neil young

He's my favourite guitarist. Acoustic and electric. Both just right

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Hi there,
December 1st will be a big day for me. The Visitor will be coming to your town. I will be going to my town. You will be able to hear me and see me. My archive will open on that same day, a place you can visit and experience every song I have ever released in the highest quality your machine will allow. It’s the way it’s supposed to be. In the beginning, everything is free.
Lots of Love,
neil

Inarresting.

I got the CD version of the Ditch Trilogy +1 box for my birthday. Each album comes in its own little box- sleeve with reproduction inserts (the booklet from TTN is slightly smaller than the original). Zuma and TTN have way more presence & ambience than the old CDs. They even remastered OTB, which to sounds a little less shiny the the earlier disc.

you talkin' about this one?

https://www.discogs.com/Neil-Young-Official-Release-Series-Discs-5-8/master/771571

In the beginning, everything is free.

this sounds like the slogan of a corporate overlord

XP Yeah, that one.

Archive website will just be "released" material for the moment I guess. He had teased unreleased stuff before.

Unreleased Stuff: 30 minutes of Neil figuring out how to turn on the Synclavier.

I didn't think the old CDs sounded bad necessarily, but yeah, the Official Release Series is stunning.

(I heard the Stills-Young thing for the first time on that set...holy hell, Stills' songs are horrendous and embarrassing.)

Archive website will just be "released" material for the moment I guess. He had teased unreleased stuff before.

Neil Young?! Teasing archives, or anything with the word "archives" in it?! Well, I never.

xp I have a soft spot for "Black Coral"; I know a lot of people knock the lyrics on that one but I think they're ridiculous in a good way, if that makes sense.

And I will always admire Neil's effort to salvage the otherwise execrable "Make Love to You" with his backing vocals on the chorus.

And before we eviscerate "Black Coral" again...

Search and destroy: Neil Young

:)

72 today.

Every time I watch a documentary with David Crosby in it I think, dammit, Neil, why would you not wanna be friends with this dude?

whole lotta neil young items up for auction!

http://www.juliensauctions.com/auctions/2017/neil-young/flipbook/

also! i put together this really important compilation of Crazy Horse oddities from 96-97
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/167556275202/neil-young-crazy-horse-spooking-the-horse-so-i

jeez that’s a lotta trains neil

haha, it might just be the tip of the iceberg ... he's probably keeping all the *really* cool ones.

yeah i have little doubt that he still has barns full of trains

some of the expected pricing on the music gear seems surprisingly reasonable tho

yeah, i was thinking that, too ... some of the guitars seem like what you'd pay for a guitar that wasn't previously owned by Neil Young. some sweet golf shoes too!

wait was neil actually singing for bud??? what's that dean electric gtr on p137?

Here's your cover art for Spooking the Horse

https://img1.etsystatic.com/054/1/7992421/il_340x270.740053523_17aj.jpg

"All Visitors Welcome as Neil Young Streams Worldwide December 1"
http://www.bellmedia.ca/pr/press/all-visitors-welcome-as-neil-young-streams-worldwide-december-1/

Oh look, The Visitor is streaming, but can't listen yet, too full of Thanksgiving leftovers, gotta go hit the exercycle first (urrrp): https://www.npr.org/2017/11/23/565992202/first-listen-neil-young-promise-of-the-real-the-visitor

I couldn't make it through the stream. At this point I think I'm done with slogging through whatever Neil shits out.

that's not a nice thing to say?

peace trail had some jams

It's not nice of Neil to release so much dreck the past 20 years.

heresy

Picked up a DVD of the TransBand Berlin this weekend. It's../quite something.

Interpretative Dance!

Ben Keith in a New Wave shirt and skinny tie!

Bruce Palmer trying to be Little Steven!

Germans clearly not getting the Trans material!

The whole thing's here, but if you want a taste...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om2Lt94Ltw4

that is an incredible set. Nils Lofgren's interpretive dancing is a real showstopper.

Germans clearly not getting the Trans material!

lol can you blame them?

Picked up a DVD of the TransBand Berlin this weekend. It's../quite something.

I've got on video!

Hey Tyler Spooking the Horse is fantastic, the version of Natural Beauty brought a tear to my eye last night and Neil's (well I assume they're Neil's) solos on Throw Your Hatred Down are something else. Thanks.

Got the third ORS CD box in the mail yesterday. Currently listening to Comes A Time, the one 70s Neil I hadn't heard. "Motorcycle Mama" is like a T.Rex Country song!

Open Culture
‏ @openculture
Dec 15

Neil Young Offers His Entire Catalog of Music Free Online (Until June), at the Highest Digital Audio Quality Possible. ICYMI http://bit.ly/2yFHClc"> http://bit.ly/2yFHClc

The archive, Young says, “is designed to be a living document, constantly evolving and including every new recording and film as it is made.” All of this music is currently free, until June 30th, though you’ll have to create an account. After that date, users can subscribe for an unspecified but “very modest” cost.

shit doesn't even work on mobile smh

Only works on MobilePONOS.

dow we liveblogged the archive experience starting around here: NEIL YOUNG ARCHIVES BOX: IT'S REALLY HAPPENING

To return to the results of the poll, only now do I notice that Zuma didn't do very well at all. I think it's up there with the best of his 70s run. Any love for that record? I suppose Cortez the Killer might overshadow the rest of the albums material?

"album's"

Harvest, Comes a Time, Harvest Moon, Freedom, Stars 'N Bars all got robbed, don't think this old poll is v representative of anything

I mean Doghouse wasn't even a poll option

I think the top three are pretty undeniable, but yeah it's perhaps representative only of what an amazing body of work he's produced

Sleeps with Angels is good 90s Neil, but I don't hold it up with the 70s stuff.

The self titled debut is a really good record and it got no votes. The strings and production on that one are really unique for his discography, it's kinda the only time he made a record with a bunch of ringers. Earl Palmer and Carol Kaye play on that record, which is pretty neat to think for a Neil Young album.

Singer songwriters were all over the place in that time using bands. It was more common for the singer songwriter to use studio ringers with maybe 1-2 persons from their live bands or not cutting their LPs. Neil used some guests, but most of the time his live band was who made his records.

the self titled definitely benefitted the most from the remaster

Sleeps With Angels is my favorite post-'70s Neil album. it's a slow burner and vv beautiful i think.

kinda think Time Fades Away would've placed higher if it'd gotten the same reissue treatment On the Beach did back in the early 00s.

Earlnash otm

Time Fades Away is so amazing