Vacant Horizon

oh no. that is bad.

right. i mean if pressed his last really good album was Rust Never Sleeps. of course he's had some 'comebacks' etc. but the fair weather fans probably see him as floundering since 1979. which is cool. that's probably true for most of those 70s bands. i'm a neil fan, however. damn, i find the way the guy sings the word 'through' ascetically pleasing, so i pretty much warm up to what ever he does. anyway, don't know if that has anything to do with this thread:) yeah, ordinary people was kinda out of place there. oh well.

having been a kid of divorced parents, the daughter's part was spot on. what's fascinating to me is how they are addressing the 60s social issues in individual relationships rather than goofy found footage etc. very cool.

Help/Slip/Frank Sailor>Saint!! that sounds incredible. can't wait to listen. AMan, many thanks for posting these every week.

yes, concert going has a point of diminished returns. my wife and i recently went to tom petty. we got cheap tix. he came out and knocked out 8 hits in 45 mins. we got bored and left. fun, but didn't need to stay long. i'd say i see an amazing show once every two years. sometimes it's from a show that is just on a whim. saw neil young on his recent tour and it was a spiritual experience. before that, saw black mountain on a whim. BLEW my mind. saw wilco two shows in a row right after nels joined. first show amazing. second show meh. however, that had a lot to do with the fact my p

i don't really know what the reaction was. he's been doing that shit for years. going out and playing tonights the night and nothing else. as i remember, there wasn't any backlash compared to the highly politicized living with war album and the most recent shows which lots of folks thought were to be acoustic only to find neil standing there blaring his electric solo. and 6 new songs to boot. when it comes to my favorite of favorites...wilco, son volt, neil, rush...i prefer hearing new songs and could definitely do with out the hits. i also prefer deep album tracks. neil did do that on

i love it. not listening again till it comes out. it really is pretty neat how the different guitar strings are separated in the stereo channels.

i'm going to the atlanta show. don't have a ticket, but i will get one outside cheap. i'm not looking forward to hearing vera though.

yeah, something is amiss here with brian lesh. he doesn't seem to have the exact info. glad to see them writing new songs. didn't they already have two...one was about dancing. so maybe an album by 2020. phil will be 80. i'd like to see phil revisit wave to the wind, if the shoe fits, and childhood's end. bobby needs to revisit easy answers. that and the two unreleased ratdog songs...she said, gasoline?...you got an album:) seven hills of gold is another new tune from last summer. sound like jack straw.

that St. Paul show is so fun. thanks for the recommendation. love 80-82. just a cool time for the band i think. solidifying the second set sequence with drums and space, enjoying brent, not having to deal with a married couple in the band, before Touch, before jerry lost his voice and got old. my go to studio is Mars Hotel. cant go wrong with unbroken and pride. and of course the US blues reminds me of the dead movie.

that sounds cool. especially 2112.

i have no idea about how nels likes wilco. however, listening to the new singers album gets me excited about the potential for the next album. would love to hear nels open up on some of the songs. not just noise, but in texture as well as arrangements and writing. like a classic tweedy ballad that has an all out nels white distortion jam in the middle then comes back to the song.

as an acoustic neil fan, seeing the pre-harvest moon tour was great. i'm sometimes jealous of bands like marillion who have this cult following and the band really cares for them with the conventions and stuff. very cool. phish used to be this way circa 1990-93. you could always chat with at least mike before and after the shows.

who knows. maybe brendan obrian's studio?

hilarious! so right though. counterparts sounds like a bland, generic alternative album you'd hear on the old 97x.

i've had several rush stages with the classic albums. my first show was presto. i'm kind of revisiting the classic stuff and will then dive into power windows and hold your fire with more attention. there's got to be some good stuff there. for some reason hold your fire seems to be more memorable to me b/c of the singe and force ten. however, i couldn't hum one tune from power windows. btw-the first album is great. it's kind of in a category all its own. it's a competent 70s hard rock album as far as i'm concerned. it's funny to me that rush classic rock staples are working man then

i second what jff said above. for me personally, i love everything from fly by night (2nd album) to grace under pressure. early albums have more of a hard rock bent where as the latter 70s and early 80s have a cleaner prog sound. just my 2 cents. that being said, Hemispheres is my favorite rush album. one long, compelling epic, 2 tight rockers, and a nice instrumental.

wasn't there. cool story though:) totally.

yeah, looking forward to Hitchhiker.

say more...listening to the promise in atlanat? where?

cool. can't remember ever seeing talk of him on VC, so glad i brought him up.

just looked at that setlist. Where's My Thing would be cool to hear live. incidently, i guess there was talk in the band of doing an instrumental album of the previous instrumentals and maybe some new ones. the might be interesting. btw-my main issue with the last several albums is neal's drums. just buried in the mix and the snare sounds like a piece of tin foil. now if the snare sounded like glenn kotche's....omg! seems like a hell of a tour. glad he was enjoying the playing. can you imagine stopping on the highway only to find rush standing around as the tires were fixed.

thanks for the info. i've heard times were tough between steel and 2112. didn't really know the whole story though. btw-i need to check out some 92 shows. i like to hear deep cuts from not so famous albums live.

i'm with you on the neil young 'feeling' thing. i think that's why i like most of his stuff...i like the feeling. although, that's probably true for most artists i've ever been really into. concerning his lyrics, i think neil has said in interviews that he is more primitive in his words than say, dylan.

initially i wouldn't like his voice for an entire album. however, he is a great songwriter and damn if he doesn't just nail it with the instrumentation. i'll have to check out the other albums when i digest this new one. T-Bone Burnett produced it. that guy is the new Rick Ruben.