As Neil recently wrote in his online newspaper, his tour buses are revving up for some Crazy Horse dates this spring (with guitarist Micah Nelson now replacing Pancho Sampedro). Your Crawdaddy days, replete with those free "Annie Oakley" vinyl albums from the record companies, would have included Neil's output in 1975 as being those 2 officially released NY albums. That was my experience too. But what is also true is that the Tonight's the Night album was largely recorded in Sept. 1973, and its release was shelved for 2 years. And in 2020, Neil/ Reprise Records released finally the original "Homegrown" album which was recorded in late '74 and would've been released too in 1975. As for the "Downtown" performance last Sept of which you provided YouTube., it was played at Roxy club in LA as part of its 50th anniversary special concerts last Sept-- and as it happens, Neil Young and CH were the first ever band to play there in Sept '73, and Neil and CH agreed to do a charity concerts at Roxy last Sep on the exact dates of the original concert dates in '73...Micah sang Danny Whitten parts on "Downtown" (nice pic of Neil and Danny). The band played the complete Tonight's the Night album followed by the complete "Everybody Knows this is Nowhere" Crazy Horse album.
As Neil recently wrote in his online newspaper, his tour buses are revving up for some Crazy Horse dates this spring (with guitarist Micah Nelson now replacing Pancho Sampedro). Your Crawdaddy days, replete with those free "Annie Oakley" vinyl albums from the record companies, would have included Neil's output in 1975 as being those 2 officially released NY albums. That was my experience too. But what is also true is that the Tonight's the Night album was largely recorded in Sept. 1973, and its release was shelved for 2 years. And in 2020, Neil/ Reprise Records released finally the original "Homegrown" album which was recorded in late '74 and would've been released too in 1975. As for the "Downtown" performance last Sept of which you provided YouTube., it was played at Roxy club in LA as part of its 50th anniversary special concerts last Sept-- and as it happens, Neil Young and CH were the first ever band to play there in Sept '73, and Neil and CH agreed to do a charity concerts at Roxy last Sep on the exact dates of the original concert dates in '73...Micah sang Danny Whitten parts on "Downtown" (nice pic of Neil and Danny). The band played the complete Tonight's the Night album followed by the complete "Everybody Knows this is Nowhere" Crazy Horse album.
My feelings exactly! Zuma was my first current Neil album purchase and it's still my favorite.
You never fail to open my mind.