Update! Neil Young & Pearl Jam - Mirror Ball Reissue October 24th

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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,794
    30 Years Later: Grunge Past & Present Merge When Neil Young & Pearl Jam Launched ‘Mirror Ball’ 

  • turner78
    turner78 Atlanta, GA Posts: 187
    https://neilyoungarchives.com/news/3/article?id=Hanlons Noteboo 

    This sounds pretty great, all analog Mirror Ball. I had always assumed it as recorded to DAT for some reason, probably read it on here. 
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,794
    turner78 said:
    https://neilyoungarchives.com/news/3/article?id=Hanlons Noteboo 

    This sounds pretty great, all analog Mirror Ball. I had always assumed it as recorded to DAT for some reason, probably read it on here. 

    Neat! Now where's that pre order button already?

  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,794
    Neil Young & Pearl Jam - Mirror Ball Redux  



    Instrumental ..


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    demetrios Posts: 97,794

  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,851
    demetrios said:

    ❤️ 
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,794
    “Recording Mirror Ball was like audio verite, just a snapshot of what’s happening. Sometimes I didn’t know who was playing. I was just conscious of this big smouldering mass of sound. The whole record was recorded in four days and all the songs, barring Song X and Act Of Love, were written in that four day stretch. I played Act Of Love with Crazy Horse in January at The Rock’n’Roll Hall Of Fame. Then, the following night, I played it with Pearl Jam at a Pro-Choice benefit concert and the version was so powerful I decided there and then to record it with them as soon as possible. On a purely musical level, this is the first time I’ve been in a band with three potential lead guitarists since The Buffalo Springfield. Plus there’s Jack Irons, their drummer, who was just unbelievable. He just played his ass off on every take at every session. I can’t say enough good things about him.”
    -Neil Young on recording Mirrorball.
    Mirrorball was released on August 7, 1995.
    Gie Knaeps (pics in collage)



  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,045
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  • ComeToTX
    ComeToTX Austin Posts: 8,072
    demetrios said:
    “Recording Mirror Ball was like audio verite, just a snapshot of what’s happening. Sometimes I didn’t know who was playing. I was just conscious of this big smouldering mass of sound. The whole record was recorded in four days and all the songs, barring Song X and Act Of Love, were written in that four day stretch. I played Act Of Love with Crazy Horse in January at The Rock’n’Roll Hall Of Fame. Then, the following night, I played it with Pearl Jam at a Pro-Choice benefit concert and the version was so powerful I decided there and then to record it with them as soon as possible. On a purely musical level, this is the first time I’ve been in a band with three potential lead guitarists since The Buffalo Springfield. Plus there’s Jack Irons, their drummer, who was just unbelievable. He just played his ass off on every take at every session. I can’t say enough good things about him.”
    -Neil Young on recording Mirrorball.
    Mirrorball was released on August 7, 1995.
    Gie Knaeps (pics in collage)



    Act of Love was the first song I saw PJ play live. 
    This show, another show, a show here and a show there.
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,045
    edited August 8

    35  Neil Young

    It’s hard to invent one genre, but to seamlessly glide between, oh, I don’t know, like five? That takes an entirely different beast, but Neil Young isn’t your average beast. Name a guy who can go from writing earnest acoustic numbers to joining the world’s biggest supergroup (at the time) in CSNY to leaving that to create moody rock to heavy jam rock with Crazy Horse? And this is all before 1979! Not to mention signing with Geffen, being sued by David Geffen for not writing commercial music (can you imagine that?), to later releasing an album with Pearl Jam as his backing band. Pretty good. But we’re only up to 1995. The rest of Young’s ballyhooed career stands on its own and with his massive archival project continuing to showcase so many uncut gems from his legendary vault, it somehow seems like we maybe haven’t even heard the best music he’s produced. At a young 75, there may not be a more beloved…or cantankerous figure in rock history (just ask David Crosby).   DK

    Source: The 100 Greatest Rock Stars Since That Was A Thing (2021)

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  • my_wave
    my_wave clearwater, FL Posts: 358
    edited August 9
    Love all the love for Jack Irons from Neil!
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,794
    Pap said:

    That was awesome! Richard kicked ass behind drums.
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,794
    ComeToTX said:
    demetrios said:
    “Recording Mirror Ball was like audio verite, just a snapshot of what’s happening. Sometimes I didn’t know who was playing. I was just conscious of this big smouldering mass of sound. The whole record was recorded in four days and all the songs, barring Song X and Act Of Love, were written in that four day stretch. I played Act Of Love with Crazy Horse in January at The Rock’n’Roll Hall Of Fame. Then, the following night, I played it with Pearl Jam at a Pro-Choice benefit concert and the version was so powerful I decided there and then to record it with them as soon as possible. On a purely musical level, this is the first time I’ve been in a band with three potential lead guitarists since The Buffalo Springfield. Plus there’s Jack Irons, their drummer, who was just unbelievable. He just played his ass off on every take at every session. I can’t say enough good things about him.”
    -Neil Young on recording Mirrorball.
    Mirrorball was released on August 7, 1995.
    Gie Knaeps (pics in collage)



    Act of Love was the first song I saw PJ play live. 
    Nice!
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,794
    So back to Twitter?


  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,818
    goldrush said:
    We finally have a release date for ORS 6  B)


    Somewhat unsurprisingly, it doesn’t look like ORS 6 will make the 26/09/25 release date after all…


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  • desolatejoy
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