Song of the Day, April 16, 2018 -- Let's Impeach The President: "Some of these words don't fit. Enough do though. NY"
Goddamnit Neil! Gimme some more notice next time! Woulda made this trip in a heartbeat if I had a few more weeks to make it work!
Wow!! Wonder if there's any way I can make this work on such short notice. I don’t see the presale link though.
Nor do I. Watch that space I guess. I'm trying to decide if it's worth trying to make a trip out of it. Seems unlikely that they'd go through the trouble of getting the Horse back up and running for only 2 shows. I'd think (hope) they'd want to get a summer tour out of it at least. Or maybe this is Neil's way of testing it first to see if it feels right. Hmmm...
I did not expect anything Horse related so quickly. This is VERY exciting. I’m expecting a lot of Broken Arrow songs in the set. Maybe some Toast songs as well??? Maybe his Songs of the Day are an indication of what songs they’ve been rehearsing?
Wow, didn't expected it to happen that soon! I suppose these are going to be small club shows, kinda like The Echoes tour in '96?
The shows are at Warnor's Theatre in Fresno and are now on sale via NYA. It is killing me to be unable to attend these shows, especially because I just pulled third row dead center seats! Act fast!
And apparently no one knows about the Neil Young Archives site or the pre-sale. As of a few minutes ago, it looks like basically all of the tickets are still available... NYF
Maybe it’s a way to drive subscribers? Anyhow, I’m making the drive as I landed third row center seats. Who the hell knows what this will sound like? Worth checking out I think....
Holy ****! Nils Lofgren just confirmed on Twitter that he'll be joining the Horse for these shows next week.
I cant even log on - a password reset email never arrives. So I canny do nowt but find out via this forum what the latest action is. I suppose I could give another email address.
With its release, we now see that Roxy is PS05, rather than PS04. So where does that leave us? (Bold are speculation.) Performance Series 00 -- Sugar Mountain - Live at Canterbury House 1968 01 -- Live at the Riverboat 1969 02 -- Live at the Fillmore East 1970 02.5 -- Live at the Cellar Door 03 -- Live at Massey Hall 1971 04 -- Time Fades Away II 05 -- Roxy Live 1973 06 -- Rainbow Theatre? Live at the Bottom Line (1974)? 1976 tour compilation? 07 -- Boarding House 1978 08 -- Solo Trans (1983 tour) 09 -- A Treasure (’84-85) 10 -- Garage (1986) 11 -- Bluenote Café (’88-89) 11.5 -- Live Freedom (Acoustic European tour 1989)? 12 -- Dreamin' Man Live '92 13 -- Alchemy Special Release Series 01 -- Early Daze (1969) 02 -- Homegrown 03 -- Dume? 04 -- Odeon Budokan (March ’76) 05 -- Hitchhiker (Nov ’76) 06 -- Chrome Dreams 07 -- Oceanside Countryside (1977) 08 -- Old Ways I? Island in the Sun? 09 -- Toast (2001)? 10 -- Paradox It seems a bit unlikely to me that PS06 would be a 1976 tour compilation, since Odeon Budokan (SRS04?) is supposedly a live recording from the same tour. Also since Roxy Live has been released, it seems a bit unlikely to me that they would also release the Rainbow Theatre shows. (There is so much that could be done with the TTN material - Roxy Live, Rainbow Theatre, Original Briggs album version. Would anybody buy all four TTN releases?!) The Bottom Line show might be more likely here, since he played a lot of On the Beach material at that show. Also, Live Freedom presents a problem, since it sits between Bluenote Cafe and Dreamin' Man. I suppose Neil could make it 11.5 as proposed above. Was Live Freedom ever prepared for actual release? Could it be SRS08? I'm hoping that SRS08 is Old Ways I.
There has to be more between #12 and #13. It's 20 years! Maybe the acoustic Crazy Horse Bridge show where they played some of Sleeps With Angels (doubtful), or something from the '93 shows with Booker T, '95 with Pearl Jam, and so much more over those years.
Is a recording with the Ducks entirely out of the question? I never understood why this era is never brought up for a few reasons: 1. We know Neil recorded some of these shows due to the presence of a recording truck at the gigs. 2. It is from Neil's golden 1970's decade where pretty much everything he did is widely appreciated 3. It is something entirely different from anything else he has ever done. Firstly, Neil was just a member of the band, not the entire focus. Because of these many songs were featured that weren't written by Neil, which makes it quite intriguing compared to all the other live releases. And finally unlike most of his other projects, he never worked with this group again. He seems to revisit many of his other groups every decade, or do a few tours with them. The Ducks lasted for a summer and never played outside Santa Cruz. To me the events of that summer are almost mythic, and I'd love to see it get some form of release some day down the road. Perhaps the other band members would need to sign off on this, but I can't really see why they wouldn't consider this, it's either release it and get a paycheck, or let it sit in a vault and get nothing while it hits public domain status in a decade.
Sure, absolutely. I just numbered Alchemy 13 because it's at the end, but it could be any number after 12.
