Tag: Neil Young
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Why Neil Young Once Tried to Drive To Belgium, and How He Nearly Killed Dylan…
The final article (of three) on Neil Young’s Ditch Trilogy… Tonight’s The Night was due to be released in January 1974, but Neil Young continued to work on mixing the rough recordings, and by May 1974 he was playing a solo show at The Bottom Line in New York with a set of new songs,…
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Neil Young and The Ditch Trilogy: Time Fades Away and Tonight’s the Night
This is the Second of three parts of a trilogy of articles about the Ditch Trilogy that I originally wrote for the liner notes to my Neil Young DIY Box Set… Worst follow up albums? There are quite a few acts that have followed up a huge, successful, life changing hit album with an an…
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Neil Young Live at The O2 Arena: A Journey Through The Past
There are two kinds of live artists: those who play the hits, and those who don’t. One of my favourite Neil Young stories is about the time Young played a set of completely new, unheard songs to an audience, then told them “here’s one you’ve heard before” only to then dash their hopes of…
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Neil Young and his Original Special One: Danny Whitten
(In anticipation of Neil Young’s show at The O2 Arena on Saturday, I thought I would share a slightly altered version of the liner notes I wrote for the Neil Young DIY Box Set earlier in the year, which has previously only been read by the buyer of that box set. Here’s the first of…
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The Neil Young Deluxe Vinyl Box Set Project Part 5: More Records
The Project: Is it possible to make a “Deluxe” Vinyl Box Set of Neil Young albums from the original vinyl rather than spending lots of money on re-issues? I am trying to find out… The Story So Far: I have Zuma and Time Fades Away, but need two more albums to replicate the official…
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The Neil Young Deluxe Vinyl Box Set Project: Part 4
IV: The “Deluxe” Extras The Project: Is it possible to make a “Deluxe” Vinyl Box Set of Neil Young albums from the original vinyl rather than spending lots of money on re-issues? The Story So Far: We have the box, but no records. Confused? Click these links for Part one, part two, and part…
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The Neil Young Deluxe Vinyl Box Set Project: Putting The “Box” Into “Box Set”
The Project: To bring luxury to the masses. The plan is to make a Luxury Neil Young Box Set: DIY Edition from second hand albums and bits of string and sell it to the public. The Story So Far: A visit to local record shops has been entirely fruitless. Click here for part one…
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The Neil Young Deluxe Vinyl Box Set Project: Part 2: the records
The Project: Is it possible to make your own Deluxe Vinyl Box Set of Neil Young Records? The first part of this short series is here… The most important part of any box set, aside from the fake gimmicky memorabilia padding it out, is the music. It was therefore important to find really good…
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The Neil Young Deluxe Vinyl Box Set Project
Part 1: The Idea Robin Williams famously said cocaine was God’s way of telling you you’re making too much money. He might just as easily been referring to vinyl box sets, which are unashamedly a luxury item. The last U2 box set was priced so highly even Bono couldn’t afford it. Box sets…
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You could buy The Oasis Box Set….but why not buy all this vinyl instead….
(Update: I’m on a vinyl buying spree to attempt to buy a better collection than the Oasis Box Set – click through to this link to see the first post in the series) With £71.99 spent of the budget of £116.99, I had (does quick sum in his head*) £45 – more than a third…
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What Is The Greatest “Not Officially Released” Album?
There’s something about unreleased songs and albums which is wholly intriguing. An unreleased record taunts us whilst unheard, causing divine despair for the days that are no more, or whatever the poet said. Never mind the fact that the artist or record company thought the release of such excrescence might cause irreparable harm to the…
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Unreleased Gems: Neil Young’s Chrome Dreams – Rust Edition
Good news: Neil Young has announced a Record Store Day exclusive: a limited vinyl box-set re-release of his “Ditch Trilogy” of albums, plus Zuma. Sadly, however, there’s an album missing from that stellar line up. Chrome Dreams might well be the best album Neil Young ever made, at a time (1976) when he was hitting…
Every record tells a story 