Neil Young - Live at the Fillmore East (CD/DVD)
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Artist: Neil YoungEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2006-11-14
Music Label: Reprise / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
- Winterlong
- Down By The River
- Wonderin'
- Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown
- Cowgirl In The Sand
Music reviews of Live at the Fillmore East (CD/DVD)
Music Review: A Pretty Good Run
Rating: 4 Stars
Neil Young has been having a pretty good run these past few years. First, in the shadow of a medical crisis, Young created PRAIRE WINDS--one of the finest records he ever made and a more fitting companion to HARVEST than the otherwise excellent HARVEST MOON. M.S. then put together a good film of Young and his friends performing and the Ryman in Nashville. (This comes from someone who rarely cares for music videos.) These accomplishments were then followed by the dreadful LIVING WITH WAR.
Whether you share Young's passion or politics, LIVING WITH WAR had all the artistic grace of a political commercial one week before an election. Yes, album was the critics darling and it ended up on several *best album lists* for 2006; but the whole album has none of the power and cogency of Young's 1970 single *Ohio*. The artist is perfectly entitled to act as Young the pamphleteer. Nonetheless there is little of interest that will draw new listeners in the future.
2006, however, also saw a brighter highlight with this release from Young's massive archives. Like much of the folklore surrounding him, these recordings are so behind the scenes, so personal, so promised and hopes unfilled that fans and critics alike have began to suspect they would have to await Young's demise before these recordings would be released to the public at large. Therefore, Young faced the prospect that the *real thing* could not measure up to expectations.
First, we have to get the negative out of the way. The DVD is a complete disappointment. I thought we were going to be treated so some archival video footage. What we get is a series of about a dozen black and white photographs looped to the same audio tracts found on the CD. Who actually thought this would make anyone happy? These photographs can be found from several available sources. Less than zero points here.
Like many, I also have a bootleg copy of same live performance. Sonically LIVE AT THE FILLMORE EAST is vastly superior. Bootlegs tend to be clear as mud--especially those from the early 1970's. Unlike others, I do not complain about the missing songs that can be found on the unauthorized releases. In all likelihood, we will see these missing performances one day. More significantly, the improved clarity and definition really are that important.
By design or accident, this particular selection of songs draws one to focus on the interplay between Young and Crazy Horse. Aside from the odd love/hate musical relationship with Steven Stills, Young has had few partnerships as powerful as that he had with Danny Whitten. It was Young's great misfortune that Whitten would die of an overdose soon after these performances. Young would go on to create HARVEST. He would gather for himself a short lived household name; but he blamed himself for Whitten's death. This resulted in a depression he would endure for much of the rest of the 1970's.
*Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere* is a striking beginning to this electric set. Originally a minor but important song from the album of the same name, it has been translated well into a lively reinvention. To my ears, it has a similar arrangement style that would be found on HARVEST.
*Winterlong * has never been a favorite of mine. The lyrics are something of a dud with no emotional resonance. The power interpretation here does little to make it better.
*Wonderin'* is a better song in a goofy sort of way. Not great; but fun. Strangely, it would be given a rockabilly treatment on 1982's EVERYBODIES ROCKIN'.
*Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown* is a jaunty song that I am ambivalent about. Given its subtext of searching for a heroin fix, there is much to hate about it. This song would resurface on Young's most difficult album TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT as a centerpiece. On TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT it would have more power in context of the rest album than it does here. The best thing about it here is Young's introduction of the members of the band.
The cream of this recording belongs to both *Down By The River* and *Cowgirl In The Sand*. Several hours of close listening and enjoyment are found on these two cuts alone. The intense interplay between Young and Whitten as they fire walk across their respective fletboards creates a musical wind shear in front of the bass and drums. We don't hear extensive guitar soloing much like this in our time. This kind of instrumental display in a traditional rock setting began with Cream about 1968 and tapered off around 1975--perhaps because that particular vein had been all mined out or because a newer rock audience sought something else. It was an oddity of its time that began with the British blues revival and ended with the passing of Southern/Country rock. Depending on your sensibilities, either you mourn its absence or relieved one doesn't have to endure one more guitar solo before you get to the good stuff.
Be that as it may, this recording finds Young at the dawn of the 1970's with the future of rock before him and the rock "kinship" at its most communal. In some ways he was at the peek of his creative powers and stood as a pioneer to what was to come. Young has been regarded these days as proto-punk and the godfather to grunge. These would be nice compliments if it wasn't for the fact that both punk and grunge could be found in their infancy in the garage bands in the 1960's. Never mind...another subject...another day. If your musical christening began with Nirvana or (God forbid!) Justin Timberland, you owe it to yourself take a bite from this feast. There really was a time when the battle cry of "sex, drugs and rock and roll" actually meant something more than sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
Description of Live at the Fillmore East (CD/DVD)
The first release of Neil Young's archive performance series. DVD version includes high-resolution audio of album plus a photo montage.For years, fans of Neil Young and Crazy Horse have been waiting for an official chance to hear Crazy Horse live with original leader Danny Whitten, the insanely talented guitarist who died of a heroin overdose in late 1972, inspiring Tonight's the Night. Tuned-in fans have been awaiting this very set for at least a dozen years, as it was originally to be tacked onto the end of a Decade-style triple CD of outtakes. Thankfully, this well-recorded live set from the infamous Fillmore East was well worth the wait. Here are scorching, extended takes of "Down by the River," "Winterlong," and "Cowgirl in the Sand," each propelled by guitar interplay so delightful you have to keep rewinding to hear it again. In fact, bits of it seem to prefigure the ways that Richard Lloyd and Tom Verlaine would feed off each other in the band Television, only with less of a sweet edge. But the world doesn't need any more arguments that Young was a proto-punk; what the world does need is at least a dozen more releases from Neil's archives! And hopefully, with this awesome live album, the floodgates have truly been opened and there are many more to come, in the vein of Dylan's Bootleg series. This disc is worth it alone for the version of "Wondering," a tune not officially recorded until many years later in Neil's weird '80s rockabilly phase. --Mike McGonigal
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