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Neil Young is rumored for LockN fest in September. I'm hoping it's true because I think I'm gonna make the trek to Virginia. They already have 9 solid artists/bands plus Neil young and Wilco being rumored as well. It's shaping up to be a legendary lineup for sure.
If Neil is there I'll probably be going back this year.
Post by drtechnology on Mar 11, 2014 19:04:59 GMT -5
I pulled the trigger on a Pono today and I gotta say it's feels pretty fucking cool to be a part of that whole thing, as lame as that sounds. It's absolutely crushing right now with $620K in about 8 hours or so.
My dad sent me this video so I though it appropriate to post here. This one is usually only up for a little while before taken down so watch soon and ignore the relatively poor sound/video. Neil and The International Harvesters on ACL.
An absolute fucking gem of a show. Watch this. It will make you happy.
Neil Young is rumored for LockN fest in September. I'm hoping it's true because I think I'm gonna make the trek to Virginia. They already have 9 solid artists/bands plus Neil young and Wilco being rumored as well. It's shaping up to be a legendary lineup for sure.
If Neil is there I'll probably be going back this year.
If Neil and Wilco are in the same place, I will be too.
Pretty interesting talk. I want to get a Pono eventually, but I'm saving up for a decent soundsystem first. Once the Pono comes out, I'll have a good hi-fi set up to do it justice (if it holds up to its potential).
Post by itrainmonkeys on Mar 13, 2014 15:15:09 GMT -5
Earlier this year, we reported that Neil Young and Jack White would be releasing an album of covers together. It was later revealed that Young would be putting out a cover-filled LP titled A Letter Home, but the singer-songwriter claimed that White was not involved and that the “rumors have no basis in truth.”Now, it appears as though there was, in fact, some truth to the rumors. Young has told Billboard that White is featured on the new record, which was recorded at the musicians’ Third Man Records Studios. There is currently no word on whether or not White produced the release, but it looks like he will be appear on two tracks.In related news, White and a number of other superstar musicians have endorsed Young’s new PONO music service. The system was unvelied earlier this week at SXSW, and Young’s Kickstarter campaign has already raised over $2 million in two days (he had hoped to raise $800,000 in 35 days).
Post by itrainmonkeys on Apr 18, 2014 17:17:21 GMT -5
It looks like Neil Young’s highly anticipated covers album, A Letter Home, is now available as part of Record Store Day. JamBase has reported that Jack White’s Third Man Records quietly put the LP up for sale this afternoon. The album, which was recorded in the 1947 Voice-o-Graph recording booth at Third Man’s studio, features renditions of tunes by Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Bruce Springsteen, Gordon Lightfoot and more. Jack White is reportedly featured on release as well.
A Letter Home can now be ordered on 12” vinyl via the Third Man Store.
A Letter Home tracklist:
A Letter Home Intro Changes (Phil Ochs) Girl From The North Country (Bob Dylan) Needle Of Death (Bert Jansch) Early Morning Rain (Gordon Lightfoot) Crazy (Willie Nelson) Reason To Believe (Tim Hardin) On The Road Again (Willie Nelson) If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot) Since I Met You Baby (Ivory Joe Hunter) My Hometown (Bruce Springsteen) I Wonder If I Care (Everly Brothers)
Post by rustyautoparts on Apr 23, 2014 8:54:27 GMT -5
Saw Neil for the first time last night, and his performance left me speechless. Mr. Soul on pipe organ, A Man Needs a Maid with Trans-era synth, Cortez the Killer, Mellow My Mind on banjo. I can't even. Best concert I've ever seen, and it'll be a hard one to top.
Saw Neil for the first time last night, and his performance left me speechless. Mr. Soul on pipe organ, A Man Needs a Maid with Trans-era synth, Cortez the Killer, Mellow My Mind on banjo. I can't even. Best concert I've ever seen, and it'll be a hard one to top.
I was absolutely floored with how good he still is. At least when I've seen him. I caught him playing solo for the first time at Madison Square Garden with Wilco and Everest opening for him. Neil was absolutely amazing. His guitar playing and voice sounds like the work of a much younger man and he really brought it. I've seen him a handful of times and they're always awesome. Still disappointed that I missed out on seeing him at The Capitol Theater in Port Chester NY when Crazy Horse had to cancel.
Post by itrainmonkeys on Apr 24, 2014 19:43:02 GMT -5
Neil Young will release a CD, digital album and a Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set of his recent vinyl album A Letter Home, out on Reprise Records on May 27th. Young recorded the collection of covers on our refurbished 1947 recording booth at our Nashville headquarters. Imagine a very simple recording studio not much larger than a phone booth and you’ll get the idea. He describes the album as "an unheard collection of rediscovered songs from the past recorded on ancient electro-mechanical technology captures and unleashes the essence of something that could have been gone forever." Recorded live to track to one-track, mono, the album has an inherent warm, primitive feel of a vintage Folkways recording,
As for the track-listing, Young chose songs that have personal meaning for him, such as British folk artist Bert Jansch’s “Needle of Death” (which inspired Young to write 1972’s “Needle and the Damage Done”), Bob Dylan’s “Girl from the North Country,” Willie Nelson’s “Crazy,” Don Everly’s “I Wonder If I Care as Much,” Bruce Springsteen’s “My Home Town,” and many others.
The album begins with Neil recording a spoken letter to his late mother, informing her of his personal and present state of affairs which sets the tone and atmosphere for the duration of the album. He does this once again at the beginning of Side 2 in a way which could explain why he’s selected these particular songs to record. In essence, this presentation is, as its title implies, A Letter Home from Neil. This is a deeply personal and expressive listening experience which is as real and raw emotionally as it is sonically and yet light of touch in its form and flow.
Reprise will release the complete box set, which includes a special "direct feed from the booth" audiophile vinyl version and a DVD that captured the original electro-mechanical process, along with comments from the producers and recording engineers.
The box set includes:
- 1 standard 12” LP vinyl
- 1 “direct feed from the booth” audiophile 12” LP vinyl
- Seven 6" clear vinyl record booth discs
- 1 standard CD
-1 standard DVD
- 1 32-page, 12” x 12” book
- Download card to redeem the digital album of the “direct feed from the booth” audiophile version
Post by itrainmonkeys on May 9, 2014 12:32:24 GMT -5
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.
Post by itrainmonkeys on May 14, 2014 15:12:03 GMT -5
Was just coming to post some updates about that stuff. I'm excited but need more moneys.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Neil Young reveals that he is indeed planning to release Archives: Volume II later this year. “It’ll be finished this summer. All of the music will be done. It goes just past [1979’s] Rust Never Sleeps. It’s full of albums that weren’t there before – stuff I did that I never put out.”
Volume One was released in June of 2009 and encompassed the years of 1963-1972. Included in the release was rare and unreleased music from those years. Young also said he has plans to release five volumes, with the last covering the 2000s. “The rest will come out pretty quickly. While we’ve been working on Volume II, we’ve been working on the other Volumes.”
Recently, the guitarist spent time promoting his new release A Letter Home with Jack White. The two collaborated to cut a record on The Tonight Show using White’s 1940s telephone booth-turned-recording-studio.
Post by itrainmonkeys on May 22, 2014 16:09:11 GMT -5
Neil Young-related news:
After years of rumors, premature announcements and even disagreements over what to call the thing, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young are finally ready to release a box set of live recordings from their 1974 reunion tour. CSNY 1974 hits shelves on July 8th in a variety of formats, including a 3 CD/DVD set, a Pure Audio Blu-Ray (192kHz/24-bit) and a 16-track single CD. Many of the sets will have a 188-page booklet, and there will also be a limited edition set of 1,000 copies featuring a coffee table-sized book and six 180-gram 12” vinyl records. A pre-order of CSNY 1974 will be available next week on the band's website.
The set was produced by Joel Bernstein and Graham Nash. "This is the most difficult project I've ever done in my recording life," Nash tells Rolling Stone. "That's largely because of other people's agendas and trying to please four people at the same time. It only took us a year to actually do the physical work, but it took three or four years to get that work together."
One issue they faced was Neil Young's intense focus on audio quality. "Neil Young, God bless his cotton socks, has always wanted the audio to get as close to the recording experience as possible," says Nash. "He wanted us to do it in 24/192, and that's what we did. Of course, that happened one-third of the way into the project, so we had to redo an awful lot of stuff. But it sounds totally amazing. There's 40 songs and they'll show people that we were a very, very decent rock band."
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's 1974 reunion trek was one of the most ambitious tours attempted up until that point. They played 30 shows at American arenas and stadiums as well as one gig at Wembley Stadium in London, with the group playing upwards of 40 songs over a four-hour period during some shows. "It was a very challenging tour," says Nash. "We tried to keep our spirits up and keep ourselves focused as a band, but with all the chaos going on and the distractions and the drugs, I'm amazed we got away with what we did, quite frankly."
Nine of the shows were professionally recorded on multi-track tapes. "We wanted the best performances of each song for this collection," says Nash. "So Joel and I listened to every single minute of the multi-track shows and chose the best. We'd take, say, the best performance of 'Almost Cut My Hair' and send it to David [Crosby] for his approval. We did the same with Stephen [Stills] and Neil." You can listen to an exclusive stream of "Almost Cut My Hair" at Rollingstone.com.
The bonus DVD features eight songs filmed at the Capital Center in Landover, Maryland and Wembley Stadium. "The Capital Center was the one place back then filming concerts," says Nash. "We didn't even know they were doing it. It's a little funky-looking because we didn't light it for film or television, but I picked eight songs I thought were very representative of how we were then."
The tour came at a time when Young was writing songs at a furious pace, and he often tried out new material on stage, playing some songs only a handful of times. CSNY 1974 preserves such rarities as "Love Art Blues," "Pushed It Over The End" and "Don't Be Denied." The rarest track is "Goodbye Dick," a song they played August 14th, 1974 at the Nassau Coliseum, just five days after President Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace.
"Another reason for the delay is that I kept finding stuff that I didn't want to take off," says Nash. "'Goodbye Dick' happened in about a minute and a half, and then it was gone. I came upon it and said, 'We've got to put this out.' It's tied so closely to the times of Watergate. When I heard Neil singing, 'Goodbye Dick' I just loved it."
Despite the fact it draws material from multiple nights, Nash and Bernstein structured it like a typical show from the tour. "I wanted people to experience the show," says Nash. "We wanted to give people a seat in the 10th row in the middle so they can sit back and enjoy the show. It starts with an electric set and then we did an acoustic set, sometimes with bass and drums and sometimes not, and then ended up with a kick-ass last electric set."
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young reunited to play last year's Bridge School Benefit, but they haven't toured since the summer of 2006. Might they hit the road again someday? "I know that when we sing with Neil we make great music together," says Nash. "That's the secret of it. It all comes down to the music. I also think we might be one of the original groups from back then that still has all the original members, so anything is possible in the future."
Here is the complete track listing for CSNY 1974.
3CD/ Bonus DVD OR Pure Audio Blu-Ray / Bonus DVD
Disc One – First Set
1. "Love The One You’re With" 2. "Wooden Ships" 3. "Immigration Man" 4. "Helpless" 5. "Carry Me" 6. "Johnny’s Garden" 7. "Traces" 8. "Grave Concern" 9. "On The Beach" 10. "Black Queen" 11. "Almost Cut My Hair"
Disc Two – Second Set
1. "Change Partners" 2. "The Lee Shore" 3. "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" 4. "Our House" 5. "Fieldworker" 6. "Guinevere" 7. "Time After Time" 8. "Prison Song" 9. "Long May You Run" 10. "Goodbye Dick" 11. "Mellow My Mind" 12. "Old Man" 13. "Word Game" 14. "Myth Of Sisyphus" 15. "Blackbird" 16. "Love Art Blues" 17. "Hawaiian Sunrise" 18. "Teach Your Children" 19. "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"
Disc Three – Third Set
1. "Déjà Vu" 2. "My Angel" 3. "Pre-Road Downs" 4. "Don’t Be Denied" 5. "Revolution Blues" 6. "Military Madness" 7. "Long Time Gone" 8. "Pushed It Over The End" 9. "Chicago" 10."Ohio"
Bonus DVD
1. "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" 2. "Almost Cut My Hair" 3. "Grave Concern" 4. "Old Man" 5. "Johnny’s Garden" 6. "Our House" 7. "Déjà Vu" 8. "Pushed It Over The End"
Single CD Track Listing
1. "Love The One You're With" 2. "Wooden Ships" 3. "Immigration Man" 4. "Helpless" 5. "Johnny's Garden" 6. "The Lee Shore" 7. "Change Partners" 8. "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" 9. "Our House" 10. "Guinevere" 11. "Old Man" 12. "Teach Your Children" 13. "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" 14. "Long Time Gone" 15. "Chicago" 16. "Ohio"
Starbucks Exclusive (US & Canada) Track Listing
1. "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" 2. "Change Partners" 3. "The Lee Shore" 4. "Johnny’s Garden" 5. "Guinevere" 6. "Our House" 7. "Prison Song" 8. "Old Man" 9. "Blackbird" 10. "Hawaiian Sunrise" 11. "Teach Your Children" 12. "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"
Post by itrainmonkeys on Jul 28, 2014 12:34:44 GMT -5
ust four months after fully funding his Pono Music campaign via KickStarter, Neil Young has turned his attention to an even more worthwhile cause: saving the rainforest. He's teamed up with Rainforest Connection to help them raise much-needed funds. "[This] is a technology that's a connection between the rainforest and you," says Young. "This technology enables the forest to talk to the world. When the forest is threatened, the forest can speak and you can hear it."
The central idea behind Rainforest Connection is as simple as it is brilliant: Old cellphones are retrofitted with a solar-powered energy source and placed in trees around the rainforest. When they pick up the sound of chainsaws, animals in distress or gunshots, they alert authorities in real time. "Current detection systems rely on satellites which show rainforest destruction days or weeks too late," says a note on the group's Kickstarter page. "Our system provides the world's first real-time logging/poaching detection system. We can pinpoint deforestation activity the moment it begins, while simultaneously streaming the data openly and immediately to anyone around the world."
Young sent out a letter to Pono supporters asking them to contribute, and he appears in a video on behalf of Rainforest Connection. "Neil's involvement makes perfect sense," says Topher White, the physicist and engineer beyond Rainforest Connection. "Throughout his life, he has always been a passionate crusader for indigenous rights, and in recent years, has worked tirelessly in combating climate change. These are both issues that we directly address with the Rainforest Connection technology."
If Rainforest Connection reaches their fundraising goals, they will be able to help the Tembé indigenous people of Brazil fight black market illegal logging operations. They also hope to place their system in trees all across Indonesia.
Young has devoted much of his time in recent years to environmental causes. In addition to his LincVolt electric car project, he launched his Honor The Treaties across Canada earlier this year, raising awareness for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) Legal Defense Fund. He is currently on a European tour with Crazy Horse, and this fall, he is resuming his solo acoustic tour of American theaters.
Post by billypilgrim on Aug 26, 2014 19:26:42 GMT -5
I hear from reliable sources that Neil's been despondent ever since Melissa Etheridge and her partner had a child with David Crosby's sperm. Apparently he's been making some pretty unseemly offers to k.d. lang, the Indigo Girls, and Tegan & Sara.
Post by itrainmonkeys on Sept 3, 2014 12:04:38 GMT -5
A Neil Young album called Storytone could be released in November, according to hints dropped by two of his colleagues.
Fan site Foreverneilyoung uncovered an entry on German composer Chris Walden's website, in which he lists among his recent projects the "upcoming Neil Young album Storytone (out Nov 4)."
And music contractor Gina Zimmitti has posted photos of Young and Walden together in a studio, saying the pair were creating "awesomely loud big band arrangements." In the same post the reveals they'r working with producer Niko Bolas, who previously collaborated on Rockin' In The Free World and Living With War.
It's thought Storytone could be the project he briefly discussed earlier this year, when he said: "I'd like to make a record with a full-blown orchestra."
Post by Delicious Meatball Sub on Sept 17, 2014 21:32:05 GMT -5
At the grocery store this weekend I picked up Rolling Stone's Neil Young collectors edition. It has a bunch (all?) of their old feature interviews with Neil in chronological order, including part of Cameron Crowe's 10k word epic, which are a fun read. There's also a list of his top 100 songs and other odds and ends. It was pricey ($12!), and had I actually checked the price before I bought it I would have passed, but it's still pretty fun.
no, no he doesn't. but there is some great stuff in here about pretty much all of Neil's stuff (buffalo springfield, CSNY, pono music, etc..) About 40 minutes or so with Howard and Neil.
Looks like I have some Black Friday shopping to do
Neil Young Official Release Series Discs 5-8
DETAILS Format: Vinyl Box Set Label: Reprise Release type: RSD Exclusive Release More Info: The Neil Young Official Release Series Volume 2 limited edition box set includes On The Beach, Time Fades Away, Tonight's The Night and Zuma. Remastered from the original analog studio recordings at Bernie Grundman Mastering. Historically accurate artwork reproduced by Neil Young's long time art director Gary Brden. Reissued on 180g audiophile vinyl for the first time in over 40 years and pressed at Pallas Mfg Germany.