The musician wrote his new book, To Feel the Music , the same way he makes records—according to a highly evolved aesthetic of half-assedness…
To Feel the Music is the story of Pono, which was Neil Young’s quixotic attempt to create and sell a new kind of portable music player and download service. Something that didn’t crush recorded sound into nasty little MP3s.
I’m surprised this post didn’t get any comments. I have just finished reading the book and immediately came to the Roon community thinking there would be a big discussion on it.
Neil Young’s “To feel the music” is one of the best book I have ever read. I realize it might not be for everyone, but as a music lover and someone who works in product development, this book kept me hooked and gave me a lot to think about. It was a pleasure to read, even though I only know a couple of his albums and did not know anything about him aside from the music on those albums.
And I think that’s his point. What he says is digital will never reach analog’s richness, but the very least we should be doing is transferring everything to highest quality digital before old recordings sitting at the record companies disintegrate.