neil young

i lucked out. my best friend's sister was in japan right after _eldorado_ came out and brought me back a copy. music distribution was weird back then. or maybe it was normal then and it's weird now? either way, i miss it sometimes.

Stereogum has a great interview with Poncho.

Thanks! It was indeed a great read. And this:

SAMPEDRO: They had a good thing going, but when Danny passed away… it wasn’t like the wheels fell off, but there was a wheel missing. When I came along, I was so excited to be in a band. I brought a lot of energy. At that point in my life, I’d given up on music, even though I had played since I was 11 and moved to Hollywood in 1966 to get in bands and make records. I was 16. I tried hard, but it never happened. I had applied for a job at the post office. I had sold my guitars. I was tired of not having rent money and not having food and living in my truck and all the other crazy things you have to do when you’re broke. Along comes Billy and the next thing I know we’re jamming at his house and I’m meeting Neil Young. Right when I’d given up, I made it.

Years ago, when I found out he had been working full-time on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, I was like WTF, you play with Neil Young, and you want to work for Leno??? That was before I knew what it was really like to be a musician, and to drive the point home, I saw an interview with Branford Marsalis where he talked about quitting the same show as Leno's bandleader. Marsalis's dad told him, "all right, that's fine, but you can't complain anymore!" Like, no matter how much press or respect you get, it doesn't always translate to a steady income, and working for Leno may be awful, but you don't have to worry about the bills ever again if you stick with it long enough. Can't blame a guy for taking it - I've never had to live in a car before, who the fuck am I to judge?

lol at “whoa! that water had tequila in it!”

I'll give Living with War another go, but once through I found most of it to be a B- shrug-of-the-shoulders. "Let's Impeach the President" was a little better than I remembered. Almost every song is very specifically anchored in that W./no-end-in-sight moment (coming out in early 2006, I was surprised to hear specific mention of Obama--well before he announces, almost two years removed from his big speech in 2004); it felt dated to me, which I wouldn't care about if I liked the songs more.

The good news, though, is that I had completely forgotten about "Roger and Out," which I had #8 on my year-end that year and still sounds great. That's the Neil I often connect with immediately: meandering ruminations on the hippie moment. It's not anchored to that moment--he's remembering a friend who died in Vietnam (if I'm hearing it correctly), but it sounds different than every other song on the album. I called it a "miniature 'Cortez the Killer'" in my comment that year; an early draft of "Driftin' Back" works just as well.

"It's not anchored to that moment"--meaning W./no-end-in-sight. I've got a couple of moments circling around each other there.

Picture day for the bus drivers at my elementary school was always a blast pic.twitter.com/1sZVgcdKfS

— Stu (@RandBallsStu) March 19, 2021

What's in your bag, Neil?

his indian rug and a pipe to share, iirc

Mellencamp is all, pff, why are they making me pose with these losers?

iirc, he just got done suckin' on a chili dog outside the Tastee Freez.

Looks kind of like the photographer (who I casually know!) is actually *keeping* him from doing that, and he's growing impatient and hungry. Though it also looks kind of like the other two are just humoring Neil, too. Neil is all "OK, now just one more, maybe with the poncho and leather satchel ..." and John and Willie are all, "lol, this is so Neil of him."

Paul Natkin! Yeah he's been a big part of Chicago's music scene for a loooooong time. I've met him once, good guy.

FWIW, it looks like they’re making new DVDs of Rust Bucket due to the complaints they’ve been getting regarding the audio.

indeed:

https://neilyoungarchives.com/news/2/article?id=Letters-Rust-Bucket-DVD-Audio-first

did anyone else that doesn't pay for NYA get an email from Neil today ("a note from Neil Young") saying

NYA’s Classic tier will continue to provide all of your benefits plus a few extras. The cost remains the same. ($19.99/yr). If that’s what you want, you need to do nothing. Alright!

i'm trying to figure out if i woke up one morning in a gutter with a year-subscription to NYA and completely forgot about it

Yeah, I got that email and I don't subscribe. I'm just on the mailing list.

this is one of those situations where we both end up paying $19.99 and we're not sure why

because what Neil Young cannot know is that yes, I do need to do nothing. Alright!

so.... where exactly do we mail our address + photo of our Rust Bucket DVD ? It doesn't say in that Letter To The Editor reply

Just toss it in an envelope and write "NEIL YOUNG" on the front. It'll get there, like a letter to Santa.

you have to click the stuff that looks like Rust on the side of the NYA file cabinet. click once to raise the corner up, then click that corner to peel the rust off. that opens up the Post Office Neil Oops chamber. I'd give you a direct link, but every single page on the Neil Young website has the same link.

Thanks!

https://i.imgur.com/kLcZVuZ.jpg

What do you call a guy that hangs out with musicians ... (I kid, I kid)

Apparently Neil got vaccinated. I'm trying to work in a joke about the needle and the damage done but it's beyond me.

I'm sure some anti-vaxxer nut has already done that.

Vaxxin' In The Free World

xxpost lol I used that joke on a different thread about the Oxford/AZ vaccine getting approved, put on pause, and then approved again a mere week later after making millions of people more distrustful of it.

Shots
I got shots

lol

Coog looks the most unhealthy of the three in that photo.

Well, he had a heart attack at, what, 40? 42?

He's pondering his eligibility for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

feel horrible saying this but maybe the photo was taken pre-heart attack

lol xp

missed Josh’s post

For those who have HDCD playback, Archives II is apparently encoded in HDCD but the standalone versions of Live at the Roxy and Homegrown are not, and there is peak extension on the Archives II mastering which would otherwise sound a bit louder (i.e. you need to decode it for the full dynamic range).

copying this from the superwolf thread:

Sweeney tells me about another Superwolf enthusiast. One day, Rubin texted to say that he'd just played the album for Neil Young and that Young had “freaked out.” Soon after, Young's manager, Elliot Roberts, who had managed Zwan, took Sweeney to lunch in New York, and also gifted him “a joint of extremely powerful brain-busting weed.”
Believing himself free for the rest of the day, Sweeney went for a stroll and smoked the joint. That evening Roberts called to say that Sweeney should come right now to join him at an Italian restaurant uptown for dinner with Neil Young. “I was so fucking high,” Sweeney remembers. “I figured, ‘This is a funny situation, and I guess I just gotta go with it.’ Neil Young's been in my head since I heard ‘Cinnamon Girl’ at age five. I can't articulate how much his music means to me.”

So he went. “Got in a cab uptown and walked through the door of the restaurant. High as shit. As soon as I sat down at the table, Neil Young's in my face about the Superwolf album. Turns out Neil Young is a large dude with a booming speaking voice and very passionate opinions. Neil almost angrily blasted me with compliments about the album, with deep observations about how the music worked, and lots of questions.… It felt beyond great to hear my work appreciated by the person whose work taught me how to play and how to listen. Mind was utterly blown. Still is, really.”

Nevertheless, Young was not just full of praise. He was also wound up about why so few people knew about this great Superwolf record. How could it possibly be that he had seen no press about it? What kind of fecklessness was at work here? When Sweeney protested that they had made a video, Young said that he certainly hadn't seen it and that maybe he should make one for them.

Eventually, as this haranguing continued, it struck Sweeney, through his haze, just how absurd it was to be on the receiving end of this particular message from this particular messenger: “He gave me such a hard time about us not promoting the album properly, finally my high ass said, ‘You're telling me we're being difficult and willfully obscure? You should fuckin' talk!’

https://www.gq.com/story/matt-sweeney-will-oldham-superwolf

That whole profile is incredible, especially the story told in the last few paragraphs, which I will now post in a Will Oldham thread.

lololol perfect

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ey8zk_8XEAEO8bz?format=jpg

stolen from the hoffman forums, here's a handy guide:

THE UPDATE:

I’m Happy Y’All Came Down - Dorothy Chandler Pavillion 1971 - Live Album. Bootleg Series OBS 03. Taken from Mutlitrack soundboard. SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE 10th SEPTEMBER 2021.

Carnegie Hall 1970 - Live Album. Bootleg Series OBS 01. Taken from Multitrack soundboard. SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE 27th AUGUST 2021 (Formerly 7th MAY 2021).

Royce Hall 1970 - Live Album. Bootleg Series OBS 04. Taken from Mutlitrack soundboard. SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE 10th SEPTEMBER 2021.

Citizen Kane Jr. Blues - Live Album. Bootleg Series OBS 05. Audience tape. SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE 10th SEPTEMBER 2021.

Somewhere Under The Rainbow - Neil Young & the Santa Monica Flyers live, 1973. Live Album. Bootleg Series OBS 06. Audience tape. SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE 10th SEPTEMBER 2021.

High Flyin’ - Live compilation Album with The Ducks, 1977. Bootleg Series OBS 02. Taken from Mutlitrack soundboard. SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE 10th SEPTEMBER 2021.

Toast - 2001 Studio Album. Special Release Series. First mentioned 13 years ago ( was up on Amazon pre-order in 2008) - Currently on the Timeline without a release date. Possibly scheduled for the second half on 2021.

Alchemy - 2012/13 Live album. Live Performance Series. First Mentioned 8 years ago. Currently on the Timeline without a release date. April 2021 = “unscheduled”.

Noise and Flowers - Unreleased live album from Europe 2019. Possibly scheduled for the second half on 2021.

Ragged Glory II / ‘Ragged Glory Extended’? - 1990 Studio Album/Additional sessions from 'Ragged Glory' - First mentioned 3 years ago, with anticipated release in 2019, which never happened. Live Release Series. Currently on the Timeline without a release date. Mentioned on 14th Jan 2021 ‘Letters’ that it is coming in 2021, features the song ‘Interstate’ and was referred to as ‘Ragged Glory extended’. Not sure if that’s the new name for it. Mentioned on 11/04/2021 as being “Ragged Glory / Smell The Horse” with a release date of “Early 2022” on Vinyl.

Chrome Dreams - Unreleased 1975/76 Studio Album/Sessions. Special Release Series. First mentioned 12 years ago (being ‘rebuilt’). Currently on the Timeline without a release date. April 2021 = “unscheduled”.

Oceanside-Countryside - Unreleased Studio Album/Sessions. Special Release Series. First mentioned 12 years ago (being ‘rebuilt’). Possibly to be released as part of “Archives Vol 3” scheduled for 2022.

Give To The Wind Orchestra - live at Nashville music union hall. Possibly to be released as part of “Archives Vol 3’ scheduled for 2022.

Johnny’s Island - 1982 (?) Unreleased Studio Album/Sessions. NOT the same as ‘Island In The Sun’ according to Neil. First mentioned Jan 2021. “Johnny’s Island’ is a complete 10 track album now being prepared for release at NYA and includes a majority of unreleased tracks including ‘Rainin’ in Paradise,’ ‘Johnny,’ and’ Love Hotel,’ and the 3 ‘non computer’ tracks from ‘Trans’ (previously released) among others. it’s a beautiful record coming to you soon.” Not on timeline. Part of ‘Neil Young Archives Vol. 3’, currently scheduled for 2022.

Road of Plenty - Unreleased 1986-89 Studio Album/Additional sessions from various albums from this period. Special Release Series. Currently not on the Timeline. No release date. Possibly part of “Archives Vol 3”. April 2021 = “unscheduled”.

“Garage” or “Rusted Out Garage” - Unreleased 1986 Live Album. (Video?) Live Performance Series. Currently on the Timeline without a release date.

Early Daze - Unreleased 1969 Studio (?) Album. Live Performance Series?/Special Release Series?. Currently on the Timeline without a release date. Mentioned in 'Letters' as planned for 2121* (probably a typo and he means 2021...I hope). Possibly now scheduled for 2022. April 2021 = “unscheduled”.

Live Freedom - Unreleased 1989 Live Album. Live Performance Series. Currently on the Timeline without a release date. Possibly part of “Archives Vol 3”.

The Boarding House - Unreleased 1978 Live Album. Possibly part of “Archives Vol. 3”.

Old Ways - Unreleased 1983 Studio Album/Sessions. Possibly part of “Archives Vol. 3”.

Archives Vol. III - 1977-19?? - Compilation Box Set - "Slated for 2022" according to message on the Archives webiste dated 25th Nov 2020. April 2021 = “unscheduled”. Includes “Johnny’s Island”; “A Snapshot In Time”; “Boarding House”; “Give To The Wind”; “Oceanside/Countryside”; “Trans Animated”; “Island In The Sun”. Neil mentions “8 films” -
CRAZY HORSE WORLD TOUR 1976
BOARDING HOUSE by Bernard Shakey
RUST NEVER SLEEPS by Bernard Shakey
HUMAN HIGHWAY by Bernard Shakey and Dean Stockwell
TRANS ANIMATED MOVIE by Micha and I
BERLIN by Michael Lindsay Hogg
IN A RUSTED OUT GARAGE by LA JOHNSON and B SHAKEY
SOLO TRANS by Hal Ashby
Possibly different cd / dvd / Blu-Ray versions. April 2021 = “unscheduled”.

Other albums mentioned but little additional detail:

Island In The Sun (Neil Young, 1982) - Unreleased Studio Album/Sessions. Possibly part of “Archives Vol. 3”

Times Square (Neil Young & the Restless, 1989) - Unreleased Studio Album/Sessions.

Mirror Ball Live (Neil Young & Pearl Jam live, 1995) - Unreleased Live Album.

Timeless Orphium (same as 'Polar Vortex'?) - Video version on Archives website December 2020- CD/LP/DVD to follow? April 2021 = “unscheduled”.

Polar Vortex (Neil Young live, 2019) - Unreleased Live Album. Became 'Timeless Orphium?

The Tower - Philadelphia (Neil Young live, 2018) - Unreleased Live Album.

CSNY at Fillmore East (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young live, 1970)- Unreleased Live Album.

Summer Songs 1987 - Unreleased Studio recordings? Possibly overlap with 'Road Of Plenty'.

Archives Vol. IV - ???? - Compilation Box Set

Mentioned but (probably) abandoned now:

Time Fades Away II - 1973 Unreleased Live Album. Live Performance Series. First mentioned 12 years ago. Possibly/probably superseded by 'Tooscaloosa', so not probably happening.

Homefires (Neil Young, 1974) - Unreleased Studio Album/Sessions. Some tracks released as part of "Archives Vol. II".

Harvest Time (Neil Young & Stray Gators, 1971) - Unreleased Live album. Possibly superceded by various Bootleg Series releases. April 2021 = “Harvest 50th Anniversary Deluxe” mentioned for release in 2022. Unknown whether this may include the same content.

Good to know he's only got (counts) 30 or so albums and boxed sets to catch up on.

crazy...

you know what would be really awesome?

an audio release of Trunk Show, cool band on that I don't think he ever used any other time? he gets into some really wild industrial feedback

yeah, that was a cool band, pretty versatile. there's a 2009 show on the timeline now — you have to be a "rust-tier" patron to listen though ... i haven't upgraded to that yet, but I might if he keeps it up with adding those full shows. That's like what the whole Archives should be really.

So it sounds like no individual releases of stuff like the Old Homestead and Odeon/Budokan, etc. from The Archives II?

I'd guess that's a no, just based on how it went with the first Archives

Thrasher's Wheat shows possible vinyl releases for Dume and Odeon Budokan as possible releases without a specific release date, so maybe those two might?

ignore the extraneous "possible releases"