From thatdevilmusic.com The Ducks (with Neil Young) – High Flyin’ (Shakey Pictures Records) One of a pair of recent archival releases from Neil Young’s “original bootleg series,” High Flyin’ features highlights of a summer ’77 California tour by the Ducks, a pick-up band comprised of Young, former Moby Grape bassist Bob Mosley, drummer Johnny Craviotto (who played with Ry Cooder and Buffy Sainte-Marie), and guitarist Jeff Blackburn, who fronted his own band and co-wrote “My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)” with Neil. Released as three-album vinyl or two-CD sets, the 25-tr ..read more

From pitchfork.com One of Neil Young’s most widely bootlegged lost albums from the ’70s gets an official release. As familiar as the material may be, its ragged, magical charm is greater than the sum of its parts. Sometime after completing Chrome Dreams in early 1977, Neil Young invited his Malibu neighbor Carole King over to hear his latest album. Years later he recalled, “About halfway through she went, ‘Neil, this isn’t an album. It’s not a real album. I mean, there’s nobody playing, and half the songs you’re just doing by yourself.’ She was just laughing at me ..read more

From thewho.info Live 1970-1974 – not a bootleg I will break this mini-review into a “Disc 1” and “Disc 2” kinda thing since the material on these discs is from different concerts and each disc has its own “sound and feel” to some extent. One thing consistent between both discs – I consider these “roughly mixed” vs. “fully mixed” – I’ll try to explain what I mean by that as you read on… Disc 1 contains primarily tracks from Hull 1970 and San Francisco 1971. What I found most fascinating were the Hull tracks (Happy Jack, I’m A Boy, A Quick One While He’s Away). The mix s ..read more

From Classic Rock May 2022 Interview: We catch up with Jimmy Page to discuss the passing of time, old friends, and why he won’t tell us what he’s doing next (Image credit: Ross Halfin) This interview was conducted to mark the 300th issue of Classic Rock magazine, which launched in 1998. The magazine is available to purchase online, and also features interviews with Ozzy Osbourne, Rick Nielsen, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper, Geddy Lee, Slash and many more. As Classic Rock’s inaugural issue hit newsstands, Jimmy Page was already one of the genre’s most recognised, respected and ..read more

From pitchfork.com After two decades of tinkering, the art-rocker’s first album since 2002 arrives in an array of different mixes. Yet the songs are refreshingly uncomplicated, reconnecting with Gabriel’s pop instincts. If you are someone who struggles with perfectionist tendencies, then you can maybe understand how Peter Gabriel is feeling right now. He has been working on an album called i/o for more than 20 years—and teasing it in the press for even longer—and, as of today, it is finally available to hear in full. But before we listen, we must decide which version of th ..read more

Alexis Petridis on the 10CD+blu-ray package From superdeluxeedition.com/ All great lost albums carry a mythology around them, but the mythology around The Who’s unfinished 1971 album Life House might be the most startling and persuasive of the lot. Life House wouldn’t have been just an album but an act of quite astonishing clairvoyance, predicting the internet, crowdsourcing and virtual reality. It’s a mythology that has been burnished by Life House’s author: most artists with great lost albums in their catalogue try to play them down, eager not to have the ..read more

From pitchfork.com/ Over the past few years, the Orb have been nudging their sound back toward its techno-hippie roots; now they team with Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour The Orb have never hidden their art-rock leanings. Their debut album, released in 1991, was a double-vinyl epic entitled, with a knowing nod to the bongs-and-blacklights crowd, Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld. Despite being marketed as house music, Ultraworld was really designed to flow like those spacey prog-song suites that so captivated stoned 70s kids who gorged on sci-fi novels. (The Orb just ditched the “son ..read more

From 100greatestbootlegs.blogspot.com . The Complete BBC Radio Show GEN750415TM (First circulated March 2009)  Sourced from the master reels, the audio quality is stunning. “One of the most bootlegged radio broadcasts in Genesis’ history was recorded at the Empire Pool, Wembley. Genesis played two nights at Wembley and the BBC were contacted to record both nights. Some sources quote the recording date as 14th, but comparison with an audience tape from 15th shows the recording is from the second night. The proliferation of this show on bootleg is partly due to the large number of broadcas ..read more

From badlands.co.uk Crazy Horse has always been a band that was meant to be. Formed in the late 1960s as rock & roll was beginning to take a turn into the ’70s, the band (Ralph Molina, Billy Talbot and Danny Whitten) had started playing with Neil Young, and, though they didn’t know it then, were going to make history for 50-plus years. And while it is no surprise that Crazy Horse has continued on that quest, it is an exciting continuation of their storied career that the group is releasing ALL ROADS LEAD HOME on March 31, 2023. It is a statement of power and purpose on what rock & roll ..read more

February 4th 2009 From thequietus.com/ Taylor Parkes goes behind The Wall to find Pink Floyd’s post-Syd Barrett greatness in a series of live albums that showcase them at their inventive, truly progressive best Bearing in mind that “we” never quite means “you and me” – what do we know about Pink Floyd? That at first they were fierce: Syd Barrett’s trembling talent, a lifetime of wonder crushed into eighteen overlit months. Then, later, it was all The Wall and those puddingy stadium extravaganzas, a parody of profundity and a crashing bore. That seems fair enough, even if – like ..read more