neil young

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?)

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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

^^Lyric from next Neil album.

be sure you get a hip hop haircut first

Just because:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLp3Wmk3PGQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljKFqE6S6Vo

I've said it before (probably upthread), but it's a shame Neil didn't make a whole album or two with that band. Steve Jordan at 3:31 is easily my favorite thing a Neil Young drummer ever did.

I dunno not as flashy but Kenny Buttrey has a lot of amazing little licks and turnarounds

Damn, that's spectacular - what a band. Pumping! Neil looks like he's loving it too.

Had to go get this today. Pretty awesome so far. Despite the thing being anti sponsorships, it's kind of the masterpiece of the form of 80s beer commercial rock

did you grab it on CD or 4x(!) LP? i'm limited on budget, wondering if i should go all the way and spring for the vinyl...

Damn, that's spectacular - what a band. Pumping! Neil looks like he's loving it too.

In Shakey he talked about how he was doing calisthenics in the dressing room to get his body in the place it would have been if they'd been doing the song in an actual concert (end of the main set iirc), which helps explain how wired & intense it is.

did you grab it on CD or 4x(!) LP? i'm limited on budget, wondering if i should go all the way and spring for the vinyl...
― nomar, Sunday, November 22, 2015 1:34 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Man would love vinyl but double CD was on sale for 17.99, vinyl box is 95, I gotta kid Neil

Shakey also has a story of visiting Neil during the recording of what would become "El Dorado" and describing the volume as so loud it was unbearable.

All those ordinary people
Buying' box sets in the neon light
All those PONO people
Downloadin' them hi-res files
All the Neil people
Unsubscribin' from Spotify

According to Shakey, Neil was inspired to do Eldorado after watching The Kids Are Alright.

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I hate him for leaving "Cocaine Eyes" off Freedom.

What I don't get is why "Don't Cry" was edited for Freedom. I can't imagine the extra seven seconds of whomping guitar was a dealbreaker for Reprise.

Wiki says that Sampredo and Niko Bolas insisted on it.

Sorry in advance, but Neil has become a meme for all the wrong reasons...

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/12295329_1149105518451225_3265641725980756513_n.jpg?oh=b96dd836d7cf56bfe36bd18a9fb1cf87&oe=56F4CBF8

is that neil's new backing band? what an innovator!

woah, the anti-PONO lobby are in a mood

I really wish Neil had never gotten mixed up w that Bolas guy I think he is p mediocre 80s hack

helps explain how wired & intense it is

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Niko Bolas? Like a lot of guys of his era he recorded some superstar shit, but he's OK. Didn't he and Neil call themselves the Volume Dealers?

Ha, wiki:

Among his most notable production works are Neil Young's This Note's for You, Freedom and Living with War, Warren Zevon's Sentimental Hygiene and Melissa Etheridge debut self-titled album. Bolas' trademark technique is clear and loud recording of vocals. The same can be said of his talent at recording other musical instruments - in the early 80s, Bolas collaborated with legendary American hard rock band KISS, on their album Creatures of the Night, recording Eric Carr's drums.

i dunno, maybe it's just that era. but shit like too far gone off freedom just pales in comparison to the version on the original chrome dreams bootleg

probably more the era than the producer, but it's probably worth noting that bolas and briggs had a mutual loathing society going on for a while.

This was during the period when Neil thought the sun rose and set on digital. Only took him four or five albums to realize he didn't like it.

(Not that digital recording itself was the problem, but engineers new to digital would frequently crank the high frequencies into the painful range for "clarity" and "definition.")

This was during the period when Neil thought the sun rose and set on digital. Only took him four or five albums to realize he didn't like it.

wanna say Ragged Glory was digital