Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:12:33 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/ Bad News Beat en-us http://www.bad-news-beat.org/images/http://www.human-highway.org/images/smaller_bnb_logo.gif http://www.bad-news-beat.org/ BNBstaff-45@bosco.net http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2320 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:12:33 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2319 21.8.2008, 20.00-23.00 Uhr, Zürich, Hallenstadion A Neil Young Nach bald 15 Jahren gastiert der kanadische Rockmusiker Neil Young wieder im Zürcher Hallenstadion - präsentiert von DRS 1. Wie kaum ein anderer Musiker hat Neil Young seinen musikalischen Stil im Verlauf der 40 jährigen Bühnen-Karriere variiert. Legendär ist sein Auftritt mit Crosby, Stills und Nash vor 250'000 ZuschauerInnen am Woodstock-Festival 1969 und auch sein privates Engagement für die Ureinwohner Nordamerikas. Nun hat er ein neues Album auf den Markt gebracht, ist auf Welt-Tournee unterwegs und wird am Konzert im Zürcher Hallenstadion Kostproben aus seinem neuen Album und seine grössten Hits spielen. Tickets: 0900 800 800 (1.19 / Min) ::Weitere Infos: www.goodnews.ch ::http://www.drs1.ch/www/de/drs1/themen/veranstaltungen/81078.neil-young.html ------- thx to Liza. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:12:28 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2318 Patricia received: > It is just that I received an email from Live Guide of a rumor that he was going to tour here. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:59:01 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2317 Billboard; Words To Remember QUOTES - WORDS TO REMEMBER 25 June 2008 VNU Entertainment Newswire "It really is CSNY. It's not overdubbed. There's no fixes. It's straight from the board." -- Neil Young, to Billboard. Young says the soundtrack to the forthcoming Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young documentary "CSNY: Deja Vu" is the best album ever made by the legendary supergroup. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:55:20 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2316 Celebrate The Riverboat By Greg Quill 26 June 2008, The Toronto Star The fifth annual City Roots Festival, a free and increasingly robust weekend-long exposition in the Distillery District of the best Toronto has to offer in the way of folk, country, blues, singer-songwriters and various related hybrids, kicks off tomorrow night with its only ticketed event, Riverboat Revival, at Hugh's Room (2261 Dundas St. W., $15 at 416-531-6604, $17 at the door). The concert celebrates The Riverboat coffee house, Yorkville's famous showcase for original, folk-based music in the 1960s and '70s and host to many of the world's best-known artists, including Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Ian and Sylvia, Lonnie Johnson, Steve Goodman, Tim Hardin, Phil Ochs, Willie P. Bennett and Tom Rush. Their work will be represented tomorrow in performances by contemporary and veteran roots music favourites, including Ronney Abramson, Laura Fernandez, Tim Harrison, Jay Linden, Danny Marks, Palominos, Steve Raiken, Suzie Vinnick and Noah Zacharin. The festival proper takes place Saturday and Sunday on several stages in the Distillery District, with some 40 acts - around 150 musicians - including songwriters Blair Packham, Jay Linden, Jory Nash, Kyp Harness, Paul Quarrington, Peter Boyd, bluegrass/newgrass wizards Creaking Tree String Quartet and Foggy Hogtown Boys, blues specialists Danny Marks, Jerome Godboo, Rob Lutes and Doc MacLean, Afro-Canadian songwriter/guitarist Donne Roberts, and country-blues outfit Porkbelly Futures, among many others. For schedule and details, go to torontocityroots.com. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:53:32 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2315 8, 9 August Way Out West in Göteborg, Sweden www.wayoutwest.se/english Way Out West is a music festival in Göteborg, Sweden with rock, indie, and alternative acts from both Sweden and the international scene. The festival is held in Slottsskogen, a large beautiful park in the centre of Göteborg. For two days (8-9th August) the park is home to two outdoor stages, an indoor stage and a buzzing festival atmosphere. [english spoken] Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:51:06 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2314 06-30-2008, Live At The Marquee, Cork, Ireland Neil Young and His Electric Band Love And Only Love Hey Hey, My My Everybody knows This Is Nowhere Spirit Road I've Been Waiting For You All Along The Watchtower Mother Earth Oh, Lonesome Me The Needle And The Damage Done Unknown Legend Heart Of Gold Get Back To The Country Words No Hidden Path --- A Day In The Life Tour :2008 European Summer Tour Band : Neil Young - guitar, harmonica, pump organ, vocals Ben Keith - pedal steel, lap steel, guitar, organ, background vocals Rick Rosas - bass, background vocals Chad Cromwell - drums Pegi Young - background vocals, guitar, piano Anthony Crawford - background vocals, guitar, piano Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:38:25 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2313 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:47:36 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2312 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:29:37 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2311 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:26:25 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2310 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:44:13 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2309 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:45:53 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2308 >>> new date, august 15, Colmar, France Le 15 août 2008 1er concert : NEIL YOUNG > Début des concerts à 21h00 > 46.00 € :: www.foire-colmar.com/dn_concerts/ Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:25:17 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2307 >>> date : 17 August 2008. venue : Wiesen, Burgenland, Austria :: burgenland.orf.at Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:23:21 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2306 > >>> 7 August, Helsinki, Finland, Hartwall Arena > Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:21:29 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2305 Neil Young; The whip; Opinion Katherine Bergen 5 June 2008 The Sun NO false promises from iconic hippy rock singer Neil Young, who warns fans not to have any preconceptions about his concerts. He tells the July edition of the magazine Classic Rock: "I make no guarantees. I don't guarantee anything. There's no guarantee that I'm going to be good. There's no guarantee that I'm going to play what they want. There's no guarantee that I'm NOT going to play what they want. There are just no guarantees." Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:13:17 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2304 Rocker Neil Young working on electric car 1 June 2008, 21:11 GMT Associated Press Newswires WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Neil Young, the rock legend who provided some of the soundtrack to Vietnam-era war protests, is trying to change the world again -- with his car. Young has teamed up with Johnathan Goodwin, a Wichita mechanic who has developed a national reputation for re-engineering the power units of big cars to get more horsepower but use less fuel. The two are looking to convert Young's 1959 Lincoln Continental convertible to operate on an electric battery. Ultimately, they said they want the Continental to provide a model for the world's first affordable mass-produced electric-powered automobile. "Johnathan and this car are going to make history," Young told The Wichita Eagle. "We're going to change the world, we're going to create a car that will allow us to stop giving our wealth to other countries! for pe troleum. And we're going to do it right here in Wichita, a great place that I now love, where people know how to make thing, and make things happen." Young has poured about $120,000 so far into the project, Goodwin said. What's more, the prototype power system works -- albeit with a few glitches. A test drive last week almost ended in disaster when Goodwin, who controls the vehicle's acceleration with a knob in the back seat, twisted it the wrong way while approaching an entrance ramp and lurched toward the rear end of another car. Young, in the passenger seat, was able to hit the brakes in time. "Still needs work," said Goodwin, 37. Young, 62, began making hits in the early 1960s as a founder of the band Buffalo Springfield. He later formed Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, playing their first gig at the 1969 Woodstock music festival -- before Goodwin was even born. Since then, he's had his own solo hits an! d joine d with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp to form Farm Aid, which helps farmers in danger of losing their land. Through it all, Young, 62, said he's always loved "big roomy, American cars," and collected classics all of his life. "But I decided that it was stupid to own cars that just sit around and then pollute when I drive them," he said. Eight months ago, he said he wanted to make his Continental more friendly to the environment. Looking on the Internet, he discovered Goodwin through taped interviews and segments on the MTV show, "Pimp My Ride." Goodwin's clientele includes California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who had Goodwin work on his Hummer. On the drive to Wichita -- the car got nine miles to the gallon, requiring 18 fill-ups -- Young said he decided he wanted something more than just making the vehicle able to use biodiesel. He asked Goodwin if they could instead power the car with batteries ! and use it as a template to make electric cars more mainstream. "I believe in the American dream," said Young, who was born in Canada. "With all this talk about gas, people are saying we should go to small cars, but I like big American cars with power. So does everybody else. Why give up on that? "I asked Johnathan that first day if we could take a huge American car like this, 2 1/2 tons, 19 1/2 feet long, and make it so you could drive it without ever refueling. Something practical. Something that would change the world," he said. "And Johnathan said 'Yeah.'" But Goodwin likes challenges. Born in St. Louis, he began tinkering with machines when he was only 6 and dismantled the lawn motor. He spent months trying to put it back together. He said that what he and others are creating with Young's car is not new. "The technology to make a practical and affordable electric car has been around for a long time," he sai! d. "The re are all sorts of ways of doing it and all sorts of ways to work out how to make it work on a national scale. But what Neil has done is provide the backing to do it ... and he's provided the focus." Young agreed: "He's the brains. I'm just the cattle prod." Goodwin said he'd never heard of Young before a few months ago and hasn't listened to any of his songs. That may change when the car is completed and the two drive it to Washington, D.C. "I figure I can hear it all from the mouth of the man himself when we get the car running and drive the country," Goodwin said. "We'll have to do something during all those miles." For Young, the project may finally complete a mission he set for himself with his music. "You know, I thought long ago you could change the world by writing songs," he said. "But you can't change the world by writing songs. Oh, you can inspire a few people, get some of them to change their! thinki ng about something. But you can't change the world by writing songs. "But we could change it with this car." Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:11:38 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2303 > > "Topanga 3 (1970)" > > Tell Me Why > > After The GoldRush > > Only Love Can Break Your Heart > > Wonderin > > Don't Let It Bring You Down > > Cripple Creek Ferry > > Southern Man > > Til The Morning Comes > > When You Dance > > ??? > > Only Love Can Break Your Heart > > Tell Me Why > > Music Is Love > > See The Sky About to Rain ............................... thanks to omar and roel. Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:10:05 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2302 Omar reports: I found another Photo Source which has made more of the Disk Titles Legible:> > "Early Years"> Aurora> Sultan> Mustang> I Wonder> I love you forever> I'm a Man and I can't Cry> Hello Lonely Woman> Casting Me Away From You> There goes my babe> Sugar Mountain> Nowaday's Clancy Can't Even Sing> Runaround Babe> The Ballad of Peggy Grover> The rent is always due> extra extra> > "Early Years"> Flying on the Ground> Burned> Out of My Mind> Down, Down, Down> Kahuna Sunset> Mr. Soul> Sell Out> Down to the Wire> Expecting to Fly> Slowly Burning> One More Sign> Broken Arrow> I am A Child> > "Topanga 1 (1968)"> Everybody Knows This is Nowhere> Loner> Birds> What Did You Do To My Life> The Last Trip To Tulsa&! gt; Her e We Are In The Years> I've Been Waiting For You> The Old Laughing Lady> I've Loved Her So Long> Sugar Mountain> Nowaday's Clancy Can't Even Sing> Down By The River> Cowgirl In The Sand> Everybody Knows This is Nowhere?> > "NY Live at the Riverboat"> Sugar Mountain> Old Laughing Lady> Flying on the Ground> I've loved her so long> I am a Child> 1956 Bubblegum> Last Trip to Tulsa> Broken Arrow> Whiskey Boot Hill> Expecting To Fly> > "Topanga 2 1969"> Cinnamon Girl> Running Dry> Round and Round> Oh lonesome me> Birds> Everybody's Alone> I believe in You> Sea of Madness> Dance Dance Dance> Country Girl> Helpless> It Might Have Been> > "Crazy Horse at the Fillmore"> Everybody Knows This is Nowhere> Winterlong> D! own By The River> Wonderin> Come On Baby Let's Go> Cowgirl In The Sand> > "Topanga 3 (1970)"> Tell Me Why> After The GoldRush> Only Love Can Break Your Heart> Wonderin> Don't Let It Bring You Down> Cripple Creek Ferry> Southern Man> Til The Morning Comes> When You Dance> ???> ???> Tell Me Why> Music Is Love> ???> > "Massey Hall 1971"> On The Way Home> Tell Me Why> Old Man> Journey Through The Past> Helpless> Love In Mind> A Man Needs A Maid/Heart Of Gold> Cowgirl In The Sand> Don't Let It Bring You Down> There's A World> Bad Fog Of Lonliness> The Needle And The Damage Done> Ohio> See The Sky About To Rain> Down By The River> Dance Dance Dance> I Am A Child> > "The North Country 1971"> ???> Bad! Fog of Lonliness> Old Man> Heart of Gold> ???there's a world???> A Man Needs A Maid> Harvest?> Journey Through The Past> ???> ALABAMA> ???PhD???> Soldier> War Song> > "Journey Through The Past" Fri, 23 May 2008 19:21:09 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2301 CROSBY NASH TICKETING PRE-SALE ANNOUNCEMENT David Crosby and Graham Nash are pleased to announce pre-sale ticketing for their upcoming Fall 2008 dates. You can buy tickets to select Crosby Nash shows before they go on sale to the public through www.crosbynash.com and this webpage: musictoday.com/redirect/bounce.asp?cid=30555 Crosby Nash Direct Ticketing allows you to buy tickets online for upcoming shows directly from the artist as an effort to reduce the high surcharges from other online ticket vendors, and to offer a more convenient ticketing option. PRE-SALES ON FRIDAY MAY 23, 2008 AT 4:00 PM *LOCAL VENUE TIME: DATE CITY & STATE VENUE TICKETS 10/05/08 Reading, PA Sovereign Performing Arts Center 10/17/08 Torrington, CT Warner Theatre *LOCAL VENUE TIME EQUALS THE TIME ZONE OF THE VENUE FOR SPECIAL BENEFIT TICKETS, please visit www.guacfund.org. Please check the website, :: crosbystillsnash.com for updated information on fan pre-sales and general public on-sales. © 2008 Crosby and Nash This e-mail was sent by: Musictoday, LLC. 5391 Three Notched Road, Crozet, VA 22932. Fri, 23 May 2008 19:14:15 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2300 No Funeral for Blu-ray; Pundits, including PC Magazine's Lance Ulanoff, seem to believe Blu-ray is already a failure. History tells us a different story.Loyd Case21 May 2008   ... more Fri, 23 May 2008 18:20:30 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2299 Demme takes over Bob Marley film Scorsese drops out for scheduling reasons By PHIL GALLO   Jonathan Demme is taking over from Martin Scor! sese as the director of an authorized Bob Marley documentary.   Docu, produced by the Marley family's Tuff Gong Pictures and Steve Bing's Shangri-La Entertainment, has a target release date of Feb. 6, 2010, the 65th anniversary of Marley's birth. Fortissimo Films is handling international sales.   Scorsese, who announced in February that the untitled pic would be the follow-up to his Rolling Stones concert pic "Shine a Light," dropped out for s! cheduli ng reasons.   Demme has a long history of music-related pics, chronicling the Talking Heads in "Stop Making Sense," Robyn Hitchcock in "Storefront Hitchcock" and Neil Young in "Heart of Gold." He is editing a concert film, "Neil Young Trunk Show."   "I am thrilled and humbled by this extraordinary opportunity to participate in fashioning a motion picture that can serve as a worthy vessel for the spiritual and musical brilliance of Bob Marley," Demme said in a statement.   ....................... Thanks to Cody. Fri, 23 May 2008 17:49:27 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2298 theplaylist.blogspot.com/2008/05/crobsy-stills-nash-young-documentary 5/14/2008 Crobsy Stills Nash & Young Documentary, 'Deja Vu' Coming To North America This Summer Folk-rock documentary "CSNY: Deja Vu" is coming to U.S. theaters proper this summer thanks to Lionsgate and Roadside Attraction who have picked up the flick for North American distribution. The Crobsy Stills Nash & Young live concert documentary, aimed at creating political irritable bowel syndrome for Bush, his cronies and his supporters will hit 15 major cities in July and for that aggressively passive audience who doesn't like vote - you can also get it at the same time on Netflix and Video on Demand (why don't you just write-in for Ross Perot while you're at it too?). The film premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah and was directed by Bernard Shakey (Young's filmmaking nom de plume) and chronicled the super-old group's 2006 "Freedom of Speech" tour in support of Young's Living in War album (you know the one you were totally apathetic about? Remember? You ordered in Dominoes that night). The band had hoped to re! lease i t before the November election in order to "encourage debate" and surely enough, you're going to be sitting on your couch in August and asking yourself that important question, "Honey, should we turn this shit off or watch that 'My Two Dads' re-run again?" Living In War, tested the limits of even the most ardent Neil Young fans and the featured cut, "Let's Impeach The President," definitely confused audiences who never had a clue what the fuck he was singing about all these years aside from rockin' out in the free world. People would literally wish Young and co. ass cancer from the stands when the band would play politically-charged material from the album and that made the tour experience quite harrowin. "It was intense in Georgia. I was a nervous wreck by the end of that tour," Young told Rolling Stone in January "I never want to do another tour like that in my life. I mean, that was so different from every other tour I've done." What exactly made him nervous? Oh, you know, casual shit like death threats, fans glaring at you with dagger eyes and bomb-sniffing dogs, you know, your regular kind of tour. "Just getting up in front of a lot of people giving you the finger makes you [edgy]...when you know that some of them are really going to be angry at you...it's a volatile situation, people have been drinking, whatever — you know, it makes you nervous." And how. Sounds like the tour of a lifetime. Watch: 'CSNY: Deja Vu' On Sundance Channel ("Our audience are republicans, we spurred the debate, we made them react.") .......................... thanks to mystery reporter. Fri, 23 May 2008 17:39:56 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2297 Sharry reported: Here's the amazon link for the new Neil book: :: amazon.com/gp/product/0275999025/ Product Description Neil Young is an icon, plain and simple. The Words and Music of Neil Young follows the evolution of Young's musical work from the late 1960s to the present, with special focus on the enduring elements that have made his music successful. Neil Young cannot be simply labeled. He has recorded as a solo artist, as a member of a hard rock trio, and with numerous other musician configurations. He can move from the soft sounds of early 1970s acoustic folk to the distorted, fuzz guitar sound of Crazy Horse, while his compositions have responded to musical trends from punk rock to grunge, and to social issues like racism, the Vietnam War, and war in Iraq as well. Individual chapters cover Young's musical output album by album, and song by song--from his debut work with Buffalo Springfield, to his time with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, to his solo work within various genres and for various causes (some political, but all artistic).! In his conclusion, author Ken Bielen sums up Neil Young's accomplishments and places his work in the context of contemporary culture. A discography and bibliography round out the work. About the Author KEN BIELEN teaches courses in Popular Music at Bowling Green State University. He is the author of The Lyrics of Civility (1999) and The Words and Music of John Lennon (Praeger, 2007) with Ben Urish. ------------------------------------ Product Details * Hardcover: 200 pages * Publisher: Praeger Publishers (May 30, 2008) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 0275999025 * ISBN-13: 978-0275999025 .............. Thanks, Sharry. Fri, 23 May 2008 17:29:24 -0400 http://www.bad-news-beat.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2296 Neil Young putting his past on Blu-ray discs Brandon Bailey The San Jose Mercury News 17 May 2008 SAN FRANCISCO Rebellious rocker Neil Young hates the sound of compact discs. So he waited 15 years for a different technology, which he says will allow him to share his life's work the way he wants his fans to enjoy it. Starting this fall, Young plans to release a comprehensive archive of music, videos and other material dating back to 1963 on a series of interactive Blu-ray discs, which he demonstrated last week for several thousand software developers and tech enthusiasts at Sun Microsystems' JavaOne conference in San Francisco. "It's the history of a creative process, the development of my music and actually of my life," Young said after the demo. "It's interactive and online, and it will grow." The project could signal a broader use of the high-definition technology known as Blu-ray, which was d! evelope d with Sun's Java programming language, and which emerged earlier this year as the global standard for high-performance video from Sony and other companies. It's unclear how many fans will have the equipment, and the time, to enjoy such a comprehensive archive. Young said he hopes fans will spend hours exploring an interactive timeline, playing classic hits and unreleased tracks, while examining contemporaneous films, photos, recording notes and other documents. With up to 50 gigabytes of storage, Blu-ray discs have five to 10 times the capacity of DVDs, which in turn can hold far more material than CDs. Young, who lives on a ranch in San Mateo County, California, is planning a series of five volumes, each consisting of 10 discs. He promised that fans will be able to download additional material from the Internet as it becomes available. At least as important, Young said, the collection will represent an alternative to wh at he characterized as the tyranny of inferior sound. Blu-ray developers say their technology provides far superior audio quality as well as high-definition video. "CD quality is very low resolution, maybe a step above MP3s. It was a crime to make that the standard for so many years," he said, complaining that music fans were forced to accept CDs because they were marketed as an inevitable and necessary new format. "It was the Patriot Act of music," he said, drawing laughs. Reminded that many music fans these days download and play songs on portable MP3 players, Young said: "My heart goes out to them." But the 62-year-old rocker acknowledged that most consumers don't have Blu-ray equipment yet. Analysts say Sony and other companies have sold about one million Blu-ray players, while Apple has reported selling more than 150 million iPods. Sony has also sold about three million PlayStation 3 game consoles, which ha! ve Blu-ray capability, as Young pointed out. He did not rule out the possibility that the songs, dating back to his early days in a Canadian band called the Squires, might be released in other formats. "I'm not interested in making MP3s, but I'm not going to say to Apple: 'No, I'm not going to let you issue MP3s.'" Young, in a cap and sunglasses, appeared on stage with Sun chief executive Jonathan Schwartz and praised the technology that Young said enabled him to complete a project he first envisioned 15 years ago. But the artist, whose long line of hits -- from Cinnamon Girl to Rockin' in the Free World -- includes a song in which he vowed never to shill for a sponsor, told reporters that Sun is not sponsoring his project. "I'm actually plugging myself," Young said of his appearance. "They've enabled me to do something I've wanted to do for a long time. I feel like it's a good thing to acknowledge that." Fri, 23 May 2008 17:24:30 -0400