Weld (album)

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Weld
Weld cover
Live album by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Released October 22, 1991
Recorded Recorded live on the 1991 North American tour
Genre Rock
Length 115:54
Label Reprise
Producer(s) Neil Young, David Briggs, Billy Talbot
Professional reviews
Neil Young & Crazy Horse chronology
Ragged Glory
(1990)
Weld
(1991)
Arc
(1991)


Weld is a live album and concert video by Neil Young & Crazy Horse released in 1991, comprising performances recorded on the tour to promote the Ragged Glory album. Initially released as a limited edition three-disc set entitled Arc-Weld, with the Arc portion being a single disc consisting in its entirety of a sound collage of guitar noise and feedback, with equally dischordant backing by the Horse, undoubtedly influenced by Young's choice of Sonic Youth as his opening act. Arc has since been released as a separate entity to Weld, and is currently out of print.

Weld consists of rock and roll songs by Young and Crazy Horse, duplicating seven that had appeared on either Rust Never Sleeps or Live Rust from twelve years earlier. It also echoes those albums as Young, in both cases having spent most of a previous decade pursuing different musical avenues, returned to straightforward rock and roll via an acclaimed album with Crazy Horse, then celebrating that return with an accompanying multi-disc live document and concert film. An interesting cut on this album is Young's version of Bob Dylan's "Blowing In the Wind", which had air raid sound effects.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All song written by Neil Young unless indicated

[edit] Disc one

  1. "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)"
  2. "Crime in the City"
  3. "Blowin' in the Wind" (Bob Dylan)
  4. "Welfare Mothers"
  5. "Love to Burn"
  6. "Cinnamon Girl"
  7. "Mansion on the Hill"
  8. "F*!#in' Up"

[edit] Disc two

  1. "Cortez the Killer"
  2. "Powderfinger"
  3. "Love and Only Love"
  4. "Rockin' in the Free World"
  5. "Like a Hurricane"
  6. "Farmer John" (Terry Harris)
  7. "Tonight's the Night"
  8. "Roll Another Number (For the Road)"

[edit] Personnel

Neil Young with guitar from the 1991 Weld tour)
Neil Young with guitar from the 1991 Weld tour)
Name Credits
Joel Bernstein Photography
David Briggs Producer, Engineer, Mixing
Larry Cragg Photography
Phil Gitomer Assistant Engineer
John Hanlon Mixing
John Hausman Studio Assistant
David Hewitt Engineer
Rebecca Holland Design
Chuck Johnson Mixing Assistant
Brian Leskowicz Assistant Engineer
Janet Levinson Art Direction
Ralph Molina Drums, Vocals
Tim Mulligan Engineer, Digital Editing, Digital Mastering, Mixing
John Nowland Mixing
Dave Roberts Assistant Engineer
Elliot Roberts Director
Frank "Poncho" Sampedro Guitar, Univox Stringman, Vocals
Billy Talbot Bass, Vocals, Producer, Mixing
Neil Young Guitar, Vocals, Producer, Mixing

[edit] Billboard Music Chart

  • Weld (album) peaked # 154 on The Billboard 200 in 1991
  • "Crime In The City" peaked # 34 on Mainstream Rock Tracks in 1990
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