Neil Young and Crazy Horse performed last night, July 13, 2014, at Echo Arena in Liverpool, England.
Here are some clips from the show.
“Days That Used To Be”:
“After The Gold Rush”:
Separate Ways”:
“Blowin’ in the Wind”:
Another view:
“Heart Of Gold”:
Another view:
And another (includes end of “Blowin’ in the Wind”):
“Barstool Blues”:
“Psychedelic Pill”;
“Rockin’ In The Free World”:
Another view:
Another view:
“Who’s Gonna Stand Up And Save the Earth?”:
Another view:
“Like A Hurricane”:
Another view:
Setlist:
Love and Only Love
Goin’ Home
Days That Used to Be
After the Gold Rush
Love to Burn
Separate Ways
Don’t Cry No Tears
Blowin’ in the Wind
(Bob Dylan cover)
Heart of Gold
Barstool Blues
Psychedelic Pill
Rockin’ in the Free World
Who’s Gonna Stand Up and Save the Earth
Encore:
Like A Hurricane
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.
Or watch an arty video with audio of me reading from the novel here.
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Beautiful song from Sharon Van Etten, “Our Love,” and a sexy video to go with it.
Check it out:
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.
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Bob Dylan played at Odderøya Live in Kristiansand, Norway last night, July 12, 2014.
Three audio clips have emerged thus far.
“Girl From the North Country”:
“Shelter From The Story”:
“Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum”:
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.
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“Tom died yesterday, July 11, at 12:15 p.m. at his home in Ridgewood, Queens,” Andy Schwartz, publisher of New York Rocker magazine, said on behalf of Ramone’s family. “He was in hospice care following treatment for cancer of the bile duct.”
And how can this be? How can The Ramones be dead?
I remember it all so well.
Reading about The Ramones in the Village Voice, and the anticipation leading up to the release of their first album in 1976.
And what an album. You put it on and it was over almost before you realized it. The songs were so short. I think the whole album clocks in at 30 minutes.
And then they were coming to the Bay Area!
We’d already seen Patti Smith, and she was the greatest of course. But The Ramones were something else.
It was as if The Ramones had invented a new kind of rock ‘n’ roll. The lyrics to their songs were a kind of haiku, as my wife Leslie described it. And the songs were so short. And they mostly sounded like subtle variations on the same song. One song. One.
You wanna get an idea of how radical The Ramones music was in 1976? Go put on a Doobie Brothers album from the early ‘70s, or an album by Journey. Then follow it with The Ramones “Beat On The Brat.”
It’s like someone taking a sledgehammer to a refrigerator and smashing the thing to bits.
Yeah, get it?
I met the original band – Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and Tommy in August 1976 when they came out here. Out West. We sat next to a swimming pool at a cheap South of Market Street motel, and I attempted to interview them. I was 23, and new at interviewing bands. Their skin was an anemic white. Like they never had been out in the sun before. (There’s a photo by Jenny Lens of Joey Ramone lounging near the pool here.)
They didn’t say much.
They were so New York. So cool. They looked just like the cover of that first album. Same clothes – Black leather jackets, ripped jeans, and well-worn t-shirts.
They played in a small room at the back of North Beach bar, The Savoy, on upper Grant Avenue, just a half block or so from the Café Trieste, you know, where some of the Beats hung out.
It was hot and sweaty and packed. How did all these people know about The Ramones? All these people amounting to maybe 80 people. Maybe.
The music was loud. I’d never heard rock played at such a volume in such a small room.
But it wasn’t just the volume. It was everything. And we knew it, whose of us who were there. In 1976, this was the New Thing. The ‘60s were already long gone, but it was The Ramones who ushered in what came next.
Their music, and all of punk, is now old hat too. That’s what happens.
Tommy Ramone. Sixty-five years old. Much too young to die.
Imagining Tommy Ramone at 65, when I want to remember Tommy and Joey and Johnny and Dee Dee just as they were in 1976, that’s a hard pill.
The Ramones, 1974:
The Ramones, Arturo’s loft, 1975:
The Ramones, Max’s Kansas City, 1976:
The Ramones in England, 1977:
“I Wanna Be Sedated” and “The KKK Took My Baby Away”:
Music Vault has made, as of today, more than 13,000 live music videos available on You Tube.
Here is a taste of what’s there. Full concerts by Lou Reed and The Band, Van Morrison doing “Cyprus Avenue” in 1970 and “Try For Sleep” in 1974, Bob Dylan and The Band sing “Baby, Let Me Follow You Down” at the Last Waltz in 1976, Neil Young singing “Helpless” with The Band at Winterland and more.
Lou Reed – Full Concert
Recorded Live: July 16, 1986 – Ritz (New York, NY):
The Band – Full Concert
Recorded Live: July 28, 1976 – Casino Arena (Asbury Park, NJ:
Van Morrison – Full Concert –
Recorded Live: February 2, 1974 – Winterland (San Francisco):
Neil Young & The Band – “Helpless”
Recorded Live: 11/25/1976 – Winterland (San Francisco, CA):
Van Morrison – Cyprus Avenue
Recorded Live: 9/23/1970 – Fillmore East (New York, NY):
Van Morrison – Try For Sleep
Recorded Live: February 2, 1974 – Winterland (San Francisco)”:
Bob Dylan and The Band, “Baby, Let Me Follow You Down”:
Big Brother and the Holding Company – “Ball And Chain”
Recorded Live: 8/16/1968 – San Francisco (San Francisco, CA):
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.
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The song is from the upcoming album, Barragán, out September 2, 2014.
And if you missed it, check out “No More Honey”:
Tracklist:
1 Barragán
2 Lady M
3 Dripping
4 Cat on Tin Roof
5 The One I Love
6 No More Honey
7 Mine to Be Had
8 Defeatist Anthem (Harry and I)
9 Penultimo
10 Seven Two
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.
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Cat Power sings the title track for Zach Braff’s new film, “Wish I Was Here.”
NPR has the story of how the song came together:
Here’s how it was made: Zach Braff, the creator of the film Wish I Was Here, gave an early version of the film to Coldplay’s Chris Martin. Braff told us via email that Martin got the band together to work on the song. “Chris had the idea that it would be sung by a woman. I thought that was a genius idea, because one of the things the film is about is a strong woman (Kate Hudson’s character) becoming the matriarch of her family. When Chris and I were talking, we both kind of simultaneously said, ‘Cat Power.’ I reached out to Chan Marshall (aka Cat Power) and she and I met and really clicked. I set her up to watch the film in her apartment. The whole time she was watching she kept texting me all the different parts she was loving. She said yes the instant it was over.”
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.
And if you’re interested the book is now available at Amazon.
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Continuing the advance promotion of Spoon’s upcoming album, They Want My Soul, Britt Daniel performed acoustic versions of two of the songs, “Rent I Pay” and “Rainy Taxi,” on BBC Radio 6.
Talking about being a musician Daniels said:
“There was a long time where there was a lot of not-fun stuff we would do and a lot of scrounging, but I knew this was the only thing I wanted to do and I just kept pushing forward. Now there’s a little more success and it really does make things easier when you get to spend a few more bucks to record a record. You can stay in a hotel instead of a friend’s floor.”
Spoon’s Britt Daniel Plays Acoustic ‘Rent I Pay,’ ‘Rainy Taxi’ On BBC Radio.
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.
And if you’re interested the book is now available at Amazon.
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Terrific new Spoon song, ‘Do You,’ adds evidence that the upcoming Spoon album, They Want My Soul,’ is a must-hear.
I’ve been digging Spoon since the ’90s.
I’m excited about this upcoming album, as you might gather from all the Spoon posts I’ve put up.
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
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