May 22, 2015 – 3:04 pm

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NEIL YOUNG WITH CRAZY HORSE

Paris 1976 [no label, 2CD]

Live at the Pavillon de Paris, Paris, France; March 23, 1976. Fairly to very good audience recording.

Before performing in Europe in 1976, Neil Young and Crazy Horse played in Japan between March 3 and 11.

Andy Greene, rollingstone.com:

Crazy Horse guitarist Frank “Poncho” Sampedro will never forget the group’s March 1976 tour of Japan. He’d only joined the band a few months earlier during the recording sessions for Zuma, and prior to boarding the plane to Japan his only live experience with Young came during a handful of California bar shows in December of 1975. He suddenly found himself playing to enormous, screaming crowds all over Japan. For someone who was merely a fan of Neil Young the previous year, the entire experience was beyond surreal.

The sixth stop of the tour was at Tokyo’s Budokan Hall, and Young hired a film crew to tape the two-night stand. Nobody bothered to tell Poncho, and he dropped a bunch of acid before going onstage one of the nights. “I couldn’t even look up,” he told author Jimmy McDonough. “I was so high. I’d hit the strings of my guitar - they were like eight different colors - and they bounced off the floors and hit the ceiling.”

The 1976 Neil Young and Crazy Horse tour was supposed to hit America in the summer, but Young began playing with Stephen Stills when he returned home and decided the abandon The Horse in order to form the Stills-Young Band. They recorded an LP very quickly and hit the road, though after just eighteen dates Young decided he had enough. He couldn’t even face Stills to tell him the news. Instead, he wrote this now famous letter: “Dear Stephen, funny how some things that start spontaneously end that way. Eat a peach, Neil.”

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Thanks to the taper and the original uploader; and to Dangerbird_F for keeping the show alive at Dime.

Dangerbird_F added: “As for many countries that year, it was the first time Neil had stopped in France. The interview Neil gave later that evening can be qualified as legendary, for he admitted to the journalists: “Right know, all I nead is a good fuck!”… The performance is incredible, Neil is making joke after joke (you know what the name Crazy Horse refers to in Paris…).”

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Lineage:

Source: Audience Master > unspecified DAT generations > DAT

Transfer: DAT > R500 > MBox > ProTools > xACT1.5b3 > flac 8

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Disc 1

Track 101. Tell Me Why 4:27 (7.5MB)

Track 102. Cowgirl In The Sand 4:44 (8.0MB)

Track 103. After The Goldrush 4:41 (7.9MB)

Track 104. Mellow My Mind 3:09 (5.3MB)

Track 105. Too Far Gone 3:42 (6.2MB)

Track 106. A Man Needs A Maid 3:36 (6.1MB)

Track 107. No One Seems To Know 3:29 (5.9MB)

Track 108. Heart Of Gold 3:33 (6.0MB)

32 mins

Disc 2

Track 201. Country Home 7:16 (12.2MB)

Track 202. Don’t Cry No Tears 3:16 (5.5MB)

Track 203. Down By The River 11:26 (19.2MB)

Track 204. Lotta Love 4:03 (6.8MB)

Track 205. Like A Hurricane 10:10 (17.1MB)

Track 206. The Losing End 4:19 (7.3MB)

Track 207. Drive Back 5:14 (8.8MB)

Track 208. Southern Man 8:13 (13.8MB)

Track 209. Cortez The Killer 8:13 (13.8MB)

Track 210. Cinnamon Girl 3:42 (6.2MB)

66 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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