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Neil Young Officially Releasing Legendary On The Beach Debut Concert Album

"Today Young announced that the full set is seeing official release for the first time. The Bottom Line – Citizen Cane Jr. Blues will be out in early 2021 and will mark the launch of Young’s Official Bootleg Series."

https://www.stereogum.com/2101611/neil-young-the-bottom-line-1974-official-bootleg/news/

oh awesome!!!!!

And apparently just the tip of the iceberg, at this point he has five others set for release along with that one, all due in April 2021:

The tentative release schedule is April 2021. Titles include:

Carnegie Hall Dec 4, 1970 - first show.
Royce Hall. January 30, 1971
Dorothy Chandler Pavillion (sic). Feb 1, 1971
Under The Rainbow. Nov 3, 1973
The Bottom Line aka ‘Citizen Kane Jr. Blues’ May 16, 1974
The Ducks - ‘Trick of Disaster’ August 1977

dang, i think i've only heard the Bottom Line show out of those. did they finally get the dylan team to release this shit? impressive!

Hell yeah the Ducks!!

Neil Young’s Older Brother Bob Young Releases First Song at Age 78

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-young-brother-bob-young-song-1082862/

After The Gold Rush

50th Anniversary Edition

Available as LP box set and CD

Pre-order Tomorrow 10/30 at 9 AM PT pic.twitter.com/dsxrfYuTT8

— Neil Young Archives (@NeilYoungNYA) October 29, 2020

lol, ol Neil. was this even on the upcoming releases radar? not sure what's going to be on this and i don't know if you have to be an Archives subscriber to get this or not, just saw the tweet.

on the site you can listen to it but so far only extras are two version of "wonderin'" (from archives) and "wonderin' (outtake)" (kinda different version but not a big deal)

INNARRESTING NEW(??) THING:

On the timeline there is now an entry for Freedom Live from 1990 --- tyler do you know what this could be?

thanks, maybe one of these days i need to maybe sign up for that, but i am so rarely in a place where i can listen to music via browser.

i think there was some talk of an unreleased 1970 solo show being appended to the ATGR 50th thing, but I don't know whether that's actually happening.

the Freedom Live thing has been there for a while I think — it might be the old VHS performance?

https://img.discogs.com/_WvzmFiLd3SeAjEBmwJ1mA5rWPc=/fit-in/600x451/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3335930-1411220387-1597.jpeg.jpg

hilarious that he's flooding the market in the 4th quarter, though. I just turned in my review of Archives, vol. 2! eeeeeek!

i mean, i don't wanna complain about too much neil, esp considering how many projects he ripcords, but there's a lot out there! doesn't seem like 2021 is going to slow down at all either, esp if that bootleg series thing comes to pass (and, fingers crossed sooner rather than later for the stripped down Archives 2 for the rest of us!).

i think there was some talk of an unreleased 1970 solo show being appended to the ATGR 50th thing, but I don't know whether that's actually happening.

at a certain point i'm kinda good on early 70s neil young solo shows

otm - more Crazy Horse shows, or the Ducks, i'm happy with my solo Neil stuff for a bit.

haha, yeah no kidding ... there is enough late 60s early 70s solo neil (at least compared to other stuff that should be out there). but the bootleg series is supposed to include like three separate solo shows from 1970.

ha, i think i blocked out the idea of that many more solo shows since my eyes were immediately drawn to the Ducks show

i mean the solo shows are good but i just looked and the upcoming young shakespeare tracklist is IDENTICAL to massey hall with one exception - young shakespeare has "sugar mountain" and massey hall doesn't....but of course sugar mountain is on canterbury 68

i mean if he's going to indulge in repetition, I'd rather he put out all of the 1970 Fillmore East Crazy Horse recordings. one disc of that stuff ain't enough, even if the setlists didn't change radically from night to night.

yeah totally, it's different cuz the jams will be different, but like at this point we know we was generally really excellent as a solo performer, but i don't think we are going to get anything that really turns your head

has boarding house ever been scheduled to be released?

i don't think so, but it's been on the timeline since forever

thanks, maybe one of these days i need to maybe sign up for that, but i am so rarely in a place where i can listen to music via browser.

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, October 29, 2020 4:26 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is also why I have never entertained the idea of subscribing

and cosign on the solo Neil saturation. It isn't like the performances differ all that much. I'd honestly be more interested in Neil's always-entertaining stoned banter, which I assume varied from night to night, than yet more indistinguishable performances of "Campaigner" or "The Needle And The Damage Done"

you're missing out on the multi-part Lincvolt documentary

man, that 1990 Catalyst show... just listened to the bootleg again, it blows me away every time. can't wait for the official + video version.

So what do we think of this

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/05/neil-young-every-album-ranked

Peace Trail, Silver & Gold, and Greendale are all way better than the Monsanto Years

no fucking way is landing on water worse than everybody's rockin or old ways

kinda coming around on the idea that landing on water is one of the most successful "60s dude does battle with 80s recording tech" LPs.

Agreed on those three, and Landing On Water should definitely rank above Everybody's Rockin', Old Ways and Are You Passionate for sure.

I think I'm the only poster here who rates Monsanto Years, but I do

I like it too!

And Are You Passionate! On that one I think I'm the only one.

I think if you changed the cover art of AYP and removed "Let's Roll" I'd like it a lot more.

Eh, it's been awhile since I last played AYP, but I remember it being waayyyy too much of the same tempos, song after song and it all blended into one ball of meh outside of the Crazy Horse break in the middle.

yeah probably true ... we'll see if Toast is an improvement! Lol.

I've never even heard of Paradox, Colorado or Storytone. Also, Trans below Hawks & Doves? I guess Journey Through The Past didn't qualify for this list, probably a good thing.

I like Re-Ac-Tor but I think it is a bit too high, Mirror Ball is too low, "I'm The Ocean" is one of his greatest songs!

"Let's Roll" is bad but the rest of it is a cool mellow groove, Neil crooning. getting ready for Neil's classic songbook years

Storytone should be way closer to the bottom, maybe last place

S/T debut continues to get underrated, feel like that narrative that it's not good got out there and it just sticks no matter what

Living With War is way to high, even the stripped down version without the choir

I enjoyed Storytone very much, even the grandiose orchestral bits! The whole thing is certainly worth a stream.
As usual, I concur with much of what is currently being said on this ol' thread, and see that it's time for a Monsanto seed bomb---from my Pazz & Jop ballot comments (yes I Top Tenned it):

Promise of the Neil World
Having cruised the neighborhood of Sun Studios for several days, young Crown Electric driver Elvis Presley finally parked his truck, long enough to enter yon booth, available to the public, no appointments necessary, and make a record he cAN take home to his dear old Mom this very day. A good boy, salt of the earth, keeping history fresh---although a newer meme-theme is that really he was hoping to get noticed by Mr. Phillips, and put on a rocket to stardom----roll over Sputnik, and tell yadda-yadda the news:
yadda-yadda, 60-odd years later, Neil Young enters Jack White's triumphantly restored recording booth in Third Man Records' Nashville storefront, and, doing his version of resting (from the labors of having creating Pono, a format and device ("Where Music Lives," especially Classic Rock, like it did in the days of easily available, affordable, analog vinyl) quickly records[ A Letter Home, an authentically staticky-sounding, antediluvian-amateur-ready-default set of oldies. Neil Young, an ambitious old man, as was said of Ronald Reagan, whom Young briefly endorsed, back when he also proclaimed that there comes a time "when everyone has to stand on his own two feet, or one leg or half a leg or whatever he's got." Which was also when, as Young later confessed, he, buying into California's Human Potential Movement, was desperately trying to will his very young son past or straight through disabilities which seemed like new wrinkles in a variable heritage (Young's own strain of epilepsy, for instance).
Having long outlived such illusions, incl, that of Reagan, who long outlived himself, and in the midst of an anti-nostalgia campaign that may have germinated when he recorded Prairie Wind, right before lying down for a neurological operation from which he might never have truly awakened----though said campaign was definitively underway later, when his doctor glimpsed something in his head that made him actually stop smoking pot, after 50 years, and launch the uniquely Neilian timespace groove jams of his first book, Waging Heavy Peace---Young-in-the-booth also recorded a new letter to his own long-dead Mom, allowing as how she wouldn't believe what in the world they're doing to the globe, like it was a piňata, and one you could keep coming back to, any old time.

Yadda-yadda: with so much done, via the release of songs old and new, or both, in the case of customized Americana; so much still in the works, as a legacy, for posterity---what if there is no posterity, to speak of, or to speak, period? Moms, Dads, Grandpaws, everybody falls into the Great Chain of Being---but what if the Chain falls?
Rust never sleeps, after all, especially when jacked up on The Monsanto Years'
bad, diddled-with, trademarked seeds of time: megacorp-to-corpse grains in the red-eye weather of a world stewing in its own fossil fuel juices, via the release of what may or may not turn out to be the ultimate parody and travesty of liberation. Yet here in this kind of free world, with old comrades having fallen by the wayside, old Young and young sons-of-Willie-led Promise Of The Real keep on seeing and raising scorched-earth economics with the sonic equivalent of EARTH STRIKES BACK! headlines, worthy of the backdrop for a headbanger's midnight matinee, live at your local drive-in, or even more like its afterimage, exhaled way out on the highway, where the suburban sprawl finally gives the day's heat up to the cold, clear desert sky once again, and a few harmonies rise like an invisible rainbow, not too far from a x-times-second wind-tuned "Wolf Moon," taking it in, drinking deep as he and they and we can stand.

I do like his debut also, but Last Trip to Tulsa is a terribly dull closer. It's the last glimpse of that "naive" side.

I've "only" heard 19 out of 45. I like Rust Never Sleeps and Everybody Knows less than most, but I was pleased to see Time Fades Away in the top 10. I couldn't put myself in the mindset that Hitchhiker was a real album, if it had been released at the time it would be different.

A few typos (also messing up tenses) early on while I was tweaking paste, sorry.

Wait, the Guardian list leaves out Bluenote Cafe and A Treasure, both of which have been cited on here (and/or another Neil thread?) as live compensation for disappointing studio albums along the same lines (This Note's For You and Old Ways respectively). BC is still uneven, with some maybe deliberately campy beer commercial/Blues Hammer arrangements on Disc 1, but has some very good performances, especially on Disc 2---and A Treasure, with the International Harvesters, is like it says in the title.
Also think he should have included NYxCH Live At The Fillmore East, despite familiar setlist, also agree that more of these shows would be worth hearing )w legit better sound esp.)

trans too low, wouldn't have had the top 2 in the top 5 personally. don't know enough about later Neil Young to comment on much of the list

Seems like that list didn't include any of the Performance Series live stuff, probably an intentional decision.

I like that Top 10...not quite mine, of course, but I think Everybody Knows is a little overlooked these days, so I love seeing it at #2.

(The Guardian Top 10, I mean.)

Arc is too low

And I'm Trans-phobic, so #29 is fine with me.

i get wanting to take the big album down a peg but Harvest below This Note's For You? Come the fuck on

a letter home one spot over american stars n bars??