neil young

Dug up Shakey tonight,

Thanks to Hitchhiker, this has been my go-to storm thumb-through reading the past few weeks (first read it in anticipation of Archives I back in '09).

suggestion for the Doghouse:Doghouse panel moderator

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man, hithchhiker is a really nice package overall — this should be the template going forward, well-done one-offs, affordable vinyl, amazing tunes. funny that they used the same sand background as on the beach's inner sleeve. recycling!

listed as "special release series disc 5" -- so what are the ones before that? Time Fades Away II, Tonight's the Night uncut, Homegrown, Dume? Confusing as to how these things are characterized ...

lol who knows

https://www.discogs.com/label/1324223-Neil-Young-Archives-Special-Release-Series

from wiki: Neil Young has also announced a part of the archives known as the Special Release Series. Toast, a previously unreleased album recorded in 2000 with Crazy Horse, was the first album to be announced as being part of the Special Release Series.[13] Though announced in 2008, Toast remains unreleased as of September 2017. It was then announced that the second volume of Archives would include four SRS releases; the studio albums Homegrown, Chrome Dreams and Oceanside/Countryside, and the unreleased live album Odeon-Budokan.

if he's going chronologically though, chrome dreams and oceanside-countryside would come after hitchhiker.

Though announced in 2008, Toast remains unreleased as of September 2017.

classic neil

He burns his toast at home too.

what's this "Tonight's the Night uncut"?

the OG David Briggs version of the record, with Neil's monologues included
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cu2SscZUMAEhIfs.jpg

sounds cool, is it officially released?

Nope

kinda obsessed with the hitchhiker version of 'captain kennedy' right now - so stark and the lyrics are so good

Yeah that's one where this version is a clear winner over the originally released version

Really surprised he didn't recycle Give Me Strength for Harvest Moon, it feels like a song from that record

is there some bootleg on which give me strength appears? i know that & hawaii have never been released before but i know i've heard that tune

I read he did it live from time to time.

I had not heard it but it sounded like it was more likely to be out there on live boots than "Hawaii"

he played "Give Me Strength" on his fall '76 tour (and then it popped up randomly in the late 90s for a one-off). never played "hawaii" (or at least if he did it wasn't taped).

oh and hey, i wrote this thing, which kinda follows "hitchhiker" (the song) through the decades. http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2017/09/11/neil-young-a-hitchhiker-on-the-road/

btw that Dylan anecdote "That's real honest, Neil" is such an epic Dylan line

for a sec I thought y'all were talking about "Hawaiian Sunrise" but no

good piece tyler, thx!

btw that Dylan anecdote "That's real honest, Neil" is such an epic Dylan line

yeah, the cryptic burn hidden inside a gnomic compliment is classic dylan, the kind of statement that probably keeps the recipient up at night for decades afterwards

"Shit...did he say, 'That's real honest, Neil,' like he was being sarcastic? Or was it more, 'That's real honest, Neil,' which would be a compliment? Maybe it was, 'That's real honest, Neil,' which could be taken either way...?"

it does seem like neil has thought about it a lot haha ... during an interview last week he repeated the story, adding something like "uhh can you tell me if it's a good song, bob?"

Speaking of "Hitchhiker" the song, I just noticed he dropped a ref to Carrie Snodgress in the Le noise version, subbing "while the summer passed" for "with my Chicago lass".

Also: Picked up the Uncut w/Tyler's Neil piece this weekend. Good stuff, but docked a few points for no sidebar on the mysterious lineage of "Doghouse".

Completely enamored with Hitchhiker, it's a real fly on the wall experience.

Just for fun:

Hitchhiker			Earliest official appearance
Pocahontas		3:27	Rust Never Sleeps	(1979)	3:22
Powderfinger		3:23	Rust Never Sleeps	(1979)	5:30
Captain Kennedy		2:52	Hawks & Doves		(1980)	2:50
Hawaii			2:38	n.a.
Give Me Strength	3:40	n.a.
Ride My Llama		1:50	Rust Never Sleeps 	(1979)	2:29
Hitchhiker		4:37	Le Noise		(2010)	5:31
Campaigner		4:19	Decade			(1977)	3:30
Human Highway		3:17	Comes A Time		(1978)	3:09
The Old Country Waltz	3:37	American Stars 'N Bars	(1977)	2:58

Ultimately I guess it's a good thing this didn't come out at the time as we might have been robbed of the Crazy Horse Powderfinger

man this thing just sucks you in right away

the version of "Campaigner" is really really good

xpost Which we also might not have had if Lynyrd Skynyrd had recorded it as planned.

will be interesting when/if we get to hear "powderfinger" as recorded by neil and crazy horse during the Zuma sessions ...

also, if you haven't seen this, it's back on yoututbe for the time being:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EpdLMHJLrc

will be interesting when/if we get to hear "powderfinger" as recorded by neil and crazy horse during the Zuma sessions

[desire for archives vol ii intensifies]

"Shit...did he say, 'That's real honest, Neil,' like he was being sarcastic? Or was it more, 'That's real honest, Neil,' which would be a compliment? Maybe it was, 'That's real honest, Neil,' which could be taken either way...?"

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 11 September 2017 15:10 (yesterday) Permalink

And esp considering how much coke he was on a the time and in general his tendency to edge toward paranoia I can easily see Neil turning this comment over in his head like this for decades.

"And then came paranoia, and it ran away with me
Bob said he liked this song, or was he just fucking around with me?"

ok fine I guess I will try to find a free dl of this somewhere...

Check the internet.

why don't you buy it and help support high-definition digital music players and saving the environment with electric cars

i can't keep track of neil's decisions (can anyone?) - i see this (and all) his albums on spotify, didn't he remove them at some point? when did they get back on there?

xpost To be fair, Neil releasing this is a little like recycling.

i can't find the vinyl anywhere now, i hope it's temporary and Neil's not going to consign it to the land of the Sleeps with Angels and Year of the Horse LPs.

yeah he made a huge stink about taking them off streaming...said streaming was worse quality that AM radio (haha)...

then quietly all the stuff reappeared. i took it to mean that he accepted that PONO was a failure and that Spotify cut him a big check.

You can't spell Spotify without the P and O from PONO.

xxp I got it for 18 bucks in my local store yesterday, sooo much cheaper than his previous vinyl

yeah for a while the geffen albums were all that spotify had, which was quietly beautiful in its own way. but now it's all up there, i think?

currently have no money to spend on records and don't feel *too* bad about not giving money directly to Neil tbh.

xp

i'm sure it'll be around...the LP was $15.99 on Amazon and i was waiting for my next round of points to hit, and then i look at it's $4 more and it's unavailable. i appreciate that this one isn't $80!

xp seems like listening on spotify free and giving neil your ad money would be the better moral compromise

I see you are unfamiliar with my opinions on spotify

I am all too familiar with those opinions

And esp considering how much coke he was on a the time and in general his tendency to edge toward paranoia I can easily see Neil turning this comment over in his head like this for decades.

― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, September 12, 2017 2:18 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

As Ginsberg said about Dylan on the Rolling Thunder tour, "His munificence was engorged with snow"