Neil Young song draft

[overkill94]

While watching The Song Remains the Same on TV the other day I thought a cool draft would be Solos. Obviously guitar solos would be the main focus, but one of the categories could just be any other type of solo (drum, sax, piano, vocal, etc.) Some ideas for categories I've been thinking about:

60's
70's
80's
90's
00's
Other (drum, sax, vocal, etc.)
Acoustic?
Non-rock?
Female?

Then of course like 5 or 6 utility categories. Any takers?

[Erik]

12.05 Time Fades Away (Time Fades Away, 1973)

Remember in Don't Look Back, how Bob Dylan chastises the media for not printing "the truth," then when they ask what "truth" they should print, Dylan says "a tramp vomiting in an alley." "Time Fades Away" to me has always seemed like Neil's version of that "truth." Verses describing some of the most desolate, desperate and greedy people imaginable alternating with choruses cautioning you against ending up like that. Love how there's an extra junkie at the beginning of each verse (first thirteen, then fourteen, then fifteen, borrowing a device from the Allman Brothers' "Black Hearted Woman.") The Dylan connection is also played up in the music, with a driving, ragtag track that sounds straight out of Highway 61 Revisited.

[Erik]

While watching The Song Remains the Same on TV the other day I thought a cool draft would be Solos. Obviously guitar solos would be the main focus, but one of the categories could just be any other type of solo (drum, sax, piano, vocal, etc.) Some ideas for categories I've been thinking about:

60's
70's
80's
90's
00's
Other (drum, sax, vocal, etc.)
Acoustic?
Non-rock?
Female?

Then of course like 5 or 6 utility categories. Any takers?

I don't know if I'd be interested in that, but another board I'm on did a musicians draft. Everyone had to take 2 guitarists, one bassist, one drummer, one vocalist, and two utility players. That was a lot of fun.

[johnnya24]

I don't know if I'd be interested in that, but another board I'm on did a musicians draft. Everyone had to take 2 guitarists, one bassist, one drummer, one vocalist, and two utility players. That was a lot of fun.

We did that here many moons ago also

[Erik]

12.04 - "Mellow My Mind" (Tonight's the Night, 1975)

Another heartbreaking request for that ever-elusive love Neil's always looking for.

Normally I just post the album version, but I quite liked this live version of just Neil and his banjo.

Good call. The studio vocal is so out of tune that it borders on unlistenable. I feel the same way about Dylan's "All I Really Want to Do."

The version he played in the acoustic sets of his 1976 tour was quite lovely, though.

[johnnya24]

12.06 The Old Country Waltz American Stars 'n Bars, 1977

(will update details later)

[DMT]

Good call. The studio vocal is so out of tune that it borders on unlistenable. I feel the same way about Dylan's "All I Really Want to Do."

The version he played in the acoustic sets of his 1976 tour was quite lovely, though.

Yea, good pick. I should have looked for other versions b/c I liked the music but those vocals on the album version were excruciating.

[Erik]

Updated list of drafts I would do:

PJ
Led Zeppelin
The Who/Pete Townshend
The Rolling Stones
The Beatles
Pink Floyd
Husker Du/Sugar/Bob Mould/Grant Hart
Phish
Wilco/Uncle Tupelo/Son Volt
The Jam/Style Council/Paul Weller
The Kinks
U2
Rush
Todd Rundgren/Utopia/Nazz
Seattle Grunge Scene (including or separate from Pearl Jam)
James Brown
Parliament-Funkadelic
Tom Petty
Radiohead
The Byrds

[overkill94]

I'd be in for:

Led Zeppelin
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Rush
Black Sabbath
Metallica
Slayer
Iron Maiden
90's alternative / grunge / straight-up 90's

[johnnya24]

Pearl Jam
REM
WOM / non-anglo American
Radiohead (good call ... will need to be a bit shallower though)
Bowie (will do it to fill out ... but I'll be struggling fairly quickly I reckon)
Springsteen

Scene: Grunge (although I'd like to do PJ separately), general indie or indie rock
Decades: 80's 90's 00's (or any combination of)
Oddments: songs with an electronica element (rather than straight ahead guitars)

We should narrow down the options and open it up to the whole forum ... no reason we can't run more than one if we find our musical tastes start to diverge.

[Erik]

Yep, I smell a poll coming.

[Erik]

Mith sent me a backup pick that hasn't been taken, so I'll post that for him in the interests of keeping this moving. If he changes his mind when he next gets here, we can backtrack.

For Mith:

12.07 Over and Over (Ragged Glory, 1990)

[DMT]

I'll follow mith with another one from Ragged Glory, my 1st 90s pick! Well, apparently not as I found this live version from 76.

12.08 Country Home (Ragged Glory, 1990)


Neil Young - Country Home 1976 by Yedi

[DMT]

B/w picks, another one I'd do would be Paul Simon.

[DMT]

Ok, since my last pick really wasn't from the 90s, here's one that was (I think).

13.01 Philadelphia (Philadelphia OST, 1993)