Comment of the Moment: Pre-Order - Neil Young Archives Volume II (1972 - 1976)

Neil Young Archives Volume II (1972 - 1976) 

Yes, it was quite a day, yesterday in the ever rustie Neil Young shakey deal world.

Pre-orders for the long awaited (going on 11 years + plus since Vol #1)  Neil Young Archives Volume II (1972 - 1976) began at the Greedy Hand Store and much drama among fans ensued as the announcement link went live and then poof. Gone.  Were all 3,000 of the Limited Edition Boxset already too far gone?  Or just another glitch in the Shakey Matrix?

Fortunately, the pre-order link reactivated and much joy and angst in RustDale ensued. (BTW, as noted here in comments, when you subscribed to NYA, you received a 15% discount code for one time use at the Greedy Hand Store.)

 

So onto our TW Comment of the Moment on Pre-Order - Neil Young Archives Volume II (1972 - 1976) by tomatron: 

Tomatron’s Take:

This box set release perplexes. Musically, the Archives 2 is super exciting.

I mean, almost the entirety of The Old Homestead disc is unheard recordings, and the other new discs are loaded with new takes and buried treasure too. But putting it out on CD?? It’s higher quality just to stream it on NYA, where it all will be. My Vol 1 box set is absolute enjoyment. Just throw in a DVD (not even blu-ray, still amazing), fire up the projector, hit Play All, and watch the tape spin. Massey Hall is a gorgeous assembly of film, Journey Through The Past is trippy as can be, and even Crazy Horse Fillmore is wonderfully rewatchable with its abundance of classic photography synced up to the quality audio.

Now, the Vol 2 promo on YouTube features clips of this same type of archival and art footage. It is possible these are only short snippets made just for the commercial, but it’s highly unlikely. That means a full video edition of Vol 2 probably exists! And it will either be released in a future edition, or will all be available on NYA at some tier or another.

I totally get why fans are preordering the CD set. It is limited edition, we’ve been waiting for it for anywhere from 11 years to multiple decades, and it will sit nicely beside the big Vol 1 box. But considering that the music will be available in higher resolution online, what you end up with is a $250ish box. A cool box with a book, yeah, but still. Listening to Homegrown on CD? Never gonna happen. I have that goddamn masterpiece of an album on vinyl. In the car, it’s on my phone in the highest possible streaming quality. And all the artwork for the individual discs will be there too, zoomed in to more detail than you could get with a magnifying glass.

For a while, it seemed like maybe the video Archives set format was gone with LA Johnson no longer around to mastermind it, but this new promo clip proves that the audio-visual version of Vol 2 is a thing, somewhere, somehow. It’s just plain silly that Neil Young, of all people, is releasing a box set on compact disc.

Come November, I’ll be cooking up some honeyslide-worthy playlists on NYA and FEELING THE MUSIC.

Thanks for sharing here Tomatron your thoughts on NYA Volume II.

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We had a noteworthy day here @ TW has comments exceeded 100 for the first time in quite a while.  So much wheat and so little chaff.  Thanks folks.

Here's what we encountered at the Greedy Hand Store yesterday. We did get a kick back/rejected order b/c our shipping and billing address didn't snyc. We have a login registration w/ Greedy Hand store but hadn't logged in 1st.

So it would seem that you need to login into your Greedy Hand store accnt 1st. This is diff than your NYA account.

Once logged into GH store, all of your info is retained or can be updated. then you order.

so, neil giveth, we taketh and the circle goes around.

And 11 years later, only 1 month to go before ... just as we posted back in 2009 on NYA Vol #1 ...

And I've been waiting for you.
For such a long time now.

Normally, we say tonight's the night. But, today's the day.

Hell freezes over. Peace in the Mid-east. World hunger is solved. Poverty erased.

Somehow, in the miracle of all miracles, the Holy Grail arrives!

My Little Box at the Top of the Stairs: The Archives Finally Arrives!

NYA Vol #1 - 2009
"And I've been waiting for you.
For such a long time now."My Little Box at the Top of the Stairs: The Archives Finally Arrives! 

June 2, 2009 ... it was a rustie equivalency to the opening of Arc of the Covenant...

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