Please let me start this post by saying that I am happy for everyone looking forward to the NYA vol I and I hope everyone gets great enjoyment out of it.
I pre-ordered the Blu-ray version through Amazon and started having second thoughts and canceled the order. I may get it sometime later, I don't know. My reasons:
1) I just a few months ago bought Fillmore and Massey Hall; it really irks me that the set includes these at greatly increased prices.
2) I'm really bothered by having to re-purchase so many tracks I've already purchased many times over (vinyl, decade vinyl, decade cd, cd albums, etc.) I really really wish he would have simply remastered the albums separately and put the unreleased material in a separate package for those that just want the otherwise unavailable tracks.
3) I'm not excited by the video content very much at all. Generally when there is video content included in an album, I'll watch it at most once a year and usually once in a lifetime. Maybe it's just me, but I like -listening- to music.
4) I abhor the concept of easter eggs; I just can't stand it. If I'm shelling out $300 for a set of music, please tell me up front where everything is and what it is I'm buying.
5) I've followed the discussions on Thrasher's Wheat led by Archives Guy and all the techno-babble discussion items frankly baffle me. I'm not an audio-visual techie and don't want to be. I just want to play the damn thing. I also don't care for being pushed into a new format. I mean I even have a Blu-ray drive on my computer. I even watched a movie once in Blu-ray format. Ho hum. Netflix raised the monthly fee by $1 for people ordering blu-rays so I opted out. DVD's are just fine for movies IMO.
6) Sharry W. and Thrasher are way up there as far as fans go, I mean out of all of Neil's fans I would put them both in the top 99.9 percentile of all fans. Sharry has contributed so many heart-felt articles to the Broken Arrow fanzine and Thrasher has brought fans together worldwide to his Neil Young site Thrasher's Wheat. Yet both of them have preview disc 00's in their house sitting there with nothing to play it on. Doesn't it say something when fans at that level can't even play what Neil is releasing?
I may eventually buy NYA I but I'm not into it right now. But, like I said above, I am happy for those of you looking forward to the set and I hope it brings you much joy. I'm looking forward to the reviews as they come in on Rust.
Mike
Expecting To Fly
