RELEASED TODAY - Neil Young's Official Bootleg Series: Next 3 of 6 | NYA

 Neil Young's Official Bootleg Series: Next 3 Vinyl Boots | NYA 

 

As Neil Young has been announcing now for several years now (see Neil Young's Official Bootleg Series: Next 3 Vinyl Boots | NYA ), bootlegs are now finally being officially released.

Today,  the 2nd batch (3 of 6) from Official Bootleg Series is being released at long last. (UPDATE: the 1st release in OBS was Carnegie Hall 1970.  See REVIEW: The Neil Young Official Bootleg Series -- Carnegie Hall 1970 by Harvey Kubernik. Thanks Eddie! )

Officially released today and now available on Neil Young's Archive website are:

• Royce Hall (1971-01-30) 
• I'm Happy ... (Dorothy Chandler Pav. 1971-02-01) 
• Citizen Kane ... (Bottom Line 1974-05-16)

Per John O. on NYA, the NEXT THREE VINYL BOOTLEGS | NYA:

3-25-22

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The deeply oxidized rusties among you will have heard these shows before—they never sounded this sublime, so I hope you dig them all over again—but what excites me about this series is the opportunity people will have to sit down with these recordings for the first time. No need to dig around seedy corners of the internet or time travel to the kind of bygone record store that might keep this kind of thing under the counter with the other less-than-legal wares.

...

-john o

 

Neil Young's Official Bootleg Series

image via Rusted Moon 

 

From John O. on NYA:

First, enjoy a lovely evening at UCLA’s Royce Hall on the 1971 solo tour, and then, just two days later and on the other side of town, a legendary bootleg from the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion in downtown Los Angeles. These releases join Carnegie Hall, Young Shakespeare, Massey Hall, and Live At The Cellar Door to bolster one of the most compelling arguments for live music you’ll hear anywhere: these records capture the subtle variations from performance to performance, how those performances are influenced by the vibe of a specific physical space and the mood of a specific audience, how it may be “all one song” but even the same song is never the same from night to night.

And then, what can I say about Citizen Kane Jr. Blues from The Bottom Line that hasn’t been said? I’ll let Neil say something in my stead:

In 1974, on May 16th about 2:30 am in a famous NYC music club located in Greenwich Village called ‘The Bottom Line,’ I climbed onto the stage with my guitar and played eleven songs, including many new unreleased ones plus three that had never been played in the studio or anywhere - ‘Citizen Cane Jr Blues,’ ‘Long May You Run’ and ‘Pardon My Heart’.

In my mind it’s a hazy memory, but this moment really captures the essence of where I was in 1974.

Two months later, the album ‘On The Beach’ was released, including songs I played that night - ‘Ambulance Blues,’ ‘Revolution Blues,’ ‘On the Beach’ and ‘Motion Pictures.’

Folks at ‘The Bottom Line’ heard seven new songs for the first time. I just remember I was 28 years old, bare and letting it all out.

Some of you NYA subscribers weren’t yet born when these records were recorded—the most precocious among you may not have been born when these official (re-) releases were announced (what’s up, you cool babies)—but now we can all ride a honeyslide* back in time and pretend we were there.

You can hear the NYA-exclusive full, unedited concerts on the NYA Concert Timeline —Royce Hall, Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, The Bottom Line— or at the bottom of each album’s tracklist on the web or in your NYA mobile app.

-john o

*Honeyslide is an unregistered trademark of Shakey Pictures Records. No rights reserved. Must be 21 or over to use for the purposes of time travel. Local ordinances and restrictions apply. Please see your childhood best friend’s weird older brother for details. Don’t do drugs; Keep your grades up.

(NOTE: Not that we would ever suggest either, but the legendary "Honeyslide recipe" has been posted on TW since the late '90's, fwiw.)

Also, see First Impressions: Citizen Kane Jr. Blues by Neil Young | Old Grey Cat.

In 2020,  Neil Young announced details on the 1st 6 ‘Official Bootleg’ releases.

The six official bootlegs are:

1. "Carnegie Hall" (OBS 01) - Solo concert at Carnegie Hall, New York on December 4th, 1970
2. "Royce Hall" (OBS 04) - Solo concert at UCLA, Westwood, CA on 1/30/1971
3. "I'm happy that ya'all came down" (OBS 03) - Solo concert at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, LA on 02/01/1971
4. "Somewhere Under The Rainbow" (OBS 06) - Neil Young & The Santa Monica Flyers at the Rainbow Theater, London on November 5th, 1973
5. "Citizen Kane Jr. Blues" (OBS 06) - Neil Young solo in the club "The Bottom Line" on May 16, 1974
6. "High Flyin '" (OBS 02) - Neil Young & The Ducks in the summer of 1977
   

 

"Citizen Kane Jr. Blues" (OBS 06) - Neil Young solo in the club "The Bottom Line" on May 16, 1974

 

(More about Neil Young's legendary concert at "The Bottom Line" on Rusted Moon)

 

"Royce Hall" (OBS 04) - Solo concert at UCLA, Westwood, CA on 1/30/1971

For more details, see Surf Shack | Volume Dealers | OFFICIAL BOOTLEG SERIES |NYA.

 

"I’m So Happy That Y’all Came Down"
Neil Young: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles - February 1st, 1971

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