Neil Young - Live @ Massey Hall 1971

dayday 9,612 Posts
edited April 2007 in Strut Central
Heard some of this on the radio this morning and needless to say, it is
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  • CousinLarryCousinLarry 4,618 Posts
    Heard some of this on the radio this morning and needless to say, it is


    Saw this at the local starbucks I need to buy a copy.

  • dayday 9,612 Posts
    Heard some of this on the radio this morning and needless to say, it is


    Saw this at the local starbucks I need to buy a copy.

    Yeah, I did too. Fuck that though, this is pretty incredible.
    KCRW played "A Man Needs a Maid/Heart of Gold" with just him playing piano and it was

    I guess alot of these songs went on to become Harvest so to hear them raw like this is pretty heavy.

  • edith headedith head 5,106 Posts
    i love those versions of Ohio and Old Man

  • DrWuDrWu 4,021 Posts
    What about the long awaited Archives series. I remember hearing about this in the mid 90s. Anyone got info on this?

  • masarumasaru 63 Posts
    this is the second in Archive series, I'm pretty sure. Unless you heard about a non-live Archive series?

  • nice to see you guys still like white music.

  • dayday 9,612 Posts
    nice to see you guys still like white GOOD music.

  • johmbolayajohmbolaya 4,472 Posts
    What about the long awaited Archives series. I remember hearing about this in the mid 90s. Anyone got info on this?

    8CD/2DVD box set scheduled for a November release. The Massey Hall show and the one that was released before is a part of the "Performance Series" in the Archive series. One can assume (but with NY you never know) that the box set is the "Studio" part of the Archives, which would includes outtakes, alternate takes, all of the albums he recorded but never released, etc.

    BTW - my review of Live At Massey Hall 1971[/b] is here if anyone cares to read before buying:
    http://jbookmusic.blogspot.com/2007/03/cd-review-neil-youngs-live-at-massey.html

  • dayday 9,612 Posts


    BTW - my review of Live At Massey Hall 1971[/b] is here if anyone cares to read before buying:
    http://jbookmusic.blogspot.com/2007/03/cd-review-neil-youngs-live-at-massey.html

    That was a great review. I can't wait to hear this whole thing.

  • johmbolayajohmbolaya 4,472 Posts
    I guess alot of these songs went on to become Harvest so to hear them raw like this is pretty heavy.

    Correct, and this recording was originally going to be a live double album. It was done in support of After The Gold Rush[/b], and was captured because it was a homecoming show. If you get the CD/DVD combo, you're able to see the rough drafts of what he wanted as a double album, as far as splitting it to four sides, the master tape, etc. But when he went to Nashville to record some new material, he liked what he was coming up with there that he pretty much forgotten/abandoned the live album project and headed straight for what would become Harvest[/b].

    However, that Massey Show has been heavily bootlegged over the years. The quality has always been "of bootleg quality", so even fans who have had this for years will want to hear this one, recorded directly from the boards.

  • RAJRAJ tenacious local 7,779 Posts
    Harvest is in my Top 10, Easily.

  • tonyphronetonyphrone 1,500 Posts
    Harvest is in my Top 10, Easily.

    For me it's "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere".


  • Harvest is in my Top 10, Easily.

    For me it's "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere".


    Ooooooooooooooooooooh yeah. 'Cowgirl in the Sand' =

  • edith headedith head 5,106 Posts
    it's all about ON THE BEACH


  • CosmoCosmo 9,768 Posts
    nice to see you guys still like white music.

    This is black music, man. What you tripping off of?

  • AserAser 2,351 Posts
    chairs in massey hall are bad for my back.

  • bull_oxbull_ox 5,056 Posts
    Here's a great promo for the 10-disc box:

    http://www.repriserecords.com/neilarchives/

    Hope it doesn't cost a fortune cuz it looks/sounds damn good...

  • edith headedith head 5,106 Posts
    ON THE BEACH!

    P.S.


    neil inspired me to pick up a guitar and play his songs badly

  • tonyphronetonyphrone 1,500 Posts
    it's all about ON THE BEACH


    I love this album,too. But i find it totally depressing- not sure why?

  • edith headedith head 5,106 Posts
    it's depressing for sure and i can't listen to it all the time, but it is a good sad. "i see a crowd of people...but i can't face them day to day." i get chills when i hear that line.

    i think this live at massey concert is pretty depressing too. but it's damn good



  • I didn't know about these. I'm interested in the first one w/ the more rockin Crazy Horse side.

    On the Beach is stellar.

  • it's all about ON THE BEACH


    I love this album,too. But i find it totally depressing- not sure why?

    Wasn't he pretty depressed when he made it? I don't recall where I heard that/if it is apocrapha, but if true, that may explain it....

    the cover would certainly suggest depression.

  • DrWuDrWu 4,021 Posts
    it's all about ON THE BEACH


    I love this album,too. But i find it totally depressing- not sure why?

    Wasn't he pretty depressed when he made it? I don't recall where I heard that/if it is apocrapha, but if true, that may explain it....

    the cover would certainly suggest depression.

    Made under the influence of "honey slides".


  • frogmanfrogman 22 Posts
    that new record is def recommended, my uncle just played it for me tonight during commercials of florida /ohio. the recording is super clean.... and just neil with acoustic guitar and sometimes piano (him playing) is so good.

    has the fact that neil + rick james were once in a band together already been discussed? anybody got a file?

    longtime/first time. its Jasper. I know or kinda know half of you guys on here so I dont really feel like doing some introduction thing (do you guys still do that?) but whats up everybody- no job = lots of free time.

  • Most interesting google search of the day...
    Honey Slides:

    In the Neil Young biography 'Shakey', there is a reference to a mysterious concoction known as a 'honey slide' that was heavily consumed during the 'On The Beach' sessions:

    "The high was debilitating. 'People passed out,' said Elliot Roberts. 'This stuff was, like, way worse than heroin. Much heavier. Rusty [Kershaw] would pour it down your throat and within ten minutes you were catatonic."
    Here's Neil's notorious recipe for "Honey Slides" as he described it at a concert at the Bottom Line Club in New York City, NY, May 16, 1974 while introducing the song "Motion Pictures".

    Neil: "Anyway, we're in this hotel room (harmonica), we're trying some honey-slides, you know....You know what a honey-slide is? (voice from audience: Yes!) Honey-slide, mmmmmmn!

    You know, poor grade marijuana (he's playing soft guitar all through this... Motion Pictures intro), worse than you get on the street, and you take it and you get your old lady, you know, if you got one, to cook it up on the stove, you know, put that stuff in the grinder, get it real fine, in a frying pan, put it on the stove, turn the heat up a little, wait till the grass just starts to smoke, just a little bit, take it off the heat, don't want to burn it too much (laughter and a few guitar bars), then you take the honey, you know, get a half a glass of honey about this big - I hope you ladies are listening to the recipies tonight - (audience laughter and a few words missing) just heat that honey up until it's slippery, you know, and mix that grass with it, you know the fine grass that you've cooked up just until it started to smoke and you took it off, mix those together and you get a spoon you know (voices from the audience and laughter).

    I think you should eat it after that. Just eat a little of it, you know, maybe a spoonful or two, you'll be surprised, it just makes you feel fine... (laughter) That cheap grass is great. You know, in these times, you have to think about prices and things like that (laughter).

  • DrJoelDrJoel 932 Posts
    Ok, I'll play too:



    Harvest was the first one i got, but this one just took it to another level for me.

  • FatbackFatback 6,746 Posts
    I listen to these two songs a lot lately. They go together.

    "I Am A Child"

    I am a child, I'll last a while.
    You can't conceive
    of the pleasure in my smile.
    You hold my hand,
    rough up my hair,
    It's lots of fun
    to have you there.

    God gave to you,
    now, you give to me,
    I'd like to know
    what you learned.
    The sky is blue
    and so is the sea.
    What is the color,
    when black is burned?
    What is the color?

    You are a man, you understand.
    You pick me up
    and you lay me down again.
    You make the rules,
    you say what's fair,
    It's lots of fun
    to have you there.

    God gave to you,
    now, you give to me,
    I'd like to know
    what you learned.
    The sky is blue
    and so is the sea.
    What is the color,
    when black is burned?
    What is the color?

    I am a child, I'll last a while.
    You can't conceive
    of the pleasure in my smile.

    "Old Man"

    Old man look at my life,
    I'm a lot like you were.
    Old man look at my life,
    I'm a lot like you were.

    Old man look at my life,
    Twenty four
    and there's so much more
    Live alone in a paradise
    That makes me think of two.

    Love lost, such a cost,
    Give me things
    that don't get lost.
    Like a coin that won't get tossed
    Rolling home to you.

    Old man take a look at my life
    I'm a lot like you
    I need someone to love me
    the whole day through
    Ah, one look in my eyes
    and you can tell that's true.

    Lullabies, look in your eyes,
    Run around the same old town.
    Doesn't mean that much to me
    To mean that much to you.

    I've been first and last
    Look at how the time goes past.
    But I'm all alone at last.
    Rolling home to you.

    Old man take a look at my life
    I'm a lot like you
    I need someone to love me
    the whole day through
    Ah, one look in my eyes
    and you can tell that's true.

    Old man look at my life,
    I'm a lot like you were.
    Old man look at my life,
    I'm a lot like you were.

  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts

    Lullabies, look in your eyes,
    Run around the same old town.
    Doesn't mean that much to me
    To mean that much to you.

    i love these four lines

  • CousinLarryCousinLarry 4,618 Posts
    I think I heard this song a few times before the lyrics really registered.

    "A Man Needs A Maid"

    My life is changing
    in so many ways
    I don't know who
    to trust anymore
    There's a shadow running
    thru my days
    Like a beggar going
    from door to door.

    I was thinking that
    maybe I'd get a maid
    Find a place nearby
    for her to stay.
    Just someone
    to keep my house clean,
    Fix my meals and go away.

    A maid. A man needs a maid.
    A maid.

    It's hard to make that change
    When life and love
    turns strange.
    And old.

    To give a love,
    you gotta live a love.
    To live a love,
    you gotta be "part of"
    When will I see you again?

    A while ago somewhere
    I don't know when
    I was watching
    a movie with a friend.
    I fell in love with the actress.
    She was playing a part
    that I could understand.

    A maid. A man needs a maid.
    A maid.

    When will I see you again?

  • DrWuDrWu 4,021 Posts
    I guess it's time for me to post the 8 cd set of live recordings that my friend sent me a few years back. Tapes starting in the late 60s all the way through present. Some really amazing performances, including the infamous "keep on rocking in the free world" from SNL.
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