Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:07:58 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/ Bad News Beat en-us http://www.bad-news-beat.com/images/http://www.human-highway.org/images/smaller_bnb_logo.gif http://www.bad-news-beat.com/ BNBstaff-45@bosco.net http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2664 2010-07-15 Mondavi Center, Davis, California, USA Solo 1. My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) (acoustic guitar) 2. Tell Me Why (acoustic guitar) 3. Helpless (acoustic guitar) 4. You Never Call (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 5. Peaceful Valley (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 6. Love And War (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 7. Down By The River (electric guitar - Old Black) 8. Hitchhiker (electric guitar - Old Black) 9. Ohio (electric guitar - white falcon) 10. Sign Of Love (electric guitar - white falcon) 11. Leia (piano) 12. After The Gold Rush (pump organ) 13. I Believe In You (piano) 14. Rumblin' (electric guitar - white falcon) 15. Cortez The Killer (electric guitar - Old Black) 16. Cinnamon Girl (electric guitar - Old Black) --- 17. Walk With Me (electric guitar - white falcon) Notes: Included a spoken version of a portion of Vampire Blues just before Rumblin'. Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:07:58 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2663 Review: Neil Young performs short, but sweet set at Fox By Jim Harrington Oakland Tribune There might not be another rocker in the game that can deliver a more thrilling solo show than Neil Young. He can just sit on a stool with an acoustic guitar in his hands and unleash one mesmerizing song after another. Then he'll move over to the piano or the organ—or, perhaps, grab an electric guitar—and the whole process repeats. His lyrics, so thoughtfully poetic and imaginatively accessible, tug at the heart and stimulate the brain with equal force. Some of his selections, of course, are more effective than others, but nothing in his song book is without some kind of merit. Indeed, there were moments of pure brilliance during his concert on Sunday—the first of three nights at the Fox Theater in Oakland. (Young will also perform Monday and Wednesday at the Fox, as well as Thursday at UC Davis.) That said, however, the capacity crowd was a bit shortchanged by the 64-year-old rocker. It may have been Walt Disney that coined the phrase "Always leave them wanting more," but it's a motto that Young has apparently taken to heart when it comes to local audiences. For six years, he'd skipped over the Bay Area with his regular solo tours—since performing back in 2004 at the Berkeley Community Theatre—and only made brief appearances at his annual Bridge School Benefit concerts at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View. Fox run, what they received was a mere 85-minute set. That's a paltry showing for the high ticket price, which topped out at $200 per ducat. A two-set offering, sans an opening act, would've been much more appropriate. Young did, however, make the most of his time. He strolled out onstage in a very casual manner—dressed in well-worn jeans, a black T-shirt and a white hat and coat—sat down on a stool, grabbed his acoustic guitar and immediately jumped into "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)," from 1979's "Rust Never Sleeps." The rendition was powerfully hypnotic, full of haunting lines that have been sung, and heard, hundreds of times, yet still somehow achingly poignant. He followed with another solo gem, "Tell Me Why" (from 1970's "After the Gold Rush"), before venturing into the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young oeuvre for "Ohio," a protest song that still manages to resonate 40 years after the killings at Kent State that inspired the lyrics. The mood brightened when Young performed one of his more humorous recent songs, "You Never Call," which boasts a lyric about the NHL's Detroit Red Wings that drew a loud "boo!" from all the San Jose Sharks fans in attendance. Young was all business as he shuffled between two pianos, an organ and both electric and acoustic guitars. He barely spoke, but his songs said volumes to the fans that sang along—often in a fashion approaching a reverential whisper—to words that have meant so much to them over the years. Young's voice, while far from being a technical marvel, conveyed an almost unbearable amount of emotion. That's how he was able to make such decades-old selections as "After the Gold Rush" and "I Believe in You" (also from "Gold Rush") sound so fresh. After closing the main set with a rollicking take on the classic "Cinnamon Girl" (from 1969's "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere"), which featured some of Young's most ferocious electric guitar work of the night, the star left the stage and then, as predicted, returned for an encore. Since he'd only been onstage for 80 minutes, it seemed plausible that Young would deliver a lengthy encore. That didn't happen. It was only a one-song offering, of the new song "Walk With Me," and then he was gone again. And, yes, he left us wanting more. Neil Young in concert When and where: 8pm July 12 and July 14 at Fox Theater, 1807 Telegraph Ave., Oakland; 8 p.m., Thursday at Mondavi Center, One Shields Ave., University of California, Davis Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:07:06 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2662 2010-07-14 Fox Theater, Oakland, California, USA Solo 1. My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) (acoustic guitar) 2. Tell Me Why (acoustic guitar) 3. Helpless (acoustic guitar) 4. You Never Call (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 5. Peaceful Valley (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 6. Love And War (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 7. Down By The River (electric guitar - Old Black) 8. Hitchhiker (electric guitar - Old Black) 9. Ohio (electric guitar - white falcon) 10. Sign Of Love (electric guitar - white falcon) 11. Leia (piano) 12. After The Gold Rush (pump organ) 13. I Believe In You (piano) 14. Rumblin' (electric guitar ­ white falcon) 15. Cortez The Killer (electric guitar - Old Black) 16. Cinnamon Girl (electric guitar - Old Black) --- 17. Walk With Me (electric guitar - white falcon) Tour: 2010 Twisted Road Tour, 2nd Leg Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:05:33 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2661 010-07-11 Fox Theater, Oakland, California, USA Solo 1. My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) (acoustic guitar) 2. Tell Me Why (acoustic guitar) 3. Helpless (acoustic guitar) 4. You Never Call (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 5. Peaceful Valley (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 6. Love And War (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 7. Down By The River (electric guitar - Old Black) 8. Hitchhiker (electric guitar - Old Black) 9. Ohio (electric guitar - white falcon) 10. Sign Of Love (electric guitar - white falcon) 11. Leia (piano) 12. After The Gold Rush (pump organ) 13. I Believe In You (piano) 14. Rumblin' (electric guitar ­ white falcon) 15. Cortez The Killer (electric guitar - Old Black) 16. Cinnamon Girl (electric guitar - Old Black) --- 17. Walk With Me (electric guitar - white falcon) Tour: 2010 Twisted Road Tour, 2nd Leg Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:04:35 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2660 Trapper reports: Neil has lent back up vocals (as did Brian Wilson) on a new album featuring Elton John and Leon Russell. Should make for an interesting album. Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:03:30 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2659 Neil Young Joins Facebook? Posted on Jun 25th 2010 2:00PM by Charley Rogulewski Neil Young has some 411,000 fans on Facebook and up until Thursday afternoon it seemed like the page had been controlled by a record label intern. There was a link that took you to a link to purchase his 'Archives Vol. 1' series, a biography line that promoted the July 22, 2008 release date of the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young film, 'Deja Vu,' and pages upon pages of fan admiration for the iconic guitarist. When it came to updates, it was just the sound of crickets chirping. Then, at around 3:30PM, the 64-year-old rocker decided to show just how nibble his guitar-plucking fingers really are by typing his inaugural post on the social networking site. Young's shadowy avatar produced this little message: "I have been thinking about adding vampire blues to my show but I would rather do it with a band. This is my first posting. Thanks for being there." So, yes, Neil Young is apparently on Facebook. Vampire blues? Bring it! The outpouring of responses was massive with some 5700 people "liking" the status and 2350 commenting on the rock god's inaugural comment within the first five hours of publishing. "Hey Neil, great show in Spartanburg, loved the krispy kreme comment!!" one fan replied. While others, astounded by the fact that there really is a Neil Young "listening" on Facebook responded with accolades of how the man's music had changed their lives indefinitely. Young's got his work cut out for him, as the responses read like a novel. Whether its Neil or not, it sure got our attention. ______________________ Ed.Note: It's Neil. Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:45:06 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2658 Farm Aid Photo Exhibit Opens Friday at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum June 21, 2010 A photo exhibit commemorating the 25th anniversary of Farm Aid will open at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville on Friday (June 25). The exhibit will be on display in the museum's West Gallery through the end of 2010. Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young organized the first Farm Aid concert to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to help keep farm families on their land. The first show took place Sept. 22, 1985, in Champaign, Ill. The exhibit features photos of numerous country artists, including Brooks & Dunn, Kenny Chesney, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, Alan Jackson, Jamey Johnson, Kris Kristofferson, Martina McBride and Keith Urban. Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:43:26 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2657 June 15, 2010 Neil Young’s Greendale, Illustrated By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES, NYTimes They say you can’t go home again, but maybe someone should tell that to Neil Young. Mr. Young created the fictional Northern California town of Greendale and its residents on his 2003 album of that name, then spun it off into a film and more. Now he’s visiting again, this time in the form of a graphic novel. “I’m happy the story is getting around; I think it’s empowering for young women,” he said during a recent telephone interview from his tour bus as it made its way to Louisville, Ky. “Neil Young’s Greendale,” as the graphic novel is officially titled, was released this week by Vertigo, a division of DC Comics, and was written by Joshua Dysart, illustrated by Cliff Chiang and colored by Dave Stewart. It focuses on Sun Green, the great-granddaughter of Jay Green, the man who founded Greendale. Through Sun, the artists tell a story about personal responsibility, war and the environment, all themes familiar to Mr. Young. “It’s still pretty current,” he said. The Greendale townsfolk were originally given life in 2003 in Mr. Young’s 10-track concept album with the band Crazy Horse. That led to a concert tour, an original film and a companion book of lyrics, illustrations and more information about the characters, including the Green women’s special relationship with nature. The graphic novel draws on the various incarnations with a strong helping from the book and suggestions from Mr. Young. “The album is more of a rock-’n’-roll ‘Our Town,’ ” Mr. Dysart said in a phone interview from his home in Los Angeles. “The graphic novel is an American fable with strong supernatural elements.” Mr. Young worked with Mr. Dysart on developing the story line and was incredibly patient when it came to landing the artist. “It took me about a year and a half to get Cliff Chiang,” Mr. Young said. After being told that Mr. Chiang’s schedule would not be free for sometime, Mr. Young took matters into his own hands. “I found his Web site, and I sent him an e-mail telling him I was going to wait until hell froze over,” he said. Mr. Chiang recalls getting the message on Super Bowl Sunday in 2008, during the halftime show. It was signed NY. “It took me a second to figure out that NY was Neil,” Mr. Chiang said during a phone interview from his home in Brooklyn. “I thought they had already been working on the book with someone else.” No. “It had to be Cliff,” said Mr. Young, who noted that he appreciated the artist’s open, clean style. Mr. Chiang has drawn the adventures of the Human Target for Vertigo. He also illustrated a Green Arrow and Black Canary comic book for DC. His personal Web site includes superhero riffs on cover images of film soundtracks: Batgirl in place of Prince in “Purple Rain” and the Teen Titans as “The Breakfast Club,” among them. Mr. Chiang spent close to two years working on the 160-page graphic novel, from character design work to drawing the pages; it’s printed on recycled paper, Beyond the initial e-mail exchange, however, he had little interaction with Mr. Young. That was not the case with Mr. Dysart. “Whenever he was in L.A., I would meet with him,” Mr. Dysart said. That included going backstage at the Hollywood Bowl during a Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young concert. There were several rounds of scripts and revisions, and Mr. Dysart describes Mr. Young as a “phenomenal collaborator” — in sharp contrast to his experience with the singer Avril Lavigne and her “Make 5 Wishes” manga graphic novel, which he scripted for Del Rey. He sent several ideas, one was selected, and then silence, Mr. Dysart said. “On the one hand, we were able to produce whatever kind of book we wanted,” he said. “On the other hand, it put a weird taste in my mouth about Avril Lavigne. That was not Neil.” (A representative for Ms. Lavigne did not respond to e-mail and phone messages.) Mr. Young has been so prolific with “Greendale” that certain elements had to be condensed or omitted from the graphic novel. But “knowing that there were going to be a lot of hardcore Neil Young fans looking at this book, I wanted to put in stuff that only they would get,” Mr. Chiang said. One of the “Greendale” songs mentions a black cat; in the graphic novel, it appears in the first shot of Sun’s bedroom. The Imitators, a band mentioned in the album and film, make a cameo appearance in a bar scene. Mr. Dysart saw Jed Green, the troubled young man who has a tragic encounter with the law, and the town’s mysterious (and malevolent) stranger as two sides of the same coin: the manipulated and the manipulator. Both characters also have a passing resemblance to Mr. Young. “I wish I could come up with a really great intellectual reason for why I wanted to do it, but it just felt right,” Mr. Dysart said. Other parts of Young lore are evident in a somber funeral procession scene that features a giant Buick Roadmaster hearse. “That’s actually Neil Young’s first car that he nicknamed Mort,” Mr. Chiang said. The trusty vehicle was eulogized in the singer’s “Long May You Run.” Behind Mort is the Linc-Volt, a 1959 Lincoln Continental that Mr. Young has been trying to make more fuel-efficient. “He’s one of the few people who would recognize it immediately,” Mr. Chiang said. The “Greendale” graphic novel may not be the last readers see of Sun Green. “There are all kinds of things that we talked about doing that aren’t in this book, that have to do with her next episode and her story,” Mr. Young said. “These characters have been designed to last a long time.” :: nytimes.com/2010/06/16/books/16greendale Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:41:42 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2656 There are still some presales available: http://tix.concertmaps.com/neilyoung/ Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:39:46 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2655 Denis reports: now available in store, the story has been adapted by writer Joshua Dysart and artist Cliff Chiang. here some links about interview of J.D. and previews :: comicbookresources.com :: newsarama.com/comics/greendale-dysart-interview-neil-young :: comicsalliance.com/2010/06/08/preview-neil-youngs-greendale :: cliffchiang.com/category/greendale/ 13 pages in preview: :: huffingtonpost.com/bryan-young/ Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:38:59 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2654 Concert review: Neil Young at Meyerson Symphony Center 01:09 PM CDT on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 By MANUEL MENDOZA/Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News If the rattled walls of the Meyerson Symphony Center could talk, they might ask, “Who was that old guy raining buckets of distortion and feedback on us?” The answer is Neil Young, whose beautiful noise tested the limits of the hall normally reserved for unplugged strings. Young, 64, has remained relevant while outlasting most of his 1960s peers. The semi-acoustic tour that brought him to Dallas on Monday night includes seven unreleased songs from his next album, the Daniel Lanois-produced Twisted Road. More than half were instant classics. Despite a near-capacity crowd that kept declaring its admiration – “We’re so excited!” “Neil, you’re numero uno!” – Young was a man of few unsung words for most of his 95-minute set. He opened with a trio of his folk-rock standards, “My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue),” “Tell Me Why,” and “Helpless,” accompanying his vulnerable, expressive tenor on acoustic guitar and harmonica. He followed with three more acoustically rendered new tunes, two of which invoked the weather. Young’s music has become increasingly obsessed with climate change and other environmental issues, though here it was mostly metaphorical. Threatening skies hovered over “You Never Call,” which could be about the 2004 death of his ex-partner Carrie Snodgress or maybe God. The song was dark and funny, Young dropping references to the Detroit Red Wings, In-n-Out Burger and online links. The haunting “Peaceful Valley” concerned the white man’s ruination of the Indians – “Change hits the country like a thunderstorm” – which Young flecked with an Eastern-influenced guitar figure. Not to miss any taboo subjects, religion came up in “Love and War,” a self-referential epic during which he half-apologized for occasionally hitting “a bad chord” in his songs about the title subjects. The show then reached its first peak when Young strapped on an electric guitar and returned to familiar ground. He began working a bank of effects, eliciting fuzz tones for a dynamic take on “Down by the River.” For the rest of the night, he built on that distortion with barn-burning versions of “Hitchhiker,” “Ohio,” “Cortez the Killer,” “Cinnamon Girl” and the new “Walk with Me” while occasionally quieting down for numbers on piano (“I Believe in You” and the new nursery-rhyme-styled “Leia”), organ (a gorgeous “After the Gold Rush”) and acoustic guitar (the encore “Old Man”). :: dallasnews.com/ Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:34:22 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2653 Sunday, June 20: Bert Jansch and the Pegi Young Band Largo at the Coronet Join us for an intimate evening with legendary musician Bert Jansch, including a set by very special guest Pegi Young and her band. Showtime 8pm, Tickets $30. To purchase tickets: 310.855.0350 For more detailed information about Largo at the Coronet and The Little Room: www.largo-la.com _____________________________________________ thanks go to rick rentler for reporting. Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:32:40 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2652 Daniel Lanois badly hurt in L.A. motorcycle crash OTTAWA — Gatineau-born producer-artist Daniel Lanois has canceled all upcoming tour dates after a motorcycle crash in Los Angeles, according to EW.com. Lanois sufffered multiple injuries in the crash on Saturday, according to a press release on Tuesday. “Lanois suffered multiple injuries but is expected to be released from intensive care soon,” the release stated. “Due to the severity of the injuries, Lanois…will be recuperating for the next two months.” Lanois's production credits include such supergroups as U2. He had previously scheduled a European tour for this July. Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:28:55 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2651 Review: Neil Young at Bass Concert Hall By Joe Gross | Sunday, June 6, 2010, 10:49 PM Upon learning Neil Young was in Austin, a colleague texted me the following: “Wimpy Neil or Loud Neil?” (Note: wimpy is not a knock; he simply meant acoustic.) As it turned out, both showed up at Bass Concert Hall Saturday night. In front of an occasionally entirely too enthusiastic crowd — there’s nothing louder and more entitled-sounding than let’s-call-them-longtime fans who’ve paid three figures for a ticket — Young alternated between new songs and old, guitar and keyboards, acoustic strum and electric fire. Young’s hand-picked opener was a hero of his, a Scottish gentleman named Bert Jansch. Though well known in his own country and among guitar connoisseurs, Jasnch is a cult figure at best in the States, the co-founder of the British folk rock outfit the Pentangle and a man Young once called the Jimi Hendrix of acoustic guitar. Indeed he is - Jansch’s clawhammer-style picking creates spun-glass melodies, complicated and gorgeous, weaving together American blues and Anglo-Saxon folk. Jansch was one of the folk feast’s founders - his cult is devout for a reason. But just as Jansch’s music was glorious in its fluid complexity, Young’s songs are extraordinary for their simplicity. Opening with a trio of acoustic numbers, Young laid out his terms: rock music is eternal (“My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)”) as is longing (“Tell Me Why”) especially when combined with memory and beauty (“Helpless”). He ratcheted up the sound on three new songs “You Never Call,” (Never thought we’d see the day when a Young song included the line “you send me a link,” but, well, here we are), “Peaceful Valley” and “Love and War” (his eternal topics), the bass string of his pickup-amplified acoustic bouncing around the room. Most galvanizing were the electric numbers, classics such as “Down By the River” and the smashing “Cortez the Killer” reduced to their sapre, howling essence, raw like a fresh wound - “River” has rarely sounded sadder, “Cortez” more moving. The rarity “The Hitchhiker” stood stark and weird, a dark tale of drugs and more drugs. “Ohio” was a crowd-pleaser, while “Sign of Love” and the encore-closing “Walk With Me” suggested Young has found next contexts and shapes for the gloriously unholy noises he can get out of his beloved guitar Old Black and it’s mate, the white Falcon, as if the feedback and fury from the “Arc/Weld” live era were shaped into rough songs. Elsewhere he moved to a pump organ for “After the Gold Rush” and to the piano for the light “Leia”. You think you’ve seen it all from the guy and he finds another ace in the deck. Wimpy? Loud? Like the man once said, it’s all one song. :: statesman.com/blogs/ Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:26:24 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2650 Neil Young goes old and new Posted by Andrew Dansby at June 5, 2010 12:15 AM A couple of years ago Neil Young issued a concert recording from a 1971 show at Massey Hall in Toronto. The concert included a bunch of songs from what would become his big seller, Harvest. But to that crowd the tunes were new that night. Young brought his Twisted Road Tour to Jones Hall Friday night and similarly played an armful of new songs that were sandwiched among blocks of older favorites. The gig was billed as Neil Young solo, which was the case, though that didn't mean an acoustic evening with Young. He spent a substantial portion of the night vigorously strumming electric guitars. For those wanting a trip back, Young opened with a trio of beloved tunes accompanied only by acoustic guitar and harmonica: Hey Hey My My, Tell Me Why and Helpless before moving into several new ones including You Never Call and Peaceful Valley. The latter paired with older ecologically-minded favorites like After the Goldrush to serve as a sort of indirect reaction to the ongoing BP oil spill. The whole of the evening was a bit disjointed, thrilling at times, but Young's choice to workshed the new songs solo and electric seemed at times tentative. Still it was an assertive and bold way to test new songs that may or may not be forthcoming on a new album. If you divvy musicians up into those you hear and those you feel, Young has often been a feel guy, working up tempestuous storms of sound with Crazy Horse, while finding a different more spartan groove with his acoustic fare. A straightforward revue of his old work would serve to position him as a hear artist, which seemed to be where the evening was headed at the outset. The reference to Johnny Rotten in Hey Hey My My is no longer sneered, but rather breathed with something more like resignation by a guy who refused to burn out or fade away. Instead Young has stuck around without typical rock concessions to age. He's caught up with the old-as-time voice he had as a youthful singer but he still won't allow himself to be locked into yesterday. Young didn't compromise when he did MTV's Unplugged 17 years ago. The show included his best recording to date of Mr. Soul and an inventive rethinking of Like a Hurricane along with a few tunes that hadn't gotten much attention in years. The tightness of the stage fit the performance, a pump organ being the most exotic texture. Friday night his arsenal seemed too big, with several guitars and keyboards spread over the stage. The electric songs seemed the most jarring. Some worked others didn't. Down By the River (a favorite of mine) felt still without a rhythm section, where his playing on Ohio had the angular and forked beauty of aural lightning. Still the keys seemed to mesh better with the quieter fare. A great trio of deep track/classic track/new track (Leia, After the Goldrush and I Believe in You) was a highlight. Rumblin', which sounds like you'd expect from the title, broke the spell. "Play something else you want," an audience member yelled. I couldn't tell if it was said with sincerity or anger. But when Young played Old Man and the new Walk With Me as his encore, I was relieved he hadn't resorted to nostalgia. He said it'd be a twisted road. And it's been that way for decades. Opener Bert Jansch, a '60s guitarist of inestimable influence on rock, opened with a short but hypnotizing set of his impeccably picked bluesy folk that seems to be a point of reference for so many guitarists including Young, Nick Drake and especially Jimmy Page. :: blogs.chron.com/peep/2010/06/neil_young_goes_old_and_new _________________________ thanks, ad. Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:22:45 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2649 Neil Young, Old Man, Loudly Looks Back At His Life By Chris Gray, Monday, Jun. 7 2010 @ 10:00AM Even Neil Young, whose lyrics are generally among the most unironic in rock and roll, has to grasp the irony of singing "Old Man" from the other side of the mirror. But as he's gone from "twenty-four and there's so much more" to "look at how the time goes past," the 64-year-old's solo set at Jones Hall made a convincing case that he's not going quietly into the black. Hardly. Surrounded by a variety of guitars and keyboards, his only human company a handful of stage techs, Young cut a curious figure Friday. Lit by a single spotlight in the otherwise pitch-black and mostly sold-out hall, as he wandered from instrument to instrument between songs, he was an old man - not doddering or stumbling, but pensive, and certainly in no great rush. Once he picked up a guitar or sat down at a keyboard, or blew his harmonica like a hurricane, that image instantly vanished. Young became the wizened tribal elder, imparting his shamanic wisdom through every cutting chord and photographic lyric, whether history lesson, elegy, confession or profession of faith. "I sing about love and war," he sang on "Love and War," one of the handful of new songs in the set list. What was implied, and became clearer and clearer as the 90-minute set progressed, is how intertwined those two themes are in Young's work, how they always have been and continue to be. ​After "Ohio," played on a hollowbody electric guitar, Young's riff as cold and metallic as the barrel of a National Guardsman's rifle, came the new "Sign of Love," which was even darker and more predatory. Love will do that to you. "I Believe In You," one of three from his 1970 album After the Gold Rush, was almost whisper-like, Young seated at a grand piano and singing with an intimacy that completely canceled out that instrument's majestic modifier. Although the sentiment of "Cinnamon Girl," which closed the main set, is decidedly more cheerful than "Down By the River," its companion on Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere that opened Young's electric-guitar recital about a third of the way home Friday, both came in showers of needle-like reverb that slid directly under the skin, as unsettling as they were cleansing. Earlier, the high-lonesome "Helpless" and "You Never Call," a new song that stares down the Grim Reaper in the parking lot of an In N' Out Burger, were no less goosebump-raising for being played acoustically. Young opened with the song that has been his mission statement since it was released on 1979's Rust Never Sleeps, "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)." An hour and a half of love and war later, after referencing Buffalo Springfield's "Mr. Soul" on the new electric-blues invitation "Walk With Me," he was done. For the evening, at least. The old man waved at the wildly applauding crowd a few times and wandered into the black of backstage, burning brightly for 90 minutes and leaving an impression that may never fade away. :: blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/ Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:20:42 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2648 July 11, 12 Fox Theater Oakland July 23 Edmonton AB, July 24 Calgary AB. July 26 Winnipeg MB. July 29 Minneapolis MN July 30 Milwaukee WI. Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:19:00 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2647 2010-06-02 Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee, USA Solo 1. My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) (acoustic guitar) 2. Tell Me Why (acoustic guitar) 3. Helpless (acoustic guitar) 4. You Never Call (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 5. Peaceful Valley (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 6. Love And War (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 7. Down By The River (electric guitar - Old Black) 8. Hitchhiker (electric guitar - Old Black) 9. Ohio (electric guitar - white falcon) 10. Sign Of Love (electric guitar - white falcon) 11. Leia (piano) 12. After The Gold Rush (pump organ) 13. I Believe In You (piano) 14. Rumblin' (electric guitar ­ white falcon) 15. Cortez The Killer (electric guitar - Old Black) 16. Cinnamon Girl (electric guitar - Old Black) --- 17. Old Man (acoustic guitar) 18. Walk With Me (electric guitar - white falcon) Tour: 2010 Twisted Road Tour Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:30:37 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2646 2010-06-01 Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee, USA Solo 1. My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) (acoustic guitar) 2. Tell Me Why (acoustic guitar) 3. Helpless (acoustic guitar) 4. You Never Call (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 5. Peaceful Valley (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 6. Love And War (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 7. Down By The River (electric guitar - Old Black) 8. Hitchhiker (electric guitar - Old Black) 9. Ohio (electric guitar - white falcon) 10. Sign Of Love (electric guitar - white falcon) 11. Leia (piano) 12. After The Gold Rush (pump organ) 13. I Believe In You (piano) 14. Rumblin' (electric guitar - Old Black) 15. Cortez The Killer (electric guitar - Old Black) 16. Cinnamon Girl (electric guitar - Old Black) --- 17. Walk With Me (electric guitar - white falcon) Tour: 2010 Twisted Road Tour Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:29:39 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2645 2010-05-30 Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium, Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA Solo 1. My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) (acoustic guitar) 2. Tell Me Why (acoustic guitar) 3. Helpless (acoustic guitar) 4. You Never Call (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 5. Peaceful Valley (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 6. Love And War (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 7. Down By The River (electric guitar - Old Black) 8. Hitchhiker (electric guitar - Old Black) 9. Ohio (electric guitar - white falcon) 10. Sign Of Love (electric guitar - white falcon) 11. Leia (piano) 12. After The Gold Rush (pump organ) 13. I Believe In You (piano) 14. Rumblin' (electric guitar - Old Black) 15. Cortez The Killer (electric guitar - Old Black) 16. Cinnamon Girl (electric guitar - Old Black) --- 17. Heart Of Gold (acoustic guitar) 18. Old Man (acoustic guitar) 19. Walk With Me (electric guitar - white falcon) Tour: 2010 Twisted Road Tour Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:27:48 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2644 2010-05-29 Fox Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Solo 1. My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) (acoustic guitar) 2. Tell Me Why (acoustic guitar) 3. Helpless (acoustic guitar) 4. You Never Call (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 5. Peaceful Valley (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 6. Love And War (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 7. Down By The River (electric guitar - Old Black) 8. Hitchhiker (electric guitar - Old Black) 9. Ohio (electric guitar - white falcon) 10. Sign Of Love (electric guitar - white falcon) 11. Leia (piano) 12. After The Gold Rush (pump organ) 13. I Believe In You (piano) 14. Rumblin' (electric guitar - Old Black) 15. Cortez The Killer (electric guitar - Old Black) 16. Cinnamon Girl (electric guitar - Old Black) --- 17. Walk With Me (electric guitar - white falcon) Tour: 2010 Twisted Road Tour Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:26:42 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2643 2010-05-27 Knoxville Civic Auditorium, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA Solo 1. My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) (acoustic guitar) 2. Tell Me Why (acoustic guitar) 3. Helpless (acoustic guitar) 4. You Never Call (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 5. Peaceful Valley (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 6. Love And War (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 7. Down By The River (electric guitar - Old Black) 8. Hitchhiker (electric guitar - Old Black) 9. Ohio (electric guitar - white falcon) 10. Sign Of Love (electric guitar - white falcon) 11. Leia (piano) 12. After The Gold Rush (pump organ) 13. I Believe In You (piano) 14. Rumblin' (electric guitar - Old Black) 15. Cortez The Killer (electric guitar - Old Black) 16. Cinnamon Girl (electric guitar - Old Black) --- 17. Walk With Me (electric guitar - white falcon) Tour: 2010 Twisted Road Tour Sat, 29 May 2010 10:20:51 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2642 2010-05-26 Louisville Palace Theatre, Louisville, Kentucky, USA Solo 1. My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) (acoustic guitar) 2. Tell Me Why (acoustic guitar) 3. Helpless (acoustic guitar) 4. You Never Call (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 5. Peaceful Valley (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 6. Love And War (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 7. Down By The River (electric guitar - Old Black) 8. Hitchhiker (electric guitar - Old Black) 9. Ohio (electric guitar - white falcon) 10. Sign Of Love (electric guitar - white falcon) 11. Leia (piano) 12. After The Gold Rush (pump organ) 13. I Believe In You (piano) 14. Rumblin' (electric guitar - Old Black) 15. Cortez The Killer (electric guitar - Old Black) 16. Cinnamon Girl (electric guitar - Old Black) --- 17. Walk With Me (electric guitar - white falcon) Tour: 2010 Twisted Road Tour Band: Solo setlist stabilizes? Sat, 29 May 2010 10:19:37 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2641 2010-05-24 Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C., USA Solo 1. My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) (acoustic guitar) 2. Tell Me Why (acoustic guitar) 3. Helpless (acoustic guitar) 4. You Never Call (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 5. Peaceful Valley (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 6. Love And War (acoustic guitar w/ pickup) 7. Down By The River (electric guitar - Old Black) 8. Hitchhiker (electric guitar - Old Black) 9. Ohio (electric guitar - white falcon) 10. Sign Of Love (electric guitar - white falcon) 11. Leia (piano) 12. After The Gold Rush (pump organ) 13. I Believe In You (piano) 14. Rumblin' (electric guitar - Old Black) 15. Cortez The Killer (electric guitar - Old Black) 16. Cinnamon Girl (electric guitar - Old Black) --- 17. Walk With Me (electric guitar - white falcon) Tour: 2010 Twisted Road Tour Band: Solo Sat, 29 May 2010 10:14:18 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2640 LEIA LOVE AND WAR PEACEFUL VALLEY RUMBLIN' SIGN OF LOVE WALK WITH ME YOU NEVER CALL lyrics and guitar tabs for the new songs as heard at: :: Palaxia.se Mon, 24 May 2010 15:59:16 -0400