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An unofficial news blog for Neil Young fans from Thrasher's Wheat with concert and album updates, reviews, analysis, and other Rock & Roll ramblings. Separating the wheat from the chaff since 1996.
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/31/2013 05:49:00 PM
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/30/2013 05:28:00 PM
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/29/2013 08:08:00 PM
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/28/2013 12:04:00 PM
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/27/2013 10:47:00 AM
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— elisabetta malvagna (@bittimalva) July 27, 2013
e stasera un bel NEIL YOUNG & The Crazy Horse live in Rome …ci sta proprio bene! #neilyoung pic.twitter.com/BhBN74toBH
— Adolfo Franzò (@AdoFRANZO) July 26, 2013
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/26/2013 05:45:00 PM
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse http://t.co/lFbKUoGwmI #FaceTheMusic #FTM
— Mickey Mac (@MickeeMack) July 26, 2013
Gran concerto neil young #LuccaSummer pic.twitter.com/PKGq6M6s1d
— Sara 'Princi' (@SaraprinciSara) July 25, 2013
Neil Young #summerfestival pic.twitter.com/JQFslwnive
— Nicola (@nicvaccani) July 25, 2013
Waiting for Neil Young in beautiful Lucca #LuccaSummer pic.twitter.com/JSLPnuw25t
— Jorgen Vranken (@jvranken) July 25, 2013
We're rocking in the free world! Come on Neil Young! #LuccaSummer pic.twitter.com/hDPVW0uiFT
— Jo Shore (@pennbrookjo) July 25, 2013
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/25/2013 05:34:00 PM
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July 24th nearly 6 o clock in the morning..comin back home by car after a long ride 430km from western switzerland, all clothes , all is wet, wet as can be after all that....Very, very cool wolle! We've had the privledge of some epic LAH ourselves, but never the total 3D experience. Maybe someday...
First all of it started in a very good mood, nice weather and a beautiful organized paleo festival , it was my first time there and i was overwhelmed by the people there, all continents were there , african musicians, asian people, food and art and music from all over the world.
The concert of neil young and the horse began at night at 23.00 pm and it started with an epic long version of love and only love, got over to powderfinger with 3 solo parts after another, moved over to the psychedelic pill and a tremendous burning thundering walk like a giant over to hole in the sky and then the acoustic part began with heart of gold. After that song, neil was not comfortable with the hank williams D28 , was not in tune ...the new larry who looks like andy warhol had to come out and tune hanks guitar on stage while neil was standing there grinning.
At blowin in the wind it happened a lyrics mistake and at comes a time he had a wrong chord but didn't matter^^ then he started with singer without a song and no woman with a guitar bag was seen on stage the first time he played that xD but as he started playin that a cold wind came around the scene and thunderbolts and then it began slightly to rain...neil saw that and played it til the end , stood up from the piano and then the wind came mighty and blew his black hat from his head away! Neil was surprised , saw that rain also from the roof comin down on stage and the flashings at heaven . He ordered the organ to get it down on stage and they began like a hurricane to play!
The thunderstorm now was more and more heavy and like the monsoon at australia the storm blew us nearly away we got wet all around and neil and the horse played the strongest, most brutal but also melodic and most emotional hurricane ever heard at concert!!! he sang nearly 6 verses of hurricane he played solo 100 times over hurricane, at the end of the song he started again from the beginning and all culminates into an extended excessive sound and thunder , that was so incredible to the whole scene all around !
The audience was so great and cheered to the boys on stage tremendously so they played on and on. Neil saw the wet audience gave hurricane a thunder ending and moved immediately over to rockin in the free world and the water of the monsoon came rollin down from the hill behind me and right beside me so i stood in a lake!
We cheered the horse and held the line like soldiers at a kamikaze mission and neil and the horse appreciated that much that they came at the end of rockin to the front of the stage and bowed to us neil prayed to us, after they decided to break down the concert because of the incredible storm and too much rain . I thought while he played hurricane, now it is the right moment to die , have no fear, neil and the horse are staying with you, leading you the way to the nirvana, while the stage bursts and break down on me.
i couldn't imagine such a concert in my hardest dreams and it took place reality! It was a spiritual moment feeling the power of nature the storm and the energy the horse played and filled the earth altogether with that enormous power and thunder . That was really magic! After the concert broke down i try to get to my car walking through rivers that the rain caused and found my car and could get out of that mud , drove many hundred kilometres through thunderstorm through switzerland to germany back in the prairies where all was dry but all things i had were almost wet and i was still alive-
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/25/2013 09:04:00 AM
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/24/2013 10:57:00 PM
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Q: It would be so easy to play two hours of hits and then one or two new songs. That's what most other bands do in your position.More of Billy Talbot interview in Rolling Stone.
Billy Talbot: When we were in Australia, we were in the same hotel with Kiss. We heard that one of them said, "I have the best gig in the world. I've been playing the same 17 songs for 35 years." We heard that and it didn't sit right with us.
Our job isn't easy. It's not meant to be easy. Our job is to keep the edge, be out on the edge, always seeing, exploring the limits of what we do and who we are, never letting up. Spiritually and cosmically, not to sound all hippified, but we don't sound good unless we're really connected and on the edge of everything.
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/24/2013 05:37:00 PM
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like a hurricane baby #neil young pic.twitter.com/ADyAODFvmC
— Frank Rheme (@frankrheme) July 23, 2013
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/23/2013 06:05:00 PM
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“How could people get so unkind?”Thanks for sharing Wiindigoo! Great memories.
At this particular landing zone of the alchemical psychedelic mothership, I was riding the Holy Rail stage left. Like Mr. Leighton writes, emotions ruled and rolled.
The prayer in Love and Only Love, “Spirit come back to me, Give me strength and set me free, Let me hear the magic in my heart” was like the full moon pulling all of that water around inside my head until it was leaking out of my eyes. Ideally, perhaps, the venue at Mercedesstraße 69 would have a retractable roof so that we could all cool off and the moon could play along, but Luna was a definite session player in the proceedings. It the only date on the European leg coinciding with a full moon (see the moon icons on http://www.neilyoung.com/tour.html), and the Horse was on stage maybe an hour and a half after the exact full moon moment (19:16 at UTC +1). Those heavy tides resulted in yet more anonymous rantings above, matched in comedy by the staged Alchemy road eye fights, and the emotional weight of countless sublime moments.
Considering it was 22 July in the middle of a German heatwave, it did appear that we were involved in a sweaty summer rock concert. That may have been a factor for a woman also clutching an unholy break in the rail who got overwhelmed with boozy consequences midway through Hurricane, or maybe it was her gut reaction to the deliciously heinous bass frequencies from Poncho’s tie-dyed suspended Danger Bird organ rig. The hairs on my arms and my internal organs were surging in the unparalleled deep bass waves. The onstage stacks produced a massive range of sounds and the clarity and intensity of the vocals revealed so much undiscovered poetry. At the Berlin show that opened the European tour, these new lyrics eluded me: “The tracks ahead were long and straight, We were riding on a desert wind, We were pulling in the spiritual, Riding on the desert wind…” But last night, Neil as the gunslinger led the Crazy Horse ka-tet through to the spiritually shining lights. The poetic imagery of his storytelling shone through, and he connected directly with so many of us. Mr. Reindl’s Full Moon Hurricane definitely happened.
As in so many shows this tour, they connected with each other in joyful ways, like Billy sharing an intimate laugh with Neil after Surfer Joe or Neil reaching out and holding onto Ralph after his long walk around the stacks from the drum kit for the final bow. At the piano bench, Neil may have had to ask, “Can someone turn off that fan? It’s louder than I am,” but I don’t think anyone other than Anonymous Number Two can say that they didn’t enjoy themselves. I’ve never felt closer to these guys, their music, or myself as a soul lurching and dancing around on this hot spinning planet than I did last night.
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/23/2013 04:32:00 PM
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/22/2013 05:36:00 PM
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/21/2013 05:28:00 PM
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Great, amazing, giant ! @neilyoung #vieillescharrues pic.twitter.com/7yRU1ZHHXp
— Clem V (@ViardClem) July 22, 2013Neil Young Soundchecking pic.twitter.com/vebH6L89kS
— Bastien Phillips (@BastienPhillips) July 21, 2013
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/20/2013 05:33:00 PM
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/20/2013 11:23:00 AM
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/19/2013 05:08:00 PM
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/19/2013 09:13:00 AM
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Neil Young+Crazy Horse on stage in Biarritz- simply phenomenal. Thanks so much! Inoubliable @neilyoung @bigbiarritz pic.twitter.com/2ct8bw4Wxp
— Walden (@Jurassicfan) July 20, 2013
NEIL YOUNG! KEEP ON ROCKIN' IN THE FREE WORLD! :) and namasté ;) #NeilYoung @neilyoung @bigbiarritz #BigFest pic.twitter.com/QF2vhEKvRk
— Namasté (@Namaste_blog) July 19, 2013
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/18/2013 05:31:00 PM
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse on "Mr.Soul" and "Hey Hey, My My" in Vienne, France 15/07/13. Thanks Iñaki!
by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/18/2013 09:08:00 AM
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Patti Smith + Neil young + Crazy Horse + Arenes de Nimes = espectacle inoblidable. pic.twitter.com/bfk7rczxCv
— Xavi Ruiz (@NSXavi) July 18, 2013
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/17/2013 05:13:00 PM
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/17/2013 09:07:00 AM
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/16/2013 09:04:00 AM
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"@NicoPraz: What a night ! Thanks to Neil Young & The Crazy Horse, one of the best gig ever #NeilYoung #Vienne pic.twitter.com/c7NwXjHePv"
— ivaxavi (@eltioneil) July 16, 2013
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/15/2013 05:20:00 PM
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My interpretation on this section of Neil's "So Long and Good Night" speech is he is being all inclusive. The "We" to whom he is referring is All of the Crazy Horse Personnel (those on and off stage) and each member of the 20,000 plus audience at each concert. The audience and Crazy Horse meld in to one body grooving to the music and the message from the muse. So, I believe he is speaking to all of us because we have all become one.
As far as Poncho's gestures/theatrics, he's always been the most demonstrative of the three on stage. He's continuously interacting with the audience. Billy and Ralph quietly go about their craft, and I'm sure sometimes Ralph is watching the Yankee game on his iPad.
Is Poncho signaling something or is it Poncho being Poncho? As wise man once asked me "What's in a gesture?" Every time I go see a show, any show, I just assume it will be the last time I see the musicians so I stay in the moment, in the groove, be with their muse and enjoy the ride.
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/15/2013 09:05:00 AM
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Mr. Neil Young @ moon&stars Locarno #neilyoung @APizzicannella pic.twitter.com/TiQbZ76A95
— Gianpiero Canino (@gianpierocanino) July 14, 2013
My 14 hour nightmare journey to see Neil Young in Locarno was worth it. One of the best guitar frenzies in years, and what a setting!
— Chris Lowndes (@chrislowndes) July 14, 2013
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/14/2013 05:07:00 PM
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/14/2013 10:28:00 AM
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/13/2013 08:41:00 PM
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/13/2013 10:30:00 AM
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse yesterday in #Köln #RNRwillneverdie pic.twitter.com/gdeL2Cyydd
— Sito Bauza (@SitoBauza) July 13, 2013
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/12/2013 05:04:00 PM
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/11/2013 08:10:00 AM
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/09/2013 06:00:00 PM
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Now, that visit is being documented with the latest package from Third Man's rarities-oriented subscription series the Vault. The package includes a live album, a poster, and a unique 6-inch record featuring Nelson and White.Live at Third Man Records:
The Live at Third Man Records album is credited to Willie Nelson & Friends. It features a host of high-profile guests including Neil Young, Norah Jones, Leon Russell, Sheryl Crow, Ashley Monroe and, of course, Jack White.
The three-sided release comes on so called "smokey grey" and "bio-diesel green" vinyl, with the blank D-side featuring an etched graphic of the famed palomino horse Trigger.
As for the 6-inch record — which is the label's first-ever record of that size — it was laid down in Third Man's recently unveiled vinyl recording booth. It's pressed on transparent yellow vinyl and housed in a die-cut sleeve, and features White and Nelson duetting together on "Red Headed Stranger." It was presumably easy to fit the song onto the small 6-inch record, since the booth only allows for recordings of 111 seconds or less. The B-side is an etching.
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/08/2013 05:49:00 PM
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Last week started on an absolute high when Neil Young & Crazy Horse’s Alchemy tour rocked up to London’s 02 Arena, turbulence in its wake, some of the crowds they had recently played to evidently unhappy with aspects of the band’s current set, notably the long jams around the songs they are playing from last year’s Psychedelic Pill, especially “Walk Like A Giant” and the extended feedback cacophony of its final 10 minutes, which was spectacularly brutal. Audiences in Birmingham and Newcastle had been from all accounts clearly agitated. In Dublin, a couple of days before the London show, there had been boos, which perhaps hasn’t happened to Neil since he took Trans on the road in 1982.And so it goes.
Uncut reader Paul Horton went to the Birmingham gig and was sorely disappointed. Like similarly disgruntled commentators in Newcastle and Dublin, he bemoaned the fact that Neil and Crazy Horse hadn’t played any of the songs he had expected to hear. He cited examples of Neil’s ‘great music’ like “Southern Man”, “Alabama”, “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” and “Old Man”, which Paul seemed to suggest should have been played out of some kind of servile obligation to fans, as if Neil has ever felt ‘obliged’ to do anything apart from what to him at any given moment is important. That the songs he wanted to hear weren’t played Paul described as “shameful”.
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/07/2013 11:11:00 AM
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/06/2013 08:08:00 PM
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The time has come to make changes in the way that Broken Arrow is published. For the past three years we have been struggling with increasing costs generally and the spiralling cost of postage in particular. These increases have (apparently) been required as part of moves to privatize The Post Office here in the UK. The reality is that a magazine that three years ago cost less than £3 to post airmail to the USA now costs £4.20 (nearly $7). That’s an increase of 40%. We have raised subscriptions to cover some of these recent postage increases but you might remember we decided to absorb last years. Presently a US subscription is $41 and needs to go to $45 this year and higher in future. The cost for Europe in terms of increases is no better. In the past many of you have said that you will pay whatever rate is required and many members also make annual donations to the NYAS – some quite substantial. Both gestures are much appreciated, but Jo and I are increasingly uncomfortable with a subscription that could go to $50 or more – it just gets silly.When we initially read this, we were concerned about the log term future of both Broken Arrow & NYAS. Keeping these orgs strong and ongoing should be everyone's goal. We've been a supporter of NYAS going into our 4th decade now and hope it continues its long run.
We have costed out postage alternatives (especially bulk carrier to the US and Europe and then local distribution) but the saving isn’t that significant and this route adds a layer of complexity to the operation. We have also considered printing fewer pages to get the weight of the magazine below 100grams for printed paper – the lowest category possible – and therefore a reduced postage rate. But to achieve that an issue would only be roughly half the size it currently is, and we have rejected that too.
However the NYAS and Broken Arrow have been a major part of our lives for the past 12 years and after 130 issues since 1981 we are determined to keep it going if at all possible. And I’m very conscious that a big part of BA’s attraction is that it is a paper magazine that you can hold in your hands and read at your leisure, without squinting at a screen. I have said in the past that we won’t move to a purely web-based magazine and I stand by that. But we can’t increase subscriptions to the required level and need to find another way forward. Our proposal is this:
Jo and I will carry on doing exactly what we do just now, but Broken Arrow will be made available quarterly as a downloadable file. Subscriptions will be significantly reduced to £5 (or equivalent) per annum The magazine will look almost exactly as it does just now. Those members who are happy reading it on screen can do so. Those who would prefer to read a hard copy can print it off. If you want a neat copy for your collection you can go to your local print shop and have it properly printed and bound, using your saved subscription cash! It might be possible for some kind of ‘print-on-demand’ service to be established in each country or continent, with an agent (possibly an NYAS member) co-ordinating the printing for those keen on that. This possibility will be investigated in the coming months.
We propose to start this new approach from March 2014. To get to this position we will produce paper magazines for September and December 2013. March 2014 will be our first download. The cost of subscription renewals for the rest of this year will be pro-rated on the number of printed magazines you still have to pay for (either two or one). The new subscription rate of £5 (or the dollar/euro equivalent) will start from March 2014. To reduce costs we will be looking to phase out payment by manual cheques; payment will be online, via PayPal or bank transfer online for preference - but by cheque if you really can’t do that. There will be a small number of members who have paid beyond March 2014 and we will allocate future subscriptions at the new rate from those monies (so your money is now going much further into the future!)
I am very conscious there are some NYAS members who do not have a computer and rely on the paper magazine for their Neil Young information. I believe most local libraries offer free internet access and a small charge for printing. Your challenge in the next nine months will be to make sure you learn how to use these facilities so that you can access and print the file off. Once you’ve worked out the routine it shouldn’t be difficult. We hope to run trials in September and December.
In a way, I am sorry we have had to make this decision but we think it is the best option available. However, one big bonus with a file is that the magazine will be in full colour, and should look really good when printed! (Well, if you have it printed in colour…) Up until December 31st we will continue to accept new members but their subscription will also be pro-rated on the number of magazines that they will receive up to March 2014.
One final point. There may be someone out there who would rather take the NYAS and Broken Arrow forward in a new and creative way. Jo and I would step aside in the coming months if someone comes forward with an attractive proposal. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you would like to discuss this and we welcome your thoughts on this whole subject. Remember – it’s your society and your magazine.
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/05/2013 04:17:00 PM
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/04/2013 10:55:00 PM
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This Land Is Your Land
This folk song was written by Woody Guthrie in the 1940s to a pre-existing melody as a response to “God Bless America” which Guthrie was tired of hearing. The lyrics Guthrie sang varied over time, but the lyrics sung in the Americana version were in the original manuscript of the song.
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by thrasher@PermaLink: 7/04/2013 08:56:00 AM
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