NEIL YOUNG ARCHIVES BOX: IT'S REALLY HAPPENING

keyhole = search is seriously grade A classic neil

woah i got over 3,800 in audio quality then it crashed
icarus flew too close to the sun

i'm not even gonna bother with this tbh

just gonna wait until neil dies and someone else puts this stuff out in a reasonable way

Drawer makes clacky ratchet sound when it opens, but folders don't make whispy shuffle sound as you flip through them.

I love that the search icon is a keyhole from the game Myst

neil saw some late 90s "enhanced cd-rom" things and was impressed

Needs to integrate winamp visualizer plugins for full psychedelic pill effect.

it is kinda hilarious how much this resembles his Blu-ray menu crap from the late 90s/early 00s

neil: gedda hold of this idea: you'll be able to click on the jpeg, and that'll open up other things you can play with!
neil hanger-ons ('the booger boys'): sounds great neil

Neil would never use the word jpeg

Do you have to "log in" in order to get access? Neil, you shouldn't have to log in to get into the Doghouse

I love that the search icon is a keyhole from the game Myst

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown),

Elliott Roberts kicks open the office door: "GODDAMMIT WHICH ONE OF YOU MOTHERFUCKERS SHOWED NEIL MYST?! THIS ARCHIVE IS NEVER GOING FUCKING MAKE SENSE!"

(joke h/t to trylerw)

Also please tell me that Neil's management office is a Mad Men/Barney Miller style office bullpen where people smoke and discuss Neil albums that don't eventually get released and there is office intrigue and Elliott Roberts has a big office at the far end of the room and omg this could be a prestige cable drama!

Show Me A Pono

Assistant: Elliott, the tracklisting for Homegrown has gone missing. I'm so sorry.

Roberts: [softly weeps]

at work, so I haven't tried this yet, but i'm dying reading these descriptions

same here, just laughing to myself reading you guys and trying to imagine the fucking mess

ice cold

https://s7.postimg.org/6xo0p0iaj/stills.jpg

hahahahahaaaa

does anything on the search function work?

If you land on the front page, and click the 'back' button in the top left it takes you back to... the page you were on before you went to the Neil Young Archives! In my case: Google, googling Neil Young Archives. This is insanity!

XP 10 Men Workin' (IIRC)

does anything on the search function work?

― tylerw, Friday, December 1, 2017 3:01 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not really with the exception of typing in proper names of album titles afaict

If you land on the front page, and click the 'back' button in the top left it takes you back to... the page you were on before you went to the Neil Young Archives! In my case: Google, googling Neil Young Archives. This is insanity!

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, December 1, 2017 3:02 PM (fifty-one seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i noticed this

now this site isn't playing music at all even with the Neil Switch flipped to low quality :(

neiltendo switch

"Neil, the servers are crashing"

"I don't care, the people must have FULL QUALITY"

Got The Quality/Ain't Got No Streamin'

Forgot about this until just now, but I'm knee-deep in this site and trying to swim. Some of the extra memorabilia is frustrating cause there's not enough info on it, like the multiple handwritten tracklists for the 1st album with titles I don't know:

http://images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/1968_0828_02_docs02/9a34d36a680bd9e86ca507cc4ce7215e/1968_0828_02_docs02.png

Based on the way he's set it up, you'd think those weirdo-titles would show up as individual listings, just without a playback option, but nope.

Also, if any of you still use soulseek, I just checked and somebody's got a DVD-RIP of the Hal Ashby Solo Trans Film that downloads quick. It's a great document of that era - during Don't Be Denied the giant video screen starts playing Springfield TV and Harvest barn rehearsal clips from Journey Through, and the crowd flips out. 'I've Got A Problem' is there too, better than the Catalyst Crazy Horse version imo.

also also, if you're patient you can manage to pull the photos/scans out:

Briggs' tape box art from 'Everybody Knows' era:

http://images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/1969_0123_01_memo02/b44ffe8ed59f6590e6ab08022db7ea0e/1969_0123_01_memo02.png

haha loving all these descriptions

My team and I have spent years developing this site to make it both enjoyable and easy to use.

this thing is working pretty well for me now, currently jamming the Fillmore 1970 "Cowgirl"

has anyone tried buying a track?

interesting thing lurking in the archives code ... this would be GOOD. live debut of Tonight's the Night in 1973.

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lL8NDNVn5zM/WigwaxJEsTI/AAAAAAAANfk/6R-GcDTWwacWt9ec8wk7uGpjsVPn_NOiwCLcBGAs/s1600/roxy-cover.jpg

I approve of this decision, Neil you can go ahead and release this

another unreleased placeholder album that either has been added or I didn't notice before:

Alchemy from 2012 (grouped w/Americana and Psychedelic Pill)...the art says it's a Crazy Horse album but when you click it says Neil Young

Toast is on there now in 01 not sure if it was

Alchemy was a post-psychedelic pill live album that Neil teased at some point if I remember correctly. Think it was touted as the completion of the Rust Trilogy, which is something Neil made up (after having forgotten about year of the horse).

I love how this whole thing creates more questions than it answers

classic neil

Glanced at this site, still confused. Is it just a pile of streamable files? Can you download, or does that cost money?

right now it's just a very weirdly organized streaming site built around either a weird timeline or "file cabinet" interface
you can buy hi-rez files from some weird neil young orastream site but the albums end up costing $20+ for downloads, or it links off to physical copies on amazon
haven't had much lucking getting songs to actually play today could be my work connection tho :/

but you can get a tour from neil himself!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=fPKbeSRnox0

News Items From The Archives Page (That You Can't C'n'P From):

Film and Audio for Alchemy, chronicling the most recent Crazy Horse tour, is imminent...pending on the finalization of the cover art.

The '73 Roxy collection is in pre-production and should be ready "in time for a March release"

A weekly "Movie Night" of vault footage is coming to the website.

News Items From The Archives Page (That You Can't C'n'P From)

lol

who knows if it'll actually come out in march ... but i am psyched for that roxy 73 release.

dodgy audience tape of one of those nights is here ... band is smoking: http://ia801309.us.archive.org/13/items/NeilYoung1973-09-21LateTheRoxyLosAngelesCA/NeilYoung1973-09-21LateTheRoxyLosAngelesCA.mp3?cnt=0

I want to share with you that I have made a place for my music to live.

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A giant time machine cabinet.

There are files and files for years and years, all full of music. Albums and tracks, bits and pieces, manuscripts and art, film and video. I live there.

Each song is being backed up with the archival material that relates to it and to the creation of it, from song writing to band jams, the history of this music is there. It’s never finished, it is huge and growing. We work night and day expanding the window you can see this archival stuff through.

Come and visit the cabinet and take a look inside. If you like my music, this should be a good place to wander and spend the light and dark hours.

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If you want to hear my music and would like to have the option to listen to it with all the depth and glory of high resolution, it will be there. All my new records can be heard there first, before they get released anywhere else. New unreleased albums from the archives, old unreleased albums from the archives. Will always be heard there first.

Our machine is a monster.

Tickets to all our shows will be offered there first, and occasionally we will have surprise live streams from our Hearse Theatre, for those who can’t attend. We just streamed the 5/5/18 NYCH Reunion. Right now we are offering the best seats in the house for a short series of SOLO shows in Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis and Boston to our NYA Community friends and members first, before tickets are made available to the public. After June 1, our presale tickets will be available to members only, so join us if you can.

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It stands for neilyoungarchives.com, in the language of the day.

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Parts of NYA will always be free.

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Hope to see you there.

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portable this fall. on the web now

When tracks become downloadable as opposed to streamable, and the site isn't a giant baffling clusterfuck, I will subscribe

it literally doesn't work on phones is the thing that blows me away

classic neil

I can think of no legitimate reason why Homegrown still has not been released, and it infuriates me to no end. That's Neil tho