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Written by Shar on 30 April 2013
We can only hope.
Neil Young with Crazy Horse will be playing at least one show this year in the states, and we are guessing more are coming.
As for now, all we know is that Neil Young and Crazy Horse will play the intimate Fox Theatre in Detroit on September 3rd. A listing for the show has popped up on Ticketmaster, according to an article written at JamBase.
Read more at: http://www.jambase.com/Articles/118495/Neil-Young-and-Crazy-Horse-To-Bring-Alchemy-Tour-Back-Stateside
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Written by bnbrainer on 29 April 2013
How Crazy Horse Jump-Started Neil Young’s Career Inside the making of 1969’s classic ‘Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere’
oh, we already had this. (doesn’t matter, nobody reads this anyway)
Andy Greene (of RS)
April 23, 2013 11:00
Neil Young’s future was very much in doubt when he began recording Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere in January of 1969. His former Buffalo Springfield bandmates were forming successful new groups like Poco and Crosby, Stills and Nash, but Young was determined to make it on his own – even though his self-titled 1968 debut was pretty much dead on arrival and Young was playing tiny clubs in Michigan, Ontario and New York to pay the bills.
Young had cut his debut with studio pros like drummer Earl Palmer and bassist Carol Kaye. But he felt the songs he was writing for his follow-up needed a needed a rougher, edgier touch. When he came across a band called the Rockets one day in Laurel Canyon, he knew he found his guys. Led by guitarist Danny Whitten, they were a former doo-wop group that had morphed into a psychedelic folk outfit. They weren’t highly trained musicians, but they played with incredible intensity. Success had eluded them for years, and they jumped at the chance to play with someone as established as Neil Young, who promptly changed their name to Crazy Horse.
After years when he’d labored over each and every song he recorded, Crazy Horse helped teach Neil the value of working very quickly. “In a single day we did ‘Cinnamon Girl,’ ‘Down By The River’ and ‘Cowgirl In The Sand,'” bassist Billy Talbot told Rolling Stone in 1979. “There wasn’t much need to discuss it.” Young had just started started playing a black 1953 Gibson Les Paul that Jim Messina had given him. It produced a thunderous noise that quickly became his signature sound. He plays the guitar to this day.
500 Greatest Albums of All Time: Neil Young, ‘Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere’ Side One of the record ends with the nine-minute “Down The The River” and Side Two ends with the ten-minute “Cowgirl In The Sand.” “Me and Billy and [drummer Ralph Molina] sounded like Crazy Horse right away,” Young told biographer Jimmy McDonough. “All I had to do was come up with the songs and the riffs. I started realizing how long we could jam. It was fantastic . . . ‘Down By The River’ was really edited. We got the vibe, but it was too long and sometimes it fell apart, so we just took the shitty parts out. Made some radical cuts in there – I mean, you can hear ’em.”
The songs were unlike anything else Young had ever recorded. He wrote many of them in a single day when he was suffering from the flu. “It became obvious to me that this band was much funkier than all the other bands I’d been in,” Young told McDonough. “And I noticed that some of the musicians that I’d played with in the other bands didn’t think these guys were very good. Yet I liked them. Even more, as a matter of fact. I was having a really good fuckin’ time playing with them. Where else could I go and play my guitar for fuckin’ seven minutes, sing a verse and play another five-minute solo?”
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That was wonderful.”
Read more: rollingstone.com/music/news/how-crazy-horse-jump-started-neil-youngs-career-20130423
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Written by bnbrainer on 26 April 2013
Don’t miss the new Linc Volt blog written by … The Passenger. http://thepassengerchronicles.tumblr.com/
A Haiku for Poetry Month
April 20, 2013
America floats past shatterproof glass.
People rush to live their busy day.
Our destiny lies ahead – onward.
—The Passenger
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Written by Shar on 24 April 2013
Third Man phone booth
A short blurb on Neil Young recording a song in the booth at Third Man Records Store in Nashville as part of the global Record Store Day.
The 1947 Voice-o-Graph is the only public vinyl record recording booth in the world. 111 seconds of audio can be recorded in the booth and the audio is cut to a six-inch phonograph disc.
Jack White also recorded in the booth.
Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/jack-white/69907#aIXuoS4qVOuoCZz6.99
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Written by Shar on 24 April 2013
Andy Green of Rolling Stone has been writing about Neil Young a lot these days. This time he looks at the 1969 release of “Everybody Knows this is Nowhere.”
He travels down the history of Neil Young road that dates back to “The Rockets.”
Greene writes: After years when he’d labored over each and every song he recorded, Crazy Horse helped teach Neil the value of working very quickly. “In a single day we did ‘Cinnamon Girl,’ ‘Down By The River’ and ‘Cowgirl In The Sand,'” bassist Billy
Talbot told Rolling Stone in 1979. “There wasn’t much need to discuss it.”
He lists EKTN as one of the top 500 albums of all times.
The guys in Crazy Horse didn’t know what kind of future they had, but the songs they cut with Neil were finally getting a huge audience. Slowly, Everybody This Is Nowhere started to climb the charts, eventually reaching Number 34.
“Cinnamon Girl” was finally released as a single in April of 1970 and many radio stations put it into heavy rotation.
The little white puppy on the album cover might show up in Neil’s new car/dog-theme book he said he’s been working on.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/how-crazy-horse-jump-started-neil-youngs-career-20130423#ixzz2RO1XJXpt
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