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More Television -- the legendary Eno demos!

tyler:

this neil boot is obv awesome.

but what the hell is up with the audience..they are like cutting up during "long may you run" like it's some kinda fuckin' joke...wanna travel back in time and strangle these smug hippies.

yeah, and they all laugh at the ambulance blues "you're all just pissin in the wind" line. Funny, "Long May You Run" sort of *seems* like a joke song, but I actually think it's one of Neil's most touching songs. The Beach Boys line (which yeah, the audience on that boot totally guffaws at) always gets me, as a former SoCal guy.

yeah i think long may you run is totally touching.

but i guess the beach boys line would hit ppl different then, pre all the "OMG smile is a lost classic brian is a genius" stuff...i guess they were just nerd band then probably.

yeah, i'm sure a beach boys reference in 1974 would have people thinking lol corny beach boys ... though I'm sure Neil was always pretty into them -- "Let's Go Away For Awhile" is on that Journey Through the Past sdtk from around the same time.

he was also bros with dennis wilson back in the manson days i think. some sweet times, i'm sure.

I don't see how "Long May You Run" could be heard as a joke song, but the Bottom Line version is so...downbeat and intense, I don't see how they bust out. At first I thought it was because of something else that was happening, like someone falling over in the audience, but no, they laugh at particular lines of the song. The reaction to "the last time I saw you alive" is especially weird.

well, there's something funny about the concept of singing a downbeat, intense love song to your car, but Neil ends up selling it more convincingly than some of his actual love songs.

hah! I've never listened closely enough to the words to pick up that it's sung to his car (despite listening to the song for 20 years now). Even in the original version he emotes so well that yeah, it comes across as serious rather than jokey.

yeah, it's def. about his car! kinda wry, but overall, I think it's in earnest! Dude loves his cars.

yeah I get it now, the "chrome heart" business, long may you run rather than malfunction. I could see laughing now except for the way Neil pulls it off on the boot, so slow.

plenty more Neil on the way, once I get through with this epic television overview I've got planned. might go deep into the 80s with neil next time. was just listening to a great int'l harvesters set.

hey tyler since u seem to be a neil bootleg ninja...

is there a different version of "ordinary people" floating around, without the bad 80s production that's on the "chrome dreams II" version?

there's a live version with the Bluenotes, but it sounds essentially the same -- almost like they recorded it on the same day! i made a neil young in the 80s bootleg mix a while back with that, the 20-minute crime in the city, interstate and a bunch of other interesting stuff. maybe i'll post that as the next neil installment.

wow, that would be great! I've never heard the 20 min "Crime In The City".

What about the Eldorado EP? I guess that's not technically a bootleg but I've never heard it...the ones floating around the net seem to just be the versions off Freedom plus "Cocaine Eyes" and "Heavy Love", but I gather there's a different version of "Don't Cry" that's like a minute longer (all feedback). I'd love to hear it sometime.

i might be wrong but i think the songs from the el dorado EP that also show up on Freedom are the same versions? Maybe they're different mixes. the long "Crime in the City" is definitely worth hearing! A lot of verses!

ok, even more Television has been posted. We're not even past 1975! This show is a great one though. Maybe the best pre-Marquee Moon show ...

wow that television show! thank u so much

wow dude I'm still catching up. This Feelies show!! Slipping Into Mayhem! I've only heard the mislabeled 86 show at the Rat w/r/t live Feelies, which is terrific but this... scorching stuff.

"Dude loves his cars"

And his dogs.
A friend of mine had a 1976 bootleg from Osaka, I think - I remember it being totally killer, do you maybe have something like that too? :)

yeah the osaka 1976 show was one of the first neil bootlegs i ever heard, i think -- a friend bought it on tape at some random pasadena record store. it's incredible -- that whole 1976 Japanese tour is one of the best Neil Young/Crazy Horse period. There'll definitely be some of that on the blog soon.

there's a live version with the Bluenotes, but it sounds essentially the same -- almost like they recorded it on the same day! i made a neil young in the 80s bootleg mix a while back with that, the 20-minute crime in the city, interstate and a bunch of other interesting stuff. maybe i'll post that as the next neil installment.

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man i keep wishing that some awesome version done by him and crazy horse around ragged glory or something like that will surface

would love to hear that 80s stuff though.

listening to the george harrison now, really nice!

this blog rules.

thx dude, glad you're liking it. i'm having a good time digging through all this stuff.

Thanks, Tyler!

Adding in again. Some mighty fine stuff here.

aw, thanks. more Television demos up now. The "Little Johnny Jewel" sessions. This Television thing is becoming kind of epic. I just have a lot of it.

lovin this feelies

sooooo good

it's so fast!

for such a mild-mannered looking band, they're actually kind of ferocious. i mean, i hear about how intense and nuts bands like sonic youth and husker du and big black were in the 80s, but these recordings of the feelies are just as intense, if not moreso.

my foot tapping is driving my roommate crazy i think

crazy

rhythm

yet more Television -- a tasty set from early 1976.

a double shot of Television at the end of 1976 is up now. This is one of the must-haves.

yuk!!!

can't wait to hear this.

even if yr not downloading, it's worth a look just for the CBGB ad posted. Feelies, John Cale, Television, Talking Heads all in the span of a couple weeks. Twas a hot time on the Bowery.

another late 1976 Television show up now ...

"Feelies, John Cale, Television, Talking Heads all in the span of a couple weeks"

its disgusting! :)

in tiny print: "Ramones canceled."

and that must've been one of the Feelies first gigs, too. I think they formed in 1976.

Television were really channeling VU in that '75 version of Breaking in my heart.

Not that Kingdom Come is bad.

yeah, "Breakin In My Heart" is definitely their version of the "Sister Ray"/"Roadrunner" riff there. Love that recording so much ...

Weird to know that most of the best Verlaine's songs were already written before their 1st album.

right? the bulk of the second album was already written in 75 ... he had a pretty productive period. i like Verlaine live in the 80s, but mainly for the guitar playing/band interplay. He definitely didn't write that many classic songs after Television called it quits.

so we've finally made it to 1977 with this Television overview. I've posted one of the weirder shows I've got: Television opening for ... Peter Gabriel.

now up, Television plays Manchester, spring of 1977 ...

I saw that earlier - the situation really sucks. Any hope of retrieval from the internet archive or anything?

hopefully tyler kept all these files, bummer

I was just marveling at the excellent unreleased John Cale stuff I got from Doom & Gloom. I hope you work something out!

Tumblr say it ain't so. Ugh

Anyone heard about this new site, Toom & Dloom?

Lol, all a big misunderstanding apparently. We are back in business. Was a stressful day yesterday though!

Happy for you and for us

oh good!

undoomed and degloomed

Gloom Exhumed From the Tomb

like jesus, rising from the tomb on a sunday morning.

i do have to get off of tumblr though.

I pay about $100 a year to host Burning Ambulance on Wordpress and the site's never gone down or given me the slightest problem in 11 years.

Big round up of live tapes posted in the year 2021. https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/671827546213646336/doom-gloom-the-year-in-bootlegs-pharoah-sanders

!!! yay

Too good. Lose yourself....

awesome thanks Tyler!

guys, I'm over on substack now if that's what you're into.

https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.substack.com/

yay!

Interesting

2023 bootleg roundup! https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/737147848129495040/the-year-in-bootlegs

some crucial re-ups in there ...

Cool.

nice!