Not considering the period covered by Vol. 1, where only acoustic performances were available except for the Live Fillmore with Crazy Horse, so far 3 electric and 3 acoustic volumes have been released.
Personally I've burned my Neil Young Depreciation Society membership card for fuel. I'm all in on Neil archival positivity. Neil, Just Take My Money™.
I listened to my bernstein tapes boot again - this is going to be amazing if it all is at the quality level of “campaigner” All of these different performances are at different times and places, and are valid. If anything, crazy horse has been the only live neil well represented for most of his career
I love all of the archival releases so far but Joel and Cameron should in charge of assembling the track lists to all of these!
The too long talking about and too long waiting for releases can create real conflict in many fans, though. And these artists just keep going and keep celebrating the past. I'm a graduate of the 1990s Neil resurgence, Harvest Moon and Unplugged came out when I was in high school and Sleeps with angels & Broken Arrow when I was in University. My fandom is "only" 25 years old or so and even I must say that it's all a bit much, in a way. I admit I fairly yawned listening to this "new" "Campaigner" the other day. I like it, I'll probably buy the release but if someone were to suggest that some of our fav artists have almost released too much material and have maybe, gulp, stuck around a bit too long, I would think any reasonable music fan could concede that is a possibility. Wasn't Campaigner on that unreleased studio album from last year? Somewhat being rhetorical here, I love Neil and listen to him all the time and he's probably my single favourite musical artist. Another way to put this is that I'm more interested in unreleased "new" songs than hearing ANOTHER version of a song I've heard a hundred times already live and in studio settings
I second, third, and one thousandth these comments. The two recent releases — Hitchhiker and Live Tonight’s the Night — these were not just great, they were “insanely great”. To me, they are in the category of greatest archival releases, by anyone, EVER. Plus Blue Note Cafe, A Treasure, the other acoustic archival releases, several new albums — Monsanto, Peace Trail, Visitor, others — all of which I’d class as good-to-great. Did I mention Time Fades Away? Go ahead and pop A Letter Home or Storeytone into your player. Neil is finally getting to the archival stuff we always wanted. Open up your wallet and enjoy the ride. I know I will. I am more than thrilled with the announced Songs for Judy. Neil is on a roll!
Just looking through the Archives vol. 1 book for the first time in ages and see there was a studio session at Thunder Sound in Toronto 1/19/71. Love In Mind Journey Through The Past A Man Needs A Maid/Heart Of Gold Suite See The Sky About To Rain Wonder if if these recordings will ever show up on archives as well. Also I wonder how far along that "career anthology" live album was to coming out in 71 or 72 just before Harvest.
If they have the tapes, all of these should have been on V1, especially Love In Mind and See the Sky.
Arcives Guy was on this very forum (among others) asking for audience tapes of this show so ... I'd rather they skip it working on that one even though it's a great performance.
well yes you would be correct if I was simply trying to list every release, but I wasn't. My point was that there has been a sameness to most of the releases: solo acoustic!
As written before, simply don't exist electric live performances from the Archives Vol. 1 period,except for the Fillmore East multitracks and Neil couldn't release something non existing in the vaults . From the later periods so far the same number of electric/acoustic releases has been published.
love the solo acoustic live releases so far. Not sure what electric releases there are to release from that period. I would take more from that period - Carnegie Hall, whatever else exists.
Slightly bummed it's acoustic and no Crazy Horse, but maybe it means we are getting closer to the Crazy Horse Alchemy recordings.
I think a lot of us would like to see a great sounding complete show of the kind he did with Crazy Horse and modeled after Dylan's 1965- '66 sets - solo acoustic and then the band set. We got most of an electric portion with the Fillmore release several years back - minus "Cinnamon Girl" - but it would be nice to have the whole package at least once among these releases. I've got many that are boots but would love something official.
I would too but the fact that he has released 17 live albums and zero are complete shows has led me to give up on this
If the next 5 archival releases were all solo acoustic... 1976 Songs For Judy 1969 Canterbury House 1974 Bottom Line 1978 Boarding House 1988 Jones Beach ... I would be a happy happy boy! Each year so very different despite similar instrumentation.
So I guess this show was not multi tracked. But the soundboard is great. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/...flUBPRVF0TMk-bcK6SfiASZuis1YW5BsEz7CAJiNorRpu https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/...j6iXZ62ANQwWgHqmwQe9Lmptm09dH5kQqTs6MqjyrxsTi
