![]() ![]() But future releases will have a tough act to follow as this one captures the purest form of the young, hungry singer-songwriter's art. Surely more Neil Young Archives shows will arrive soon Young Shakespeare itself arrived hot on the heels of the Crazy Horse show Way Down in the Rust Bucket. A tray within the LP-sized box contains the three formats (the DVD is Region 0 and playable everywhere), each wrapped in identical artwork. The combination CD/LP/DVD box is packaged simply. The individual CD is housed in a digipak in the style of Young's previous Archive releases. And while the viewers might pine for that original documentary footage, what we get in its place is vastly improved in quality over the dodgy concert tapes traded before. The film is finally sequenced as a concert document in the order it was played (though, sadly, not every song performed that night at the Shakespeare Theatre is represented on the release). The Plangent Processing on the master audio tapes mean the music sounds better than ever Young states that the source is a 192/24 digital transfer of the original tapes. The video is presented in standard definition with a 4:3 ratio. As it happens, some tracks were shown on Swing In, the European music documentary program, but now the concert footage and sonics have been revisited and improved. "If you don't know the words, well, you're all university students, so memorize them the first time."įifty years on, we can be thankful this footage still exists. He also performed "Dance Dance Dance," a jaunty tune (not the Beach Boys' song) meant "to make you stamp your feet and bang your hands." Along the way, he told stories and joked with the audience, most memorably before a sing-along of "Sugar Mountain." "It worked last night," he said with a smile. He also tackled a number of older favorites, including incendiary renditions of "Cowgirl in the Sand" and "Down By the River" from 1969's Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and the recent CSNY cut "Ohio."Ī focused, passionate Young didn't let it get the audience down too much. ![]() The Gold Rush opener "Tell Me Why" led to a pair of then-unreleased Harvest selections which would become future rock standards, "Old Man" and "Needle and the Damage Done." Each performance has that certain mystical intensity we've since come to expect from Neil Young. Alone on guitar or piano, he performed a slew of tracks from both projects. The Stratford show took place just two months after Young released his solo breakthrough After the Gold Rush and as he was readying the career-redefining Harvest. No matter how you choose to listen, you'll find a lot to enjoy in this portrait of the artist as a Young man. Plus, the Neil Young Archives website offers the album to stream in high-resolution. The album and film are available in a variety of formats - CD, LP, and DVD (through Young's online shop), and a box set bundling all the formats. It's also the earliest known film of solo Neil live. But Young Shakespeare has a certain special quality, with Neil delivering a faultless selection of songs that would go on to be timeless, all while demonstrating what makes him such a captivating artist. That show was released on CD/DVD in 2007 and utilized pieces of the Connecticut footage. Young took the stage in Stratford just three days after playing a celebrated gig at Toronto's Massey Hall. While the venue sadly burned to the ground in January 2019, the concert recorded there 48 years earlier has survived to see release. like when everyone says they wanted to be love but when someone tells them they love them, they freak out and leave the people who told them they love them.When Neil Young announced the release of Young Shakespeare as Disc 3.5 of the Neil Young Archives Performance Series, many wondered, "Why another solo acoustic show?" Since the archival series began in 2006, Young has released six solo acoustic concert albums, three of which chronicled performances from 1970-1971 Young Shakespeare was recorded in that time frame, on January 22, 1971, at Stratford, Connecticut's Shakespeare Theatre. On a sidenote: I think this song says a lot about people who are having a hard time what to feel or how act when something they thought they wanted is right in front of them. **** I think this part is knowing and being sad about the fact that the relationship could possibly end (since she's having a hard time making arrangements to herself) but also knowing that the only person who could make you happy is the person who's about to break your heart. **** i think it's about waiting for someone to make a decision whether they'll stay or go. When you're young enough to repay (old enough to stay in a committed, give-and-take relationship) but also young enough sell (young enough to sell out your relationship by taking the easy way out and breaking it off) Asking someone or yourself why is it hard to make arrangements with yourself
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