The Most Serene Republic - ...And the Ever Expanding Universe Lubomyr Melnyk - KMH - Piano Music in the Continuous Mode Alexis Gideon - Video Musics I Neil Young - Neil Young Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
The Most Serene Republic - ...And the Ever Expanding Universe Lubomyr Melnyk - KMH - Piano Music in the Continuous Mode Alexis Gideon - Video Musics I Neil Young - Neil Young Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Many people percieve Neil Young as "classic rock", which is a classic mistake. Neil Young albums are probably some of the best sounding recordings ever made. I won't go too into the details, but Neil was basically a psycho in the studio and worked with an equally psychotic studio man in David Briggs. Briggs' goal was to capture the rawness in a transcendental way. Meaning he wasn't looking to get a gritty or dirty sound, he wanted to actually record the raw emotion itself, and on records like "Everybody Knows this is Nowhere", "Tonight's the Night" and the "On the Beach" he certainly did. While his studio technique and know how were largely responsible, he recorded everything to tape, so getting the exact performance out of the artist was equally important. By "exact" I mean pushing already unbalanced people into further madness and recording it. The result is listening to someone spilling their guts through music right in front of you, it sounds like the most live recording you've ever heard, but the beauty is that it sounds this way as a result of the studio manipulation, almost like some new 4D way of hearing music. In many ways I feel a strong aural connection to the above mentioned albums and "Areoplane Over the Sea".
Here is the problem, unfortunately much of the nuances that just popped like voodoo into your brain on vinyl were diminished or lost on CD. Neil has been resistant to put many of his early solo stuff on CD, either he's too picky about the original recording or wants to wait until a medium arrives that he believes will do justice to the recordings. In fact "On the Beach" was never going to be put out on CD by him. I'm hazy on all the facts here, but I believe a large fan petition for the album eventually lead to its reluctant release in the 2000's. So if you can find a vinyl copy to listen to please do. If not, the CD us nit all that bad.
Listen to this in a dark room, with great speakers and what ever else you may find and pay attention to the vocal recordings and spacing of the instruments. "See the sky about to Rain" will send you through the stratosphere by the end, the guitar solo on "Revolution Blues" is one of the most sublime sonic freak outs ever, the harmonies and banjo/Dobro interplay on "For the Turnstiles" will show you some of that voodoo I was talking about (really pay attention to this one), and the bass and pacing of "On the Beach" is completely mind bending. "Vampire Blues" is the only weak track for me, but really it's still pretty great. As with most great pieces of music, listen to this one from front to back if you really want a total outer body experience by the time "Ambulance Blues" (check the viloins!) rings out.
Whoa. I totally saw these guys at The Croc a couple of years ago. I can't remember for the life of me why though. There are at least 485 people in that band.
Many people percieve Neil Young as "classic rock", which is a classic mistake. Neil Young albums are probably some of the best sounding recordings ever made. I won't go too into the details, but Neil was basically a psycho in the studio and worked with an equally psychotic studio man in David Briggs. Briggs' goal was to capture the rawness in a transcendental way. Meaning he wasn't looking to get a gritty or dirty sound, he wanted to actually record the raw emotion itself, and on records like "Everybody Knows this is Nowhere", "Tonight's the Night" and the "On the Beach" he certainly did. While his studio technique and know how were largely responsible, he recorded everything to tape, so getting the exact performance out of the artist was equally important. By "exact" I mean pushing already unbalanced people into further madness and recording it. The result is listening to someone spilling their guts through music right in front of you, it sounds like the most live recording you've ever heard, but the beauty is that it sounds this way as a result of the studio manipulation, almost like some new 4D way of hearing music. In many ways I feel a strong aural connection to the above mentioned albums and "Areoplane Over the Sea".
Here is the problem, unfortunately much of the nuances that just popped like voodoo into your brain on vinyl were diminished or lost on CD. Neil has been resistant to put many of his early solo stuff on CD, either he's too picky about the original recording or wants to wait until a medium arrives that he believes will do justice to the recordings. In fact "On the Beach" was never going to be put out on CD by him. I'm hazy on all the facts here, but I believe a large fan petition for the album eventually lead to its reluctant release in the 2000's. So if you can find a vinyl copy to listen to please do. If not, the CD us nit all that bad.
Listen to this in a dark room, with great speakers and what ever else you may find and pay attention to the vocal recordings and spacing of the instruments. "See the sky about to Rain" will send you through the stratosphere by the end, the guitar solo on "Revolution Blues" is one of the most sublime sonic freak outs ever, the harmonies and banjo/Dobro interplay on "For the Turnstiles" will show you some of that voodoo I was talking about (really pay attention to this one), and the bass and pacing of "On the Beach" is completely mind bending. "Vampire Blues" is the only weak track for me, but really it's still pretty great. As with most great pieces of music, listen to this one from front to back if you really want a total outer body experience by the time "Ambulance Blues" (check the viloins!) rings out.
Oh, and make sure it is LOUD!
I need to hear this one! I only have his first four.
Whoa. I totally saw these guys at The Croc a couple of years ago. I can't remember for the life of me why though. There are at least 485 people in that band.
Fuckin' eh man, I was at that show! But I believe they've cut the roster down to 5 or 6 members these days.
They've played the Croc twice in the last few years, 2009 and 2010 I think, and I was at both. They headlined the second show, but I can't remember who headlined the first one because I left.
Posted by chud on Nov 6, 2012, 2:36am
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