#early daze

[laluxea]

New from LedZepFilm: Led Zeppelin at the Laurel Pop Festival, July 1969.

A young band on fire, standing at the cusp of greatness🔥🔥🔥🔥

Also noticed a couple more things standing to attention... 🍆😉

[batteredshoes]

Neil Young with Crazy Horse | Everybody's Alone (Official Audio)

[krispyweiss]

Album Review: Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Early Daze

Recorded in 1969 and shelved for 55 years, the album now known as Early Daze captures the sound of Crazy Horse before Neil Young completely took over the band formerly known as the Rockets.

A collection of 10 mostly unreleased songs, mixes or versions - a couple have showed up in Young’s Archives series - Early Daze features the lineup of Young and Danny Whitten on guitars, keyboardist Jack Nitzsche and the forever rhythm section of drummer Ralph Molina and bassist Billy Talbot. Studio talk - “What’s the name of this, Neil?” before “Down by the River” with an alternate vocal track - is included to give the impression of live recording, but these are post-production tracks.

Whitten’s “Look at all the Things” and his co-write and vocals with Young on “Come on Baby, Let’s Go Downtown” suggest Crazy Horse might’ve remained a democracy had Whitten, the inspiration behind “The Needle and the Damage Done,” lived. “Winterlong” finds Young still toiling in the shadow of Buffalo Springfield. And “Helpless” and “Wonderin’” - this is ’69, remember - confirm how little thought Young put in to CSNY and the Shocking Pinks, though “Wonderin’” deserved better than what it got and this may be the definitive take.

“Birds,” presented in a full-band iteration, was also hanging around for a while, it turns out. And “Cinnamon Girl,” with a different outro, joins the aforementioned “River” to preview Everybody Knows this is Nowhere.

Early Daze thus stands as the rare collection of long-unreleased music that succeeds both as a curiosity and as a high-quality standalone LP.

Grade card: Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Early Daze - B

8/14/24

[musiconspotify]

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Early Daze … archival …

[manitat]

Slušam...

[laluxea]

Probably one of the earliest pictures of Zep - I assume this is the first Scandinavian tour, so they'd still be the New Yardbirds at this point. Wonder what happened to "Beatnicks?"

[patryecake]

'Sign Me up now!' G3 Mylittlepony.com email list sign-up button circa 2005

[arsenicflame]

It's a time-honoured tradition- every time Sam comes across Izzy (and Ed) in their travels, he asks Izzy to marry him. And every time, Izzy turns him down.

At this point, Sam is asking more for the sake of it than any belief Izzy will ever say yes, a remnant of childhood dedication touched with 30 years of heartbreak and regret- though even now, a small part of him still holds out hope. Sam's promises have only got more extravagant over the years, from a job as his first mate, to a captaincy, a fleet at his command, a whole fucking island if that's what Izzy wants- but he knows it isn't though, not really. If Izzy was ever going to agree to marry him, to leave his life and go with Sam, it wouldn't be for anything Sam could offer him. Izzy never did care for flashy shows of wealth, for a ship or to be captain. The only thing that ever mattered to him was loyalty given, and loyalty shown in return. 

It all comes to a head after Stede left and came back, after Izzy lost a toe, lost his leg. Sam hasn't seen him since before things with Ed started to really slide off the rails, before stress permanently set into the lines of Izzy’s face. So, when he sees a dishevelled man with a hoof for a leg in a no-name port, he doesn't even consider the idea that he might know him. It's only when he turns towards him, and Sam catches a glance at those oh too familiar tattoos, he realises this is Izzy, his Izzy, that stands before him.

Knowing Izzy's discomfort with pity, he doesn't treat him any differently than he would in years gone by, positioning himself in Izzy's line of sight before approaching and sweeping him up into a bone crushing hug. 

“Israel-goddamn-Hands!” he exclaims, as Izzy grumbles back a begrudging “Samuel-fucking-Bellamy”, a tradition almost as old as their friendship itself. Izzy might not hug him back, but he can’t keep the corner of his mouth from twitching, just for a second.

(If Sam holds Izzy a little tighter and a little longer than usual, well. That's his business)

By the time Sam lets go, most of the crew has appeared in the town square, drawn in by the commotion. They may have given Izzy his leg and welcomed him as one of them, but still there’s an underlying tension, with nobody quite ready to set aside everything that happened before the Kraken. Seeing him cosying up to an unknown man sets everyone on edge, unsure whether to come to their first mate’s aid, or to assume that they've been betrayed once again.

When Ed sees that the yelling was Sam, his hand goes tense where it's held in Stede's. He knows the routine, has seen it more times than he can count, but as he watches them part he realises that this is the first time in a long time he's unsure of what Izzy's response will be.

Knowing that something’s different, knowing that Izzy's feeling vulnerable already, Sam doesn't go for the same flashy proposal he’s been giving for years. He doesn't promise Izzy the world, he doesn't cause a scene (or, any more of a scene than he already has, anyway). He looks at the fractured man in front of him, takes his face in his hands, and says the exact same thing to him he said when they were little more than boys. “Israel, I have to ask you. I know what you'll say, but I have to try. Come with me. Marry me and sail away with me. I'll keep you safe”

And Izzy… hesitates. He glances over at Ed, at Stede, and says to Sam “...We’re staying in port for a week. Ask me again then”

That's the moment Sam knows there is something deeply, horribly, wrong. He's not just looking at an Izzy who got seriously injured in a fight and is struggling to cope, this is something so much bigger than that- and that Ed has something to do with it. Izzy wouldn't even be considering leaving if he didn't. Whether it was negligence or something more sinister, Sam doesn't yet know, but he intends to find out.

[dosshie]

happy august 15th remember to not chase any stray eevees, look at both sides of the road before crossing, pay attention before going below a construction site etc etc

[puppybot]

yuri

[becoming-who-ive-always-been]

EARLY DAZE...

This is how I looked and dressed (and felt), as a teenage "girl" growing up as an assumed teenage "boy" in the mid-70's during my middle and high school days... wearing a slightly oversized tee-shirt, cut-off jeans (and yes, cut off this short - it was the fashion for both boys and girls back then...), even the Chucks... My hair wasn't this long, though, as Dad was, after all, retired Navy, and I can't count the number of times he said, "No son of mine's gonna have long hippie hair..." as he marched my brother and me to barber shop in town...

By the time I was in my early "tweens," I knew I was not like the guys I went to school with or hung out with in my neighborhood... and I felt this way all the time, even as I shared a room with my younger brother - which I did shortly after he was born all the way through to graduation and going off to college...

My pre-teen years - pre-school through grammar school, I'd always preferred the company of girls, long before guys "discovered" girls and began preferring their company for the obvious, different reasons...

My best friends were Jill, across the street, Diane on the corner two doors down to the right, and Janie, on the corner, two doors to the left.

We played together, with the boys in the neighborhood of course, but also just us - with their Barbies and baby-dolls and doll houses and play-kitchens... and as far as I could tell, none of us thought anything about it... We were "always" at each other's houses... but I felt "guilty" not having the same kinds of toys to share with them when they were at my house, though we did color and play boardgames and do puzzles - and watch TV, of course...

I didn't give any thought to how we might be "different" - other than their haircuts and clothes... and I recognized that sometimes I found myself wanting to wear the dresses and knee socks they wore... but also knew I couldn't it bring up to my parents... (as a side note, being in the Cub Scouts in those days allowed me to wear knee socks... which was - almost - everything I'd imagined)...

Things didn't become confusing until we moved to a small town in another state just before I went into the sixth grade - and as I was moving into puberty... as the new kid, I had to wrestle with being the new kid, especially among kids who were already discovering adolescent sexual expression and feelings...

...this is the beginning of mine... More to follow...

[himbopunk]

also bonus doodle. lucanis has 2 hands etc etc

[pixelatedraindrops]

Yuma Month: Day 5: Sickness

Ah yes, my specialty. (making him suffer)

Bundled in a blanket, feverish yet chilled, vision very blurry.

whose cool hand and gentle voice does this belong to...?

alt version featuring my own whump prompt :3

wanted to try drawing it at least once

he's getting dehydrated but can't move...

so he gets a helping hand from a capable detective <3

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Neil Young with Crazy Horse - “Everybody’s Alone”

Recorded in 1969 and limited in release since then, “Everybody’s Alone” gets a new mix and wider distribution in advance of Neil Young with Crazy Horse’s Early Daze.

It’s 2.5 minutes of Young straddling his folksy solo side and electrified Crazy Horse personality that comes off sounding like Young fronting Badfinger, making the song a quirky bit of NYCH ephemera but little more.

Backed by guitarist Danny Whitten, drummer Ralph Molina, bassist Billy Talbot and keyboardist Jack Nitzsche, Young is still developing as a songwriter at this early stage of full-album writings:

Oh, I want you to know/is that I love you so much I can hardly stand it/everybody’s alone, he sings.

Out June 28, Early Daze features unreleased versions of “Come on Baby Let’s Go Downtown,” “Winterlong,” “Wonderin’,” “Birds” and “Down by the River” among its 10 tracks.

Grade card: Neil Young with Crazy Horse - “Everybody’s Alone” - C-

5/20/24

[starponies2003]

❁ Meadowbrook ❁

"No one in Ponyville loves flowers more than Meadowbrook! She grows all kinds of blooms in her greenhouse, and sells them in her flower shop so everyone else can enjoy them, too! She can't decide which kind of flower is her favorite, because she loves them all!"

Meadowbrook was first released as part of the Bloomin' Blossoms Shop playset! She was also included as a bonus pony in a few sets. She wasn't in any of the films and I believe there weren't any other versions of her made.

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[weisscoldglare]

As a teacher are looking forward to winter break as much as the kids?