Neil Young "Weld"

I've been listening to this a lot lately and am beginning to rate it as one of my favourite NY (live) albums. I bought it when it came out, but started listening to it again more intensely a while back when I gave it to a friend as a gift . He'd been with me to see NY in concert and loved the rock half of the gig: I just figured this is a great sampler of rock NY on disc.

I dunno why I'm starting a thread about this, but perhaps people might like to share their opinions of this LP. One of my personal faves: the guitar solo in "Love And Only Love". Has to be one of the most ridiciulously loud, overdriven guitar solos ever. You can (especially on headphones) hear what sounds like the sound-system collapsing. Fucking wonderful.

This gig was released on VHS (now quite rare) and I'd be delighted if I could buy it on DVD.

anyone else love this one?

Great album!

Cortez The Killer and Powderfinger are my favorites.

The only low point on the album is a pathos-filled 'cover' of Blowing In The Wind with bombs etc going off on the background as a comment on the first Gulf War.

I gave my beloved double cassette to a workmate about a decade ago, then switched jobs and never got it back. I remember it as being all fine, but every time I got to 'Cortez' I could never get past it and would just keep rewinding and listening to the one song over and over

My tapes didn't come with Arc for some reason, and I've still never heard it.

My favorite official live Neil album. "Blowin' In The Wind" is a bit much, but from "Love To Burn" till the end of disc 2 is just awesome. Been on a big "Farmer John" kick lately.

On the CD version, disc 2 is definitely the best.

I've never heard "Arc", but doubt that I would care for it. They say it was Sonic Youth's idea. They can keep it.

I saw Neil on this tour and so I'm real partial to this album even if it's not quite the same thing as having it blasted right into your face. "Arc" is terrific, but of course I would say that.

For those of you who haven't heard "Arc," think of that moment at the end of a song where the band hits the final note and everyone starts strangling, thrashing and pummeling their instruments for minutes on end until Neil signals them to stop. Now edit a whole bunch of those together for 25 minutes--that's "Arc." It's Neil's "L.A. Blues."

I once stumbled across a promo CD called "Arc (The Single)," which is a 3 minute edit of "Arc." Why on earth anyone would release this, I have no idea, but it makes me smile knowing it's on my shelf.

"Farmer John" is killer!!!!

arc is ace! also, best version of cortez i've ever heard.

also, this was my first neil purchase, as a grunge-obsessed teen wanting to discover this 'godfather' of the genre, and i took my first vinyl copy back to the store because i couldn't believe the charred, distorted sound of the opening 'hey hey my my' wasn't the fault of a bad pressing.

Listening to NY for the first time in a long while and wishing I still had my copy of 'Weld'. The version of 'Cinamon Girl' has so much more punch than the one on 'Decade' (which I assume was the first version). That's the one I couldn't get past.

i took my first vinyl copy back to the store because i couldn't believe the charred, distorted sound of the opening 'hey hey my my' wasn't the fault of a bad pressing.

Ha!

Does anyone have the video of this? It used to be on YouTube. I was wondering why it hasn't yet been deemed fit for release on DVD.

you can get boots of it quite easily... it is worth purchasing not least for the copious footage of neil's fanbase dressed in cosby sweaters and other late-era yuppie clothing.

I actually saw a copy of the original video cassette not so long ago, for a reasonable price. But I ditched my VHS player a few years ago.

"Blowin' In The Wind" is great, get out of here. In the video, what's the crowd reaction to the song like? B/c it wasn't like anti-war sentiment was strong in 1991, and while Neil has lots of hippie fans, I'm sure his fanbase is much broader than that (and this wasn't that long after Neil's pro-Reagan years).

HEY MOM, I'M HUNGRY

My favourite NY live album and absolutely a killer from start to finish - even the weaker material has a real punch. Most of the time, Neil's guitar sounds like a dying mammuth: and I still love the fact that most songs have these long, long, super-noisy codas, like they didnt want to end.

Yeah, Arc is awesome for that reason; it takes those massive codas and tries to turn them into a symphony.