The mix on this tape is so brilliant it even sounds good on a damn TV set, but I keep wanting to turn it up louder than the TV will go. Quietly, without fanfare that I'm aware of, rock and roll has reached a significant new aestetic plateau, lead by an indefatigable explorer of the medium's possibilities, as a songwriter, as a live performer, as a recording artist, and even as a filmmaker. A live recording by Neil and the three band members in the same studio where they had recently completed their fine album Sleeps With Angels. If you own that and Prince's Sign O'The Times and The Complex Sessions , you have the cornerstone works in this contemporary art form. Demme and Young and the Horse have now proved, like Phil Spector and Brian Wilson and Billie Holiday before them, that there is such a thing as perfection.
Great music is still great music.
He also recorded three albums as a member of Crosby Stills Nash and Young , and, between 1968 and 1996, has recorded some 32 albums under his own name. This Is Nowhere. One original member of The Rockets , Danny Whitten, died in 1975, and was replaced by Frank Sampedro. So yes, I'm a very serious Neil Young fan. And if you're mostly into current, contemporary music, that's okay, most of the musicians you're listening to are already Neil Young fans.