Notes
This is another song that I wrote about my ranch. I'm going to sing mostly new songs tonight. Maybe only a couple more old ones. But I've written so many new ones that I can't think of anything else to with them other than sing them. It's been kind of interesting for me this tour. I've been out for two weeks and we've been at about, I don't know how many cities. But anyways, singing some of these songs has been like living them as well as singing them because I wrote three of the ones on the road while I was out here. Neil Young Massey Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada January 19, 1971, Late Show
I don't know if you all noticed, but when I was playing that last song, about half way through the second piano solo I kind of lost my mind for a minute. Yeah, but it was good. I hit some kind of note and I saw my granny. She used to play piano in a place called Flin Flon. That's real far north. That's a mining town way up in northern Canada. Way up there. And she was the one who - she was in the little booth, when they'd go down in the mine and everybody would check in with her and she would give them their tags. They were hanging on nails there. So all the guys would come by in the morning ... all the kids and everything ... everybody she knew in the whole town ... everybody knew her. She'd give them the little brass tags with their names on it. And then at the end of the day, when it was all over, they'd come out of the mine and walk by Jean, and Jean would be sitting there, and they'd all give her the brass tags. So everybody knew everybody. She was the music in the town. They used to have these productions at the local bar. It was like really a small company town and they had the bar and a little stage and they put on productions. People would act out these things that they wrote and my granny would be playing the piano. So everybody knew her. So she came and visited me in the middle of that song. Neil Young Keller Theater, Portland, Oregon, USA October 22, 2007
I'd like to do this song for you now that I wrote for my movie that I just finished doing for the last two and a half years. I sort of got into something else for a while. It should be coming to Chicago in maybe a month or so - hope you like it - something new, for me anyways. This is a song, the title song from the movie Journey Through The Past. Only we made up the movie as we went along and couldn't think of anything to do with this song, so it got left out. Neil Young Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA January 11, 1973
Journey Through The Past (version 1 of 16)
Session Date:February 11, 1973
Studio:Public Hall - Cleveland Convention Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Produced by:Elliot Mazer & Neil Young
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:stereo
Length:3:17
Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, piano
Available on:
Time Fades Away Neil Young Released: 1973-10-15

Side 1 Track 2

Time Fades Away 50 Neil Young Released: 2023-11-03

Side 1 Track 2

Journey Through The Past (version 2 of 16)
Session Date:February 11, 1973
Studio:Public Hall - Cleveland Convention Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Produced by:Elliot Mazer & Neil Young
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:mono
Length:3:17
Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, piano
Available on:
Time Fades Away - mono Neil Young Released: 1973-10-15

Side 1 Track 2

Journey Through The Past (version 3 of 16)
Session Date:January 19, 1971
Studio:Massey Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Produced by:David Briggs & Neil Young
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:stereo
Length:4:14
Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, piano
Available on:
Live At Massey Hall 1971 Neil Young Released: 2007-03-13

Track 4

Neil Young Archives Vol. I 1963-1972 Neil Young Released: 2009-06-02

Disc 07 - Live at Massey Hall (Toronto 1971) Track 4

Journey Through The Past (version 4 of 16)
Session Date:February 17, 1971
Studio:Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Produced by:
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:stereo
Length:3:11
Notes:film clip
Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, acoustic guitar
Available on:
Neil Young Archives Vol. I 1963-1972 Neil Young Released: 2009-06-02

Disc 07 - Live at Massey Hall (Toronto 1971) Track (info card track)

Journey Through The Past (version 5 of 16)
Session Date:April 4, 1971
Studio:Quadrafonic Sound Studios, Nashville, TN
Produced by:Elliot Mazer & Neil Young
Recording type:Studio
Mono/Stereo:stereo
Length:
Notes:previously unreleased version
Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, guitar, harmonica Ben Keith: pedal steel guitar John Harris: piano Tim Drummond: bass Kenny Buttrey: drums
Available on:
Neil Young Archives Vol. I 1963-1972 Neil Young Released: 2009-06-02

Disc 08 - North Country (1971-1972) Track 9

Journey Through The Past (version 6 of 16)
Session Date:December 1, 2017
Studio:Coronation Hall, Omemee, Ontario, Canada
Produced by:
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:stereo
Length:
Musicians:Neil Young
Available on:
NYA Livestream - Home Town - Solo Neil Young Released: 2017-12-01

Track 3

Journey Through The Past (version 7 of 16)
Session Date:November 22, 1976
Studio:Music Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Produced by:Joel Bernstein, Cameron Crowe, David Briggs & Neil Young
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:stereo
Length:3:17
Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, piano, harmonica
Available on:
Songs For Judy Neil Young Released: 2018-11-30

Track 15

Neil Young Archives Vol. III 1976-1987 Neil Young Released: 2024-09-06

Disc 3 - Hitchhikin' Judy (August 1976 to February 1977) Track 12

Journey Through The Past (version 8 of 16)
Session Date:March 14, 2008
Studio:Hammersmith Apollo, London, England
Produced by:Bernard Shakey / Elliot Rabinowitz
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:mono
Length:
Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, piano
Available on:
Neil Young In London Neil Young Released: 2019-09-24

Track 6

Journey Through The Past (version 9 of 16)
Session Date:February 3, 2019
Studio:Burton Cummings Theatre for the Performing Arts, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Produced by:
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:stereo
Length:3:46
Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, piano
Available on:
NYA Livestream - Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg Neil Young & Crazy Horse Released: 2019-02-03

Track 5

Journey Through The Past (version 10 of 16)
Session Date:February 4, 2019
Studio:Centennial Concert Hall, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Produced by:
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:stereo
Length:5:13
Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, piano
Available on:
NYA Livestream - Centennial Concert Hall, Winnipeg Neil Young & Crazy Horse Released: 2019-02-04

Track 7

Journey Through The Past (version 11 of 16)
Session Date:January 22, 1971
Studio:Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, Connecticut, USA
Produced by:Neil Young and John Hanlon
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:stereo
Length:3:34
Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, piano
Available on:
Young Shakespeare Neil Young Released: 2021-03-26

Track 8

Young Shakespeare - DVD Neil Young Released: 2021-03-26

Track 8

Journey Through The Past (version 12 of 16)
Session Date:December 16, 2007
Studio:United Palace, New York City, New York, USA
Produced by:Neil Young
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:stereo
Length:
Musicians:
Available on:
2007-12-16 - United Palace, New York City, New York, USA Neil Young Released: 2021-11-15

Track 8

Journey Through The Past (version 13 of 16)
Session Date:January 30, 1971
Studio:Royce Hall - UCLA, Westwood, California, USA
Produced by:Neil Young & Niko Bolas: "The Volume Dealers"
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:stereo
Length:3:24
Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, piano
Available on:
Royce Hall Neil Young Released: 2022-05-06

Track 4

1971-01-30 - Royce Hall - UCLA, Westwood, California, USA Neil Young Released: 2022-05-06

Track 4

Journey Through The Past (version 14 of 16)
Session Date:February 1, 1971
Studio:Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, USA
Produced by:Tim Mulligan
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:stereo
Length:3:02
Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, piano
Available on:
I'm happy that y'all came down Neil Young Released: 2022-05-06

Track 4

Journey Through The Past (version 15 of 16)
Session Date:February 23, 1971
Studio:The BBC Television Theatre, London, England
Produced by:Stanley Dorfman
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:mono
Length:
Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, piano
Available on:
Harvest 50th Anniversary Edition Neil Young Released: 2022-12-02

Disc 2 - BBC In Concert Track 3

Harvest 50th Anniversary Edition Neil Young Released: 2022-12-02

DVD - BBC In Concert Track 3

Journey Through The Past (version 16 of 16)
Session Date:April 4, 1971
Studio:Quadrafonic Sound Studios, Nashville, TN
Produced by:Elliot Mazer & Neil Young
Recording type:Studio
Mono/Stereo:stereo
Length:
Notes:mixed by John Hausmann
Musicians:
Available on:
Harvest 50th Anniversary Edition Neil Young Released: 2022-12-02

Disc 3 - Harvest Outtakes Track 2

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