Campaigner

yeah, where is that Campaigner guy?

Here I am - late to the party as usual!!

Awesome news - found out last night through a friend and bought my ticket just a couple of minutes ago.

I'd use the dancing smiley face, but I'm a much worse dancer than that.

(I posted this on another site... will port it over)

From uncut.co.uk

http://www.uncut.co.uk/news/neil_young/news/9279

Long-awaited details about the forthcoming Neil Young Archives box-set have surfaced today.

The anticipated release date of 'Archives, Volume 1' is September this year.

The collection will feature eight discs, including "Live At the Filmore" (released last November) and "Live At Massey Hall", a solo set from 1971 which is due out on March 26 .

Thirty-eight previously unreleased songs will feature on Archives, billed as a 'musical autobiography' of Neil Young. Tantalisingly, the eight CDs only cover the period from 1964 to 1971, suggesting it is only the beginning of a vast release campaign.

Allan Jones, Editor of Uncut says "This is incredible news for Neil Young fans, like myself, who seem to have been waiting the best part of our adult lives for the release of this archive material. Neil has been talking about it for years.When I interviewed him in 1989, he told me it was coming together and to expect it soon. Which is also what he told me when I interviewed him in 1993. It looks finally like it's s happening at last, though, incredibly enough. On the evidence of the Live at The Filmore CD, it should be mind-blowing stuff."

We'll announce more details about Archives, Volume 1 on Uncut.co.uk as we get them.

Another thing on those who say he releases too much stuff.

What would you prefer, someone who put out an album every four-five years and have every song be great, or someone who puts out 1-2 albums a year where maybe 60% of the songs are great?

I know I'd take the latter anyday... As long as we get the killer tunes, who cares how much is padded around it? RA is like a lot of other people where his fans cannot agree at all as to what the best and worst songs are on any given album, so maybe it's best he releases it all and keeps us happy

I wonder if Adams kept a reciept when he bought his own hype. He may want a refund.

Is this a form of mental illness, putting out all these songs? Dude needs an editor.

They say if you start digging from the U.S., you will eventually hit China. I guess if Ryan releases enough material, he might eventually rip himself off instead of every other band in existence.

People criticised him before all this came out for putting out every fart that he recorded, and now when he pretty much does release it all and people think he's actually being serious?!?

"I read a review of a show where he was an asshole to some guy who kept calling him Bryan (great joke, might by a ticket to his show just so I can do that to him, see if he's a prick to me too), so it must mean he's a humourless, arrogant prick all the time and that every song he releases is a complete rip-off of someone else and that Adams thinks each is the greatest song ever, man..."

You've got 'Dark End of the Street' but you still need Clarence Carter's 'Makin' Love (At the Dark End of the Street)'.

On that note, you also need;

'Slip Away' - Clarence Carter

'Have You Ever Loved a Woman?' - Derek & the Dominos

Probably a lot more but I can't think right now...

Really only one song that comes to mind...

'Thunder Road'

Here's a good review of the DVD;

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=26171

the lab tech in our group knew Paul personally and he wasnt happy with the news of them carrying on without him

I dunno whether he should be or not. Hessie left the band once before so he could be with his family, and the band toured without him, so I don't see why this would be any more of a problem than that was.

The plan is for both the Performance series *and* the box sets to be released, the first of which (8cds, 2dvds) is due later this year.

What makes this year different than any other year that the first box has supposed to be released? That one older concert has already been released and another is due in a couple of months. The Fillmore and now Massey Hall gigs are signs that things are actually moving.

Maybe Wilco will add more Australian dates. It seems silly to travel so far and not include places like Perth. I'm crossing my fingers for you, Campaigner, 'cause even tour organisers have got Soul.

Haha, touche!

These things interest me, why I'm not sure, but probably because I know how Campaigner feels about his (her?) city being left out. But Campaigner is really really far away from the east coast cities! I had no idea how far. So yeah, I learned something.

Definitely 'his'

I'm not really complaining too much about the band themselves (although they've been here before and named a song after Rottnest Island, which is just off the west coast), more the people in Australia who organise tours by bands and seemingly leave Perth and sometimes Adelaide completely out of the equation when the audience is here, all we need is the talent to come here.

As for flying across - it's a lovely idea but I can't keep doing it. Flew from Perth to Adelaide (via Melbourne - check that on the map and ask why on earth it would be cheaper) in November to see U2 (who also didn't come here) and it cost way too much money. I might have to move to Melbourne again...

Nice that Wilco's joined the fray of countless artists/bands who think that Australia is limited to three cities on the eastern seaboard.

1) 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) - The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (Bruce Springsteen)

2) I Am Yours - Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs (Derek & the Dominos)

3) Torn Curtain - Marquee Moon (Television)

4) Ride My Llama - Rust Never Sleeps (Neil Young)

5) Lipstick Vogue - This Year's Model (Elvis Costello)

6) Sometimes I Make You Sad - In it For the Money (Supergrass)

7) Kingpin - Being There (Wilco)

8) I'm Alright - 16 Lovers Lane (The Go-Betweens)

9) Mysterious Ways - Achtung Baby (U2)

10) Cold Roses - Cold Roses (Ryan Adams)

3/19/02 was to be the first taping, but it was delayed until 04/02/02 due to Ryan being sick...

Man that sucks so much.

Just about right too. It's 1am here, my birthday finished an hour ago and now this news comes through - worst news of the year IMHO.

RIP Bob.

Let's all watch 'Nashville' tonight...

yeah, a 10 min trip out the city. you from melbourne??

Lived there for a couple of years before moving home...

Hey Froggie, check with the guys at Greville Records if you're anywhere near there - those guys can be pretty encyclopaedic if they want to be

I passed up an opportunity to go to that final gig. I thought that no one would turn up an there'd just be a handful of people at the Opera House with no atmosphere whatsoever and that it would a bad way to see the guys go out.

Boy did I get it wrong!

I guess the dude who had these up at that one place took them down - ha ha. I got almost a 1 GB in numbers sharing it though. I don't think I will buy this - it is pretty ragged.

Cheers for the heads up before - I got in just in time.

As for the album itself - this is nothing new for me having had the bootlegs for a few years now, but the sound quality blows it away, and I'm only listening to the lossy version. As for it being ragged - it's Crazy Horse, that's their specialty

Needless to say, I love it. The ragged 'Winterlong' with Danny Whitten sharing the vocals is something to behold.

Happy b'day Neil!

How many places will report this and say "long may he run"??

The original TTN isn't circulating and has only been heard by those who made it and others in the Neil Young circle.

There could be a bootleg from the sessions, but it is definitely not the 'original' TTN. That could be being saved for the second volume of Archives, if and when they get released. In fact, since it was made in 1973, it should be the on the first or second disc of that set, since the first volume is said to finish with 'War Song', the single Neil and Graham Nash put out in 1972.

The guy at Pitchfork is obviously that guy you used to hang out with and after every joke was told he'd whinge that he "didn't get it" and make you explain it to him bit by bit.

Fer chrissakes, even Rolling Stone got the joke!

1. The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle - Bruce Springsteen

2. Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek & the Dominos

3. Marquee Moon - Television

4. In it For the Money - Supergrass

5. Live at the Harlem Square Club - Sam Cooke

6. Being There - Wilco

7. Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

8. Radio City - Big Star

9. Pet Sounds - Beach Boys

10. Cold Roses - Ryan Adams & the Cardinals (only 'cos I just finished listening to it)

Nice reply - you gave the sort of perspective I was wondering about (that which I can only supply for the UK in the late 70s/early 80s).

Just to add to my post above, my most abiding memory, not so much of 'Nevermind', but the whole Nirvana 'thing', was shortly after Kurt Cobain died, a good friend of mine at school who had recently broken his arm and still had his cast on, spent all his days writing hundreds of 'K's on his cast all in different sizes. Another guy I went to school with had actually carved a 'K' into his arm, and another had the date Cobain died tattooed on his ankle.

Didn't strike me as healthy fascinations then, and they seem even more stupid now.