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Neil Young:Living With War
CATALOG #: 2-4435
LABEL: Additional rock-pop 200 Gram LP reissues
AVAILABLE: May 30
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Excuse me, is this 1969, during the time when Rock bands released an album every nine to twelve months and they were all great? Last summer Neil Young recorded what will likely be remembered as one of his best albums ever in "Prairie Wind" and then eight months later delivers a new protest album that will make, even the most conservative thinkers, rethink the state of the world. Maybe it takes the wisdom of time and experience to drill down to the heart of issues these days instead of the open mindedness of youth as in the past. It isn't one of the newer bands on the scene shining a light on the ugly side of human nature, they are all trying to sell a million records ( make that five million records) so that they buy that house in the Hills. Instead it is the old man of ROCK AND ROLL that delivers the familiar one two punch that makes people question the course we are on. Regardless of your politics, "Living WIth War" will rock your world and hit a chord that needs to be struck.
From Neil via
www.neilyoung.com here are the details:
living with war timeline.....
mar 29 06....redwood digital sessions started with chad cromwell on drums and rick rosas on bass.
nico bolas, my co-producer in "the volume dealers," and L.A. Johnson producing. 5pm recording begins. songs recorded that
night are songs already written before the session started. They include at 6:34pm "after the garden" take 7, at 7:39 "living with war",
take 3, and at 9:42 "the restless consumer" take 1..............
mar 30 06...sessions continue at 12 noon with "shock and awe" takes 1- 6 no master, and at 2:20pm "families" take 5. Both songs
are written before mar 29 06 when the sessions started......
mar 31 06 at 1:06pm "flags of freedom" take 4, written that morning is recorded. tommy bray arrives that day from las vegas with his horns
and adds a trumpet to both "living with war" and "shock and awe"
apr 1 06...sessions continue.....12:15 pm "letsimpeach the president" take 1, written that morning, 4:06pm "looking for a leader" take 2
written that afternoon and at 9:02pm "roger and out" take 1, written that evening, all recorded in the same day.....
apr 2 06...sessions conclude with 1:31pm "shock and awe" take 8, re-cut for better performance. a trumpet is added to "lets impeach the president."
small single word corrections were made to lyrics...eg "it"has an ugly side to "she" has an ugly side (looking for a leader)...... All performances are live
with the exception of the trumpet overdub on two songs, "living with war" and "shock and awe"....however, the saturday apr 1 06 re-cut of
"shock and awe" includes a live trumpet performance. that is the cut we used.........
apr 4 06....travel to LA.......
apr 5 06.....create arrangements for all 10 songs for 100 voice choir at capitol studios with darrell brown in LA......
apr 6 06...record 100 voices during 12 hours of union sessions at capitol recording studios LA......this is the same studio where frank sinatra performed
and recorded many of his big hits.....this is truely a day to remember...It is the most beautiful and rewarding dubbing session I have ever taken part in...
Those singers are awe inspiring . Session continues at 10:30pm "america the beautiful" take 2 . The pure soul and raw energy of 100 people singing
in real time cannot be simulated with layered overdubbing. It is magic....
apr 8-9 06.....mixdown at redwood digital with nico bolas and second engineer jon hausman....
apr 10 06....harmonica overdub on "flags of freedom".....mixdown at redwood digital continues......
apr 11 06......mixdown complete.....
apr 13-17 06...mastering by tim mulligan at redwood digital.....
apr 17 06...... mastering complete
apr 18 06....playback for Reprise Records in LA......Alternate takes such as the original Mar 30 06 "shock and awe"will be included in the "living with war" dvd.
First acoustic performnances played for the band and rough mixes without the choir will also be included in the dvd...due to the rushed nature of the
"living with war" cd, first editions contain no hidden tracks. A second cd with enhanced artwork and bonus tracks is being considered. The "living with war"
dvd has not yet entered production....sessions were recorded on 16 track analog tape and mixed to 1/2 inch analog two track master, then transferred
to hi resolution digital for cd and dvd manufacturing........
apr 24 06....jon nowland arrives in LA from redwood digital with assembled 1/2 inch analog masters to cut reference lacquer at bernie grundman
mastering in hollywood with engineer chris bellman......a single LP vinyl release cut from the original analog master tapes is to be released by
reprise records in cooperation with classic records on classic records 200 gram super vinyl profile per neil's direction.....anticipated may 06.