Neil Young - Journey Through the Past

My Brother was entrusted with keeping my Dad’s records, his legacy, intact.  He thought that inviting homeless people in off the streets in Detroit to get drunk with him was somehow conducive to this.  Let me assure you, it wasn’t…

He describes the culprit of the great semi-failed record-destroying catastrophic flood tragedy of 2007 as a ghost-like apparition of an attractive girl in her early twenties, pale-skinned, complete with a thousand yard stare that would set Rambo on edge.  My brother, bless his heart, forgave her her obvious shortcomings and invited this girl into his life.  Not long after, as he arrived home from god knows what awful reality, she was seen stumbling out of the house murmuring the words, “There was a great flood” in a voice so high and innocent, so deadpan in its refusal of knowledge or responsibility- what could he do but stand there and watch as she, like a zombie after Thanksgiving brains, drifted off, out of his house and down the street never to be seen again?  How's that for a complex sentence!

Can you believe it?  “There was a great flood.” And then, poof!  She’s gone!  I’m laughing now but Jesus, I think she ruined about 90% of my Dad’s record collection.  Limited edition promo only 7”s from his old buddy at the radio station, original pressings, all the cool album art!  Oh, the humanity!  Ah what the hell, classic rock sucks anyway right?  Here’s one that made it…

Journey Through the Past is definitely different.  It was never released on CD and never produced again after its original pressing on vinyl and cassette in 1972.  Most Neil Young fans don’t know of its existence.  Wikipedia has a great page on it so I won’t waste too much time explaining.  Here’s a little teaser to peak your interest.  There’s a track called ‘Soldier’ that was recorded live in a sawmill in which you can hear the roar of the sawdust burner blaring in the background.  Scintillating, isn’t it?  Download it nyaaaah…ahhhh..haha.  Take the ticket….

http://www.mediafire.com/?et8odsxaaa4mesf

-Jimmy Mac, from inside Casa de Murk: pre-flood circa 2006.