NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE : SHAKEY WELD

1. Introduction : Star Spangled Banner (Jimi Hendrix)
2. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
3. Crime In The City
4. Blowin' In The Wind
5. Love To Burn
6. Cinnamon Girl
7. Mansion On The Hill
8. F*!#' Up
9. Cortez The Killer
10. Powderfinger
11. Love And Only Love
12. Rockin' In The Free World
13. Welfare Mothers
14. Tonight's The Night
15. Roll Another Number

Label : Reprisal Records

Length : 120 minutes

Venue : Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland, USA

Recording Date : February 27, 1991

NTSC : 4:3

Review (Classic Rock Magazine) : Een kwart eeuw geleden brachten Neil Young & Crazy Horse het album Weld op de markt. Het is een live-registratie van de tournee ter promotie van Ragged Glory, de plaat die de mannen een jaar eerder op de markt hadden gebracht. Behalve een cd bracht de Canadees ook een gelijknamige filmregistratie uit van de Ragged Glory-tournee. Opnames voor Weld vonden plaats tijdens de Noord-Amerikaanse leg van februari tot april '91. Behalve Young zijn ook de mannen van Crazy Horse te horen op Weld: Ralph Molina (drums, zang), Frank "Poncho" Sampedro (gitaar, Univox Stringman-synthesizer, zang) en Billy Talbot (bas en zang). Het kwartet zorgde ervoor dat ook live ten gehore werd gebracht dat Young weer terug was op het rockgebied, na wat muzikale experimenten. Eén van de meest opmerkelijke nummers van Weld, is de Gulf War-versie van Bob Dylans Blowin' In The Wind. Behalve deze rechtstreekse cover, is Dylans invloed meer te merken op Weld. Weld verscheen ook als videoband. Een verzamelobject, want Weld is nooit op dvd uitgebracht.

Review (Wikipedia) : Weld is a live album and concert video by Neil Young & Crazy Horse released in 1991, comprising performances recorded on the tour to promote the Ragged Glory album. It was initially released as a limited edition three-disc set entitled Arc-Weld, with the Arc portion being a single disc consisting in its entirety of a sound collage of guitar noise and feedback (and promoted by FM rock stations at the time as "30 minutes of distortion"). Arc has since been released as a separate title. Weld consists of rock and roll songs by Young and Crazy Horse, duplicating seven that had appeared on either Rust Never Sleeps or Live Rust from twelve years earlier. It also echoes those albums as Young, in both cases having spent most of a previous decade pursuing different musical avenues, returned to straightforward rock and roll via the acclaimed Ragged Glory album with Crazy Horse, then celebrating that return with an accompanying multi-disc live document and concert film. An interesting cut on this album is Young's "Gulf War" version of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind", which had air raid sound effects. Weld was recorded by David Hewitt on Remote Recording Services' Silver Truck. Neil Young claims that he permanently damaged his hearing while mixing this album.[3] There was a brief release of the concert featuring video footage on VHS and laserdisc, but there was no DVD release. The mix on the video is by longtime Young collaborator David Briggs and is considered by some fans to be a harder-edged, superior mix, according to the book Shakey.