Neil Young (and Crazy Horse)

[cutterbutter]

It doesn't affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. [...] Piracy is the new radio. That's how music gets around. [...] That's the radio. If you really want to hear it, let's make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it.

-Neil Young
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...ty-sucks.shtml

[bmack86]

Neil did a Q&A on Twitter today and had a few interesting answers among all the crap that people asked. Best among them:

Question: When are you going to reissue Time Fades Away? Answer: I remastered all of my albums and will reissue them when PONO is released.

Pono is that new lossless music player or whatever that he's been working on. Time Fades Away has been out of print since the 70s and is one of his best albums. So excited!

Oh, and Psychedelic Pill is fantastic. Driftin' Back is a perfect way to start things.

[cutterbutter]

Sweet Jesus, a song he played at the Bowl isnt even on this record. More music to come?! Amazing. Loving the album.

[bmack86]

Yeah, he might have one other floating out there too. Although I wonder if he just does a few new songs on the inevitable live album that follows the tour.

[Spooks]

They just keep on touring
Neil Young & Crazy Horse 2013 tour:

Perth: March 2 - Perth Arena
Adelaide: March 5 - Adelaide Entertainment Centre
Brisbane: March 7 - Brisbane Entertainment Centre
Hunter Valley: March 9 - A Day On The Green, Bimbadgen Winery
Sydney: March 10 - Sydney Entertainment Centre
Melbourne: March 15 - Rod Laver Arena
Geelong: March 16 - The Hill Winery

[Spooks]

Drugs have long been a part of Young's muse, and often the subject of his songs, particularly those he played with Crazy Horse. Marijuana was usually something he championed ("Roll Another Number"), while heroin was a darker dance, and it took away Danny Whitten, Crazy Horse's original guitar player, who Young argues was "every bit the artist that I am."

On his sobriety, Young writes, "I am now the straightest I have ever been since I was eighteen."

Young still wonders if he'll ever be able to write another song sober.

"I haven't yet," he reveals.

He knows the fact that he's stopped "smoking weed" will be a revelation to his fans, but he announces the news with the caveat "not that it matters much."

http://seattletimes.com/html/musicni...0_young09.html

[canexplain]

I still crackup when I think back when Axel sang with Neil, "Don't let them bring you down"...... IMO, Neil looks ragged, almost balding, still wears grunge. He can still kick the fuck out of about half the current guitar players. One time a show at the Rocks, it was freezing, raining, Neil had one of those old style cowboy coats, and he kicked ass and we all danced and sang with the Man.......... He's the best.......cr****

[guitarrawk]

I heard that - Neil is an unstoppable force. Period.

[Spooks]

fuck yes! it looks like we might be getting more crazy horse shows...

Here's a nice interview with Poncho. They were playing for over 3 hours in Australia back in March...

When you guys toured last in America last year it was the same basic setlist night after night. What caused you to extend the show and break out so many rare songs when the tour his Australia?
It's funny you say the setlist is the same almost every night. When I came home from the tour, my girl picked me up and she had a new car. I said, "Let's listen to your sound system." She had Psychedelic Pill and we put on "Walk Like a Giant." I listened to it and said to her, "We don't play that song anything like that anymore."

So, they were still brand new songs. They were evolving and changing, and it was pretty interesting. Then all of a sudden, one day at rehearsal Neil said we should change up some of the older songs. We played one or two of them one night, and then all of a sudden he just played five of them in a row without stopping. He just ended one, started the other…We all looked at him like, "What the fuck are you playing man?"

We had no idea he was going to do that. We did rehearse "Prisoners of Rock & Roll," but we didn't really rehearse "Love To Burn" at all. He played it in the dressing room on a piano, and then called for it that night as the second song. That was, like, insane, especially since Neil made more mistakes on it than anybody else.

I loved seeing "Barstool Blues" in the setlist.
Oh, that was cool. We rehearsed that once at sound check. We didn't rehearse "Sedan Delivery" at all. We played it at rehearsals before the U.S. tour last summer and it was always kinda suckin'. When we played it live it was like we always played it. It was so much fun. We had a great time. "Danger Bird" was really cool. The only time we did that was sound check and Lake Tahoe.

Do you know what causes Neil to decide something like, "OK, tonight is the night for 'Barstool Blues?'"
I have no idea, but what I really felt is that on this tour we're not able to ride buses because the distances between places was too far apart. We had to fly, and that meant a lot of days off, and pretty easy going days. I think everybody was feeling too relaxed, so I thought Neil just pulled those songs out and said, "Let's shake it up. Let's see what we can do."

He also extended some of the shows by a full hour.
Tell me about it! [Laughs] What happened to "we're only going to play two hours?" [Laughs]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...-tour-20130417

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