put out. Shambolic at best. Neil didn't really fit with the MG's. I heard that collaboration aptly described once as "giving Neil Young a subtle rhythm section is like giving a gorilla a palm-pilot." 99-02 was the weakest, most feeble era in Neil's recording and touring career. Horse-lite is not an accurate description in the least. The MG's are the antithesis of the Horse- wholly, completely.I've seen the film Dead Man and i know he did the soundtrack to that, which i recall being quite good.Yes, that was some great guitar- spooky, eerie, haunting, whatever. It added a whole other element to that film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Dude Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 (edited) That would have been around 2000ish. He did an album with the MGs, Are You Passionate? Good shows they were. A bit, Horse-lite, i.e. Horse for casuals, but still good. In my opinion the definitive Tonight the Night was done by that band (it is one a live album, Red Rocks).It was 1993, actually. Yes, we are getting old Wrong. The album was recorded in 2001, released in 2002- but he did tour with the MG's in the early 90's. The shows were tight, but imo a bit stale. I suppose they mastered a lot of the Horse catalog, but those songs weren't really meant to be mastered or be played the same way every time out. The MG's were TOO sophisticated, TOO good of players to play that kind of material. Don't get me wrong- I like everything Neil, but AYP along with the album before it- Silver and Gold I think unquestionably rank near the bottom of his records. There's a few great highlights- Going Home (which was a Crazyhorse track thrown randomnly on AYP), Let's Roll was a strong number that reflected the times. By and large that album was a dedication to his wife (now ex) Pegi. Edited November 1, 2014 by Mr. Dude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 I like AYP and I like it more than many of his other releases, e.g. the woeful Living For War. What about She's A Healer? That is a superb track. It has a guitar sound similar to what he was using with the Bluenotes.I think I'm gonna give this guys work a proper chance, too many cool people say he's good. Looks a bit of an old hippie though.He was one of the few old hippies to not be hung out to draw by the punk movement in the late '70s. In fact, he almost achieves a synthesis between hippydom and punk rock. I think even in the beginning though, Neil was always a bit, odd, to be considered an out right hippy in the 'flowers in your hair' sense. Just look at what he brought to CSN. Yes, you can look at the protest songs, Southern Man and Alabama perhaps but there is always a bit more grit there with Neil. He semi embraced the movement, but he was always looking in from the outside. I think Rust Never Sleeps might be your Neil Young album. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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