![]() Even more than in the Massey Hall concert, this is a more intimate Neil Young, more fragile and introspective. Here, the songs are stripped down both acoustically and sometimes lyrically. And when they were officially released, they were built up with a band, produced in a studio with most of the warts burned off. A collection of greatest hits performed before anyone had ever heard most of them. ‘Tell Me Why’, ‘Old Man’, ‘The Needle And The Damage Done’, ‘A Man Needs a Maid/Heart Of Gold (Medley)’ – you get the picture. And what a song list! Twelve songs drawn from Young’s most creative period. Half the songs were new to the audience, having not yet been released on an album. The 12-song set list is shorter than Massey Hall’s 17 songs, and eleven of the songs overlap. Personal and emotional, for me, it defines that time.” Young Shakespeare is the performance of that era. ![]() A short while ago, in advance of the release, Young posted to his blog that in his opinion the concert was superior to the Massey Hall recording, “I say this is the best ever. This is the first official release of the music, little of which has found its way to bootlegs. ![]() ![]() This concert was recorded on film for German television broadcast and is being release simultaneously as a single LP and a package with the LP, a CD and a DVD of the concert film. It was a part of the Journey Through The Past tour, recorded just three days after the Toronto, Canada concert released in 2007 as Live At Massey Hall 1971 and only a couple of months after release of Young’s third album After The Gold Rush. Young’s latest release in the Neil Young Archives Performance Series is Young Shakespeare, a live solo acoustic performance recorded on Januat the Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut. ![]()
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