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rick malone · **Posted:** Sat June 22, 2019 3:52 am

Elliot Roberts, Neil's longtime manager, has died

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/elliot-roberts-neil-young-manager-dead-851390/

kreng · **Joined:** Fri January 04, 2013 10:53 pm **Posts:** 1100

first full band performance of On The Beach (the song) in 45 years:

liebzz · **Joined:** Thu January 03, 2013 7:55 pm **Posts:** 7611

I have begun the journey. I won’t report as exhaustively on this but make a couple of notes. I listened to Neil Young and Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere today. The self-titled is excellent and really works as a template for his whole career to come. Acoustic ballads, rock stomps, and lush arrangements are peppered throughout. Also, I am reminded again of my love for Everybody Knows... I mean, Down By The River is like wearing your most comfortable shoe or meeting up with an old friend for the first time in a while. It continues to just feel right.

liebzz · **Joined:** Thu January 03, 2013 7:55 pm **Posts:** 7611

I listened to After the Gold Rush and Harvest this morning. These early albums are just purely great to listen to.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Thu July 11, 2019 2:24 pm

They’re both amazing, but A Man Needs A Maid is such an awful song

liebzz · **Joined:** Thu January 03, 2013 7:55 pm **Posts:** 7611

tragabigzanda wrote:

They’re both amazing, but A Man Needs A Maid is such an awful song

Yeah, I am not too crazy about the lyrics but the music is wonderful.

Strat · **Posted:** Thu July 11, 2019 4:05 pm

The version at massey hall does me just fine. Otherwise the overblown orchestral arrangements of the album leave me feeling uninspired.

i got bugs · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 4:07 pm **Posts:** 3991

Finally played on the beach live for the first time in ages

Birds in Hell · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 9:38 pm **Posts:** 15095

liebzz wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

They’re both amazing, but A Man Needs A Maid is such an awful song

Yeah, I am not too crazy about the lyrics but the music is wonderful.

I love A Man Needs A Maid and I agree with Strat that the Massey Hall version is definitive.

liebzz · **Joined:** Thu January 03, 2013 7:55 pm **Posts:** 7611

Birds in Hell wrote:

liebzz wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

They’re both amazing, but A Man Needs A Maid is such an awful song

Yeah, I am not too crazy about the lyrics but the music is wonderful.

I love A Man Needs A Maid and I agree with Strat that the Massey Hall version is definitive.

I always thought that the Massey Hall version of Don’t Let It Bring You Down was phenomenal

Strat · **Posted:** Thu July 11, 2019 11:53 pm

liebzz wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

liebzz wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

They’re both amazing, but A Man Needs A Maid is such an awful song

Yeah, I am not too crazy about the lyrics but the music is wonderful.

I love A Man Needs A Maid and I agree with Strat that the Massey Hall version is definitive.

I always thought that the Massey Hall version of Don’t Let It Bring You Down was phenomenal

I believe neil wished he had released many of those versions as the album versions

E.H. Ruddock · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 2:48 pm **Posts:** 47200

Yeah, Old Man from that is one of my favorites

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Fri July 12, 2019 3:06 am

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Yeah, Old Man from that is one of my favorites

Agreed

liebzz · **Joined:** Thu January 03, 2013 7:55 pm **Posts:** 7611

Now through On the Beach and Time Fades Away:

1) always loved Walk On, but really most of the album is really solid.

2) this is actually the first time I have heard Time Fades Away. I did not know it was an album of new songs all live. And that they are solid throughout.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Fri July 12, 2019 11:51 pm

liebzz wrote:

Now through On the Beach and Time Fades Away:

1) always loved Walk On, but really most of the album is really solid.

2) this is actually the first time I have heard Time Fades Away. I did not know it was an album of new songs all live. And that they are solid throughout.

The Ditch Trilogy is notable because Neil got a bunch of crack musicians, then made them play their non-primary instruments. It creates this off-kilter feel that I think suits him perfectly, and the vibe on TFA is my favorite iteration of that.

liebzz · **Joined:** Thu January 03, 2013 7:55 pm **Posts:** 7611

Interesting. The best part of this journey is that I am familiar with a lot of the music but not all of it, and that makes this process as much about discovery than the sheer will to listen to 33 albums by one artist in a relatively short period of time. I may have a couple weeks where I listen to very little while I am away, but the journey will continue soon.

dimejinky99 · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 12:35 am **Posts:** 35441

Bit of history here yesterday down in Kilkenny. Neil and Dylan played together for the first time in 25 years.

kreng · **Joined:** Fri January 04, 2013 10:53 pm **Posts:** 1100

i mean they played together in London 2 days prior but yeah cool.

dimejinky99 · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 12:35 am **Posts:** 35441

kreng wrote:

i mean they played together in London 2 days prior but yeah cool.

Oh They played the same lineup. I should have said duetted together.
Variety has the story I dunno.

https://variety.com/2019/music/news/bob ... 203267563/

dimejinky99 · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 12:35 am **Posts:** 35441

Neil show from from Kilkenny if you want to grab it

https://lm.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3 ... z9xg_CXOxg

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