NYA Subscriber News: "Clyde Coil - 3 Rail World" Videos

Lionel's 2341 Jersey Central FM Locomotive | NYA

The latest Subscriber News on Times-Contrarian | NYA provides updates to the timeline of videos from 1995 filmed in Neil Young's Train Barn featuring vintage Lionel train models.

The "Clyde Coil - 3 Rail World" series is quite fascinating -- particularly if you're a model train enthusiast. The "It's A Fake!" episode focuses on Lionel's elusively rare 2341 Jersey Central FM Locomotive.

Subscriber News | NYA Times-Contrarian

Of course, who can possibly forget the controversy over the Lionel Greendale Train Set in 2004?


Lionel Greendale Train Set
Who knew the model train enthusiasts could be so viscous vicious?!


Limited Edition: Greendale Train Set
More on Neil Young and Lionel Trains.

Classic Toy Trains - March 1993

Neil Young and Lionel Trains
Also see more on Lionel trains and Neil Young in book excerpts from Legendary Lionel Trains by John A. Grams, Terry D. Thompson .


Neil & Lou
Here's an interesting blog by a Neil Young fan called The Back Part Of The Basement. The blog is written by Lou who also likes model trains and Martin guitars. Here's the story of meeting up with Neil at Lionel train show.



In 2017, Neil Young auctioned off his model train collection, which brought back many memories of Neil with his sons Zeke and Ben and daughter Amber.

Here's a video from the mid-1990's of Neil Young filmed at his California ranch and around his train layout with his family, Pegi, Ben and Amber.

The segment was broadcast on the Nickelodeon Network and hosted by Linda Ellerbee.

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The Making Of Dead Man Soundtrack + Reissue on CD & Vinyl

The Recording Of Dead Man - Directed by Jim Jarmusch

Hearse Theater | NYA

So what could be more a more appropriate film playing in the Hearse Theater | NYA than "The Recording Of Dead Man"?

Directed by Jim Jarmusch, "The Recording Of Dead Man" documents the scoring of the 1995 film "Dead Man" by Neil Young (more below).

Also, today, Friday, March 8, Dead Man is being reissued on CD and Vinyl formats (see amazon.com.)

Announcing Vinyl & CD reissues of Neil’s score for Dead Man, a film by Jim Jarmusch - Available this Friday, March 8.

From Pitchfork- “Old Black is featured in its purest form on the soundtrack for Jim Jarmusch’s hallucinatory western"

Where music lives https://t.co/G4M690w8Qo pic.twitter.com/iX9nxxGqYp

— Neil Young Archives (@NeilYoungNYA) March 6, 2019

This is also a good time to look a little closer at the creative relationship between filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and Neil Young.


Jim Jarmusch & Neil Young
Jim Jarmusch discussed his masterpiece DEAD MAN starring Johnny Depp in a Q&A during Film Society of Lincoln Center's complete retrospective "Permanent Vacation: The Films of Jim Jarmusch" in 2014. (Thanks Hounds That Howell!)

Dead Man (1995) réalisé par Jim Jarmusch avec Johnny Depp pic.twitter.com/lpS2QHSz1j

— o. (@deppendencee) March 7, 2019

Be sure to check first ~10:00 minutes of session where Jarmusch discusses recording the film soundtrack with Neil Young.

Jim Jarmusch: "You can not trick Neil Young! Don't even try, trust me. He is way ahead of all of us!"

(More on Jim Jarmusch on Recording Neil Young for 'Dead Man' Film Soundtrack.)

Director Jim Jarmusch's film Dead Man -- with a Neil Young soundtrack -- was considered by critic Greil Marcus in Salon Magazine to be "the best movie of the end of the 20th century." Among reasons that Marcus cites are: "For a film set more than a century ago, an electric guitar, playing a modal melody, surrounded by nothing, sounds older than anything you see on the screen."

In an interview, Jim Jarmusch said of Neil's efforts:

"What he brought to the film lifts it to another level, intertwining the soul of the story with Neil's musically emotional reaction to it - the guy reached down to some deep place inside himself to create such strong music for our film."

Dead Man film clip
Jarmusch's concert film of Neil Young and Crazy Horse from the the 1996 tour has been called: "A concert film-group portrait that captures as well as any other music movie the natural, untethered essence of live rock." (John Anderson, in the LOS ANGELES TIMES).

Yet, the album Year Of The Horse, contains none of the performances that are in the film. Go figure.


From Australia's The Age Newspaper interview with Jim Jarmusch by writer Stephanie Bunbury:

"For "Year of the Horse", his documentary about a Neil Young concert tour, Young himself suggested the project after he had written the music for Dead Man and they had made a video clip for his song Big Time. "Young said: 'Look, I'll pay for it. Just shoot some stuff and see if you like it, and we'll continue if you do, and if you don't, I'll just put it on a shelf somewhere.' How could I refuse that? And it was a really great experience, because there was no road map at all."

With the discussion of Neil having a new tone on the 2010 Le Noise tour and the followup on some of the technical details on his signature style made us consider one his most distinctive and evocative sonic creations for the 1995 film Dead Man by Jim Jarmusch.

From Now Magazine interview with Jim Jarmusch by INGRID RANDOJA (DECEMBER 18-24, 1997) on Year Of The Horse:

"Neil's incredible," recalls Jarmusch.

We showed him the Like A Hurricane number, which right in the middle of the song cuts from him now to him 20 years ago.

"Neil jumps out of his seat. I thought, 'He's going to say something about how different he looks.' Instead, he says, 'Look at Old Black!' which is the name of his guitar. 'She looks so new and shiny! She was so young back then.'

"We were laughing so hard, but he was deadly serious. He wasn't self-conscious about his own image changing, just 'Look at Old Black. I haven't taken good care of her.'"

But Jarmusch gets serious when he says, "If Neil were a native American he would be a 'contrary' -- a medicine man. He'd have to walk backwards, because everything Neil does is contrary to what is natural.

"Neil is a perfectionist who embraces imperfection. Everything he does is like that, and the more you get to know him, the more you see it in him.

"Jesus, he doesn't even dress like a rock star. He dresses like a garbage man. He doesn't care."

 Jim Jarmusch interview on Dead Man soundtrack An interview with Jim Jarmusch and Neil's Producer L.A. Johnson in Austin Chronicle | 11-10-97 by Marjorie Baumgarten:

Austin Chronicle: What did you see as your greatest challenge in making this movie?

Jim Jarmusch : No, ah, there wasn't a challenge. You know it was really fun and Larry (L.A. Johnson) was so amazingly organized. I wish my feature films could have the same kind of organization because Neil's people, his road people, man we should make a movie just about them. Cause his road crew are like pirates, or a biker gang, or something. Very organized. And they were great.

And then Larry, whatever we needed was suddenly there. Like Neil asked us to go on the road and in three days -- I was in New York, Larry lives in L.A. -- he had all the equipment together, all the film material, everything was on the way. It was amazing. I guess the challenge to it came after collecting the material and sitting down and being open enough so that the material told us -- me and Jay Rabinowitz, the editor -- what the film wanted to be. You know, to just not try to bludgeon it into any form at all, just sort of in a Zen-like way say, "Okay, what do you want us to do with you now?"

That was like the most challenging thing. It was a fun film to make.

#TBT! An old beautiful interview about Dead Man. 🎬 #JohnnyDepp pic.twitter.com/5g9e0RcFgp

— IFOD (@itfansofdepp) March 8, 2019

Also, see:

• Dead Man Film Reviews
• Dead Man on YouTube: More on Neil's Tone
• Year of The Horse Film
• trailer for the film "Year of The Horse"
• Jim Jarmusch interview on directing Neil Young and Crazy Horse in a concert film
• Jim Jarmusch & Neil Young
• Jim Jarmusch: "I thought Neil (Young) might burn psychic rays through my skull..."
• Bible Study with Neil Young & Jim Jarmusch
• Neil Young Films

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Now Playing on Movie Night: Willie Nelson & Neil Young "Are There Any More Real Cowboys?" | NYA

Willie Nelson & Neil Young perform together on "Are There Any More Real Cowboys?" now playing on Movie Night in the Hearse Theater | NYA.

Directed by Bernard Shakey, the video of the song "Are There Any More Real Cowboys?" is from the album "Old Ways" released in 1985. The video will be running until 11:00am, March 7th, 2019.

Get your popcorn!


Neil Young
(wearing "It's all Going To Pot" shirt)
Farm Aid 2017 Concert: Burgettstown, PA, Saturday Sept 16
Photo by Paul Citone | Glide Magazine

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Willie Nelson for Nobel Peace Prize!
for Farm Aid and his work on alternative fuels, and world peace initiatives


Here's the semi un-official YouTube video for the campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize for Willie Nelson. The campaign is based on Willie's work on sustainable agriculture, alternative fuels, and world peace initiatives.

The video was made by Matthew Moore and features previous Nobel winners and poses the question "Not To Know".


Willie Nelson
Over 20,000 have joined the campaign on the Facebook page Willie Nelson for Nobel Peace Prize since starting in 2010.

Willie Nelson has been helping family farmers for over 30 years with the annual Farm Aid concerts and is the founder of the Willie Nelson Peace Research Institute.

fyi, this wasn't TW's idea. It's John Mellencamp's idea.


John Mellencamp is campaigning to get Willie Nelson a Nobel Peace Prize. The interview took place on SIRIUS XM Willie's Place at Farm Aid 25 in Milwaukee, Wisc.

Thanks John for the inspiration!

Thanks everybody for liking Willie Nelson for Nobel Peace Prize page on Facebook!

So if you haven't already, "LIKE" Willie today!

"The resilience and perseverance of America's farm families are helping to build a new system of agriculture.”

~~ Willie Nelson

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Cough Up the Buck$: Song of the Day | NYA

Cough Up the Buck$

"Cough Up The Buck$" was the Song of the Day last Thursday on Neil Young Archives.

From the 2009 "Fork In The Road" album, the song excoriates the Wall St. bailout by taxpayers. The fourth hand-made video for the album, Neil had been quietly making these videos completely on his own, with nothing more than a simple camera and an idea. Filmed in Wichita, Kansas, Neil was also hard at work on the The LincVolt Project.

In his comment on the Song of the Day, Neil Young writes of the financial meltdown and bailout: "There is a piece of history if I ever saw one."

Neil Young - "Cough Up the Buck$" Video

In the "Cough Up the Buck$" official music video, Neil Young performs as a Wall Street executive in the back of a limousine, wheeling and dealing while talking on a cell phone.


"Where did all the money go ?
Where did all the cash flow ?
Where did all the money go?"

Cough Up The Buck$ Crew
HarryO, Volume Drinkers: Brand New Guy, Paul D.
Madison Square Garden, NYC, NY - 12/15/2008
Hearing Neil debut a song like "Cough Up The Buck$" about corporate welfare and reckless greed at Madison Square Garden in New York City -- blocks from Wall St. -- was like going into the lion's den with red meat. Another priceless memory. Particularly, attending with the "Cough Up The Buck$ Crew"! (see photo above)


Protesters on Wall St. September 2008
For the Turnstiles

"All the sailors with their seasick mamas
Hear the sirens on the shore,
Singin' songs for pimps with tailors
Who charge ten dollars at the door."


There's A Bailout Comin' and It's Not For You

ps - it's only fuckin' money.

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