Extensive new version of the second "Live Rust" - half

Jaja, Live Rust from the seventies. First half acoustic, half electric second. First songwriter folk for Westernklampfe, then crashing Fuzzrock with the backing band Crazy Horse and a howling and microphonic feedback-improvising lead guitar. Unplugged meets Grunge - just called both had not yet that. The overall picture of the best possible introduction to the phenomenon of Neil Young. As legendary cult Bühnendeko served then oversized dummies of Fender guitar amps.

A decade comes and goes. Suddenly the grunge around the mouth and ear. Neil Young and Crazy Horse sound on their latest studio album "Ragged Glory" just like back then, but so are suddenly all the rage. That brings Young on the idea of ​​showing the whole flanellbehemdeten whippersnappers where the rubber meets the road and who has hung up him there - and the last six songs from "Live Rust" completely to use as a framework for a new live double CD, even wacky and psychedelic than before. Thus even the dullest fan understands the concept that gigantic amplifiers dummies are entmottet of time again, positioned on stage and presented prominently on the CD cover. And so sounds "Weld" largely as the mentioned part of "Live Rust", only four times as long. The Mega Classic Cortez, Hurricane, Powderfinger, Cinnamon Girl, Tonight's the Night and Hey Hey My My offer more intensively extended improvisations, but otherwise no new insights. In between pieces of "Ragged Glory", "Freedom" are pushed and other albums, the main thing it rumbles and crashes beautiful fuzzig. The warhorse of Crazy Horse grooving, truncheons and Dengeln itself sovereign and stubborn as rock Neanderthals through overlong pieces with their rudimentary arrangements. In between, there's an apocalyptic version of "Blowin in the Wind". What more do you want? Nothing! This really is the full-service!

But that's really the question? Should we not rather think whether it may be less would not have anything? Had Young omitted redundant songs, he could have made of "Weld" a single CD with nearly 80 minutes of new installations, and would not have such an extended edition, but as a continuation of "Live Rust" sounded. The new songs were for sure been qualitatively viable: Free World is undeniably just as much a classic like the oldies, Crime in the City offers brilliantestes songwriting, F * # in up and Welfare Mothers Punken spitting drauflos, Mansion and Number are drifting with Country-! strike while offer Love to Burn and Only Love Improvisation space without end. But well, the master wanted it thus and not otherwise. The ultimate live grunge orgy of Neil Young. Despite the overwhelming good redundancy. Five stars from me. However, the opportunity should rather take fans for all their love to "Live Rust"; This is simply the more versatile and verdaulichere album.

To "Weld" There is a bonus CD called "Arc", which lets the song format completely behind and exclusively of live recorded feedback and improvisation consists sequences edited together in the studio to a coherent listening experience from about half an hour , But this is really just for the really tough. "Weld" is likely to be challenging enough for most.