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NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE

Madison Hurricane [Seymour Records SR-012/13, 2CD]

Live at the Dane County Coliseum, Madison, WI; November 14, 1976. Good to fairly good audience recording.

Gsparaco wrote at collectorsmusicreviews.com in 2006:

There have been many interesting Neil Young documents released in the past year including several from his US tour in the fall of 1976. Madison Hurricane, documenting the complete performance in Wisconsin may be the most interesting of the lot. The sound quality of the audience recording is fair to good but nothing like the tapes from Japan or Boston. There is constant low frequency distortion throughout its duration and not even the first half is able to escape that. There are some conversations captured by the recording between some of the songs that are funny and thankfully don’t interfere with the music. “He can be the new Dylan” some guy says before “Pocahontas”. “The new Dylan, yeah” his friend replies.

One of the characteristics of this tour is Young’s desire to be as loose as possible with the audience and to address the crowd frequently, effectivey breaking the “fourth wall” (to use a film term). “Too Far Gone”, for example, is dedicated to those who were kicking garbage cans before the show. “It’s a good intro, right?” he asks the crowd. A further delay prompts him to say “there’s a soap opera going on in front of me, let’s have a little light… Actually it was kind of entertaining” after security deals with whatever is going on. The acoustic set contains “Human Highway” and “Journey Through The Past” which were less frequent inclusions during this time.

The electric set is as cool as the acoustic is warm and the emphasis is upon hard rocking jams with only “Lotta Love” and “After The Goldrush” providing any respite. During the long solos in “Like A Hurricane” Young puts his guitar down and plays the piano before returning to guitar for the ending. It’s a unique event. The track labelled “encore” is five minutes of the audience yelling, screaming and talking for an encore and they get two, “Cortez The Killer” and “Drive Back”. The former sounds especially long and drawn out for maximum impact as he tells the tale of the conquistador…

Thanks to Stainless for sharing the tracks at Dime.

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Disc 1

Track 101. The Old Laughing Lady-Guilty Train 6:24 (10.7MB)

Track 102. Human Highway 3:14 (5.4MB)

Track 103. Journey Through The Past 3:43 (6.2MB)

Track 104. Pocahontas 4:10 (7.0MB)

Track 105. Too Far Gone 5:12 (8.7MB)

Track 106. The Needle And The Damage Done 2:21 (4.0MB)

Track 107. A Man Needs A Maid 4:41 (7.9MB)

Track 108. No One Seems To Know 3:54 (6.6MB)

Track 109. Sugar Mountain 6:29 (10.9MB)

41 mins

Disc 2

Track 201. Cowgirl In The Sand 9:16 (15.6MB)

Track 202. Human Highway 3:05 (5.2MB)

Track 203. Bite The Bullet 4:13 (7.1MB)

Track 204. Down By The River 10:20 (17.4MB)

Track 205. Lotta Love 5:43 (9.6MB)

Track 206. Like A Hurricane 17:22 (29.2MB)

Track 207. After The Goldrush 3:58 (6.7MB)

Track 208. Cinnamon Girl 4:13 (7.1MB)

Track 209. Encore [crowd] 4:47 (8.0MB)

Track 210. Cortez The Killer 8:53 (14.9MB)

Track 211. Drive Back 5:36 (9.4MB)

78 mins

Lineup:

Neil Young - vocals, guitar, keyboards, banjo, harmonica

Frank Sampedro - guitar, keyboards, vocals

Billy Talbot - bass, vocals

Ralph Molina - drums, vocals

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