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NEIL YOUNGThe Jan. 19, 1971, performance by Neil Young at Toronto's Massey Hall was a homecoming. Young had left his native Canada five years earlier to join Buffalo Springfield in Los Angeles and returned a star with two solo albums and the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young album "Deja Vu" already under his belt. The recording made that night, the second release in Young's long-awaited archive series (coupled with a DVD of a similar show apparently from the same tour), finds him performing solo acoustic and trying out several songs that would be included on his next album, "Harvest." At the time, record producer David Briggs thought this live tape should have been Young's next album, but Young wanted to save the songs for the studio recording. Given that that album established Young once and for all with the huge radio hit "Heart of Gold," Young (left, in 1971) was probably correct. But that left "Live at Massey Hall" as something of a lost masterpiece.
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just pre-ordered it. If it's all like that great version of "Needle..." it's gonna be fantastic.
The bootleg I have of this show is fantastic, and the sound quality stellar, but I'll certainly buy the official release next week in support of NY. Would have bought the official release decades ago too, given the option...
"I always play jazz records backwards, they sound better that way"
-Thomas Edison
just stunning
- http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop-up/B000MTPANG001017/ref=mu_sam_wma_001_017/103-4448155-9581464 (Open in New Window)
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