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50 Reasons Why Neil Young Matters
Bob Dylan, Neil Young & Eric Clapton,
Madison Square Garden, New York City - 1992
Not that we really needed any proof, but here are 50 reasons why Neil Young is the second most influential singer-songwriter of the 21st century still performing today.
Hopefully, you'll find it interesting. It's been a lot fun. Enjoy!
Six degrees of separation from Neil Young.
And Neil has some pretty cool friends, too.
Labels: collaborations, influences, musicians, neil young
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
Wilco's Nels Cline and Neil Young
An interview with Wilco's Nels Cline where he discusses the influence of Neil Young's music from Detroit Free Press:
Q: The last time Wilco was in town you were opening up for Neil Young at the Palace of Auburn Hills. Did you get to spend much time with Neil on the road?
Nels Cline: Not really. But I've been a huge fan of Neil's since his days in the Buffalo Springfield. His early solo work was the soundtrack to my teenage depression. His guitar style was crucial to me growing up.
On tour he was focused working on new material for his latest album, the one nobody likes ("Fork in the Road"). ... I sat and listened to every sound check and he seemed to be in a constant state of concentration on his new music. He seems like a total workaholic, with a super-powerful fierceness.
The last night of the tour for us with him was at Madison Square Garden, and he invited everybody onstage, including us and the band Everest. So we were all on stage with Neil doing "Rockin' In the Free World." I was so exhilarated watching Neil goin' at it I started crying.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Jay Bennett and Neil Young
Jay Bennett: 1963-2009
From Jay Bennett 1963-2009 - A Final Interview - Glide Magazine by Brian Robbins where Jay Bennett discusses Neil Young's musical influence.
Jay Bennett, the former Wilco multi-instrumentalist, passed away in his sleep on early Sunday morning (May 24, 2009) due to unknown causes. He was 45. Bennett was best known for his work with Wilco, the group for which he wrote and recorded on 1996's Being There, 1999's Summerteeth and 2002's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, as well as the band's Woody Guthrie themed albums with Billy Bragg, Mermaid Avenue and Mermaid Avenue, Volume 2.
Bennett was recently in the news for as he sued Wilco front man Jeff Tweedy for breach of contract stemming from his work for Wilco. The suit came less than two weeks after Bennett publicly revealed that he needed hip replacement surgery which he could not afford due to lack of health insurance.
Brian Robbins spoke with Bennett in late 2008 for a revealing and uniquely written Glide feature that explored Bennett's creative ramblings. Robbins last heard from Bennett around May 6th, just after news of the lawsuit broke. He had been corresponding to Robbins about the hip procedure and appeared as Robbins states - "in good spirits and sweet as ever."
Read on for one of Jay Bennett's last interviews, published in Glide last September 25, 2008.
Suddenly I hear a voice over the wires – is that Jay? No, I don’t think so … kind of a mumbling sing-song … but as it gets louder, I realize it is Jay, walking back to the phone. I begin to make out some words:
"What do you mean
He had bullet holes in his mirrors
He tried to do his best
But he could not
Please take my advice
Please take my advice
Please take my advice
Open up the tired eyes"
Wow.
“Tired Eyes” from Tonight’s The Night, Neil Young’s fractured 1975 tribute to recently dead friends. If the original wasn’t weird enough for you, you ought to hear Jay Bennett at the tail end of a long awake spell doing a weary Neil Young impression over a speakerphone.
Wow.
Jay Bennett: Okay, I’m back.
BR: Uhhh … Neil Young?
JB: Oh, (laughs) yeah. I kinda OD’d on Tonight’s The Night while we were working last night. My studio manager was playing it over and over and over. I finally said, ‘Look, I’m going to start weeping or fall asleep or pass out … you’ve got to play something up-tempo here – I’m trying to stay awake and stay focused and that ain’t gonna do it.’ But, hey: Neil Young – beautiful slop, you know? Can’t beat it.
BR: Oh, man – “Heart Of Gold” was the inspiration for my taking up the harmonica when I was a teenager. First time I heard “Heart Of Gold,” I said, ‘I want to do that; I can do that. It can’t be that hard - but it’s perfect.’
JB: Well, that’s the beauty of a harmonica – no wrong notes.
***
JB: When I sequence, I still sequence in terms of two sides. I still conceptualize it as a record with a side A and a side B.
BR: Really?
JB: Oh, man, I’ve been listening to so much vinyl at the studio lately … we must’ve listened to Nebraska and Tonight’s The Night about a hundred times apiece. It’s great: you’ve got, like, 15 minutes of music to a side – Neil’s records were always short – with an opener and a closer on each side. It really makes the process of sequencing a lot easier if you can define your opener and your closer on side A and side B … then you just have to fill in the gaps. It’s really an easier approach for me.
Full final interview with Jay Bennett on Glide Magazine. Thanks Brian.
In a review of Wilco's A Ghost Is Born it was noted that:
Bennett was a significant creative factor in Wilco, and Tweedy may have needed Bennett to stay focused creatively just as McCartney needed Lennon.Rest in Peace Jay.
Jay Bennett: 1963-2009
Yes, you're trying to break my heart.
More on other musicians inspired by Neil Young. Also, Tonight's The Night: The deepest and darkest of "Ditch Trilogy" albums.
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Friday, May 01, 2009
Meat Puppets and Neil Young
From American Songwriter, The Meat Puppets’ Curt Kirkwood discusses musical infleunces on the band:
Q: When you guys first started, how did you arrive at your sort of country/psychedelic/cow punk sound, when you began playing songs that would have been labeled ‘hard core’?
Curt Kirkwood: Well we always just did that country thing. We were into Neil Young… a lot of Hank Williams and Johnny Cash. Of course, we tried to satisfy the kinda crowd that we had gotten in with. We liked the punk rock, we always thought it was more psychedelic, just a different style that had never been sung like that. Over the years, we had seen enough trippy jam shows and having played with enough of those bands to find out how much the hippies really don’t like punk rock, which was always a lot by my reckoning. We were never really a huge crowd pleaser at those things. And yet the Grateful Dead asked us to come out on tour with them one time in ‘89 to do some shows. Some people get it. But we always did it that way, recorded it and had a gas with it. But even the first two albums had country stuff on it, just louder.
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posted by Thrasher @ 5/01/2009 05:52:00 PM
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this is a song i wrote finished lasr week for a Iraq Vet that made it home but killed herself after she got here. I am a Disabled Vietnam Veteran so Iwrite a lot of songs about this crap in the Iraqii quagmire.Hope Neil reads thisand somebody out there comes to D.C. jan. 27th with me aa whole shit load of other people to contact our congress people. Hoa Binh
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Never seen Neil Young on concert, I was not going to see it, Neil Young tickets got sky rocked thanks to stupid brokers. But even if I had seen it, I wouldn't buy it. I'd rather wait and see it on DVD. Well suprise I changed my mind and I got 2 tix for the Neil Young show I was looking for tickets thanks god there sites like Ticketwood which work as comparators here is the site
Neil Young Tickets http://www.ticketwood.com/concerts/Neil-Young-Tickets/index.php . So any body going to the Neil Young concert ??
I had the pleasure of seeing Neil and the Horse at the Gorge in 1996, and it was a fantastic evening. I haven't seen Neil play since then, and had I been paying any attention at all that he was in Boise, ID I might have tried to get a ticket and driven the 2 1/2 hours to see him play. I LOVE the Heart of Gold movie, and if any of the live stuff nowadays approaches the quality of that, I'd be in heaven if given the chance to see it.
I didn't know there were links between Neil and Richard Thompson. I am a fan of Thompson's live stuff, and his site puts out a very, very good live disc called "Semi-Detached Mock Tudor" that I think is worth every cent if you like that kind of stuff!
That's a great list you posted. I would have to say that at least half of the artists on that list would qualify in my "favorites" category!
I've never been a huge Neil Young fan, but I will say that I do like a good amount of his music and respect him a whole lot more.
I think that he is very diverse, and most importantly, he sings about things that are important. He's not a musical parrot, like a lot of other musicians are.
I generally like Neil Young's earlier tunes from "After The Gold Rush" and "Harvest". He also wrote some good songs later on but as time has worn on he has become more musically inconsistent in the quality of his songwriting.
I have recorded my own version of "Don't Let It Bring you Down" which you can hear a sample of on my website.
I am a HUGE Neil and Crazy Horse fan. Everything that they did with David Briggs is so right on for me. Pure and honest and definitely NOT phony...haha...Just wanted to throw out a heads up to anyone that feels the same way about a new band that is really doing it for me right now called Blues and Lasers. They're a little bluesier, less melodic, and more rhythmic than the Horse, but they rock incredibly hard and get up into each other's faces when they jam just like the Horse. If you love the Horse and are looking for new music, look no further.
Please, listen to my music, i think you can like it. I'm from Argentina and i love rock music.
My blog is: http://www.renzosinisi.blogspot.com
Greetings!
I love Neil Young's music and I play many of his songs on my acoustic guitar. You can hear me on You Tube by searching WSD1952.
There's an uplifting version of "Don't Let It Bring You Down" — retitled "Castles Burning" — by the great musical interpreters Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
You can find the live video performance on RockPeaks.com along with a whole ton of Neil content.
I was happily stunned to hear this upbeat and inspiring version of the song "that's guaranteed to bring you right down." :)
peace,
Brian, fellow alumnus of Kelvin High in Winnipeg
Hey, this is Mitch Ballings. I live in North Dakota and I write songs for fun. I'm only 14 but i have a song on itunes called if she's got the time. I like to rock it out with my drummer jimbo and his dog. We go to his house and do pot and smoke weed trying to think of lyrics. It actually helps. I have wrote some other songs but they were fails, for examlpe, DEATH IN THE NIGHT, it was a fail. Ineeded a girl lead signeer but didnt have one so i had my gay friend do it. Anyway check out my blog if your interested.
Thanks,
Mitch
Wilco's Nels Cline and Neil Young
aw snap, nels cline started crying?! i missed that, i was watching elsewhere, ; ), but nels, don't worry, you weren't alone ... i was there, and i was crying too : )
lovekaren
I can relate to that sort of moment inciting a tearful vibration. It's interesting how the lineage of reverie works.
Jay Bennett and Neil Young
Jay was a great musician.
I'm not sure what happened in the end with Wilco had something to do with this.
I pray it turns out he simply died in his sleep. I fear otherwise.
jay, your music will always live on.
This was an insightful and moving tribute to a gifted artist but bringing the “McCartney needed Lennon” myth was entirely unnecessary.
Praise Jay, but don’t bury Jeff in the while doing it.
Ah the perils of cross-editing!
I meant of course "bringing the 'McCartney needed Lennon' myth into this was entirely unnecessary" and
"Praise Jay, but don’t bury Jeff while doing it."
Meat Puppets and Neil Young
I saw the Meat Puppets just a couple weeks ago. It was my first time and introduced to me by my fellow Neil Young conspirator. They were awesome. Long may they run.
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