Complete with photos, insightful liner notes, and expert sound quality, not to mention capturing The Boss and his E Street Band at a sonic peak, right after 1978’s Darkness At the Edge of Town and right before the 1980s beginning of the taste of superstardom with The River. Springsteen’s portion of that concert has now been released as part of a deluxe package, available in CD and Vinyl formats. Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band also performed that evening, which is fondly remembered still as one of the highlights of the entire show. The concert brought out most of music elite of the 1970s pop rock camp, like artists such as Crosby, Stills and Nash James Taylor Carly Simon Gil Scott Heron, and others. By September of that year, the collective consciousness of most of the nation was to find a way to eradicate the entire usage and concept of nuclear energy all together in the form of a concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden called No Nukes, formed by MUSE, the Musicians United for Safe Energy organization, spearheaded by people like Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt.
The Three Mile Island nuclear accident on March of 1979 had dangled America’s East Coast dangerously to the verge of a full-throttle meltdown and films like the gripping and chilling The China Syndrome also fanned the collective fears. This concert happened during a turbulent year regarding careless nuclear energy activity as the 1970s came to a close. 2 CDs or 2 Vinyl Platters make up the collection and is essential for those who found Neil Young since the very start of his career of his mainstream success, in essence, everyone.
Recorded right before Neil Young’s massive breakthrough with Harvest a year or so after this concert, Neil Young Carnegie Hall 1970 showcases the artist during his first wave of American success, right on the heels of songs like “Cinnamon Girl,” “Down By the River,” and “After the Gold Rush.” All those and over twenty more round out this new collection, which finds Young playing trademark guitar, harmonica, and piano at the famed New York venue, accompanied of course by his pained high-pitched vocals, which complement the equally pained yet lyrical and sometimes even tender lyrics, also mixed in with the electricity and excitement of the fever pitch of the crowd, who even this early on, were passionate stalwart fans of the Canadian, who endures to this day stronger and more necessary than ever. Well-known number ones like “Get Back” and the only-Spector-could-produce it that way “The Long and Winding Road” mix nicely with the almost tailor-made for garage band songs like “Two of Us” and “Dig a Pony.” The set is released in concert (no pun intended) with the recently released Peter Jackson multi-part documentary Get Back, which showcases the making of Let it Be and more. The record itself was a sort of controversial affair when first released, amidst urban tales of band dissent and the like, but still remains a vital musical swan song for the foursome. The last official release by The Beatles while they were still a band (even though Abbey Road had been recorded after), Let It Be gets a complete makeover and audio overhaul in this gargantuan set filled with over 25 extra songs, unreleased versions, and original and mono and stereo versions of the original Phil Spector 1969 – 1970 production, along with lavish art design and a 100-page book filled with anecdotes and rare photos and a foreword by Paul McCartney.
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Plus there’s a 124-page book with over 200 rare photos from recording sessions and world tour and interviews, packaged in a special lenticular sleeve.
This 4-disc deluxe remastered edition contains the original album on CD along with a bonus picture disc pressing of Tattoo You as well as previously unreleased songs, live versions, and much more. Jagger, Richards, Wood, Wyman, and the late Charlie Watts all give their usual wobbly electrified Chuck Berry visions and manifestations in that inimitable and influential way that only they can. Tracks like the raunchy “Slave,” with jazz monarch Sonny Rollins on sax and “Hang Fire” also cook, there’s really not a weak number on the album, and Messrs.
From the now iconic opening chords of “Start Me Up” to the now equally iconic opening chords of the last track “Waiting on a Friend” and all in between, there’s a constant hot urgency to this record, understandably, since most of Tattoo You was conceived during what still stands as the the band’s most prolific and exciting era, the early – mid ’70s. This package, mainly comprised of songs that first found life as instrumentals years earlier, celebrates its 40th Anniversary this year and arguably stands as the last great Rolling Stones record, before the 1980s swallowed them and many of their musical brethren up in its web.