March 12, 2023: Mercury News: Saratoga concerts highlight music of ’60s, Leonard Cohen
Immanuel Lutheran Church is hosting a night of ’60s music with Paul Wesling and friends on March 25. The family-friendly concert will feature songs from artists like John Denver, the Kingston Trio, the Everly Brothers, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Neil Young, Johnny Cash, Joan Baez, Simon and Garfunkel and the Carpenters.
Immanuel Lutheran Church is hosting a night of ’60s music with Paul Wesling and friends on March 25. The family-friendly concert will feature songs from artists like John Denver, the Kingston Trio, the Everly Brothers, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Neil Young, Johnny Cash, Joan Baez, Simon and Garfunkel and the Carpenters.
Oct 20, 2022: AlbieMedia: Turn That Noise Down - Neil Young
In 1992, Neil Young released Harvest Moon and I just adored it. I don’t know why but, listening to it at the time, it just made me happy and it still does just as much today.
In 1992, Neil Young released Harvest Moon and I just adored it. I don’t know why but, listening to it at the time, it just made me happy and it still does just as much today.
Mar 25, 2014: TheSpec: Neil Young bought copies of Comes a Time album to use as ‘roofing’
Neil Young has admitted he once bought thousands of copies of his own album and used them as shingles on the roof of his house.
Neil Young has admitted he once bought thousands of copies of his own album and used them as shingles on the roof of his house.
Mar 12, 2014: NPR: Hear Neil Young Explain His Pono Music Player At SXSW
Neil Young wants to start a revolution against the MP3, against the CD, poorly made vinyl and poor audio quality in general. He wants people to hear the music the way it was made.
Neil Young wants to start a revolution against the MP3, against the CD, poorly made vinyl and poor audio quality in general. He wants people to hear the music the way it was made.
Mar 11, 2014: One of Neil Young’s not-so-whimsical mottoes has long been “Quality — whether you want it or not,” but it appears there’s a population of music fans that does want it, judging by the early response to the Kickstarter campaign supporting his new high-quality PonoMusic system. The Kickstarter operation went live on March 11 at 10:30 a.m. Pacific time, and within the first hour it had logged almost 400 supporters for a total of more than $100,000. At the two-hour mark, more than 750 people had pledged more than $240,000, and in less than four hours, pledges exceeded $400,000. Many of those pledges were earmarked for reserving a first-generation PonoPlayer, the answer to Apple’s iPod that will hold 1,000 to 2,000 high-resolution digital albums. The early pledgers were able to reserve the player for $200, nearly half the $399 retail price cited in Monday’s announcement of PonoMusic, which comprises an online music store containing recordings from all three major music groups, and the PonoPlayer itself. (SOURCE: Randy Lewis: Los Angeles Times: "Kickstarter campaign for Neil Young's PonoMusic system starts strongly")
Mar 10, 2014: Los Angeles Times: Neil Young introduces high-quality music system PonoMusic
Neil Young has long groused about the way music he and other artists make ends up sounding in the digital age. Now he is introducing his solution: PonoMusic, a combination online music store and playback system that gives listeners access to audiophile quality recordings.
Neil Young has long groused about the way music he and other artists make ends up sounding in the digital age. Now he is introducing his solution: PonoMusic, a combination online music store and playback system that gives listeners access to audiophile quality recordings.
Sept 23, 2013: Radio.com: Pete Seeger Surprises, Neil Young Vents, At Farm Aid 2013
...Young expressed that he is depressed at the farming situation in America and has no faith in the government giving farmers what they need.
...Young expressed that he is depressed at the farming situation in America and has no faith in the government giving farmers what they need.
Dec 12, 2012: Hypebot.com: Neil Young's Pono Music Teases "Your Own Personal Time Machine"
Neil Young’s Pono Music trifecta — an audio format, hardware music player, and presumably some sort of online music distribution system, all with an emphasis on sound quality — edged a little closer to reality today with an announcement posted on its mypono.com website, whose domain is registered to Seattle- and San Francisco-based investor, hedge fund manager, and ocean conservationist (along with Neil Young) Gigi Brisson
Neil Young’s Pono Music trifecta — an audio format, hardware music player, and presumably some sort of online music distribution system, all with an emphasis on sound quality — edged a little closer to reality today with an announcement posted on its mypono.com website, whose domain is registered to Seattle- and San Francisco-based investor, hedge fund manager, and ocean conservationist (along with Neil Young) Gigi Brisson
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NEIL YOUNG Complete Music 1966-1969
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Fusion #31 (1970)
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Program from Neil Young's 1985 "Old Ways" tour
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12.20.12: Young files for "Pono" trademark applications
Neil Young is moving forward with his plans for a "high-resolution" music service, filing two new trademarks for marketing slogans. In addition to his previous trademark applications, Young has now asked for the rights to two more phrases, 21st Century Digital and Pono Promise, both linked to the singer's forthcoming Pono audio system. According to the United States patent and trademark office (via Rolling Stone), Young has taken out eight different trademarks for Pono: Pono Promise, 21st Century Listening, Earth Storage, Thanks for Listening, Storage Shed, 21st Century Record Player, Ivanhoe and SQS. SQS stands for Studio Quality Sound, while Ivanhoe is the name of the singer's holding company. The two latest filings are already displayed as slogans on Young's Pono website. The site explains that "pono" is "the Hawaiian word for righteous" and that the technology "lets you 'feel the soul of the music'". Young's trademark applications specify that the terms can be used on audio paraphernalia, for everything from microphones to CDs to MP3 players. Despite bold talk about Pono's audio fidelity, details of Young's project remain closely guarded. It's not clear how his system improves on existing technology such as FLAC or SACD, or whether it will be compatible with the world's most popular portable music player, the iPod. Though Young had been in discussions with Steve Jobs before the Apple CEO's death, the singer has said he now plans to "force iTunes to be better". (SOURCE: the Guardian)
12.20.12 Neil Young Company sued over SF Bay area awarehouse fire
SAN CARLOS, Calif. — A company founded by Neil Young is facing a lawsuit over a fire in the San Francisco Bay Area that authorities say started in a vintage car the rocker had converted into a hybrid vehicle. The San Jose Mercury News reports (http://bit.ly/ytJtkW) that Unigard Insurance Co. sued LincVolt LLC this week, accusing the company of negligence for converting the 1959 Lincoln Continental to run on electricity and a biodiesel-powered generator. (SOURCE: Washington Post )
12.19.12: Pono
Evidence of Neil Young's latest move to brand and market Pono, his forthcoming music service featuring high-resolution master downloads of songs, can be found in his recent federal trademark applications for a pair of slogans – "Pono Promise" and "21st Century Digital" – which reside on Pono's website. The latest trademark applications, filed this month, refer to "cases for audio tuners, audio receivers, amplifiers, tape players, compact disc players, MP3 controllers/players, audio mixers, audio speakers in the nature of music studio monitors, microphones, audio speakers, compact discs, audio tapes, portable computers, antennas, phonographic record players, audio recording equipment," according to documents on file with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Seattle-based investor Gigi Brisson – listed as a director of Young's Ivanhoe Inc. in a recent SEC filing – registered mypono.com in May, a month after Rolling Stone reported Young's initial attempt to trademark names associated with Pono. When contacted for comment about the new filings, Brisson referred Rolling Stone to Young's manager, Elliot Roberts. (SOURCE: Rolling Stone)
01.31.12 Neil young pushing for "better" music recordings
Young is primarily concerned about whether the MP3 files we're all listening to actually are pretty poor from an audio-quality standpoint. He says that your average MP3 file only contains about five percent of the audio from an original recording and he says Apple Lossless only offers "10.3 percent." The concern is twofold, which Young called the "front and back end" of the donkey. The back end is the devices we're using to listening to audio, and Young hopes that we'll get better devices than what's currently available. For example, on Beats Audio, he says "I think they make it look better, and I think they make it have more bass." Young also wants to see better music recording and high resolution recording, but we're not anywhere near that yet. He hopes that "some rich guy" will solve the problem of creating and distributing "100 percent" of the sound in music. (SOURCE: The Verge )
12.31.12: Young: Steve jobs listened to vinyl
Neil Young wants to preserve the sound quality of current rock recordings – and he believes he had an ally in the late Steve Jobs. "My goal is to try and rescue the art form that I've been practicing for the past 50 years," Young said during a panel discussion at this week's D: Dive Into Media conference in Southern California. "We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it's degrading our music, not improving it." Young explained that "some rich guy" would ultimately offer a solution by creating new hardware to preserve more audio content in digital formats, and heralded Jobs as a like-minded soul. "Steve Jobs [was] a pioneer of digital music, and his legacy is tremendous," Young said. "But when he went home, he listened to vinyl. And you've got to believe that if he'd lived long enough, he would have done what I'm trying to do." The musician also decried the lessened sound quality of MP3s and other digital media formats, while noting their added convenience. "It's not that digital is bad or inferior, it's that the way it's being used isn't doing justice to the art . . . The convenience of the digital age has forced people to choose between quality and convenience, but they shouldn't have to make that choice," he explained. (SOURCE: Rolling Stone)
