Live at the Fillmore East (Neil Young album)

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Live at the Fillmore East
Live at the Fillmore East cover
Live album on CD and DVD-Audio by Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Released November 14, 2006
Recorded March, 1970
Genre Rock
Length 43:15
Label Reprise
Professional reviews
Neil Young chronology
Living with War
(2006)		 Live at the Fillmore East
(2006)		 Living with War: In the Beginning
(2006)


Live at the Fillmore East is a live album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse with guitarist Danny Whitten. It features performances recorded by the band in March 1970 at Bill Graham's Fillmore East in New York in support of their recent album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. Young played four shows there on March 6 and 7, each show consisting of a solo acoustic set and a set with Crazy Horse. This release contains each song performed during the electric set, minus "Cinnamon Girl". It is apparently the first release related to his long-anticipated Archives series.[1] It was released on CD and DVD. The DVD will feature pictures from the show, pictures of the original handwritten lyrics and reviews from the era, as well as improved sound (24bit/96kHz PCM audio) over the CD release.

The album is the first live release featuring Danny Whitten, who died in 1972. A performance of Whitten's "Come on Baby Let's Go Downtown" from the same shows was previously released on Young's 1975 album Tonight's the Night, which explores Young's grief at the loss of friends to drugs. A studio version of this song appears on the Crazy Horse album. The release features two other songs from the era that wouldn't see the light of day until years after the concert. "Winterlong" was first released on the 1977 compilation Decade and "Wonderin'" would feature on the 1983 rockabilly album Everybody's Rockin', complete with doo-wop backing vocals.

The release is a departure of format from what fans had expected. In previous interviews, Young had expressed interest in releasing a series of multi-disc box sets of unreleased material and performances, long referred to as the "Archives".[2] It is unclear whether the idea of box sets has been abandoned in favor of individual releases akin to Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series, though the Live at the Fillmore East album cover does list the release as Disc 02 of the Neil Young Archives Performance Series, indicating that this release is likely part of a series, perhaps including a 1969 solo concert from Toronto's Massey Hall, or a live performance of the Tonight's the Night album at the Rainbow Theatre in London in 1973. It is possible that the Archives series will consist of individual concert releases in addition to box sets.

Some fans have expressed disappointment that this, the first release from the Archives project, contains only six tracks. On the tour, the Crazy Horse set was preceded each night by a five song solo acoustic set. As the release is barely over 40 minutes long, there would have been room left over on the CD for "On the Way Home," "Broken Arrow," "I am a Child" or other songs performed during the tour. During a trailer for the release found on Young's official website (see external links below), it is explained that from the two shows featured on the release, multi-track recordings of only five songs survive. Thus, it may be that the acoustic set and "Cinnamon Girl" are not included due to sound quality problems, not subjective reasons.

Many fans and reviewers have expressed excitement to see the release of archival Neil Young material. Young's catalog is notable for the lack of such releases, especially considering his reputations for being prolific and for completing material without releasing it.

The album debuted on the Billboard 200 album chart at number 55 on December 2, 2006, with sales of 20,000 copies. It spent three weeks on the chart.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Neil Young except as noted

  1. "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere" – 3:36
  2. "Winterlong" – 3:40
  3. "Down by the River" – 12:24
  4. "Wonderin'" – 3:35
  5. "Come on Baby Let's Go Downtown" (Young/Whitten) – 3:51
  6. "Cowgirl in the Sand" – 16:09

[edit] Performers

[edit] External links

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Jonathan Cohen, "Neil Young Opens Archives For Fillmore CD/DVD," 22 September 2006, at [1], last accessed 4 November 2006.
  2. ^ Andy Greene, "In the Van With Neil Young: An Exclusive Interview" 28 July 2006, at [2], last accessed 4 November 2006.
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