I just hope that he releases a live CD from the current tour with The Promise Of The Real. The concert I saw in Detroit in July was extraordinary.
I agree with Neil Young's decision in this article. https://www.yahoo.com/music/the-quality-of-streaming-was-neil-young-right-128196143916.html
Come on Neil, give the east coast the Buffalo Springfield shows that you decided not to go through with.
I saw Neil for the first time early last year at Massey Hall. It was an all acoustic show. Amazing night. I still get chills when I think about it. Before the show, my brother in law and I stood behind Massey Hall where Pocahontas was parked. He signed my Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere CD cover. Now a cherished possession. Glen
Anything Neil? Ok great. Here's my top 10 Neil: Albums: 1. On the Beach 2. Everybody Knows This is Nowhere 3. Zuma 4. After the Gold Rush 5. Tonight's the Night 6. Comes a Time 7. Harvest 8. Rust Never Sleeps 9. Ragged Glory 10. Psychedelic Pill Songs: 1. Cowgirl in the Sand 2. Down by the River 3. After the Goldrush 4. On the Beach 5. Revolution Blues 6. Southern Man 7. Ohio 8. Cortez the Killer 9. Tell Me Why 10. Out on the Weekend
I still listen regularly to Weld. That is Neil Young and Crazy Horse at their finest backing up a record that is, arguably, one of Young's best and definitely one of his heavier outings. Great cuts on Weld; too many to mention, really. Arc? Uh, I think he was too influenced by Sonic Youth or something. I like noise projects (Melvins, SunnO))), Boris) but I still don't know what he was doing with that one. Woah. I still remember Neil's version of "Rockin' in the Free World" from Saturday Night Live. Steve Jordan on drums, Charlie Drayton on bass, and Frank Sampedro on guitar. Pure rock fury for the 6 or 7 minutes that track ran on TV. I've yet to see a performance like that on live TV except maybe Fear when they did SNL in the Belushi years. Studio wise, I think I listen to Freedom more than any other album. That was a mind blowingly good album for its time. It still blows my mind that he came up with such a strong record after a string of fairly bad records in the 80's. Freedom took Neil into the 90's with strong, strong momentum.
For a few years in the early to mid-'80s, he was my favorite artist of all. And not because of his '80s albums, but because it was only then that I started catching up on his magnificent '70s work. Top five albums: After the Gold Rush Tonight's the Night Comes a Time Rust Never Sleeps Freedom And, speaking of Freedom, he staged one of the greatest comebacks of all time:
