NEIL YOUNG REUNITES WITH CRAZY HORSE
Jambands.com, February 13, 2012
Neil Young & Crazy Horse formally reunited over the weekend. The group played a cover of The Beatles’ classic “I Saw Her Standing There” during a MusiCares Gala honoring Sir. Paul McCartney on Friday night. The gala took place at Los Angeles’ Los Angeles Convention Center on Friday night as part of a series of pre-Grammy events. Young and Crazy Horse–which features Frank Sampedro, Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina–have not shared the stage since March 21, 2004. Young and Crazy Horse are currently working on two new studio projects, including an album of re-imagined children’s songs. Young announced the group’s return during Sundance in January and wet fans’ appetite by releasing a jammy rehearsal video a few weeks ago.
“LOS ANGELES (REUTERS) – Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney racked up yet another honour on Friday when he received the MusiCares’ 2012 Person of the Year award at a star-studded ceremony hosted by Grammy organisers ahead of this weekend’s major music awards.
The line-up of artists celebrating the former member of the Fab Four at the charitable affair included veteran artists Neil Young and James Taylor, singers Katy Perry, Norah Jones, Alicia Keys and Diana Krall, and pop rockers Coldplay and Foo Fighters, …
Neil Young rocked the house with I Saw Her Standing There.
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Article has photo gallery with pix of Neil and Crazy Horse.
Neil Young and Crazy Horse performed a full-on grunge version of The Beatles’ ‘I Saw Here Standing There’ for Sir Paul McCartney’s MusiCares Person of the Year dinner last night (February 10) in Hollywood.
This was the first public performance for Neil Young and Crazy Horse since Neil announced they had reformed and recorded a new album just a few weeks ago.
The day before Neil introduced Sir Paul McCartney onto the Hollywood Walk of Fame when the former Beatle became the last of his mates to receive a star outside of the Capitol Records building.
Sir Paul McCartney is in full-tilt promo mode talking up his new album ‘Kisses On The Bottom’.
“I talked to Steve about it. We were working on it,” Young said.
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—Legendary rocker Neil Young took his campaign for higher-fidelity digital sound to the stage of a technology conference Tuesday, saying a giant of the industry was on his side: the late Steve Jobs.
Young said the Apple co-founder was such a fan of music that he didn’t use his iPod and its digitally compressed files at home. Instead, he used a physical format well-known to have better sound.
“Steve Jobs was a pioneer of digital music. His legacy is tremendous,” Young said. “But when he went home, he listened to vinyl (albums).”
Young told the “D: Dive Into Media” conference Tuesday that he spoke with Jobs about creating a format that has 20 times the fidelity of files in the most current digital formats, including MP3.
Such a format, he said, would contain 100 percent of the data of music as it is created in a studio, as opposed to 5 percent in compressed formats including Apple’s AAC. Each song would be huge, and a new storage and playback device might only hold 30 albums. Each song would take about 30 minutes to download, which is fine if you leave your
device on overnight, he said.
“Sleep well. Wake up in the morning. Play some real music and listen to the joy of 100 percent of the sound of music,” he said.
Although Young didn’t have a practical plan for developing such a format—saying it’s for “rich people” to decide—he said Jobs was on board with the idea before he died from cancer at age 56 in October.
“I talked to Steve about it. We were working on it,” Young said. “You’ve got to believe if he lived long enough he would eventually try to do what I’m trying to do.”
Young’s opinion of Jobs was confirmed by interviewer Walt Mossberg, a journalist with News Corp.’s All Things D website, which hosted Jobs at its conferences.
Mossberg said Jobs expressed surprise that “people traded quality, to the extent they had, for convenience or price.”
An Apple Inc. spokesman declined to comment.
Young, a 66-year-old singer and songwriter, was full of other surprising opinions, including his defense of recording labels such as his own Reprise Records, a unit of Warner Music Group Corp., as being a nurturer of artists, even as he said recording companies had botched the transition to digital music.
Young also said that “piracy is the new radio,” suggesting that illegally copying low-quality songs was an acceptable way for fans to sample music before buying higher-quality versions.
“\"(I) drove around the tarsands in my electric car viewing and experiencing
this unbelievable smell and toxicity in my throat — my eyes were
burning,\" he recalled. \"That started 25 miles away from the tarsands.
When I was in Fort Mac, it got more intense. My son, who has cerebral
palsy, has lung damage, (so) he was wearing a mask to keep the toxic
things in the air out of his lungs and make it easy for him to have
lungs after he left.\"” by -- Neil Young, Honor The Treaties 2014
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