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5.0 out of 5 stars
NEILFEST, October 13, 2006
This review is from: The Bridge School Concerts - Volume 1 (Audio CD)
What do Paul McCartney, Tony Bennett, Bruce Springsteen and Beck all have incommon? They have all Performed at The Bridge School Concerts. Since 1986 these shows have become A Bay Area Tradition. Every Fall since 1986 Hundreds of Performers have lent their talents to Neil & Pegi Young's Benefit for these special Kids and their Unique School
This 1997 CD is a Sampler of the Magic that has occured at Shoreline and the Oakland Coliseum (1988). I have been Lucky enough to have attended three of these Concerts In (1999,2000 & 2004) and I was greatly impressed by the Whole Deal. From The Who To C,S,N & Y to Paul McCartney, Nobody throws a better Party Than Neil and Pegi Young, NOBODY... Oh, yeah Pearl Jam & Green Day Kicked [...] as well.
This CD Opens (as do shows) with Neil (with only an Acoustic Guitar & Harmonica) Playing a Song or Two. This one is "I Am The Child, that Buffalo Springfield Chestnut. He turns the Stage over to his "Guests", First up is Tom Petty, doing "Shadow Of A Doubt". The Rule is that everyone plays on Acoustic Instruments so well known tunes become Altered Greatly from their Original Form, and this is done to keep the Volume on Stage at a lower noise level because lot's of the Bridge School Kids are on Stage throughout these Long Concerts. The Pretenders with The Duke String Quartet and Beck are up next and they don't sound anything like you've heard them before...These are One Time Performances and that's what makes The Bridge Concerts so special. Don Henley does the Beatles, Ministry does The Dead and Ann & Nancy Wilson do Led Zeppelin.
This simply, is a GREAT CD !!! [...]
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