TimmyB

I'm in the middle of listening to 'Prairie Wind' for the fourth time and I have to say that I feel that it is a pretty solid effort by Neil Young.

I understand what people mean by how some songs on the album sound a lot like previous Neil Young efforts. For example "No Wonder" has nearly the same chord progression as "Captain Kennedy" from 1980's 'Hawks & Doves' and "This Old Guitar" has a similar high on the fret board riff as the title track to 'Harvest Moon.'

Also it is interesting that 'Harvest Moon' had a relatively funny song entitled "Old King" about his ol' dog named after Elvis. While this album also has a relatively funny song about Elvis himself called "He Was the King."

All that being said "Distant Camera" off of 'Silver & Gold' had the same opening riff as the Young classic "Old Man," but I still enjoyed "Distant Camera." And I enjoy "No Wonder" especially lyrically and "This Old Guitar" with Emmylou Harris on backing vocals.

It is nice to see Neil mix things up with a horn section on songs like "Far From Home," the title track and the aforementioned "He Was the King."

For the most part I love how Ben Keith augments Neil's songs with his luscious pedal steel guitar playing and that is well shown in "Here For You."

After already hearing the opening track "The Painter" and enjoying it a lot and seeing Neil debut "When God Made Me" at Live 8 in Barrie on July 2nd and seeing him perform it again at the Katrina Benefit on all the major networks last week I felt that the album was book ended well. Now with everything else in between even the little love song "Falling Off the Face of the Earth" sounding great to me, I really hope Neil decided to tour this album next year with the Nashville band.

At very least I hope when I go to see Neil at Farm Aid 2005 this weekend at the Tweeter Center in Tinley Park, Il I hope the band is there with Neil and Emmylou to play some of these songs with some 'Harvest,' 'Comes A Time' and 'Harvest Moon' material.

Tim

I can't wait to see Wilco this weekend at Farm Aid at the Tweeter Center in Tinley Park Il!

It will be the second time I see Wilco at Farm Aid and both have been hometown gigs at the Tweeter Center.

Tim

You can listen to the opening track to Neil Young's 'Prairie Wind' titled "The Painter" on Neil's official website.

www.neilyoung.com

If everything inbetween "The Painter" and "When God Made Me" is half as good as these two songs, the album will be his best in quite some time.

Tim

I saw Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown at the Ottawa Bluesfest in the mid-nineties and it was amazing to see such a great bluesman. I only wish I saw him more in the years to come. May you rest in peace Clarence.

Tim

I have an extra single ticket for Pearl Jam at Copps on Tuesday September 13, 2005.

If anybody is interested PM me or post it here.

This is what Bono wrote for a promotional birthday card for Johnny Cash when many of Cash's Columbia albums were re-released in 2002.

HAPPY 70th BIRTHDAY JOHNNY

Locuts and honey...not since John The Baptist has there been a voice like that crying in the wilderness. The most male voice in Christendom. Every man knows he is a sissy compard to Johnny Cash. What most do not know is that this most mighty of men was once nearly slain by an emu. Fact. I know this because Johnny told me on a tour of his private zoo next to his property in Nashville. he wasn't joking, and neither am I when I tell you that I felt a lot better about myself as a man on hearing this. Pass it on...

Bono

It was two years ago to the day that the greatest country musician that ever lived Johnny Cash passed away.

Many U2 fans know Johnny for performing "The Wanderer" on the 1993 U2 album 'Zooropa.' It would be great if U2 tonight paid tribute to Cash by performing that song and/or the Cash classic "Don't Take Your Guns To Town" which U2 recorded in the late nineties and appeared as a B-side during the 'Pop' album.

From www.billboard.com

THIS DAY IN MUSIC for Monday September 12, 2005.

2003 - Country music icon Johnny Cash dies at 1 a.m. ET of heart failure at Nashville's Baptist Hospital, stemming from complications from diabetes. He is 71, and had been in poor health for several years. His wife, vocalist June Carter Cash, died May 15 following heart surgery.

I believe the majority of those who are looting are to stay alive.

If it looks like the majority on camera that are looting are black it is likely because they were too poor to get out of the huricanes path.

This thread makes me sick and I think it should be deleted.

Happy Birthday!

May you have many, many more in health and happiness.

BTW How do you always get into PepperJacks if you are only 14 years old?

Tim

Hey MarcO,

I read that the show will be in a song circle with all three artists on stage at the same time each taking turns at their songs.

I still don't know how much this gig is going to cost? I guess I'll have to call the bar.

Tim

Like I said before, how much is it to get in to see Astrid and Shannon?

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The Rolling Stones

Fenway Park

Sunday August 21, 2005.

Start Me Up

You Got Me Rocking

Shattered

Tumbling Dice

Rough Justice

Back Of My Hand

Beast Of Burden

She's So Cold

Heartbreaker

Night Time (Ray Charles)

INTROS

The Worst (Keith)

Infamy (Keith)

Miss You

In the middle of the stage there moves a part out to the B-stage!

Oh No Not You Again (B-Stage)

Satisfaction

Honky Tonk Woman

The B-stage moves back to the main stage

Out Of Control

Sympathy for the Devil

Jumpin' Jack Flash

Brown Sugar

Encore

You Can't Always Get What You Want

It's Only Rock-n-Roll

Neil Young

Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee

August 18, 2005.

1. The Painter

2. No Wonder

3. Falling Off the Face of the Earth

4. Far From Home

5. It's A Dream

6. Prairie Wind

7. Here For You

8. This Old Guitar

9. He Was The King

10. When God Made Me

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11. I Am A Child

12. Heart Of Gold

13. Old Man

14. The Needle And The Damage Done

15. Comes A Time

16. Four Strong Winds

17. Old King

18. Harvest Moon

19. One Of The Days

I wish this show wasn't invite only, otherwise I might have tried to have been in attendance. The first set looks to be entirely from the upcoming 'Prairie Wind' album in stores September 27.

It is interesting to see how the second set goes in chronological blocks with one Buffalo Springfield 'Last Time Around,' three from 'Harvest,' two from 'Comes A Time' finally three from 'Harvest Moon.'

I would love to get "One of These Days" at Farm Aid '05 as it is the one non 'Prairie Wind' song in the set that I have yet to hear live.

Tim

Hey Sunshine,

Where you at the Eric Clapton "Nothing But the Blues Tour" opener in Montreal in 1994?

That was my first Clapton concert and if I remember right it would have been Stevie Ray Vaughan's birthday and his brother Jimmie was opening for Clapton so it was a very special night.

Tim

Those little red gremlins are freakin my hungover self out though. They looks like the little people of Stonehenge!

Weren't those the "road-eyes"' date=' a play on the "Redeyes" from Star Wars?

Aloha,

Brad[/quote']

The Road-eyes are supposed to be the Jawas from Star Wars.

Jawas, not redeyes. I did not see too many redeyes in Star Wars.

Tim

A list of artist I have yet to see live that I really want to:

Stevie Wonder (Wonder a child on his own birthday and it looks like everything else takes a back seat. Though it's hard to begrudge him for that.)

Cream (Damn I hear that if Cream does a run of shows at Madison Square Gardens it would be the most expensive show I would ever have to pay for. I also heard rumours that the Air Canada Centre was in line for a small Cream tour. I have a hard time believing that, but I would pay more than I would care to think about to see Eric Clapton with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker.)

Leonard Cohen (Thought I would never see Cohen live after I missed him in 1993, but with him being supposedly broke now I may have my chance in 2006?)

Richie Furay (He is now a minister in Colorado. Though on the rare occasion he still plays with Poco and or Jim Messina, but I'll probably have to be on the west coast to see him.)

David Gilmour (One of my biggest regrets was missing Pink Floyd in 1994. I have no delusions that I will one day see Pink Floyd with Roger Waters [whom I saw in 1999] in the band again, though I hope to see Gilmour in any form sooner or later. Unfortunately I might have to go to the United Kingdom to do so.)

Steve Hackett (Whom I hopefully will be seeing for the first time on Sunday October 2, 2005 at the Hamilton Place Studio. Once I see Hackett I will have seen all of the members from the best lineup from Genesis from 1971-1975.)

Bill Bruford (I would love it if Bruford was back in King Crimson as Tony Levin has recently made his return to Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew, it could be the Discipline era all over again. Though I'll probably have to see Bruford with his Earthworks project in the Big Apple as he has stated that it is too expensive to tour North America anymore.)

Gene Parsons (Former Byrd and Flying Burrito Brother drummer/vocalist/songwriter/guitarist. Along with Clarence White Gene helped to create the Stringbender http://www.stringbender.com/ and sometimes tours but it is usually in Europe and/or the west coast.)

Pete Seeger (I am still kicking myself for not going to the Toronto International Film Festival last year when it showed a film about the Weavers where Seeger and the rest played in the theatre. Time is running out and I wonder if that was my last chance to see this folk legend?)

Joan Baez (There really was no excuse for me to miss Baez in 2003 at U of T's Convocation Hall, but I did. I still hope to see her one day.)

Funny.

I'll be going to see the Classic Albums Live (CAL) performance of the Beatles "Abbey Road" tonight (Thursday August 18, 2005) at the Phoenix Concert Theatre.

My previous favorite of these CAL shows was the performance of Paul McCartney & Wings "Band On the Run" so this should be quite good.

Tiim

Today (August 18th) is the 12th anniversary of my first Neil Young concert at Exibition Stadium with Booker T. & the MG's as his back up band and Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Blues Traveler opening the show.

I am sure there were a few other people here on this board that were with me and the other 53,000 people that saw Young play that day in the city of his birth.

Since that show Neil has been my favorite artist, along with Bob Dylan. Though Young puts on a better show in the nineties and beyond than Dylan does so I prefer Neil as a live performer now.

Tim

I wonder how moe. can play the same 4 chord songs over and over, with no changes in the same song for 30 minutes and not get bored.

Those guitar players sure can pick a string though.

That sounds like a question that can be asked of a lot of jambands.

Though I don't know if I would ask that question of moe.? Who are one of the few jambands that I actually enjoy the most of their body of work.

Tim

From http://www.mymorningjacket.com/shows.html

Hey Jaimoe, and to everyone else here that enjoys My Morning Jacket in the Greater Toronto Area. It looks like MMJ will be at the Guvernment on Wednesday October 19, 2005.

Tim

Hey \/\/illy,

So you were at the ABB @ JLC last night were you?

How did it compare to the Molson Amphitheatre show?

Was Chuck Leavell still guesting with the band on keyboards?

Tim

you know I could be crazy, but I could swear I saw Dan Akroyd at that show last night, he was wearing a staff shirt and a baseball cap. him and about 4 other guys wearing the same shirts pushed there way through the crowd out by the west beer stands, it happened pretty fast but I'm pretty sure it was him.

just thought I'd share that.

but like I said I might be crazy.

Dan Akroyd was there last night. He was hanging out with Kim Mitchell and the Q107 crew.

Tim

There is no way that is true. If it were then Michael Cohl and the Rolling Stones would not wait until Friday to announce the Fenway show and/or the tour was postponed and/or cancelled.

Tim

THE ARCHIVES - I want them. My expectations for these releases are sky high. Why sky high? Sky high why? Because this project has been in development for 18 years now, with a partial description being released as far back as the early 1990's. Being that Neil is a nutjob, he's put the kibosh on it a few times, I guess maybe his brush with mortality earlier this year brought his legacy back to his attention. That, or holding off on them as a negotiating tool for re-signing a lapsed contract. Or a bit of both.

What do I expect from THE ARCHIVES??

As a start, we know that Neil has recorded several albums that remain unreleased as they were envisioned, although some of the tracks have popped up on other albums. There's the mid-1970's albums "Give To The Wind" and "Homegrown". Then there are original, wildly different versions of "Comes A Time", "Tonight's The Night". and "Old Ways". There was a double-live album with the Bluenotes that Neil pulled on the eve of it's release because he decided he was "done with that", which - judging from the live stuff from that band I've heard - would be really really good, full of startling original material unique to that project along with some choice covers. There was an aborted attempt at a CSNY album in the mid 1970s, with some tracks completed. Let's further assume that almost all of his albums - to this day - have leftover extra tracks and that there are numerous demoes of all sorts of stuff that would be fascinating. All this alone is a mammoth project - and the heart and soul of the project - but let's not stop there!

THE ARCHIVES, based on what I remember reading ten years ago in Rolling Stone, will also feature live shows and accompanying DVDs whereever possible. There was talk of recordings going back to his Riverboat days in Yorkville in the mid 1960s as well as his solo Massey Hall gigs in 1970 or 1971. Add on some 1969/1970 Crazy Horse shows from the vault and the early years are rounded out nicely. The mind boggles at what is in his vaults as far as the rest of his career goes but let's further assume that most of his live experiences are at least represented in there, not all but most. Laugh all you want but I for one would welcome a full show of say, the Shocking Pnks tour, or his sonic assault on Japan in 1990 with his band The Restless. There is also film footage of those Massey Hall shows, and God knows what else, that should be committed to DVD.

Finally, I expect THE ARCHIVES will be accompanied by a treasure trove of written materials and photographs, essays and articles.

I don't want this watered down to make it cheaper. It's been too long already, get it out there Neil and remind the world why you are one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Oh and I bet Neil's new album will make me cry too.

He really is the gift that keeps on giving. Fuck I love you Neil!

Hey MarcO,

That was beautiful and feel the urge to say I love you right now.

I love you Marc.

Love,

Tim