Very cool

finally...something i can get excited about.

NEIL YOUNG MAN.

OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

I know it's like beating a dead horse but I wish the Stones would release earlier stuff as well as new stuff. Maybe someday.

mojoman wrote on Dec 5^th, 2008 at 8:43pm:


Rolling Stone posted that Neil interview yesterday.
Here's what he had to say about 'Toast'.

What’s the status of your next album, Toast?
Toast is done. It’s amazing listening experience. It was recorded in 5.1. It’s a mind blowing record, and I don’t think it’s a commercial record, but it’s great rock and roll, very moody, kind of jazzy. It was recorded in the same place where Coltrane was recorded, so there’s a lot of heavy stuff in there. All of the live ambiance for everything was all recorded, so the whole thing has got a massive sound about it. I want to have a premier of it that’s in a large art gallery with speakers in all four corners of the room, and huge speakers and really spend some time on the acoustics of the room, so you could have two or three hundred people in there that are in the middle of the sweet spot listening to this thing all around. So you came to a real listening experience that you wouldn’t be able to get in any other location than right there.

So it was cut with Crazy Horse like seven years ago, but then you stopped the sessions? Why stop it then, but why revive it now?
Well I didn’t do anything new. What we did is the same engineer that worked with me on it came back and he did the mixes with me, and then we unfolded them into 5:1 and it’s just insane.

It’s a different sounding record that you’re usual Crazy Horse albums?
Completely. It’s as different as “Tonight’s the Night” and “Everybody Knows This is Nowhere” are from one another.

Can you tell me more about the sound of Toast?
It’s really dark. It’s got everything that the best Crazy Horse albums have had. It won’t be the most commercial Crazy Horse album ever out, and I don’t know much about that anymore, because the model for that has changed, and time has changed.

So why 7 years later? Why did you not put it out back when you cut it?
I didn’t like it when I first made it. I went on and I did Are You Passionate?, and some of the songs that are on Are You Passionate? are on Toast.

Will you tour again with Crazy Horse?
Maybe.

Do you want to? Is it something that still intrigues you right now?
I’m not thinking about that right now. We’ll just see what happens. Something might happen. You never know. Or something else we don’t even know about could happen, and that would be really good, rather than go back. But if the vibe’s right to go back and grab what’s back there and yank it into the future, that’s a big job.



Not sure about Billy leaving.
He did release a Billy Talbot Band album in 04.

Ralph toured with Neil in 07 and early 08,  but now it's Chad Cromwell on drums.

Dunno what Poncho is up to...


Don't Spook The Horse!

Good excuse to get my surround speakers hooked up again. I had to take them down when the horrors of my life got too big and could reach the rear wall brackets.

Thats right. My twins! They ripped down my rear speakers and i havent been able to put them back up. They promised me they wouldnt do it again. But i dont trust the little brats. They could just be tricking me.