NEIL YOUNG ARCHIVES BOX: IT'S REALLY HAPPENING

I love Neil, but Archives remains a shit deal. I can't justify it. Such a pity that he isn't as laissez-faire as Dylan, and can't allow something à la Bootleg Series.

― Duke, Thursday, September 4, 2014 6:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the performance series is pretty similar, no?

― mizzell, Friday, September 5, 2014 5:48 PM (3 hours ago)

Fair point. But there could be so much more.

You doubters will be shocked and saddened when Neil suddenly makes dozens of shows available for download exclusively to those who bought the Blu-ray edition.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/neil-young-guitarist-poncho-sampedro-wants-one-last-crazy-horse-tour-20140905

He's always thinking about what he's doing today and tomorrow, and right now he has acoustic shows, Pono and he's working on a fiction novel."

Not mentioned: Archives 2.

Ha those poncho interviews are so funny. For a guy who has been pretty close to shakey for 40 years he still has zero idea what is going to happen next.

Yeah, and apparently they don't exactly hang out while on tour if Frank had to send Neil an email about set list suggestions.

After he wraps his current tour in October, Young will continue work on Archives II, the follow-up to 2009's Archives, which collected unreleased material up to 1972. Young says the project will include Dume, an album of songs from the Zuma era, and Hitchhiker, an acoustic LP from the mid-Seventies. The major holdup has been developing technology for presenting the ambitious project: "We're gonna have a website that's, like, 60 years of music in chronological order, with links so you can look at my archives and play the music off the high-res source at the same time." So what's it like to reflect on all he's accomplished over the years? "I don't," he says. "I need to take a break and go to the bathroom."

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so much about that is amazing

can a website be pono

poll

I wonder if they could do a *Pono Certified* program for websites like those Energy Star ratings they have on washing machine and shit

also no mention of the albums Homegrown, Oceanside/Countryside, or the original Chrome Dreams??

would "Dume" or "Hitchhiker" be another name for one of those?

Chrome Dreams definitely existed, I have a bootleg of it, and it think it might have even gone to test pressing before being pulled

yeah i think this is just in addition to those other ones -- Dume and I'm assuming Hitchiker are collections that have been recently put together, as opposed to albums that were sequenced and prepped back in the 70s.

but it's just crazy, does neil young even look at the internet? why does he care about a website. put out DUME on vinyl, that's all you need to do. it'll look and sound great!

tbh I really love the version of "Hitchhiker" one Le Noise, I love the songs on that where the song quality actually rises to the level of the production and that vers. is p psychedelic

yeah that one is great ...
probably mentioned above, but neil's people talked about these coming out separately
Four unreleased albums from this period are being rebuilt and will be available in the NYA Special Release Series. Chrome Dreams, Homegrown and Oceanside-Countryside are the three unreleased studio albums. Also from this period is the unreleased Odeon-Budokan live recording produced by David Briggs and Tim Mulligan. These albums initially will be released in vinyl from analog masters as they originally were created for that format.

sweet i hope they stick to that plan

or better yet can Bob Dylan's management and production team stage a hostile takeover of Neil's archives and handle it from here on out?

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Just then, his Samsung phone rings; the ringtone is his own voice shouting "Hello?!"

<3 <3 <3

Oh, man, what a bummer. If Neil is designing a website to play music, that means the internet is truly on the cusp of irrelevance. RIP internet.

http://www.neilyoungarchives.com/notescroll.html

holy shit

tyler do you know anything about this based on your recent writing/research etc?

cuz that sounds fucking amazing if true

though does this mean they aren't going to do physical stuff anymore??

Hm, he says you can "see" unreleased albums, but doesn't explicitly say you can stream them. It would be incredible, though, if he just dumped everything onto the site. And "associated...films and videos" would theoretically mean the '76 Crazy Horse tour...!

haha, yeah, pretty vague at the moment -- will there be things on here from 64-72 that weren't on the archives box set? i don't really know anything else.

can we change this thread title to "IT'S REALLY NEVER HAPPENING"

The Archives will be the town of Greendale recreated as a Myst-style video game where you must explore Greendale, talking to locals and finding clues to unlock Neil's music

please don't show neil Myst

I hope when this goes live there's a drawer that's just "Doghouse"

Welcome to NYA, the doghouse of my music

Is this before or after they fix the pono web site?

neil only knows.
in the meantime, this is back on the schedule -- https://www.amazon.com/Hitchhiker-Neil-Young/dp/B072JVDRWC/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1501870010&sr=1-1&keywords=neil+young+hitchhiker

glad the vinyl doesn't seem to be absurdly overpriced ...

yeah if they went back and put some sane prices on shit i'd buy a shitload of neil vinyl

I think it's been locked out of the market by the domestic reissue, but there used to be a nice official German press of Zuma that retailed for about $15.

neil has confused amazon, though. the status of my hitchhiker pre-order, which had today as release date:
Arriving today by 8 PM
Not yet shipped

special sedan delivery

Considering it's all acoustic I really like the energy of this OG "Hitchhiker" (the song), at least in its first two and half minutes or so.

yeah, so good. i do wonder if there's a crazy horse version from that era in the vaults. i can imagine it, anyway.

Neil has a very heavy downstroke/palm mute on/off thign on acoustic, he can get a real heavy feel to an acoustic song that no one else quite does

what's the difference between the cd archive 1-4 box set on amazon for £66 quid and the one i picked up in hmv this lunchtime for £13? (2009 remaster, hdcd it says)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Official-Release-Discs-Neil-Young/dp/B0087E60WS/ref=sr_1_6

vs

http://store.hmv.com/music/cd/official-release-series-discs-1-4

I wouldn't think anything, I got a set of those for about $20 USD in eBay

Volumes 2 and 3 of that series are currently scheduled to come out in two weeks. We'll see.

Yeah, but they are also listed at £60+ making them over 15 quid each. Forget that.

That's insane. They're listed at $45 each on Amazon US, and I'm sure they'll be cheaper on eBay.

Vol. 2 (On The Beach, Times Fades Away, Tonight’s The Night, and Zuma) is $44.79 from Amazon US.
Vol. 3 (Long May You Run, American Stars 'N Bars, Comes A Time, Rust Never Sleeps, and Live Rust) is $48.24 from Amazon US.

IT'S ALIVE

http://www.neilyoungarchives.com

confusing as hell and a lot of missing stuff! it's got some weird gauge that tells you how good your audio quality is? NYA Xtsream audio? pono? lincvolt mp3?

who knows

big news:
While they are not yet populated there are placeholders on the timeline for Homegrown, Oceanside/Countryside, Chrome Dreams & Odean Budokan!

!!!

*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!!