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Analog Geeks on Psychedelic Pill

a great analog geeky article about the analog discussion of the Neil Young & Crazy Horse album “Psychedelic Pill” on www.analogplanet.com about the .MP3 generation vs. “the real sound”

“You used to get it all/blocking out my anger/blocking out my thoughts.”

— On this sprawling three record, five side triple-gatefold AAA album, recorded through a vintage Universal Audio tube console and Neve BCM10 junior console to a Studer 2″ eight track analog tape recorder, mixed to Ampex 1/4″ tape, mastered by Chris Bellman from the analog master at Bernie Grundman’s and pressed at Pallas in Diepolz, Germany, Young lays down the sonic challenge, saying in the sound and production, “Here it is, here’s what we once had, here it is again, listen and tell me that any digital format can even remotely approach this, not just sonically, but emotionally”.

Also mentions some details on the PONO audio format recording of the album.

…read more on www.analogplanet.com/neilyoung .

thanks to bgunn.

They rate the music (on a scale of 1-10) as a 9, 
and the sound as an 11.

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Neil Young and Crazy Horse 2013 tour (updated)

Alchemy

http://www.neilyoung.com/tour.html

Website has been updated.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse Tour dates for Australia and Europe 2013.

Stuttgart is lucky to get their show on a full moon.

New dates:

14.07.     Locarno, Switzerland

18.07.   “Big Festival” Biarritz, France (in the Southwest, close to the Spanisch border)

23.07.   Paleo Festival, Nyon, Switzerland

Most current actual tour dates always on  tourdates on BNB | see also Tom’s Sugar Mountain |

Our BNB tour date articles (category) .

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Interview with Gary Burden (cover artist of “On The Beach” and lot more)

Check out an exclusive Interview with Gary Burden of R.Twerk & Co.
on Human-Highway.org:

http://www.human-highway.org/2013interview-with-gary-burden-of-r-twerk-co

Gary Burden, the famous album cover artist – In an exclusive interview with Human Highway, the artist, art director, and designer talks about his journey along the Human Highway and his work for Neil Young.

Gary was winning a 2010 Grammy for the design of Neil Young’s Archives Volume 1 and is currently working on Archives Vol. 2

his homepage:
Burden of R.Twerk & Co. http://garyburdenforrtwerk.com/

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Neil Young to perform Feb 8 Benefit Concert

“Jon Stewart to host Grammy Awards 2013 MusiCares tribute to Springsteen;

Neil Young to perform

By: The Associated Press 2/01/2013 10:36 AM  LOS ANGELES, Calif.

– Jon Stewart is hosting the MusiCares salute to Bruce Springsteen.   The Recording Academy also announced Wednesday that Elton John, Neil Young, Mumford & Sons, Sting, Mavis Staples and Kenny Chesney will be among more than a dozen performers who will help pay tribute to Springsteen during the Feb. 8 benefit concert, held in Los Angeles two days before the Grammy Awards.

Springsteen is MusiCare’s person of the year, an award given to a performer who is notable both artistically and philanthropically. The sold-out concert will benefit MusiCare’s emergency financial assistance and addiction recovery programs.

Other performers scheduled to appear include Juanes, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, Jackson Browne and Alabama Shakes.   Stewart is the host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.”   http://www.brandonsun.com/entertainment/breaking-news/jon-stewart-to-host-grammy-awards-2013-musicares-tribute-to-springsteen-john-young-perform-185416752.html

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Neil Young Moving Forward With Pono

Pono gains momentum:

“On Thursday Neil Young Moving Forward With Pono was a top story. Here is the recap: (Gibson) Neil Young’s quest for a new online music service and digital player is gathering pace. Pono, his forthcoming service, will feature high-resolution master downloads of songs. Young’s company has now made federal trademark applications for a pair of slogans – “Pono Promise” and “21st Century Digital.”

Young Tweeted earlier this month that Pono will roll out the service’s cloud-based music-library component and portable digital-to-analog players by summer 2013.   During an interview with David Letterman in September, Young said he was “negotiating with Sony” and working on transferring albums including The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and Highway 61 Revisited for Pono.

And Young is very serious about this: Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports that he and Pono raised $500,000 investment in November.   In the past, Young has been critical of the MP3 / AAC formats and before that, even CDs. But Pono will be hi-res. Some reports suggest that, on average, a five-minute song on Pono would require 300MB of storage space.

–   Source:  http://www.antimusic.com/news/12/December/ts20Neil_Young_Moving_Forward_With_Pono.shtml

Read more:  http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/News/en-us/neil-young-pono-format-1219-2012.aspx

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