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ROIO of the Week [Recordings
of Indeterminate Origin]
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Neil
Young & The Stray Gators
Norfolk,
Virginia 1973 [no label]
Live
at the Norfolk Scope Arena, Virginia, Jan 29, 1973.
Over three months,
Neil Young planned to visit 65 cities and stop for a break at the end
of March. The Time Fades Away Tour would resume in August and shift to
Europe in November, playing seven shows in the UK. Then back to America
to play the final dates in New York, Boston, two shows in Ohio, Chicago
and finally in Berkeley.
The Stray Gators
lasted only till end March and were replaced by the Santa Monica Flyers
for the rest of the tour. It is also well-documented that by March, Young’s
voice was shot and he asked Linda Ronstadt, David Crosby and Graham Nash
to join him to offer vocal support.
This is also the
famous tour where the band asked and received a hefty salary increase.
Harvest had become a multi-million seller and the money was rolling in.
Young was furious but paid them anyway. Perhaps he felt guilty about the
way he had dismissed the late Danny Whitten, with $50 and a plane ticket.
Whitten used the money, scored heroin and died of an overdose.
Young had figured
correctly. He opened with an acoustic set, playing the ballads from After
The Goldrush and Harvest, winning the audience completely and setting
the stage for his electric set with the Stray Gators. By then, the crowd
was waiting for rock ‘n’ roll and Young delivered some new songs
[Time Fades Away, Look Out Joe, New Mama, Don’t Be Denied] with some
of his well-loved rockers The Loner, Southern Man and Cinnamon Girl. Everybody
went home happy. The critics praised his shows. The only unhappy man was
Neil Young - at his band, at his voice and at the audience. According
to David Downing’s A Dreamer Of Pictures, Young "found the audiences
too loud during his acoustic set, too quiet in the electric portion of
the show. He started screaming at them to wake up." Young was obviously
stressed out.
Everything came crashing
down at the final show in Oakland, March 31. If you downloaded the Citizen
Kane Junior Blues show, you can listen to Young explain how it all ended:
"I was singing
away - Southern Man, better keep your head, don’t forget what
the good book said - and this guy in the front row, he was about as
far away as you are from me, he jumped up and yelled, ‘Right on,
right on, I love it!’ He felt really good, I could tell. And all
of a sudden, you know, this black cop just walked up to him, you know,
and it just was the scene the way he looked at him, and he just crunched
him.
"I just took
my guitar out and put it on the ground and got in the car and went home…"
Rock ‘n’
roll was not making him happy and Young felt disconnected from his fans.
This unhappy period is documented on Time Fades Away, the album. No doubt
it remains unreleased because Young wants to forget. It would take the
successful 1976 tour with Crazy Horse to lift his spirits and set him
in a new direction as a rock ‘n’ roll survivor.
Of all the shows
from the ’73 tour, this is one of the best in sound quality. The
vocals are upfront and Young sings well. There’s also the rare Here
We Are In The Years. The drums and guitars are properly balanced and offer
a solid backing to the singing. So is this a professional recording?
This show was taken
from a torrent site. According to the seeder, it was copied from a vinyl
bootleg, The 1973 Tour, re-pitched and remastered. The sound is excellent
for the acoustic portion but is a bit muddy during the electric set. You
can hear the clicks and pops here. Quite hissy at loud volumes. Never
officially released.
- Professor Red 
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.
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| Track
01 |
On
The Way Home (4.5MB) |
| Track
02 |
Here
We Are In The Years
(5.0MB)
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| Track
03 |
After
The Goldrush (5.3MB) |
| Track
04 |
Out
In The Weekend (6.5MB) |
| Track
05 |
Harvest
(5.3MB)
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| Track
06 |
Old
Man (4.7MB) |
| Track
07 |
Heart
Of Gold (4.3MB) |
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Electric
Set |
| Track
08 |
The
Loner
(5.1MB)
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| Track
09 |
Time
Fades Away (6.4MB) |
| Track
10 |
Look
Out Joe (6.5MB) |
| Track
11 |
New
Mama (5.4MB) |
| Track
12 |
Alabama
(5.1MB)
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| Track
13 |
Don’t
Be Denied (8.6MB) |
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Encores
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| Track
14 |
Cinnamon
Girl (6.5MB) |
| Track
15 |
Southern
Man (8.5MB) |
| Track
16 |
Are
You Ready For The Country? (6.4MB) |
Neil Young and The
Stray Gators
Ben Keith -
pedal steel
Tim Drummond
- bass
Kenny Buttrey
- drums
Jack Nitzsche
- piano
Neil
Young recorded his 1973 tour for a live album, Time Fades Away. But so
far that album remains out-of-print and has never been issued on CD. In
the midst of this tour, a film he made, Journey Through The Past, was
issued with a double LP soundtrack. It captured the downbeat Young was
in. Long out-of-print and also never issued on CD. Your best bet, if you
own a turntable, is to search eBay for a copy.
Click
on the link to buy Neil Young albums.
For more... email mybigo@bigozine.com with the message, "Put me on your mailing list."
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16, 2007
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