neil young

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.

xp

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...

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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

you are correct, DDD

yeah, recorded at "Plywood Digital" which always sounds kinda hilarious to me.

Was This Note's For You his first DDD recording? Or was it something earlier (Landing on Water sounds like it might be).

I know that, in addition to Eldorado, Freedom, and Ragged Glory, Arc-Weld and Harvest Moon were all-digital, all the time.

really have zero problem with ragged glory's sound ... might have to pull out harvest moon to see if it seems less than perfect.

Niko Bolas is responsible for putting together the band on that SNL clip and I think he also did the mix.

yeah I don't think those records sound bad

otoh I like the Freedom take on "Too Far Gone" more than the Chrome Dreams take so don't trust me

really have zero problem with ragged glory's sound

It's one of my favorite albums of all time, and while I'm listening to it, it sounds fine.

But then I'll listen to Broken Arrow and think, wow, RG could've/should've sounded like this.

Everybody's Rockin' was analog mix, digital recorded iirc (or if that makes sense).

just like they used to do at sun studio!

"If Elvis had lived, all his '80s stuff would have been digital!"

which is probably true

All of his 80s stuff would have been horrible...BUT:

I bet we would have gotten an ill-conceived Elvis Rap song which I am not legit mad doesn't exist.

I'm sorry what's this thread about?

Niko Bolas is a cool name though, admit that.

the elvis rick rubin album might've been pretty good.

and/or elvis' run of 3 of 4 james bond movies.

All Tom Petty on the bass, all Rubin trying to make Elvis do Nick Cave songs.

"Got dammit, this "Tupelo" shit ain't make no sense"