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Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Nagoya 1976 [no label 2CD]
Live at Aichikan Taiikukan, Nagoya, March 3, 1976.

At the close of 1973, Neil Young regrouped with Crosby, Stills And Nash for one of the first supergroup reunions that truth be told was more shambolic than superb. After which he spent 1975 sorting out his personal affairs, recording and releasing two albums, the already-recorded Tonight's The Night from 1974 and the fresh, new Zuma, recorded in December 1974 and in March 1975.

Zuma's perspective was positive next to the gloom of albums like Journey Through The Past, Time Fades Away, On The Beach and the dark Tonight's The Night. For a start, the entire cover was white with simple black etchings. Back to the drawing board, a return to the beginning? It wasn't like the youthful glow of Harvest, instead more reflective and contemplative, even hopeful of the future.

Some have attributed the change in outlook to Young losing his wife and child, he had split from Carrie Snodgrass who left with son Zeke, and his move to a beachfront property on Zuma Beach. The burden of a relationship gone, Young was renewed. Also his hero Bob Dylan was successfully recreating his career in the '70s with a major tour with the Band in 1974 and by early 1975, had his marriage on the rocks, and a critically-acclaimed album Blood On The Tracks. The reinvention of Dylan to rock star did not go unnoticed.

But a throat operation in October 1975 cancelled plans to tour, pushing it to March 1976. Young's management decided he should step out first in the new and expanding Japan market, then double back to Europe for the rest of the tour.

The enthusiasm of Japanese fans caught Young by surprise. They dressed like him, down to patched jeans. He thought it "nothing less than staggering" to be imitated like that. The Japan shows are among his best - again he opened with an acoustic set and closed with Crazy Horse in the second half. This time new songs from Zuma were added to old faithfuls from After The Goldrush and Harvest. There was also a quartet of new songs, unrecorded at the time - Too Far Gone, No One Seems To Know, Country Home and Lotta Love.

It seems all involved are unanimous that this was one of their best tours. Bassist Billy Talbot said, "Neil was just sparkling. We had a band again. I heard us playing like I knew nobody else could play."

This period has been dubbed "The Year of the Horse" and established Young as a survivor and one of the new superstars to emerge in the '70s. Surprisingly, he achieved this not by pandering to his audience but rather by defiantly remaining independent and unpredictable, releasing critical but unpopular albums and working hard touring frequently and releasing, by today's standards, many albums.

Although some shows were properly recorded, no complete show has emerged. All that circulates among collectors are audience recordings but they are very good, recorded close to the stage with clear separation among instruments and vocals.
- Professor Red

Tour of Japan 1976

March 3 live at Aichikan, Taiikukan, Nagoya.
March 4 live at Festival Hall, Osaka, first night
March 5 live at Festival Hall, Osaka second night
March 6 live at Festival Hall, Osaka, third night
March 8 live at Kyudenkinen Taiikukan, Fukuoka
March 10 live at Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo
March 11 live at Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo
All the above shows were recorded from the audience and are in circulation among collectors.

Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality, stereo MP3s - sample rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain, these tracks have never been officially released.

These tracks are no longer available for download. Kindly email us at mybigo@bigozine.com if you want to download these tracks at a later time.

 
Disc 1
Track 01 Tell Me Why (6.3MB)
Track 02 Mellow My Mind (5.2MB)
Track 03 After The Goldrush (6.1MB)
Track 04 Too Far Gone (4.4MB)
Track 05 Only Love Can Break Your Heart (5.2MB)
Track 06 A Man Needs A Maid (5.2MB)
Track 07 No One Seems To Know [unreleased] (5.2MB)
Track 08 Heart Of Gold (5.0MB)
  Electric Show
Track 09 Country Home (9.6MB)
Track 10 Don't Cry No Tears (7.5MB)
Track 11 Down By The River (7.5MB)
 
Disc 2
Track 01 Lotta Love (6.5MB)
Track 02 Like A Hurricane (11.4MB)
Track 03 The Losing End (7.5MB)
Track 04 Drive Back (8.2MB)
Track 05 Southern Man (8.9MB)
Track 06 Cinnamon Girl (6.7MB)

Lineup

Neil Young - gtr, vcls
Billy Talbot - bs
Frank Sampedro - gtr
Ralph Molina - drms

For this period, Neil Young was promoting his new album Zuma [released in November 1975] although he'd also released Tonight's The Night earlier in June. But some of the harrowing tracks on that album had been premiered on the Time Fades Away tour in 1973.

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