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lemonade kid
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Neil Young - The Complete Joel Bernstein Tapes - Soundboards
Comments: 1976 Tour Compilation. These songs that make up this boot come from "The Joel Bernstein Tape," compiled by long time friend/photographer/ musician of Neil, that surfaced after many years in Joel's personal collection (what else does he have?!?). This is an all acoustic boot that includes songs not, yet released and songs that didn't appear for many years, including an early version of "White Line", among others. -geetarz
Play in full...fantastic acoustic portions of his 1976 Zuma tour from the personal collection of Joel Bernstein
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr8JJe9-6BE
Joel Bernstein was Neil's photographer and musical archivist. The 22 tracks on this recording were chosen by Joel, during Neil's acoustic tour, November of 1976. These tracks are all taken from excellent board recordings. God, I would give anything to have been to one of these show. The Atlanta and Boston shows would be nice. Maybe we will get lucky, and Neil will release a complete concert, on his Archive label. Either way Joel, did a great job in picking out the songs. each one has its on heart and emotion. I love it. Hope you do too. --clandestinesoundlab.blogspot
01 Campaigner (Boston 11/22/76 E)
02 Old Laughing Lady (Atlanta 11/24/76 E)
03 Human Highway (Madison, Wis. 11/14/76)
04 Tell Me Why (Chicago 11/15/76 L)
05 After the Goldrush (Houston 11/11/76)
06 Harvest (Boston 11/22/76 L)
07 Mr. Soul (New York City 11/20/76 E)
08 Here We Are in the Years (Atlanta 11/24/76 L)
09 Journey Through the Past (Boston 11/22/76 L)
10 Heart of Gold, Fort Worth (Texas 11/10/76)
11 A Man Needs a Maid (New York City 11/20/76 L)
12 White Line, Fort Worth (Texas 11/10/76)
13 Give Me Strength (New York City 11/20/76 L)
14 No One Seems to Know (Boulder, Colo. 11/7/76)
15 Mellow My Mind, New York City 11/20/76 E)
16 Too Far Gone (Boulder, Colo. 11/6/76)
17 Needle and the Damage Done (Atlanta 11/24/76 E)
18 Pocahontas (Atlanta 11/24/76 L)
19 Roll Another Number (Boston 11/22/76 L)
20 Losing End (Atlanta, 11/24/76 L)
21 Love is a Rose (Houston 11/11/76)
22 Sugar Mountain (11/24/76 L)
http://blogstoned.blogspot.com/2012/10/neil-young-complete-joel-bernstein-tapes.html
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Joel Bernstein - a baby-faced longhair who made the leap from fan to Young's primary archivist - put it succinctly: "Neil does what he wants to do when he wants to do it and doesn't do what he doesn't want to do when he doesn't want to do it."
Here in the summer of 1991, Bernstein was deep into a career retro-spective of Young's work, and he was excited. Little did Bernstein know that it still wouldn't be finished ten years later and he'd have a few new gray hairs to show for his trouble.
The Neil Young Archives, a projected multi-CD set of Young's entire recorded output-released and unreleased-is emblematic of his tenaciousness and perversity. Numerous tentative release dates have come and gone since the project began in 1989. Exhaustively seeking CD technology refinements, Young has transferred his mammoth analog tape vault to digital not once but three times-so far. He's blocked any attempts to corral Archives into a practical size and driven everybody crazy by repeatedly abandoning the project to create new music. A booklet mock-up was de-signed only to be immediately rejected; Young wanted a four-hundred-page book. His vision encompasses every aspect of the project down to the box cover, and rest assured, one way or another it will be carried out. Like everything else, it'll be the way Neil Young wants it, or it won't be done at all.
Everybody keeps putting their own concept on this Archives thing- what songs should be in it, shortening it, doing all this **** that has nothing to do with what I'm going to do, y'know? So what I've done is, I've just stopped all that from happening-no one can complete any-thing.
-They, uh, noticed, Neil.
They did?
-Oh, yeah. They noticed big-time.
It was a helluva try. Real good. But it's not what I want. I don't mind the suggestions about what are good songs . . . But the pieces of **** should be there, too.
-Why?
So you know the difference. Some of it is good, some of it is crap that wasn't released-there's a reason. Take a look, see what it is. That's what a ****in' archive is about, not "Here's Neil Young in all his wonderfulness-the great, phenomenal ****ing wonderfulness." That's not what I want.
I want people to know how ****in' terrible I was. How scared I was and how great I was. The real picture-that's what I'm looking for. Not a product. And I think that's what the die-hard fans want-the whole ****in' thing.
And when I've done the Archives, selected everything and it's all finished, I'm gonna destroy everything else.
-Really?
I'm gonna bury it.
-You're not being glib? This is a decision you've made?
Definitely. I'm gonna dig a big ****in' hole, dump it all in there, cover it all up. And it's gonna go away.
-But people have shovels. People close to you.
People close to me have shovels?!
-Are you the right guy to put the Archives together?
Hey-it's already together. All you have to do is make sure it's in chronological order, pick the art that goes with it, pick the packaging, put it out.
Y'know, I don't give a **** whether anybody BUYS it or not. I just wanna do it. And there may only be two hundred copies, signed by me. But it's gonna ****in' exist. When it's done, people can do whatever the **** they want, make any ****in' order they want out of it. But they're gonna have the whole ****in' thing to choose from. They're not gonna get part of it. Everything-the good, the bad, the ugly.
-Should I approach the book the same way?
No-music's different. If you put everything in the ****in' book . . . First of all, the book would be ****in' twenty volumes long and you'd never finish it. Second of all, it'd have all kinds of **** in it that might hurt people.
At the same time, it shouldn't be a book that makes me look like I'm great and that everything I did is perfect and that the whole book is contrived and put together to justify every ****in' thing I ever did.
-YEAH, RIGHT.
So obviously it's not gonna be that kinda book. But that's the one thing-I really don't want to hurt people. There are ways to say things where the reader can put things together. Draw their own conclusions. The weakness of an autobiography is the lack of perspective of the per-son who's writing it. So, for that reason, I'll never write an autobiography. Never. I told Pegi, "Never let me do it." There's no reason.
People keep telling me that my music has helped them through periods of their life, and I've never understood how that happens, but it must hap-pen because of the way I do it. The way I do things is I give enough facts to make people get a feeling-and then they can associate their own lives with these images that make it seem to apply directly to them. Like the song was written for them. They can't believe it's so directly and obviously about their life. That's because it's not so specific that it eliminates them.
To write an autobiography would go against the grain of all that. Plus it would be too hard. I'd rather make records. That's where my thing is. Now you say something.
-I'm gonna be institutionalized.
****, we can make a lifetime outta this. This could be worse than the Archives, heh heh. We'll make an art project out of it if it ****in' kills us. It's a book. As far as what's in it-that's up to you. I'm not gonna read it.
-- http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2004/09/joel-bernstein-and-archives.html
one of many famous photos by Joel Bernstein...
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Edited by - lemonade kid on 12/06/2013 14:20:38 |
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Complete Bernstein Tapes-1976 Neil Young tour
