Neil Young Opens His Heart of Gold To San Diego
Neil Young: Heart of Gold is Neil Young's new concert film, and after a limited release it expands to San Diego this weekend. My friend Andrew, who went to college with Young's daughter and met the man himself once, says it is one of the best concert films he's seen in a long time. It is playing at the Landmark Hillcrest exclusively. Here's the link to the trailer and showtimes for Friday, Saturday & Sunday.
To help publicize the movie, Neil Young appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone, the issue before Kanye appeared wearing a crown of thorns and two issues before Mariah Carey. The magazine published an interesting "Lost Songs" playlist, detailing the "stellar songs on not-so-stellar albums", of which Young has his fair share. The tracklisting is also available online, and you can listen to is for free if you register for a free Rhapsody account and install a small browser plugin, no stand alone player required.
Inexplicably, there are two songs missing from the playlist if you try to listen to them using the Rolling Stone link.
-"Will to Love" from American Stars 'n Bars
-"Surfer Joe and Moe the Sleaze" from Re-ac-tor
There's also a wide variety of Neil Young videos covering pretty much every facet of his career available at youtube.com. There's solo Neil in '72, with Crazy Horse, the short lived rock-a-billy album and playing with the Grateful Dead in '91. The rock-a-billy video in particular is a "gotta see it to believe it" video. No wonder people thought that MTV thing wouldn't last.
