From Rolling Stone:

Neil Young Opens Vaults
Rocker to release series of eight-disc rarities sets

After nearly fifteen years of promises, Neil Young is now confident that a slew of material from his vaults will begin to see the light of day in 2006. With his latest album, Prairie Wind, out next week, the rock legend is planning several eight-disc sets packed with outtakes, home recordings, album tracks, live cuts and DVDs.

"It starts with my earliest recordings in 1963," says Young. "Then several recordings with a group called the Squires, into the earliest Buffalo Springfield stuff. Then there's a live record culled from a week's worth of performances at the Riverboat in Toronto."

Fans can expect a 1970 show at Toronto's Massey Hall, featuring material from Harvest a year before its release, as well as Crazy Horse live at the Fillmore East. "It's got a sixteen-minute 'Cowgirl in the Sand,'" Young says of the Fillmore gig, "and a super-long 'Down by the River.'"

One live performance, the rock vet is convinced, trumps the original recording: the entirety of Tonight's the Night, recorded live at London's Rainbow Theatre. Says Young, "It's better than the record."

That's awesome.

This will help to make up for the fact that he hasn't released anything decent since the mid-90s. I'm pumped.

Natural Mike - Prairie Wind, due on on Tuesday, is great.

This will be overwhelming. Several 8-Disc sets?!?!?!

I'm just about wrapping up the issue of MOJO that came out a month or so ago that is one of their "tribute" issues. Apparently there are some REALLY good records that he never put out.

Oy vey!!!!

It's on blast.

Holy shit...I'm a casual Neil fan at best, but that's pretty fucking cool.

Wish some of my favorites would do stuff like that.

god damn, if anyone has loads of unreleased stuff, its neil young. hopefully its cheap enough that i can actually by it without drilling a permanent hole in my pocket.

i hope we get to hear the stuff he did with Rick James.

i mean, this sounds cool and all, but also sounds like overkill, Neil.

That's his thing, though. He wants ALL of it to be available. Some he thinks is good; some he knows is crap.

I'm also with Jewels on the Mynah Birds shit.

This is fucking badass. Apparently he has a few of his tours all filmed as well--onstage, backstage, everything--though I don't remember which ones.

I hope now that he's releasing stuff from his vault, he'll deem it an emotionally appropriate time to re-release Time Fades Away.

I thought he was waiting for the next generation of audio fidelity. Are these SACD's or something?

It may say it's coming out tomorrow but I won't believe it until I see it in a rack. 2006 release target is still p lenty of time to bail out.

Did anybody else do a double take and re-read to make sure they saw it right--a *series* of 8 disc sets!!??

That Tonight's The Night alt set sounds interesting.

David Briggs swore to his grave that Neil and the record guys fucked up Tonight's the Night. He even carried around a cassette of the original mix & sequence for years.