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Guster, Wood Brothers & David Wax Museum Cover Neil Young's “Harvest Moon” | JamBase
Guster, Wood Brothers & David Wax Museum Cover Neil Young's “Harvest Moon”
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Neil Young's “Harvest Moon” was covered by Guster with The Wood Brothers and David Wax Museum at Rose Music Center at The Heights, Ohio on Tuesday, June 14.
Many think of the Sugar Mountain website as ‘just’ the definitive
listing of Neil’s live performances and setlists to date – which of
course it is.
But there is so much more information there, and so many
more great features which many may not know about. Here then, together
with direct links, is a selection of some of the most interesting of
those lost ‘rock formations’.
"Johnny Depp’s only collaboration with the brilliant Jim Jarmusch, Dead Man is one of the most striking modern westerns ever made, a stylised, fatalistic fable following the timid Bill Blake (Depp) as he arrives in the town of Machine to start a new life, only to be implicated in a murder and pursued across country by various bounty hunters and law enforcers, while suffering from a mortal bullet wound. Accompanying him is Nobody (Gary Farmer) a Native American who believes that Blake is the reincarnation of the poet William Blake, and decides to help him on his journey to the afterlife.
Neil Young‘s hypnotic, foreboding score gives the film
the momentum of a train, constantly moving, and as the characters move
further from civilization, the melody slowly fades, giving the
impression of a slowing pulse, or a death rattle. "
DIRECTOR-APPROVED DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
-New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Jim Jarmusch -New Q&A in which Jarmusch responds to questions sent in by fans -Rarely seen footage of Neil Young composing and performing the film's score -New interview with actor Gary Farmer -New readings of William Blake poems by members of the cast, including Mili Avital, Alfred Molina, and Iggy Pop New selected-scene audio commentary by production designer Bob Ziembicki and sound mixer Drew Kunin -Deleted scenes -Jarmusch's location scouting photos -PLUS: Essays by film critic Amy Taubin and music journalist Ben Ratliff
Directed by Jim Jarmusch, "The Recording Of Dead Man" documents the scoring of the 1995 film "Dead Man" by Neil Young (more below).
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!)
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!"
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."
I was shooting when Neil recorded that DVD down in Nashville
at the Ryman Auditorium -- the one called 'Heart of Gold.' They told me
that tomorrow we'll give you an hour with Neil to shoot some pictures
but you got to do it at the hotel. I wondered, 'All right, what are we
going to do?" I had this thought: I knew that Neil loves old cars. So I
found this guy who was selling a 1947 Cadillac, and I talked the guy
into bringing the Cadillac over to the hotel for a hundred dollars.
I tell Neil that we're going to shoot some pictures in the hotel, then
we'll go down to the car. I told him I've got this guy to bring down a
1947 Cadillac. He said, "That sounds fantastic." So I get him into the
car and I proposed we drive the car over to the Ryman. And his tour
manager said, "Danny, can you wrap this up?" Neil heard him trying to
cut the shoot short and says, "We're driving this car to the Ryman." I
asked the owner, "Can Neil drive?" and he was like, "Can we ride in the
back?" And I said sure, and off we went. I could see him in the rearview
mirror, and I thought, "This is just classic."
Neil Young and John Mayer 
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