NEW OUTTAKES: "Natural Beauty" and "Inca Queen" | Neil Young Archives

Neil Young @ Berlin Film Festival 2008

After all of yesterday's major Neil Young news, it's hard to know exactly where we go next?!

What with Spotify bringing Neil Young back and dropping Joe Rogan, Neil and David Crosby recording a new track together on Ukraine and Canada liberation, the CSNY Reunion Summer Tour announcement, and the upcoming Crazy Horse Electric Train Spring Tour the following Neil news seems almost trivial.

Oh, these contrarian times in which we live. Such a joy.

From Neil Young Archives Times-Contrarian:

March 30, 2022

We’ve just published two new outtakes on NYA: The original live performances of Natural Beauty (Harvest Moon) and Inca Queen (Life) without the studio overdubs recorded for the album versions.

Inca Queen was performed with Crazy Horse at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles during the 1986 Rusted Out Garage Tour — a rollicking good time that will be well-represented on the forthcoming Archives Vol III.

Natural Beauty was performed at the Portland Civic Auditoreum during the first of several now-legendary 1992 solo tours — see Dreamin’ Man Live ‘92 if this recording whets your appetite.

You can find these outtakes by following the links in this article or by navigating to their respective albums, where they reside in their own purpose-built sections at the bottom of the track lists.

-john o

 More on all of the latest Neil news on Neil Young Archives: Answer to Answers #6 | NYU.

 

Happy 2022 ARC Day!

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Happy 2022 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. (ARC single excerpt played on PLAYLIST: Neil Young Deep Dive | WTJU.net - 91.1 FM ) "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 
• FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Statement by Neil Young on Album BARN
• 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 Neil's tweet in 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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A Memory of Kurt Kasinoff: Neil Young's Guitar Tech

 

Ethan & Otis

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Alchemy Tour -  Petersen Center, Pittsburgh, PA –  10/09/13
Photo by Kurt Kasinoff

 

Here is a memory of  Kurt Kasinoff -- Neil Young's Guitar Tech -- who recently passed away after a long illness.

From post Kurt Kasinoff: 19xx - 2022 by Ethan:

hey, heres a story.

Crazy Horse tour Alchemy - 2013 I guess, went up to cleveland saw the show, next day was my hometown show in pittsburgh. when I got back from cleveland I took my dog Otis and went up to hang out by the venue in the afternoon, hoping to catch soundcheck.

We followed some road eyes inside and Otis and I were hanging out, he was a golden doodle and a great dog man. Looked a lot like the pooch in the recent vids from Barn.. anyway Kurt came by to pet my dog, and I recognized him and I said, hey, Otis wants his picture taken with Old Black.

He said come on and took me onstage behind Neil's side I swear man that thing was vibrating on the bench I was so freaked out to be close to it. He picked up old black in one hand and had Otis's leash in the other, and I went to take the pic..

My phone battery was dead! I said, dude, you're not gonna believe this but my phone just died. he looked at me like, ok whats up with this guy.. there was no way he was gonna hand me old black! So he handed me his phone, I took the pic and he sent it to me... He made a day to remember for an old head and a life time fan.

Thrasher, thanks for liking my tale! I have been following the site for years and it's fun to participate.

Here is the photo of Otis and Old Black, which I took with Kurt's phone. Unfortunately I didn't get his face in there, but you can see the telltale scarf :)

Also attaching a picture of a much younger me with the big O in the venue before soundcheck with the live rust set behind us.

I am sorry to hear this sad news. But I wanted to share this tale.

All the best,

Ethan

 
Kurt, Ol Black,  & Otis
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Alchemy Tour -  Petersen Center, Pittsburgh, PA –  10/09/13

Thanks for sharing the tale Ethan. (Pls check your **SPAM** folder) Yes, a real loss for Neil and crew.  So much sadness in Neil world these days.  This too shall pass ... or so we hear ...

don't forget peace ...

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Interview: Neil Young at the Berlin Film Festival - 2008

 
Graham Nash, Neil Young, David Crosby and Stephen Stills 

Premiere of 'CSNY Deja Vu' at 2008 Sundance Film Festival 

Eccles Theatre,Park City, Utah - January 25, 2008

 

 

Here is a short 2008 interview with Neil Young at the Berlin Film Festival 2008 about the film CSNY - Deja Vu. Still pertinent, still relevant after all these years, sadly.

 

Neil Young interview at the Berlin Film Festival 2008 about his film CSNY - Deja Vu

 

 "CSNY DEJA VU" Film Poster - 2008

More on We're Still Living With War... and It's Deja Vu Yet Again and "Families" by Neil Young: The Story Behind The Song.

Also, see  TWR 2.0 Podcast - Episode #14 | Still Living With War + Deja Vu Again

 

No War

Greendale Film still

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Neil Young Archives: Answer to Answers #6 | NYU

Neil Young - March 3, 1973 Albuquerque, NM - photo by Joel Bernstein via NYA
(Click photo to enlarge)  

As Neil Young's staggering prolificacy continues to unfurl in all of its splendid ragged glory, here is the latest attempt to summarize his release pipeline -- an effort in futility, if ever.

Here is a curated summary of some of Neil Young's  most interesting answers to Letters to the Editor | Times-Contrarian |  Neil Young Archives by Robert Broadfoot.

From Members | Neil Young Archives:

Answer to Answers #6 

Feb 8 to Mar 23, 2022

by Robert Broadfoot

 

This is the sixth in a series of summaries of Neil’s most interesting answers to Letters to the Editor in the NYA Times-Contrarian. These replies date from Feb 8 to Mar 23, 2022, and are, as always, collated and curated by the “Neil Young Unreleased” Facebook group. Editorial comments are generally marked in [square brackets] and dates refer to the date of publication. 

NOTE: Edited summary below.  Full details @  LTE | T-C |  NYA.

Albums / Films

• Neil confirms the release of the Harvest 50th Anniversary Edition in 2022 and says it will include the movie Harvest Time [which is expected to include footage from solo concerts as well as the Broken Arrow barn sessions and BBC interviews.] (2022-03-23)
• “Will the original Comes A Time [album] one day see an official release?”, a fan asks. Neil: “Yes”. [It should be noted that the ‘original’ Comes A Time, including solo recordings later overdubbed for the final version of Comes A Time, is generally assumed to form all or part of the project now known as Oceanside Countryside. This is expected to be included in some form in Archives Vol. 3.] “Any possibility of a more produced album not just live takes [like Barn was]?” Neil: “Yes.” (2022-03-22)
• Archives Vol. 3 release currently scheduled for “mid year”, says Neil. (2022-03-22)
• “Time Fades Away II was planned but the material didn’t warrant it so we went onward.” [TFA2 was initially planned as a further release covering the early part of the 1973 TFA tour and possibly one or two studio recordings, but we got Tuscaloosa instead.] Neil also confirms that there is still no trace of the original sessions tape for Tonight’s The Night which included all the raps between songs. (2022-03-02)
• “Ragged Glory (extended)” [aka Ragged Glory – Smell The Horse] “is coming this year with 4 outtakes.” (2022-03-02)
• “Toast is a great record. A Crazy Horse Classic coming in 2022.” (2022-02-23)
• “Alchemy not scheduled for 2022.” (2022-02-23)
• “Live Europe with Promise of the Real [Noise & Flowers] 2022 release.” (2022-02-23)
• The NYA streaming version of the forthcoming Official Bootleg Bottom Line will be “complete, no edits”. [The in-between song raps are likely to have been edited off the physical album for space reasons.] (2022-02-22)

Songs

• “Any new songs coming along?”, asks a fan. “Yes” says Neil. (2022-03-22)
• Neil says he is [still!] looking for Evening Coconut to be able to post it sometime. (2022-03-22)
• Answering about Harvesters recordings planned for Vol. 3, specifically Razor Love, Interstate, Silver & Gold, This Old House, Neil says: “Many of those will be there, some added as outtakes, [including] Misfits.” (2022-03-17)
• Asked about the “solo acoustic” demos for Landing On Water which were mentioned in the Shakey biography, Neil replies: “They are not acoustic. They are coming in V4 or sooner.” [Neil does not explain why they will be allocated to Vol. 4 which is generally expected to start chronologically at mid-1987.] (2022-03-16)
• Neil says he considers Throw Your Hatred Down his best anti-war song. (2022-03-16)
• “We have 5 more outtakes from Harvest due soon. Much more to come.” (2022-02-16)
• Asked about the songs Time Off For Good Behavior, Old Hillbilly Band, Turbine and Leaving The Top 40 Behind, Neil says: “I think the songs you mention are all on V3. Most of them are for sure.”

Timeline Concerts

• Neil says he is currently reviewing the Erfurt, Germany show from the 2001 Eurotour with Crazy Horse. [Presumably with a view to releasing it as a Timeline Concert]. (2022-03-16)
• A fan suggests syncing the recording of the Amsterdam 2016 Timeline Concert to “a great fan-shot film of three hours of that show shot with two cameras”. Neil answers “Sounds like a great idea, we will search for the video online.” (2022-03-02)

Miscellaneous

• “Is a return to Broken Arrow to record an option?” “Yes”, says Neil. (2022-03-22)
• Neil says he intends to bequeath Old Black “to someone I love”. (2022-03-16)
• “I will look into selling [NYA] outtakes as files.” (2022-02-12)

Fan requests for…

• Buffalo Springfield 2011 reunion shows at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles as a Timeline Concert 

Full details Answer to Answers #6 by Robert Broadfoot/NYU at Letters to the Editor | Times-Contrarian |  Neil Young Archives.

Thanks again Robert for all the invaluable research! So much unreleased, so much time.  Lucky us.  More on Curated Summary: Neil Young's Answers #3 | Letters to the Editor | Times-Contrarian | Archives  and Neil Young Archives: Answer to Answers #4 by Robert Broadfoot/NYU.

Also, here are details on Robert's other Neil Young research: The NYU Complete Outtakes Guide. It is so up to date, it even lists the "song" "No Fucking Cold Beer"!

Also, check NYU Guide to Outtakes and Demos, with direct links to the NYA file card for further information and immediate listening enjoyment by NYA subscribers.

DOWNLOAD FILE @ 

NYU-Guide-NYA-OUTTAKES-DEMOS-V1-1-TW-Robert-Broadfoot-2022.pdf (right click to "Save As")

If you see any corrections or updates, please share a comment below.

Neil Young's Unreleased Songs:

#NYU - Neil Young's Missing Recordings V4.0 (c) Robert Broadfoot 2021.pdf  

Also, see Neil Young's Unreleased Songs: UNCLE EDDIE'S CUPBOARD + The Unofficial Archive - UPDATE Vers. 7 + COTM.

Also, see Neil Young's Missing Recordings | NYU.

Neil Young Concert Timeline: Full Listing on Archives | NYA

 

Neil Young On The Beach: Reflecting on Reflections
 Release Schedule For 2022: TENTATIVE* DATES** 

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And many, many eternal thanks to the "true heroes" --  all of the unsung researchers and their labors of love. 

... gone but NEVER forgotten ...

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