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Neil Young
1983-01-05
Civic Auditorium,
Santa Cruz, CA
Excellent Audience Recording
320 kbps
Artwork Included
1983-01-05
Civic Auditorium,
Santa Cruz, CA
Excellent Audience Recording
320 kbps
Artwork Included
CD 1:
01. Country Home
02. Going Back
03. Coastline
04. Don's Let It Bring You Down
05. Cowgirl In The Sand
06. No- One Seems To Know
07. California Sunset
08. Are You Ready For The Country
09. Dance, Dance, Dance
10. My Boy
11. Old Man
12. Pochahontas
13. Sail Away
14. Powderfinger
CD 2:
01. Ohio
02. Human Highway
03. After The Goldrush
04. Transformer Man
05. My My Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)
06. Mr. Soul
07. I Am A Child
08. Sugar Mountain
Bonus Tracks
1983-02-14
New Haven Memorial Coliseum
New Haven CT
09. Don't Be Denied
10. The Losing End
11. Cortez The Killer
1980s- #2: When Neil Young launched a solo tour in Santa Cruz, CA on January 5, 1983, 3 dozen years ago today, he was in between the release of 2 of the most controversial albums of his long storied career. In November 1982, he had released Trans, a synthesizer based disc that baffled almost all of his fans. No one realized at the time that the disc was the product of sound therapy exercises he was dong with his son Ben, who was stricken with cerebral palsy and unable to speak. Sales of the album were dismal, which infuriated David Geffen, who had guaranteed Neil $1 million per album to lure him away from Reprise Records. Neil then attempted to release a country disc, entitled Old Ways, but Geffen refused after the failure of Trans, instead demanding a rock & roll album. Neil responded by releasing Everybody's Rockin' in August 1983, a disc featuring new material and covers that reflected the rockabilly style of early 1950s. The album was yet another critical and commercial disaster. As a result, Geffen sued Young for $3.3 million, on the grounds that the record and its predecessor were "not commercial", and "musically uncharacteristic of Neil's previous recordings." In other words, Neil was accused of not making Neil Young music! If Neil's albums at the time were experimental, his live playing remained true to his past, as evidenced in this outstanding audience recording from the Santa Cruz show.
4 comments:
Appreciate the great show Speedy,Neil at a crossroad in his career, Wanted to know if you ever hear from tunemaster Dino anymore and what hes up to these days ? know that he shut down his DP blog some time ago but i thought he was continuing to post stuff on his smaller facebook page but havent seen it for some time Is he still around? thanks so much
I haven't heard from Dino in a while but he does occasionally post some stuff on his facebook page. I also heard he's hit some hard times. Check out the comments under this post for more info: http://so-many-roads-boots.blogspot.com/2015/12/bob-seger-1983-12-28-hartford-ct-fm.html?showComment=1451567461253#c752425836182200221
Man thats too bad,hope he is OK and in good health, really miss is old blog, realize that he was a mentor to you starting out
What an amazing, crazy setlist - can't wait to hear this one. Thanks!
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