NEIL YOUNG ARCHIVES BOX: IT'S REALLY HAPPENING

*choke*

also something call Live Freedom? (unreleased?) from 89? tyler?

goddamn it, they have the Eldorado EP but only On Broadway and El Dorado, no Cocaine Eyes!!

Unreleased album from 86 (after Landing on Water on timeline):

Crazy Horse Garage (placeholder)

films are on the timeline too but just placeholder...."Solo Trans" dir Hal Ashby?

yeah that was briefly on youtube ... pretty wild shocking pinks encore.

Unreleased album "Solo Trans"!!!!!!! (all these are placeholder but still)....

btw Neil Young in Berlin is on the timeline too so Solo Trans is not the concert on YouTube

Unreleased album 78 - The Boarding House

so much stuff is happening today i feel a bit faint tbh

fingers crossed for doghouse obv

lol the info about the unreleased stuff is ... not helpful. but Roxy Live from 1973 is new to me ... that would be awesome.

Unreleased album 69 - Crazy Horse Early Daze

Crazy Horse Garage (placeholder)

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 1 December 2017 18:31 (four minutes ago) Permalink

I wonder if this is a live recording from the "Rusted Out Garage" tour?

browsing through this archive is a total fucking nightmare

classic neil

i love neil but this is what you get when someone who doesn't know anything about UI designs the UI

it's like i realize it's an archive and in some ways a filing cabinet is a metaphor but you didn't have to make us all literally "thumb through" the digital file cabinet neil!!!! fuck

the website is shaped like a Toblerone

the mynah birds motown single is up but not playable

‘fuckit, they’ve waited 40 years for this stuff, let’s make ‘em jump through some final hoops before getting to that dictaphone recording of ‘t-bone’ from 1981’

this is so weird.
if you see a song, click on the little "file" icon on the track list, it brings up all sorts of stuff like photos and even sheet music and stuff, handwritten lyrics

doesn't seeeem like there's anything to listen to that isn't just previously released stuff

he talks about that early daze thing in one of the memoirs — from what I understand it's early horse material from before neil hooked up with them.

what's "The Complex Sessions" (w/Crazy Horse directed by Jonathan Demme 95?)

also there's weird unreleased tracks in the file cabinet thing that aren't attached to any album if you spot em, like I found a file for an Americana-era Crazy Horse cover of this Pistol Annies/Miranda Lambert song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spjaA8rZEXM

there's content-free "files" for Soundtrack 1, Soundtrack 2, Soundtrack 3, and Soundtrack 4 that look to be placed between Peace Trail and The Visitor

this is too much

this interface is ridiculous

complex sessions is a sleeps with angel-era live in the studio vhs (can't remember if it ever came out on dvd)

yeah I have no idea what any of you guys are talking about because navigating this thing is totally impenetrable

oh well

to think I once saw the archives with my own eyes

i was going to say "hey if anyone manages to find something cool send a link" but i'm not sure links would work?

like, this is a link to Le Noise: does it work for anyone else: http://www.neilyoungarchives.com/#/album?id=A_072&_k=x71iqr

nope

lol at this thing. there are pop-ups on top of pop-ups

that Le Noise link worked for me!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DP-YVukUEAAsOce.jpg:large

on the individual songs there are also "official videos" for songs i didn't know had official videos

what a lunatic

I have to say this is DEFINITELY better than Dylan's "let's release a steady stream of affordable 2CD sets with great liner notes" approach that everyone was so sick of

sort of wish neil had never heard of the internet

ok, maybe i should actually read through the tutorial for this, but...what is the structure of this thing? it's chronological, only some of the songs from albums are visible unless you click the folder tabs? and why do some songs have multiple tabs on the same row (left and right side)? i get that the middle tab is for albums and other official releases, but...wtf is going on here

forget it karl it's shakeytown

that link started working for me, but then took like 10 minutes and still didn't finish loading.

btw Neil Young in Berlin is on the timeline too so Solo Trans is not the concert on YouTube

Different shows. Berlin is the last TransBand show, filmed by Michael Lindsey-Hogg in late '82 and originally shown on HBO. Solo Trans is an American concert from the next year's Trans TV tour, with was Neil by himself and with the Shocking Pinks on the encore.

Solo Trans is up in bits and pieces on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_wL1YMhLao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAyG_u8mWxA

yeah Berlin (which is readily available) is 82. solo trans is 83 w/ shocking pinks, and only popped up in full on youtube briefly a couple years ago. might've been released on VHS though?

also is there going to be (god help us)...an app?

that '83 tour is a great Neil time-capsule. At the time fans/critics seemed generally confused at what he was going for but in the context of the height of Reagan-era in the US Neil's p much right in stride with what was going on culturally - synthesizers, 50s nostalgia, a general hokiness and cardboard-thin optimism

browsing through this archive is a total fucking nightmare

― Karl Malone, Friday, December 1, 2017 6:39 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

classic neil

― hi i’m darren and i’m a bouncer from bendigo (bizarro gazzara), Friday, December 1, 2017 6:40 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol otm this is impossible to navigate ffs!

so it's basically the blu-ray version of the archives with the next 40something years tacked on (in varying stages of completion).

I should've just rented a U-haul, stolen all those reels, and digitized them myself

"Old man, look at my life. It's in a subfolder B after you right-click on that little LincVolt logo dealie...no, the other one."

I should've just rented a U-haul, stolen all those reels, and digitized them myself

the icon for the "play" button is the same icon as the "next" button

classic neil