L.A. Johnson

Production

L.A. Johnson

Born 1947-06-11

Larry Alderman Johnson (June 11, 1947 – January 21, 2010) was an American film and music producer, director, and editor best known for his long association with musician Neil Young.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Human Highway poster
5.2

The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizarre characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way.

Human Highway

1982

Neil Young: Silver & Gold poster
6.7

Silver & Gold is a live video by Neil Young performing solo on acoustic guitar and piano. All but the last song were performed at Bass Concert Hall in Austin, Texas during his 1999 solo acoustic tour promoting his album of the same name.

Neil Young: Silver & Gold

2000

Neil Young: Harvest Time poster
8.5

The docu-film is described as “a never been seen before fan piece including footage from Northern California, London, and Nashville, during its creation.” It takes you on a journey from his iconic Broken Arrow Ranch to a performance with the London Symphony Orchestra. Documenting the studio sessions of Neil's iconic album Harvest.

Neil Young: Harvest Time

2022

Journey Through the Past poster
6.4

Self-directed combination of concert footage from 1966 onward, backstage footage and art film-like sequences.

Journey Through the Past

1972

Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Rust Never Sleeps poster
7.8

Concert film covering Neil Young's October 22 1978 concert performance at the Cow Palace with nearly 20 songs (including two versions of "Hey Hey, My My," his nod to the punk movement), acoustic and electric (with long-time companions Crazy Horse), dating back to his Buffalo Springfield days ("I Am a Child") and continuing through popular solo numbers like "Cinnamon Girl" and the extended "Like a Hurricane."

Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Rust Never Sleeps

1979

Year of the Horse poster
6.4

A document of Neil Young and Crazy Horse's 1996 concert tour. Director Jarmusch conducts interviews about the band's long history, interspersed with backstage footage from the 1970s and 1980s.

Year of the Horse

1997

Joni Mitchell: Shadows and Light poster
7.0

Documents Joni Mitchell's historic 1979 tour backed by an all-star band of jazz-fusion musicians. Filmed at Santa Barbara County Bowl and intercut with classic film clips and original footage to give visual interpretations of the music.

Joni Mitchell: Shadows and Light

1980

Muddy Track poster
NR

Shot largely with a handheld camera, Neil Young's Muddy Track documents a difficult tour of Europe, plagued by poor weather, dwindling ticket sales, backstage arguments and audience riots. In an interview with MOJO in 1995, Young claimed that Muddy Track was among the favourite of all his films: "It’s dark as hell. God, it’s a heavy one! [...] But it’s funky".

Muddy Track

2015

Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Way Down in the Rust Bucket poster
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After recording Ragged Glory at Broken Arrow Ranch in the spring of 1990 and releasing it that September, Young and Crazy Horse took the stage at The Catalyst in Santa Cruz on November 13 to unleash the songs upon a live audience.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Way Down in the Rust Bucket

2021

Return to Greendale poster
2.0

Return to Greendale is a live concert film from Canadian-American folk rock musician Neil Young and American rock band Crazy Horse, recorded September 4 2003 while touring to promote the album Greendale.

Return to Greendale

2020

Greendale poster
5.9

Neil Young's "musical novel", telling the story of a family, the murder of a cop and the evolution of a young girl named Sun Green. This is not a concert film. Young himself shot actors on locations on his native Northern California home turf to create his Greendale, a rural town that is a microcosm of a world in crisis. There is lots of music featured by Young and Crazy Horse. Special bonus features include "Making of" with brand new interviews with Neil and the cast; also 3 live performances of "Greendale" songs, more.

Greendale

2004

Neil Young: Red Rocks Live poster
8.0

The Godfather of Grunge is back (not that he ever really left) on this two-hour live performance video. Filmed at Colorado's Red Rocks Ampitheatre, this concert features the legendary rocker kicking out all sorts of jams -- from anthemic rock songs to acoustic ballads -- with his talented backing band. Recorded live at Red Rocks Ampitheatre in Morrison, Colorodo on September 19-20, 2000. A highly original and inspiring performance, complete with a rainstorm and a farfisa, results! The set list includes «Harvest Moon», «Razor Love», «Cowgirl In The Sand» and many more.

Neil Young: Red Rocks Live

2000

Neil Young: Red Rocks Live poster
8.0

The Godfather of Grunge is back (not that he ever really left) on this two-hour live performance video. Filmed at Colorado's Red Rocks Ampitheatre, this concert features the legendary rocker kicking out all sorts of jams -- from anthemic rock songs to acoustic ballads -- with his talented backing band. Recorded live at Red Rocks Ampitheatre in Morrison, Colorodo on September 19-20, 2000. A highly original and inspiring performance, complete with a rainstorm and a farfisa, results! The set list includes «Harvest Moon», «Razor Love», «Cowgirl In The Sand» and many more.

Neil Young: Red Rocks Live

2000

Neil Young - Boarding House 1978 poster
NR

Neil Young's set in Boarding House consisted of 15 songs, 10 of which were unreleased at the time. This show also marks his first time appearing with wireless microphones.

Neil Young - Boarding House 1978

2024

Belinda Live! poster
7.0

Belinda Carlisle in Concert from 1988 featuring songs: I Feel Free/ Mad About You/ Lust To Love/ I Get Weak/ Fool For Love/ Circle In The Sand/ World Without You/ Nobody Owns Me/ Our Lips Are Sealed/ Vacation/ Heaven Is A Place On Earth/ Love Never Dies/ Head Over Heals/ We Got The Beat

Belinda Live!

1988

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - In a Rusted Out Garage poster
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Recorded at the outset of Neil Young's In A Rusted Out Garage tour in late 1986. Originally broadcast on New York's WNEW-FM in November that year.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - In a Rusted Out Garage

1986

Live from Bonnaroo Music Festival 2002 poster
8.0

The Bonnaroo Music Festival first turned up on the radar of the mainstream press and music industry when it posted some remarkable numbers in the spring of 2002. Folks in the know wondered how could a first-time event in rural Tennessee sell out all 70,000 of its tickets in a matter of days, with no advertising except email and word of mouth. And why would anyone, with the riots of Woodstock '99 a not-too-distant memory, even attempt such an event. The answer is that Bonnaroo, staged on a green expanse of Tennessee farmland June 21-23 2002, is the apotheosis of a movement that has quietly gained momentum for over a decade, existing as a parallel music universe.

Live from Bonnaroo Music Festival 2002

2002

Neil Young: Solo Trans poster
6.5

Solo Trans is a concert film by Neil Young, released in 1984. It was recorded at the Hara Arena in Dayton, Ohio on September 18, 1983 during Young's Solo Trans tour.

Neil Young: Solo Trans

1984

Neil Young: Solo Trans poster
6.5

Solo Trans is a concert film by Neil Young, released in 1984. It was recorded at the Hara Arena in Dayton, Ohio on September 18, 1983 during Young's Solo Trans tour.

Neil Young: Solo Trans

1984