Pete Townshend and Neil Young
Pete Townshend shared some interesting thoughts about Neil Young in an interview in 2022 with Rolling Stone Magazine by Andy Greene as pondered by Otis Gibbs. (Thanks Bob G.!)
Otis quotes from Rolling Stone article:
Pete Townshend: "If you go on YouTube, you’re likely to hear Neil Young at the Bridge School wailing away with his old Gretsch with a voice like an old lady.
What we don’t know is that he’s written some of the most beautiful songs that have ever been written, and also some of the most rocking. That’s true of Joni as well."
More on Pete Townshend and Neil Young's musical intersections @
Pete Townshend writes about Neil Young's influence on his 2005 blog Pete's Diary
More on Otis Gibbs reflecting on Frank Zappa's favorite records by Neil Young.
we're hearing a bit of pushback on SocMed regarding post title.
ReplyDeleteThat's the title on Otis's video so we went w/ it.
But open to better suggestions.
Welcome Pete fans.
ReplyDeleteYou guys might also be interested in this: Pete Townshend's guitar equipment.
The story is that Joe Walsh gave Townshend the guitar that made Pete’s defining electric sound on record -- a 1959 Gretsch 6120 ‘Chet Atkins’ Hollow Body -- which is similar to the guitar Neil Young began using with the Buffalo Springfield.
more @
http://www.thrasherswheat.org/jammin/jammin_more.htm#pete
Being your own curator can be problematic, Pete is right. I think of great writers who were notoriously poor judges of what to edit and so on. Whether or not he is right in Neil's case is interesting question. I can think of an album of deep cuts selected by theme and music which would be an all time classic. Start the album off with Interstate, next Sad Movies, next ............
ReplyDeleteInterstate needs a place to call home.
Abner - a deep cuts album is a cool idea.
ReplyDeleteseems like we're in for a run of 50th editions for the forseeable future as Neil's 70's motherlode cycles thru the years.
as mentioned above, a bit of flack on the post title. as we've tried to explain, if you really listen and hear what Pete is saying, this is a good problem to have: so much great stuff in the vaults.
recall back in the day, most engineers would actually re-use the tapes after sessions, final cuts, etc.
it was a rare artist who could declare record and save everything. And then to actually still have it 50 years later is a real miracle.
lucky us
That other Young in the music business, Steve, once told me when we were stuck for an hour in a massive traffic jam outside Detroit, Michigan that he didn't write "Seven Bridges Road" for the public. He was feeling homesick in the studio and wrote it just for himself. It was a very private meditation on his home that was far away. The producer heard him in the corner playing it and the producer said, "that is the next song to record" and James Burton pushed for it to be recorded right then. Steve Young was against it even after it was recorded and he didn't want it included on the album but the producer prevailed. It turned out to be a huge hit for him as a songwriter with dozens of covers of the song.
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Big day here with the release of my book on Pilot Mountain on Amazon and soon everywhere. Our host here is thanked for his help looking for stuff on the mountain. Since that first visit to the mountain on the equinox with Thrasher I've gone back for every single one since. Sort of my photography muse.