neil young

george harrison made a big mistake in making friends with eric

Clapton would've done his legacy a huge favor if he died in 1972.

yeah, he's done jack shit for 50 years now

"Tweet unavailable". What was it? Neil dissing Clapton?

it was a screenshot of this: https://neilyoungarchives.com/news/2/article?id=Letters-Vaccination-do-you

I'm sure this would be a devastating diss if an elderly Clapton had any hope of navigating Neil's bullshit website.

So the Demme doc is great but there was a moment where I saw EmmyLou holding backing vocal court and wanted to hear that story.

.... I think that rust bucket DVD got lost after I paid customs. Not tracked, either.

All of Archives II up on spot btw

Shakey Pictures Records and Reprise Records are now happy to announce the first of a new series - The Neil Young Official Bootleg Series -- Carnegie Hall 1970 , available on double vinyl, double CD and High Res Digital on Friday, October 1, and for pre-order starting Friday August 20, at The Greedy Hand Store at Neil Young Archives ( NYA) . Five more series selections will become available in 2022.

Carnegie Hall , the first release, recorded on original analog multitrack, was mixed by “The Volume Dealers” -- Neil Young and Niko Bolas. This recording was made from the show on December 4th, 1970 and it was the first time Neil ever walked onstage at Carnegie Hall. There were two shows at Carnegie Hall, one on the 4th and one followed at Midnight the next morning. No bootleggers ever captured this first show, and it was, by far, a much superior show according to NY.

The concert’s generous setlist covers one of the most revered eras of Young’s career, with stripped-down versions of the tunes “ Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere,” “Down By the River,” “Helpless,” and “Sugar Mountain” plus “ After the Goldrush ,” from the album of the same name, released only nine weeks prior to the Carnegie Hall show. Neil even plays the poignant songs “ Bad Fog of Loneliness,” “Old Man,” and “See the Sky About to Rain” before they were recorded and released. Carnegie Hall is an album full of gems.

Neil Young Official Bootleg Series track listing:
OBS 1: Carnegie Hall 1970
(NYC: December 4, 1970 – Early show)

Down by the River
Cinnamon Girl
I Am a Child
Expecting to Fly
The Loner
Wonderin'
Helpless
Southern Man
Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing
Sugar Mountain
On the Way Home
Tell Me Why
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Old Man
After the Gold Rush
Flying on the Ground Is Wrong
Cowgirl in the Sand
Don't Let It Bring You Down
Birds
Bad Fog of Loneliness
Ohio
See the Sky About to Rain
Dance Dance Dance

i like that neil's official bootleg series kicks off with a performance ... that has never been bootlegged.

!!!!!!!!!!!

hell yeah Neil, that's why i use your shitty website!

this is wonderful news. i really, really love his early stuff

What's the difference between the Bootleg Series and the live shows released as part of Archives (Performance Series or whatever)?

He should just give every product he releases it's own Series name so it can be 1 of a series of 1.

Neil Young Bootleg Series, Vol 1
Neil Young Performance Series, Vol 1
Neil Young Road Rock Series, Vol 1
Neil Young Live Series, Vol 1
Neil Young Concert Series, Vol 1
Neil Young Live Concert Series, Vol 1
Neil Young Live Performance Series, Vol 1
Neil Young Archive Performance Concert (Live) Series, Vol 1
Neil Young Live and Unreleased, Vol 1 (Previously Released)

What's the difference between the Bootleg Series and the live shows released as part of Archives (Performance Series or whatever)?

the bootleg series is Official

lol

Don’t know Stills input but the Stills-Young version of “Separate Ways” has goth-Neil vibes I wasn’t expecting.

ok, 1 Month after paying customs (they're a bit overwhelmed by the new EU import rules, apparently) I have the new Rust Bucket DVD ("New Audio") and okay, even though I could live with the previous sound, this sounds significantly better. Thanks, uncle Neil!

The official Carnegie Hall 1970 release is good. I haven't bought it though, I just streamed it because I'm wary of whether it's redundant. I lean towards his electric recordings, but so many of these live recordings have been solo acoustic and I'm not sure if I can really distinguish some of them in memory.

https://pitchfork.com/news/neil-young-and-crazy-horse-announce-new-album-barn/

Track list.

01 Song of the Seasons
02 Heading West
03 Change Ain’t Never Gonna
04 Canerican
05 Shape of You
06 They Might Be Lost
07 Human Race
08 Tumblin’ Thru the Years
09 Welcome Back
10 Don’t Forget Love

08 Shape of You

Ed Sheeran cover?

“Canerican” has “Doghouse” potential

Song of the Seasons is up on NYA. it's fine I guess, very acoustic, something he would have done with Stray Gators rather than the Horse

Interesting. I was hoping for full on Psychedelic Pill Horse running wild.

it's basically Colorado part II — maybe a bit stronger in the songwriting department. a mix of acoustic and electric stuff. favorite thing so far is the 8+ minute slow burner "Welcome Back", some "Danger Bird" vibes, really expressive guitar work.

That one sounds promising!

Thanks Tyler! Did you like Colorado though? ("I Do" was the only keeper for me.)

I liked the mellower, more delicate moments of Colorado — most of the "rock" stuff was a bit of a miss.

Song of the Seasons is an alright acoustic cut. Not brilliant but not bad. Standard Young vocal melody.

lol at the cover. nice barn neil, looks like a vrbo tbh.

Can't wait for the follow-up, More Barn!

American Stars 'n' Barns

searched airbnb for "mancave" and that barn came up, $350 a night

Seeing a couple new videos, may be more:
currently listening to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDeWaQLO7H8

Rechewing his cruchy granola mellowness, not as flavorful now
----prefer this "good ol days. good ol days" barn rock!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7NT5wfdUzM

Best thing about the previous is video water can't wait!

Was putting together my year-end lists for The Wire tonight - 10 new releases and 10 "archival" releases and I gave a lot of thought to putting Way Down in the Rust Bucket on the latter list. It ultimately didn't make it, but I really do think it's the best thing Neil's released in 30 years.

Yes Rust Bucket is already in the pantheon of great Crazy Horse live albums to me

I’d rank it above Weld easily

So is that Nils playing piano on "Heading West?" I love how Nils' two long standing band gigs are for acts that really don't need his guitar virtuosity. Which reminds me, if Springsteen tours, as expected, in 2022, then I guess that mean Neil and Crazy Horse ... won't?

Promise of The Real, baby!

Ugh, I hate that band

Fun fact: Neil x Drive-By Truckers=back-up band on Booker T's Potato Hole, which, despite the downhomely title, is mostly gleaming arena rock, good of its kind, and occasionally making me wonder about the orange label mix of Boston's s/t, which was said to be better, if not even better than the regular blue label. Archive.org also had some good shows backed by the Truckers, dunno of Neil ever did that (of course Booker T.& The MGs did back him).

So we started talking about Dean Stockwell over on ILE's Harry Dean Stanton thread, and then he turned up dead, and somebody quoted a couple things, one about his co-writing Human Highway, and the following Tweet (although if you've read more of Shakey than I did, this may well be old news):
In Peru, Dennis very strongly urged me to write a
screenplay," Stockwell recalls, "and he would get it
produced. I came back home to Topanga Canyon
[in the mountains outside LA] and wrote After The
Gold Rush. Neil was living in Topanga then too,
and a copy of it somehow got to him. He had had
writer's block for months, and his record
company was after him. And after he read this
screenplay he wrote the After The Gold Rush
album in three weeks."

Stockwell's screenplay is long lost. Young's
biographer Jimmy McDonough was told that it
was "an end-of-the-world movie" which ended
with a tidal wave crashing towards its hero as he
stood in the parking lot of the Topanga hippies'
favourite hang-out, the Corral, whose regulars
included Young and Joni Mitchell, Stockwell's
friend Russ Tamblyn was set to play a rocker
recluse living in a castle, and wild-haired total
artist George Herms was meant to haul a "tree of
life" like Christ with his crucifix across the
Canyon.

"lt'J not a linear, regular storytelling kind of film,"
StoIkwell explains, "Really what was in my mind
was that the gold rush in effect created California
And the film took place on the day California was
supposed to go into the ocean. So that's what
happened after the gold rush."

It was meant to be part of Universal's short-lived "Youth Pictures" division, which was shuttered after practically all of their releases (among them Hopper's The Last Movie, P.Fonda's The Hired Hand, and Two-Lane Blacktop) bombed.

Hopper's The Last Movie, P.Fonda's The Hired Hand, and Two-Lane Blacktop

Inspired a young Jim Steinman to write "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad." (Truthfully, I haven't seen The Last Movie.)

Iirc the other produced films were Forman's Taking Off, and Diary of A Mad Housewife, which of course has a big Neil connection too.

There's a funny bit in Shakey about Stockwell giving some clueless execs a tour of prospective shooting locations in Topanga, and introducing them to locals he wanted to cast, "This is Janis Joplin...Yes, she's very famous & she's going to be in the movie!"

Iirc, Stockwell was the guy who introduced Neil to the music of Devo.