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April 7, 2017 4:10 PM Subscribe
In the old days (1972) when you discovered a copyright violation you didn't have your lawyers fire off some boilerplate takedown notice. In the old days, if you were Neil Young, you just made off with it. After informing the manager and paying for the candle your production crew broke, of course.
Youth of today! Look upon how your elders had to acquire music and shudder!
Featuring:
* Neil Young
* Neil Young's Ego
* Sugarloaf, Green Eyed Lady (1970)
* Fat Craig Audio display
* Guy who just wants to sell some tapes.
* LA streetlife
* The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
* "8-Track & Casette Tapes, Top 20 & New: $4.88"
* Clerk not paid to deal with this ---t.
Previously, previously.
I myself don't know terribly much about the context; its hard not to see it as a PSA. Don't bootleg, or else!
Youth of today! Look upon how your elders had to acquire music and shudder!
Featuring:
* Neil Young
* Neil Young's Ego
* Sugarloaf, Green Eyed Lady (1970)
* Fat Craig Audio display
* Guy who just wants to sell some tapes.
* LA streetlife
* The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
* "8-Track & Casette Tapes, Top 20 & New: $4.88"
* Clerk not paid to deal with this ---t.
Previously, previously.
I myself don't know terribly much about the context; its hard not to see it as a PSA. Don't bootleg, or else!
I have heard of Keith Richards doing the same, backed by a couple of roadies.
posted by Ber at 4:45 PM on April 7, 2017
posted by Ber at 4:45 PM on April 7, 2017
I got into taping via the legit Grateful Dead Official Taper's Section, and our license was for non-commercial, home-use only. I think back in the mid-to-late-80's, on a whim in a record shop, I purchased a bootleg cassette of a U2 show in denver or some shit. Sounded like crap. Never had the motivation to do it again.
The record companies don't really need help ripping them off, and if you follow the money, I bet there's a lot of overlap.
posted by mikelieman at 5:07 PM on April 7, 2017
The record companies don't really need help ripping them off, and if you follow the money, I bet there's a lot of overlap.
posted by mikelieman at 5:07 PM on April 7, 2017
It's even better if you imagine Paul Thomas Anderson trying to replicate this shot-for-shot in his next movie.
posted by jonp72 at 5:09 PM on April 7, 2017 [5 favorites]
posted by jonp72 at 5:09 PM on April 7, 2017 [5 favorites]
Classic "I was just following orders" take from the clerk.
posted by Lyme Drop at 5:21 PM on April 7, 2017
posted by Lyme Drop at 5:21 PM on April 7, 2017
Yeah, Neil Young, who owns about half of northern California, isn't going to let anybody get away with the 47 bucks boots probably cost him!
posted by Chitownfats at 5:30 PM on April 7, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by Chitownfats at 5:30 PM on April 7, 2017 [2 favorites]
Neil was just pissed the bootlegs weren't available on Pono.
posted by valkane at 5:57 PM on April 7, 2017 [6 favorites]
posted by valkane at 5:57 PM on April 7, 2017 [6 favorites]
... bootleg cassette of a U2 show in denver ...
Well, if it sounded worse than Under a Blood Red Sky, it must have been pretty bad. That album sounds like the mics were in buckets of mud.
posted by Bruce H. at 6:09 PM on April 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
Well, if it sounded worse than Under a Blood Red Sky, it must have been pretty bad. That album sounds like the mics were in buckets of mud.
posted by Bruce H. at 6:09 PM on April 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
Neil Young, who owns about half of northern California
By now, probably, yeah. At the time, he was in a period that he would later describe as "the ditch", which probably began around the time that he had to fire Danny Whitten, shortly before Danny ODed (see "The Needle and the Damage Done"), and probably ended sometime after he was in The Last Waltz and Martin Scorsese had to edit around the big blob of cocaine that was visibly hanging out of his nose during "Helpless." Chiding a record store clerk for a few bootlegs is really mild on the spectrum of rock-star behavior.
posted by Halloween Jack at 6:18 PM on April 7, 2017 [11 favorites]
By now, probably, yeah. At the time, he was in a period that he would later describe as "the ditch", which probably began around the time that he had to fire Danny Whitten, shortly before Danny ODed (see "The Needle and the Damage Done"), and probably ended sometime after he was in The Last Waltz and Martin Scorsese had to edit around the big blob of cocaine that was visibly hanging out of his nose during "Helpless." Chiding a record store clerk for a few bootlegs is really mild on the spectrum of rock-star behavior.
posted by Halloween Jack at 6:18 PM on April 7, 2017 [11 favorites]
YouTube comments bickering defuses in the right manner for once.
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Yes, and he did it whilst riding a horse with no name.
Holymakinaw
? Why do you quote lyrics from a song written by the band America? Neil Young had nothing to do with that song? Or maybe it was bootlegged????
golo5000
Maybe his horse had no name because it was bootlegged as well.
1) That clerk knows way more about those records than he's letting on.
2) The dude trying to sell 8-tracks(?) near the end is really going to regret that haircut when his kids find this clip.
posted by madajb at 7:18 PM on April 7, 2017 [3 favorites]
2) The dude trying to sell 8-tracks(?) near the end is really going to regret that haircut when his kids find this clip.
posted by madajb at 7:18 PM on April 7, 2017 [3 favorites]
As mentioned in another thread, Prince did exactly this -- only quieter and with bodyguards who waited patiently -- at Vortex Records in Toronto.
posted by You Should See the Other Guy
*squints*
I see what you did there.
My favourite parts of the first video...
At 10:50
Neil Young: "Hello? Is this Barry? This is Neil Young."
*pause*
Neil Young: "Young. I'm down here at your store."
See also, at 13:12:
Dude with box of eight tracks he's trying to sell: "What's with the camera?"
Neil Young: "It's just a camera."
Eight track dude: "Huh" *nods*
YO. YOU'RE TALKING TO MOTHERFUCKING NEIL YOUNG. PUT DOWN THE BOX OF EIGHT TRACK TAPES AND PAY ATTENTION.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 7:57 PM on April 7, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by You Should See the Other Guy
*squints*
I see what you did there.
My favourite parts of the first video...
At 10:50
Neil Young: "Hello? Is this Barry? This is Neil Young."
*pause*
Neil Young: "Young. I'm down here at your store."
See also, at 13:12:
Dude with box of eight tracks he's trying to sell: "What's with the camera?"
Neil Young: "It's just a camera."
Eight track dude: "Huh" *nods*
YO. YOU'RE TALKING TO MOTHERFUCKING NEIL YOUNG. PUT DOWN THE BOX OF EIGHT TRACK TAPES AND PAY ATTENTION.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 7:57 PM on April 7, 2017 [3 favorites]
Classic "I was just following orders" take from the clerk.
At some point, most of us follow orders from our boss. I think standing behind the counter at a record store is pretty far down the scale in terms of actual Nazism.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 8:02 PM on April 7, 2017 [17 favorites]
At some point, most of us follow orders from our boss. I think standing behind the counter at a record store is pretty far down the scale in terms of actual Nazism.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 8:02 PM on April 7, 2017 [17 favorites]
"Mind if I HARVEST these? I guess you're on the LOSING END. I hope the NEEDLE had no DAMAGE DONE to my vinyl."
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 8:26 PM on April 7, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 8:26 PM on April 7, 2017 [3 favorites]
I'm kind of digging the record store clerk just because he is the absolute opposite of the all-knowing snobby record store clerks of High Fidelity. Dressed about as conservatively (for the era) as anyone this side of a bible college, doesn't even own a record player himself, plays Magical Mystery Tour on the store sound system (it doesn't matter which era it is, playing five-year-old music in a record shop is not a good sign), and has no idea who Neil Young is or why a recording artist might legitimately object to people stealing his work. I'd love to see his reaction on watching this forty-five years later, if he's still around.
posted by Halloween Jack at 10:20 PM on April 7, 2017 [5 favorites]
posted by Halloween Jack at 10:20 PM on April 7, 2017 [5 favorites]
CHARLIE MINGUS FINGERS THE RECORD HI-JACKERS
posted by in278s at 11:27 PM on April 7, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by in278s at 11:27 PM on April 7, 2017 [3 favorites]
Clearly the 'clerk' is a criminal mastermind putting in a little till time at one of his shops to make sure the real employees don't get the idea that he won't know if they try to steal from him. Barry is his lawyer.
You can tell he is a tough cookie as he doesn't get rattled when a couple of weirdos with a camera come in to steal his product and is totally calm pursuing them and not letting it go all the while playing dumb to perfection. The disc costs nothing but it is the principle of the thing, "If D-Block taught me anything it was if you let anything slide they will be all over you and next thing your somebody's punk." The candle bit is priceless, if this had been made by Scorcrazy there would have been a lot of swearing and posturing. This is more like "The Friends of Eddie Coyle." Beware that man in plaid he'd kill you in a heartbeat, but only if it makes money for him, the camera isn't what saved the rockstar, its the fact that he is worth more alive making more bootleg possible than dead despite maybe a price bump from the scarcity of new material. (You can see the calculation going on behind Mr. Plaids eyes.) Oh and by the way Mr. Plaid owns all of SOUTHERN California,"I'll leave the woods and pot flakes to the rich hippies and nerds, they can take it; I prefer human trafficking, fentanyl, real estate and the lovely Mediterranean climate."
posted by Pembquist at 1:34 PM on April 8, 2017
You can tell he is a tough cookie as he doesn't get rattled when a couple of weirdos with a camera come in to steal his product and is totally calm pursuing them and not letting it go all the while playing dumb to perfection. The disc costs nothing but it is the principle of the thing, "If D-Block taught me anything it was if you let anything slide they will be all over you and next thing your somebody's punk." The candle bit is priceless, if this had been made by Scorcrazy there would have been a lot of swearing and posturing. This is more like "The Friends of Eddie Coyle." Beware that man in plaid he'd kill you in a heartbeat, but only if it makes money for him, the camera isn't what saved the rockstar, its the fact that he is worth more alive making more bootleg possible than dead despite maybe a price bump from the scarcity of new material. (You can see the calculation going on behind Mr. Plaids eyes.) Oh and by the way Mr. Plaid owns all of SOUTHERN California,"I'll leave the woods and pot flakes to the rich hippies and nerds, they can take it; I prefer human trafficking, fentanyl, real estate and the lovely Mediterranean climate."
posted by Pembquist at 1:34 PM on April 8, 2017
The copies of Rolling Stone for sale on the rack date this video to around December 9, 1971.
posted by Daddy-O at 7:14 PM on April 8, 2017
posted by Daddy-O at 7:14 PM on April 8, 2017
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