gbluecheez

6y

Just had this weird f***in thing happen to me where I felt like my brain got pushed back into my head and my eyes went forward it was like a vibration weird as hell

Elric

6y

whats threads consensus on Neil Young vs Tom Waits

Elric

6y

whats threads consensus on Neil Young vs Tom Waits

rise zero

6y

not a huge fan of either but i prefer neil

UIP

6y

that’s a close on but i’d pick Tom probably

Elric

6y

You didn't respond to my post, have you spent much time with the Basement Tapes?

Elric

6y

Very nearly typod that as The Basement Rapes :ohno:

UIP

6y

my bad i always have a bunch of notifs. na i’ve never heard at all

UIP

6y

now THIS i’m familiar with

Elric

6y

You didn't respond to my post, have you spent much time with the Basement Tapes?

Elric

6y

Do you know the mythology surrounding it?

laudi

6y

He didn’t respond to your post
Wonder what that feels like

Koala

6y

Waits

Actually got Mule Variations on now

Koala

6y

Broski do you use an amp with your Senns ? I love my Beyers been thinking a bit

Eric C

6y

do you jam Neil like that?

Elric

6y

Dylan over Neil?

Koala

6y

I like Neil.. But a southern man doesnt need him around anyhow.

UIP

6y

nope, tell the tale papa elric

rise zero

6y

nah dylan's my favorite folk guy. the wordplay is too good.

Koala

6y

I like Neil.. But a southern man doesnt need him around anyhow.

Elric

6y

Welp after he went electric in 65 his touring schedule was so rigorous that he pretty much had to do speed all day to stay awake and heroin at the end of the day to crash and he knew the routine was going to kill him pretty quickly so he had a convenient motorcycle crash (there are theories that he didn't actually have one) which he used as an excuse to get off the road and rehabilitate himself. He got a house in Woodstock (created a mystique in the area resulting in the Woodstock Fest a couple years later) which they called Big Pink and moved his touring band in. They were some Canadian killers called the Hawks but eventually everyone just started calling them The Band (The Weight, Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down). They liked the acoustics of the basement so much they moved a recording studio down there and spent the entire Summer of Love totally isolated from the rest of the music scene and it's psychedelic "wank", recording goofy and/or devastating songs all day. Nobody is quite sure what Bob intended to do with the songs but this was at the absolute height of his fame and power and the industry was thirsty af for more Bob Dylan songs to cover so quite a few of them were recorded as demos for other bands to base their versions off of. Alot of them are far too cryptic and free form to be covered credibly though and even Bob didn't think it warranted a release so it literally singlehandedly invented the bootleg album industry of stans ravenously scrounging for their goats newest work. Took 8 years for Robbie Robertson (The Bands de facto leader) to convince Bob to release any of the music officially and even then the 1975 version missed half the best songs. It only finally got fully remastered and released in its entirety in 2014 and it is glorious. Most days it's my favourite Bob album, just so loose and warm and goofy and beautiful some days it seems like the best album by anyone. If I had to pick one desert island album I had to listen to on repeat for eternity it would definitely be The Basement Tapes. Just the most organic soul soothing rock and roll ever.

Elric

6y

Neil has the most elemental guitar style out there

Conjures storms