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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Reprise Records
Salesrank: 3824
Released: March 13, 2007 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Live at Massey Hall 1971 Track Listing:
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
11. Bad Fog Of Loneliness
12. The Needle And The Damage Done
13. Ohio
14. See The Sky About To Rain
15. Down By The River
16. Dance Dance Dance
17. I Am A Child
Editorial Review:
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.
Description of Live at Massey Hall 1971:
"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
Live at Massey Hall 1971 Reviews:
NEIL SHINES THROUGH 'EM ALL 
2009-10-06 - NEIL YOUNG IS SUCH A BADASS ,WHEN EVERYBODY ELSE
WAS FLUFFY & SINGING OVERBLOWN ROCK ANTHEMS HE
WAS COMING INTO HIS OWN BRILLIANT SONGWRITING
WORLD WITH IMMACULATE DEXTERITY . ON THIS DISC
HE IS SOLO (GUITAR/PIANO & VOCAL) AND LIKE HIS
MUSIC IT SHINES TOO BRIGHT FOR THE NAKED EYE .
HIS VOICE IS ONE OF A KIND , HIS LYRICS DARE
IMPROVEMENT , HIS STRIPPED DOWN SHOWS (LIKE
THE BBC CROWN JEWELS) ARE NOT TO BE MISSED .
THIS CD IS A MUST IF YOU LIKE NEIL'S MUSIC !
THE ONLY THING I MISS IS HIS HAUNTING HARMONICA
PLAYING THAT HE DOES SO WELL , BUT HEY , MAYBE
HIS LIPS WERE SORE , IT HAPPENS ! NEIL RULES
IF YOU LIKE GREAT SONGWRITERS , HE'S ON THE SHORT
LIST OF THE BEST & "LIVE AT MASSEY HALL" SHOWS
HIM WITH HIS GENIOUS IN FULL BLOOM , AMAZING !!!!
Simply one of Neil's best
2009-09-12 - I have just about every Neil Young CD and "Live at Massey Hall 1971" is simply a great live album.
You get both great music and a lot of personality from Neil in between the songs. It's a very intimate and gives you a peek at Neil's sense of humor and intelligence. Neil is at his best musically too; the best of both worlds.
I think this would make a great introduction to Neil's music for anyone that is uninitiated. Of course, "Decade" is the quinticential collection if you only want to buy one CD - but this just might be the 2nd one I would buy.
Enjoy!
Live at Massey Hall 1971 
2009-06-12 - Live at Massey Hall 1971 being a concert at the Massey Hall from 1971 and is the second release in Youngs Archives Performance Series and was released 2007. The album was met with great reviews and Allmusic, Rolling Stone and Okayplayer gave the album 4 out of 5 or more. The sound quality is crisp and one gets the feeling that one is there listening to it in person. 4/5.
Amazing Album
2009-05-12 - This is one of my favorite albums ever. Neil performs solo on an acoustic guitar and piano, and for me, I enjoy seeing his amazing musical talent sparkle without any extra instruments to interrupt him. It's a simply stunning album that I would recommend to anyone that enjoys good music.
Seriously...
2009-02-15 - if you've ever had any interest in Neil and his music, you must have this historically important recording. Listening to the album for the first time, my wife said "can you believe he wrote all these great songs before he was 25?". The recording quality is excellent, especially for 1971, Neil's performance is stellar and the songs stand the test of time. What more can you ask?
