Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. On The Way Home
2. Tell Me Why
3. Old Man
4. Journey Through The Past
5. Helpless
6. Love In Mind
7. A Man Needs A Maid/Heart of Gold Suite
8. Cowgirl In The Sand
9. Don't Let It Bring You Down
10. There's a World
11. Bad Fog Of Loneliness
12. The Needle And The Damage Done
13. Ohio
14. See The Sky About To Rain
15. Down By The River
16. Dance Dance Dance
17. I Am A Child

Disc 2:

1. On The Way Home
2. Tell Me Why
3. Old Man
4. Journey Through The Past
5. Helpless
6. Love In Mind
7. A Man Needs A Maid/Heart of Gold Suite
8. Cowgirl In The Sand
9. Don't Let It Bring You Down
10. There's a World
11. Bad Fog Of Loneliness
12. The Needle And The Damage Done
13. Ohio
14. See The Sky About To Rain
15. Down By The River
16. Dance Dance Dance
17. I Am A Child

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1056 in Music
• Released on: 2007-03-13
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Enhanced, Live

Amazon.com
"I'm gonna sing mostly new songs tonight," Neil Young tells the rapt Massey Hall audience, "...I've written so many new ones that I can't think of anything else to do with them other than sing 'em." He steps to the mic unadorned, distant from CSNY's rippled harmonies or Crazy Horse's yowl, hypnotically nailing 17 tracks on this unreleased 1971 solo set. You hear him tower at vocal heights on the chorus for "Old Man" (then a debuted, brand-new song) and name-check Canada on "Journey to the Past" and North Ontario on "Helpless," much to the Toronto crowd's delight. The sound is impeccable, and the closeness to Young in this spare setting exhilarates--especially his vocal quavering in the high registers, his intricate guitar work, and an overall vibe that exceeds description. And the DVD: Here you catch Young in tightly framed, starkly-lit shots, flourishing in the early years of an unparalleled rock career. Not only that, you get commentary from 1997, a rare window on how Young thinks, how he speaks, his humor. --Andrew Bartlett

Album Description
One of the greatest singer-songwriters of the rock era. Solo. Acoustic. January 19, 1971. Live At Massey Hall, the legendary concert from Neil Young, is finally officially released, and in highresolution stereo, in this CD+DVD package (also as a solo CD). The acclaimed Toronto performance features classics "Old Man" and, in a suite, "A Man Needs A Maid" and "Heart Of Gold" (before they were recorded for Harvest) along with some of his most popular songs ("Cowgirl In The Sand," "Ohio") as well as the most obscure ("Bad Fog Of Loneliness"). Live At Massey Hall is a newly mined rock gem.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant
Hauntingly Brilliant. Solo, alone, with just his instruments and during a rough period for all.

Neil's genious truly shines. This is the bench mark that classics are compared to.

The DVD is in and out, looks like someone with a 16mm. The banter between songs is priceless. And the film show's it's age. I'm just glad someone was around to capture such a gem.

A must for any collection.

Terrific
This is a great cd. Every track is excellent and hearing Neal Young as a young man brought back many good memories from when these were all new songs. I highly recommend.

Totally Awesome, but......
I've been a major Neil Young fan since the first Buffalo Springfield album, & I must say that upon viewing this concert dvd, I have just a few comments-if you've been a Neil fan for a long time, you will absoulutely love this-it is precious. It's so good hearing him hitting the high notes as clear as he did on the original albums. Not only the live performance, but the 'home-movie' extras, which give us a bit of an idea of what Neil is/was really like offstage. But...what in the world is the deal with the showing of a reel-to-reel tape recorder for several minutes of some songs, & in a few cases, the entire song instead of Neil himself performing?? Did whoever put this out think that anyone on earth would rather watch a recorder on Neil's chair instead of him?? Thus the 4 instead of 5 stars. Otherwise, this is a true Neil Young fan's dream dvd-I hope they release more live shows from this period, & especially earlier..maybe some Buffalo Springfield, or even an early concert during his 1st two solo album tours, hopefully with this same quality, which is perfect.