Rick Rubin & Neil Young Tease Their New Music For Jack White | Broken Record

Last week, we posted A MESSAGE FROM NEIL YOUNG: "The big day is coming!...

In the post, we speculated on what exactly this might be.  Previous indications were that this alluded to a new Crazy Horse album produced by Rick Rubin.

But a new interview with  Rick Rubin, Jack White and Neil Young as a special guest seems indicate another project?

The interview took place at the end of a 3-week session for the new album titled "Nuggets".

Neil only plays electric guitar on two tracks. Speculation is that those would be "break the chain" and "chevrolet". The rest are strange instrumentations which Neil described "Pump Organ Funk" and "Harmonica played through an octave divider into the Fender deluxe". " (thanks Road Dawg!) 

 

Neil Young & Rick Rubin Tease Their New Music For Jack White | Broken Record 

When Jack White stopped by Shangri-La to sit down with Rick Rubin for an extended interview on Broken Record, he got a surprise visit from the legendary Neil Young who has also been spending time with Rick in the studio recording some new music. Hear Neil and Rick tell Jack a little bit about their new project and catch the full interview below.

Here is a summary via Rusted Moon: (thanks Ralf!)

The conversation apparently took place on the fringes of the May full moon recording sessions at Shangri-la Studios in Malibu, where Rick Rubin was producing Neil Young's album. The work announced for November, as much was already known, will contain ten songs. According to Young in the interview, he wrote eight songs within two days and didn't change them until the recording. The melodies were previously created while hiking through the mountains in Colorado, when he whistled to himself. 

Fans must be prepared for unusual sounds: "I play electric guitar on two songs," reveals the musician, who is known for his weird experiments. The remaining songs feature an unprecedented combination of instruments: "pump organ funk" and a harmonica with an "octave divider" effect, amplified by a Fender Deluxe amp.

However, producer Rick Rubin assured his interview guest Jack White that everything still sounds recognizable as Neil Young. Also "Crazy Horse" would play as usual. The album's closing song is 14 minutes long, according to Young. This should mean the electric rocker "Chevrolet" that Neil Young had spoken about before.

  

 

Jack White ft. Special Guest Neil Young | Broken Record (Hosted by Rick Rubin)

After a recent two-night stand in Los Angeles, Jack stopped by Shangri-La to talk to Rick Rubin about the early Garage Rock scene in Detroit that helped shape him and The White Stripes. He also shared potential theories about why the “Seven Nation Army” riff is so catchy. And then he treats Rick and Neil Young to an acoustic performance of his new song “A Tip From You To Me.” And to cap it all off, we will hear exclusive details about an exciting new project Rick’s been working on with Neil Young, that will be out soon.

Also, see MORE BARN (?): New Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse Album Produced by Rick Rubin

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Jack White Joins Pearl Jam to Perform Neil Young's “Rockin’ in the Free World” at Portugal Fest

Jack White joined Pearl Jam to perform Neil Young's “Rockin’ in the Free World” at Portugal's NOS Alive Festival on July 14, 2018.

More on Pearl Jam and Neil Young.

Also, see Jack White on recording with Neil Young.

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INTERVIEW: Jack White on Recording Neil Young | KEXP

An interview with Jack White on KEXP Radio discussing recording Neil Young's album A Letter Home in Nasville, TN using a recording booth.

Specific Neil Young portion of interview begins @ ~7:00.

Jack White
Farm Aid 2014 - Raleigh, NC, September 13, 2014
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TONIGHT: Jack White and Neil Young Will Perform Together on The Tonight Show - May 12

View at Neil Young: Since I Met You Baby | Video | The Tonight Show | NBC

Neil Young performs ~ Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show

Louis C.K., Neil Young, Jack White, Jimmy Fallon

"Crazy" vinyl single booth recording from The Tonight Show

Jimmy Fallon, Neil Young and Jack White

(Thanks Constanze!)

Jack White and Neil Young
(*Note - composite image)

Making history tonight - Neil Young is going to perform and press a vinyl with the help of Jack White live on the show. One take. Fun.

— jimmy fallon (@jimmyfallon) May 12, 2014

From Inside Neil Young & Jack White's 'Crazy' Night on 'Fallon | Billboard by Gary Graff:

"You only get one shot," Young told Billboard about the process the day before his "Tonight" appearance. "So when you do it, you've got to do it. There's no fixing it. You really have to be prepared, which is really good for the music instead of going in and patching it together with little pieces of digital gaffer's tape and stuff. The whole idea of a performance is where you feel a song when you sing it, and you've got a great song that somebody wrote, or maybe you wrote it yourself, and it really means something to you and you know it and you sing it and you feel it with all your hearing while you're singing it. And when you're done you don't even have to listen to it, 'cause you know it is what it is. It's done, and when everybody listens to it, they should feel it, too."

Young said he was already thinking about doing an album of songs that were part of his "musical roots" when White showed him the Voice-O-Graph machine. "I tried making a record in there, I can't remember what, and I liked the way it sounded," Young recalls. "I said, 'Well, I can make an album in this thing.' And (White) looked at me, and I said, 'Yeah, I can make a whole album in this. We'll figure out a way to do it. Let's do it together. You can help me and we'll reproduce it together and we'll do the whole thing."

"It has a real timeless quality," Young said. "If you didn't know what it was, you wouldn't know when it was made. You wouldn't know if this was an old record of mine or if it was somebody else...which I found to be very fascinating and really refreshing." What he doesn't like, however, is people calling it a covers album. "That's a term I really don't like, covers," Young explained. "That misses the point of what the record is. It's actually more of a piece of performance art. It's actual songs. It's actually the performance of a song and the essence of a song. That's what it's about."

He says his next musical project will likely be a set of original material, which he acknowledged has been influenced by what he recorded for "A Letter Home."

"Oh, yes, you can't learn the masters' songs without having a little of it rub off on you," he said. "I'm writing right now. I'm writing songs, and I'm going to do justice to these songs one way or another. And life has changed; a lot of the people I used to make records with are not on the planet anymore. And I write these songs and I can hear their parts in my head and I don't want anybody else to be imitating them. So I have a little quandary there. I'm gonna have to work that out inside my own soul and figure out how to deal with that, but nonetheless I feel very confident I'm gonna be able to communicate those songs and they will live. I'm having a really good time in my life, and that's all I really need. As long as all those things are lined up, I feel very optimistic about the future. As far as the sales of records go and the commerciality and the success, I have no idea about that. As far as I am, as an artist, going to be feeling good about what I do and feel like I'm really on what I'm doing, I've got, like, a 90% chance of that happening."

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May 12 - Louis C.K., Neil Young, Jack White | Video | The Tonight Show | NBC

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From Jambands.com - Need We Say More? > News > Jack White and Neil Young Will Perform Together on _The Tonight Show_: (via BNB. Thanks bh!)

Jack White and Neil Young will perform together on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on May 12 in addition to sitting down with the host for an interview. This appearance will mark Young’s first-ever live appearance on either of Fallon’s late night shows.

While White gears up for the release of his own Lazaretto, this appearance will be in support of Neil Young’s new covers album A Letter Home which was recorded at White’s Third Man Records studios. White is featured on two tracks.

Additional guests on May 12 include Louis C.K. and Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page.

So, Jack, Jimmy P. & Neil maybe jam together?

Actually, let's hope Jimmy F. just let's the whole night roll and keeps himself low key. Stay in the moment of awe and anticipation. We dread a Jimmy impression or lord forbid - a walk on - where he tries to join in a Jack & neil (& Jimmy) jam. That would be a travesty.

And look what happened last time "Neil Young" was on Jimmy Fallon's show? "Whip My Hair"?! “Party in the USA”?! Oh, the horror, the horror...

Bruce Springsteen and "Neil Young": "Whip My Hair"
Jimmy Fallon seems to be making a career out of his Neil Young impressions. Last year, it all started with Jimmy Fallon impersonating Neil Young covering "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" which went totally viral. Then followed by "Pants On The Ground"

Which led to a viral video of a viral video of Neil Young's Emotional 'Double Rainbow' Ballad (VIDEO).


Graham Nash, David Crosby & "Neil Young" - “Party in the USA”

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