![]() ![]() The show was the first of two solo acoustic concerts that Neil played at Carnegie Hall that evening, and featured a 23-song set that, in addition to many selections from his solo career, included renditions of tunes he recorded as a member of Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The Neil Young Official Bootleg Series - Carnegie Hall 1970 is available now as a two-LP vinyl set and a two-CD collection at The Greedy Hand Store at and as a high-res digital download at. 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.Today, Neil Young released his latest archival live album, Carnegie Hall 1970, which marks the launch of his new The Neil Young Official Bootleg Series. 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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