Archive for January, 2012
Written by bnbrainer on 31 January 2012
Legendary rocker Neil Young has taken his campaign for higher-fidelity digital sound to the stage of a technology conference. He says a giant of technology was on his side: the late Steve Jobs.
The Associated Press, DANA POINT, Calif. —
Legendary rocker Neil Young has taken his campaign for higher-fidelity digital sound to the stage of a technology conference. He says a giant of technology was on his side: the late Steve Jobs.
Young says the Apple co-founder was such a fan of music that he didn’t use his iPod and its digitally compressed files at home. Instead, Young says, Jobs listened to vinyl albums, which are well-known to have better sound.
Young told the “D: Dive Into Media” conference Tuesday that he spoke with Jobs about creating a format that has 20 times the fidelity of files in the most current digital formats, including MP3.
He speculated that if Jobs had lived longer, he might have tried to create a system that used this higher-quality format.
AP posted on www.seattletimes.nwsource.com/RSS
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Written by bnbrainer on 30 January 2012
Automotive News — January 30, 2012 – 12:01 am ET
As Ford’s chairman, Bill Ford is used to famous people ringing him up to pitch ideas. So when one of his musical heroes came calling, Ford was happy to lend an ear.
Rocker Neil Young — who, by the way, once built an electrified 1959 Lincoln, only to see it heavily damaged in a 2010 warehouse blaze — wanted to talk about improving the music in cars.
He wasn’t talking about singing or songwriting: he meant the sound itself.
“His thesis is this — that today’s MP3 music is horrible, and that the only good music ever made was on vinyl, where you could hear each guitar string being plucked and hear as fingers moved down the frets,” said Ford, recounting the conversation.
Young told Ford to think of music as a painting: “Van Gogh would paint in 20 shades of blue. With digital music you get one shade of blue.”
Young’s proposal: Put BluRay audio players in cars. The hitch: At current volumes, the tunes are pricey. For example, Young’s 2010 career-spanning boxed set came in three formats: BluRay audio, DVD audio and compact disc. The BluRay set stickered the highest, a wallet-shaking $350 ($250 if you snoop around online).
Ford told the singer he would investigate. Said the chairman: “It’s a great technology, but it’s not that user-friendly yet.”
Read more: www.autonews.com/article/20120130/…
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Written by bnbrainer on 29 January 2012
here the video from the coffee interview at Slamdance, Neil Young and Jonathan Demme:
Coffee with Neil Young and Jonathan Demme (1 of 4)
Part 2 is here: vimeo.
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Written by bnbrainer on 28 January 2012
Crazy Horse and Neil on http://www.neilyoung.com/
“Horse Back”
Engineered and mixed by John Hanlon at Audio Casa Blanca Jan 6, 2012, assisted by Mark Humphreys and John Hausmann
Video by Ben Johnson
Music by Crazy Horse
moar links:
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/neil-young-posts-mysterious-sound-collage-online/
UPDATE #3: Footage includes lyric sheets for “Gallows Pole”, “Clementine”, “This Land”, “Oh Susanna”.
http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/
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Written by bnbrainer on 24 January 2012
so now even Rolling Stone has it, by referring to Thrasher and ArchiveGuy.
Andy Greene writes on January 23, 2012 :
“Neil Young is recording a new album with Crazy Horse, according to a post on Young’s fansite Thrasher’s Wheat – and now confirmed by Rolling Stone: “It’s looking good,” a representative for Young says. According to the fansite report, Young shared the news over the weekend at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, at an event with Jonathan Demme to promote their new movie Journeys.
The audience “erupted in applause” when Young said that he was working with Crazy Horse again. Multiple fans subsequently posted on Crazy Horse drummer Ralph Molina’s Facebook wall to ask if the news was true. His response: “Yes!”
Young began playing with the garage rock band in 1968 and they back him on many of his greatest albums, including Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Zuma, Rust Never Sleeps and Ragged Glory. Their last album was the 2003 rock opera Greendale, though it didn’t feature guitarist Frank “Poncho” Sampedro. The band (including Poncho) toured with Young in 2003 and 2004 to support the disc, though they haven’t played together since the tour ended March 21st, 2004 at the Mullins Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.
This has been the longest time Young has gone without performing with the group since their formation, though Crazy Horse drummer Ralph Molina played with Young on his 2007 disc Chrome Dreams II and the first few legs of the supporting tour. He was replaced by drummer Chad Cromwell in the summer of 2008 for unknown reasons.
The full line-up of Crazy Horse hasn’t backed Young on an album since Broken Arrow in 1996, though they did record an LP in 2000 called Toast that Neil opted to shelf. “It’s great rock & roll, very moody, kind of jazzy,” Young told Rolling Stone in 2008, who was then contemplating a release of the disc. “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.”
In that same interview, we asked Neil if he had any desire to work with Crazy Horse again. “I’m not thinking about that right now,” he said. “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.”
According to the report on Thrasher’s Wheat, Young said that he’s already recorded one album with Crazy Horse and another is in the works.
It’s unclear if Toast is the finished album. There’s word of a spring release for the album, but don’t get your hopes up too high. Things change very quickly in the world of Neil Young. Remember that 30-date Buffalo Springfield that was supposedly happening this year?
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/…neil-young-recording-new-album-with-crazy-horse-2012
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