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NEIL YOUNG and PROMISE OF THE REAL – ” Arroyo Seco Festival “

Posted: July 1, 2018 in MUSIC
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The weekend of June 23rd Neil Young headlined Pasadena’s Arroyo Seco Festival with his regular backing band, Promise Of The Real. “Back on stage with Promise of the Real! We will begin playing again starting at this great California festival in June and it will be a blast. We plan on doing something to get up and running and we will share that with you when we are ready. We may even live stream it on Movie Night if our buses work. I really look forward to playing my songs again with Promise of the Real.

Be ready for some jams! Like an Inca. They don’t take any practicing and when the vibe is right, we all fly! .
That’s what life is all about!”

Kicking off with a 20-minute version of “Like An Inca” from the album “Trans”, Young and his band appeared to be assembling their set-list on the fly. At one point they started playing “Lotta Love” only to abandon it after a few seconds in favour of Buffalo Springfield’s “I Am A Child”, returning to “Lotta Love” afterwards.

The encore comprised CSNY’s “Ohio”, with a 15-minute version of “Down By The River” and “Roll Another Number”.

“Funny how an unplanned set breathes like real rock and roll,” wrote Young later on Neil Young Archives. “We just play what we feel like playing, for as long as we feel like playing it, and it works for us.”

Famed rocker Neil Young headlined Saturday’s action at the Arroyo Seco Weekend festival in Pasadena, California with Promise Of The Real. Neil & POTR’s set came after three warmup shows earlier in the week at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara and once again Young continues to perform without a pre-determined setlist with impressive results. Young had high praise for his Arroyo Seco set with guitarists Lukas Nelson and Micah Nelson, bassist Corey McCormick, drummer Anthony Logerfo and percussionist Tato Melgar.

The legendary musician was effusive in his praise of the band. “Promise Of The Real had my back all night. What an unbelievable energy comes out of the Real! I love playing with Promise Of The Real. They know all my songs,”

Watch some fan-filmed footage of the performance.

Young led his group through a total of 14 songs over the course of their two-hour festival set this past Saturday night. A huge songlist was hung behind Neil that he would pick from based on how the show was going. “You made my day! What a great crowd. Funny how an unplanned set breathes like real rock and roll,” Young wrote on his website. “WE just play what we feel like playing, for as long as we feel like playing it, and it works for us!” The guitarist and POTR extended many of the tunes they performed at the festival with lengthy jams including a 20-minute “Like An Inca” and adventurous takes on “Down By The River” and “Cortez The Killer.”

Neil also discussed the inclusion of “Ohio” from his CSNY days and “Angry World” off Le Noise, which was debuted live for the first time during the rehearsal shows. “[On Saturday night] OHIO took on a new life near the end of the set. For some reason it felt good to mention a president’s name in a song without it being the current occupant of the WH,” Young explained in his note. “How about ANGRY WORLD, I can’t believe I have never played that song before this week. People really want to hear about real life, especially young people like the one’s we met at Arroyo Seco.”
Band: Promise Of The Real:
Neil Young – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica
Lukas Nelson – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
Micah Nelson – electric guitar, vocals
Corey McCormick – bass, vocals
Anthony Logerfo – drums
Tato Melgar – percussion
Setlist:

01. Lika An Inca
02. F*!#in’ Up
03. Cortez The Killer
04. Forget About Georgia (Lukas Nelson)
05. Everything Is Bullshit (Micah Nelson)
06. I Am A Child
07. Lotta Love
08. Rockin’ In The Free World
09. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
10. Angry World
11. Powderfinger
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12. Ohio
13. Down By The River
14. Roll Another Number

PHOEBE BRIDGERS – ” Waiting Room “

Posted: August 26, 2017 in MUSIC
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The Lost Ark Studio presents “Waiting Room” by Phoebe Bridgers, the latest single from the Lost Ark Studio Compilation – Vol. 08.

Singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers has played her own brand of folk rock all over Los Angeles, including the Troubadour, the El Rey, the Roxy, Genghis Cohen, Hotel Café, The Coffee Gallery Backstage, the Claremont Folk Festival and the Grand Ole Echo. Hometown Pasadena called her a “local treasure.” According to LA-Underground, “Phoebe Bridgers’ “Waiting Room” was the heartbreaker tune of the year. It’s brilliant. She’s something special.”

Phoebe has performed and recorded both in Los Angeles and Nashville, collaborating with friends and mentors including Terra Naomi, Rob Waller, Noah Gunderson and Chad Gilbert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgJLXrOtASc

Phoebe Bridgers – Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Additional Musicians:
Waylon Rector — Guitar, Organ, Background Vocals
Andrew Wells — Organ
Zach Bilson — Bass, Background Vocals
Bryan De Leon — Drums, Percussion

Recorded and Mixed by Mike Butler at The Lost Ark Studio

PHOEBE BRIDGERS – ” Smoke Signals “

Posted: August 26, 2017 in MUSIC
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“Smoke Signals” the first song from the record, demonstrates so many of Phoebe Bridgers‘ greatest gifts: the cool-yet-warm approachability, the languid grace of her arrangements, the gift for powerful phrasing and precise scene-setting. But there is a new song the follow-up, “Motion Sickness,” showcases another side altogether, as Bridgers wraps her voice around a rich and rumbling midtempo rocker. Check it out here.

PHOEBE BRIDGERS – ” Motion Sickness “

Posted: August 26, 2017 in FESTIVALS, MUSIC
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Phoebe Bridgers might be a relativly new artist, but she already has an impeccable CV. Her debut three-song single, Killer, was produced and released by Ryan Adams, she’s toured with Conor Oberst and Julien Barker, and is set to release her debut album on the excellent Dead Oceans Records . That album, “Strangers In The Alps”, is out next month, and ahead of the release this week Phoebe has shared the video to her latest single, “Motion Sickness”.

Building around reverberating guitars and driving drum beats, Motion Sickness has a touch of The War On Drugs, if they were fronted by Mackenzie Scott or Hazel English. Lyrically it seems to deal with trying to escape the ups and downs of a struggling relationship, as Phoebe sings, “there are no words in English I can sing to drown you out”.The video, directed by Justin Miller, was apparently inspired by Phoebe’s, “brother Jackson singing “Down With the Sickness” to me in karaoke with 100% commitment in an orange jumpsuit”, it is predictably excellent.

Phoebe Bridgers is a musician with a hugely bright future and more importantly if it all sounds good it’ll be thoroughly deserved. Stranger In The Alps is out September 22nd via Dead Oceans.

PHOEBE BRIDGERS – ” Killer “

Posted: August 26, 2017 in MUSIC
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Phoebe Bridgers – Killer

Produced by Ryan Adams at Pax-Am Studios, Bridgers is – in Adams’ words — a “musical unicorn” who “could make a jar of sand sound like ‘Blood On The Tracks’”.  Possessing vulnerability and strength in equal measure, Phoebe Bridgers is one of my favorite up and coming singer-songwriters. I love what she’s doing, I’m excited to see what she does next, and I hope you enjoy it as well. 

I met Ryan through my boyfriend, Marshall Vore, another amazing songwriter. We all hung out, I played Ryan some songs, and the next day we recorded three of my songs. Just me, singing and playing Ryan’s guitar, with his doctor, his actual literal doctor, on pedal steel.

“Killer” – Phoebe Bridgers. From the EP Killer.

PHOEBE BRIDGERS – ” Funeral / Motion Sickness “

Posted: July 24, 2017 in MUSIC
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Phoebe Bridgers releases her debut album ‘Stranger In The Alps’ on Dead Oceans Records. She has been writing songs since age 11, Bridgers spent her teenage years performing at open mic nights and busking throughout her hometown before recording a debut three-song single, “Killer,” with Ryan Adams in his L.A. studio. “Killer” was released on Adams’ Pax-Am label in spring of 2015. So far we’ve heard the first two tracks from plaintive singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers’ imminent debut album  “Smoke Signals” and “Motion Sickness.”

Now she’s sharing the album’s third song, and it’s just as impressive. In keeping with its title, “Funeral” is a dark and mournful ballad about singing at the memorial service “for a kid a year older than me.” There’s a gentle simplicity and grace in these guitar chords and violin accents that resembles some of Bridgers’ talented collaborators and tour mates; think Ryan Adams in his Heartbreaker era or the trembling minimalism of Julien Baker. “Jesus Christ, I’m so blue all the time,” Bridgers sings, “And that’s just how I feel/ Always have, and I always will.”

Phoebe Bridgers – “Funeral” from ‘Stranger In The Alps’ out September. 22nd on Dead Oceans.

“Stranger in the Alps” is Phoebe Bridgers new album out on September 22nd, 2017 on Dead Oceans