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There's a double CD called Mark III: The Final Concerts with different versions from the same concerts; starts off with Burn & segues into Stormbringer for that 1-2 punch; if they did the double album you suggest they could have added in Lay Down Stay Down, The Gypsy, Might Just Take Your Life, & of course a requisite Smoke on the Water all of which work well live.

🌠 HEY MAN ..HAPPY THANKSGIVING ..GO ZAPPA ..& NEIL ROCKS !!!

This was the best of the 72 Dead shows I saw between 88-95. The official release fails to capture how intense the energy was inside the Byrne. Basically, the Dark Star opened up a space where the entire second set existed. The Playing in the Band was the best I saw. It also the only Dark Star>Playin. Best Memphis, Best Never Trust a Women, Best Let it Grow, Best Half Step, Best Attics, best Picasso, and maybe the best Deal as well. Criminally underated Dark Star. No fluff, no drifting or noodling. It is all business.

Great list shaggy but the next album will always be my favourite Neil album ZUMA. Any album that has Cortez the killer and dangerbird on it WOW!!!!!!

I wonder why the stones didn't sue for stealing the melody of borrowed tune 🤔🇬🇧

Never liked the two slow songs on this wonderful record

I probably haven't done it justice with my previous commitment. For me this whole album is a bit like how a method actor approaches their work. There is an awful lot of skill needed to sound this wasted and f#@ked up, and not be able to play, the vocals are magnificent, particularly the backing on Roll another number, slightly out of tune and time but still on point and perfect. He felt responsible for Danny Whittens death, how do you deal with that? He was going to release Homegrown but at a listening party, this was on the same tape reel and his friends suggested this instead. Like I know it's bleak and depressing and dark as f#£k BUT it's so beautiful and a perfect tribute to Danny and Bruce.

My favourite Neil Young album, everything about it is perfect. I can't think of any other album that sounds like it.

Dark and depressed, wasted album. I really like it.

I finally got my copy! Filling in the postmortem release holes is getting harder and harder. I have to be honest: after several listens to the recent Whiskey 3 CD release I was in a phase of not wanting to hear a lot more 68 Mothers. So today I got this, I put it in the player and very quickly my jaws dropped. This here "beats rounds on" Whisky a Go Go! It's a dynamic, fun show. I just love it. Octandre has some evil King Crimson vibes. :) Sound quality? Pfff. This is perfect.

Zappa videos seem to be getting fewer and further between :-(

Sample...??

Helpful review, Shaggy. I'm just getting into Father John after stumbling on and enjoying FEAR FUN last year. Just snagged a copy of PURE COMEDY so I'm pumped to crack that open. Your review of MAHASHMASHANA gives me hope that a current artist can sustain passed the initial buzz. Happy (American) Thanksgiving!

The King Bread is a New Orleans thing, right?

I've been deep diving 1989 ... releases & superb SBDs ... and I used to think October was the purple patch (well, it IS A purple patch) but I've recently decided July is the dog's bollocks, rather like May 72, May 77, March 90 etc. etc.

Is this a mix from the 24-track (48-track?) master DATs?

Box sets and archival series aside, I think this is one of the best releases to come out of dead,net.

Always enjoy this album. Wonder if Picasso Moon was lyrically influenced by William Gibson or Bruce Sterling.

Not enough "89" on Dicks/Dave's picks...IMHO.

I love these videos. Best channel to find dead shows.

To me this a British psych pop masterpiece. I love that it sounds dated because I wanna be in that vibe of 68, This is cool trip. A positive hippie lifestyle record. Love the flow of side 2.

I just love them! Great fantastic songs. They are truly the bridge between psych and prog and they do it so well.

Welcome to the Moody Blues universe. Lots of great stuff here.

I've always loved Made In Japan, but the irony is, the band, particularly Blackmore, did not. And yet it became their best selling record.

So one thing that this next year will do is get me to visit albums I don’t often play. And for some reason even though i love it I rarely play this. I’ve been giving each 3 listens but this week I’ve played this at least twice that so far. Been thinking why doesn’t this get pulled out off the shelf more than the stuff either side of it in this early run?All I could think was it hasn’t got that one big song/or songs. What it does have are 8 amazing songs that work really well together. 1 everybody knows 2 after the gold rush 3 time fades away 4 on the beach 5 Harvest 6 self titled

One of the few i havent bought yet on cd, i have that 4 dvd set "Around the World" though

I really appreciate your enthusiasm and energy dissecting these vintage and time honored platters, well done sir

It is the best live album of all time.

Will you do the CSN&Y Live 1974 box set. It fits in after On The Beach.

Beefheart was not a songwriter but a poet, beat poetry or monologues performed over instrumentals which The Magic Band arranged and played unless it was accapella as some of tracks on TMR.

🌠 DUUUDE U ROCK ! HOPE YER ALRIGHT ..HAPPY THANKSGIVING ..EARLY

Thanks for this! I bought these discs when they came out and stopped after I had the first 14. I never heard this show as a CD and in the digital age have gotten overwhelmed by every show ever played now being available I'm always looking for good shows I haven't heard and I must check this one out. Keep doing your reviews. They are great.

I think everything here works. Even the drum solo. There are other 72 live stuff. Space Trucking was always a killer. Love the jam. We are trucking into space right? It’s a journey to me. The recording here is just fantastic. It’s in the moment music.

Where the wave broke and rolled back. The trilogy is the shit

One of the Best for sure..

Superb album but the answer to the Thumbnail question for me is a No Allmans , Zappa , the Dead , Tull off top of my head Live Albums might be a good March Madness subject

I just like the perfect color coordination of the album cover..the yellow &white of the beach chairs and the umbrella/Neil's yellow& white outfit/The yellow& white. Cadillac (Hello,Cadillac in the sand/is this place at your command?) Even.dig this/The sky is white& the sand is yellow

Neil Young is just brilliant.

I’ve played this album a lot this year during my deep dive into 1974 music. I just love it. It’s a great mix of what he could do. It’s dark side to After The Gold Rush to me. That one has its darkness too. Perhaps it was down to thoes “honeslides”😊

This album has some of his gloomiest and most depressing sounding songs, but part of that makes it so interesting and beautiful

7. Deja Vu 6. Neil Young 5. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere 4. Harvest 3. On The Beach 2. After The Gold Rush 1. Time Fades Away

Bought this album when it came out and loved it ever since. 10/10

Great stuff! To me On the Beach is the thin wild mercury sound that Neil’s buddy Bob Dylan described for his 3 album run like Neil’s Ditch trilogy. Revolution Blues is the top of the mountain for me. To think he’s one week into CSNY summer 1974 tour and drops this masterpiece is a mind blower. They inserted On the Beach primarily into their setlist. This album continually astounds me.

"It's an hour of weird stuff"... indeed! If the record buyer looked at this double and thought, 'Hey, Neil's put out a big retrospective!' they'd be sorely disappointed. (We'd have to wait for the peerless DECADE for that.) I was lucky to score JOURNEY THROUGH THE PAST very cheap in a delete bin (back when they punched a hole in the top corner of the cover) and so had very modest expectations for this double. Those expectations were met but there was so much interesting stuff, providing a glimpse into Young's creative mind. I heard his roots (Buffalo Springfield), his initial fame (CSN&Y; HARVEST), his working process ("Words"), politics ("Alabama"... I didn't know it was Crosby giving the civics lesson), his love of cinema verite (Side 4) and his admiration for the Beach Boys. (The latter got me re-listening to Neil's debut plus the melodic chord changes on "Country Girl" off of DEJA VU.) We also got a hint that Neil was an active archivist of his own material... something only Frank Zappa was doing at the time. For the price, a pretty valuable collection and an interesting, if hardly essential, listen. Having lived with the set for many decades, I finally passed it over to my stepson, an even bigger Neil Young fan. It'll be interesting to hear his reaction. At least the packaging is impressive. Should it be re-released on CD? Nah! The ARCHIVES series is far more valuable. Still, it's nice that there's this anomaly floating out there, especially when Neil seems to be cleaning out his vaults on a seasonal basis. Thanks for expending some attention on this, Shaggy!

Great review. Agreed. On The Beach is the best Neil album so far on the list. Every song is good. It 's damn near perfect. I woke up yesterday here in Chicago and there was 3 inches of snow on the ground and 30 degrees. No warming up this way

Great review and analysis of a great album, Shaggy! I came to ON THE BEACH later in my Neil deep-dive, long after ZUMA and AMERICAN STAR & BARS. Did the dilute the power and impact of BEACH? No one iota. This is peak Neil with the perfect balance of compassion and bile. Although we didn't know it at the time, he'd been very busy in the studio but this sounded like the logical progression/retreat from his period of being in the "middle of the road". It's a real 'state of the union' address and, as your review pointed out, still unsettlingly contemporary. One note I'd add: Neil is a big cinephile... he'd just dipped his toe in the world of movies and was married to actress Carrie Snodgrass. ON THE BEACH is also the name of a 1959 apocalyptic move (from a book by Nevil Shute). It's filled with fear, resignation and, maybe, a little hope: emotions Neil fully explores on his album.

Nice review cheers! (Don't Kill ALL Hippies)

Agreed, any album that opens up with an evening of... In French. We all know that the vinyl is going to warp after the next couple of weeks! 😂❤

This album was released when I was in high school. A bunch of my buddies listened to it at a party and concluded that it was a career suicide note; that the guy who'd had those HARVEST hits and played with CS&N was indeed about to fade away. Despite the fact that Neil name-checks our hometown a couple of times (where "the punches came fast and hard"), it was an easy album to dismiss. Took me years to rediscover it when I found a beat up copy at a thrift store. The scrappy performances and brittle sound somehow felt contemporary... Neil's punk record! This is one of my favourite live albums and easily in my Top 5 Neil Young albums. It's not always easy to listen to someone falling apart in front of an audience but the raw emotion and dark humour that Neil is channeling here is remarkable. I'm glad it's finally out on CD so I can pass along that beat up vinyl record to my stepson. Great review, Shaggy!

It's truly criminal that Born Again isn't seen as a masterpiece. I friggin' adore it.