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will it be released before or after Ragged Glory II/Smell The Horse ?

That looks like the late Joe Cole in the NY/SY twitter photo.

Eldorado cost me $25 at the time. I've always been fascinated by the choice of formats it was available in. CD-only in Japan (makes sense), vinyl-only in Australia (WTF? OK, Neil).

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shakey's selling his El Dorado represses at a bargain then!

I just got this used for only $10. (The new CD re-issue seems to have substantially deflated the market value of that original CD pressing.)

I stumbled on my CD copy about 5 or 6 years ago for $18, which I thought was a huge bargain. That said, I'm glad it's in circulation again, it's a killer EP.

I only wish Neil would release the original version of "Box Car" - that's the only Times Square track that hasn't been properly released.

FWIW, here's the disc I made based on a Japanese bootleg of that rough-sounding acetate. I pieced it together from official sources, but I also made two changes for my own listening preferences - I subbed in the electric version of "Crime in the City" from Bluenote Café (the definitive version of that song IMHO - "I got thrown out of Bible school / For givin' a finger to the preacher") and also replaced "Someday" with "No More." I never understood why Neil included "Someday" - he perversely derided it as one of his Perry Como tracks even before it was released.

1. El Dorado
2. No More
3. Crime In The City (Sixty To Zero) - live, electric 1988 version
4. Box Car
5. Don't Cry - unedited version from the El Dorado EP
6. Heavy Love
7. Wrecking Ball
8. Cocaine Eyes
9. On Broadway

Bonus tracks:

10. Rockin' In The Free World - from the Saturday Night Live: 25 Years of Music DVD
11. Needle And The Damage Done - from the 1989 Saturday Night Live broadcast
12. No More - from SNL25: Saturday Night Live, The Musical Performances, Volume 2

Yeah, that's a strong (and dark!) album there — though I do have a soft spot for "Someday" ... At some point Neil put up a "sneak preview" of "Fuckin' Up" recorded with the SNL 89 band (I think) that would fit right in there, too.

I know - even without my tweaks, I always thought Times Square was like THE album to showcase the appropriately named "Old Black." I'll have to find that preview of "Fuckin' Up" - I'm still waiting for him to follow through on that promise to put those sessions out in their entirety.

still waiting for him to follow through on that promise

honestly, this could be appended to the thread title

I too dig "Someday." I wasn't crazy about it at first; the tinkly arrangement grated initially, but I soon realized it was perfect for the bleakness of the third verse.

yeah, that verse is incredible — "smog might turn to stars ..." kind of brutal.

tyler, apologies if I've already missed it, but will you be reviewing World Record anywhere?

not a review, but I just interviewed Billy Talbot yesterday! I'm slowly working my way up to Neil, haha. Should be up on Aquarium Drunkard towards the end of the month.

nice

still waiting for him to follow through on that promise

Neil Young & Promise of the Release

I prefer that touring lineup over BDSM & Young

^^50 Shades of Neil

xp - nice! can't wait to see that interview

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How do you do, fellow kids?

Harvest Time gets a couple of theatrical showings here next month--have to skip the first, so lucky I can catch the second.

Very enjoyable Neil Young birthday program from WFMU’s Joe Belock. https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/121440

Happy Bday Neil!

https://www.cbc.ca/music/neil-young-says-he-will-no-longer-tour-unless-the-venues-are-clean-1.6652645

I see you, Morrissey, and I will one-up your demands.

So I guess this means we will likely never see Neil Young tour again, unless he tours farmers markets, which would be cool.

Just picked up World Record today so I haven't had a chance to spin it yet but, lol Neil spreading out a 46 minute album over two CDs. The second disc, consisting of the final two songs, is a whopping 17 minutes.

Did someone tell him spreading out over more CDs helps fidelity too?

Saw a trailer for Harvest Time tonight, looks fantastic. I do wonder if there'll be lots of overlap with Journey Through the Past.

there's some overlap with JTTP on Harvest Time, but plenty of fresh footage and all presented in a much more pleasing fashion than that previous movie. A great watch, really takes you into the famed barn.

That's great to hear, I always hoped there'd be extra footage of Neil sitting on his car hood eating strawberries.

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2022/11/30/billy-talbot-of-crazy-horse-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview/

That's a great interview, thanks Tyler!

thanks, fun to talk to Billy!

here's a little crazy horse mix I made this week, too: https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/702450351410954240/through-hills-and-valleys-over-creeks-and-rivers

nice!

I'm going to see Harvest Time at Alamo Drafthouse this weekend. Looks fantastic.

"Chevrolet" is so great.

Don't read this if you want to see Harvest Time cold.

First thing that made me happy: in a theater that seats ~200 (196 to be exact, if I counted rows and columns correctly), I'd guess there were 70 or 80 people there tonight. I've been in a lot of near-empty theaters the last three years, so I thought that was pretty great. (The venue added two more screenings after their first two.)

Towards the end, I started thinking they could have cut maybe 20 minutes: a couple of jam-type things I didn't recognize (not sure if they were actual songs), and when you circle back to "Words" for the fourth time, I thought once again I'd never make it through Peter Jackson's Beatles film. But that was about it.

I questioned returning to "Alabama" a second time (which I love, by the way; I love "Sweet Home Alabama" even more, and love that Neil was smart enough to cry uncle and start playing Skynyrd's song live), but then it cut to CS&Y in the studio laying down backing vocals, and that was great. I thought Stills and Crosby were living under a mountain of cocaine at this point, but they seem perfectly lucid and musically engaged in the film--Stills gets off a good line later where he calls Neil on stealing from himself. I also think Stills in a black cowboy hat is one of the coolest looks ever. I love "Are You Ready for the Country"; I think like "Cripple Creek Ferry" and "Till the Morning Comes," it's one of those throwaways that captures Neil's early-'70s genius as well as anything. The most moving few minutes for me was Neil recording "A Man Needs a Maid" with the London Symphony Orchestra playing right alongside him; I'd probably always taken it for granted that the song was constructed through transcontinental overdubbing. And Neil beaming when they get it right (he was initially unhappy because he thought the LSO was lagging by half-a-second) is beautiful. The two Elliots are both in the film, Mazer and Roberts, though of course not in the same room, because that's never happened. Neil's deadpan intro to the film--the Neil of today--killed me; almost Bidenesque in its rambling, aw-shucks, is-he-losing-his-memory? folksiness. (Funniest line in the film proper was Neil saying the only thing he had to hide from the world was the fact he was a rich hippie.) There's a scene with a kid DJ (or something) in Nashville that's great, including "Maggie May" playing in the background. I so wanted Neil to say something about the song--he does bob his head a couple of times.

I'm glad drugs are minimized; except for maybe Chet Baker in Let's Get Lost, watching someone high on screen has always had minimum appeal for me. Tim Drummond (I think) pulls out his drug paraphernalia at one point, and Neil is clearly high when playing "Out on the Weekend" on the banjo, but I think that's it.

Maybe it was intentional to lead up to "Heart of Gold" and "Old Man" right at the end, but they wait so long, they almost seemed tacked on out of a sense of obligation. I wouldn't have missed them (liked hearing "Journey Through the Past" much more). Only song MIA: "The Needle and the Damage Done." Not sure what that means.

The little bit of Carrie Snodgress is touching. I wanted more, of course.

Oh--Neil's ginormous muttonchop in profile when he plays "Out on the Weekend" is reason enough in and of itself to see the film.

Wish they had provided captions when Neil was talking to the LSO conductor. In the space of a few seconds, did manage to pick up the names of Art Tatum, Ravel, Debussy, Merle Haggard (I might have misremembered that one), and Pink Floyd, who to that point Neil says he hadn't yet heard.

Some excellent new interviews up on YT. A few weeks old at the most. Sorry if these've already been posted. Great to hear him open up about process an his past.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu5qoYtMw94

Something's not right, he's smiling, not scowling.

New album's fine and loud. "Chevrolet" is long and loud (it's good).

Maybe Rubin will introduce Neil to Candace Owens too

Has this been posted before? Just saw it today, from the SNL dress rehearsal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwuhk5W3_q0

I think I posted it here somewhere, along with the other rehearsal clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiey2l4mLBc

Three dear, old friends and bandmates for over 50 years, Ralph Molina, Billy Talbot and Nils Lofgren, kept writing and recording songs in their homes during the ongoing pandemic and are proud to share this collection of their music. Their lifelong friend and bandmate Neil Young, added a special track to complete this 10 song compilation.
For friends with deep bonds, though at times on different paths, they found that, All Roads Lead Home.
ALL ROADS LEAD HOME is available for pre-order now and is out
March 31 on NYA Records via Reprise Records.
CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER
CLICK HERE TO STREAM "YOU WILL NEVER KNOW"

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ALL ROADS LEAD HOME track listing:

1. RAIN - Billy Talbot
2. YOU WILL NEVER KNOW - Nils Lofgren
3. IT’S MAGICAL - Ralph Molina
4. SONG OF THE SEASONS - Neil Young
5. CHERISH - Billy Talbot
6. FILL MY CUP - Nils Lofgren
7. LOOK THROUGH THE EYES OF YOUR HEART - Ralph Molina
8. THE HUNTER - Billy Talbot
9. GO WITH ME - Nils Lofgren
10. JUST FOR YOU - Ralph Molina
take a ride
"CHEVROLET (radio edit)"

from Michael Galluci's review of Molina, Talbot, Lofgren and Young's All Roads Lead Home, in Ultimate Classic Rock:

...Since none of the album's 10 tracks include pairings of any two of the artists, All Roads Lead Home essentially plays like four solo records collected in a single home. That makes for a scattered and occasionally unfocused listen, already a characteristic of recent Young and Crazy Horse albums. And without leader Young at the helm, the LP often comes off like something thrown together by a local bar band in their spare time.

There is some ragged appeal to the setup: Guitars crackle and pop, and split duties mean everyone is free to explore new musical avenues. Not that anyone here strays too far from their folk, rock and country comfort zones. That solo intimacy rarely translates to the one-take, mistakes-and-all spontaneity heard on recent Young and Crazy Horse albums, however.
,,,Still, the best songs arrive as individual moments (Talbot's weather-beaten voice on "Rain," the slide guitar assisting Lofgren throughout "You Will Never Know"), rather than as a satisfying whole, though Molina's "Look Through the Eyes of Your Heart" comes closest to classic Crazy Horse, complete with a savage guitar solo. It's enough to tide over fans until Young's next album with the band – which, if recent history is an indication, will be here before long.

I just read about the "CSG mix" of the 1968 s/t which was quickly replaced by a mix without Haeco-CSG processing -- has anyone here heard it? Is it worth seeking out? Just a curio?

just a curio, I used to have one, the different mixes (only a few tracks iirc? sounded more muted to me

you're talking about the pressing with just his pic on the cover and no "Neil Young" title on top, right?

yes and no

The first release of the album used the Haeco-CSG encoding system. This technology was intended to make stereo records compatible with mono record players, but had the unfortunate side effect of degrading the sound. Young was unhappy with the first release. "The first mix was awful", he was reported as saying in Cash Box of September 6, 1969. "I was trying to bury my voice, because I didn't like the way it sounded".[2]
The album was therefore partially remixed and re-released without Haeco-CSG processing. Most of the songs from the original album were re-released as-is, only without the Haeco-CSG processing. Only three were remixed, which were replaced on the master tapes: "If I Could Have Her Tonight",[3] "Here We Are in the Years", and "What Did You Do to My Life?".[4] The words "Neil Young" were added to the top of the album cover after what was left of the original stock had been used up, so copies of both mixes exist in the original sleeve. Copies of the original mix on vinyl are now rare and much sought-after by Neil Young fans who believe that the remix diminished the songs, especially "Here We Are in the Years".

that's one revision i'm a fan of.

i was in a position to have access to a lender of a copy with the original mixes in advance of committing to buy it and was very appreciative of the opportunity to save myself fifty bucks. glad i held onto my $5 70s reissue with the replacement mixes, which i will definitely agree sounded clearer and just overall better.

(granted this was all over a decade ago, so take that however)