neil young

Neil's going to be doing some "Fireside Sessions" with Darryl filming on NYA

a good opportunity to revisit my favorite song with fire crackle noises, 'will to love'

a hearse theater thing yesterday was a killer "crime in the city" video from the Weld tour — Neil says he's planning on putting out the entire Buffalo 91 show (with less crowd reaction shots than on the Weld video apparently, haha). once again, it'd be great if neil just hunkered down and focused — he's got the makings of an incredible Ragged Glory/Weld/Arc boxed set:

- Ragged Glory Rehearsals / Ragged Glory II outtakes
- Rust Bucket Santa Cruz Show
- Buffalo Show

More Arc please

cosign

and def title it More Arc

I don't understand why he doesn't just ... release this shit. What is there to work on, really?

optimize for PONO

Isn't the Weld VHS mix supposed to be better than the album? Like it is the actual Briggs mix? Or something, I mean it is Neil of course the VHS mix of a live concert is the best vers of it

Sometimes, as a fan of bootlegs, I get so used to something one way that just hearing a different mix is enough to make me think it is better, or at least preferable. There's a Cure boot I've longed loved, for example, that I greatly prefer to the officially released live album, just because for whatever reason it draws my ears to aspects I like more. Which is to say I can totally imagine a mix for VHS besting the official album

lol i think it's the laser disc that has the briggs mix.

hahaha of course

Laserdisc! The ultimate format!

I almost weeped reading how Weld was mixed.

(In "Shakey" of course)

this is so good
https://neilyoungarchives.com/movie-night

yeah that fireside session was very nice ... first "little wing" since 1977! On piano!
he should do that every night.

these are giving me some serious feels tbh

acoustic Love and Only Love!

yeah, pretty nice. wish he'd finished "on the beach" but oh well, he's keeping it loose

ah, this is such a balm

So I had a dream last night that I was shopping and saw this hound dog right out of central casting, so I immediately thought of ILM and "Doghouse". I took a video of the dog with my phone and planned to add the song over the video and post it. I was imagining all the laughs I was going to be getting. Then I woke up and in my sleepiness initially got Doghouse confused with T-Bone.

man..."Birds" got to me a litte

The 91 Buffalo show we watched last night was so awesome, I know Weld like the back of my hand but it was still so awesome to see & hear this, man what amazing era and man that "Like A Hurricane" whew..

Also am I reading the incredible hard to figure out Neil website correctly? Are they screening In A Rusted Garage on Saturday?

it does look that way! crazy. that'll be so good.

oh wait "Rusted Garage" is that 1986 Crazy Horse show (which has been played once or twice already). I thought it was "Rust Bucket," the late '90 show (which hasn't shown up yet) ... so much Rust. Guess he's premiering "Country Home" from Rust Bucket tomorrow though.

Buffalo show was so good. wild that the band was pretty much peaking, 20 years in. not sure if any of the other classic rockers even came close.

Are these online screenings live/one and done? Like, scheduled and in rotation? If you miss one can you catch it again?

i like how the back button on the NYA website (the literal back button, not part of the browser but part of the website) will take you back to your google search

it is a goofy website.
and yeah, generally, the videos are up for a day or a weekend ... but then they will get replayed later usually. a little bit annoying that way, but that's neil.

i feel like the website is an ongoing long con designed to get me to purchase an actual file cabinet from Neil Young, stuffed with real folders, for $800 or whatever

Neil's List

Reminds me of his auction where it seemed like 95% of the lots where model trains, shirts, and studio gear like compressors and tape decks.

finally, you can explore the archives as they were always intended to be experienced - in full analog quality, printed on HD paper from 80% recycled materials

as a subscriber I love that the Android app is totally broken

PIECE OF APP!

lol

Putting the song itself aside, this is inadvertently hilarious--skip forward to 2:40.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeLdjvH57z4

so I guess the Horse is all quarantining together?

For the last few weeks I've been getting Jimmy McDonough as a suggested friend on Facebook (we have a mutual). It's kinda surreal to see his account on the list sandwiched between irl friends' S.O.'s that I don't know well and people I don't care about from high school.

Farm Aid and AXS TV Partner to Broadcast And Stream
At Home With Farm Aid on Saturday, April 11 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT

Nelson and His Sons, Lukas and Micah, Host the Landmark Event

The Live Hour-Long Performance Brings Farm Aid Board Members
Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews
Together in a Special Benefit Concert for Family Farmers Impacted
By the Effects of COVID-19
Extensive Best of Farm Aid 2019 on Sunday.
Whole press release here:
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1103923394056&ca=dba173d2-adaf-4805-a923-4c49896c2d92

I didn't realize that was an update of an old song when I posted--I don't have Colorado. Now that I've played it, I would charitably say it's not especially good.

chr1sb3singer wrote this on thread NEIL YOUNG ARCHIVES BOX: IT'S REALLY HAPPENING on board I Love Music on Mar 10, 2020

What's the over/under on Neil scrapping all of these upcoming releases for a Coronavirius inspired concept album with Promise of the Real called Handwashing?

He put all releases on old while he works on his own line of masks: "The N95 mask only blocks about 95 percent of particles that are 0.3 microns in size or larger", said Young. "My new PonoMask will block 99.7%, plus you'll be able to really feel the particles being blocked, the way the mask-maker intended." The PonoMask will retail for $295 and will require you to be logged in to Neil Young Archives at all times.

Did Neil tweet something out last night about NY & the Blue Notes vers of "60-0" streaming on the Archives? I swear I saw it last night but now I can't seem to find any record of it and, again, the archives website is most fucking frustrating thing in the world, I couldn't find anything there either.

If this is all a hallucination it is the most on-brand hallucination ever

Well well well

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-young-announces-1980s-archival-lp-road-of-plenty-989683/

lol jesus christ neil — focus on getting these other things out first.
there was an excerpt "sneak preview" of a studio bluenotes 60 to Zero up for a day or two — interesting because it shared some lyrics with "ordinary people."
btw i've heard Homegrown.

woah how is it??

btw found this, 20 minute acoustic Sixty to Zero on the 88 Bluenotes tour pretty amazing, love the spacy pedal steel breakdown

still more alternative lyrics

https://youtu.be/_-IfnNGuOtY

Tyler come back