Live at Massey Hall 1971

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Live At Massey Hall 1971
Live album by Neil Young

Publication
(s)

March 13, 2007

Label (s) Reprise Records

Format (s)

CD, LP, DVD

Genre (s)

Folk , folk rock

Title (number)

17th

running time

67 min 39 s

occupation

production

David Briggs (1944-1995), Neil Young

chronology
Living with War: In the Beginning
(2007) 		Live At Massey Hall 1971 Chrome Dreams II
(2008)

Live At Massey Hall 1971 is a live album by Neil Young that was recorded in Canada in 1971 but was not released until 36 years later. It was published in March 2007 as part of the Neil Young Archives .

General

The album is the recording of a solo concert on January 19, 1971 at Massey Hall in Toronto . This explains the spontaneous applause after the song Now I'm going back to Canada in the title Journey through the Past . The concert took place as part of the Journey Through the Past Solo Tour . Young had just been recovering from a back operation that had become necessary as a late consequence of his 1951 polio infection. At the beginning of the title Helpless , he notices when he dropped a pick : "Bending over is no fun for me".

The CD reached number 1 in Canada. In 2009, Fretbase rated the album as the second best album of all time with a singer-songwriter on acoustic guitar. A DVD version has also been released.

Planned release in 1971

Commenting on the proposed 1971 release, Neil Young said:

“This is the album that should come out between After the Gold Rush and Harvest . David Briggs, my producer, insisted that this be the recording, but I was too excited about the Harvest recordings and wanted to bring Harvest out. David disagreed. Today I can understand why. "

- Neil Young

Title selection

The selection of songs at this concert was similar to that of other concerts on the tour. Of the 17 songs, only eight had already been released on record, including songs that Young had recorded with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young . Five more songs appeared a year later on the album Harvest and with different lyrics on A Man Needs a Maid . Four songs only appeared on later albums in the 1970s.

Track list

Neil Young in the 1970s

All songs were written by Neil Young.

  1. On the Way Home - 3:42
  2. Tell Me Why - 2:29
  3. Old Man - 4:57
  4. Journey through the Past - 4:15
  5. Helpless - 4:16
  6. Love in Mind - 2:47
  7. A Man Needs a Maid / Heart of Gold - 6:39
  8. Cowgirl in the Sand - 3:45
  9. Don't Let It Bring You Down - 2:46
  10. There's a World - 3:33
  11. Bad Fog of Loneliness - 3:27
  12. The Needle and the Damage Done - 3:55
  13. Ohio - 3:40
  14. See the Sky About to Rain - 4:05
  15. Down by the River - 4:08
  16. Dance Dance Dance - 5:48
  17. I Am a Child - 3:19

reception

Professional reviews
source rating
Allmusic

The album was rated very positively by Allmusic :

" Live at Massey Hall offers a remarkably wide range of songs, touching almost every aspect of Young's personality, whether it's his loveliness, his sensitivity, his loneliness or his often disregarded sense of humor."

- Mark Deming

DVD

The concert at Massey Hall was not filmed. Therefore, footage was used showing Young's performance at the Shakespeare Theater in Stratford, Connecticut three days later. The recordings come from a TV documentary by the Dutchman Wim van der Linden (1941-2001), which was only broadcast in Germany by WDR under the title Swing in with Neil Young .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neil Young: A Hippie Dream. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2012, ISBN 978-3-462-04477-5 , p. 37.
  2. ↑ fretbase.com: Best Live Albums Featuring Acoustic Guitar ( Memento from April 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ neilyoung.warnerbrosrecords.com: Live At Massey Hall ( Memento from July 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Review by Mark Deming on Allmusic (English)