I’m fucking psyched about the new Neil Young & Crazy Horse joint, Psychedelic Pill, coming out on October 30th. Shit, the first track is 27.5 minutes long!
Following up this year’s single Americana release, Psychedelic Pill looks like it will dig in much further, with 8 songs spread over two CDs. And it will also be available on triple-vinyl. The sour news though is that the vinyl will cost you about $88.
Now I initially thought that this was due to Warner Brothers price-gauging knowing that they could count on a certain number of sales from both Neil-fetishists and vinyl-fetishists. But Jeff Conklin from East Village Radio tells me that it’s because Neil insists that the records be cut and mastered at a specific plant in Japan and the stock for the sleeve is from somewhere in Europe. All boosting the costs. I still call some major label shenanigans in there!
The above video is Neil & Crazy Horse playing the song “Walk Like a Giant” off the new double album at Red Rocks in August. Sounds fucking amazing. I might have to put down the dough to go see them at the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn on December 3rd!
The track-listing for Psychedelic Pill is as follows:
Disc One:
1 Driftin’ Back (27:36)
2 Psychedelic Pill (3:26)
3 Ramada Inn (16:49)
4 Born In Ontario (3:49)
Disc Two:
1 Twisted Road (3:28)
2 She’s Always Dancing (8:33)
3 For The Love Of Man (4:13)
4 Walk Like A Giant (16:27)
Bonus Track:
5 Psychedelic Pill (Alternate Mix)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse’s upcoming tour dates are as follows:
Oct 3 Windsor, ONT WFCU Centre
Oct 5 Kingston, ONT K ROCK Centre
Oct 6 London, ONT John Labatt Centre
Oct 8 Cleveland, OH Wolstein Center
Oct 9 Pittsburgh, PA Petersen Events Center
Oct 11 Chicago, IL United Center
Oct 13 Austin, TX Zilker Park / Austin City Limits Fest.
Oct 14 Tulsa, OK Tulsa Convention Center Arena
Oct 17 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl
Oct 20-21 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheater
Oct 25 Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa Amphitheater
Oct 26 New Orleans, LA Voodoo Fest
Nov 10 Seattle, WA Key Arena
Nov 11 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena
Nov 13 Calgary, AB Scotiabank Saddledome
Nov 14 Saskatoon, SK Credit Union Centre
Nov 16 Winnipeg, MB MTS Centre
Nov 19 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
Nov 20 Kitchener, ON Memorial Auditorium
Nov 23 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
Nov 24 Ottawa, ON Scotiabank Place
Nov 26 Boston, MA TD Garden
Nov 27 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
Nov 29 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
Nov 30 Fairfax, VA Patriot Center
Dec 3 Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center
Dec 4 Bridgeport, CT Webster Bank Arena at Harbor Yard
And in honor of the friends, family and fellow citizens we lost on 9/11, here’s Neil doing “Imagine”…
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