neil young

I'm kinda relieved as weird as Neil can be that he didn't end up being a Trump apologist

there's at least one more solo acoustic performance series he's planning — the boarding house shows from 1978. oh and maybe Solo Trans (a little bit unclear as to what that will include).

Solo Trans I'm super excited for....

Do you think they'll release that wacky Trans tour thing where Nils looks like he's a space ninja?

I've got the video of that.

Not much use as I don't have a video player anymore.

Solo Trans is weird because I think it's the soundtrack to the 1983 video (which is pretty rare) and it doesn't even have any Trans songs on it haha. It does have the shocking pinks!
i imagine he'll put the Berlin Trans show up on the Archives at some point ... there's just one video up there now. anyone else subscribe? $20 ... nothing tooooo amazing up there just now. we'll see.

if anyone's got it, I'd like to see that recent video of Neil tearin up Born in the USA at some show with suit people again

here's the audio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4SLKilsrtU

fantastic, thanks!

neil is ROCKING HARD on that one! so heavy

haha that recording is off the hook

who's on backing vocals? lofgren?

and neil reading from the teleprompter, improvising as he goes

such a cool cover

"BRUUUUUUCE.... BRUUUUUUUUCE.... BRUUUUUUUUUUCE!!!!"

there's at least one more solo acoustic performance series he's planning — the boarding house shows from 1978

aka more widely bootlegged shows that have been available to fans for decades

Yeah, but not in PONO Quality ®

yeah i think only audience recordings circulate ...
i dunno, i think it's all pretty good. Neil Young is great!

it's all pretty good. Neil Young is great!

^^^

All this stuff is cool I think the frustration is that there is so much more interesting stuff out there, esp Homegrown, Oceanside/Countryside, Chrome Dreams

In a weird way, it's not the *best* but I really love Bluenote Cafe because I really wasn't looking forward to it and it turned out to such a good surprise, also obviously it has Doghouse, the best Neil Young song

I remember bringing this up somewhere on a Neil thread about how "War Song" was issued on a after the fact various artists comp. I've recently discovered which one: Hard Goods, a pretty sweet Warner Loss Leader album wherein Neil'n'Graham rug shoulders w/Kiss, Zappa, Steeleye Span, Foghat, Leo Sayer, Robin Trower, and this archival thing featuring John Denver, which comes after WS to close side 3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLs8QwKTAZY

so...I guess there is a NYA iPhone app (no Android though)

love this performance of don't be denied with CSN at wembley 1974:

https://youtu.be/dXrua5IkdyI?t=1713

That's great.

I don't know much about CSN, but I'm always impressed by Stills' singing and soloing. Or, you know, how Neil always looks like the most sober one on stage. And that's being generous, esp, when you see this awesome video again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIDzA0YDso8

After much hesitation I finally bought the Original Release series 8.5-12 box at the weekend. CD edition. Worth it alone for a clean copy of Rust Never Sleeps to replace my battered 40 year old LP

Jeez, the "reggae" patois lines at the end of the Live Rust version of Cortez might be the most cringeworthy seconds of NY's career

yeah it's terrible, otherwise such a great live set

omg that's the best bit

it's certainly weird, but it also pops into my head whenever i listen to the original

Neil Young & Reggae Horse

it also pops into my head whenever anyone dances, or when i see water

WHAT A KILLER MON

I posted this upthread a bit but so the reggae breakdown on that record always reminds me of this:

Kind of right before I got into Neil circa "Freedom" I was at this summer camp & these slightly older teenage burn out dudes would jam "Live Rust" all the time & specifically they loved that reggae break down, they lived for it, they probably would have referred to Neil as their second, or probably third after Clapton, favorite reggae artists.

― chr1sb3singer, Monday, July 23, 2018 3:08 PM (eight months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

plenty bad man

it's certainly weird, but it also pops into my head whenever i listen to the original

― Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Thursday, 28 March 2019 21:07 (two days ago

Ha! I'm glad this doesn't happen to me.

the Cortez off the bootleg of the Nils Crazy Horse show they did in Sacramento a while back was really great

xp still one of my all-time favorite songs

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-young-and-crazy-horse-to-record-new-album-820151/amp/

In related news, this delays 4 previously announced Archive projects (if it actually happens)

v weird to imagine the horse without poncho

he's not on the early stuff

well, yeah, but he was the horse’s guitarist more than 10 times longer than Danny Whitten was

agree that nils is kinda being retconned into crazy horse (at least Neil Young & Crazy Horse), but it's not as though they're bringing like jeff ament into the band ... lofgren started playing with these guys in 1970, and the recent CH shows with him have been solid. Sampedro being out is weird, but if he wants to retire, that is cool.

It’s funny, I find Neil’s bullshit tiresome these days, while I can mostly ignore Dylan’s bullshit for some reason, as long as I keep getting Bootleg Series.

I mean...I agree that Nils' Crazy Horse ties (basically the first CH album) are overstated...but I mean he's on Gold Rush and TNN and other stuff I guess I consider him to be part of Neil's larger posse in general, he's a great guitarist so it feels natural to me, the shows they did with him sound great...

I also as much as I like Poncho and I do LOVE the CH stuff he's on...there's definitely hints on Fillmore East of what could have been a more impressive band IMO, if Danny was living and functional, like someone who could push Neil a bit musically and contribute himself....

Nils was a Santa Monica Flyer, which absolutely counts as Horse duty.

Those clips of Nils back with the Horse ... it really could be anyone. It sounded great, but he was totally de-Nils-ed.

He was effective on the Live In Berlin video show, dancing and serenading Neil in his Transmask.

New live album featuring the Stray Gators band, Tuscaloosa, coming out in June.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjMZrMEY4dQ

Track listing:

Here We Are In The Years (3:56)
After The Gold Rush (4:42)
Out On The Weekend (5:29)
Harvest (4:14)
Old Man (4:17)
Heart Of Gold (3:48)
Time Fades Away (6:10)
Lookout Joe (4:59)
New Mama (3:01)
Alabama (3:50)
Don’t Be Denied (8:09)

More info from The Second Disc

While he’s been forging ahead in the studio with Crazy Horse, Neil Young’s responses to fans on the Archives website indicate there’s no sign of stopping the vault releases. Homegrown, Odeon/Budokan, the Crazy Horse live document Alchemy, a remastered Trans and accompanying film, Freedom Live, Oceanside/Countryside, a Mirror Ball reissue, and more are all said to be in various stages of completion.

are all said to be in various stages of completion.

"OK, Neil, we've got good news and bad news."

"Gimme the good news first."

"Well, your vault recordings are all set for release immediately--"

"Great!"

"...on Pono."

"Goddammit."

are all said to be in various stages of completion.

"Hey you know that paper is due tomorrow?"
"Yeah I'm on it"
"Are you done with it?"
"Oh yeah"
"Can I read it?"
"Oh...well I haven't like... TYPED it out yet"

ah yes, the brainstorming phase. the first and very best stage of completion

Not exactly excited by that Tuscaloosa album. I have a dozen or more versions of many of its tracks. Getting slightly annoyed with Neil's propensity for churning out more and more of the same material

dunno -- it's got a lot of rarely played tunes — "time fades away," "alabama," "lookout joe" etc. I've heard a promo stream and it's definitely a nice companion to TFA, the stray gators sound perfect. lotta good ben keith action.