NEIL YOUNG ARCHIVES BOX: IT'S REALLY HAPPENING

really loving this Sugar Mtn. release -- definitely a wonderful snapshot of Neil Young before he really became NEIL YOUNG. Will be interesting to see if he continues releasing these "Performance Series" discs. Seems like each one is corresponding to an album
Sugar Mountain = Self Titled
Fillmore 1970 = Everybody Knows ...
Massey Hall = After the Gold Rush
Would be great if he expanded Time Fades Away to go along with Harvest, and yeah, put out a live Tonight's the Night show. And of course, for ZUMA, put out one of those Japanese shows. Those are incredible.

I wanted it to have a mode where you didn’t have to watch it, where you could just listen to it, and there’d be like a screen saver thing up there.

^^^^what did I fucking tell you

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Warner/Music_on_High-Def/Neil_Youngs_Archives_Gets_Date,_Specs/2323

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001B8PV4U

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Vr8sVjHZL._SS420_.jpg

Only $323.99 at Amazon!

Looking at this picture makes me wish there was some sort of equivalent Neu! boxset.

Jeez, that thing costs more than the actual Blu-Ray player I'd need to buy to listen to it.

yeah this is ridiculous. But so is Neil.

ok i don't usually use my job to get freebies that we won't probably cover but i may make an exception

Run Time: 1200 minutes

Is it possible to buy the rack in the background?

As near as I can tell, TOAST was recorded at what was once "Coast Recorders" in SF, apparently changed to "Toast" sometime down the line.

Date: 22 September 1965.

Place: ‘Coast Recorders’, San Francisco CA.

Ensemble: John Coltrane Quartet: John Coltrane soprano sax, tenor sax, McCoy Tyner piano, Jimmy Garrison bass, Elvin Jones drums,

Recording:

Recording Engineer:

Alternative Issues:

Recent Available Issue: John Coltrane Quartet, Coltrane The Classic Quartet - Complete Impulse Studio Recordings, Impulse! IMPD8-280, Disc 7;Impulse!, A9225, for this item.

1. Joy (12:10)

http://neilyoungarchives.warnerbrosrecords.com/

but also http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jan/16/neil-young-fork-in-the-road

"The video – clearly a webcam recording of Old Shakey chomping on an apple, mouthing along, cotton buds in his ears – doesn't inspire much confidence. A few minutes in, he sings about blogging. Later in the video he plays air guitar as a flat-screen TV seems to be repossessed."

LOL

"A few minutes in, he sings about blogging."

... lol?

cd box set version is pretty reasonably priced :)

would love to see the blu ray thing but not for $300

yeah I'll be getting the cd version, even $200 for the dvd is kinda ridic. I mean how often are you going to want to watch Journey Through The Past? Hopefully I can borrow it from somebody once, but if not, the tunes are where it's at.

yeah, it's not ridiculously priced or anything -- hopefully the book does not take its layout cues from the booklet in the Buffalo Springfield box set ... !

yeah i am bummed they didn't include that but you're right, that seems like something you watch once and never again...

99 for 8 CDs and nice packaging is pretty awesome actually...glad i held out on buying massey hall, though i couldn't stop myself from buying the fillmore gig

xpost: you are going to watch Journey Through the Past exactly once.

xpost: you are going to watch Journey Through the Past exactly once.

and i am apparently posting that twice

feeling glad I didn't buy the massey hall or crazy horse cds, and I think it's pretty lame to include them here.

yeah, I bought a bootleg of Eat the Document a few years back, watched it once, got nauseous, and gave it to my brother. From what I've heard, Journey Through the Past is less worthy.

eat the document at least is kind of beautifully filmed in parts. Journey is just kind of gross and boring for the most part. There's some LOLs in there, but it's pretty tiresome overall.

"Got a pot belly," Young sings, "It's not too big / Gets in my way / When I'm driving my rig."

^^A+

So glad there's going to be a CD-version! If it ever actually comes out. But kinda bummed that I was over-eager and bought the Fillmore and Massey discs.

yeah, well, who could resist? the fillmore and the massey discs are incredible! just irritating that i'm going to pay for them twice ...

I got the Fillmore one on vinyl recently, its great.

fillmore's gotta be one of the top 10 live albums of all time for me.

yeah...cowgirl in the sand is so epic on that

these neil young fans who don't like "fork in the road" are dumbasses, the song is hot stuff. the video's kinda lame in a funny way - OH SHOCKER, NEIL YOUNG FANS - neil thinks videos are a joke? really? you don't fuckin say.

I'm a big rock star
my sales have tanked
I still got you
thanks

i'm still trying to wrap my head around the greendale movie which i saw a few months ago

but honestly i never get mad if neil makes stuff that is really painfully o_O or just bad...that's all part of neil being neil. he's gotta make like 4 weirdo records for every normal-ish "good" one

Greendale's about the same level of quality as the rest of Neil's movie projects.

I find it weird that there are still Neil Young fans who get angry at him for doing weird, inscrutable, fairly half-assed things. This is what he's done his entire career!

I never bought Fillmore and Massey because I knew they were going to be on here -- and i'm getting this as soon as it comes out obviously -- but woah, there is no Canterbury thing on here!

Hadn't bought that yet either ... now I guess I have to, yay!

look I love Neil's half-assed stuff too but writing about blogging...

not too far removed from "computer love"

he's not really "writing about blogging" - it's one verse in, what, ten? -

keep on blogging
til the power goes out
and the battery's dead
twist and shout -

I think it's pretty self-aware, not "maybe if I say 'blog' I'll seem current"

Neil Young is a tremendous artist, possibly on par with The Who but in a different style, playing his country rock. My favorite record has always been Ragged Glory for White Line. About trucking or cocaine I wonder?

It's not about cocaine - he wrote it decades before Ragged Glory, slightly different lyrics and the title 'River of Pride'. Great song though.

Oh I see. Yes a great song.

Also I think 'Fork in the Road' is great, or, at least the idea of it is great. I probably won't listen to the song more than 10 times in my life, but it does have some great lines. 'I got hope. But you can't eat hope' = zeitgeist of 1/2009 in 8 words.

He's an old fogey and it comes through once in a while (Twist and Shout reference, vinyl stubbornness) but he's the type of old dude who's always willing to live in the contemporary world instead of the 1960s - both musically and politically.

ok I'm getting kinda excited about this, I am appreciating the positive anticipation for this here

Excited about the new album Neil's going to put out instead of the archives? YEAHHHH. But for real, stuff like "Fork in the Road" is a big part of being a Neil Young fan! He's a lovable curmudgeon! Does what he wants! It's been that way ... forever.

haha, that archives site is now:

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no way! vicious, as that trailer was pretty cool.

finally listening to A Treasure the Neil country International Harvesters thing....gotta say, while it's certainly better than Old Ways which as bad as some of his albums have been might be the absolutely worst for me personally....a lot of this is kinda shit :|

I like Amber Jean and the version of Flying on the Ground is Wrong is pretty...actually I really like the version of Southern Pacific and Grey Riders

buuuut...man the real "country songs" on here are really fucking phony and annoying....god "Motor City" is right up there with "Let's Roll" or "This Note's for You"...obv I love Neil to death but his real strident obvious songs are just barf to me

or basically haha the album isn't bad when Neil Young is being Neil Young with a slightly kooky country band but when he tries to play the role as some kinda country singer it's really fucking bad in my opinion

it makes a case for the country years, for sure -- things like "southern pacific" and "grey riders" are fantastic. but neil's "voice of the people" country stuff can be a bit hard to swallow, it's true. you kind of want to think he's just trolling reagan america, but that might be giving it too much credit.

it's missing this great version of "interstate" which is a shame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc65mHWrS1k