Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall (CD/DVD)
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Artist: Neil YoungBrand: PBS
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-03-13
Music Label: Reprise / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- On The Way Home
- Tell Me Why
- Old Man
- Journey Through The Past
- Helpless
- Love In Mind
- A Man Needs A Maid/Heart of Gold Suite
- Cowgirl In The Sand
- Don't Let It Bring You Down
- There's a World
- Bad Fog Of Loneliness
- The Needle And The Damage Done
- Ohio
- See The Sky About To Rain
- Down By The River
- Dance Dance Dance
- I Am A Child
- On The Way Home
- Tell Me Why
- Old Man
- Journey Through The Past
- Helpless
- Love In Mind
- A Man Needs A Maid/Heart of Gold Suite
- Cowgirl In The Sand
- Don't Let It Bring You Down
- There's a World
- Bad Fog Of Loneliness
- The Needle And The Damage Done
- Ohio
- See The Sky About To Rain
- Down By The River
- Dance Dance Dance
- I Am A Child
Music reviews of Live at Massey Hall (CD/DVD)
Music Review: Another Great Installment
Rating: 5 Stars
This is the second release of the Neil Young Archive - Performance Series, but it is titled as "#3", apparently based on the eventual chronology of the entire series. This series is being released one performance at a time. This new disc is based on solo acoustic shows at Massey Hall in Toronto in January 1971.
The Massey Hall performance is the perfect counterweight to first Performance release last year of Live at the Fillmore East (from 1970). These two concerts were only ten months apart, but they represent the hard and soft extremes of Neil Young. They were both performed in the midst of an incredible 24-month period that resulted in the release of five popular albums, with three different groups, plus a hit single that became the anti-war anthem of an entire generation. As pleasantly surprised as I was at the first release, this second release is even more amazing.
Live at Massey Hall represents the pinnacle of the confessional singer-songwriter era. I must admit that I have always personally preferred the Crazy Horse-style improvisational screaming-guitar cowboy rock & roll side of Neil. As such, the thought of another solo acoustic performance did not exactly create excitement. I was very wrong. This 17 song set of material is simply mesmerizing.
Only seven of the seventeen songs had yet become familiar to the audience at Massey Hall in January 1971. Even the songs that we now have heard performed in numerous different settings appear fresh in this context. The more casual fans will be pleased with these selections and the serious fans have other reasons to absorb this special concert.
First, the acoustics in the hall and the quality of the recording are astounding. It literally sounds as if you are sitting next to Neil during the concert. Secondly, there are unfamiliar gems, such as Bag Fog of Loneliness, a song that should have been released on one of the albums of the early 70's, but never made it. Thirdly, listening to parts of this concert makes you feel as if you are in the middle of his songwriting process, not only because of his "introductions/explanations", but mostly because of two famous songs that are combined together with lyrics unfamiliar to us. Finally and most importantly - despite Neil's prolific expertise at numerous instruments - even a diehard fan will be surprised at the one instrument that stands above all others on this disc.
Neil Young has been a successful artist, despite his frequent attempts to reject success. Nevertheless his casual critics usually object to the sound of his unique voice. Even many hardcore fans often prefer his songwriting or his guitar work and tend to minimize the vocal aspects of his music. Surprisingly, this Live at Massey Hall is quite simply a vocal masterpiece. Neil uses his voice in this concert as if it were a Stradivarius violin. I had always assumed that the unusually great vocal sound on the After the Gold Rush album was merely the result of the use of multi-tracking and expert sound engineers. However, this concert proves the sound was real and that, perhaps, the multi-tracking and engineering might have actually hurt the quality of Gold Rush rather than helped it. Live at Massey Hall displays a strong, gifted, and limber voice that is remarkable
The songs on this disc run all the way from the Buffalo Springfield days to having never been released. There are two songs from Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, two songs from After the Gold Rush, five songs from Harvest, two songs from Time Fades Away, and even one from On the Beach. There is something here for everyone.
The most attention will go to his combination of A Man Needs a Maid/Heart of Gold with altered lyrics. This is a fascinating experience and probably worth the price of the disc all by itself. The classic electric songs, Cowgirl in the Sand, Down by the River, and Ohio, are presented here in wonderfully scaled back acoustic versions. The oft forgotten See the Sky About To Rain is also special. Journey Through the Past and Helpless are crowd pleasers for the Canadian audience at the hall and to the listener today. It is not necessary to discuss each and every song because all seventeen songs are noteworthy.
As noted, the vocal instrument is highlighted here more than any other, although his guitar and piano work are both prominent. Neil is undoubtedly a great performer. He has dazzled audiences for decades with his freak-like ability to play multiple instruments simultaneously. Yet, despite his peak performance in this concert, nothing stands out as much as his songwriting. There have always been great performers in Rock & Roll - the likes of Elvis Presley come to mind - but the ranks of great songwriters is considerably thinner. Neil Young deserves to be ranked alongside Lennon/McCartney, Bob Dylan, and the other classic songwriters of all time. This disc helps even the most familiar fan appreciate Neil's ability to prolifically write notes and lyrics together in a special way.
Description of Live at Massey Hall (CD/DVD)
One of the greatest singer-songwriters of the rock era. Solo. Acoustic. January 19, 1971. Live At Massey Hall, the legendary concert from Neil Young, is finally officially released, and in highresolution stereo, in this CD+DVD package (also as a solo CD). The acclaimed Toronto performance features classics "Old Man" and, in a suite, "A Man Needs A Maid" and "Heart Of Gold" (before they were recorded for Harvest) along with some of his most popular songs ("Cowgirl In The Sand," "Ohio") as well as the most obscure ("Bad Fog Of Loneliness"). Live At Massey Hall is a newly mined rock gem."I'm gonna sing mostly new songs tonight," Neil Young tells the rapt Massey Hall audience, "...I've written so many new ones that I can't think of anything else to do with them other than sing 'em." He steps to the mic unadorned, distant from CSNY's rippled harmonies or Crazy Horse's yowl, hypnotically nailing 17 tracks on this unreleased 1971 solo set. You hear him tower at vocal heights on the chorus for "Old Man" (then a debuted, brand-new song) and name-check Canada on "Journey to the Past" and North Ontario on "Helpless," much to the Toronto crowd's delight. The sound is impeccable, and the closeness to Young in this spare setting exhilarates--especially his vocal quavering in the high registers, his intricate guitar work, and an overall vibe that exceeds description. And the DVD: Here you catch Young in tightly framed, starkly-lit shots, flourishing in the early years of an unparalleled rock career. Not only that, you get commentary from 1997, a rare window on how Young thinks, how he speaks, his humor. --Andrew Bartlett
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