![]() I Need to Know includes 23 revealing conversations with seminal music artists including Tom Petty (four lengthy interviews conducted between 19), Beatles producer Sir George Martin, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, Bo Diddley and others. More on TELL ME WHY: A conversation with Neil Young and the book "I NEED TO KNOW: The Lost Music Interviews" by Bill DeYoung. I love playing music, and I love being around lots of other people who play music. ![]() Neil Young: They may never be out on the market if the standard's not right. 'They'll be out in four years' or something? So a lot of things have to be worked out before the new standard is set, but the wheels are turning right now, it's happening. They're more interested, it seems, in putting out more product, and more real time information on a disc, than they are in putting out more quality on a disc. So what they've done is, they're killing an art form through greed, and not being able to focus on using a decent standard. You can play 'em, but they have to be interpolated and translated and everything before your ear hears 'em by then, they're so distorted, they're just not there any more. It's a terrible thing, and they say that you can play CDs on it. A thousand times more distortion, and I'm not exaggerating. The latest new standard that came out for sound is worse than the CD. There's all kinds of people throwing ideas for the new standard around. Goldmine:What about your long-rumored multi-disc Archives project? Neil Young: Right, me too! I feel the same way. Goldmine:Hawks and Doves, a great record. There's the ability to have it better, and I can make a statement. Neil Young: It's tough for me, too, but I'm not gonna put out 'Hurricane' sounding like a piece of shit. As a fan, it bugs me that I can't put, say, American Stars 'n' Bars on the CD player. Goldmine:Well, what can I do? I'll make a call. Neil Young: I 'm trying to use that leverage to get some tonal quality on the recordings. Goldmine:You know, those six albums aren't available on vinyl or cassettes, either. When you put out a master, you put it out, OK, it's out. Neil Young: You can do that with the new ones. Since you're committed to this, can't you just put a stop to those that are still in print? Can't you tell the label 'They sound like shit let's take 'em out'? But I'm not gonna do any new ones until there's a standard. Neil Young: Oh yeah, that's right, you can't stop that. Goldmine:But Reprise is still making those discs. So we really need to get a standard together for recorded sound that doesn't destroy it. Meanwhile, we got 64-bit video games, and 32-bit this, and 16-bit sound. And there's been no improvement, in 15 years, from a bad standard. And that was maybe more than 15 years ago. But during the mastering of all of those, and listening to what we ended up with compared to what we started with, everyone became aware of the problems. When it hadn't really dawned on everybody how inferior the CD was. Neil Young: Those were made during the beginning of CDs. How come they're out, and these six aren't? Goldmine:There are something like 15 of your albums out on CD on Reprise. There's about 40 different companies, small audiophile companies that make stereo equipment that carries the HDCD chip. Goldmine:Is that one of those technologies that we'll 'see by the year 2000'? If you have an HDCD playback system, it sounds incredibly more detailed. ![]() That's a process you can make CDs through, and it makes them sound more detailed. HDCD is a real great improvement on digital sound, no matter what the format of the sound is. Goldmine: Six of your catalog albums remain unavailable on compact disc Recently, you told an interviewer you would burn the tapes before you let them come out on CD. tour, TELL ME WHY: A conversation with Neil Young by Bill DeYoung.įunny how some things never really change. ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION PUBLISHED JULY 8, 2012Ī little blast from the past, an interview with Neil Young before the 1997 H.O.R.D.E. "I NEED TO KNOW: The Lost Music Interviews" by Bill DeYoung in '97, explaining (among other things) why he skipped Buffalo Springfield's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame that year, which is partially excerpted below. He then reads the entire "Open Letter to President Reagan" he'd just finished writing, and would send to USA Today the next morning. Neil talks passionately about Farm Aid (the first concert was six days away), and why he was so into country music ("Old Ways" had just come out), why it resonated with him as a family man, and why rock 'n' roll just wasn't doing it for him any more. 16, 1985) was only recently fully transcribed from the original cassette. The book contains two vintage Neil Young interviews included in the new anthology. Editor: We are updating this post upon learning of the publication of the book "I NEED TO KNOW: The Lost Music Interviews" by Bill DeYoung.
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