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Written by Jeff Tamarkin
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Saturday, 18 November 2006 |
Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Live at The Fillmore East
Reprise
When Neil Young and Crazy Horse played four shows at New York’s Fillmore East on March 6 and 7, 1970, they were the newbies on a bill that also featured the Steve Miller Band and Bitches Brew-era Miles Davis. Those were some tough acts to follow, but Young and the Horse—which, for this first tour, included Billy Talbot (bass), Ralph Molina (drums), original second guitarist Danny Whitten (who would be dead of a heroin OD in two years) and Jack Nitzsche, the legendary arranger, guesting on piano—proved up to the daunting challenge. Live at The Fillmore East—the first release in Young’s “Performance Archives” series—omits his solo acoustic opening set and one song he performed nightly with Crazy Horse,“Cinnamon Girl,”resulting in a disc that clocks at just under 45 minutes (the full set will reportedly be part of Young’s 8-CD/4-DVD “Archives” set in 2007). But what’s here is monstrous: Three of the six tracks are from the band’s 1969 debut LP, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, culminating in a tour-de-force 14 and a half-minute “Cowgirl In the Sand,” much of which finds Young and Whitten engaged in a raging guitar duel that leaves the studio version in the dust. Rounding out the set are early versions of Whitten and Young’s co-penned “Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown” (which would appear on 1975’s Tonight’s the Night), “Winter-long” (first heard on the Decade collection) and “Wonderin’,” which Young sat on till his 1983 Every-body’s Rockin’ rockabilly album.
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