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Neil Young...cool?
Neil Young is about as cool as giving your mother a Cleveland Steamer.
Richard Nixon was exponentially cooler than Neil Young wishes he was.
Bonnie Rait's used tampons are cooler than Neil Young's dreams.
Neil Young is to cool as Kim Jong Un is to representative democracy.
Neil Young's guitar playing is almost as good as Charlie Brown's pitching.
I think Neil is a great songwriter but he seems kinda of neurotic which is the opposite of cool. I love live music but would rather listen to Neil Young's recording than see him live. Maybe if it was in a small club or something he would be great but the whole arena experience doesn't translate well for Neil.
You obviously have never seen Neil and CrazyhorseQuote:
Originally Posted by AaronWright
Seriously...is there anyone who is cooler than Charlie Watts?
I saw NY and CH in November 2012 at Key Arena in Seattle. Part of the problem was that the sound sucked, totally overdriven and too much feedback. Seriously, it was hard to make out the actual guitar riffs and licks and the vocals were completely buried under white noise for most of the show. I would think Neil would be more concerned about the sound but apparently not.Quote:
Originally Posted by irul&ublo
It was funny when they launched into Cinnamon Girl and everyone stood up and cheered, including a couple in front of us about my age(mid 40s) and the woman turns to her mate and asks "what song is this?" while clapping and hooting like a deranged monkey, she must be one of their biggest fans. It was a pretty sloppy and overly noisy rendition.
Sound sucked = Neil sucks. Got it.
" I was hoping for more of a "On the Beach" experience."....
"Thats gold Jerry, GOLD!"
Hey, I didn't say he sucked, I said I didn't really think the show was that great. For the amount of money the tickets cost you would think that an artist with the experience that NY has would have the sound down. I've seen other acts in similar sized venues with fabulous sound.
I love Neil Young's music and I'm sure under different circumstance he might be great live. If all you got out of my posts was that sound sucked=Neil sucks you are retarded or illiterate.
Uh.. Part of the deal with Neil Young live is lots of feedback (except if he's doing an acoustic gig obviously). You need to dig out a copy of Arc (30 minute CD of feedback workouts from live shows) and immerse yourself. Or maybe it's just not your thing.
Anyways, saw him live in London on Saturday and he's still got it
Feedback is fine, I'm a huge Melvins fan and like other bands that use a lot of feedback live, but if it's overdone and makes most of the songs unrecognizable it's really not that great. Los Lobos opened in Seattle for NY and CH and the sound for their show sucked too and I've seen them several times before and loved them. Maybe it was the venue and a shitty PA, if that's the case I won't be going back to Key Arena.
Even the few solo acoustic numbers he did in Seattle weren't that great sounding. I still think NY is great and love his music.
Most of you kiddies never saw Jimi, who was inspiration #1 for Electric Neil. Jimi was all about volume and feedback. Jimi was way fucking cool. Way.
Yep, I just missed Jimi. Used to listen to him quite a bit though...
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...ps599db367.jpg
Neil on Jimi...
http://rockhall.com/inductees/the-ji...-jimi-hendrix/
"....there's no boundaries, how far you can go in your own body and how far your mind can expand when you're playing it. Jimi showed me that; I learned that from Jimi. And he was at one with his instrument. Truly, one thing was happening, just - no technique that you could take note of - chords that I could recognize - no hand movements that I could go, "I know what that is." I didn't know what any of it was. I just looked at it, and I heard it, and I wanted to do it. I said to myself, "Maybe someday I can go to that neighborhood and feel what that's like." But you can't make it there by yourself, so lucky for me, I had Crazy Horse, and lucky for Jimi, he had the Jimi Hendrix Experience....."
Neil and Jimi @ Woodstock...
From a radio interview program "On The Record" by Mary Turner in 1979, Neil was asked about what he remembered of Woodstock:
Young: "One of things I remember about Woodstock was trying to get there to play. As it turns out, the charter plane I was on with Jimi Hendrix flew into the wrong airport. We were supposed to be picked by a helicopter. The roads were jammed and there was nobody at the airport, so we had no way to get to the concert.
So we're standing at the airport with Melvin Belli [an attorney] trying to figure out what to do. And Melvin Belli steals this pickup truck parked at the airport.
So it's the three of us in this stolen pickup truck trying to get to the Woodstock concert to play -- Jimi, Melvin & me.
That's what I really remember about Woodstock.
^ now thats a fuckin resume builder.
Sorry, bit of a xpost...
Always liked this one...
"It can't be blamed for my mistakes, It only does what it's told..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCiGbOW9QTE
Bill Wyman.Quote:
Originally Posted by irul&ublo
Well.....I am here to tell you I have been listening to some of the most incredible live recordings of Neil on Spotify for the last few hours and I will say I am smitten. The guys body of work is just incredible. And he is a fellow Canuk. I am hard pressed to think of a musician I would rather meet, have a beer with and listen to his stories. I feel Neil. He is da man.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
OK, I confess, I just hate it when some clown attempts to put art into some well ordered list.
Neil's great, but if you buy into the existence of least upper bounds, you'll fall prey to St. Thomas Aquinas and it's time to start tithing.
Is possibly cooler than Darrel Jones but probably no other stones.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benny Profane
Wait. Billy Gibbons. Where does he fit in?
Good interview with NY on Howard Stern this week.
Just a sample of what the old man has been up to in 2014:
Intimate venue solo tour
Continued postponed Alchemy (Euorpe) tour with Crazy Horse
Giving Big Oil shit because he can... Oil/tar sands in Canada, Concert with Willie Nelson and others in a Nebraska Corn field
Released a cover album recorded in a 1940's vinyl record booth (Thank you Jack White)
Records a new album with an orchestra
New book, "Special Deluxe"
Pono
Up coming Bridge School Benefit
etc...etc...etc..
Dumps wife (or gets dumped)Quote:
Originally Posted by TomCrac
Starts banging Daryl Hannah
I'd ask her to wear an eye patch.
"A Man Needs a Mermaid"....
Or for her to just make the dolphin noises :fmicon:Quote:
Originally Posted by TomCrac
I would put Jim Jarmusch up there at Neil Young level of coolness (kind of surprised that he wasn't mentioned considering he chose Neil to score Dead Man and then made the great docu Year of the Horse).
I would also place Nick Cave up at Neil Young level of coolness.
Kim Gordon is cooler than Neil Young, and I think NY is pretty cool.
Always kinda regret not going to the Sonic Youth / Neil Young Crazy Horse concert when the tour swung through SF Bay Area. NY supposedly had a stage set-up mimicking a giant junk yardQuote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
further adding to Mr. Young's coolness: he has a spider named after him
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/li...pider-19691231
Agreed. Dead Man kicks ass, the movie and that dirty fukkin soundtrack.Quote:
Originally Posted by dookey67
Agreed on Nick Cave as well("The Proposition" was a great flick too).
Gonna have to say Eddie Spaghetti is pretty fukkin cool
yeah kiddersQuote:
Originally Posted by Benny Profane
only black people and old man benji can really hear jimi
the lizard king was way cooler too
but dead is cold not cool.
once your dead you "were" cool
neils a different kind of cool.
lot of names of "cool" peeps but come now nick cave?
bill wyman
ya gotta ask yourself would anyone but me buy a biography or even publish one
or why didnt/ isn't there a
is there anyone cooler than tom waits thread?
Werd.Quote:
Originally Posted by skifishbum
Your questioning of the Caveman is invalidated by your inclusion of the lizard queen:)Quote:
Originally Posted by skifishbum
You can't hear them if they're dead. Your IPod isn't going to show you what it was like sitting in front of a stack of old Marshall's turned to 10 with that man bending the strings.Quote:
Originally Posted by skifishbum
Biographies are history. Are you like most and think that there is nothing to be learned from the past?
Your bad poetry is just that. Form a sentence.
Pretty sure that was ragged glory tour,sonic youth was greatQuote:
Originally Posted by dookey67
The chitown show opened w/ the rust never sleeps hooded jawas dudes bringing out a giant microphone
neil come out and ties a big yellow ribbon on it for the desert storm 1 vets
and blazes into a classic arc feedback driven star spangled banner that would make jimi smile
cool shit in my book
I caught about every tour i could from trans to lookin forward and the csny reunion
w/ the shockin pinks bein my least fav
and the 85ish crazy horse reunion over in Dueschland being my best/most memorable
fuck ticket master and schalpers festival seating mahem ftw
i still have a trans concert shirt
i only wear it when i want to be og neil "like a inca" cool
which is probably how a 30 year old t shirt has survived.
cool is a funny thing
hell i thought fonsie was cool
and playin with trains aint my cool
but throwin down for lionel sure was
just like leno has cool cars
but even bennies cooler than
J
Bridge School benefit was this weekend....
From a few short years ago, chump....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obm0HsYDcTE
jj was close
but still not as cool as neil
Cale's influence on Neil Young is lesser known, but in the biography Shakey, he waxed on about the blues-rocker at length, putting him on a pedestal shared only by Hendrix.
"What is it about JJ Cale’s playing? I mean, you could say Eric Clapton’s the guitar god, but... he can't play like JJ," Young told biographer Jimmy McDonough. "JJ’s the one who played all that s--- first... And he doesn’t play very loud, either — I really like that about him. He’s so sensitive. Of all the players I ever heard, it’s gotta be Hendrix and JJ Cale who are the best electric guitar players. JJ’s my peer, but he doesn’t have the business acumen — he doesn’t have the idea of how to deal with the rest of the world that I do. But musically, he’s actually more than my peer, because he’s got that thing. I don’t know what it is."
"JJ’s guitar playing is a huge influence on me," Young continued. "His touch is unspeakable. I am stunned by it."
Kinda expected to see an SFB post about Neil Young's birthday today.