February 22, 2012 06:18 PM
C&L's Late Night Music Club With Neil Young
My love for Neil Young is certainly no secret, and this is one of my all time favorites of his. Not many people have been so powerful with just a guitar and a voice, but there are some who are right up there with him. What is your favorite performance with one person using one instrument?
And PS: Our sister site Newstalgia has for its mid-week anti-road rage concert, some lovely chamber music for you.
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"Trouble" live in LA, '98. I was at this show and when Eddie played this you could have heard a pin drop. It was electrifying, one of the finest live moments I've seen.
"Government is the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex." - Frank Vincent Zappa
Trouble
"Government is the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex." - Frank Vincent Zappa
This is the guy I'd most like to come over to my house with just his guitar someday. There's some great stuff of him solo on youtube. Here's one:
Drowned (from the Secret Policeman's Ball concert)
"Government is the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex." - Frank Vincent Zappa
I totally forgot about the Secret Policeman's Ball concert
Wall Street is just a parasite on the actual labor and investments of average Americans.
Banks play with futures, debt paper, complex financial instruments, and other peoples incomes.
Sell 'em short & help 'em crash - Tear 'em apart & sell the pieces
'the secrete policemans other ball',also great.
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
from the same show
Pinball Wizard
I love this. How amazing to see one of the great rock anthems of my youth turned into a street-corner ditty about a dedicated gamer.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
At the White House during the Eisenhower Administration.
"Government is the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex." - Frank Vincent Zappa
Down By The River.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Cocaine
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
It's Only Cocaine
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Cowgirl In The Sand.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
In a DC Metro station. The Washington Post story on this won a Pulitzer.
"Government is the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex." - Frank Vincent Zappa
The Who-- Happy Jack
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now Live, 1970 (more of this show below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcrEqIpi6sg&fe...
big yellow taxi - same concert, 1970
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_d...
Woodstock - same concert, 1970 (CSNY did better with her song than she did)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_d...
Joni Mitchell: live, october 9th, 1970. BBC more songs (29 minute mini-concert: guitar, piano and dulcimer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH9DzMKxulc&fe...
To me, she is amazing.
that being said, Neil Young: the solo medly performance of The Loner, Cinnamon Girl and Down By the River stands alone
Wall Street is just a parasite on the actual labor and investments of average Americans.
Banks play with futures, debt paper, complex financial instruments, and other peoples incomes.
Sell 'em short & help 'em crash - Tear 'em apart & sell the pieces
absolutely. So many great tunes.
btw, I love the 29 minute video of Joni. I hadn't seen it before.
Thanks!
Eric Bibb - "Don't let nobody drag your spirit down" HD
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Story of My Life
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Bad Luck
Some pretty good guitar work by Bruce!
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Theater in Seattle, the 90s. Roger McGuinn, acoustic Guitar, and about an 8 minute version of 'Chesnut Mare'. The bridge was ethereal.
me-oww!
. . . Tell Me Why - 1970 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynlW5_rnRVE
That's my favorite Neil Young song. It reminds me of driving out to Colorado with a friend to experience the Bohemian lifestyle for 2 months sleeping in parking lots and camping out. Hanging out in Aspen,Manitou Springs,Estes Park,backpacking ,climbing,fishing. Wish that I had tried to stay there and make a go of it. Wound up joining the Army instead.
Good memories. :^)
'Talk to the hand'
'The Sounds of Silence' at Ground Zero for the 9/11 Anniversary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQjH1t3Ddlc
The truth will set you free but can you handle the truth?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kk7vCHvof4
The truth will set you free but can you handle the truth?
Live at Africa Calling with a little Peter Gabriel harmonizing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8whgLjMUBaECal...
..that is all.
Say ladeo
m.youtube.com/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Db__9YQLJSZo&v=b__9YQLJSZo&gl=US
Bobby McFerrin
Say Ladeo
http://m.youtube.com/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwat...
Lowell George-- China White and Ry Cooder-- Fool for a Cigarette
Says Duane, but the Ry is awesome!
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Bird Without a feather
http://m.youtube.com/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwat...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oCTMcbQ1QE
The truth will set you free but can you handle the truth?
Phonograph Blues
http://m.youtube.com/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwat...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcYQLSyd8w4
The truth will set you free but can you handle the truth?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=end...
The truth will set you free but can you handle the truth?
Grinnin in your face
http://m.youtube.com/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwat...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FgMTAj4f_o
Wernher von Braun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTKn1aSOyOs&fe...
So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrbv40ENU_o&fe...
The truth will set you free but can you handle the truth?
Oh, I wish he were writing and singing songs today. He was the John Stewart/Stephen Colbert/Bill Maher of the piano.
Down Home Summertime Blues
http://m.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=en&client...
Does a mad scientist count?
Pat Metheny The Orchestrion Project - excerpts
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and Pat Metheny is the best.
G'night Mr E ;)
Chris Cornell with of Jackson's Billie Jean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2MgwAJrfXo
Richie Havens and Dylan's Just Like a Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5rJmo475aE
and on banjo, Tim Allan pwning Rossini's William Tell Overture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5rJmo475aE
Allan's William Tell
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE--el9prA0
Pink Moon
http://m.youtube.com/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwat...
Wolf at the door
http://m.youtube.com/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwat...
Icicles
http://m.youtube.com/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwat...
Shotgun Down the avalanche
http://m.youtube.com/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwat...
The Christians and the Pagans
This one always makes me cry. Why can't we all just get along and love each other?
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
Fanks
Worth listening to. The link is a tribute to his roughneck father.
A liitle-known Texas artist, Nikos Brisco, member of both Fever in the Funkhouse and Cafe Antarsia Ensemble. Authentic stuff. True Folk music both ways.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-8J_YAkucs
“When fascism comes to America, it will come covered in teabags, riding on a Rascal and waving a cross”
the Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZn_VBgkPNY
Here's two by Nick Drake, a brilliant musician (sadly, he died young) I recently started listening to:
Place to Be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgHKaTl69BU
Way to Blue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S40DdlD9JxI
Most folk (and Neil Young) are breaking the stated one person one instrument rule. If you make it simply one person then you have to compare performers to freaks like Hasil Adkins and Bob Log III.
The Paul Simon 9/11 reference is good. I'd add Bowie on the Omnichord playing "America" at the same event.
Why not consider something contemporary? This guy is extremely underrated:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXJXyJkUJJk
This is the most moving solo performance I've ever seen. Sharon Van Etten "Heart In The Ground"
http://youtu.be/3c-L3aeSDrw
for me its john hiatt's 'have a little faith in me",john and a 'lectric piano..........he says its his best song.
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
Neil Young taught me to play guitar, so I made him this album of covers:
http://tnathanroane.bandcamp.com/album/neil-young
I'm now finishing up a cover of Comes a Time with no guitar, mostly djembe, organ and voice.
John Prine, Souvenirs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DYQe454YVs&fe...
Tim H.
Great addition to the comment thread, man...
"Slower minds keep right!"
www.squatlo-rant.blogspot.com
A single man and guitar, Phil Ochs, sang this at the Chicago Democratic Convention 1968,
and inspired many in the audience to spontaneously burn their draft cards. Ochs in a
favorite of N. Young.
Check out the doc about Phil and those times.
There but for fortune
Jerry Garcia Oregon State Prison. Unfortunately it has 2 people Jerry & John
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kSowTqS3lE
Neil Young is one of my all-time favorites, probably have over forty CDs (not to mention all the vinyl in the garage...) of his and CSNY's music. Learned most of his songbook by heart on my old Alvarez.
Pete Townsend playing "Won't Get Fooled Again" at the Other Policeman's Ball is classic, too.
But anyone who saw Michael Hedges perform live left that show a different person. He was (as Will Ackermann said) "The guitarist from another planet!"
"Slower minds keep right!"
www.squatlo-rant.blogspot.com
"A New England".
Harmonica counts...
Richie Havens - Freedom/Motherless Child
How about Don Grungio's medley of "The Loner/Cinnamon Girl/Down by the River" from the expanded reissue of "4 Way Street", or any number of solo tunes he plays to kick off Bridge Concerts at The Shoreline?
Bob Marley, "Redemption Song."
David Byrne: "Psycho Killer", opening the Stop Making Sense concert.
Sorry, I don't have time to look for a You Tube video, but my favorite performance for today (can't rule out so many Neil Young songs for more than 24 hours) is "Ambulance Blues," from On The Beach. There is some harmonica on the song as well.
I look out the window - what do I see
I see a golden calf pointing - back at me ~J.R. Robertson
If you sit Elton John down at a piano, he'll play and sing and it sounds like an album. He's got it all right in his fingers. I wish he'd do a whole "unplugged" album of his top hits. (I don't ask much!)
Did Paul McCartney play the piano for the 'naked' version of "The Long and Winding Road"? If so, that one.
Steve Winwood did a solo (shorter) version of "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys." If the sound wasn't so raw, it would have been great.
Jimmy Webb did a whole solo album of his own songs, just him and a piano, including MacArthur's Park and Wichita Lineman.
I'll think of more when I hit the "Remember" button. (aka "Send")
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