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Thursday, March 28, 2024

NEW VIDEO: "She Moves Me" (Farmer John) | Times-Contrarian | Neil Young Archives

 She Moves Me (Farmer John) | Times-Contrarian | NYA
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A new video of  "She Moves Me" (Farmer John) is now posted on Times-Contrarian | Neil Young Archives.

The video is from Neil Young's upcoming album "Fu##n' Up" with Crazy Horse scheduled for release on April 26.

The live concert album is from the Rivoli, Toronto, 4 Nov 2023, which featured a setlist of songs from the 1990 album "Ragged Glory" album.

More on the STEALTH GIG REPORT: Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse, Toronto - Nov. 4, 2023. 

The Rivoli, Toronto on Nov. 3, 2023
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More on Neil Young's upcoming album "Fu##n' Up" with Crazy Horse scheduled for release on April 26.

 

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

EXHIBIT: "Photographs & Memories of Canadian Rock & Roll Legends" including Neil Young, Randy Bachman, & More

"Photographs & Memories of Rock & Roll Legends"
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Here is a note for anyone interested in the memories of Canadian rock & roll legends like Neil Young, Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings and more.

The photo exhibit is being staged to raise funds for local Mental Health in Lindsay, ONTARIO.

"Photographs & Memories of Rock & Roll Legends" presented by the former Youngtown Rock & Roll Museum (2007 to 2017)

100% admission proceeds will be donated to a local Mental Health Service.

Youngtown closed late September 2017 but they still have lots of pictures to exhibit.

The exhibit display will be well over 175 photographs of the museum, the collection, noted music artists, musicians and related personalities we were fortunate to meet and photograph during the Youngtown period of operation.

Admission is by donation of $5.00, $10.00, or $20.00 at the door.

Come and have some fun and support this most important cause - Mental Health.

One day only! Saturday April 13th at The Lindsay Lounge 10:00am - 5:00pm (Lindsay, Ontario)

For further details contact Trevor "T.R." Hosier @ youngtownmuseum@hotmail.com or 705 340-5550
(and be sure to thank Trevor for supporting the cause and tell him that thrasher sent you!)
 

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Youngtown Museum - Omemee, Ontario, Canada
(see Youngtown Museum Closing Sept. 10, 2017)


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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Comment of the Moment: Neil Young Archives Timeline Concert Highlights

"Timeline Concert of the Week" | NYA

 

Last week, we featured a post on Timeline Concert Highlights on Neil Young Archives .
 
 
All three sets of the Canterbury House show in Ann Arbor, Michigan from October 16th, 1969 is my favorite Timeline Concert so far. 
 
 That is such a unique one-off evening (i.e. 8, 10 & midnight shows) that were just months after Woodstock which was also a time period in the midst of recording Deja Vu and just after the summer when "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" was all over FM radio. As usual, so many new songs and each show ended with a solo acoustic version of "Country Girl" which wouldn't be recorded for a few weeks.

In fact, the "Country Girl" recorded at the Canterbury House had extra lyrics that didn't make the cut for Deja Vu.

Rather brilliant move by the Canterbury House to book two shows at once for both November 10, 1968, when Neil Young was relatively unknown after the break-up of the Springfield, and also for October 16th, 1969. Elliott Roberts was very familiar with the Canterbury House booking team from the shows done (and recently released) by Joni Mitchell in 1967. The venue held less than 200 people and was often SRO for acts like Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Lowell George/Little Feat, Captain Beefheart, Dave Van Ronk, Odetta, Doc Watson, Len Chandler, the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, the New Lost City Ramblers, David Ackles and Steve Noonan. Plus, Ann Arbor (known as A2 locally) is such a cool place to hang out anyway. Pretty sure every act that played the Canterbury House was recorded at the soundboard on reel to reel tape that was state of the art at the time. A few months after the 1969 Canterbury House show Neil Young returned to the Detroit area with CSNY for a show at the Masonic Auditorium.

Here is part of a summary of what happened at the Canterbury House in Ann Arbor that was written for the University of Michigan paper, Michigan Daily:

“It was wonderful in so many ways,” Rubin said. “It was a religious organization first and foremost … but a lot of the ministers were very progressive so it became a place where people who were part of ‘the Movement’ gathered and went for meetings, to hang out, to go to services on Sunday. I am not religious, and I didn’t grow up Christian but even I went to services. They were just really profoundly pleasant and inspiring services to go to. Also, one of Ann Arbor’s first health food restaurants was located as a little kind of salad bar in the front of Canterbury House.”

Although Rubin currently still DJs from time to time, she finds the differences between recorded and live music to be crucial to an audiophile. As you can tell from recordings such as Neil Young’s Sugar Mountain – Live at Canterbury House 1968, shows at Canterbury were nothing like the recorded material from the same artist. They told stories, they had extended asides, or “raps” as the Young reissue calls them, and they could converse with the intimate crowds. Rubin said this is where the beauty of live music rings true.

“Recorded music always sounds the same, because once it’s recorded, it’s like publishing a book. It’s codified. It’s there on a page,” Rubin said. “Live music is more spontaneous. It can vary quite a bit more … And the way sound works live is very different than the way it works coming off of a stereo or coming out of speakers … You can feel the air move and you certainly could at Canterbury House.”

https://www.michigandaily.com/statement/you-cant-bury-canterbury/

When asked elsewhere by another reporter why he played the Canterbury House Neil Young with Elliott Roberts sitting next to him he responded,

“Well, cause this is a groovy place. It’s got a good reputation and it’s crowded, really good crowds, and it’s the best place to start, because the crowd is receptive."

When the single, “Heart of Gold,” was released the flip side was “Sugar Mountain” that was recorded live at the 1968 show for the Canterbury House. Must say, in Michigan both sides of the single were often played because of the local venue. Those Canterbury House recordings then became almost mythological as Neil Young’s fame grew over the years. 
Thanks Jim for the CotM! So glad Canterbury House made it out of the vaults.


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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

INTERVIEW: Micah Nelson on Joining Neil Young and Crazy Horse: ‘I’ve Been Rehearsing for This My Whole Life’ | Rolling Stone


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A major interview with Micah Nelson on Neil Young's upcoming  “Love Earth Tour”: w/ Crazy Horse where the guitarist, "who cut his teeth on the road with dad Willie, breaks down his journey from loving the band as a kid to actually joining the band.

From Micah Nelson on Joining Neil Young and Crazy Horse: ‘I’ve Been Rehearsing for This My Whole Life’  | Rolling Stone by Andy Greene:

 

Rolling Stone: Tell me what Neil Young’s music meant to you as a kid.

Micah Nelson: Neil was always just kind of this being, this overarching energy in my life, and that music is always there. 

But it would kind of come and go in cycles. I would sort of venture off into these other worlds, and then he would come back into my life in these moments that always were so prescient, so synchronized, and exactly what I needed at that moment to remind me about rock & roll, and rawness and just honesty and songwriting and how that transcends everything else in production or sonics…All that shit.

There’s just something so primal and primitive about Neil, especially when he is with Crazy Horse. I saw them at Golden Gate Park at the Outside Lands Festival in 2012, it was a full circle moment and just sort of a slap in the face. It reminded me what I felt like I’d gotten too far from. 


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Rolling Stone: When did you learn you were playing Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and Tonight’s the Night straight through? [see Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse @ Roxy Night Club, Los Angeles, CA - September 2023]

Micah Nelson: About a week before. 

He said, “Oh, hey, we got Nils back.” So I had already kind of started learning all Nils parts on guitar and I was like, “Okay, this is what I’m going to be doing.” And then, “Oh, great, we got Nils. Okay, cool. He can play all his original stuff.” And Neil says, “Listen to the Ben Keith stuff.”

I don’t know how to play the pedal steel. I had never played the lap steel. So I’m like, “Okay, shit, I can probably fake this on my Telecaster with some delay and a volume pedal.”

So I started learning how to kind of fake the parts and get the spirit of the parts down. And then once we got there, Bill Asher was tech’ing at the time and he said, “Hey, I’ve got this lap steel that I made. It’s got palm benders on it, so it sounds more like a pedal steel. You can make it bend to the fifth or the fourth or whatever.” I was like, “Yeah, I’ll try it out.” And that was two days before the show.

I basically spent the next 48 hours learning Ben Keith’s parts on the lap steel with the palm benders and doing the best I can. And thankfully this is Tonight’s the Night where the guys making this record were fucked up out of their head. This is drunk Ben Keith. And so I was like, “Okay, I can fake this.”

But I also ended up falling in love with that instrument, and it was so much fun. And this is the story of me and Neil. He pushes me all the time to be better. 

And those types of experiences where you’re under pressure of making the music as good as it can be, I think have made me a better musician and a better person.

Full interview @ Micah Nelson on Joining Neil Young and Crazy Horse: ‘I’ve Been Rehearsing for This My Whole Life’  | Rolling Stone by Andy Greene.

 Also, see INTERVIEW: Micah Nelson -- Channeling Neil Young's band Crazy Horse | Guitar World.


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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

PLAYLIST: "Long Walk Home" | Neil Young Archives

PLAYLIST: "Long Walk Home" | Neil Young Archives
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A new playlist has been added to the Neil Young Archives titled  "Long Walk Home" by rustie extraordinaire Omar "Lone Red Rider".

The playlist -- imagined in an alternate universe -- could have been a followup to Neil Young's album Harvest

Omar "Lone Red Rider" describes the playlist as follows:

NYA is featuring something new that may be worth listening to! 
 
For a while, there has been a feature on NYA which allows users to create playlists  but those playlists can not be shared among users. I had created a particular playlist which I shared on social media and garnered some interest. I wondered, if I sent it to NYA, would they consider sharing it so that others can hear it? 
 
Well, I did and they did!

Partly out of my frustration that the latest batch of NYA outtakes were not presented in any useful context and also harboring a dissatisfaction with how post-Harvest era tunes were presented on NYA, I created a speculative tracklist of what a studio follow-up to Harvest might have been. I organized it as a vinyl album called "Long Walk Home" and it is there for all to listen to both on desktop: https://neilyoungarchives.com/playlist?id=P_012 and in the mobile app. 
 
Currently, it seems to work better on iPhones, as long as you update to the latest version of the app.

The Time Fades Away era has been well researched by Pete Long and I recommend his article in issue 96 of Broken Arrow (NYAS)

There, he shares an early tracklisting of an album called "Last Dance" which seems to represent an intended studio follow-up to Harvest, recorded mostly at the end of 1972 with the Stray Gators as they were rehearsing for their 1973 tour. Here is the running order: Side 1: Time Fades Away, New Mama, Come Along And Say You Will, The Bridge, Don't Be Denied. Side 2: Lookout Joe, Journey Through The Past, Last Dance, Goodbye Christians on the Shore. Of all of those tracks, Don't Be Denied was never completed in the studio. Hence, the studio album was never complete. It's been suggested that the album evolved into a mix of live and studio tracks and then evolved into what we got as Time Fades Away, effectively abandoning the studio album concept. This is where "Long Walk Home" enters the picture.

Starting with the "Last Dance" tracklist, I omitted Don't Be Denied. After this, I cut "Journey Through The Past" as it was, as Neil referred to it as a "song without a home". The only studio version we have of it, recorded in Nashville earlier with the Gators,has a very different feel to it than the rough and ready tracks done after Nashville. I added in "Letter From Nam" from NYA Vol2 Disk1 and noticed that I was on the way to building an album centered on American life and war and politics. From there, it was not a stretch to add "War Song", the much maligned duet with Nash previously released as a single. Sonically and thematically it seemed to fit with this playlist even though it would have likely never been considered for inclusion on a proper album. Finally I added "Soldier" from the soundtrack to Journey Through The Past. A classic Neil song which most of us know from Decade in a shorter version. That seemed to me to be a satisfying listen of tracks representing a feel and era. 

Some who have heard it appreciate it. Some have trashed it. That's OK. 
 
The more I listen to it, I can feel characters come to life in a way that they did in Greendale. Joe and his pregnant wife Annie. The ne'er do well Bill and Millie who struggle to get up every monday morning. Religious fanatics and war zealots. Politicians promising to end wars. It almost feels modern. Actually, it feels pretty damn contemporary to me.  Sure, it's ragged. It risks falling apart at times. It's ambiguous. But real.

Even though it was presented as an "alternate history follow-up to Harvest" it has to be taken as just a fan creation. We won't get the real "Last Dance" album until Neil decides we will. He actually seems somewhat open to it based on recent letters on NYA. So let me end with the Twilight Zone: Imagine, if you will, a phantom collaboration with a hero, across space and time. I feel honored that NYA has decided to share it with you and thankful for Thrasher for allowing me to post it here. 
 
Newsworthy? 
 
Enjoy it while it lasts, spartan artwork and all!
Thanks so much for building and sharing Omar "Lone Red Rider"! 
 
Here's the "Long Walk Home" playlist:
 

Side1:
Letter From Nam
War Song
Come Along And Say You Will
Lookout Joe
Soldier
 
Side2:
Time Fades Away
New Mama
The Bridge
Last Dance
Goodbye Christians On The Shore
 
Really cool that NYA Team uploaded and showcased.  What an era. Vietnam and Watergate. Deja vu, yet again. Over and over. In these times.
 
And a wonderful tribute to our departed friend who we never saw, Pete Long and his labors of love. ... gone but NEVER forgotten ... 

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