Neil Young – Coming Home: January 28-29 1973 (Vinyl)
Contra Band Records (1973)
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Very Rare & Collectable Unofficial ’70s Pressing ~ Vinyl Still In Really Nice Condition!
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Very Rare & Collectable Unofficial ’70s Pressing ~ Vinyl Still In Really Nice Condition! Neil Young Recorded Live On January 28 & 29, 1973 At Scope, Norfolk, Virginia. Sound Quality Is Great For A Boot!
‘Coming Home’ was recorded on the ‘Harvest’ Tour in 1973. The record is a fine blend of old, current (1972) and future music, peformed in a golden hazy atmosphere. Buffalo Springfield are chronicled with “It’s Hard To Wait” and the excellent “Here We Are In The Years” before we get a taste of “After The Goldrush”. ‘Harvest’ is the most represented album here, and in many ways they are both obvious and surprising. Obvious because it was the album doing the rounds, and surprising? Well, it would be just like Neil Young to pull the mat from under the feet of everybody and do something completely different. But this time it seems he decided to give the people just what they wanted. “Out On The Weekend”, “Harvest”, “Old Man” & “Heart Of Gold” are all included, to much enthusiastic response. And while the album starts with some older songs, the end of the record points in a very new direction for Young. Very different to what had appeared on ‘Harvest’, and quite unexpected by the audience, yet they still showed their appreciation. The guitar hard strains of “Time Fades Away” contains all the energy and ragged edge of the version which appeared on the self same album which was issued not long after this gig. “Lookout Joe” is softer than the stoner version on ‘Tonights The Night’. The LP was compiled from two gigs and would have served better as a double set, as we are left wanting much more! While the sound is not dynamic, there is plenty of good to be taken from the music. More than anything else, ‘Coming Home’ is for the Young fan. Hard to come by (but well worth it), this live bootleg captures Young at a peak of his career.
Condition – Vinyl: EXCELLENT!
Condition – Cover: VERY GOOD PLUS!
Side 1:
On The Way Home
Here We Are In The Years
After The Goldrush
Out On The Weekend
Harvest
Side 2:
Old Man
Heart Of Gold
Time Fades Away
Look Out Joe
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Mostly filled with familiar acoustic-based material that had appeared on Young's popular After the Gold Rush and Harvest albums… 4 1/2 Stars Anyone listening to Time Fades Away, the collection of all-new songs recorded on Neil Young's first-quarter 1973 tour of North America, would believe the legend that this was a tour overshadowed by the death of Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten on which Young sang off-key and he and his band played raggedly, if fervently. But a listen to Coming Home, drawn from performances at JFK Center in Washington, D.C., on January 28 and Scope in Norfolk, VA, on January 29, reveals a very different tour. Mostly filled with familiar acoustic-based material that had appeared on Young's popular After the Gold Rush and Harvest albums, it suggests just the sort of show Young might have been expected to put on in the wake of those hit records. He is a tentative, self-deprecating, but winning frontman, finding it difficult to muster the false showmanship needed to introduce his backup band -- "Can't get this MC trip together," he confesses. The album does end with the frantic rocker "Time Fades Away" and "Look Out Joe" (later included on Tonight's the Night, but more timely here, as its coming-home-from-Vietnam theme is keyed to the "end" of the war that had just been announced and was to take effect on the first of the show dates), but the focus is on smooth performances of Harvest songs like "Out on the Weekend" and "Heart of Gold," which have been neglected on Young's legitimate live records.