Neil Young - I'm Happy That Y'all Came Down

  
Neil Young 1971-01-02
I'm Happy That Y'all Came Down Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
Vinyl bootleg Check the "visual bootlegs" page here  Check also the entire bootlegs collection here 
1. On the Way Home 2. Tell Me Why 3. Old Man 4. Journey Through the Past 5. Cowgirl in the Sand 6. Heart of Gold 7. A Man Needs a Maid 8. Sugar Mountain 9. Don't Let It Bring You Down 10. Love in Mind 11. The Needle and the Damage Done 12. Ohio 13. See the Sky About to Rain 14. I Am a Child 15. Dance, Dance, Dance
Tour : 1971 Journey Through the Past Solo Tour  Neil Young - vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica

This two-record vinyl boot must have sold a million copies, because it seems that just about everyone used to have one. The sound quality is really nice considering the audience recording technology of 1971. Neil is quite talkative, and his "comedy" on "Sugar Mountain" is hilarious. I consider this show essential to a live Neil Young collection. This is from mint-condition records; I was told they'd been played only six times. Still, you'll notice the vinyl noise -- boots in that era were not exactly high-quality pressings. Still, it's pretty minor, I think. No effort has been made to "clean it up" -- this is how it would have sounded if you were bringing one home from a head shop in 1971. This recording has never emerged among collectors from a non-vinyl source. Original notes from: http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67145

How do you like your cake? With the cream on top and oozing from the sides when you take a bite? Some of us like cake for cake’s sake. When Neil Young walked on stage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on February 1, 1971 in Los Angeles, he was alone without his superstar bandmates Crosby, Stills and Nash. Just his trusty harmonica, guitar and a grand piano. This was to be the first of many solo tours. This one was called A Journey Through The Past. As was his way in the early days, Young peppered his hour-long performances with only original songs and daringly so with new songs he’d yet to record. He brimmed with confidence that his songs were enough to keep people interested. Just a glance at the setlist for this evening - Old Man, Cowgirl In The Sand, Sugar Mountain, Don’t Let It Bring You Down - showed songs that he continued to play up till the present. This evening he even included Ohio, about the four students shot dead on campus during a student demonstration against America’s war in Vietnam. He also sang The Needle And The Damage Done, a painful reminder to himself of the dangers of drugs. And some say his simple-minded I Am A Child. Although how could anyone think of Young as simpleton when his other songs, Tell Me Why and See The Sky About To Rain, all showed he understood just how important love and compassion were. That sometimes these child-like qualities sure beat brainpower and intellectual smugness. There he is, captured on someone’s portable reel-to-reel deck somewhere from the front rows, changing from guitar to piano, chatting with the audience and slowly singing his songs with quiet power. The kind of power that’s found in truthfulness. 1971 was a long time ago. Who would have thought we would still care for Neil Young’s music? The person who recorded this show loved the music enough to make the effort. These days you can buy an expensive hi-fi system for the price of a front-row seat to watch a show of dubious quality. But crackles and all, this bootleg, taken from a Rubber Dubber original vinyl, is the real journey through the past. The cake, so to speak, not the cream that melts away anyway.  Michael Cheah from: http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=991

Original flac version: http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67145 http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67465
Full album mp3 http://www.mediafire.com/?vnb1xrjbzm7brdo