I already have every Princeton Landing show (plus a 4CD "best of") but I might be tempted to spring for a manufactured CD (not CDR) boxset of that run. That is my fave Neil.
Are there soundboard recordings of these shows? I recall “Baby What You Want Me To Do” from Broken Arrow is taken from these shows and it’s an audience recording.
All the ones I have are audience sources but the sound quality is fantastic (probably better than the Baby version used on Broken Arrow, although I could be misremembering). I 4get the taper lineages but what I have have been with Schoeps mics (?). I suppose someone could have taped from the board but I've not come across that, and in my experience anyway in taper land audience recordings with good mics blow away board tapes especially in a tiny place like that which is not going to have the guitars going through the PA (?).
Fantastic? I dunno, I've listened to them all (my buddy was standing next to me while taping 5/23 on his Schoeps) and while some sound pretty good, I wouldn't call any "fantastic." Surely not worthy of a major-label release. Maybe an NYA-only run.
I couldn't find the video on youtube but it's embedded on this article....also pretty funny hearing Strawberry Fields playing slowly in the background The bootleg he finds is Busted! CSNY “Live At The Forum” Neil Young Goes Record Shopping And Finds Neil Young Bootlegs Records
The broadcast is supposed to get an official DVD release at some point. It's also shown sometimes on NYA.
I can’t see how he can drop 5 shows at once and have them all get individual vinyl releases the same day unless it’s a box set. It doesn’t sound like a box set is coming. Maybe this will be a streaming/hi-res download only series? That would make perfect sense the way it’s described.
He said awhile back that they had a plan to release Carnegie Hall on vinyl for RSD in April and then having the other five shortly after. Though with RSD sticking to June and July drop dates this year, and delays pushing vinyl production back even further, they’ve abandoned that idea and are releasing them (or Carnegie Hall, at the very least, according to an article about that release) on August 27th. But with him also mentioning the entire Bootleg Series was coming in August in this last NYA message, I wouldn’t be surprised if they dropped all six on NYA and made them available to purchase digitally on August 27th, and then released them gradually in vinyl over time starting with Carnegie in August.
That’s a good question. I guess it depends on how they release this Bootleg Series. If they keep it a mostly digital release, then ORS 5 could still be on track for an August release. But we’ll see. Honestly, I’m just hoping Warner/Rhino’s plan isn’t to release the Original Bootleg Series in a similar way to how they released the Brilliant Live Adventure albums.
He has said the Bootleg Series will have CD and vinyl release.Too much of his market is wedded to physical releases (people like me) and that is where he will make money out of them.That being said the 6 coming out close to simultaneously which he has suggested might be a bit optimistic given the manufacturing constraints.He could do this with the cds and have later release dates for the vinyl but I doubt he is inclined to do this. Trust me no one will ever do a Brilliant Live Adventures again.
