Weld - one of the truly great live albums (a double), this was my first exposure to Neil Young. Our local library had cassettes you could take out back in the day and I grabbed this in 1991 not knowing who he was apart form a name I'd heard about...I took the cassette back a week later and then bought the album. Love the songs and tones and have ever since.
When I finally got to 'see' the video I was a little shocked and how cheesy it seemed. The fake massive amps are a brilliant stage set as is the giant microphone, but the audience look well odd, but seem to be loving it! Neil's haircut is, well, you have a look...
It's weird how the band seem to crowd together on the large stage but I reckon it was the concert film director's instruction as they only had a few cameras and grouped up they could all get in a lot of the video shots.
Anyway, I love the album and many of the songs are exceptional live versions and you can't dispute Neil Young's passionate performance.
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Neil Young with Pearl Jam - Rockin' In The Free World from 1993 MTV Awards
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The huddling together thing is seen in earlier stuff, like Rust Never Sleeps from the 70s, so just how those guys play together.
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Re the haircut, combined with the t shirt almost falling off, he looks a bit like the Incredible Hulk - only the green hue is missing.
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Legend has it that it's Alan Sparhawk's favourite song ever to cover... he has played it with Retribution Gospel Choir and/or some of his other strange collaborations in the bars of Duluth sometimes, if you are lucky enough...
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My favourite album of his is On The Beach closely followed by After the Goldrush
Just the intervallic qualities alone of that solo say to me that it ain’t no 13yo learning to play fella
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Defend him all you like - I think he’s amazing, but not a gifted guitarist. That didn’t matter for the kind of stuff he made. It’s perfect.
He he is a gifted guitarist though. Acoustically he’s brilliant
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