Live at Massey Hall by Neil Young

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This is a thread where anyone who has heard, or plans to hear this album is invited to post a comment :-

Live At Massey Hall, 1971 by Neil Young (2007)



Something old, something relatively new from Canada`s greatest musical export. NY plays a solo acoustic set, between Gold Rush and Harvest chronologically, which makes it quite possibly his folkiest album ever.

Counting from his self-titled 1968 debut album, Neil Young has released a total of something like fifty albums. If Massey Hall, recorded in front of a small, respectful audience in Toronto, had been released at the time, it would been his third album. Instead it`s actually his 42nd release, part of some complex ongoing archival series of a kind that only a few select artists attempt. ( Zappa, Phish, Dylan, the Allmans, the Dead and the Beatles are others that spring to mind.)
So, what`s your opinion of Massey Hall ? How does it stand up as an album ? How do the songs compare with the studio versions ? Which NY would you rather hear, the weary, rough-voiced stadium-filler of today or the fresh young troubador of forty years ago ?