Neil Young & Crazy Horse / Legendary Mike Millard Tape / The Last Weld / 3CDR

Neil Young & Crazy Horse / Legendary Mike Millard Tape / The Last Weld / 3CDR / Stargazer File Number

Recorded Live at Sports Arena, Los Angeles, CA, April 26 and 27, 1991. Audience Recording


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It is Neil Young’s masterpiece appearance from the Legendary series. Its name is “THE LAST WELD”. From the 1991 tour that produced the official live album “WELD”, the complete recording of the two days in Los Angeles, which was the final performance as the title suggests. As you can hear from “WELD”, the content of this tour is an enthusiastic performance full of burning explosive power just like the jacket photo this time. In the first half of the first day, there are places where the stereo sound image flickers a little, but it will settle down soon. Or rather, I listen to it before the sound image settles down and I don’t care about that at all. Although there are some equalizing adjustments and editing between songs, moderate adjustments that do not impair the original sound quality, sound quality that is ashamed of the Legendary series. It is the emergence of a masterpiece that should become a staple of Neil’s collector’s items.

***** Mike Millard Tape Series *****
In recent years, “Mike Millard tape” has been digitized from direct master or raw generation tape. It is a tape recorded by Mr. Mike Millard, a taper familiar to fans with outstanding technology of audience recording. The same label has also released multiple sound sources mastered by this new digitized Mike Millard tape, and two of them, “Brushed Mike Millard Tape” and “Legendary Mike Millard Tape”. I have a pattern. Not all of the mic mirrored tapes have perfect sound quality, some of them have room for improvement, and the ones that have been greatly improved are the “Brushed” series. The “Legendary” series is originally close to perfection and has little room for sound quality improvement, and has been kept to a minimum, such as light editing between songs.

レジェンダリー・シリーズよりニール・ヤングの大作登場です。その名は『THE LAST WELD』。オフィシャル・ライヴ盤『WELD』を生んだ1991年のツアーから、正にタイトルの通り最終公演となったロサンゼルス二日間をコンプリート収録。このツアーの内容は『WELD』を聴いての通り、今回のジャケット写真さながらに燃え上がる爆力に満ちた熱演です。初日の前半はややステレオの音像がチラつく個所もありますが、すぐに落ち着きます。と言いますか、音像が落ち着く前に聴き入ってしまいそんなことは少しも気にならなくなります。若干のイコライジング調整と曲間の編集はしてありますが、オリジナルの音質を損なうことのない適度な調整、レジェンダリー・シリーズに恥じない音質。ニールのコレクターズ・アイテムの定番となるべき名盤の登場です。

***** マイク・ミラード・テープ・シリーズ *****
近年マスター直、或いはロウ・ジェネレーションのテープからのデジタル化が進んでいる“マイク・ミラード・テープ”。オーディエンス録音の卓越した技術でファンにはお馴染みのテーパー、マイク・ミラード氏により録音されたテープです。同レーベルからもこの新デジタル化のマイク・ミラード・テープをマスターにした音源が複数リリースされており、“ブラッシュド・マイク・ミラード・テープ”と“レジェンダリー・マイク・ミラード・テープ”の二つのパターンがあります。マイク・ミラード・テープも全てが完璧な音質なわけではなく、中にはかなり手を加えて改良の余地があるものもあり、大幅に手を加えて改良されたものが“ブラッシュド”シリーズ。元々完璧に近く音質改良の余地があまり無く、曲間等の軽い編集など最低限にとどめてあるものが“レジェンダリー”シリーズとなっています。

 

DISC 1
(First Night / April 26)
1. Opening (THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER / Jimi Hendrix)
2. HEY HEY, MY MY (INTO THE BLACK)
3. CRIME IN THE CITY
4. BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND
5. LOVE TO BURN
6. CINNAMON GIRL
7. MANSION ON THE HILL
8. FUCKIN’ UP
9. CORTEZ THE KILLER
10. POWDERFINGER

DISC 2
1. LOVE AND ONLY LOVE
2. ROCKIN’ IN THE FREE WORLD
3. LIKE A HURRICANE
4. ROLL ANOTHER NUMBER
(Second Night / April 27)
5. Opening
6. HEY HEY, MY MY (INTO THE BLACK)
7. CRIME IN THE CITY
8. BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND
9. LOVE TO BURN

DISC 3
1. CINNAMON GIRL
2. MANSION ON THE HILL
3. FUCKIN’ UP
4. CORTEZ THE KILLER
5. POWDERFINGER
6. LOVE AND ONLY LOVE
7. ROCKIN’ IN THE FREE WORLD
8. LIKE A HURRICANE
9. ROLL ANOTHER NUMBER (FOR THE ROAD)

Neil Young – guitar, vocals
Frank “Poncho” Sampedro – guitar, synthesizer, vocals
Billy Talbot – bass, vocals
Ralph Molina – drums, vocals

 

Stargazer File Number. SGF-000221

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