Live at the Fillmore East (Neil Young album)
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| Live at the Fillmore East 1970 | |||||
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| 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 | ||||
| Producer | Paul Rothchild | ||||
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Live at the Fillmore East is a live album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse with guitarist Danny Whitten. In February and March of 1970, Young and Crazy Horse went on tour to support Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. Live at the Fillmore East, released in 2006, features performances from the tour. The tour would be the last Neil Young and Crazy Horse tour to feature guitarist Danny Whitten.
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 was released on CD and DVD. The DVD features 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. It also features Jack Nitzsche as an official member of the band, as indicated by Young in the band introductions; this four-man line-up of Crazy Horse backing Young for a short American tour in February and March of 1970.[1] 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 album Crazy Horse. While the song is credited to Young and Whitten both on that album and on Tonight's the Night, here "Downtown" is credited to Whitten alone.
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.
It is the first release related to the Archives series, and labeled the second, which is chronologically correct. (The first, The Riverboat, from a 1969 Young residency at the Toronto coffee house of the same name, has yet to be released.) [2]
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".[3] Later, another installment, Live at Massey Hall 1971 was released and fared better on the charts.[4] The release date of the first of the box sets Young discussed, The Archives Vol.01 1963-1972, was announced in March 2007 [5]for release in September or October of that year. [6] Soon after those months passed without the box set, a new release date was announced - February 2008 - which also passed without further Archive releases.
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.
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[edit] Track listing
All tracks written by Neil Young except as indicated.
- "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere" – 3:36
- "Winterlong" – 3:40
- "Down by the River" – 12:24
- "Wonderin'" – 3:35
- "Come on Baby Let's Go Downtown" (Danny Whitten/Neil Young) – 3:51
- "Cowgirl in the Sand" – 16:09
[edit] Personnel
- Neil Young - guitar, vocals
- Danny Whitten - guitar, vocals
- Jack Nitzsche - electric piano
- Billy Talbot - bass
- Ralph Molina - drums, vocals
[edit] External links
- Neil Young official site Fillmore East page featuring audio clips and a trailer
- Rolling Stone review with audio stream of album
[edit] Notes
- ^ http://hyperrust.org/Chronology/The70s.html Tour info accessed 5 May 2007
- ^ Jonathan Cohen, "Neil Young Opens Archives For Fillmore CD/DVD," 22 September 2006, at [1], last accessed 4 November 2006.
- ^ Andy Greene, "In the Van With Neil Young: An Exclusive Interview" 28 July 2006, at [2], last accessed 4 November 2006.
- ^ allmusic ((( Live at Massey Hall 1971 > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums )))
- ^ Warner Bros. + Reprise Records
- ^ Neil Young Strikes Gold With Archival Release/ Debuts on Billboard at #6 :: Bad News Beat :: on Neil Young
