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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