neil young

it's the same Weld mix on this latest box — I've heard both and I think people are slightly overstating the superiority of the "Briggs" mix over the CD. It's a little different, I don't know if I would say it's better.

and yeah, the Ragged glory bonuses are fantastic.

― tylerw, Friday, 28 July 2023 20:57 (five days ago)

Sorry if I'm being stupid... So you're saying they haven't done anything to improve the sound on Weld?

it's been remastered but not remixed

Thanks! Arrrghh I may have to get this despite owning it all already. Fuck you Neil.

Neil is playing the Roxy in LA, 50 years after playing some legendary "Tonights the Night" shows there. Face value of tickets are $1000 + fees.

first Crazy Horse shows since the pandemic, too — it's a benefit and the Roxy is tiny, but yeah, I hope the millionaires enjoy it.

"I'm playin' for Bezos, playin' for Elon..."

I think of this acoustic "Interstate" as floating in the dust of xpost "Chevrolet":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7aOE3O0l4M

not my main interest, but

HARVEST MOON
ON LIMITED EDITION CLEAR VINYL
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 22
PRE-ORDER BEGINS TODAY
... Working with producer/pedal steel guitarist Ben Keith, keyboardist Spooner Oldham, bassist Tim Drummond and drummer Kenny Buttrey,...Guest artists on HARVEST MOON included Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, Nicolette Larson and Astrid Young, and following Young's albums FREEDOM, RAGGED GLORY, ARC and WELD, HARVEST MOON again was a clear sign that he was able to pursue different styles whenever the urge occurred.
This limited edition 2-LP set is pressed on clear vinyl, with an etching on side D.
All Greedy Hand Store purchases come with free hi-res digital audio downloads from the Xstream Store © at NYA.

I’m not a big fan of the album but I really like the Centerstage episode that promoted it - wish the whole thing was made available on DVD or streaming. (The digitized VHS recordings floating about are all right but could be better.)

Is Odeon Budokan good?? Rust Bucket is my fave prev unleased Neil Horse, so wanting more live--

Also unleashed and unreleased!

It’s incredible. (Also it was previously included on archives vol 2)

odeon budokan is great stuff

oho--neilyoungchannel playlist here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuCBnCHDnw

I can’t remember if unplugged or Harvest Moon was my first time hearing Neil. It would have been a monthly Columbia House thing. I have a soft spot for both of those. Unplugged has a nice “Hurricane.”

it sure does, with that pump organ

what is that little knocking sound? is he stamping his foot or somehow hitting his guitar with his palm while playing or something? it adds so much to the sound

Time Fades Away 50th Anniversary vinyl, with bonus "Last Train To Tulsa"

https://consequence.net/2023/09/neil-young-time-fades-away-50/

It's funny because it was OOP for so long, and then in less than ten years there's been a couple CDs, a couple vinyl reissues, and an alternative version in Tuscaloosa.

Yeah, I still instinctively reach for it out of reflex whenever I see it in a record store, only to immediately see the $10 price tag and remember "oh yeah, everybody has this now"

c/d paying more than $10 for any neil young record

Nice copies of the early stuff with all posters/inserts intact are usually $10+.

https://www.stereogum.com/2236914/neil-young-played-tonights-the-night-songs-for-the-first-time-in-50-years-at-roxy-anniversary-show/news/

Saw the setlist on Twitter last night - so he essentially played all of Tonight's The Night and Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, right? JESUS!

goddamn - so they basically played a perfect, no questions asked, setlist

haha yeah, pretty wild. sounded good in the clips I've seen. funny that he could easily take that on the road to insanely positive response, but there's almost no way he will ever do that. Neil!

goddammit i had seriously considered getting on a plane and blowing a year's worth of sushi on tickets for one of these shows and now i really really really really regret that i didn't.

Storytone should be way closer to the bottom, maybe last place
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

(In reference to that Guardian list from a year or two ago.) Bought a bargain-bin copy the other day, along with A Treasure. Managed to get through them over a few days in the car, thinking "He really does churn them out now" the whole time.

His late, late period is kind of like Prince's where he's releasing enough newly-recorded music to fill at least two excellent CD's. Problem is, it's spread out across well over a dozen albums.

FWIW, I like A Treasure on its own - it's already a good distillation of that short-lived era and pretty much all you really need from it.

With Storytone, I do like the solo versions of "Plastic Flowers," "I Want to Drive My Car" and "Tumbleweed." Best of all is the Crazy Horse version of "Who's Gonna Stand Up?" which was a one-off single - far better than either version used for Storytone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eROSvnr3QZM

Nice catch! I love that film - I think it's Schrader's best directorial effort - but I completely forgot he used that song.

We all know this is Schrader’s best directorial effort

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nheBN2UWAaM

FB banner changed to promote something called Before + After due out 12/8/23

"The feeling is captured, not in pieces, but as a whole piece--designed to be listened to that way. This music presentation defies shuffling, digital organization, separation. Only for listening. That says it all." - Neil

that really does say it all Neil

lmao that is exemplary self-parody. "Only for listening." i love it

Only for Listening...on PONO 2.0

these kids, with their "shuffling" and "digital organization" and "separation"

Oh christ, it's Lovesexy all over again.

To this day I believe with all my heart that Prince could’ve made a killer Trans cover album.

Please tell me about: Oceanside/Countryside (or vice-versa, if that is the title).

xpost - so I'm assuming Neil's flowery description there is because he's got this set up so the songs are in suites and not indexed as individual tracks on CD versions. if you pre-order the album, you get an instant download of, "Before and After, Pt. 1: I'm the Ocean/Homefires/Burned"

Please tell me about: Oceanside/Countryside (or vice-versa, if that is the title).

― dow, Friday, October 20, 2023 12:37 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

distressingly it seems to have disappeared from the timeline??? not a good sign

In an article in NYC dated 3 Nov 2018, Neil wrote in detail about the origins of at least parts of the studio album Oceanside Countryside as solo/pre-overdub versions of seven songs recorded at Triiad in Fort Lauderdale in September 1977. The Oceanside Countryside songs overlap with material which ended up on Comes A Time and which were later re-recorded/overdubbed at Woodland and Sound Shop Studios, Nashville in November with a band (Keith, Oldham, Thibodeaux, Drummond, Osborn, Himmel, Fey, Larson, JJ Cale, Londin and Morris).

Prior to this, on 14 Oct 2018 again in NYC, Neil had written this about Oceanside Countryside: “Yesterday… I listened to it for the first time in forty years. That album was so free and open, unencumbered by the rhythm overdubs I had added to it in Nashville. The record was alive and breathing, with all the space in the world. The acoustic guitars I had layered on at Triad [sic] were all there, in my original mixes, just as I had originally envisioned them. Hearing them made me feel so good.”

Good to know they made him feel good, thanks!

distressingly it seems to have disappeared from the timeline??? not a good sign

It's on there now with I'm the Ocean/Homefires/Burned available to play.

New one is stripped rerecording: https://www.stereogum.com/2239801/neil-young-announces-acoustic-rerecordings-album-before-and-after-13-songs-on-one-track/news/

TRACKLIST:

01 “I’m The Ocean”
02 “Homefires”
03 “Burned”
04 “On The Way Home”
05 “If You Got Love”
06 “A Dream That Can Last”
07 “Birds”
08 “My Heart”
09 “When I Hold You In My Arms”
10 “Mother Earth”
11 “Mr. Soul”
12 “Comes A Time”
13 “Don’t Forget Love”

This must be the only artist thread among many where the most active one (I think?) is the first one that pops up in a search. Anyway.

Huh:

The fansite Thrasher’s Wheat reports that Neil Young And Crazy Horse performed a private show for billionaire executive Dani Reiss, the CEO of Canada Goose, in Toronto last week. The band apparently played the entire 1990 album ‘Ragged Glory,’ with the exception of “Mother Earth,” straight through. They’d never done that before; Young only did his first full-album concert this past September. If the reports are accurate, it means the gig (which was for Reiss’ birthday party) was Young’s first time performing “White Line” with Crazy Horse since 1976.

that i've been getting my old-rocker news from Milled Oats all these years!

I guess everyone has a price

imagine the CEO requested they play Ragged Glory in its entirety? which... kinda rules ok