neil young

What's the range of ticket prices?

Not an archives member so I'm not even going to bother to try.

san diego was $85-$250

at least from what I could see $110-$250?

i paid $162 per for what looks to be pretty great seats, in the 200s sections

for a classic rock warhorse that really isn't ridiculous anymore sadly

yeah, I was expecting way worse based on some of the reactions I've been seeing on X, but sadly that's about where things are these days

and of course Archives hasn't let me subscribe all day. started trying about 9am, it's now half four. sadlol.

yep, same issue.

Timeless drifter on the road

Why do I keep paying up

and of course Archives hasn't let me subscribe all day. started trying about 9am, it's now half four. sadlol.

― gneiss, gneiss, very gneiss (outdoor_miner)

"I'm out in the Archives, tryin' to subscriiiibe
and out on the corner, it's half past fiiiive"

...the performances of these familiar songs, recorded in 2023...

Is it too much to ask for some unfamiliar songs instead of the 48th recording of "Cinnamon Girl"?

I guess prices are a little more at Forest Hills in Queens, NY - it took 45 minutes to get in on AXS and until I saw the prices, I was surprised so many seats were still available (though no GA tickets were left). Pretty much every good seat was well over $200. I checked the highest row and it finally dropped to $120, but I've sat in those seats before, and the vantage point was so disappointing I've avoided it ever since - you might as well watch a DVD at home and at least not have the distraction of people talking or walking by to go to the vendors and restrooms. Don't know if their box office is open, but if they drop the fees, that would make a substantial difference.

Live nation passcode for today Thursday is: ENERGY

got forest hills tix (towards the back) for $153. it's cool tho, no bad seats in that stadium.

besides the very last row, which i have never experienced

Big concession energy

That is true - at Forest Hills you can order food on your phone and simply pick it up at the stand when it's ready.

I went to Forest Hills once, to see Kamasi Washington (opening for Alt-J). As stadiums go, it's really nice. You can tell it was built for the classy kind of people who attend tennis tournaments, not the knuckle-walking scumbags who go to rock 'n' roll shows.

letting my neil concert aspirations go. feels good tbr.

looks like I am hitting a san diego show ... gotta do it!

some excellent outtakes posted on the NYA this past week — un-overdubbed "Will To Love," full-band Homegrown version of "Bad News" w/ Levon Helm, some late 72 Stray Gators studio recordings ...

Forgot, there was one great thing about sitting at the top row - it was for Van Morrison (this was before COVID, when he also did a show at Forest Hills for several consecutive years), and I could see a vast, empty space (maybe a parking lot, I can't remember) right behind the stage. During the big finale, when Morrison did "Gloria," I saw a sedan zip down a road towards the stage and glide right behind it, presumably parking somewhere out of sight. Van eventually walked off stage as he continued to solo on his harmonica, holding a mic underneath it. He played for a little bit more off-stage somewhere, then the band took over and kept jamming. When that transition happened, I saw the car re-appear and speed off into the distance. Morrison of course never came back. It was pretty amusing to see how that worked.

I feel lucky that I have seen Neil Young a few times, so I won't feel bad if I don't see this show. That said, I will be looking for more reasonable tickets the morning of, or for sure much, much closer to the date.

When the Greendale tour happened, was it really easy to get tickets secondhand for good prices? Just curious, because I wonder if people bailed when they knew they weren't getting "the hits." (Which was kind of weird when that became a controversy because that's always been Neil's thing, to focus on newer material.)

Iirc, it was always easier to get tickets to pretty much everything that long ago. The secondary market/bot game is off the charts these days.

He was also playing Summer Sheds then, and probably overestimating his draw then as well (particularly given the show he was doing...I remember word of mouth being pretty negative att).

Ladies and gentlemen
Van has left the building

I think he played a couple of places here in 2003, the first being the Rosemont Theatre, which is not huge, the second being the United Center, which is a lot bigger.

Man I remember going to buy tix to that Rosemont theater show having the same balking reaction at the prices as I did this week. Sorry Neil/Horse, just gonna have to relish my coupla times seeing ya in the 90s ( can still recall the old dudes just not digging SY @ their quietist) & the fine boots that are out there - that price is too f’in high (queue Used Cars gif).

I have been on a big Neil Young listening kick for the past few weeks.

Really love this ‘Way Down in the Rust Bucket’ live show from 1990. That one was new to me, but I’ve already given it a half dozen listens. The other one that I had but had not heard in years was the ‘Year of the Horse’. The “Dangerbird” on that one is ridiculously epic. It definitely sat with me as a better live album than it did when it was new.

rust bucket is phenomenal, might be favourite ny&ch live album tbh

OK, apparently the deal with the new album is, it's a re-recording of Ragged Glory with (most of) the song titles changed...

City Life (fka Country Home)
Feels Like A Railroad (fka White Line)
Heart Of Steel (fka Fuckin' Up)
Broken Circle (fka Over & Over)
Valley Of Hearts (fka Love To Burn)
Farmer John
Walkin' In My Place (fka Mansion On The Hill)
To Follow One's Own Dream (fka Days That Used To Be)
Chance On Love (??? - this is also a line from Love To Burn)

And here's "Broken Circle":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiTaAF4S1eE

I don't know that I need this. What I need is for Neil to release the remastered Ragged Glory with the bonus tracks as a standalone, so I don't have to buy the most recent "Official Release Series" box to get it.

fu##in' up (neil's version)

lol

Well, if the tour is going to focus on the new one, you can pretend it's really a Ragged Glory tour, which is great news if you love Weld (which I do and I'm far from alone in that regard).

This release is already bizarre but the phrase “chance on love” appears nowhere in “Love and Only Love.” And he still plays that one!

For an artist that has espoused IDGAF, one wonders what nexus this project originated,

i'm watching Dead Man for the first time in a million years and his score is so fucking good

really a *million years* cmon man no one is that old

it's called "adding some spice to your social media posts to make them more interesting for the reader," you should try it sometime

i think 'dead man' is a top 5 neil release for me

a million years ago things were actually less spicy than they are now (by 5-10 degrees).

Neil's work on the Dead Man soundtrack is up there with Ry Cooder's on Paris, Texas and they make a good pair of companion records, possibly also with some later Earth records too

Another companion OST: Grizzly Man - Richard Thompson with Jim O'Rourke, Henry Kaiser, et al

Neil Young returning to Spotify is going to be the biggest single day catalog dump of goodness on that service since John Zorn OK'd access to Tzadik. I hope my family will be cool with several days worth of pent up Neil albums playing in the kitchen.

lol the announcement on his site is titled "MY RETURN TO LOW RES SPOTIFY"

Feedback is Back! (in low res)

Don't want my mp3
Don't want my mp3
I'm driftin' back
I'm driftin' back
I'm driftin' back
I'm driftin' back
I'm driftin' back
When you hear my song now
You only get five percent
You used to get it all
You used to get it all
Blocking out my anger
Blocking out my thoughts
Blocking out my anger now
Blocking out my thoughts

you know what's wild? Afaict there are like five things on Spotify that feature Neil Young, a drop in the bucket, and those five things, basically five tracks, supposedly get three and a half million listens a month.

Apparently those numbers (or some of them) are because some Buffalo Springfield stuff is additionally credited to him.