neil young

been so overexposed to it that it's hard to really *hear* it, but every once in a while, Cinnamon Girl will hit me like the first time....what a great riff

The DVD reportedly has shittier sound than the CD, and supposedly you can hear the difference in these YouTube clips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Ax9Z2-OgI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FsP7OL681Y

yeah ok, but it's still better than the bootleg/audience recording we had and enjoyed for 30 years so I don't mind

Hopefully a good week for Neil in my house. Really digging Way Down in the Rust Bucket today (I could live in his guitar tone for days) and the Archives II box should be getting here Friday (finally!).

I never thanked TylerW for that great hour of deep cuts he posted two weeks ago - thank you, enjoying it lots, still.

glad you liked it!

vinyl came today
sounds great!

xp the 1992 Center Stage show? if so, same here. i've watched it three times already, and especially love the renditions of the Harvest Moon songs. "Unknown Legend", the title track, "Dreaming Man", "from Hank to Hendrix", "Natural Beauty". so good. "Unknown Legend" in particular, hit me hard the other day, in a new way, and it was a great comfort.

iow, thank you tylerw, i like it too <3

ha, no — this thing: https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2021/02/08/neil-young-a-few-honey-slides/

(that centerstage thing is grrrrrreat though)

Fingers still crossed for Archives II showing up Friday!

xp i will be sure to give that a listen today as well! :)

one thing that ended up cool on the vinyl is that disc 4 is "Love and Only Love" > "Cortez"/whole side of "Like a Hurricane"

down the road when i just want to listen to mega crazy horse jams will be nice to throw this on as a single album

definitely some moments on that "love and only love" that are up there with neil's best guitar work ever.

one solo i wish went on longer is on "homegrown" (which tbh after this year i've been a little burned out on) is after they do the acapella breakdown of the chorus, his solo after that is great wish it went on

Great - I have to pay €50 (half of what the deluxe Rust Bucket package cost) to customs if I want it delivered. Thanks, Brexit.

I'm trying to figure out if I should order Rust Bucket on vinyl (not super deluxe) or just listen to it on NYA. Anyone have thoughts on the vinyl?

The full (I think?) set is on Sp0t1fy, at least here in the UK, if you can stomach that service. It sounds great but then I'm not a Pono-level audiophile.

Listening to this now. It's pretty great. If Weld was the doom metal version of this band, this is the caveman-stompin' garage-rock version.

I hardly think one needs audiophile level equipment to appreciate the crunch and squall of the Horse.

best listened to on a crappy tape deck

SPOTIFY SECURITY HQ, ALPHA ROOM
TIME ZONE: CLASSIFIED

The General: What are the most recent and severe security threats to our profit margins, Analyst III?
Analyst III: One moment, General. I will ask my team to run the Advance Scan. I know you sometimes scold me for asking your permission for this, but protocol informs that I must --
The General: It's ok, Analyst III, I understand - you have my permission to run the Advance Scan. I know it's dangerous, and it's expensive. But the Quarterly Update is just around the corner. Take the appropriate precautions, as I know you --
Analyst: As you know I always do. And as you know, I always will. I love you, General. TEAM!! ADVANCE SCAN PERMISSIONS CONFIRMED. INITIALIZE!!!!

*team searches for "Spot1fy" on ILX*

Analyst: Nothing, General. Nothing at all. It's clean.

I didn't want Neil to read that I was listening on 5p0t1fy, I know he'd be upset

any of you ever play neil young songs on guitar? he has so many songs that are actually pretty easy to play (if you're just doing the rhythm and not any wild soloing, at least)

time to play some goddamn Old Man over here, then a little Harvest Moon

Neil S, that's why the ILX security team is the most advanced on the internet. YOU are the General over here!

i might try a honey slide in a minute :D

we do a 7r1pl3 level 1337-speak on ilx, to foil anyone who might hear us

Neil Young is pretty much how I learned to play guitar (which is probably not unique).
Motion Pictures is a fun one.

One of the greatest things about Neil as guitar teacher is that few of his songs are particularly fast, so aside from some weird tunings here and there, at lot of his stuff is kind of loose and languid and easy to follow along with.

I'm trying to figure out if I should order Rust Bucket on vinyl (not super deluxe) or just listen to it on NYA. Anyone have thoughts on the vinyl?

― perhaps I myself was the object of my search (PBKR), Thursday, March 4, 2021 11:37 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

vinyl sounds great...also the vinyl is not a poorly designed website

gahhh ok I’m getting the vinyl

I like what you said about yknow just throwing on disc 4, the whole thing somehow seems less daunting than on cd lol

Never noticed until today that Love and Only Love and Manson On The Hill have almost identical choruses

This set is really good though

but why are there fadeouts between each song?

any of you ever play neil young songs on guitar? he has so many songs that are actually pretty easy to play

all of his songs are easy to play! hell, even crazy horse could play 'em :)

trying to get their sound, though. that takes some work.

vinyl sounds great...also the vinyl is not a poorly designed website

lol, another point in it's favor.

xxxposts about the DVD sounding "shittier" : the DVD packaging does say it's an "original film soundtrack recording" while the CD packaging says "mastered from original analog tapes"

xp yeah - getting free access to the site last year had the dual effects of convincing me to buy the new box set and also convincing me to never subscribe to the site

It's almost impressive how clunky and frustrating it is! I briefly considered subscribing when I saw there's an app for it now (since I'm very rarely in position to listen from the web), but after reading how that makes it even harder to find stuff, just, no...

My Archives II box is supposed to show up today, so that will make for some good weekend listening though.

mine hasn't even shipped :(

any of you ever play neil young songs on guitar?

i play winterlong to the point of annoying myself. great on acoustic or electric.

been way down in the rust bucket for awhile now and loving it. what a time to be alive and lovin Neil not young.

^^ I could live in the guitar tone on this thing. So good.

I'm not sure I'm ready for yet another solo Neil archival thing, need more Horse in my life right now.

one of the great versions of "cortez the killer"

oh wow - https://neilyoung.warnerartists.net/eu/delivery/ : "For orders shipping to the EU after January 1st, additional import charges/taxes may need to be paid by you upon delivery. If you are contacted by a courier and are asked to pay import duties within the EU, please contact our customer service team."

I did and I just received a mail from the customer service team asking for proof of payment and my bank account details, they're going to repay the import taxes!

nice

oh... I just got to the Cowgirl In The Sand bits with the audio problems on the DVD. Nice solution (couple of segments where there's only audience(?) audio) - they could have completely cut it too but now at least we have this.

So glad to be able to finally hold Vol. II in my hands! So excited to dig in.

enjoy jon!

hmmm, Toast might have cover art!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Evv_F48XMAY10jq?format=jpg&name=medium

that’s great.

kind of wish he would reissue archives i, used copies are not cheap

ooh that Toast looks tasty.

Given the way Archives I & II have been organized, if he was already set on releasing entire discs as standalone releases (the live material, Homegrown), I would have preferred the remaining studio material on bonus discs paired with the relevant albums instead of mixing them together with select album tracks. (In some cases, almost the entire album.) It would have eliminated the overlap without losing the context - ah well.