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NUMBER [Invisible Passion 006] MAY.16.74 Bottom Line, New York, NY (solo) source: audience |
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| 01 Citizen Kane Jr. Blues / Pushed It Over
The End 02 Long May You Run 03 Greensleeves 04 Ambulance Blues 05 Helpless 06 Revolution Blues 07 On The Beach 08 Roll Another Number (For The Road) 09 "Southern Man Story" 10 Motion Pictures 11 Pardon My Heart 12 Dance, Dance, Dance |
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OLD GRAY CAT: On the eve of CSNY’s 1974 stadium tour, Neil performed this solo set at the Bottom Line. It’s ironic that this is more readily available than On the Beach, which is represented by four songs ("Ambulance Blues," "Revolution Blues," "On the Beach" and "Motion Pictures"). Also includes "Pushed It Over the End"—and "Greensleeves." Really! Neil himself is rather talkative. Among other items imparted to the audience is the recipe for the tasty "delicacy" known as "honey slides." The sound itself isn't great, due to hiss, etc., but it's more than listenable. For fans looking for more bang for their buck(s), check out "Citizen Kane Junior Blues", which adds a few bonus tracks. (A) |
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| SOMETIME IN NEW
YORK CITY [Gold Standard] (with Crazy Horse) NOV.20.76 The Palladium, New York, NY source: audience |
| CD 1 | CD 2 |
| 01 Mr. Soul 02 The Old Laughing Lady 03 Journey Through The Past 04 Pocahontas 05 Mellow My Mind 06 The Needle And The Damage Done 07 Roll Another Number 08 A Man Needs A Maid 09 Sugar Mountain 10 Country Home 11 Don't Cry No Tears 12 Down By The River 13 Bite The Bullet 14 Lotta Love 15 Like A Hurricane |
01 Peace Of Mind 02 After The Goldrush 03 Cortez The Killer 04 Cinnamon Girl 05 Helpless MAR.20.76 Koln, Germany 06 Old Man 07 Too Far Gone 08 Don't Say You Win, Don't Say You Lose 09 Heart of Gold 10 The Losing End 11 Drive Back 12 Southern Man MAR.21.76 Hamburg 13 Last Trip to Tulsa |
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OLD GRAY CAT: Sometime in New York City is an outstanding two-disc set from the Gold Standard Label. The packaging is similar to the CSNY boot Roosevelt Raceway, with pictured sleeves that pull out of the paper case. The NYC tracks are an excellent audience recording, vocals come through very clear. Although tracks 1-5 on Disc 2 claim to be from the same show as Disc 1, "Peace of Mind" sounds better than the other four, which are not bad by any stretch. The Koln tracks are definitely inferior to Disc 1 and the beginning of Disc 2, but still decent. "Heart of Gold," for some reason, sounds better than the other six tracks. "Last Trip" is so-so. Overall, the acoustic set on Disc 1 is outstanding, with a great banjo rendition of "Mellow My Mind." The electric stuff is great, too. The sound reminds me of one of my favorite boots, Lonely Weekend, definite audience noise, but the music is clear and excellent. Great packaging, great boot! (A-) |
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| (with Crazy Horse) NOV.21.86 Cow Palace, San Francisco, CA source: soundboard / fm |
| as broadcasted | (complete setlist) |
| 01 Cinnamon Girl 02 When You Dance, I Can Really Love 03 Heart Of Gold 04 Down By The River 05 Opera Star 06 The Needle And The Damage Done 07 Violent Side 08 Long Walk Home 09 Too Lonely 10 Like A Hurricane 11 Hey Hey, My My 12 Prisoners Of Rock 'n' Roll |
01 Mr. Soul 02 Cinnamon Girl 03 When You Dance, I Can Really Love 04 Down By The River 05 Too Lonely 06 Heart Of Gold 07 After The Goldrush 08 Inca Queen 09 Drive Back 10 Opera Star 11 Cortez The Killer 12 Sample And Hold 13 Computer Age 14 Violent Side 15 Mideast Vacation 16 Long Walk Home 17 The Needle And The Damage Done 18 When Your Lonely Heart Breaks 19 Around The World 20 Powderfinger 21 Like A Hurricane 21 Hey Hey, My My 21 Prisoners Of Rock 'n' Roll |
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[Kiss The Stone 014] (acoustic) JUN.14.89 Jones Beach, NY |
| CD 1 | review |
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01 My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) |
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OLD GRAY CAT: The first thing to know about this 1991 release from Kiss the Stone is that, like much information gleaned from boot CDs' sleeves, this show was not from 1990--but 1989. June 14th, to be exact, an early date on a solo summer tour of sheds/amphitheaters. And while this isn't the entire performance, this is a very good representation of it all the same. At the time, of course, Neil was fresh from his first real hit of the '80s, "This Note's for You," and pre-Freedom--and reaching yet another plateau in both performance and songcraft. Forget the fact that the show is "acoustic." He prowled the stage in a restless manner with one of those handless microphones strapped across his face, his guitar a shield and a weapon at the same time. The "Rockin' in the Free World" presented here, for example, is in many ways an acoustical version of the electric take on Freedom--if that makes sense--complete with the "kinder, gentler machine gun-hand" reference. And his guitar on "Crime in the City" is much more like a machete, with the chords chopped at while the harmonica blunts the back of your head--you ain't safe nowhere, not in the audience or in your own home. Other highlights include a very unsentimental presentation of "Sugar Mountain," "No More" and a heart-thumping "Ohio" that includes his dedication to the students slain in China that summer. This was the first Neil tour that found the freedom-loving Old Grey Cat in attendance--a week or so earlier than this show, at Bally's Under the Stars in Atlantic City. I remember Neil giving a very similar introduction and then me and everyone around me on our feet, our fists in the air and our lungs as one while we shouted the lyrics. Incredible, that's how I remember it. And while the audience at this performance doesn't sound quite as enraptured--Neil does. Although excised by the powers-that-be at Kiss the Stone, a second version of "Rockin' in the Free World" followed "Ohio" that summer at almost every concert stop. Instead, here, we leapfrog to "Powderfinger"--which works very well following "Ohio." "Red means run, son," takes on a new meaning, if you think about it. Unfortunately, "Powderfinger" is also the song where the sound begins to go--imagine what fuzz being rubbed across the microphone sounds like and you have a good idea of what I'm talking about. This may very well have been due to rain hitting the mike, who knows, but it gets increasingly worse as the song progresses and all but ruins the encore, "Down by the River," with Neil's bud Bruce Springsteen sharing vocals on the chorus. Another minus for this boot is the fact that, rather than excising some of the between song lapses KTS simply cut out a few songs ("Pocahontas," "For the Turnstiles," "Roll Another Number" and the second "Rockin' in the Free World," to be exact). A minute here, two minutes there--it adds up to enough to have fit on at least one of those songs. For that reason, and the fuzz that suffocates the last two songs, this earns ... (B) |
| ABSOLUTELY ACOUSTIC |
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| FEB.07.93 Universal Studios, Los Angeles, CA 01 Mr Soul 02 Needle and Damage Done 03 Helpless 04 Harvest Moon 05 Transformer Man 06 Unknown Legend 07 Look Out For My Love 08 Long May You Run 09 From Hank to Hendrix OCT.14.83 with the Shocking Pinks 10 Heart of Gold 11 Old Man 12 Helpless 13 Ohio 14 Don't Be Denied |
. .89 01 Hey Hey, My My 02 Rockin' In the Free World 03 Old Laughing Lady 04 Razor Love 05 Don't Let it Bring You Down 06 Someday 07 El Dorado 08 Too Far Gone 09 Comes a Time 10 Needle and Damage Done 11 No More 12 Ohio 13 Powderfinger . .74 Bottom Line, New York NY 14 Pushed It Over the End 15 Long May You Run |
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OLD GRAY CAT: Here is a set that could well be entitled It Might Have Been. What could have been one of Neil Young's best bootlegs must be dropped down a notch due to the inclusion of many tracks that even the most casual Neil fan probably has in their legitimate collection. For some unknown reason, Absolutely Acoustic begins with nine tracks also found on Neil's legitimate Unplugged release from his MTV appearance. And not just the same songs; the same performances! They are excellent quality; but who cares? Plunking down bootleg-level money for the Unplugged set is hard to fathom for even the most dedicated collector. So is Absolutely Acoustic a must avoid? Absolutely not. After the "From Hank to Hendrix" from Unplugged ends (mercifully we are spared the entire show), we get to the good stuff. First, there are five cuts from Neil's almost completely ignored 1983 Shocking Pinks tour, featuring a terrific version of "Don't Be Denied" and an almost as good rendition of "Old Man." While the sound obviously isn't as good as the Unplugged material, it is certainly listenable. Why didn't the bootlegger give us the whole Pinks show instead of just a taste? But the real gems are found on the second disk. We get 13 pristine sounding tracks from Neil's classic acoustic tour of 1989, when Freedom's songs were introduced. There's not a loser in the bunch. The "Rockin' in the Free World" has all verses, including the third which was omitted from the acoustic version found on the Freedom CD. "Someday" on solo piano is far and away superior to the overdubbed version on the album. And the acoustic read of "No More" is truly one of Neil's greatest live moments captured on disk. Toss in "El Dorado," "Too Far Gone" (both featuring Ben Keith and/or Frank Sampedro), and great interpretations of "Powderfinger," "Old Laughing Lady," and the unreleased "Razor Love" and you cover the price of admission right there. Added to Disk 2 are two classic cuts from Neil's one-off show in New York where much of On the Beach was introduced shortly before the 1974 reunion tour with Crosby, Stills and Nash. While the entire set is available on Citizen Kane Junior Blues and Roll Another Number, these are worthy bonus tracks for the main event, especially "Pushed It Over the End" which would become a highlight of the CSNY tour in electric form. Imagine what a great collection this would be if the Unplugged knock-off was replaced by more Pinks material. Alas, what could have been an A+ needs to be dropped to a B+ simply because of this unforgivable inclusion. Throw out the first disk after taping the Pinks Tour tracks and you'll have an A+ disk remaining in the double jewel case. (B+) |
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| MAR.06.99 Paramount Theater,
Seattle, WA source: audience > dat |
| CD 1 | CD 2 |
| 01 Tell Me Why (3:34) 02 Looking Forward (3:24) 03 War of Man (5:33) 04 Out of Control (5:12) 05 Albuquerque (6:28) 06 World on a String (3:58) 07 Don't Let It Bring You Down (4:19) 08 Philadelphia (4:38) 09 Love is a Rose (3:42) 10 Daddy Went Walkin' (5:21) |
01 On the Way Home (4:14) 02 From Hank to Hendrix (5:19) 03 Unknown Legend (4:55) 04 Distant Camera (4:56) 05 Harvest Moon (5:04) 06 Old King (12:49) 07 Slowpoke (5:27) 08 See the Sky About to Rain (4:38) 09 After the Goldrush (4:56) 10 audience (3:09) 11 Good to See You (3:23) 12 Heart of Gold (5:12) |
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