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List Price: $64.98 | | Label: Reprise / Wea
Salesrank: 59638
Released: April 18, 2009 |
| Our Price: $53.08 |
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| Media: Vinyl |
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Editorial Review:
Recorded over two nights in November 1968 at The Canterbury House in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the Sugar Mountain album documents the launch of Neil Young's career as a solo artist following his departure from Buffalo Springfield just six months earlier. Captured on a TEAC two track tape recorder, the album offers a glimpse into the development of a legendary artist. The album includes songs written during his Buffalo Springfield tenure and newly written material for future solo albums. There are several moments of witty, engaging banter. These shows were an experiment to Neil would be received by an audience who knew him as part Buffalo Springfield. The experience erased all doubts.
Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968 Reviews:
Great album! Neil Young At Canterbury House 
2009-07-09 - Forty years after its initial recording, `Sugar Mountain - Live At Canterbury House 1968' gets an official release. The performance achieved notoriety because of the single version of "Sugar Mountain" which appeared first as a B-Side to the 1970 single, "The Loner." It reappeared as a B-Side to "Cinnamon Girl" in 1970 and then on the double disc greatest hits `Decade.' Surviving as a bootleg for years, this album presents the entire concert with the omnipresent stage banter by Neil Young.
The performances throughout this concert are jaw-droppingly earnest and endearing. This set seems a lot more intimate than the previously reissued "Massey Hall" recording. It has been written that Neil had to be coaxed out of his hotel bed to perform that night. His stage dialog is an indication of his nervousness, as he rambles on about everything from working in a bookstore to an impromptu mystery music quiz surrounding "Classical Gas."
Young's work with Buffalo Springfield is well represented; he performs "Mr. Soul," "Expecting To Fly," "Broken Arrow" and gives "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing" a goose bump-inducing read. The majority of the performance is dedicated to material that would later appear on his S/T debut and subsequent releases such as `After The Gold Rush' (Birds). `Neil Young - Live At Canterbury House' depicts a young artist at the precipice of greatness and is definitely worth a listen.
DVD is not true DVD-A but DVD Video with 24/96 res. audio 
2009-07-06 - As other reviewers have pointed out, the DVD in this package is not a concert film. It is a high resolution version of the audio on the CD. It is not, however, true DVD-A. To playback DVD-A, you need a special decoder in your player. Luckily, this DVD is in the DVD Video format which means that anyone with a standard DVD player can hear the high resolution sound. Go to the "Set Up" menu on the DVD, it will explain the technical aspects of the format. This is not hype! Even a casual comparison between the audio on the CD and DVD will reveal how much more life and music there is in the DVD version. So don't throw a tantrum and break the DVD across your knee. Listen to the disc. If you already like the music here, I bet you'll be pleasantly surprised!
Ripped off! 
2009-05-29 - I can't believe my eyes when I slipped the DVD into the DVD player and there's no video. What is with that!? When I bought this package, it was shown as a CD/DVD and I expected a video. As Neil Young would say himself, "What a ripoff!". Only this time, Amazon and Neil are doing the ripping.
Not as good as "Massey Hall" and overpriced (about the 2LP version) 
2009-05-14 - The songs are not as good as on "Live at Massey Hall", and the raps in between take too much time. Overpriced too: $60 or so.
Audio DVD?!?! Oh, you mean a 70 minute screensaver
2009-04-03 - Love NY but am really disappointed because the DVD included is not what I (and most) people expected. No concert film, just a still with some nice enhanced audio. Should of saved my money to buy Archives 1.
Still Neil sounds great.....
