Announcing?Archives Be Damned (ABD) 2000: ABD 2000?is a compilation of songs from throughout Neil Young’s career that have never been on albums and are not available today.

?It is an update of the original ABD with some songs removed because they are now on albums and dozens added. It is re-mastered re-sequenced, and includes a couple of tunes I had never heard before embarking on this project. The set is comprised of 5 cd’s. Right now, I’m planning on a strictly cdr distribution, though analog and/or mini-disc may be added later.

It’s kind of lengthy and some of it doesn’t apply because it’s about analog tapes (note once again, ABD 2000 is in cd format!!) but there is some good info about trees at:

There are?82 songs?on the 5 cd’s; look at the list at the end of this message. I also wrote some liner notes I’m planning on posting on a web site somewhere. I may need some help doing that, BTW.

Inserts: inserts are being worked on but are not yet ready. I’m going to distribute the cd’s, then have the inserts available on-line when they are available. Print this message for a copy of the song list with dates and cities.

I received an enormous amount of help collecting these tunes. First, I want to thank Steve Peck and everyone responsible for the original ABD collection. Mine is merely an update to what they put together five years ago; that compilation was the inspiration for this project. Several people dipped way into their music collections to help out.

Especially helpful were: Kerry McVeigh, Braden Strickler, Bill Hodgson, Mike Kelsey, Chuck King, Shawn McCorkle.

Also, I used?Tom Hambleton’s Sugar Mountain web site?and Pete Long’s book Ghosts On The Road extensively as references for dates of performances. Special thanks to Shawn McCorkle who was able to identify the version of Doghouse here based on Neilís spiel before the tune.

Many more too numerous to list here offered suggestions and assistance. I thank you all.

The Rust List Version of
Neil's Long Awaited Archives

He searched his tape collection and compiled a list of unreleased songs. It was long enough to fill three 90 minute tapes! He put out calls for better copies of some of the songs that he had that he felt weren't good enough. Eventually he got the best that he could find. Most were just fine. Others had no better versions available, and so are included on the ABD tapes in their "ragged glory".?

While Steve put the tapes together, newer-Rustywent to work on his Mac and came up with some outta-sight J-cards for them, colorful enough to induce acid-flashbacks... :-)?

Tape trees were then run to distribute the ABD tapes across the Rust world,?FREE OF CHARGE?(other than blank tape and mailing costs) to any Rusty who wished to join the tree.”

Paul B

Cuts clean thru?