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Live at Massey Hall (CD/DVD)

Neil YoungAudio CD
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  • Audio CD (March 13, 2007)
  • Original Release Date: 2007
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Reprise / Wea
  • ASIN: B000MTPANQ
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (174 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,448 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Disc: 1
1. On The Way Home
2. Tell Me Why
3. Old Man
4. Journey Through The Past
5. Helpless
6. Love In Mind
7. A Man Needs A Maid/Heart of Gold Suite
8. Cowgirl In The Sand
9. Don't Let It Bring You Down
10. There's a World
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Disc: 2
1. On The Way Home
2. Tell Me Why
3. Old Man
4. Journey Through The Past
5. Helpless
6. Love In Mind
7. A Man Needs A Maid/Heart of Gold Suite
8. Cowgirl In The Sand
9. Don't Let It Bring You Down
10. There's a World
See all 17 tracks on this disc

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"I'm gonna sing mostly new songs tonight," Neil Young tells the rapt Massey Hall audience, "...I've written so many new ones that I can't think of anything else to do with them other than sing 'em." He steps to the mic unadorned, distant from CSNY's rippled harmonies or Crazy Horse's yowl, hypnotically nailing 17 tracks on this unreleased 1971 solo set. You hear him tower at vocal heights on the chorus for "Old Man" (then a debuted, brand-new song) and name-check Canada on "Journey to the Past" and North Ontario on "Helpless," much to the Toronto crowd's delight. The sound is impeccable, and the closeness to Young in this spare setting exhilarates--especially his vocal quavering in the high registers, his intricate guitar work, and an overall vibe that exceeds description. And the DVD: Here you catch Young in tightly framed, starkly-lit shots, flourishing in the early years of an unparalleled rock career. Not only that, you get commentary from 1997, a rare window on how Young thinks, how he speaks, his humor. --Andrew Bartlett

Product Description

One of the greatest singer-songwriters of the rock era. Solo. Acoustic. January 19, 1971. Live At Massey Hall, the legendary concert from Neil Young, is finally officially released, and in highresolution stereo, in this CD+DVD package (also as a solo CD). The acclaimed Toronto performance features classics "Old Man" and, in a suite, "A Man Needs A Maid" and "Heart Of Gold" (before they were recorded for Harvest) along with some of his most popular songs ("Cowgirl In The Sand," "Ohio") as well as the most obscure ("Bad Fog Of Loneliness"). Live At Massey Hall is a newly mined rock gem.

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Any fan of good music should buy this immediately. Jobiwan  |  37 reviewers made a similar statement
The sound quality is shockingly good. Jonathon Wild  |  37 reviewers made a similar statement
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108 of 109 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Sowing the Seeds for Harvest March 13, 2007
Format:Audio CD
This is a tremendous CD which I whole-heartedly recommend. Neil Young announces before the fourth song that he will be playing "mostly new songs tonight." Five of the new songs would appear on the following year's "Harvest" album, which for my money, is Neil Young's finest. Did the audience realize just how extraordinary was this batch of new songs? Did Neil himself have any inkling of the phenomenal acclaim and acceptance "Harvest" would receive?

The songs are all performed solo by Neil, twelve on guitar, six (counting track 7 as two) on piano. (Unplugged, if you will, decades before that term was coined and turned into a marketing tool.)

One of the most interesting piano tracks is "A Man Needs a Maid/Heart of Gold." Neil introduces the song by saying "some people look at their life and say, well, my life is like a movie," then jokes that "this is like a showtune from my movie," perhaps foreshadowing the heavy production "A Man Needs a Maid" would receive on the studio album. However, the spare rendering here is superior, in my opinion. Then midway through the track, Neil segues into a stark version of "Heart of Gold," previewing what can arguably be called his definitive song.

Standout tracks with acoustic guitar include "Old Man," "Needle and the Damage Done," "Cowgirl In The Sand," and "Ohio." But one could as easily point out highlights by repeating the entire track list. Guitarists especially will appreciate how the songs are played in this solo acoustic format. The sound quality of the recording is superb.

There are several new (at the time) songs that didn't wind up on Harvest or any other album. Of particular note is "Dance, Dance, Dance." In the verse you will recognize the seeds of a later more well-known song.

That Neil has remained relevant all these years -- from CSN&Y to Harvest to Rust Never Sleeps to the Pearl Jam collaborations to last year's "Living With War" -- makes this CD much more than a nostalgic look at the past. I highly recommend it.
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54 of 55 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Simply wonderful. March 19, 2007
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Neil Young has been tantalizing his fans with the release of the Archives project for going on two decades now, starting with the concept of "Decade II" in the 80's. Here we are in 2007 and the time for this glorious unearthing of the treasures in Neil's catalog has finally arrived. Neil will be releasing various live shows under the Performance Series banner, as well as multiple CD/DVD box sets spanning his entire career, both studio and live.

Massey Hall is the second release in the Performance Series (despite its cryptic label of Disc 03). Neil reduces things to their absolute minimum at this gig. Neil's voice, his guitar, and his piano are the sole instruments for the seventeen tracks - his harmonica is nowhere to be found. There are no real guitar solos or significant instrumental breaks.

The effect this has is to bring to the forefront Neil's uniquely powerful voice and his emotion-laden lyrics. He sounds wonderful on this release, and the stripped-down presentation truly makes his songs shine. Like the CSNY live album "4-Way Street," we start off with a lilting version of the Buffalo Springfield song "On the Way Home." Neil intersperses a few other classics in the setlist, such as "Down by the River," "Don't Let It Bring You Down," and a powerfully emotional "Cowgirl in the Sand."

However, this was not a nostalgia show. Ten of the songs were brand-new at the time and had not yet been recorded. To their credit, Neil's audience rolls right along with the unfamiliar new material, granting it a respectful silence and enthusiastic applause at the end of each new number (with the exception of the Canada name-check in "Journey through the Past," which of course gets a response, seeing as how Massey Hall is a Canadian venue). At this point, the famed "Heart of Gold" was almost a throwaway middle section in "A Man Needs A Maid." It's cool to hear Neil start his most famous/notorious song so casually, and the absolute lack of audience response is fun.

The DVD that comes with this version of Massey Hall is terrific. The video footage is dated, but it is undeniably powerful seeing the youthful Neil overcoming the back brace he was forced to wear on this tour and delivering such an incredible set. The disc also contains a wealth of historical information and supplemental video content.

I am thrilled to see Neil's Archives finally unfolding and believe this disc is a sure-fire hit for his current fans as well as being a great blind buy if you're new to Neil and want to give his music a shot.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Another piece of the Neil puzzle. March 15, 2007
By Jobiwan
Format:Audio CD
I've been totally immersed in Neil for a few months now. Mainly "On The Beach" and "Tonight's The Night". So when I read this was coming out I was more than excited, I actually tried to take the day off of work to run out, buy it, and listen to it. What's amazing is that Neil already has such history, we all have our favorite albums, we all have our opinions on "Harvest", and now "Massey Hall" changes everything. It should immediately jump into the pantheon of his best albums, no matter which ones are your favorites. Also, no matter what you think of "Harvest", love it or hate it this gives a new perspective on the album. If you've read "Shakey" like I am now you already know a lot of the details of his recording process during this time. But the songs here and the things Neil says between songs give us greater insight into "Harvest" and what he was thinking at the time. You realize that the songs would have been just as good as they're presented here. You realize that the songs only sound the way they do on "Harvest" basically just by happenstance. He happened to be going to Nashville to do the 'Johnny Cash Show" so he hooked up with some musicians there, and we was going to England to do a BBC show and added the London Symphony Orchestra. The sound quality is of course incredible. You can hear the echo in the Hall, Neil's voice reverberating beautifully throughout the place, you can feel Neil hitting those steel strings of his acoustic guitar with all his might on the rising chorus of "Old Man". The DVD is wonderful too. If you're a huge Neil fan like me any footage audio or visual from this era is incredible. Some have complained the concert footage is grainy and that the camera work is shaky, to me it's basically a documentary of the concert. It's interesting too to see the actual old man from "Old Man" as well. Any fan of good music should buy this immediately.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Neil raw and in his prime. One of his best efforts.
For casual listeners and hardcore fans alike, this album displays Neil in his rawest moments. Stripped to little more than a harmonica and a guitar, Neil's pristine voice cuts the... Read more
Published 1 month ago by MitchyMitch
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Neil Young is one of the best poet/guitarists ever yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh
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Published 1 month ago by T. Phipps
4.0 out of 5 stars A great snapshot from another time
The performance on the disc sounds wonderful. It amazes me to hear Neil introduce old classics as "new songs" that fans haven't heard yet. Read more
Published 2 months ago by R. Cunningham
5.0 out of 5 stars Live At Massey Hall
CD/DVD really good loved watching Neil perform been a fan since After The Goldrush was released in the late 60's Neil never puts out a bad album all good, Thanks Neil if you ever... Read more
Published 5 months ago by W. Shannon
1.0 out of 5 stars Neil Young at Massy Hall
No - I really wasted my money. The sound quality was sub-par and the video was awful! They had some really washed out video of Neil playing but, on many songs they didn't and... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Jim Porter
5.0 out of 5 stars Live at Massey Hall
Crystal Clear, without a doubt the finest recording I've ever heard and fun to watch tooLive at Massey Hall (CD/DVD)
Published 6 months ago by Robert A. Mosher
5.0 out of 5 stars An unknown masterpiece
I bought this CD (it's 1 disc, not 2)for my wife last year, and just listened to it. It's ironic because Relix magazine just came out with an article regarding the 40th anniversary... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Danny Mack
5.0 out of 5 stars "...I'm Just Like You...I Need Someone To Love Me...The Whole Day...
As a veteran of some 520+ reviews - most of which are about quality CD reissues - I bow my head in shame on this one. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Mark Barry, Reckless Records, London
5.0 out of 5 stars Neil Freak
This album is great. Hear all the songs before they became famous. If you are a guitar player you must have this one. The best "unplugged" I've heared. Read more
Published 20 months ago by lisa phillips
5.0 out of 5 stars Natural young Neil
I love this CD/DVD set. When I first read the reviews and saw the song list I remember thinking I did not know all of the songs. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Music Lover
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The primary footage on the DVD is from the 1971 Massey Hall concert. There is great footage of Neil Young performing several songs from the Massey Hall concert. There is apparently not enough video footage of Neil Young performing the entire concert. To fill in for the absence of video footage of... Read more
Apr 17, 2007 by torrid_wind™ |  See all 4 posts
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This is an AMAZING show. I've had the boot for a while now, and even it sounds great (though a little bassy, so it'll still be nice to get the official release). There's an intensity to solo Neil that's not there on some of the official releases (A Man Needs a Maid especially comes to mind). But... Read more
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