andyman wrote:Apparently the Vinyl's been reissued without any remastering. Anyone know how it sounds?

Woah! I wonder if the packaging still falls apart...

andyman wrote:Apparently the Vinyl's been reissued without any remastering. Anyone know how it sounds?

I don't know about any reissue, but I picked up an original pressing in St. Louis recently, and it sounds as good as any record I've ever heard. I never knew it was printed with a black and silver Reprise label. Pretty cool.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:

andyman wrote:Apparently the Vinyl's been reissued without any remastering. Anyone know how it sounds?

I don't know about any reissue, but I picked up an original pressing in St. Louis recently, and it sounds as good as any record I've ever heard. I never knew it was printed with a black and silver Reprise label. Pretty cool.

Hmm, the site I saw it on has the reissue listed as being on Reprise. Looks like a good sign.

Flaneur wrote:Another record to keep an eye out for is Time Fades Away, which is out of print but not impossible to find.

Indeed, it is not.

In Jimmy McDonough's book Shakey, David Briggs claims there's a far superior version of Tonight's The Night that Neil opted not to release, but I have a hard time imagining how that album could be improved. As far as messed-up dark-night-of-the-soul rock records go, that album is one of the champs.

Does this vinyl reissue folks talk about have the wierd packaging and the black and silver label? That would be nice to have ... my vinyl copy is an older one with the regular cardboard sleeve and normal Reprise label. Still sounds amazing. [/url]

Minotaur029 wrote:I love all three of these records, but I just don't see how Tonight's the Night always seems to be a distant third in this trilogy for everybody on the board.

Ambulance Blues, Revolution Blues, Motion Pictures & Cortez are how...

Mark Lansing wrote:
In Jimmy McDonough's book Shakey, David Briggs claims there's a far superior version of Tonight's The Night that Neil opted not to release, but I have a hard time imagining how that album could be improved. As far as messed-up dark-night-of-the-soul rock records go, that album is one of the champs.

I think that the song order and some of the songs themselves were different. There are a couple of so which weren't recorded by Briggs in those sessions that are included in the released album. As one of those songs is Lookout Joe, I'm happy for this interruption of the original sessions. That song rocks.

The other aspect that I recall is that there was a lot of tequila-fueled backchat on the unreleased version, surreal skits from the description that I read. I could see how they might add to the atmosphere; certainly they would change it.

I agree, though: I cannot see the released version being improved upon with such a restoration. I would be fascinated to hear it, nonetheless, as it sounds like that it might be a very disconcerting record. To hear those familiar songs in an altered, but original setting (as opposed to some horrid retrospective one), would be spooky.

andyman wrote:Apparently the Vinyl's been reissued without any remastering. Anyone know how it sounds?

I bought a new / never-before-used one, it sounds awesome because the album was recorded well. Remastering this is crap. Anyone who loves this album / doom-trilogyof Neil's appreciates the "underproduced" sound, why the hell was it remastered??
I'd throw "On the Beach" on anyday, although I do love Tonight's the Night, esp. "Albuquerque"

NOT CRAP.

On The Beach used to edge ahead a bit more for me, but I've been listening to Tonight's the Night more often recently.

Neil was on such a roll from 69-79.

sandinojones wrote:There's something glorious about a record that's such a high-wire act like this: to my ears Neil et. al. seem like they're barely able to keep it together at all, much less able to produce a record of such heart-breaking honesty and astounding beauty.


From the Liner Notes: (translated from Dutch. (WTF??? ) )

"The death of Neil's discovery and friend, Danny Whitten seems to have affected him deeply. Since 'The Needle & the Damage Done' most of Neil's songs about Danny's death reflect his guilt complex. Neil seemed to fall back into an even deeper depression. Then he began drinking, became sentimental and generally intolerable for anyone who had anything to do with him. It's said that those around him treated him with great caution for fear of provoking him, causing him to retreat and become a recluse. During this evening at the Rainbow, Neil makes particular reference to Miami Beach where he was safe from external influences and where a highly emotional and introverted process went its course

Neil was most likely battling a major cocaine habit during those years, too.

Legend has it that, during the editing of Neil Young's performance on The Last Waltz, Neil Young was wired for sound had a huge stalagtite-like coke booger hanging out of his nose, which Martin Scorsese had to Rotoscope out of the film involving great time and expense. Ever notice how the camera angles on Neil are weird during the entire segment?

Fucking. Awesome. Record.

Not crap at all.