NEIL YOUNG ARCHIVES BOX: IT'S REALLY HAPPENING

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

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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

wait...didn't NYA launch last year? was that all a weird dream?

all in a dream, all in a dream
the uploading had begun

https://www.uncut.co.uk/news/neil-young-hints-new-archive-release-songs-judy-107701/amp

Yessss. Sounds enticing

tracklist!

https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/10/neil-young-songs-for-judy-album/

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SCmTdbiax2U/W8nqxK4RmEI/AAAAAAAAOuM/PTYbLjD8vK8kvIJywHRRFM2xdTmMr7rmACLcBGAs/s1600/songs4judy-notes.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rvVjBfcJ7w&feature=youtu.be

maybe not the most exciting release, since it's been bootlegged for decades, but it deserves to be in the official canon (and the cleaned up "Campaigner" definitely sounds great).
Does seem like it should be a double disc with Crazy Horse performances from that tour rounding out the picture, but that would make too much sense, wouldn't it.

so these are just the songs already available as the Bernstein tapes? they are great! but yes not so exciting then as a new release.

yeah as far as i can tell it's the bernstein tapes, no more no less

Is there a reason for the title, or am I an idiot for even asking?

there's a stoney monologue about judy garland at the beginning

makes me wish the canterbury house release was called Songs for Really Great Diet Pills.

This page details what you get from scrolling down to the youtube link: solo & full band, from Yesteryear of The Horse.
https://www.jambase.com/article/neil-young-crazy-horse-performing-live-in-1976

I'm a made man.

So....to get presale tickets for one of the three theater shows he's doing in Minneapolis I am a card carrying subscriber to Neil Young Archives.

Is there anything supposed to be exclusive to subscribers? I can't really find anything so far...

It's all been uploaded to yr PONO

Songs for Judy is fine but I dunno, it's like...the 5th most interesting solo acoustic Archives release?

i dunno, i think it's my favorite of his solo acoustic things? nice and stoney and loose, some real deep cuts. massey hall is probably the closest competition. it's just dumb that there isn't a second disc of crazy horse stuff from the same tour.

speaking of which, this is one of my fave electric sets from the period: https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/181018875542/neil-young-crazy-horse-music-hall-boston

lol here comes more ... it's becoming clear that neil is (even more than usual) making all of this up as he goes:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dufc59EVAAEsr-3.jpg:large

Wow... honestly though another albums worth of Ragged Glory is pretty damn exciting, also hopefully a tour? Would love to see the Nils lineup tour

yeah, it sounds awesome! just funny that 30+ years into the archives process, they're like "what the hell is this? we should put this out!"
dunno about crazy horse touring ... my guess is if they do more shows it'll be along the lines of this year's california shows (a short run).

Would love the vinyl of this but its probably gonna be like $100 isnt it

They seemed to have learned the lesson from the unsold copies of A Treasure and Americana that will be in record stores for years to come

Songs for Judy is double lp and $25ish, Hitchhiker single vinyl I think I paid around $17 but was also at my local Mom n pop so could have been cheaper probably

I'm confused...are they saying only these unreleased tracks were recorded at Plywood Analog? Because the album (according to the liner notes) was recorded at Plywood Digital, and was the second of three (or four, if you count Arc-Weld) albums he recorded digitally before he realized he hated digital recording.

haha, yeah, i have no idea.

anything relying on Neil's memory is sketchy at this point