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INTERVIEW: Neil Young on Beck NFL Ad Controversy | AARP

Neil Young in Shangri la Studios photo by Joey Martinez (Click photo to enlarge)

In an interview with Neil Young in AARP by Edna Gundersen, he discusses what happened with the Beck NFL Ad Controversy.

 

Beck Covering Neil Young’s ‘Old Man’ for NFL Commercial

 

AARP: Beck’s cover of your song “Old Man” for an NFL ad caused a stir because you have always refused every offer to commercialize your music.

Neil Young: "It was mismanagement. 

It was presented to me not correctly, and I didn’t make the right decision. I love Beck. I didn’t know he was doing a football commercial with my song. I don’t think he knew it was a commercial. Somebody made money off it, and it wasn’t me. I don’t want to get paid.

I wish it had never happened. Accidents happen."

Yep, accidents will happen. More coming below ...

Full interview @ "Neil Young on His New ‘World Record,’ Beck NFL Ad Controversy and Converting Kanye to Climate Action | AARP by Edna Gundersen.

As you may recall earlier this Fall, the Beck NFL ad sparked a bit of a flare up on the long running controversies involving artists selling out for commercial purposes.

 

Sponsored by Nobody?!
Neil Young's 1988 "This Note's for You"

 

At the time, Young posted a photo on Instagram, showing him holding a beer bottle with a label that reads, "SPONSORED BY NOBODY" without a caption.

Neil Young| Instagram

The photo posted on IG is from the video for the 1988 Bluenotes song "This Note's for You" in which the musician parodied fellow artists (like Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton, etc.) who used themselves and their songs for product and company advertising.

We here at TW proceeded to pile on the grief and implicate Merck Mercuriadis, founder of Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited in the fiasco.

"There will never be a ‘Burger of Gold’":

 Merck Mercuriadis - Founder, Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited

(See These Notes Are For Who? Neil Young Sells Song Catalog Stake For $150,000,000 )

 

So thanks for clarifications Neil and all apologies to Merck Mercuriadis and Hipgnosis. "Accidents happen." (Incidentally, look for a major financial analysis on the subject as an exclusive here @ TW in 2023.)

 

Othewise, we'll just not go there on Beck having a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Performance for a Neil Young cover song of "Old Man. 

 

Best Rock Performance Grammy Nominations 2023

(or see The Story Behind Why Neil Young Has Never Won a Major GRAMMY Award)

More on our earlier cautions about "risking the "family jewels" which was actually addressed directly by Neil Young himself on NYA. (Also, please note some of our clarifications on this subject after the giant hullabaloo/kerfuffle in 2021.)

 

 

 

"gotta watch out for the greedy hand

the greedy hand"

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Unboxing Video: Harvest 50th Anniversary Edition by Neil Young | Davy's Cinema Flicks & Music Picks

Neil Young - Harvest 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Unboxed & Reviewed | Davy's Cinema Flicks & Music Picks

 

Here is an unboxing video and review of Neil Young's Harvest album 50th Anniversary Boxset Edition by Davy's Cinema Flicks & Music Picks.

  

Thanks Davy, as always. Sure hoping you're feeling better soon so you can enjoy the holidays fully. No apologies needed. Take care.  Thanks again for sharing your review and candid opinions. Love & mercy.

It's a shame about the BBC DVD Audio Issues on Neil Young's Harvest Anniversary Edition boxset. But it looks like NYA will be addressing based on Neil's comments on the link just above.  

Harvest by Neil Young - Released on February 1, 1972

(see ESSAY: Neil Young’s Harvest at Age 50 +

"Neil Young's Harvest: A Multi-Voice Narrative" by Harvey Kubernik)

Also, see:

• REVIEW: Neil Young's Harvest 50th Anniversary Edition (CD/DVD) | All About Jazz
• BBC DVD Audio Issues on Neil Young's Harvest Anniversary Edition boxset 
• Details on the  50th Anniversary Edition of the album Harvest 
• HARVEST Outtakes by Neil Young: "Journey Through The Past"
  
• Unboxing Video: Harvest 50th Anniversary Edition by Neil Young
  
• ESSAY: Neil Young’s Harvest at Age 50 by Harvey Kubernik 
• "Neil Young's Harvest: A Multi-Voice Narrative" by Harvey Kubernik
• Neil Young Remembers "The Innocence": WORDS
• Neil Young's "Song of the Day": "Are You Ready The Country?" + VIDEO 
• Neil Young's Memories of Recording Harvest Album: "Sessions of a Lifetime" <
• Neil Young's Song Of The Day: "Heart of Gold" + 1971 Interview 
• Unboxing Video: Harvest 50th Anniversary Edition by Neil Young 
• INTERVIEW: Neil Young Says He Was Offered Millions to Tour Harvest Album | AARP
  

 Harvest 50th Anniversary Edition Deluxe LP Box Set Release Date: 12/02/2022  (Click photo to enlarge)

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Audio Issues on BBC DVD w/ Neil Young's Harvest 50th Anniversary Boxset Edition

PROBLEMS WITH BBC CONCERT DVD
Neil Young Archives | Times-Contrarian  (Click photo to enlarge) 

As some of you are aware, the Harvest 50th Anniversary Edition appears to have major audio issues with the BBC DVD in the package.

Harvest 50th Anniversary Edition Deluxe LP Box SetRelease Date: 12/02/2022
 (Click photo to enlarge)

 

On Neil Young Archives | Times-Contrarian, Neil addresses the quality issue:

 

12-13-22

PROBLEMS WITH BBC CONCERT DVD

We have an issue with the quality of one of the discs in HARVEST 50th. We are talking to Reprise about how to handle this so you get what you paid for. I am very sorry if you have a DVD that is not perfect. We are working on a plan with Reprise for those of you who feel the BBC DVD has a problem and we will let you know when we have something to offer you and a good method.
apologies
ny

 

Sorry, folks, really a bummer on such a otherwise fine anniversary package.

Neil Young (Himself!!) Unboxing Harvest 50th Anniversary Edition 

Also, see:

• REVIEW: Neil Young's Harvest 50th Anniversary Edition (CD/DVD) | All About Jazz
  
• Details on the  50th Anniversary Edition of the album Harvest 
• HARVEST Outtakes by Neil Young: "Journey Through The Past"
  
• Unboxing Video: Harvest 50th Anniversary Edition by Neil Young
  
• ESSAY: Neil Young’s Harvest at Age 50 by Harvey Kubernik 
• "Neil Young's Harvest: A Multi-Voice Narrative" by Harvey Kubernik
• Neil Young Remembers "The Innocence": WORDS
• Neil Young's "Song of the Day": "Are You Ready The Country?" + VIDEO 
• Neil Young's Memories of Recording Harvest Album: "Sessions of a Lifetime"
• Neil Young's Song Of The Day: "Heart of Gold" + 1971 Interview 
• Unboxing Video: Harvest 50th Anniversary Edition by Neil Young 
• INTERVIEW: Neil Young Says He Was Offered Millions to Tour Harvest Album | AARP  

Harvest by Neil Young - Released on February 1, 1972

(see ESSAY: Neil Young’s Harvest at Age 50 +

"Neil Young's Harvest: A Multi-Voice Narrative" by Harvey Kubernik)

 

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Details on Uncut Magazine Neil Young Cover - February 2023

Neil YoungUncut Magazine - February 2023  (Click photo to enlarge) 

The February 2023 issue of Uncut Magazine features Neil Young on the cover.

The issue has an interview with Neil about his 2022 -- Barn, Toast, World Record, the Harvest film documentary, along with a look ahead to 2023.

 

"He never stops and fades away"

 

So what would Nils Lofgren of Crazy Horse like to see released in Neil Young’s Archive Series? Outtakes of Trans recorded in Hawaii, he tells Mojo magazine. (Thanks Harrison!) Maybe “Johnny’s Island”, as Neil has alluded? (thanks John H!)

Also, Neil Young says:

“I got a lot of stuff to clean up.

I’ve got a big mess that I left behind. I’ve created a lot of unfinished records, unfinished this and that. I now have the time to deal with it, focus on it.

But at the same time, anything new takes precedent—always. Once I start thinking about something new, I drop the old stuff right away and do the new thing.”

Producer Rick Rubin, who also worked on World Record and portions of Toast, said that Young isn’t the most conventional record maker.

“Time doesn’t move at traditional speed where Neil is involved,” said Rubin. “Some things seem to come out impossibly quickly. Other times, they live in obscurity for years until the inclination to release something appeals to Neil.”

See back issues of Uncut Magazine.

Uncut Neil Young Cover: Issue 285 - February 2021 

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"Harvest Live": Rust For Glory Neil Young Tribute | 2023 Tour Promo

"Harvest Live": Rust For Glory Neil Young Tribute | 2023 Tour Promo

 

For UK rustie grains, check out "Harvest Live": Rust For Glory Neil Young Tribute | 2023 Tour Promo.

  

From PR:

Rust For Glory - Harvest - 50th anniversary shows 

Rust For Glory are the world's rustiest Neil Young tribute band, playing to great acclaim for over a decade. 2022 marks 50 years since the release of Neil Young's classic 'Harvest' album. An album beloved of fans and critics alike, Harvest contains some of Young's best work, some of his greatest hits, and is still his most commercially successful long-player. 

Selling over 8 million copies worldwide & featuring the US number one hit 'Heart of Gold', its masterful mix of country, rock and orchestral arrangements has made it one of Neil's most enduring releases. In recent years, Neil Young himself reports he was offered "millions of dollars" to tour Harvest - but turned this down. In 2022/23, Rust For Glory are excited to bring you Harvest, performed live in its entirety. In this stunning 2-part show, audiences will hear each classic track played 100% live, so authentically you'll swear you were back in the barn.

Then, the second half of the show will see the band move from the middle of the road, and head straight for the ditch as the band perform classics from the critically acclaimed 'Ditch trilogy' of mid-70s albums, as well as classic later material. 

The Harvest shows are an absolute must for any Neil Young fan wanting to experience these classics performed live in an intimate environment. 

Booking enquiries: info@rustforglory.com / +44 0786 191 7628

 Have fun UK rustie grains checking out "Harvest Live" by Rust4Glory!

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REVIEW: "World Record" - Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse | Everybody’s Dummy

World Record - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

 (Click photo to enlarge)

 

Here is a review of  "World Record" - Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse from our good friends over on Everybody’s Dummy:

When Neil’s on a roll, it shows. 

Back with Crazy Horse for an unprecedented third album in a row, World Record finds the boys holed up in the legendary Shangri-La Studios, now owned by co-producer Rick Rubin. Yet the sound is just as ragged and rough-hewn as anything Neil ever recorded in a barn. The environment is the main topic again, but at least the songs aren’t as ranting or myopic as before.

The lyrical content aside, “Love Earth” is a subdued and misleading opener; kids of a certain age will appreciate that he’s appropriated the melody from the closing theme from The Magic Garden TV show. Here we also hear the “kick tub” that will feature prominently among the band’s percussion. “Overhead” is almost jaunty, with a piano and what sounds like a banjo but isn’t listed. While we can’t say it’s dreamy, the middle section that provides the title and an interlude is a good transition between the halves. 

He’s said he started these songs by whistling as he walked, so we’ll forgive him for lifting his own melody from “Looking Forward” on “I Walk With You (Earth Ringtone)”. The track itself is nice and sludgy, with Nils Lofgren’s pedal steel providing another link to earlier albums. His accordion provides the other sound on the gentle “This Old Planet (Changing Days)”, which is otherwise pinned to a honky-tonk backing. 

Full review of of  "World Record" - Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse from our good friends over on Everybody’s Dummy. Thanks Wardo, as always!  

Neil has definitely been on a roll here in 2022, for sure.

"World Record" - Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse  (Click photo to enlarge) 

More on  Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse "World Record":

• INTERVIEW: Neil Young Embraces Imperfection | The New Yorker
• REVIEW: "World Record" - Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse  | The Old Grey Cat
  
• Rick Rubin and Neil Young Discuss Life, Inspiration, and Craft | Broken Record  
  
• Neil Young Talks World Record, Harvest 50th Anniversary, Elon Musk, Joni Mitchell & Climate Change | Zach Sang Show
  
• All About Making Neil Young & Crazy Horse "World Record" | Rusted Moon
• REVIEW: Finding the Way into Neil Young's "World Record"
• Comment of the Moment: "World Record" by Neil  Young w/ Crazy Horse
• Rick Rubin & Neil Young Tease Their New Music For Jack White
  

 

UNBOXING VIDEO REVIEW: Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse "World Record" 

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Comment of the Moment: Neil Young - Alone Together With The Loner

Neil Young
Illustration by Mike Faille, from Kiim Kong photo
(Click photo to enlarge)  

The Loner.

Neil Young has many, many nicknames like "Shakey", "Mr. Soul", "Godfather of Grunge", etc.  And then there is "The Loner".  

In the film "Harvest Time"  (see ANALYSIS: What "Harvest Time" Reveals About Neil Young), a side of  Neil Young is seen -- yet unseen -- that many fans identify with in a comfortingly relatable manner.  As in, literally, see the lonely boy out on the weekend trying to make it pay.

Neil Young's Harvest Time Film

(see ANALYSIS: What "Harvest Time" Reveals About Neil Young)

 

In listening to Neil Young's extensive lyrics, the theme of "loneliness" quite often hovers about many of his songs.  A theme which is very prevalent, pervasive and persistent over the decades.  Thus, the TW Comment of the Moment on ANALYSIS: What "Harvest Time" Reveals About Neil Young by Dionys:

The Loner Alone, a Lonesome List 

• Bad Fog Of Loneliness
• Campaigner (“I am a lonely visitor”)
• Everybody’s Alone
• Four Strong Winds (“Four strong winds that blow lonely…”)
• Give Me Strength (“The lonely man I make myself to be”)
• Hard Luck Stories (“Now she’s gone and you’re alone…”)
• Harvest (…and was some black face in a lonely place…)
• Hello, Lonely Woman
• Hold Back the Tears (Single life really has its fine points…”)
• Like An Inca (There’s a bridge I have to cross alone…”)
• Lotta Love (“Cause my heart needs relating not solitude”)
• Mellow My Mind (”lonesome whistle on a railroad track”)
• Misfits (“On the Needles Highway there is a lone red rider…”)
• Oh, Lonesome Me
• Out on the Weekend (“See the lonely boy out on the weekend”)
• Roll Another Number (“though I long to see that lonesome hippie smile”)
• Sample and Hold (“But not the lonely one…”)
• Sunny Inside (From now on I ain’t scared of lonely nights...”)
• Tell Me Why (”I am lonely but you can free me)
• The Loner
• The Losing End (When You’re On) (“Before I wandered off alone”)
• There Goes My Babe
• The Wayward Wind (“In a lonely shack by the railroad track…”)
• Too Lonely
• When You Dance I Can Really Love (While the lonely mingle with circumstance”)
• When Your Lonely Heart Breaks
• Will to Love (“But I won’t turn back with this lonely tide)
• Wonderin’ (I am wondering if I’ll be alone”)

Sure I missed out on a few songlines

UPDATE:

+ Down By The River ("It's so hard for me staying here all alone..") (Thanks Abner!)

+ Old Man  (live alone in a paradise) and (but I'm all alone at last) (Thanks Nobody knows!)

+ Last Trip to Tulsa (Sure it's not a case of being lonely we have here...)

+Music Arcade - ("Have you ever felt all alone") (Thanks Sancho!)

Thanks Dionys, Abner, Nobody Knows, Sancho & Still Young and everyone on the thread.

Step aside, open wide.

And the ultimate irony here is that watching Neil in "Harvest Time" write the song “Out on the Weekend” -- apparently spontaneously -- while happily laughing away and surrounded by friends and lovers is most incongruously surreal.

You folks out there make us feel never alone as long we have friends digging the music.

More on ANALYSIS: What "Harvest Time" Reveals About Neil Young.

 

Neil Young Gets Back “Out on the Weekend”

(see ANALYSIS: What "Harvest Time" Reveals About Neil Young)

 

 

More on Comment of The Moment: "Alabama" & Neil Young's "Harvest Time" Film. 

 

Also, see Neil Young's Ditch Trilogy -- Or is it a Quadrilogy? Or Quintology?

 

Neil Young's "Ditch Quadrilogy":
"Time Fades Away", "Tonight’s the Night", "On the Beach" & "ZUMA"  

  "Alabama" & Neil Young's "Harvest Time" FilmNeil Young - Sept 10, 1971
Photo by Joel Bernstein

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