NEIL YOUNG 2001 NEWS
As I write this I have Neil Youngs "On the Beach" spinning with Ambulance Blues crooning in the With this in mind, it's important to note that Classic Records, based in Los Angeles CLASSIC RECORDS - November 2001 In the same Rolling issue #880 DAVID FRICKE wrote an article about how music has helped him deal
with the September 11th tragedy. NEW BOOK "The acute sense of time and place permeating Simmons' pacy text
no doubt derives from the fact She also pieces together the most complete account yet of Young's
brief association with another Canyon resident, *NOTE: The Neil "official Bio" is back on, as of recently.... Here are the goodies from the SEPTEMBER 2001 Issue of MOJO There is a ad for a record from the Cosmic Rough Riders called Full page - back over advertisement in the October 6th, 2001 issue
of BILLBOARD MAGAZINE. From My Generation Magazine November - December 2001 Issue: Toris Amos covers "Heart of Gold" on her recent release October 12th, 2001 Issue of POLLSTAR: September 29th. About 24,000 people attended the sold-out show. Along with founders Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp,
performers included Farm Aid 2001 excerpt below from CMT (Country Music Television) feature: "At one point, Young sported a ball cap that read "FDNY," the
emblem of New York firefighters. Young performed a rousing, electrifying set that included On Friday He then appeared and played guitar during the group finale with
Willie Nelson leading the way on From the June issue of Ice Magazine Read this interview with Richie @ the BS Box From this week's POLLSTAR Issue Dated 08/06/01 Only 3 venue stats surfaced so far on the CPR Tour. 06/12/01 STOP! HEY, WHAT'S THAT SOUND?
FOUR **** STARS The first three discs follow the group's recordings chronologically.
Buffalo Springfield (1966) introduced a tightly drilled quintet
whose music proposed the country-rock hyphen well before Dylan,
the Byrds or the Flying Burrito Brothers. The songwriting was
divided between second guitarist Stephen Stills ("Sit Down I Think
I Love You") and lead guitarist Neil Young ("Nowadays Clancy Can't
Even Sing"), and favored the voice of rhythm guitarist Richie
Furay, often in tandem with Stills as an updated Everly Brothers.
Unfortunately, inept production eliminated the subtlety and power
from their debut; superb bass player Bruce Palmer was especially
victimized. There was more energy and balance to Young's "Mr.
Soul" and Stills' "Rock & Roll Woman" from Buffalo Springfield
Again (1967), but the rest of the picture was becoming irreparably
fragmented, with three individual writer-singers overseeing their
own material and Stills challenging Young on lead guitar. The
album's pinnacle, Young's haunting art-song collaboration with
Jack Nitzsche on "Expecting to Fly," featured no other band members.
The band burned up the track so fast before hitting the wall that
Last Time Around (1968) had to be pieced together for posthumous
release. Buffalo Springfield were a great American band done in by their
overabundance of talent. They went from being an inspired idea
straight to a cherished memory without letting themselves, or
us, linger too long over the magic they made in between. Now is
our chance. Make sure to read the BS article HERE This month: in honor of the BS Box Set release 07/17/01 Here are some Neil Young and Crazy Horse Euro shots. FRANKFURT - GERMANY 06/23, 06/26, 06/27Germany, 07/03 Sweden, 07/04 Norway, 07/07
Germany, These two ads from Melody Maker come to the site via Nick Dowsett Thanks very much Nick - see you on the road this summer! From the June 7th, 2001 issue of ROLLING STONE: The numbers are in for the gross figures for the 4/21/01 The Doctor is IN .... LARRY CRAGG 05/14/01 05/11/01 NEW PRESS RELEASE Neil Young and Crazy Horse Hello everybody... lots of loose ends we need to address! First at hand On the subject of Neil, there are now 24 euro dates that are confirmed
for this summer. Notice that the 2nd nite with The Dave Matthews Band Read the press release @ the cancellation HERE. 04/21/01 Scott Stadium @ Univ. Of Virginia / Charlottesville,
VA Ok, while we are on the NEIL news kick, let's spice it up and add a little STILLS!!!! But RHINO RECORDS says otherwise.... MARK YOUR CALENDAR'S for JULY 3rd, 2001 !!!4 CD BOXED SET !!! Last Neil entry for the day and it's a biggie.... SAD NEWS ALAN JENKINS is closing up shop... THE NEIL YOUNG APPRECIATION SOCIETY This advertisement appeared in the Friday April 6th, 2001
03/25/01 You may recognize a cropped version of this photo from LONG MAY YOU RUN NEIL YOUNG and Crazy Horse dates Sat 04/21/01 Scott Stadium @ Univ. Of Virginia /Charlottesville,
VA 03/10/01 This past Monday, they handed out the Canadian equivalent of the
Grammy's. Called the NEIL YOUNG and JONI MITCHELL Best Male Artist 03/07/01 Well... it seems that the summer tour is shaping up Keep your fingers crossed that this will The years have fled by too fast... Been a long time coming. The last summer shed tour Here's hoping. April 21st, 2001 University of Virginia - Scott Stadium Neil Young and Crazy Horse For details, call (804) 262-8100 March 1st, 2001 @ "A Night for Gloria" BENEFIT Neil Young and Crazy Horse's SETLIST March 1st, 2001 Gloria Scott, a counselor by profession has helped thousands of
lost souls in Los In the December issue of MOJO Magazine There was some NEIL YOUNG content: -a Full page ad for Road Rock -a Full page review of Johnny Rogan's latest book release: Zero to Sixty (a critical biography) Book Review by John Harris From this week's issue of POLLSTAR Dated 01/29/01 (see Neil Young on the bottom far right) excerpt from full page article 01/10/01 THIS JUST IN... 12pm pacific @ ticketmaster
NEIL YOUNG and CRAZY HORSE A couple of warmups before South America (2 ticket limit) NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSE
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background, (which has never been released on cd by Mssr Young).
So you know that vinyl lives round these part, (as I imagine it does for alot of visitors of this site.)
has been reissuing a number of "classic"
csn and related records on 180gm audiophile discs.
180gm audiophile
SD-2-903 Stephen Stills - Manassas
(2 LP set) Available on November 15, 2001
Among the songs that helped him deal are, "a long howling "Rockin in the Free World" by Neil Young
and Crazy Horse on their 1991 concert set WELD."
Neil Young Reflections in Broken Glass
by Sylvie Simmons MOJO BOOKS
that, like Young, she has spent much of her career living in the
Los Angeles canyons. Contacts gained
in those years pay off in new interviews with Young's friends,
neighbors, and colleagues, unearthing
fascinating insights into the vibrant Topanga Canyon milieu. There
was, unsurprisingly, zero co-operation
from Young himself (*he had lately fired his biographer of 10
years) but Simmons could rely on her own previous
interviews with the man to provide his input.
the murderous Charles Manson. Young was sufficiently impressed
to recommend the hippy anti-christ for a recording
contract with Reprise - and, according an obscure Manson interview
unearthed by Simmons, to give him a motorcycle -
before distancing himself in the wake of the Polanski-Tate murders.
Zippy from the start, the book accelerates
when it hits the 80's. Given a career so long and incident packed,
she's left with no choice but to skim across the icy top
layer of Young's later career, through his rebirth as the Godfather
of Grunge and into the era of re-uniting with CSN,
recycling old albums, and repackaging outtakes.
Despite evident affection, and despite according more merit to
Young's 90's output than many critics might, Simmons
reveals a man who is far from entirely likeable - stubborn, self-righteous,
often selfish - but always utterly compelling."
"Enjoy the Sunshine"
And they describe the music as "Think the Byrds, Flying Burrito
Brothers, and Buffalo Springfield put through
Teenage Fanclub's blender and you'll be close to how they sound."
Perfect Packages - 6 Great Box Sets for the holidays.
Among the 6 listed is BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD - Rhino / Elektra
Stop, hey what's that sound? The semi-supergroup that arguably
invented country rock released only
2 albums with it's original 1966-68 lineup. So how and why this
lengthy four-CD set? Withnearly half its 88 tracks of experimental
pop-twang
devoted to demos, outtakes and remixes, this collection opens
a wide door onto Stephen Stills,
Neil Young and Richie Furay's ingenuous songwriting and warm fuzzy
harmonies.
"Strange Little Girls."
FARM AID SUCCESS
With extra security measures at the concert, this year's Farm
Aid was named Concert for America
and pledged money to rebuild farmers markets that were destroyed
near the World Trade Center.
The annual benefit concert took place at the Verizon Wireless
Music Center in Noblesville, Ind.,
The number of performers has been pared down over the years,
with the recent lineup offering
10 performers in extended sets.
Martina McBride, Arlo Guthrie, The Doobie Brothers, Acoustic Syndicate,
Susan Tedeschi,
Jimmy Ryser, and Chris Knight. Dave Matthews, the newest director
of Farm Aid, also performed.
"We're at a moment when a lot of people are asking what is
America, what represents America,"
Matthews said. "Certainly, I think that the family farm is a main
ingredient of what made America."
Nelson called for the federal government to renew support
that farmers, oil and steel producers received
during World War II. The subsidies helped them cover production
and labor costs.
"Well, it's wartime again. Let's bring it back," he said.
was Saturday September 29th, 2001
@ The Verizon Wireless Music Center in Noblesville, Indiana
ap photo ©
John Mellencamp (who has a new record out)
Neil Young (looking cool! .. NICE jacket!)
Martina McBride
"I just made a new friend backstage," he said. ""Jim Lenox from
Ladder 37 of FDNY is here, taking his first day off.
He's been there since the first day."
Collaborating with his longtime band Crazy Horse,
"Don't Cry No Tears," "Love and Only Love" and "Rockin' in the
Free World." Young wore a
"Stop Factory Farms" T-shirt and said American family farmers
are being undercut by big business."
September 21st, 2001
NEIL YOUNG was among the participants in the Benefit
"America: A Tribute To Heroes"
From the VH1 site:
"Neil Young appeared close to tears during his rendition of John Lennon's
"Imagine"and later joined Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready for
"The Long Road," an Arabic-flavored tune Vedder originally recorded for the
film "Dead Man Walking" with the late Pakistani singer Nusrat
Fateh Ali Khan."
"America the Beautiful."
I forgot to post this before. It's in the same issue as Buffalo
Springfield.
Digital Dish column
by Ric Dube
The Dandy Warhols offer 13 free, downloadable MP3 tracks at
Dandywarhols.com. It's a treasure trove for fans that includes
remixes and cuts from Tales from Slabtown Vol 1 and Tales from
Slabtown Vol , a pair of highly collectible promotional EPS released
to promote the act's 2000 release. 13 Tales from Urban Bohemia.
Highlights include a cover of Neil Young's, "OHIO."
See July 2001 What's Going Down for those figures.....
For the NEIL YOUNG and CRAZY HORSE Euro tour
NONE of the numbers have surfaced till now.
Here is one for ya.
NEIL YOUNG @ Point Depot
Dublin Ireland
Aiken Promotions
Opening act: Proud Mary
Capacity: 8,000
Sold out 100%
Ticket price: 27.50-32.50
Gross: 258,549 punts
It's been 27 years and five
months since a Buffalo Springfield album has appeared on the Billboard
album chart. Their "Box Set" (Atco/Elektra/Rhino) debuts at No.
194 on The
Billboard 200 this week, giving the seminal group a well-deserved
chart
placing.
The Rhino box is the sixth chart album for the precursor band
to Crosby,
Stills, Nash & Young and Poco. Here is how the six albums have
ranked:
"Buffalo Springfield," No. 80 (1967)
"Buffalo Springfield Again," No. 44 (1967)
"Last Time Around," No. 42 (1968)
"Retrospective/The Best of Buffalo Springfield," No. 42 (1969)
"Buffalo Springfield," No. 104 (1973)
"Box Set," No. 194 to date (2001)
The Rhino set also debuts on Billboard's Top Internet Album Sales
chart at a lofty No. 6.
photography by Linda McCartney©
Read HERE for the ICE BS Boxed Set review 
BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD BOX SET REVIEW
Buffalo Springfield are that rarest of beasts: an influential
1960s band whose recorded legacy hasn't been recycled into dust.
Classic-rock radio stations don't dig much deeper than their one
bona fide hit, "For What It's Worth," preferring instead to play
the songs of the band's splintered progeny: Crosby, Stills and
Nash, Poco, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Loggins and Messina, et
al. But though the Springfield lasted little more than two years
and struggled to release three albums, the group contributed as
much to rock & roll as its famous divorces. This long-overdue
four-disc box chronicles and illuminates that contribution.
Sadly, few tapes have surfaced to document the ferocity of the
band's stage performances. Box Set collects the few developed
songs that didn't make the albums (though they've rightly nixed
the clumsy nine-minute "Bluebird" that leaked out some years back).
The thirty-seven unreleased tracks include alternate takes and
mixes, sometimes superior solo demos (Stills' "Four Days Gone,"
Furay's "Sad Memory"), instrumentals (Young's twisty "Falcon Lake
[Ash on the Floor]"), and songs we would encounter later in their
careers ("Round and Round and Round" and "Old Laughing Lady" from
Young). The set's only real flaw is the redundant Disc Four, which
reprises the first two albums.
BEN EDMONDS
(RS 873 - July 19, 2001)
Here is some of the fun content in the July issue of MOJO
full page ad
Full page ad NOTE: What's up with the V in Stephen????
Sheshh Let's hope its not on the actual BOX SET.
The tour has been going strong with solid shows and fans going
home spent...
The set lists have (4) new songs...
The tentative titles are:
"Gateway of Love"
"Going Home"
"Hold You in My Arms"
"Standing in the Light of Love"
It's the singing cowboy!
Poncho, Neil and Billy @ Roskilde
June 29th, 2001
photo by Henrik Petit ©
Neil and Crazy Horse in Frankfurt photo's by Ivica Letunic ©
Preview some sound clips from the forthcoming release.
AP photo ©
Chris and Rich Robinson @ Radio City Music Hall last week
The Black Crowes are slated to open for NEIL YOUNG and Crazy Horse for
8 upcoming euro shows. The first one is today June 23rd in Germany.
07/09 Italy, 07/10 Switzerland.
"Radiohead showcased material from their upcoming album, Amnesiac,
as well
as cover of NEIL YOUNG'S 'Cinnamon Girl,' at a taping for French TV show
Canal+ on April 28th, 2001."
Dave Matthews / NY&CH show in Virginia
Bama Works Benefit
Scott Stadium At Univ. Of Virg. Charlottesville,VA
Tickets sold: 50,143
Ticket price: $46.50
Percentage sold: 100%
Gross: $2,295,380.
Read more here
Larry Cragg © photo
AP Photo ©
Neil with Dave Matthews Band 04/21/01
BamaWorks Benefit
Scott Stadium @ University Of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
April 21st, 2001
SETLIST
Sedan Delivery
Hey Hey, My My
Love And Only Love
Cinnamon Girl
Fuckin' Up
Cortez The Killer
Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown
Rockin' In The Free World
Down By The River
With Dave Matthews Band
All Along The Watchtower
Friday is a good day to catch up.
There are more Neil Young and Crazy Horse
warm up stealth shows expected...
04/16&17
once again @ The Warfield in SF.
previously scheduled for 04/22, has now been cancelled.
06/09/01 Sheffield Arena / Sheffield, UK
06/10/01 S.E.C.C. / Glasgow, UK
06/12/01 The Point / Dublin, IRE
06/15/01 NEC Arena / Birmingham, UK
06/16/01 Finsbury Park / London, UK
06/18/01 Flanders Expo / Ghent, BEL
06/20/01 Festhalle / Frankfurt, GER
06/21/01 Ahoy / Rotterdam, NET
06/23/01 Oberhausen Arena / Oberhausen, GER
06/24/01 Le Zenith / Paris, FRA
06/26/01 Waldbuhne / Berlin, GER
06/27/01 Olympiahalle / Munich, GER
06/29/01 Roskilde Festival / Roskilde, DEN
07/01/01 Hartwall Arena / Helsinki, FIN
07/03/01 Stockholm Globe Arena / Stockholm, SWE
07/04/01 Oslo Spektrum / Oslo, NOR
07/06/01 Stadtpark / Hamburg, GER
07/07/01 Messehalle / Erfurt, GER
07/09/01 Town Square / Brescia, ITA
07/10/01 Montreux Jazz Festival / Montreux, SWI
07/13/01 Vilar De Mouros Festival / Oporto, POR
07/15/01 Esparrago Festival / Cadiz, SPA 07/29/01 Fuji Rock Festival
/ Naeba, JPN
I've been hesitant to post this, only because I never believe
it... till I SEE IT!
is to be no more
and THE FANZINE BROKEN ARROW are ceasing publication
with the current issue, #82.
photo by Ramiro ©
Alan NO REGRETS... you did a FANTASTIC job...
You SHOULD BE VERY PROUD you had a GREAT RUN!!
HURRAY for ALAN and THANK YOU.
You brought together the community
at a time when other like-minded musical souls had little chance
to ever
know each other. Things were much harder pre-cyber days indeed...
Another fan submission from MARK WHITE!
edition of the London Evening Standard
NEIL YOUNG at Finsbury Park
Neil Young's DECADE triple album.
Here is the original photo, as it appears in the
Songbook
photo by Tom Wilkes ©
Current as of this week's issue of POLLSTAR
Wed 06/20/01 Festhalle / Frankfurt, GER
Tue 06/26/01 Messehalle / Erfurt, GER
Sun 07/01/01 Hartwall Arena / Helsinki, FIN
Tue 07/03/01 Stockholm Globe Arena / Stockholm, SWE
Wed 07/04/01 Oslo Spektrum / Oslo, NOR
both picked up awards.
Neil Young-Reprise/Warner
Best Vocal Jazz Album
Joni Mitchell-Both Sides Now-Reprise/Warner
looks like a NY&CH euro tour???
This speculation comes from the confirmation of
a date @ the Oslo Spektrum in Norway July 4th, 2001
lead to a CSN tour in the states.
It's been since 1997 that we've had a real CSN tour.
That was the theatre tour.
Whatever happened to the good ole' summer tours
that you could count on from CSN???
was in 1996 , the co-headline tour with CHICAGO.
join
Dave Matthews Band
as special guests at this show.
The concert is a benefit for the Bama Works Foundation
The Hollywood Palladium
Sedan Delivery
Hey Hey, My My
Love and Only Love
Cinammon Girl >>> into Fuckin' Up
Cortez the Killer
Like a Huricane
6215 SUNSET BLVD - HOLLYWOOD, CA
Neil Young and Crazy Horse
will perform at a benefit along with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and others...
"A Night for Gloria"
Angeles with their substance abuse problems over the last twenty
years.
Gloria has been a real original in the recovery community with
her strength and sense of humor.
Gloria, unfortunately, has fallen ill at this tiime.
Some of the many people that she has been instrumental in helping
over
the years have organized an evening of events to honor her for
all of the wonderful work she has done.
December 2000 issue of Mojo
Neil Young
Sixty to Zero
by Johnny Rogan
Thanks to Morrisey And Marr: The Severed Alliance and his masterful
Byrds history Timeless Flight, Johnny
Rogan's modus operandi is well known. He's a specialist in careful
research rather than flights of theoretical fancy;
a merchant of detail rather than heart-stopping prose. But if
Zero to Sixty confirms that Neil Young is still waiting for
his Greil Marcus - a writer who can convey the evocative wonder
of his music - that's a commendation rather than a barb.
Rogan alerts you to one gap in the market by so brilliantly filling
another. "One of the most detailed and exhaustive studies
of its kind," says the dust jacket. It isn't far wrong.
Somewhat inevitably, the key subtext that can't help but emerge
is the parallel between Young and Bob Dylan. Both were born and
raised in the snowbound north of the American continent, each
was given crucial propulsion by the collision of folk and rock;
both
were one-time adherents of credos that repulsed the baby boomers
(Young's support of Ronald Reagan, and Dylan's Christianity).
Each of them, meanwhile, had truly wretched artistic spells during
the 80's.
What differentiates Young, and proves to be Rogan's meat and drink,
is his ongoing need for collaborators. He cuts a much
more befriendable figure than Dylan - which also lays the ground
for endless fall-outs and schisms. They begin during a fascinating
drive from Toronto to Los Angeles, described by Rogan as "momentous":
Young and five friends crammed into his hearse, illicitly
entering the USA, getting waylaid in New Mexico, and finally arriving
in LA minus their of their number.
And so the journey - and the human traffic - goes on, via the
on-off career of Buffalo Springfield, the yet more fitful progress
of CSNY,
and the ongoing saga of Crazy Horse. By the end, one has the distinct
feeling that 'solo artist' is a complete misnomer. At times, Zero
to Sixty
rather suggests a melange of three biographies, with countless
appendices: Young's Ontario band, The Squires, the countrified
Stray Gators,
his latter-day endeavors with Pearl Jam.
In that context, Rogan has pulled off a masterful feat indeed,
weaving all these strands into a work that glides through its
subjects history,
where events suggest that it would have little option but to determinedly
barge its way along. That, after all, has been Young's tale: could
there be two more different bands than CSNY and Crazy Horse? How
does the same career take in a spell as a rock renunciant, determined
to leave the form behind and go country, and such fuzztoned masterpieces
as Ragged Glory? How do you account for the surreal rag-bag of
bit-part players: Kurt Cobain, Willie Nelson, Rick James, The
Shadows? Not even Neil Young knows the answers to those questions.
There are but two irritations: Rogan's tendency to mark the release
of each album with a plodding song-by-song breakdown, and two
occasions when he dumps his detached, reasoned voice and sounds
a very bizarre note indeed. Sinead O'Connor's infamous stunt on
Saturday Night Live is described as a "disgraceful desecration";
and when Young appears with Crazy Horse at a pro-choice benefit,
Rogan is a little short of outraged.
"It was a little jarring," he writes, "if not repugnant, to see
Young... aligning himself with a movement whose agenda was the
negation of the fundamental rights of the unborn child to life."
His local priest should be very pleased indeed. 
"The festival drew an estimated 1.5 million fans plus an estimated
1 billion
viewers on pay-per-view television and the Internet. Organizer
Roberto Medina
told The New York Times the event pumped $180 million to $300
million into
local economy and generated $40 million in media coverage.
More than 150 acts played Rock in Rio, including R.E.M., James
Taylor, Neil
Young, Sheryl Crow, Beck, Foo Fighters, and Oasis. The average
attendance
per night was 150,000 with an estimated 250,000 for the closing.
Medina said he
is planning another festival for 2003 and hopes to get Rush, Pink
Floyd, and Carlos Santana.
Despite the good vibes, the festival was criticized in the Times
as
'music-booking triumph and a musical insult; a social-improvement
project and a
giant corporate advertisement.'"
Wed 01/10/01 9:00PM
WARFIELD
SAN FRANCISCO CA
NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSE
Thu 01/11/01 9:00PM
WARFIELD
SAN FRANCISCO CA
