Audio CD review:
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Live at the Fillmore East

Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Live at the Fillmore East

Band: Neil Young and Crazy Horse Title: Live at the Fillmore East Rating: Release Date: 14 November, 2006 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere 2: Winterlong 3: Down By The River 4: Wonderin' 5: Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown 6: Cowgirl In The Sand

Editoral Review Tuned-in fans have been awaiting this very set for at least a dozen years, as it was originally to be tacked onto the end of a Decade-style triple CD of outtakes. For years, fans of Neil Young and Crazy Horse have been waiting for an official chance to hear Crazy Horse live with original leader Danny Whitten, the insanely talented guitarist who died of a heroin overdose in late 1972, inspiring Tonight's the Night. Thankfully, this well-recorded live set from the infamous Fillmore East was well worth the wait. Here are scorching, extended takes of "Down by the River," "Winterlong," and "Cowgirl in the Sand," each propelled by guitar interplay so delightful you have to keep rewinding to hear it again. In fact, bits of it seem to prefigure the ways that Richard Lloyd and Tom Verlaine would feed off each other in the band Television, only with less of a sweet edge. But the world doesn't need any more arguments that Young was a proto-punk; what the world does need is at least a dozen more releases from Neil's archives! And hopefully, with this awesome live album, the floodgates have truly been opened and there are many more to come, in the vein of Dylan's Bootleg series. This disc is worth it alone for the version of "Wondering," a tune not officially recorded until many years later in Neil's weird '80s rockabilly phase. --Mike McGonigal .. You can see a complete list of all Neil Young and Crazy Horse discography, or go back to the Neil Young and Crazy Horse tabs