ESSAY: Young Shakespeare by Neil Young | Bob Lefsetz

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As Neil Young's astonishing surge in productivity continues to amaze folks half his age -- or even a third or quarter his age, for that matter -- rusties continue to revel in the fact that "The focus was the gift".

As an "avalanche of an embarrassment of riches" cascades down the mountains -- or as we characterized previously -- Expecting to Calculate Neil Young 2021: Numbers Add Up To Nothin' ... or "A Rusties Holy Grail" -- we bring you a rather personal essay by the inimitably irreverent music industry analyst Bob Lefsetz and his thoughts on Neil Young's newest archival release "Young Shakespeare", recorded in 1971. 

Young Shakespeare by Neil Young 

 

From Bob Lefsetz's newsletter on Young Shakespeare Neil Young: 

So “Young Shakespeare” starts off with…

Applause.

And then picking, it’s “Tell Me Why,” but it’s solo acoustic, the notes are still there, but Neil’s vocal dominates, and the sound is pure, assuming you’re listening on a good system you’re jetted right back to the era, when a good system was everything, when we needed to get closer to the music. It’s fifty years later, but Neil is right there in the speakers, as if not a day has gone by.

But it’s the second song, a left turn, a new one, that makes you realize this project is different, memorable. Neil gives an intro, an explanation, in an era before you could excavate the meaning of all these songs, but if you were in the hall… “Old Man” is intimate, in all iterations, but especially here, sans the penumbra, stripped down to just the core elements, A YEAR BEFORE IT WAS COMMERCIALLY RELEASED! You’re listening, wondering what it was like being in the venue. Sure, most people see new music as anathema, but there’s a thin layer of artists, a very thin layer, who can pull it off, draw your attention and keep it. And one of those is Neil Young. Here “Old Man” is a song, not a statement. Long before it emanated from everybody’s speakers throughout campus.

But the real surprise is “Ohio,” which we always saw as a record, not a song, something that was of a time and place, the spring of 1970, not 1971, when this version was performed. And I’m listening and I’m thinking how much worse things are today, how we never could have predicted this, how back then if you were a music fan, if you listened to Neil Young, if you were a boomer, you shared a mind-set. The thought of rednecks, conservatives loving this music? IMPOSSIBLE! We had an army, and we all belonged. And it wasn’t so much Woodstock itself, but the movie and the triple album set nearly a year later, in April 1970, that made us realize we were more than a tribe, that we were the dominant force.

And if you bought “Everybody Knows This is Nowhere,” you knew the concomitant track to “Down by the River” on the second side, “Cowgirl in the Sand,” with a memorable melody and lyrics, but it was the instrumental interludes that made it stick out, don’t forget, this was when the Allman Brothers were starting to stretch out.

Even more interesting than “Old Man” is the medley of “A Man Needs a Maid and “Heart of Gold,” once again a year before they were released commercially. I’m sitting here thinking how you can’t say that anymore, that a man needs a maid, whatever your intention might be, it just sounds bad. And “A Man Needs a Maid” is the opposite of today’s music, it’s heavy and meaningful, that’s one of the main reasons you listened to “Harvest,” to marinate in not only the sound, but the words, this was a personal statement and it was clear that not only did we need to listen to it, we had to embrace it. AM music was disposable, FM music was not. And the funny thing is sans the strings, all that production, “A Man Needs a Maid” is just as heavy, just as meaningful, but more direct, there’s no scrim between the performer and the listener, it’s all up front and personal.

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Hard to think that music was once scarce, where if you didn’t own it you couldn’t hear it. They sold live albums back then, usually as doubles, a career retrospective, a cheap dash for cash. But unreleased live recordings? Those were gold! Maybe you snuck your cassette deck into the gig, but there was no trading online, to have a recording of what once was…was nearly unfathomable. And “Young Shakespeare” is like the Dead Sea Scrolls, the past come to life. Not only was this show recorded, unlike with the scrolls, the sound is pristine, better than most records today! It’s not squashed, the bandwidth is not filled up with detritus to the point it’s impenetrable, “Young Shakespeare” is naked! Despite all the social media platforms, that’s what we’re looking for today, the stripped-down version, the raw truth, not for cash, but because it must be told. We don’t want endless memoirs in search of notoriety, we don’t want people online testifying to how bad they have it, what we’re looking for is someone not so dissimilar to ourselves laying out their truth, and we can listen or not, it’s our choice. That’s how music was back then, you were either in the know or you weren’t. Then again, albums like “Harvest” changed that paradigm.

But “Young Shakespeare” was recorded before “Harvest.”

How can something so old be so new? I guess that’s what happens when you lose your way, see the goal as being a brand as opposed to an artist.

But if you were around back then…

Pull up “Young Shakespeare.” Even cherry-pick the tracks. You’ll be stunned they’re all there, in faithful renditions.

And we listened to these songs so much back then we knew them by heart, not only the hits, but the album tracks, listen for the applause of recognition on these cuts. There are few things better than when you’re at the show and the act plays your favorite, you think they’re doing it just for you, you beam, you glow, you want the experience to last, but it does not.

But this show we were unaware occurred has been unearthed and it’s just like being there way back when.

And this album ain’t going to the top of the chart, nothing is gonna happen with it, it’s just for you, you either care or you don’t.

And if you do…

You yearn for the experience of yore, when it was just you and the music, that was all you needed, and when you push play, that’s where you’ll go, back to that seventies cocoon, when music drove the culture, when it was everything. Don’t let it bring you down, as long as these recordings are hiding in plain sight there’s a chance young people will be inspired and go down the road less taken, deliver ubiquity through the personal, satiate us, make life worth living.

 

Full review and analysis on Bob Lefsetz's newsletter on Young Shakespeare Neil Young:.

Also, see Notes on Neil Young Album "Young Shakespeare" - A Telegram from the Scotsman.

Young Shakespeare Deluxe (CD, LP & DVD) 

Neil Young's new release  "Young Shakespeare" is now available.

Order here

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Boulder, Colorado 1976: "Timeline Concert of the Week" | Neil Young Archives

 

Balch Fieldhouse, Boulder, Colorado - Nov 6, 1976

"Timeline Concert of the Week" | NYA

 

With the recent announcement of Neil Young Archives Membership Tiers: Rust & Patron, more details have been forthcoming on  the "Timeline Concert of the Week" feature.

The "Timeline Concert of the Week" feature is now available to members at the Rust tier level with streams of live concerts from Neil Young's entire career. "Rust" subscribers can also exchange memories and stories with other subscribers. Some concerts are already accessible via the timeline, more will be added over time. Subscribers can send inquiries and express requests.

"Timeline Concert of the Week" | NYA

 

The most recent "Timeline Concert of the Week" | NYA is Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse at Balch Fieldhouse in Boulder, Colorado on Nov 6, 1976.

Which brings us to our Comment of the Moment (actually a good old fashioned Rust list posting)  by Mike "Expecting To Fly":

Here's a post I made to the Rust list about the Boulder show. The Rust email list is just about perfect for me. Low-key, rarely off topic, friendly, generous sharing of links and goodies, lotta good people.

https://groups.io/g/Rust/message/294812

My first Neil Young show I ever saw was just added to the Timeline on NYA at my request! I cannot hardly believe it.

This show changed my life. 

I had been what I thought was a pretty hard core Neil Young fan up to that time. I was 20 years old, had all the albums, a few bootlegs (Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, BBC) and thought I knew my Neil. But this show just completely upended my concept of what Neil was all about because he was so fantastically wonderful on stage.

The familiar songs were very good. But the unreleased (at the time) songs just blew me away. He played 18 songs that night. Nine of them (half!) were at the time unreleased that I had never heard before. I left that show a changed person! Do listen to this show and try to imagine the joy I felt. BTW, it's presented in full resolution, not mp3. Too Far Gone (the song, not the intro) on Songs For Judy is from this show.

1976-11-06 Balch Field House, Boulder, Colorado
Setlist:

Campaigner (unreleased!)
Human Highway (unreleased!)
After The Gold Rush
Pocahontas (unreleased!)
Too Far Gone (unreleased!)
Old Man
A Man Needs A Maid
Sugar Mountain
Country Home (unreleased!)
Don't Cry No Tears
Down By The River
Bite The Bullet (unreleased!)
Lotta Love (unreleased!)
Like A Hurricane (unreleased!)
Drive Back
Cinnamon Girl
Homegrown (unreleased!)
Cortez The Killer

Mike
Expecting To Fly

 

Thanks so much E2F (Patron Mike!)! We've been enjoying Boulder 76, also. And so have many other rusties, as well. As you mention, it is pretty stunning how many unreleased songs you heard that night that would soon become essential Neil classics. What a night to remember. What a great 1st Neil concert.

And very cool on the NYA shoutout Patron Michael!

New This Week | T-C | NYA

We're really very happy that you're able to re-live your very 1st Neil concert experience.  As an aside, many may know that we've known "Patron Mike" aka "Expecting To Fly" for decades and have attended many a Neil concert together.

 

E2F &  Road RasCal Lilly

at Telluride, Colorado, October 1, 2016

 

And there we are with E2F and Road RasCal Lilly in Telluride back in 2016 at Neil Young + Promise Of The Real. We should also mention that in 2004, this longtime Rustie posted a series of articles on his experience listening to all of Neil Young's albums in chronological order. This was his journey, his self-appointed task.  See Reviews of Neil Young Albums In Order.

More on "Timeline Concert of the Week" on the recent announcement on Neil Young Archives.

Timeline Concert | Neil Young Archives

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Happy 2021 ARC Day!

Well it's ARC day!

For the unitiated, Deb "Rewriting the Rules" on Rust has been encouraging folks to play ARC -- one of the more obscure Neil Young recordings -- on April 1 each year.

Part of the Arc-Weld release, Arc is 35 minutes of pure distortion and molten feedback from the 1991 Neil Young and Crazy Horse tour.

According to legend, Neil placed a video camera on his amp during the 1991 tour and recorded the beginnings and endings of various songs which were later edited down into the single track of Arc. "It was the sound of the entire band being sucked into this little limiter, being compressed and fuckin' distorted to hell," Neil said.

"Arc is like being inside of a very big thing. I equate Arc to that movie Fantastic Voyage -- it's like a trip through a power chord. The chord may last like five or six seconds, but it takes thirty-five minutes, at the size we're reducing ourselves to, to go through it." – Neil

Arc is a composition of feedback, guitar noise, and vocal fragments that was realized from various shows on the 1991 Neil Young and Crazy Horse US tour, which was originally released with Weld in a special-edition 3-CD set called Arc-Weld. Arc bears no small resemblance to the music of Sonic Youth, which was one of the support acts on the tour.

According to an interview with Steve Martin of Agnostic Front that appeared in the December 1991 issue of Pulse! magazine, Arc had its genesis in a film that Neil made called "Muddy Track" (referred to in an interview with David Fricke in the November 28, 1991, issue of Rolling Stone), which consisted of beginnings and endings of various songs from his 1987 European Tour. Neil placed a video camera on his amplifier during the 1987 tour and recorded the beginnings and endings of various songs, that were later edited down into the film's soundtrack. "It was the sound of the entire band being sucked into this little limiter, being compressed and fuckin' distorted to hell," Neil said to Martin, referring to the soundtrack of "Muddy Track". Young showed the video to Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, a noted figure in New York's avant-garde music scene, who suggested that he record an entire album in a similar manner. However, Arc was not recorded through video camera microphones, as was the case with "Muddy Track", but instead was compiled from various professional multi-track recordings made throughout the tour.

April Fool jokes are a long running rustie tradition going back to the '90's by playing ARC at full blast -- with the windows open -- on repeat for 24 hours.

Ever since, rusties have traditionally tried to raise the stakes with gags and jokes. TW also has a long tradition of ARC inspired April foolery over the years. 

For example, here are a few April 1 highlights from the Archives:

• Neil Young Helps Complete Long Lost Film Starring Dylan and Hendrix 
• Legendary Cellar Door Nightclub Becomes A Starbuck$  
• SNEAK PREVIEW: Possible Europe Setlist for Neil Young and Crazy Horse?
• Behind The Scenes at the "Americana" Album Playback Session
• Free Neil Young Warmup Concerts Canceled
• Time Fades Away To Finally Be Re-released
• NEW NEIL SONG: "I am music and I write the songs"
  
• Toast: New Unreleased Crazy Horse Album
• Top 10 Reasons Why Neil Young is Better Than Bob Dylan
• BIGFOOT-RARE 1972 Neil Young Harvest PROMO LP on eBay
  
• Neil Young Suffers Brain Aneurysm: Long May You Run! (Which -- sadly -- was not a cruel April Fool's Day joke.)
• Separating the Wheat From the Chaff ... or... REAL From the Fake - No April Fool's Day Joke

 

At the bottom of these posts, we clearly indicate Happy Arc Day -- shorthand for "Don't Get Fooled Again". Even Archives Guy has commented in the past on some of our more clever attempts.  Even Neil gets into on the fun. See his tweet in 2019:

More tickets are onsale to see Neil + Promise Of The Real at @BottleRockNapa on Saturday, May 25th. Plus, Neil will be giving away his entire collection of guitars at the show.https://t.co/uclQmTd7u3#neilyoung #neilyoungarchives #nya #bottlerock #napavalley #aprilfools pic.twitter.com/7HaAW3Ni4U

— Neil Young Archives (@NeilYoungNYA) April 1, 2019

 
Anyways, all in good fun. Traditionally we avoid the internet on 4/1 and are always using our disCERNment the other 364 days of the year.

The fakery and chaff reach new heights practically daily.

TW does it's part in trying to prepare folks for the Big Shift -- separating the wheat from the chaff... or truth from lies ... or real from fake -- as best we can with posts like: FACEBOOK UNCOVERED: How They Lied To You | Neil Young's Archives (NYA) Times-Contrarian. You can't say we didn't try...

But hey?!

Lukas Nelson sings "Turn Off The News" and brother Micah sings "Everything Is Bullshit".

So "Speak The Truth" where ever you are, when ever you can.

no harm, no foul.
peace

ps - In honor of ARC Day, Rust Radio will be playing ARC continuously for the next 24 hours.

Also, if you must have Neil Young's ARC, it is available on Amazon. Although we can't imagine what the impact of listening to a MP3 of ARC on iPod headphones might do?!

NO. MORE. PAIN.

Attend ARC Day NOW!

 "traveling twice the speed of sound,  it's easy to get burned, with both feet on the ground"

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Drummer Karl Himmel Interview: Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley | Rolling Stone

Prairie Wind Band

Ben Keith, Neil Young, Chad Cromwell, Rick Rosas, Spooner Oldham & Karl Himmel(See The Prairie Wind Sessions by Neil Young)

 

Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their complete stories, giving an up close look at life on music’s A list. In 2020, we featured the edition with drummer and songwriter Joe Vitale.  Earlier in 2021, we featured drummer Chad Cromwell.  This edition features drummer Karl Himmel. 

From interview with Drummer Karl Himmel Interview: Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley | Rolling Stone by Andy Greene:

Rolling Stone's Andy Greene: Tell me about reconnecting with Neil Young to make Everybody’s Rockin’.

 
Karl Himmel: When they called me up, I said, “What setup do I need for this?” Ben Keith said, “Neil wants a snare drum, a bass drum, and a cymbal.” I was thinking, “What the hell is he doing? Am I playing too many fills? What is he doing?” Then he told me we were going to do a Fifties thing. “What?!” Then he said, “You’re going to have to shave your beard.”

That was kind of a shock. For years, I had sand in my bass drum from doing the video [for “Cry, Cry, Cry”]. He didn’t tell me about the war he was having with [David] Geffen. I was like, “I guess he knows what he’s doing, but what is he doing?”

RS: He really did make the album to piss off David Geffen. He wanted a rock record, so he gave him one.

 
Karl: Exactly. But he didn’t tell us what was going on. I was like, “Where is Neil going with this?”

RS: How was the tour? You’re doing an encore set of rockabilly songs to audiences that didn’t really expect that.

 
Karl: People were kind of shocked since they didn’t realize what we were doing. But then it kind of took off. A funny thing happened with it. We had to have fun with it, I guess. But we had fun doing that tour.

RS: Did you have to get into character as a rockabilly guy?

 
Karl: They put black polish in our hair. We had a wardrobe thing we had to do. It was a theatrical production.

RS: When you did Old Ways after that, it was this big transition and suddenly it was country. How was that experience for you?

 
Karl:I went with the flow and did it the best I could. I could feel that music. It runs in my veins. You can’t predict a move like that, but it’s great when it happens. And Neil didn’t like to do a song more than once or twice. He felt it lost something if you kept going.

RS: Tell me about the tour. It was a lot of state fairs and even some rodeo venues.

 
Karl: It was fun. I had fun with everything I did with him. Neil was the best person I worked with in my life. He was also a good friend. A lot of people can’t say that with groups. But it was great. I’d rather see him now at a dinner with Daryl and my wife than go on a tour, though.

RS: That Harvesters band with Spooner Oldham, Ben Keith, Anthony Crawford, and Rufus Thibodeaux was a great group.

Karl: It was fun, interesting, great music. Like Neil says when we speak, there’s only a few of us left.

Full interview with Drummer Karl Himmel Interview: Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley | Rolling Stone by Andy Greene.

Also, see Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features with drummer and songwriter Joe Vitale and drummer Chad Cromwell. 

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PREVIEW TRACK: “Ivory Tower” on 'Deja Vu' 50th Anniversary Reissue w/ 38 Bonus Tracks

 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Déjà vu - 50TH Anniversary Deluxe D2C Edition 

 via Rhino Records

Earlier this month, details finally emerged on the long anticipated -- but delayed -- 50th Anniversary reissue of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young's 1970 album 'Deja Vu'.“Ivory Tower” by Stephen Stills is now available as a preview track.

 

 

 

The song morphed and changed over the years, and was eventually released on a later Stills’ solo project as “Little Miss Bright Eyes.”

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Youngw/ Dallas Taylor & Greg Reeves - Aug. 1969photo by Henry-Diltz(Click photo to enlarge) 

CSNY’s 1970  'Deja Vu' --  via Rhino Records -- will be available on May 14 as a deluxe version  featuring hours of outtakes, alternate versions, and demos. Presented in a 12 x 12 hardcover book, the collection comes illustrated with rarely seen photos from the era and annotated by writer/filmmaker Cameron Crowe, whose revealing liner notes recount the making of the album through stories told by the people who were there, including David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young. 

Produced by photographer-archivist Joel Bernstein and Rhino’s Patrick Milligan, with each band member voting for their respective songs, yielding 38 bonus tracks in addition to the original album.

Deja Vu - 50th Anniversary (Deluxe Edition)

(1 LP/4 CD boxed set @ $99.98)

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Neil Young's "The focus, a gift": Reflecting on Reflections

Reflecting on Reflections Neil Young on CSNY 1974 Tour Oakland, CA - 7/13 or 14/74
Photo by Gijsbert Hanekroot

 

This past weekend, we posted on A Message From Neil Young: A PANDEMIC AND A RARE GIFT  | NYA.

In Neil's message he writes of how the events of 2020 brought "The focus, a gift".

The focus and the gift. (For us, a variation on "The Vista and The Muse.")

The focus was the gift, which has brought us an "avalanche of an embarrassment of riches" -- or as we characterized previously -- Expecting to Calculate Neil Young 2021: Numbers Add Up To Nothin' ... or "A Rusties Holy Grail".

So here is a rundown on what is coming on Neil Young Archives  ... or, expecting to go broke ...

• 6 ‘Official Bootleg’ releases - scheduled for release in April August 2021.  Titles include:
• Carnegie Hall Dec 4, 1970 - 1st show - Release date now: MAY 7, 2021
• Royce Hall. January 30, 1971
  
• Dorothy Chandler Pavillion [sic]. Feb 1, 1971
  
• Under The Rainbow. Nov 3, 1973
  
• The Bottom Line aka ‘Citizen Kane Jr. Blues’ May 16, 1974
  
• The Ducks - ‘Trick of Disaster’ August 1977

• Original Recording Series (ORS) #4  - Albums in Hi-Res: Hawks and Doves, Reactor, This Note's For You, Eldorado. Release date: 5/28  TBD
  
• Original Recording Series (ORS) #5  - Albums in Hi-Res: Freedom, ‘Smell the Horse’ - Ragged Glory Extended (+ 4 more tracks), Weld + ARC.  Release date:  August 6 2021. UPDATE: "Weld will be released as a 3 vinyl version in ORS Box Set #5. Arc will also be released on vinyl in the same ORS#5. The Weld DVD is scheduled to be released at the same time as the Weld Vinyl." 
  
• Original Recording Series (ORS) #6 - w/ "Sleeps With Angels”  - November 26, 2021.
• Original Recording Series (ORS) #7 - w/ “Broken Arrow” - tentatively scheduled for summer of 2022. 
• Live Alchemy - Crazy Horse Tour 2012/3.  Release date:  October 29, 2021
• EARLY DAZE (unreleased Crazy Horse) - coming in '22
• CSNY 70 / 71 Fillmore East - coming in 2022 w/ 4 camera video of CSNY
• Landing On Water - coming in high resolution
• Buffalo Springfield Boxset - outtakes have been added to NYA
  
• Bridge School Series  - "in a new part of NYA in the coming weeks"
• A Snapshot in Time -  " 'Barefoot Floors' is also included on NYA Volume 3 in ‘a snapshot in time’ disc 3. This is a documentary tape of me playing the songs on stars n bars for Nicolette Larson, Linda Ronstadt and David Briggs before we went into the studio. I think it’s the best recording. It may have been done separately in the studio."
• Noise and Flowers -  live concert album of the 2019 tour with POTR 
• Live Mirror Ball - in concert w/ Pearl Jam (DVD and CD); 
• Timeless Orpheum - solo 2019 on DVD; 
• Toast - unreleased Crazy Horse album 
• WELD Series - concerts from the 1991 Weld Tour 
• Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, New York, on 1991-02-16
  
• Concert Performance Timeline:
  
• San Jose, 1984-06-06,  w/ The International Harvesters  
• Boulder, Colorado, Nov 6, 1976 w/ CH
• Antwerp, July 9, 2019 w/ POTR
  
• Paris, 11 dec 1989
• Stockholm, 3 jul 2001
• Kelowna, 22 apr 2009
• Hunter Valley, 9 mar 2013
• Belfast, 7 jun 2016 (3h !)   
• Outtakes - "Coming as outtakes and some are in albums like ‘Crazy Horse Early Daze’ and others . . . . unreleased."
  
• Cinnamon Girl studio jan 1969
• Winterlong studio oct 1969
• Everybody's Alone studio CSNY oct 1969
• Sea of Madness studio CSNY feb 1969
• Last Dance studio dec 1972
• New Mama studio dec 1972
• Motorcycle Mama studio jan 75
• Long May You Run studio jan 75
• Neil Young Archives Volume #3 -  CD set (12) and a Blu-Ray set (9) for NYA Volume lll.
• THE BOARDING HOUSE (1978)
  
  A compilation of tracks from a total of ten concerts in the Boarding House, San Francisco based on Joel Bernstein's original notes - and thus a supplement to the 'BOARDING HOUSE' film, which is a continuous documentation of a single show from start to finish.
• OCEANSIDE-COUNTRYSIDE (1978)
  The original material of 'Comes a Time', recorded solo.
• GIVE TO THE WIND ORCHESTRA (1978) - Disc 4
  Live recording of a rehearsal session at Nashville Musician's Union Hall with the full album orchestra and Nicolette Larson. Neil Young: "We have the rehearsal tape done at the Nashville Musician’s Union Hall the previous day with Nicolette and I and the entire orchestra." "A gigantic recording - 10 or 11 songs with the orchestra, Nicolette and I sing live." 
  
• JOHNNY'S ISLAND (1982)  
  An unrealized album recorded acoustically with the trans band in Hawaii, three tracks of which were later released on "TRANS". Finished with 7 unreleased tracks + the 3 Trans acoustic.  "Johnny’s Island, is not ‘Island in the Sun,’ but does include some of the music from that unreleased record, in addition to other rare unheard songs."
• OLD WAYS (1984)
  First version of the later album of the same name, rejected by the Geffen label
• FREEDOM LIVE (1989)
  from the Europe Tour with Poncho and Ben Keith
• ROAD OF PLENTY (1990)
  
  "Rockin 'in the Free World" with Poncho Sampedro, Charlie Drayton, Steve Jordan of the cast for the performance on "Saturday Night Live" and other highlights from the rehearsals for that performance.
  •  Eight films:
    
    • CRAZY HORSE WORLD TOUR (1976)  Tokyo Budokan / London Odeon Hammersmith
    • BOARDING HOUSE (1978)
    • RUST NEVER SLEEPS (1979)
    • HUMAN HIGHWAY (1982)
    • TRANS ANIMATED MOVIE by Micah Nelson and Neil Young, 2021
    • BERLIN (1982)
    • SOLO TRANS (1984)
    • IN A RUSTED OUT GARAGE (1986)
    • MUDDY TRACK (1987)

Neil Young On The Beach: 

 Reflecting on What's To Come In The Future

 

All on top of the earlier announcement of Neil Young Adds 51 Tracks on Archives | NYA.

In a comment,  Ken N. said that adding up all the discs for 2021, came to about 31?! However you add this up, it's 100's of unreleased tracks, songs, versions coming our way. You would have to go back to  2009's "deluge of 16* Neil Young discs" to compare such prodigious prolific productivity.

As they say, "the best is yet to come" ... lucky us.

A Message From Neil Young:  A PANDEMIC AND A RARE GIFT | NYA  

Also, for more on "Yet Even More New & Old Neil Young Still To Come.  

Feeling overwhelmed by the bounty?  This should help ...

"A Rusties Holy Grail" 

WHERE AM I ? | NYA

 

Thank you Uncle Eddie for helping focus Neil's attention on his unreleased catalogue! (See "Uncle Eddie's NYA - New Tier?": Neil Young Releasing Everything in 2020 on NYA.)

Bumper stickers will be issued. #UncleEddie
via UNOFFICIAL Neil Young Unreleased Archive - NYUA | Twitter

 

More on A Message From Neil Young: A PANDEMIC AND A RARE GIFT  | NYA.

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Replacing "RUST BUCKET" DVDs: Neil Young Owns It and Steps Up

RUST BUCKET DVD AUDIO? | T-C | NYA

As we covered recently, Neil Young is stepping up on the issue regarding the DVD audio on ‘Way Down in the Rust Bucket’.

As background, a TW reader commented back in February on the audio concerns on the DVD versus the CD, LP or hi-res files. The TW commenter -- Mr. Harm -- then followed up directly with NYA with a Letter to Editor to which Neil Young personally responds.

Neil Young's response is noteworthy in its transparency, honesty, accountability, and integrity. (See RUST BUCKET DVD AUDIO? | T-C | NYA.)

Here are details on  "RUST BUCKET" DVDreplacement discs from a comment on "RUST BUCKET" DVD Audio Issues: Neil Young Owns It and Steps Up - UPDATED  by Old Black:

I emailed NYA and pointed out all that I said in my post (at the top of this thread) and they've replied today. Word for word it says:

Hello, Thanks for reaching out.

Please send an email to NYDVDReplacements@wmgcustomerservice.com with the following information:

1. Your name and address.
2. Attach a photo of your DVD (or a copy of your receipt).
3. The name of the store where you bought it.

We will return a new DVD to you when the replacement discs arrive. You do not have to return the DVD that you bought.

If you run into any further issues with this process, let us know, and please reach out.

Thank you,
The Archives Team.

You can't say fairer than that can you? A nice example of transparency, decency, and customer service. Thanks NYA

 

Thanks so much for sharing here Old Black!  

Yes, an excellent customer service example regarding transparency and decency. 

More on ‘Way Down in the Rust Bucket’ by Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse.

 

‘Way Down in the Rust Bucket’  - Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse "Let me go on record as saying that I think this 'Way Down in the Rust Bucket" is the best Crazy Horse record we ever recorded. I love it! "~ Frank “Poncho” Sampedro, Rolling Stone -  March 2, 2021

 

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