neil young

kinda want that Fillmore East thing.

Weird, didn't notice the "Southern Pacific" promo is in mono!

lots of great stuff on bluenote cafe, but it is really long. most of disc one i could do without, but twilight rips.
i have no problem buying these new CDs. they look great and sound great. i'm always amazed at the amount of quality music he has produced for so long.

fillmore east is so good.

it slays

best "Cowgirl" ever imo

Fillmore East was the last Neil product I bought, it's great

definitely

i still listen to everybody knows this is nowhere but usually when i want to hear those songs i put on fillmore east

fillmore east is the illest

i always love crazy horse but they were just a better band with whitten, who was way more neil's equal. post whitten crazy horse has done a ton of great music and neil knew how to harnass their sorta caveman energy but whitten was a real player and i think they could have done even better had he lived (if he could have stayed with neil or would have eventually gone on his own)

yeah, if anything i think whitten might've been getting down to neil's level in terms of musicianship instead of the other way around. he's definitely a super tasteful player.

Just ordered Bluenote Cafe 2-CD on Amazon US: 12 bucks and change, also standard shipping, but I'll be here when it gets here, if the creek don't rise (and maybe even so).

the double cd is cheaper than mp3s! amazon is weird.

weirdness. then again, i know a lot of people these days who don't even own CD players.

yeah i guess that's the market these days, but i would think maybe people buying neil young stuff would be more likely to buy physical media.

so here's the "performance series" so far
Volume 00: Sugar Mountain - Live At Canterbury House 1968
Volume 01: Live At The Riverboat 1969
Volume 02: Live At The Fillmore East 1970
Volume 02.5: Live At The Cellar Door 1970
Volume 03: Live At Massey Hall 1971
Volume 09: A Treasure
Volume 11: Bluenote Cafe
Volume 12: Dreamin' Man Live '92

here's what could be filled in/added? just my conjectures... i have no inside info

Volume 00: Sugar Mountain - Live At Canterbury House 1968
Volume 01: Live At The Riverboat 1969
Volume 02: Live At The Fillmore East 1970
Volume 02.5: Live At The Cellar Door 1970
Volume 03: Live At Massey Hall 1971
Volume 04: Time Fades Away Tour
Volume 05: Tonight's The Night Tour (Rainbow show has been mentioned)
Volume 06: Crazy Horse 76
Volume 07: Ducks 77
Volume 08: Boarding House 78
Volume 09: A Treasure
Volume 10: Rusted Out Garage Tour w/ Crazy Horse
Volume 11: Bluenote Cafe
Volume 12: Dreamin' Man Live '92
Volume 13: Booker T & MGs Tour
Volume 14: Mirror Ball Tour

of course these predictions don't allow for sneaky numbering like the 00 on Sugar Mountain and 2.5 on Cellar Door

it is SO neil to be 8 releases into a series and already have a Volume 00 and a Volume 2.5!

All this Whitten slash Young talk sent me cruising---full album?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55cF5JADEAM

That's the one.

looks like it. the best! (though I do wish they had just gone ahead and included another disc of neil's opening acoustic set for these shows)

Miles' set that same night is equally amazing (released in 2001 as It's About That Time).

Bet it must've been somewhat life-changing to be in the audience for that show.

feel like the review printed in neil's disc mentions that people were not that into miles ...
and as if on cue, here's my ranking of the performance series' so far: http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/960-listening-to-neil-youngs-live-archives/

Looks about right, thanks. I do prefer band Neil to solo Neil---when it comes to whole albums, that is.

A solo *side* is always welcome, though.

nicely timed! :)

and a good reminder that i really need to check out A Treasure. mid-80s Neil is a total blindspot for me.

feel like the review printed in neil's disc mentions that people were not that into miles ...

The condescending liner notes of the Miles set mention "bewildered applause" -- I have no idea what that's supposed to sound like, but after Miles finishes, people are yelling "Bravo!" and "More!" so apparently "bewildered" in this case means "enthusiastic."

Michael Cuscuna's liner notes in the Miles Fillmore East Bootleg Series actually single out those other notes for criticism, quoting attendees who said Neil's audience dug Miles and vice-versa.

hey tyler - there's pro video of that crazy ill-fated Euro Trans tour, could that be possible?

A Treasure wins my Truth in Advertising Award, and yeah, goes w Bluebird re live music redeeming eras of disappointing studio releases: in this case, we get International Harvesters, the band (plus tour reinforcement, esp. vocal) known mainly via the fumbledOld Ways, and forbidden to try again, when Geffen sued Neil for not sounding enough like himself (compare w Zaentz suing solo comeback Fogerty for sounding too much like himself/recordings Z. owned rights to). Neil was no longer rockin' in the free world/enough like Tom Petty, that's prob what was really desired.
Anyway, even though this is cobbled from here and there, even YouTube, Neil said, it works seamlessly and dynamically (and sonically; is any of it really from YouTube?)

xp
yeah, it's possible! i'm not sure if the audio would be super revelatory though -- the videos are the craziest things, with neil and nils lofgren dancing around with their vocoders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osTWE6Pg5p4

I saw a VHS copy of that years ago, Nils' dancing is lol

i think it's even on DVD?

Yup!

http://www.amazon.com/Neil-Young-In-Berlin/dp/B000059LGH

And the pricing is consistent with Neil's other releases.

heh heh. all part of the master plan -- after kids looking for neil young on spotify dig into TRANS, they'll need more! Then they have to cough up the bucks for the DVD.

The whole thing can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqHcb7M5ZN8

The After Berlin song over the credits is pretty good. (And only available on this dvd!?)

[ or on this comp: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/24071228066/bad-news-neil-young-in-the-1980s-as-a-follow-up ]

some of that comp has been rendered redundant by the bluenote cafe release ... but still, that 20-minute crime in the city!

I've seen other Trans band shows here and there online, though not recently.

Other "Performance" things to consider:

Catalyst Crazy Horse shows ('84-5)
Princeton Landing or whatever it was Crazy Horse shows ('96) unless that was what Year of The Horse came from

i think a few of those princeton landing performances ended up on year of the horse (but not all). those tapes are awesome.
catalyst would be great! as would young & the restless from 89... just hard to tell how they'll fit into the numbering scheme he has going.

Something else too would be a release from the Twisted Road tour--some unreleased songs and (to me anyway) it seemed like the Le noise stuff kicked a little harder onstage.

as would young & the restless from 89

I've got the audience recording of the Seattle show. They played "Rockin' in the Free World" for the first time -- not just the first time for an audience, but the band hadn't even heard the song before. It's an incredible moment; always wondered if that show had been officially recorded.

yeah that's the one ... no idea if there's a pro tape of it. some of the guitar action during that show is unbelievably intense.

Trunk Show is fucking great, I wish that were available as an album
or as a DVD for that matter

agreed! that band was pretty happening, good flexibility.
actually a full ducks performance series seems like the least likely, maybe, since neil is not the primary singer-songwriter on a lot of it. bet that stuff will just be featured on the Archives proper.

Loving "Bluenote Cafe"

yeah! it really is something.
"tonight's the night" legit terrifying, like the most demented Coasters song ever.

I have a real soft spot for this era cuz "This Note's For You" (the song) is def the first time I was aware of Neil & it coincided with my really starting to get interested in music when I was 13-14, then "Freedom" & the "Rockin' in the Free World" on SNL was when I went from curious to full on fan.

But so, this live set is kind of like the perfect thing to me, cuz this is like what I always imagined them sounding like...it is kind of amazing how perfectly Neil's approach works with the big horn section. His guitar playing is really on point through out.

And yeah the "Tonight's the Night" is crazy, at one point it is super abstract & spacey and then it's "Secret Agent Man"

i gotta get this....gonna hit electric fetus after work