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Just a reminder that last Spring's Neil appearance on Saturday Night Live (where he played Razor Love and Silver & Gold) is running THIS EVENING on Comedy Central at 6pm EST. This is the first re-run of that show.
If you missed recording his songs back then, here's your chance.
Note that this is an edited 60 minute version of the show that
originally ran 90 minutes. On occasion the edited version of
SNL leaves out one of the two songs performed. If they do that
for this particular show, we'll have to start a boycott... :-)
. . . RE*AC*TOR
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 12:30:41 EST
From: Lannamep@aol.com
Subject: Pointless (?) Statistics
Since the beginning of 1999, Neil has played...
I just had an amazing phone conversation with Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets. When I asked him about Neil Young's influence on his guitar playing and songwriting, he said that Neil has had an absolutely incredible influence on him.
He said that it all stems back to Zuma. The album was the first Neil record that really spoke to him directly. Before that, he never really got songs like Southern Man or Cinnamon Girl but they came into context for him later on.
Apparently he feels that it is Neil's guitar playing that is the single most influence on his style. He also says he feels that Neil was the first to encorporate country music into rock music, referring to what Neil was doing BEFORE the Mynah Birds. He feels this pre-dated anyone else.
As far as songwriting is concerned, he didn't feel that Neil had a huge influence, but he did say he thought he and Neil were "kindred spirits". He stated that they both owe a lot to country artists like Don Gibson and Hank Williams, as well as Jimi Hendrix.
Canuck Sean
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:41:22 EST
From: Lannamep@aol.com
Subject: Lotta Neil in Crawdaddy!
The current issue (#24, September 2000) of Crawdaddy! is chock full of Neil Content. Crawdaddy! is edited and published by Paul Williams, the Dylan scholar and the guy who wrote Love to Burn.
Anyway there is a long article in the zine by Ken Viola, called "Memories of Buffalo Springfield." It turns out that this essay will be the liner notes to the Buffalo Springfield boxed set when it finally gets released!
It is a very interesting essay, and even drops hints that the box will include Whatever Happened to Saturday Night?, and Neil's original version of On The Way Home before it was overdubbed and mixed.
Elsewhere in the issue, Paul Williams writes a review of Silver & Gold. If you've read Paul's book ove to Burn, you know his insights on Neil are worth reading.
Crawdaddy! is one of the only music publications that focuses solely on music, rather than fads and fashions. Rusties should be interested in this current issue. Crawdaddy! needs and appreciates readers. Check it out.
Ned W/K
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:39:46 -0500
From: Weickert <DaveW@nationalvideocenter.com>
Subject: Ben Stein and Mr.Soul
Last night on Comedy Central's Win Ben Stein's Money show, Ben opened the show quoting the first few lines of Mr. Soul....
Dave
Long Live The Horse!
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 02:52:05 EST
From: LeftyDv@aol.com
Subject: Madonna, like Neil
In Rob Sheffield's Pop Eye in the new Rolling Stone (the one with Drew Bare-y-more on the cover)...
"Like Neil Young, of all people, Madonna wears her cowboy hat to show how loose she's gotten with age, how deeply she fails to give a fuck, and Music is her Ragged Glory: Now that she's established her comeback, she just wants to have fun and let it all hang out on her own cranky terms."
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The 6th Anniversary
LONG MAY YOU RUN Salute To NEIL YOUNG Saturday, November 11th at 7:30 pm
Featuring the songs of NEIL YOUNG performed by:
HIGHLAND GROUNDS
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Here's a quote from a New York newspaper about Victoria William's show the other night in NYC...
"She took her time deciding which songs to play Thursday night; she shrugged and stopped two of them when equipment malfunctioned. She has a high, cracked voice that can make her sound like Neil Young or a precocious 4-year-old, and when she sings she sometimes flaps her arms or makes faces."Bruce Berry *I came here to sing and work* (Mike Durham)
A while ago it was mentioned that there was a CSNY performance on the Music Scene: The Best of 1969-1970 DVD. I just viewed it this morning.
The CSNY segment is of a 4 minute Down By The River, and it is played live. A couple of interesting things -- I had thought the little harmonic line where Stills & Young played the melody together in sync in the middle of their solos was new to the CSNY2K tour, but silly me -- it's right there on this 1969 performance. I can't tell if the performance was edited down or not, but the jump from Stills' solo to Young's solo is in an odd place.
Another weirdness - the second (and final) verse is sung to a completely different melody, which I've never heard Neil do before. Stills sings harmonies on the verse.
This is actually the second (as far as I know) appearance of CSNY on DVD. The first was on the 50 Original Video Clips - Atlantic Records DVD. That one contained the video of American Dream and a lenghty interview with Ahmet Ertegun (who talked about Buffalo Springfield among other things). That DVD came out in Europe, but was not region coded.
kato
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:42:46 -0400
From: CAMMAIL22@mln.lib.ma.us
Subject: Bowie and Baby and baby names
In his newly released CD Bowie at the Beeb, David Bowie introduces the song Kooks by saying, "I was listening to a Neil Young album when I heard my son was born. I wrote this one for him." It was probably After the Goldrush -- I know that one influenced Bowie a lot. The song sounds a lot like a Neil tune - lots of D chord hammer on/off stuff.
In a book called Rock'n'Roll Baby Names, there's a listing under Neil Young:
"One of the most enduring rockers in the free world, Neil Young offers not only a few appropriate songs for naming your child, but the rich and varied styles he's mastered, from folk rock to grunge to country. You could even name your child Johnny, a la 'Johnny One Note', for Neil's legendarily redundant guitar solos."Alan DerKazarian (Tell Me Why)
In the newest Rolling Stone there are artists' remembrances of John Lennon. There are a couple of entries there by David Crosby and by Graham Nash. Croz says he doesn't remember where he was when he found out Lennon was dead -- he just remembers being very depressed (sounds about right for that period of his life, eh?) And Nash, in his entry, compares Lennon to Neil! That's a pretty heavy comparison. He says that John Lennon was always on the front edge of song writing, like Neil Young. And they just do what they feel is right, and sometimes they fly and sometimes they fall. I like that analogy.
Rust On!
The DJ's Daughter
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 20:57:48 -0400
From: RE*AC*TOR
Subject: Reprise press release for Road Rock
Reprise put out a press release for the Road Rock album a couple of days ago, well after the news had been revealed here and subsequently on all the big music news sites.
The press release quotes a number of reviewers of the MIH tour, one of them even saying "Neil Young's godlike reputation hardly needs burnishing..." Hard to find better superlatives than that! But they try, including another tour reviewer's quote "He's the master of nearly every musical genre you can imagine..."
There are a few items from the press release that I haven't otherwise seen mentioned up to now:
Entertaindom is running some of the video that had run back when the NeilYoung.com site first came on line. Currently it looks like they have Year Of The Horse and Muddy Track available, plus videos for RITFW, Cry Cry Cry and Harvest Moon.
RE*AC*TOR
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 19:48:13 -0400
From: RE*AC*TOR
Subject: Graham refutes rumor
In response to a rumor that CSN is feuding with Neil over his release of Road Rock (rather than an expedited CSNY live album/DVD) and had withheld CSNY cuts from his Archives project, Graham Nash has issued the following statement:
"It's all bull... Neil knows that he has CSN's permission to use any track he wants to for his 'Archive' project. We have never even talked with him about his release of Road Rock."Neil can do what the hell he wants to with his music. Work on the CSNY DVD is going slowly due to prior commitments, but we are working on both the audio and the video. We have had CD's cut of our favorite performances of our songs.
"We will choose the best, then meet to discuss what songs should finally make it. Larry Johnson is doing the same with the video so work is going on. Post this and tell everyone out there to relax. Things are still great between us all and we are right now, making plans for the next tour."
Graham
In an
article about the upcoming
Road Rock album on
MTV Online, they state that the "Soundscan" numbers for
Silver & Gold
are 310,000.
. . . RE*AC*TOR
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 20:22:12 EDT
From: JGi5999858@aol.com
Subject: Furay "plays" with Neil
This from the Westword,a local alternative paper, in an article about Richie Furay:
"During Young's three night stand at Red Rocks in late September, {Furay} spent more time with the legendary chameleon {Neil} than he has in years. Neither brought up Buffalo Springfield Again, which was fine by Furay. "It was really about re-establishing a close friendship, and I didn't want it to be more than that."JimFuray adds that he and Young didn't play any music together during the visit -- "but we did play golf." Richie will be joining Poco at the Grizzly Rose in Denver next Friday, on a break from his church duties, as the band comes through town. Apparently he joins them to play often when they come to Denver.
I had an EXTREMELY interesting conversation the other night. I bumped into an old friend of mine from my days in the record shop trade. Turns out that he's now a major-label insider who's familiar with a lot what's going on with Neil's projects. So of course I pumped him for information about the Archives and other material, specially the Missing Six.
He thinks there will be no reissue of any of the M6 on CD, EVER. He could not have been more sure about this. I believe him.
My friend has seen a proposed track list of the Neil Archives. However he does not believe it will ever see the light of day, certainly not on CD. As many know, Neil is currently raving about DVD, but the companies are simply not set up to manufacture or distribute the new technology yet. Given Neil's antipathy towards CD, he doesn't believe Neil will release the archives now or in the future on CD.
There is a shining ray of hope for the M6 in the shape of vinyl. Whilst Neil would not be likely to agree to a release of the archives on vinyl there may be a move from Warner to ask Neil to consider a limited release of the M6 material on the original vinyl format.
I must mention however, all the above is pretty much hearsay and retold rumours from an insider new to his position.
Col
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 06:55:12 -0400
From: RE*AC*TOR
Subject: Neil releases in the news
The upcoming releases by Neil have been mentioned in several articles over the last few days:
Most of those don't go much beyond what's been discussed here (and the first three credit HyperRust for some of the news), but the Rolling Stone article does get pretty specific about the titles of the new works. They call the album Friends and Relatives (Road Rock Vol.1), but that doesn't really match the album cover. They call the video "Red Rocks Live, Friends and Relatives".Pete Long's excellent reference book Ghosts on the Road will soon be available from Neil Young's website!!! Check out the webmart.
I think this is the first book officially approved by Neil...?
W/K
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:19:31 EDT
From: steve washick <spreadicated@hotmail.com>
Subject: Panic brought to you by...
I can't believe I didn't hear it the night of the show last spring, but I suppose that's what tapes are for...
Back on April 24th, Widespread Panic played a show at the House of Blues in Orlando. The show was on a Monday, so they started off with Neil's Last Dance. Later that evening, they closed the show with another Neil tune, Mr.Soul. After the encore, before leaving the stage lead singer Jon Bell leaned to the mic and said:
"Tonight's been brought to you by the letter 'Neil'...": )
laid back and laughing,
steve
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:56:29 -0400
From: RE*AC*TOR
Subject: Road Rock in USA Today
There's a
brief
mention of Road Rock on the USA Today
newspaper web site. Doesn't say anything more than
has been mentioned here lately, though.
. . . RE*AC*TOR
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:25:26 -0400
From: RE*AC*TOR
Subject: Reprise Web Update
Reprise Records has redone their website. The new version of their "New Releases" page is now mostly just an advertising page for the already released stuff, rather than the "forthcoming releases" format of the old page. It currently only includes TWO forthcoming albums on the page that mainly lists stuff like the new Greenday album and recent re-issues by Clapton.
With this new version of the page, there is now no longer a listing for "Neil Young (box set)" in a "to be scheduled" section, like the old one had. And they haven't included Road Rock on the page anywhere, either.
It remains to be seen whether this new version of the page will be
of any real use as a source of news or not. Depends on how much
they add to the "Coming soon" column, and how timely they are
about updating it. Hopefully they'll put the effort required into
making it a valuable resource, rather than just pure advertising.
. . . RE*AC*TOR
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:13:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: JGG <oldgreycat@yahoo.com>
Subject: Lotta Neil on Elvis' List
In the new (November) issue of Vanity Fair, Elvis Costello lists the 500 albums he considers "essential to a happy life." Interesting choices, by and large. Among them are all of these albums featuring Neil:
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere=====
Deja Vu (CSNY)
After The Goldrush
If I Could Only Remember My Name (David Crosby)
Retrospective (Buffalo Springfield)
Time Fades Away
On The Beach
Ragged Glory
I got a mailing from the Dutch NY Fanclub which quoted Warner Benelux. It says that the European release of the new album is November 17.
burned out basement
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 20:06:25 -0400
From: RE*AC*TOR
Subject: Still more on upcoming releases
The Road Rock video (DVD & VHS) looks firm for December 5.
. . . RE*AC*TOR
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 14:22:38 EDT
From: SCHUBIDOO@aol.com
Subject: More on upcoming releases
Just heard from a friend with WEA connections some info about the upcoming releases:
Kurt
Speakin' Out
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 23:30:34 -0400
From: Harris-Lacey@home.com
Subject: Judging Neil
I was watching Judging Amy tonight, and about 2/3 through the episode there's a scene where Amy's mother was playing with her grandson for the first time. I noticed that the music in the background was Neil. After a few more seconds I realized it was Razor Love. A few more seconds and you hear Neil's voice... "Turned you loose, your momma, too...". (Fade to commercial...)
I knew it was a good show!
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 10:12:19 +0200
From: luus van diggelen <vandiggelen@chello.nl>
Subject: Reminder: CSNY Bio special deal
I just wanna let you know the offer we have on our website on our new biography, Crosby Stills Nash and sometimes Young (to be released in 2001), will end on the 1st of November.
We thank you all for your interests...
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 14:01:50 EDT
From: ABBAABBADO@aol.com
Subject: Rust Never Sleeps is #10
E-ONLINE has listed their
Top 10 Concert Films.
Rust Never Sleeps is at number 10. They say "When Neil
rocks, he takes no prisoners."
tom
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 19:14:29 -0400
From: RE*AC*TOR
Subject: Big Neil News
Heard some strong rumors, most of which aren't really anything new, but are apparently firmer than may haven been previously well known.
First the Good News...
DVD Review has info on the U.S. release of the Year of the Horse DVD. Bonus features:
:-> Ted Gocal
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:16:00 -0400
From: Charles_W._Zepp@jonesday.com
Subject: Jayhawks do some Neil at Rock Hall
I saw the Jayhawks this past Friday night at the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. They played a show to celebrate the Rock Hall's fifth anniversary.
Highlights included a seemingly impromptu rendition of Neil's Revolution Blues, with the guitarist handling lead vocals and a gent identified as their "bus driver" on lead guitar.
Chip
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 10:54:38 -0500
From: Chuck King <cking@minn.net>
Subject: Dead Man DVD Features
According to the Image Entertainment, on the upcoming Dead Man DVD, special features include "Audio Commentary - Deleted Footage and outtakes".
"Moe the Sleaze"
a.k.a. Chuck King
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 20:42:48 GMT
From: joe hancock <joely8@hotmail.com>
Subject: Mother Hips do Neil
Last night I attended a show by my favorite northern California band, the Mother Hips. They were great. They played two shows, one in the park for free and then one in a bar for the older crowd. It was four hours of great tunes.
I was talking to the bass player in between the shows. On the merchandise table he had a picture of Willie Nelson and Neil sitting at a piano. I told him that I loved Neil and we talked about him for a while. He told me that there was a great Neil website called HyperRust, which I think I knew already...
During the "bar" show, the lead singer looked at me and said "this is your lucky day", and they ripped into a killer version of Mr.Soul. I was ecstatic! Then they left the stage, and when they came back out for an encore, they closed it with a great version of Roll Another Number.
I drove home elated and happy. Neil is everywhere.
Like the Neil All Day special, October
5th will be CSNY All Day on
WFUV radio,
according to
their program info.
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 10:33:42 EDT
From: Livs4lafs@aol.com
Subject: Reminder: Neil all day tomorrow
Remember, tomorrow is NEIL DAY on WFUV Radio 90.7 FM at Fordham University. Lots of Neil air time and covers of his work n tid bits.
SUPPORT PBS, and listen tomorrow on the web!!!
Dance Dance Dance!
Jill<Sweet Sweet Smile>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 15:14:15 -0400
From: RE*AC*TOR
Subject: Hopeful archives sign
The Reprise Records new releases page had been sitting untouched for quite some time, through this morning. But today they gave it a minor face-lift -- changing the fonts and turning a lot of the band names into active links. (They did leave some several-month old "new release" dates on it, though, so the job was somewhat half-done.) One encouraging sign is that they left "Neil Young (boxed set)" in the "To be scheduled for 2000" list at the bottom, despite having cleaned out some of the other listings in that area that were there this morning.
PERHAPS this means they still haven't made up their mind yet about
this year. We keep hearing rumors the release has been cancelled
for this year, and then getting assurances from people such as
Warner Bros. Europe that it IS still
planned for this year. With an absense of anything more definite up
to now, I'll take the fact that they haven't removed it from the
Reprise new release page as a hopeful sign...
. . . RE*AC*TOR
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 13:27:47 -0400
From: RE*AC*TOR
Subject: Classic CSNY on DVD
Unfortunately it's just one song, but on October 17, MPI Media will be releasing a DVD compilation of the late 60s show Music Scene that includes a CSNY performance of Down By The River from Sept 22, 1969. It's the second performance on a 4 hour DVD holding 4 complete Music Scene shows, plus a bunch of other seperate performance clips. Many many different bands and solo artists (of all genres) are included, from the Archies to Isaac Hayes, from Lulu to Sly & The Family Stone, from Bobby Sherman to James Brown. Looks pretty interesting...
Price is $25. Details here.
In the promo clip for the DVD, most of the acts they show are lip-synching. But at that time (just a few weeks after Woodstock), CSNY had not recorded Down By The River. So unless they're lip-synching to the Crazy Horse version, I'd guess it'll be a real performance...
Note that there's also a 1 hour VHS tape that includes that same
CSNY performance, and it's available NOW. But it's $20 just
for the one hour. Details here.
. . . RE*AC*TOR
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 11:02:47 -0400
From: RE*AC*TOR
Subject: Moby does some Neil
According to
an
article in the LA Times, Moby is doing at least part of
Helpless in his current live show. The article says that at
the LA show he mentioned that the song was written somewhere in the
"valleys and canyons around here."
. . . RE*AC*TOR
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:15:59 GMT
From: Jules <grayj@main-lib-admin-nwsrv1.bham.ac.uk>
Subject: Cropper piss has to do
There's a small by-line about Teenage Fanclub in the new Mojo. It includes the following quote from band-member Raymond, discussing the great acts The Fannies have supported. This made me smile...
"We didn't get to meet Neil Young, which was disappointing, but Norman ended up having a piss next to Steve Cropper."Jules Upon-the-Sea
This is sort of embarrassing but here goes... Every once in a while I will call the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire hotline to see about getting on the show. They make you do answer some questions, and for the first three questions they make you put things in order, like they do on the show to get into the chair.
Previously I'd never gotten past those first three questions (I guess I'm not as smart as I thought I was). Anyways, today I try it and I got the first two questions right. Then came the third question:
Put the following Neil Young albums in order according to the date that they were released, starting with the earliest, to the most recent. The choices are:Of course I knew the answer to this question -- but I was so excited that I messed it up! I said the order was 3,4,2,1. Everybody knows that it shouild have been 3,2,4,1. Man, I really feel stupid...
- Harvest Moon
- Harvest
- Neil Young
- Rust Never Sleeps
I guess we can't win them all.
In the September 24th Philadelphia Inquirer, there is article about the Almost Famous movie. It begins by telling an anecdote about how Cameron Crowe prepared the actors for their roles. Apparently Cameron force fed the cast a diet of 70's music. To quote Cameron:
"You must listen to all of Afer The Gold Rush. You must bring this back to me with notes, and tell me about your feeling about Birds.And they all jumped to it.
John Dourgarian
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 08:28:23 -0400
From: RE*AC*TOR
Subject: Neil & Babs: Botched correction
Last week a Reuters article about the first of Barbra Streisand's farewell mini-tour shows in LA claimed that Neil was there and that Babs acknowledged him from the stage with a nod or an "air kiss". Undoubtably the writer had crossed his Neil-wires, crediting THE Neil for the presence of the anti-Neil (Mr. Diamond).
Well, today they issued a correction to the story. BUT: they didn't correct the "Neil Young" reference! Apparently Babs complained about the article having referred to her Millennium show as "supposed to have been her last ever" -- because since then, she decided to do this finale mini-tour, and didn't want it to appear she'd changed her mind. So they "corrected" that statement (they now don't refer to her Millennium show as having been planned to be her last ever). But they left in the reference to Neil Young getting an air-kiss from her.
Ain't Entertainment Journalism just grand?
. . . RE*AC*TOR
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 00:03:29 -0700
From: Barry Toranto <barry@wigt.com>
Subject: Rickie does more Neil
Rickie Lee Jones ended her show tonight at the Paramount Theater in Oakland with a very cool solo version of Old Laughing Lady... Anyone tape it!?
Barry Toranto
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