neil young

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"

Odeon Budokan would be a no-brainer standalone vinyl LP — it's the only disc on vol 2 designed for that format. would sell like hotcakes.

(other than homegrown, I guess)

Agreed. As much as I love the Dume disc, that seems an odd one to pull out for a vinyl release.

would be nice to have that powderfinger on vinyl tho

Fair, it's killer.

i put together a nice 35-minute playlist of the Zuma-era Crazy Horse outtakes — call it My Old Neighborhood, put it on LP and it'd be perfect:

Side A
Ride My Llama
Born To Run
Kansas
Hawaii

Side B
Sedan Delivery
Pocohontas
Powderfinger
River of Pride

Could probably put the original too far gone on there, too.

oh man nice sequencing

get tyler a job in Neil's vaults post-haste tbh

He should be the David Lemieux of Neil's world. A series of Tyler's Tapes archival live shows, monthly mountain side chat videos to hype them up.

i'm waiting for that phone to ring!

Young Shakespeare is out...as expected, good solo set, but have no idea why we needed a FIFTH solo live set from the early period of his career. For me, nothing will top Massey Hall...I dunno, there's Cellar Door, Canterbury House, and Riverboat too

but hey if you want more of him singing mostly After the Gold Rush live and Harvest stuff live

i'm waiting for that phone to ring!

the phone is already ringing, it's somewhere in neil's file cabinet at NYA. it's not THAT hard to find!

I was surprised by how much I like Young Shakespeare, honestly. I went into it expecting to be underwhelmed (as ums says, did we need more of this?), but it was really enjoyable!

But I'm really looking forward to those full band bootlegs later this year.

it's good! i'm not dissing it. like in a vacuum it's a good performance. but then i was curious about cellar door's tracklist and pulled that up on spotify (they both open w/"tell me why") and then got distracted by my daughter and came back and was like "yeah this young shakespeare is pretty good" and then realized i was listening to cellar door

all of them are good, i just don't personally need to own any more of them, like i said i'd reach for massey hall personally but i think they all are good examples of his live solo stuff during that period

It's a perfectly valid point, esp considering YS was recorded only three days after Massey.

i interviewed Poncho! (before you ask, we didn't have time to get to "doghouse" ... next time!)

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2021/04/20/frank-poncho-sampedro-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview/

nice!

The Poncho interview is the best source of Neil dirt since "Shakey", amazing work, someone get Poncho to write a book!

That's great. Love that Poncho is making the rounds. It's a miracle that that guy is still alive, let alone still has all his fingers.

that was great, thanks tyler!

Really cool Tyler, great read!

so many good little interesting nuggets in that, awesome tyler!

Yeah, this is a terrific interview, thanks tyler.

great stuff. nice work!

thanks — the published interview makes my questions more coherent. the transcript is much more chris farley-esque. "when you guys recorded Cortez ... was that awesome?"

afterwards i did think about a book — seems like you miiiiiight be able to do a Crazy Horse bio without it being too redundant after Shakey. Not sure. Someone should do it.

I would buy it!

Great interview!!

what a great interview, jealous you got to speak to poncho!

this was a perfect 4/20 present, makes me wanna crank up some live Horse

I still want a Poncho shirt but I have a hunch Poncho has the only one.

just chiming in to say how much i enjoyed that interview

i only saw crazy horse twice - 2001 and 2012

2001 was a really solid selection of older songs - 2012 i really loved the psychedelic pill songs, it felt like it got close to that arc/weld feeling of touring a great new album where the (then) contemporary songs kinda feel like instant classics

oh whoops it was 2013! anyway time clearly meaningless for Crazy Horse

i saw them on that tour too, they were fucking great

they boiled a lot of boomer piss in the audience that night by playing 10 minutes of wailing feedback in the middle of the show instead of 'heart of gold' or whatever, there were numerous walkouts

just listening to the budokan set on archives ii now after reading the poncho interview and man he's really playing his ass off on 'drive back', the acid clearly agreed with him that night

xpost - it's kind of remarkable how long he's played crazy loud shit with crazy horse and how oblivious a significant portion of his audience seems to be shocked that he's not doing harvest