AUDIO: Stills-Young Band - "Cowgirl in the Sand", June 27th, 1976, Springfield, Massachusetts.

Stills-Young Band on "Cowgirl in the Sand" from the June 27th, 1976 show in Springfield, Massachusetts.

This tour infamously imploded after only 18 concerts with Neil Young leaving the tour for Stephen Stills to carry on.

Neil's infamous telegram to Stephen:

"Dear Stephen,

Funny how things that start spontaneously end that way.

Eat a Peach,
Neil."

More on Long May You Run: Stills-Young Band.

Also, see Stephen Stills and Neil Young: My Spectrum Memories in Photos and Words .

Also, see REVIEW: Light Up The Blues 4th Annual Concert w/ Stephen Stills, Neil Young + Others - Los Angeles, CA, May 21, 2016.

Also, see Flashback: The Stills/Young Band Plays 'Cowgirl in the Sand' in 1976.

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UPDATE #7 - Thrasher's Wheat 20th Anniversary T-Shirts (ROUND #2) + Shirt of the Moment: Trapped

w/ Usher Karen
Don Henley - Wolf Trap, Vienna, VA, 9/7/16

Here is the Shirt of the Moment from the Don Henley concert at Wolf Trap in Vienna, VA, last night. (Actually, it was pretty good, especially his newer, non-Eagles material. Great backing band, too.)

This is a ROUND #2 shirt version which was debuted last night to rave reviews by the Wolf Trap ushers who quote (kid you not) said: "We've been seeing these all summer!".

To our eyes, the ROUND #2 shirt version seems to have a bit more blue shading than shirt version #1. We'll ingest a few more before making a call on preferences. :)

Also, if you recently ordered a shirt on the 2nd round of Thrasher's Wheat 20th Anniversary Shirts, here is the latest update. The tie dye crew in Hawaii has completed their task and the shipment has arrived at TW HQ on the mainland North American continent! Letting the shipping begin. We're going to do our best to get these packaged and posted this weekend. So hopefully we'll have these out to folks in time for Farm Aid/Telluride/Desert Jam/Bridge etc.

w/ TW Tour Manager Hounds That Howell
Don Henley - Wolf Trap, Vienna, VA, 9/7/16

ps - got a Shirt of the Moment shot?! Send it to us at thrasher@thrasherswheat.org

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An Attempt To Explain The “Difficult” Neil Young Records | Vinyl Me, Please

Where The Buffalo Roam
Soundtrack w/ Neil Young

Have you ever been in that situation where you're trying to explain Neil Young's catalog and it becomes increasingly clear that the other person just doesn't "get Neil"?

If so (and we know we have all been there before) then here's just the trick -- the handy guide: An Attempt To Explain The “Difficult” Neil Young Records from Vinyl Me, Please.

Here's the chapter on soundtracks by Neil Young, including the Where The Buffalo Roam gonzo film on Hunter S. Thompson:

Ever one for confounding his audience’s expectations, Young followed his 1972 smash hit Harvest with the movie Journey Through The Past. It’s an experimental documentary that patches together backstage footage, live performances, television appearances, news footage and other strange clips into an abstract retrospective of Young’s career. Featuring performances by Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and notable solo cuts including a rambling 16-minute rendition of Harvest’s “Words”, it also includes weird non-Young cuts such as The Tony & Susan Alamo Christian Foundation & Chorus performing part of Handel’s Messiah and a random Beach Boys instrumental, neither of which were excluded from the vinyl soundtrack release. Rolling Stone called the record “a depressing combination of sloppy music and verbal filler” and declared it “the nadir of Neil Young’s recording activity.” It was never released on CD.


Young’s next foray into the world of the soundtrack was an even scrappier affair. He provided the incidental music to Where The Buffalo Roam, the 1980 flick in which Bill Murray played the gun-totin’, drug-poppin’ gonzo author Hunter S. Thompson. Its soundtrack features classic tracks by Hendrix, Dylan and others but, in true gonzo spirit, Young’s seven contributions add up to less than 10 minutes of music and mainly consist of him playing creaky variations of “Home On The Range.”

Young’s film-score masterpiece would come fifteen years later with his collection of music from “and inspired by” Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man. The album includes snippets of the film’s dialogue and its star, Johnny Depp, reading extracts of William Blake’s poetry. But Young is the true star of this disc, having improvised the music alone, using mainly his electric guitar, with occasional passages performed on acoustic guitar, pump organ or detuned piano. While unquestionably among Young’s weirdest ever moments, Dead Man is also one of his finest idiosyncratic achievements, on which he crafted a distinctly eerie atmosphere that invites parallels to ambient music, post-rock and the melancholic drone metal of groups such as Earth, yet all the while remaining definitively, unmistakably Neil.

More albums explained on An Attempt To Explain The “Difficult” Neil Young Records from Vinyl Me, Please.

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Photo of the Moment: Neil Young - Paris, 1982

Neil Young - Paris, 1982
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The Photo of the Moment is of Neil Young in Paris, 1982.

We have no further info on this photo. But we had not seen this photo before and at first it looked like it was from the Rust Never Sleeps 1978 era.

Any further info is appreciated.

UPDATE:

Neil Young - Thursday 16 September 1982 - Ile St Germain, Paris
http://www.uneviedeconcerts.com/archives/2010/01/04/16458011.html
(Translation from French.)

"Let me be clear: this evening, this is not anyone that we will see, it is Neil Young! A giant, and one of the only survivors still credible 1970s and of the hippie dream… The problem of Neil Young in 1982, is that his eternal public seems never to have listened to that "Harvest" or "already seen" (two albums magnificent, but that is not the question!!!), and do not know nor "Rust Never Sleeps," nor the blazingly "TRANS", his last album, hyper-electric power (…but without doubt when not even very inspired, c is true…). Where the misunderstanding frightening tonight between "Tiger" and its public. But let us go back a little back…

Strange place to a concert that this Ile St Germain, located in front of Issy les Moulineaux on the Seine! Access is not obvious, and - will be seen at the end - to make out several thousands of people at the end of the concert will be the challenge... It is quickly obvious to me, listening in on conversations around me that Neil drew this evening a public by too traditional, who has more desire to listen to the acoustic songs Extracts from "Harvest" or "comes a time" (cruel contraflow on the ticket, elsewhere) that… that Neil will serve him… because it is - fortunately for me - the electrical Neil and flustered which we have right: short hair, held minimum white, it is far from the Hippie imaging-folk. And as, divine surprise, the second guitar is ensured this evening by Nils Lofgren, the ex-small prodigy of the 6 strings, we are going to have the right to a beautiful deluge of electricity... The concert begins very, very strong with the sequence of Don't Cry No Tears / Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and Cortez the killer! I am the Angels… but this deluge of electricity is obviously not to the taste of the Babas around me... I laughs to myself: Nothing like a little controversy to spice in a concert! Just the pause solo / acoustics - superb, it is a fact (Old Man, the needle and the damage done, comes a time, a Birds upsetting the piano,…) - and smiles back on the faces of my neighbors. Not for long, however, because while the group returns on stage, Neil we fate a funny contraption with a pipe in which he sings, distorting his voice beyond 1982_09_Neil_Young_Ile_St_Germain_02Any possible recognition. It begins as well the second part of the set, incredible, composed of new songs heavy metal or discoid of occasions of songs known sung at the Vocoder, and may be harbingers of a new style for this artist always in search of new ideas… and which deserves decidedly better that this public of the Ile St Germain, which will even up to boo his idol… new songs, I shall particularly a long and flamboyant come epic Neil has always been able to compose, which is called a priori like an Inca and who will be for me a moment of pure happiness… Note also that the loner will not have played a single note of his last album to date, "Reactor", and that it therefore has visibly Already the spirit turned toward the future and his experiments…

In spite (a little because also…) of my altercations with my neighbors who did not share my enthusiasm, I come away from this evening with the feeling of having lived a great concert, almost an exceptional concert. And to have renewed my covenant of fidelity with this musician outside standards that is Neil Young! " Photos: Jean-Pierre v.

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