About time too!
Tom Waits is to be inducted(induced?)into the rock 'n' roll hall of fame. Neil Young gets to do the honours. On the night, I wonder who'll be in awe of who? I'm a big fan of both but apart from the...
View ArticleThe Importance of Mood
Tonight I finished 6 months of really hard work. In the last few weeks I have worked pretty much non-stop. I arrived home from work tonight and my beautiful wife provided me with pumpkin soup and a...
View ArticleBuffalo Springfield Again...
I must admit that a casual YouTube search for another thread yesterday surprised me immensely. Neil Young, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay have just finished touring the US as I type:-how on earth did...
View ArticleAh yes, I was turned onto Napalm Death by H from Steps...
Listening to the always good, usually excellent, Sound Opinions podcast, which was 'dissecting' Rust Never Sleeps, it was mentioned that it was influenced by Devo (which I think is quite well known)....
View ArticleNeil Young - Autobiography Announced
Title - Waging Heavy Peace We've got a while to wait (it's apparently due in Autumn 2012) but I'm quite excited at the prospect. Jimmy McDonough's Shakey was a great read but, from NY's ultimate...
View ArticleNeil Young with knobs on
The grizzly old goat has only gone and stuck 37 mins and 25 secs of him and Crazy Horse getting down and dirty in the studio. The extended jam session is all you'll get if you tune in to the official...
View ArticleTo MP3 or not MP3.
Hearing chart music blaring from the speakers in a cafe t'other day, I said to myself, y'know what, I'm getting really fed up with this digital, MP3, compressed, sound that most music has nowadays....
View ArticleThe Classic Americana Album?
The Sage Gateshead have this brilliant festival every year, the Summer Tyne Festival. It celebrates, with Tynesides top promoters The Jumpin' and Hot Club, all the fantastic music that comes under the...
View ArticleShe'll be driving Crazy Horses when she comes
Second preview from "Americana". Jaw droppingly awesome IMHO http://www.noise11.com/news/video-neil-young-shell-be-coming-around-the-...
View ArticleRaw sounding guitar
I'm partial to a bit of really raw sounding electric guitar. The sort that sounds live even though it is a studio recording - often sounding as if it might have been a live take perhaps. Neil Young has...
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