NEIL YOUNG ARCHIVES BOX: IT'S REALLY HAPPENING

Cellar Door was so small (I saw a show there 9 years after Neil Young was there). Would have been great to have seen there. But yeah, more Neil with Horse would be better

yeah i've seen pics of the cellar door interior - easy to imagine seeing a solo singer-songwriter there, but realllllly hard to imagine what it was like to see Miles Davis' group there in 1970.

Odds that this will be included in Archives II? Good.

Isn't it outside the timeline for Archives II?

Yeah, Miles in that room was probably like a 747 jet engine in a closet.

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yeah would be weird if it was in archives II -- should've been in archives 1, chronologically speaking. but neil does what neil wants, so who knows.

Yeah, I guess it's a different era.

Mostly just venting, because including those live albums in the last box was pretty lame, seeing as they were sold stand alone months in advance, no? I'm wary of buying any Neil stand alone stuff at this point. It'd be like paying for access to a Prince website. Caveat emptor.

they should all just be stand alone imo -- maybe two-disc archives releases a la dylan's bootleg series instead of these massive box sets.

yeah that would be great....

just like, here's two discs of the time fades away tour, here's two discs of tonight's the night sessions, here's two discs of tonight's the night live stuff, here's two discs of on the beach sessions... etc! not that complicated!

but BLU RAY

PONO!

google thinks that when i google blu ray pono I am searching for something else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82gvrh6GXuE
trailer for the cellar door thing. complained upthread, but the snippets sound kind of cool -- that piano "cinnamon girl"! and piano "flying on the ground is wrong"!

ok, the solo piano "expecting to fly" makes this release worthwhile

haha damnit tyler i'm a little broke lately!!!! quit it!

pre order cd is only $11 on amazon

the vinyl is reallllly expensive imho

All his recent vinyl releases have been prohibitively expensive. He must really hate the format, and want people to avoid it.

POMO POMO POMO

Whatever, now I'm excited for this and I'll drop another $12 for another live set I might not need. On a tangent here, but I've been spending time with the Ducks Santa Cruz stuff, so much fun!

yeah, just wrote a little bit about my fave thing from those ducks shows here: http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2013/11/12/neil-young-the-ducks-little-wing-santa-cruz-1977/
lotsa good times on those tapes.

cool maybe i'll get the CD...though i get pissed because i want vinyl and it's too damn much

also i'm still a little salty from having bought stuff like the live at fillmore and then ended up buying it again when it was included on the box set :/

yeah, i'm sure that'll happen again whenever 2 finally drops. but such is the nature of being a fan of this fuckin' guy.

piano "flying on the ground is wrong"!

love the carnegie hall version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96IJIegiR24&t=48m38s

isn't neil's vinyl so expensive because he gets it pressed at some super fancy hi-end factory in germany?

^ "flying on the ground" starts at 48:41, ilx apparently doesn't like youtube time embeds

I'm near Germany-ish (London)! It should be even cheaper!

after all my complaining i really like Cellar Door

#addict

but it's good...the piano focus kinda makes it feel different
and neil sounds even more bummed out than usual

yeah, pfork review was dead-on when it said "it holds the most value for the Neil obsessives interested in the small differences."

I haven't listend, but like a dutiful little Neil fanatic I picked it up last night. I'll surely be shaking my head when it pops up again as part of Archives Vol. 2 in 2021.

guess i'm assuming it won't be in the next volume of the archives since it is not part of the time period that volume will cover. but of course, neil doesn't always make the sensible moves with this sort of thing.

i really thought the pitchfork review was great

that whole thing about neils little remark about how he feels like he doesn't know people who don't get high like him and the audience kind of takes it as a hippie inside joke like LOL @ the squares but neils really saying he can't relate to other ppl anymore was a great observation

hated it. the first useless Archive release.

what a dour listen! not sure what I think yet

Cellar Dour

guess i'm assuming it won't be in the next volume of the archives since it is not part of the time period that volume will cover. but of course, neil doesn't always make the sensible moves with this sort of thing.

ha, yeah, i was half joking, but who knows anymore. i just hope volume 2 actually does come out, no matter whats in it. my real fear is that it'll be released in like pono only or something and you can only listen to it by buying a $1,300 pono player.

...which can only be installed and properly listened to in a fully-loaded LincVolt.

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/154-neil-youngs-missing-archives/
good overview of some bootleggy things over on pfork today (and a plug for Doom & Gloom!). wow.

gonna say, i learned about 100% of those boots from your blog

the availability of the boots, at least - some of the shows are mentioned in Shakey

pretty funny, my older brother and i were just noting that it's been 20 years since our first neil young bootleg -- that bottom line 1974 show blew my 14-year-old mind.

Nice!

Bottom Line was the first bootleg I had too, and I got it just about 20 years ago as well. Must have spread fast (and yeah, it totally blew my mind at the time).

curious as to what neil was doing in NYC at that point (yes I'm a nerd about Neil Young). i think there was something in Shakey about him doing a session with Robbie Robertson around this time? maybe I'm making that up.

for some reason i can't even imagine Neil Young being in New York but i'm sure he's been there a zillion times

he was there after the gold rush

http://www.popspotsnyc.com/afterthegoldrush/

Great research. Would be interested to know a little bit about the "small, old woman" I've looked at a thousand times.

knowing neil, archives vol. 2 could very well be a 23-blu-ray version of "arc"

or a .mp4 file of "journey through the past" with croatian subtitles

Interview in the new Uncut: "Every record I've ever made" will be available on Pono in the fall (including Time Fades Away). Also, "Archives 2 still has a year to go before it's released, and it'll be released in a digital format and it will have a lot of the same content that the Blu-ray (of the first Archives) had."

BUT in the new Mojo Neil says, "[Archives 2] will be completed in late June. It'll be in Pono; that's the way it will be delivered." No other format? "There may be a few people who want the Blu-ray. We'll have to talk to the record company about that but it won't be released until next year."

So, in summation, Archives 2 will never be released in any format ever.

knowing neil, archives vol. 2 could very well be a 23-blu-ray version of "arc"

ARChives volume 23