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Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Live at the Fillmore East 1970 (2006 - Rock) [Flac 24-192]
The term "solo artist" is the most common misnomer in rock history, an insult to the oppressed and
silent majority behind each legend's curtain.
I'm talking about the sidemen, the backing bands, the producers, whose names are known only to the
most ardent of sleeve-note scholars and biographers, and whose importance is recognized all too rarely.
Elvis Presley had Scotty Moore and Sam Phillips, Bob Dylan had Al Kooper and Bob Johnston, David Bowie
had Brian Eno and Mick Ronson, all integral parts of the sound that made each one famous, but doomed
to never grace the marquee alongside the featured star.
Over the course of his career, Neil Young has run through a whole wardrobe of identities, each with
its own critical supporting cast: a handful of country-rock bands with Stephen Stills, his seminal
acoustic records with Nashville session supergroup the Stray Gators, tours and records with Booker T.
& the MG's and Pearl Jam. But the group that Young returns to again and again is perhaps the unlikeliest,
certainly not the most famous, and definitely not the most technically polished. Since 1969, Crazy Horse
have been the three-piece engine that has fueled some of Young's most iconic work, and he has repaid
them with the kind of equal billing that unsung sidemen so infrequently receive.
The proof is pictured on the cover of Live at the Fillmore East, where Young made the venue's sign-letter
putter-upper do the extra work of spelling out his backing band's name alongside his own.
At the time, Young was coming off an insanely successful record and tour with Crosby, Stills, and Nash,
but he brushed them aside to play shows with the band that had backed him on his breakout solo statement
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: Danny Whitten, Billy Talbot, and Ralph Molina. Unknown, unpolished, even
untalented (according to some), Crazy Horse were the complete antithesis of the polished and fashionable
CSN, yet they helped Young achieve his apocalyptic garage-rock visions more vividly than the awkward
compromises of the industry-assembled supergroup ever could...
Artist...............: Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Album................: Live at the Fillmore East 1970
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: WEBQ
Year.................: 2006
Ripper...............: &
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.3.3 20190804
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 53 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 192000 HZ / 24 Bit
Tags.................: -
Information..........: Reprise
Tracklist :
1. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Live at the Filmore East 1970)[03:36]
2. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Winterlong (Live at the Fillmore East 1970)[03:40]
3. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Down by the River (Live at the Fillmore East 1970)[12:22]
4. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Wonderin' (Live at the Fillmore East 1970)[03:35]
5. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Come on Baby Let's Go Downtown (Live at the Fillmore East 1970)[03:51]
6. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Cowgirl in the Sand (Live at the Fillmore East 1970)[16:10]
Playing Time.........: 43:17
Total Size...........: 1538,25 MB
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