Pass The Butter: Neil Young And Crazy Horse Feeding Us "Toast"

Posted about 1 year ago

Artist:

Neil Young
Album:

Are You Passionate?
Track:
- PLAY
- QUEUE
Goin' Home

We've all heard the expression "You're toast!" Well Neil Young and Crazy Horse are refusing that a 2000 San Fransisco recording session succumbs to the saying. Back during what Young's Web site calls the "Dot Com boom" Crazy Horse walked themselves into an old studio, also called "Toast," to record some songs. They turned out crappy, and after months the group only managed to finish up one song "Goin' Home." Young eventually rerecorded some of the Toast tunes with Booker T and the MGs, which were later released on the Are You Passionate album. People mostly thought that was meh.

According to Neil's site, "NYtimes,":http://neilyoung.com/news/index.html Young will now release the original Toast recording sessions with Crazy Horse despite the "depressing atmosphere" they were recorded in. Toast will also be the first "Special Edition" release from the Neil Young Archives, a new series of previously unreleased albums Young's publicist confirmed. In other Crazy Horse news, former member Nils Lofgren will release a new yet-to-be-titled solo album this May. For the album Lofgren recorded his favorite Neil Young songs live in his home studio on piano and acoustic guitar. For release info "head here.":http://www.thrasherswheat.org/2008/03/nils-covers-neil.htmlDo you think Young should be so trigger happy with his botched recording sessions?

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Michael Goldberg says Yeah I think Neil should release everything! Especially any material recorded in the '60s and first half of the '70s!!! Live records, demos, etc. etc.

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Davis Presley says I second that motion. The two live archive releases are pretty solid stuff. Who knows what this Crazy Horse session will be like. If you read his biography ("Shaky") this man is sitting on piles and piles of unreleased material. The potential of releases that could come from these archives is endless. It's Neil Young though. A project could get completed, he will have a change of heart about it, and start on something brand new. He's done this his whole career and it probably won't change any time soon. I'm still waiting for the original unedited version of the "Tonight's The Night" LP. David Briggs says this is superior to the version that was eventually released. I'm sure there is a million others that need a releases also. What those are we'll never know.

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Jonh Ingham says I'm sitting on about 20 Gb 0f unreleased Neil and I'm not even a completist. That man has a skyscraper's worth of material. Great pic BTW, do you know when and where it's from?

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Wanbli says John, I'm looking at anywhere from 400-700 gigs of just unreleased Neil -and I'm not a completist :). Heck- I think I have 10 gigs from jus tthe Old Princeton Landing run

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Charley Rogulewski says i got the picture from the Neil Young fansite Rust Never Sleeps: http://www.rustneversleeps.net/rustback.jpg but sadly it doesn't have a date or show attached to it.

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