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  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,499
    edited July 2022
    If they did a bundle, they would sell a lot of copies to PJ fans. But I'm sure they are aware of that. 

    Honestly, I expect a much bigger push for that reissue/live record compared to most of the other archival releases because of how dedicated and huge the PJ fanbase is. Like, Neil keeps pumping stuff out and outside of a news release, an Uncut/Mojo piece, and 1-2 singles, other than reviews, the archive stuff doesn't really land outside the fanbase's attention. Mirrorball has some bigger reach. Would be cool to see some sort of larger promotion. Maybe even a late night set or a one off concert (if Neil feels like performing again).
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  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,788
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    maybe there will be some edition with mirrorball and the Dublin show. 
    Neil has said that Mirrorball Live would be a vinyl/CD/blu ray box set like Return To Greendale, Noise & Flowers etc, but he hasn’t mentioned a bundle. The original plan for Young Shakespeare was for it to be part of After The Gold Rush 50 but that didn’t happen.
    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,788
    An update on the new NYCH record, produced by Rick Rubin.


    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • BrainofBGA
    BrainofBGA Australia Posts: 4,558
    Geez I need a Mirrorball reissue on vinyl. 
    Melbourne #1 '98
    Melbourne #2 '03
    Melbourne #3 '03
    Melbourne #1 '06
    Melbourne #3 '06
    Melbourne '09
    Melbourne '14
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,453
    goldrush said:
    An update on the new NYCH record, produced by Rick Rubin.


    Hopefully Rick Rubins pushed Neil a bit in the "take a day or two and go through the lyrics, let's not record them at once" department.
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • Edved82
    Edved82 Ireland Posts: 1,279
    Really liking Toast on first listen. Pretty heavy lyrics, very wistful and self-reflective at times. Some lovely guitar jams in there as well. Will take a few more listens to fully absorb.
    "...though my problems are meaningless....that don't make them go away...."
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,453
    The 2001 tour was the best ever. 

    Cant wait for Toast. Will buy it tonight
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,788

    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,658
    Edved82 said:
    Really liking Toast on first listen. Pretty heavy lyrics, very wistful and self-reflective at times. Some lovely guitar jams in there as well. Will take a few more listens to fully absorb.

    I wrote a longer mini  review in the just-received on vinyl thread, but essentially 4 1/2 out of five for me.  Leave off "Boom", make it one LP, and I'm in Crazy Horse Heaven!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni











  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,788
    brianlux said:
    Edved82 said:
    Really liking Toast on first listen. Pretty heavy lyrics, very wistful and self-reflective at times. Some lovely guitar jams in there as well. Will take a few more listens to fully absorb.

    I wrote a longer mini  review in the just-received on vinyl thread, but essentially 4 1/2 out of five for me.  Leave off "Boom", make it one LP, and I'm in Crazy Horse Heaven!
    I’m really enjoying Toast. I’m only listening on NYA at the moment because shipping to AUS takes a while. I can’t wait for the vinyl to get here.

    If you think about when it was recorded, Toast actually completes a really cool NYCH 90s/00s trilogy:

    Sleeps With Angels (94)
    Broken Arrow (96)
    Toast (01)

    I think these 3 sound pretty good together. You could include Greendale (03), but it has a different vibe to it.

    As it stands, we’re due to have 4 NYCH records in the space of just 3 years:

    Colorado (Oct 19)
    Barn (Dec 21)
    Toast (July 22)
    New record (late 22)

    Throw in Return To Greendale (Nov 20) and Way Down In The Rust Bucket (Feb 21) and it’s been a pretty great few years for The Horse!
    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • BrainofBGA
    BrainofBGA Australia Posts: 4,558
    goldrush said:
    brianlux said:
    Edved82 said:
    Really liking Toast on first listen. Pretty heavy lyrics, very wistful and self-reflective at times. Some lovely guitar jams in there as well. Will take a few more listens to fully absorb.

    I wrote a longer mini  review in the just-received on vinyl thread, but essentially 4 1/2 out of five for me.  Leave off "Boom", make it one LP, and I'm in Crazy Horse Heaven!
    I’m really enjoying Toast. I’m only listening on NYA at the moment because shipping to AUS takes a while. I can’t wait for the vinyl to get here.

    If you think about when it was recorded, Toast actually completes a really cool NYCH 90s/00s trilogy:

    Sleeps With Angels (94)
    Broken Arrow (96)
    Toast (01)

    I think these 3 sound pretty good together. You could include Greendale (03), but it has a different vibe to it.

    As it stands, we’re due to have 4 NYCH records in the space of just 3 years:

    Colorado (Oct 19)
    Barn (Dec 21)
    Toast (July 22)
    New record (late 22)

    Throw in Return To Greendale (Nov 20) and Way Down In The Rust Bucket (Feb 21) and it’s been a pretty great few years for The Horse!
    Amazing recording output! 
    Melbourne #1 '98
    Melbourne #2 '03
    Melbourne #3 '03
    Melbourne #1 '06
    Melbourne #3 '06
    Melbourne '09
    Melbourne '14
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,453
    Bought the vinyl of Toast. 
    But itching to stream it. Grr. 
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,658
    edited July 2022
    goldrush said:
    brianlux said:
    Edved82 said:
    Really liking Toast on first listen. Pretty heavy lyrics, very wistful and self-reflective at times. Some lovely guitar jams in there as well. Will take a few more listens to fully absorb.

    I wrote a longer mini  review in the just-received on vinyl thread, but essentially 4 1/2 out of five for me.  Leave off "Boom", make it one LP, and I'm in Crazy Horse Heaven!
    I’m really enjoying Toast. I’m only listening on NYA at the moment because shipping to AUS takes a while. I can’t wait for the vinyl to get here.

    If you think about when it was recorded, Toast actually completes a really cool NYCH 90s/00s trilogy:

    Sleeps With Angels (94)
    Broken Arrow (96)
    Toast (01)

    I think these 3 sound pretty good together. You could include Greendale (03), but it has a different vibe to it.

    As it stands, we’re due to have 4 NYCH records in the space of just 3 years:

    Colorado (Oct 19)
    Barn (Dec 21)
    Toast (July 22)
    New record (late 22)

    Throw in Return To Greendale (Nov 20) and Way Down In The Rust Bucket (Feb 21) and it’s been a pretty great few years for The Horse!

    Great breakdown there, Goldrush!    I hadn't thought of it, but yes, Toast definitely works in tandem with Sleeps and Broken Arrow.  Are You Passionate has it moments, but when I listened to Toast today, I felt a strange sense of elation- not just because the record is great, but because it was like finding a huge piece of something missing that I didn't even know I was missing.

    I hope you vinyl copy is good.  Mine has two tiny little clicks- not distracting at all- and otherwise sounds excellent.  A few people on the Hoffman site have complained about it being "crappy vinyl".  I have to wonder if the didn't give it a good cleaning first?  I find that if I clean new vinyl, it almost always sounds great and have had very few problems. 

    As far as sound goes- "Boom Boom Boom" sounds a bit murky to me, but it's my least favorite song anyway.  "Going Home" on this vinyl edition sounds terrific- so much better than on Passionate.  Everything else sounds great too.  I couldn't be happier!

    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    Bought the vinyl of Toast. 
    But itching to stream it. Grr. 
    Once your vinyl copy shows up, you will be in for a great listening experience!
    Post edited by brianlux on
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni











  • FR181798
    FR181798 Posts: 2,166
    It's been getting good reviews but the price is putting me off. Will have to wait until it goes down a bit. It's double the price of some of the recent NY releases.
  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,499
    I think the OBS were purposely priced cheaper. I found this to be in line with the last few studio or OPS releases. 

    If you wait 6-8months, you can probably get this much cheaper from Amazon. It’s like that for every Neil release.  
  • FR181798
    FR181798 Posts: 2,166
    Tim Simmons said:
    I think the OBS were purposely priced cheaper. I found this to be in line with the last few studio or OPS releases. 

    If you wait 6-8months, you can probably get this much cheaper from Amazon. It’s like that for every Neil release.  
    Good to know. Barn for instance can be picked up relatively cheap at the moment but I am trying to be more selective since NY puts out so much. Toast has been getting great reviews which is what makes it so tempting but is a little bit too much at this time for me, 7 tracks for around £35. What's the pressing like. Discogs has a lot of people not happy with the European pressing, not sure if US is different.
  • FR181798
    FR181798 Posts: 2,166
    Standard Barn LP is £15.24 on Amazon UK at the moment.

    If I go onto Amazon US there seems barely any vinyl available to me direct from Amazon. Is this common, wasn't sure if its deliberately recognising my location and not showing me stuff or if they are just low on stock.
  • minki2011
    minki2011 Posts: 12
    Toast will arrive on Friday. Very excited to hear that one...
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,658

    FR181798 said:
    Tim Simmons said:
    I think the OBS were purposely priced cheaper. I found this to be in line with the last few studio or OPS releases. 

    If you wait 6-8months, you can probably get this much cheaper from Amazon. It’s like that for every Neil release.  
    Good to know. Barn for instance can be picked up relatively cheap at the moment but I am trying to be more selective since NY puts out so much. Toast has been getting great reviews which is what makes it so tempting but is a little bit too much at this time for me, 7 tracks for around £35. What's the pressing like. Discogs has a lot of people not happy with the European pressing, not sure if US is different.

    I read the same thing there. Could be true.  The U.S. pressing I got in the mail sounds great!  True there are two little tiny, brief clicks, but they are so negligible compared to thee over all sound, they were no bother to me at all. 
    I suspect that a lot of people don't bother to give new vinyl a good, deep cleaning before giving it that first spin.  I wonder how much that is the problem? That always makes a big difference.  I good number of turns in a Spin Clean or cleaning machine is always a good idea.
    Besides the LPs being solid, the packaging is nice and I always appreciate inserts with lyrics (which these discs have). 
    Hopefully you can get a U.S. pressing without too much added for postage or find a shop that can get you one at a reasonable cost.

    Oh, and Barn on vinyl sounds great too!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni











  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,453
    Has Jeff ever played live in his Zuma tshirt?
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"

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