The album was recorded on December 4, 1970, at the first concert that Young ever played at the historic New York City venue. I'd love to see an "official" release of a live show from this era.Neil Young has unveiled plans to launch a new series of archival live albums dubbed The Neil Young Official Bootleg Series, and will kick things off with Carnegie Hall 1970, which will be released on October 1. This show has been widely bootlegged also, and it remains my favorite concert memory ever. So after singing one verse, he abandoned it and went right into "The Old Laughing Lady." Then he went into "Don't Let It Bring You Down" - only to discover that he had a guitar tuned to concert pitch rather than a step or two down, making the song impossibly high to sing. He vamped on the opening chords for a long time while two people in the front row distracted him by talking (he finally had to gently reprimand them). Also included was "Helpless" and "Dance, Dance, Dance."įunny part of it was, in the acoustic set Neil introduced a new song he said he'd just written a couple of weeks earlier. Click to expand.I was at the Cincinnati show a couple of weeks earlier (February 25, 1970) and the set list was as you say, omitting in the case of Cincy "Expecting to Fly," "Clancy" and "Cowgirl in the Sand" (and "The Loner" was done with Crazy Horse, not solo acoustic, as the above would seem to imply).
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