Neil Young--"Time Fades Away"

[krabapple]

He needs to have his catalog taken away from him and handled by someone who knows audio and isn't an aging drug-addled hippie. Which disqualifies CERTAIN PEOPLE here. Oh, and they shouldn't be Canadian either.

I think the BS box set sounds pretty good, actually, excessive mononess excluded. I think he's silly about insisting on HDCD, but I think from the sound department they did a pretty good job.

Yes but his endless shit-dumb mental wanking over whether HDCD or DVD-A or [whatever] sounds as good as vinyl did back when he still had the majority of his brain cells, seems to be at least one of reasons his 'archive' project hasn't materialized.

[MK]

Yeah, Neil has an extra grudge against digital because he bought all the hype when it first came out, sold all his analog equipment, and then quickly regretted. I think that's why he hates it even more, because he probably feels like he was conned or something. It's all in that biography, "Shakey" by John M-something.

What really sucks is the first two volumes of Archives HAS been sequenced and finished, probably has the art completed, too, because Neil was picking out paintings for cover-art the same time he was thinking of what to include. That's 16 discs worth of music. The BIG reason it hasn't come out according to a Chicago Trib article that should be printed somewhere on one of the Neil sites out there is that Neil's manager, Elliot Roberts I think is his name, he said he 'personally KILLED' the project. Why? 'Cuz that's the kind of thing an artist releases after he's dead or retired and Neil isn't close to either. His words. Anyone familiar with Roberts knows he's the 'bad cop' in the Neil Young camp. If you ever have any business dealings with Neil or need an interview, anything, reporters and industry types always say that Neil's manager always step in as the bad cop.

[Dob]

Neil's manager, Elliot Roberts I think is his name, he said he 'personally KILLED' the project...If you ever have any business dealings with Neil or need an interview, anything, reporters and industry types always say that Neil's manager always step in as the bad cop.

Maybe Neil's manager is acting exactly the way Neil wants him to, and he's taking the heat for any of Neil's questionable decisions.

[Xenu]

Still, he finally released On the Beach a couple years ago and that's not exactly a picnic. Young's handling of his own catalog has been almost as frustrating and haphazard as Zappa's. BTW, how exactly does Young have so much control over his catalog? Is this just some element of his contract with WB?

Ehh, maybe. I don't recall "Harvest" coming out with drums that were redubbed in the eighties.