10-02-2017, 16:13
i think youre 100% on the mark with AC/DC and Status Quo, i'd even put The Stones in that category...
with Neil Young,
he does release a lot of crap, but he is being experimental (for want of a better word),
he's always chasing "the next thing", sometimes it works, other times it goes up in flames faster than fuel that has been lit with a match.
live, he rarely plays the old classics (heart of gold, old man, comes a time etc), unless he is on tour deliberately doing the acoustic/folky thing.
he got sick of everyone wanting "harvest" back in the day, take a listen to the follow up albums, Time Fades Away, On The Beach, Tonights The Night,
for the next 20 years after Harvest was released people kept hounding him to do a follow up, but he resisted until 92-ish when he released "harvest moon",
that was done at a time and place of his choosing, not the fans,
hes always said, he does what he wants, not what the fans want, if they like it they buy it, if they don't like it, they wont buy it...
to a lesser extent Paul Weller and Elvis Costello are of a similar ilk, they do what they want to do, not what the fans expect,
the difference being Costello at least fills half his live shows with old hits, and Weller avoided Jam,Style Council material for a long while, and still only plays
half a dozen or so tracks from those early days in his live sets...
I guess there comes a time when you've given enough to the fans and just want to please yourself musically whether it is excepted by the public or not...
Costello rarely disappoints me with his albums, Weller has done so with his last three or four now, if he disappoints again.
back to Neil Young though,
it is rumoured he has some thirty to forty unreleased albums in his archives simply because he recorded them but got bored with them, stored them away because
he thought of other ideas that interested him more at that time that he wanted to tour with...
occasionally some of those older songs do resurface themselves on other albums later on...
he has a reputation for going off on different whims at the drop of a hat, pulling out of concert tours (especially in the 1970s/80s) because something else sparked
his imagination...
the amount of times he left CSN in the lurch halfway through tours is unbelievable, theyd get one their planes to travel to the next destination for the next show and Young
wouldn't arrive, he'd gone back home without telling anyone, just because he had an idea for a song or an album and he wanted to do it there and then...
with Neil Young,
he does release a lot of crap, but he is being experimental (for want of a better word),
he's always chasing "the next thing", sometimes it works, other times it goes up in flames faster than fuel that has been lit with a match.
live, he rarely plays the old classics (heart of gold, old man, comes a time etc), unless he is on tour deliberately doing the acoustic/folky thing.
he got sick of everyone wanting "harvest" back in the day, take a listen to the follow up albums, Time Fades Away, On The Beach, Tonights The Night,
for the next 20 years after Harvest was released people kept hounding him to do a follow up, but he resisted until 92-ish when he released "harvest moon",
that was done at a time and place of his choosing, not the fans,
hes always said, he does what he wants, not what the fans want, if they like it they buy it, if they don't like it, they wont buy it...
to a lesser extent Paul Weller and Elvis Costello are of a similar ilk, they do what they want to do, not what the fans expect,
the difference being Costello at least fills half his live shows with old hits, and Weller avoided Jam,Style Council material for a long while, and still only plays
half a dozen or so tracks from those early days in his live sets...
I guess there comes a time when you've given enough to the fans and just want to please yourself musically whether it is excepted by the public or not...
Costello rarely disappoints me with his albums, Weller has done so with his last three or four now, if he disappoints again.
back to Neil Young though,
it is rumoured he has some thirty to forty unreleased albums in his archives simply because he recorded them but got bored with them, stored them away because
he thought of other ideas that interested him more at that time that he wanted to tour with...
occasionally some of those older songs do resurface themselves on other albums later on...
he has a reputation for going off on different whims at the drop of a hat, pulling out of concert tours (especially in the 1970s/80s) because something else sparked
his imagination...
the amount of times he left CSN in the lurch halfway through tours is unbelievable, theyd get one their planes to travel to the next destination for the next show and Young
wouldn't arrive, he'd gone back home without telling anyone, just because he had an idea for a song or an album and he wanted to do it there and then...
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.