Time Fades Away, Love & Rockets, Jane’s Addiction and Sly Stone.
Ever since I wrote about Neil Young’s out of print live album “Time Fades Away” (here and here) I’ve been getting emails about it. At first, people were writing me to say thank you for throwing it up for download because the album only came out on LP and has since been long out of print. Lately the emails I’ve been getting are asking me to put the record back up. Well, I’ve finally gotten around to it. So here it is kids, enjoy. Hopefully this shit will be on the new Neil Young boxset coming out soon. Speaking of, when is that big motherfucker of a boxset coming out? Anyone know?
(Download Neil Young - “Time Fades Away” LP)
And here’s my favorite song off the album, along with Jubilee’s cover of it which you can find as a b-side on their first single “Rebel Hiss” over @ http://www.jubilee.LA
The past few days have been a crazy rock n’ roll week… if you want you can listen to the new muxtape I made while you read exactly why this week ruled. http://buddyhead4.muxtape.com/
On Wednesday, I invited myself to DJ with Shepard Fairy at the Glasshouse in Pomona,CA before Love & Rockets played their first full show in nine years. I’m not counting them playing the Mick Jones song “Should I Stay or Should I Go” twice at the Joe Strummer tribute show a few months ago at the Key Club as a real show. Did anyone else realize they played a Mick Jones song or am I the only one? What the fuck?!?
Anyways, Shepard and I hung out for the first time in about six years and DJed everything from Richard Hell to The Stooges to Ultra Vivid Scene to CSNY (yeah I dropped “Carry On” into the mix) to Redd Kross. It was a fun DJ set and good to catch up with Shepard after all these years. The guy is seriously one of the nicest and coolest dudes around, it’s no wonder he’s had all the success he’s had. Who else would be cool with me bum-rushing their DJ gig opening for Love & Rockets?
Anyways, enough about us… Love & Rockets took the stage and to be honest I didn’t know what to expect from one of my favorite bands dusting off their hits live for the first time in long while… but they straight up FUCKING KILLED IT! Even with the sound guy fucking up a ton the band sounded great and tight as fuck. Daniel Ash’s guitar sounded like a chainsaw and those fuckers can sing like birds!
Sure, being the super-fan that I am, I’m convinced I could have wrote a better set list… like how about not opening (”Ball Of Confusion”) and closing (”Should I Stay or Should I Go”) with covers dudes? And how about you guys play at least one song off your best record “Sweet FA”? I was really hoping to hear Judgement Day (should have been on the greatest hits too) but once they tore into “Kundalini Express” I wouldn’t have known if the roof caved in cuz I was head banging so hard. Hopefully these dudes make a new record and do a proper tour. By the way, if you haven’t picked up the last Bauhaus record “Go Away White”… buy that shit now. I’ve been DJing “Endless Summer Of The Damned” every-time I get the chance. Shit rules.
Love & Rockets - “Kundalini Express” live @ The Glasshouse
Last week Troy Boy posted about how Jane’s Addiction was reuniting with Eric Avery for the first time in SEVENTEEN years and begged the powers that be to slide us into this seated event. Well, as you would have guessed, we didn’t get invited. So instead I planned on going to see the Joy Division documentary that Grant Gee made (he also made Radiohead’s “Meeting People Is Easy”) but when I arrived at the Arclight with my friend (who’s also named Travis) the movie was sold out.
So with nothing to do we decided to stop by the El Rey where the first-ever U.S. NME Awards show and the Jane’s/Eric reunion was going to go down hoping we could somehow sneak in. Well, the rock gods were on our side cuz as soon as we showed up we ran into Z Berg of The Like and with her help did the old switch-er-roo of badges and walked right in. Thanks Z, I owe you one. Or is it two now?
“NME Awards” video
To make a long and boring story short the awards show sucked just like they usually do… for the most part it was a douchebag fest with a bunch of bands I’ve never heard of and don’t care to ever hear again winning awards. Somehow Oasis was up for an award but didn’t win (must have been a miscount), Har Mar played, some shitbox band dressed in skeleton costumes played, and Evan Dando played two songs acoustic. Mick Jones accepted an award for something, said cool shit, and played a few songs with his band while Sienna Miller danced around with her dress pretty much falling off. Damn shes hot. I’m sure a bunch of other shit happened too but I was too busy waiting for Jane’s Addiction to play and listening to Happy Tom from Turbonegro nuke everyone. I love that guy.
Happy Tom, who’s a new resident to San Diego, had this to say about the first ever US NME awards: “The NME Awards USA is an attempt to bring LA and London closer. Which makes sense, as they’re both shit sandwiches: the less bread you’ve got the more shit you get.” I couldn’t agree more. Tom also went on to tell me about his intimate experience with Evan Dando back in the early 90’s and how “his dick tasted like a stick made out of heroin dipped in chocolate”. Interesting rock trivia for sure. On a side, but related note, Happy Tom ended up being interviewed on San Diego’s Channel 9 News for the story titled “Marijuana Boat Washes Ashore”. I’m fully backing his decoy theory.
So back to the NME awards… after standing around listening to a bunch of bands I couldn’t care less about play and random British people talk, the original Jane’s Addiction line up took the stage and I bum-rushed to the front and center of the stage to check out the rock. Troy Boy (and a few other friends) even texted me saying he saw me on the webcast head banging in the front row and I was a dick for getting in. Sorry dude, didn’t plan it… just happened. Check out a couple shitty camera phone photos I popped off and there’s more on my flickr if you care.
Here’s my review…. they totally fucking ruled. Hopefully this little event made Eric Avery realize a full-on tour with those three other dudes is a good idea. It’s mind blowing how one guy can de-jive a band so much. Eric Avery is Jane’s. And yes, for the record… of course Navarro had his shirt off and is still full of cheese. But together as a band the original line up of Jane’s Addiction, even in 2008, fucking slay. They played “Stop”, “Mountain Song”, “Trip Away” and “Jane’s Says”. I was hoping for them to kick into “Whores” but none the less, it was an awesome mini-show. Let’s hope they bail on the idea of getting back together with the douche from Satellite Party and can talk Eric Avery into at least playing a few more shows with them. Here’s some video footage of what you missed. Bummed you weren’t there Troy Boy.
(The photo above was taken by Travis Schneider)
“Stop”
“Mountain Song”
“Ocean Size” (camera phone)
I was considering going into detail here about the insane Sly Stone show I attended with Ian Rogers (who has Sly’s face tattooed on his arm) and his wife Julie Saturday night at the House of Blues but I’m sure Ian will post something on his blog about it. And not only is Ian way more of a Sly fan/expert (Ian should be Sly’s manager) but this page already has way too many grammatical errors so I’m gonna quit while I’m ahead. I will say this about the Sly show though… I’ve never seen anyone vocally announce so many “piss breaks” during a set. Dude is WAY out there on “planet outer-space”. Oh and check out Paranorm’s post on Sly… shit’s rad.
I ‘d like to welcome an OG Buddyhead alumni, Nate Cavilerri, back to the head. You can check out his first post in a while called “Party Mountain“. Much more to come. Good to have you back Nate. Sorry that was so long everyone… it’s just been a while.
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April 29th, 2008 at 3:39 am
Nice post Travis. Just got back from the Night Marchers @Bottom of the Hill and they totally bludgeoned.
April 29th, 2008 at 6:04 am
saw the night marchers at the casbah saturday night. wtf is up with san diego crowds? i just moved here, and i’m starting to realize why sd has a bad reputation with bands.
also, thanks to travis’ tip i caught the love & rockets show here last week and have to say they totally slayed. yeah, they encored with ’should i stay or should i go’ and it sounded great. maybe they should think about being a clash cover band, since they do it so well. that is kind of weird that they played a mick jones song at a strummer tribute, since there are so many killer songs that strummer wrote to choose from.
anyways, l&r was like a time machine…they looked and sounded great.
April 29th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Dave should really keep his shirt on… dude has been like that for over 10 years!
Apparently that guy Carl isn’t touring with them so fingers crossed …
April 29th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I had that Neil Young lp when I was a junior in high school, yeah back in 1973. My English teacher had us bring in records to play and discuss in class and after playing this one her only comment was “Why would you want to listen to something this depressing?”
Score!
April 29th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
well it hard to believe so you get up to leave and you laugh at the door that you’ve heard it all before yeah thats so good to know……
April 29th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I tried to download the Neil Young album but it’s telling me that the file isn’t valid…
April 29th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
I used to listen to Neil Young ‘On the Beach’ alot.
I don’t think there’s a happy song on there!
April 29th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
YEAH!
COME ON ERIC. Do it. DO IT.
I should admit though.. It doesn’t bother me that Navarro is allergic to shirts.
It don’t bother me at allll.
Aw.
April 29th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
lame. says those vids are no longer available???
April 29th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
and thanks for posting that neil young!
April 29th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
shepard is a douchebag.
April 29th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
I’ve got this shit on LP bitches!!! Apparently Neil hates this record, thus it never being re-released.
April 29th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
he gave hundreds of reasons why he doesn’t want to re-release it… I’m sure he just wants to keep it in short supply so that it has some sort of special value!
April 30th, 2008 at 1:20 am
Go Away White! Good call.
April 30th, 2008 at 2:24 am
I totally live in OB. Wonder where Happy Tom lives in OB. We should party.
April 30th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Sly Stone should be allowed all the
cocaine breaks he needs between songs.
April 30th, 2008 at 11:21 am
hey there!
nme awards at la: the most poser magazine at “poser capital” usa.
at www.x169.blogspot.com you can get many neil young albums. indeed it’s a good place to download.
April 30th, 2008 at 11:28 am
fuck all the bullshit….you got to hang out with Happy Tom - nuking people no less - priceless!
April 30th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Travis, I had trouble downloading the live neil album. can you fix it?
April 30th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
I was at the glasshouse gig for love and rockets and it slayed but the sound guy fucked up the entire song “fantasy” or whatever by blowing out the entire sound of all the instruments and drums for almost the entire song, damn!
April 30th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Are you still having trouble downloading the file? We had to switch servers with it so it’s possible you tried to grab it while it was in between…. lemme know if it’s working or not.
April 30th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
I was trying to download each track from the linked pages at the top, “(her and here)”. They still don’t work and when I click on them just to hear them, it crashes Firefox. I did finally wake up (duh) and click the third link at the top, “(Download Neil Young - “Time Fades Away” LP)” but it only gives me tracks 9-16; I guess the second half of the album, which is great.
April 30th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Same for me… I checked and it turned out that it’s actually the whole album, only the numbers of the tracks are wrong.
April 30th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
OB! it’s market night tonight…maybe if you cruise on down, you’ll run into happy tom.
April 30th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
travis-what redd kross song did you play? if it was neurotica, you officially rule.
April 30th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
thanks B and travis…neil rules. soomeone told me he used to drill a hole in the stage and use it as his chamber reverb for his guitar. that and the sewing machine motor he uses to change the gain on his amp. oh yea, his songs rule too…
May 1st, 2008 at 2:33 am
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May 1st, 2008 at 3:12 am
Neil and late 60s dead. Period.
May 1st, 2008 at 7:54 am
thanks for the download , sweet music.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Aw, Nate nothing ever dies.
Generation after generation, it all just keeps spinning back as the nostalgia hits.
Look at fashion it just keeps rotating old and new.
Oops, not old, “Retro” ha,ha.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:11 pm
YEAH POSER, SOMEONE ELSE DID NOTICE THAT THEY PLAYED A SONG MICK JONES WROTE AND NOT A SONG JOE STRUMMER WROTE - - - IT’S CALLED YOUR UNCLE SCOTT WHEN I TOLD YOU ABOUT IT! POSER. LIKE YOU WOULD HAVE KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MICK JONES AND A JOE STRUMMER SONG. DORK. AS ALWAYS, A TIME MACHINE EMPLOYEE TAKING CREDIT FOR MY KNOWLEDGE OR IDEA. WOOOOOOO
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:23 am
Uncle Scott must never get laid… what an idiot.
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:15 pm
If I were you I wouldn’t mess with Uncle Scott…
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:40 pm
haha, i agree with B…
May 2nd, 2008 at 6:26 pm
ps - if you didnt get to see janes addiction in 1989 when they were actually good then forget it. in retrospect they were nothing more than repackaged zz top riffs but at the time it was awesome. the fact that your panties are wet from a jane’s reunion is sort of depressing.
May 2nd, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Hey “dude” or should I call you IDIOT OLD MAN… in 1989 I was 12. I was too busy trying to figure out how to jack off at that point in my life. Sorry you’re fuckin old and apparently still an idiot.
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:27 am
After that comment, Travis, I heart you big time
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:58 pm
I figured out how to jerk off by accident, later than 12. Speaking of accidents and Lizards, everyone should be hoping and praying for a Jesus Lizard reunion. How badass are the Jesus Lizard…my god. I wish ‘Idiot old man’ fit on a license plate. I might get it.
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:00 pm
oh yea, and thanks again for the Neil Young. That ‘LA’ riff is all time. it’s in my head all day. Good cover of it as well.
May 4th, 2008 at 2:55 am
the sound dude at the glass house is always fucking up , as a matter of fact every time i’ve seen bands play there something goes wrong. i saw the breeders play there last week and apparently someone forgot to pay the electric bill or something so they kinda had to improvise and go acoustic. they need to get themselves a liquor license too. anyway ,i’m always bummin around my friends house down the street from the glasshouse. next time travis ends up in pomona he needs to call me so i can load him up on meds and other thangs then send him on his merry way back home.
May 6th, 2008 at 6:54 am
Eric, stop being a pussy and tour! At least tour and come to the UK and play to people like myself, unlike the ungrateful, soulless NME dick inhaler crowd who probably didn’t appreciate what they were witnessing.
Go Away White is pretty sexy time too.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iln7LvEhpSI
Good laugh at all the end when the celebrity fakes come out. It went something like:
Q “Who are you here to see?”
A “Jane’s Addiction, my friend”
Q “What would be your ideal setlist?”
A “Oh, uh, uh, uh. Hmmm. Oh, um. Ahhh. Hm. Um, oh, ah, um….there’s…uh, Jane…Jane Says. Yeah, um, and, uh, well, that’s, err, you know, uh, always a good one. Uhhh…”
Then there’s the other celebrity guy (don’t know who these guys are, sorry) who names “Coming Down The Mountain” as his favorite.
May 12th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
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