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Neil Young fans are tumescent with excitement at news of mammoth "Landfill" archival release dropping late summer! On worldwide promotional tour, Mr. Young was kind enough to grant exclusive interview, mooring kelp-powered Lincoln Continental at IoF© dock !
"Ol' Shakey" and your genial host relaxed poolside as Kreemé [18 my ass - Ed.] served her signature Vegemite™ n' fish head smoothies.
FT3 Th' Youngster! Hey now! Lookin' good! [whispered, to camera] For a homeless bum, I guess. Ye-euch.
NY Holy crap lookit th' ass on that gal!
FT3 Ri-ight ... so tell us about the Landfill project!
NY [laughs] It rocks out! There's eight hundred hours of material that basically David Briggs didn't want released. What an asshole! He really held me back!
FT3 So it's all unreleased?
NY Yeah! Well, most of it, except the stuff which has been released before. Which is most of it. But it's all been remixed and remastered for Pono! It rocks out, man! There's some awesome live material I did with with my gardener, Pancho, at RutabagaAid™. It rocks out!
FT3 And we'll be hearing the mythical Christmas Album at last?
NY It rocks out! There's like, a forty-five minute live feedback version of The Man With All The Toys where I just leave Old Black on stage while I distribute gifts to a bunch of orphans they bussed in. And there's an a cappella [Italian, outside - Ed.] version of Little Saint Nick, just me and Peggy, and you can hear her crying, it'll break your fuckin' heart it's so beautiful. That's gonna be the single.
FT3 Well, I have to go wait in the lobby, Neil, so thanks for dropping by! Uh ... rock out, man!
This post funded in part by Anus-Eze©, the multi-purpose hemorrhoid spray and room freshener.
Look, I'm still unable to sign in with Google. Summat up somewhere, if only I was more (computer) literate. Gotta comment on the funding for the post - Anus-Eze. I reckon there is more funding from 'Twinkle Twat plc' the feminine freshness provider. My girlfriend's pussy smelt of gorilla fart until I recommended 'Twinkle Twat' and now with just one burst from the dispensser she smells . . . just as bad actually. Keep on keeping on. The Man from Mordor.
ReplyDeleteThe Man from Mordor is available for after-dinner speaking, children's parties, and wellness centre mindfulness sessions.
DeleteOh, there's no argument from me that he wasn't as great as everyone said he was, including me.
ReplyDeleteOne has to wonder, how many Ponos™ ended up in a landfill?
ReplyDeleteWhile we anxiously await with bated breath, the release of the “Landfill Archival Set”, here’s Uncle Neil’s ‘Rock'n'Roll Cowboy: A Life On The Road - 1966-1994’, which is a 4CD live compilation bootleg from those fine folks at Great Dane Records located in downtown Milan Italy (no really). I’ve even included scans of 48-page booklet.
https://workupload.com/file/M5jMJMNCJuG
This post and download was made possible by a generous grant from the Kimberly-Clark Corporation. Makers of Anal-Kotex - “Tampons For Any Asshole”.
Thanks, Babs. Sadly, the only time anyone posts anything this delicious is when I have returned to the 5 Mbps connection on Poverty Ridge.
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Gee whillickers!! I had that Great Dane b'leg! Also their Zappa set. Excellent productions.
DeleteI had their Doors set, but my favorite from that label was "The Saint, The Incident and the Main Point Shuffle" from Springsteen's 1975 show at Bryn Mawr.
DeleteI think we should have a Springsteen bootleg piece, all the good stuff before that dull mess of an official live box came out. I remember buying that, putting my ticket stubs in it, and maybe playing it once. Maybe. But the bootlegs were great - I had the very first, The Jersey Devil, with the silver label, and those great doubles w/paper inserts, Trust Your Car and [I FORGET]. They had the monologues that the live box omitted.
DeleteHere's the Brucie Great Dane boot if anyone needs it: https://workupload.com/file/2MEZQFtFWm3
DeleteThat’s a nice set, EasilyConfused.
DeleteThis one is ‘First Night In Detroit’ from 1975, on two CDs.
https://workupload.com/file/KnwBpFXVUAc
Babs, I was at that Bruce concert in Detroit. Changed my life. I've been waiting almost 50 years to hear if it was a great as I remembered. Sounds pretty good to me. Thanks so much.
DeleteWhere else would you put your Pono? Beside the DAT player?
ReplyDeleteThat's not a question you want answered.
DeleteWatch what you wish for...
DeleteWe're setting up the Man from Mordor for one of his subtly allusive comments ....
DeleteA propos de rien, the new Gubmint Mule elpee is FANTASTIC. A stone joy from start to finish. The seventies start here!
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(@320, like it matters.)
Well I'll be, didn't have you down as a Gubmint Mule fan, thanks. I haven't heard any of their albums in many a year, will give it a spin this evening.
DeleteI'm surprised too. I thought you were in the "any ABB spinoff without Dickey isn't good enough" camp.
DeleteYou might want to check out their live performances too. They really do bring it in concert.
Have you played the album yet, Torgo? Seems like one step beyond to me - a bunch of great songs, plenty of variety, not a blues/jamming album. A real seventies studio album.
DeleteIt breaks away from the blues, largely because they actually recorded it at the same time as Heavy Load Blues. Have you heard that one yet?
DeleteIt's a hell of a one-two punch. Co-producer John Paterno set them up in two adjacent rooms at the same studio with whole different sets of amps, microphones, signal processing gear and guitars to capture different feels for the two albums. They'd work on the more intricate arrangements for Peace... Like A River during the day, take a break, have some dinner, and then come back to the other room and wail on the blues late into the night.
It worked out well, obviously. Heavy Load Blues was nominated for a Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album, and now we get this rock-oriented powerhouse to go with it.
Not a big blues fan, I. This is the first Gubmint album that pricked up my ears.
DeleteI still haven't cared to try to get into Neil Young. His 'Trans' move was...interesting. Nothing else I've heard from or about him has the slightest curiosity-twitching effect.
ReplyDeleteAnother one that was kind of divisive among his fans was the Greendale album. Before he played the Bonnaroo festival that year, he even made an announcement to assure fans that his set at the festival wouldn't be like the other shows from the tour he was doing for Greendale at the time and would be a true festival performance.
DeleteI thought it was cool that the CD also came with a DVD of a concert performance of the full album. Frankly, it was that live version that made the whole thing worth a listen. If you take the DVD as the real album and the studio CD as bonus tracks, it's a much, much better album.
At this point, it's mind-blowing to think that even THAT album is now 20 years old.
Greendale - *stares blankly into distance*
DeleteThe truly sad thing about the Pono music player is that people allegedly bought "tens of thousands" (according to Neil) of them.
ReplyDeleteThe Pono music format was just plain old FLAC. No technological breakthrough of any kind there - just taking an open standard and putting a brand name on it. That in itself seems like it's something NY should have opposed. And the player? Yes, it was high quality, but in terms of the hardware it really wasn't all that much better than, say, the Sandisk Sansa c200 or e200 series from around 2004-2006 (ten years before Pono).
So at the time the Pono was introduced, you could pay $400 for a Pono model NY001, or you could buy a used Sansa for $10-20 off of eBay, load Rockbox (firmware replacement for various mp3 players) on it (free), and have a smaller, lighter player with more features, capable of playing more music formats, and NOT locked into the Pono music store - for 2.5%-5% of the idiotic Pono price.
How on earth could Pono fail? Inconceivable...
It's a Rock Star Entrepreneur Triumph on a par with Lou Reed's flip-up eyewear.
Delete...or his Metal Machine Music album.
DeleteThough that one actually was a triumph of sorts, as it was the ULTIMATE "contractual obligation" album.
Label says you still have to deliver two more records? No problem... just throw together a double album of noise that sounds like a stack of Marshall amps being gang raped by angry kitchen appliances. Then say in the liner notes that it's "music for people on heroin".
MMM doesn't count. It's a record. He was playing to strengths. Pono and the flip-up eyewear were business initiatives well outside the comfort zone of rock stars.
DeleteAntecedently on th' IoF©:
ReplyDeletehttps://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2020/04/mit-beta-tests-neil-young-shit-not-shit.html
https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2021/08/oh-lonesome-neil.html
https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2020/12/iof-exclusive-neil-young-talks-about.html
https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2020/10/that-underrated-first-album-thing-dept.html
I am sure th' 4/5g©will join me in carrying Mr. Confused aloft on a triumphant tour of th' IoF©, and then depositing him ceremonially in the Pit O' Sludge™ to rule over the slippery, malformed creatures - once rock critics - that dwell there in merciful darkness.
ReplyDelete(Ten percent, you say?)
Slippery and malformed, you say? OK - go on then!
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