Weld

• Artist: Neil Young & Crazy Horse
• Rating:
• Release Date: 1991 10
• Total Time: 115:54
• Type: Live, Contains explicit content
• Genre: Rock

Review

Weld, Neil Young's two-hour-plus double-CD chronicle of his 1991 Ragged Glory/Smell the Horse Tour with Crazy Horse, was received with only mild enthusiasm from Young's fans and rock critics, perhaps because it seemed redundant. Such warhorses as "Like a Hurricane" and "Cortez the Killer" were making their fourth appearances on a Young album, and the five songs from the Ragged Glory album were basically unchanged from their studio versions. Containing only 16 tracks, the album's songs averaged over seven and a half minutes in length, and that length was given over to extended guitar improvisations, which often were filled with feedback and distortion. Where Young's previous double live album, Live Rust, which bore some similarities to this one, was a career retrospective including some acoustic numbers, Weld was all electric rock with Crazy Horse. The one previously unreleased song was a Gulf War-era cover of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind," complete with gunshots and exploding bombs. In retrospect, Weld seems like an excellent expression of one part of Young's musical persona, putting some of his best hard rock material onto one album. [Initially, Weld was released in a 25,000 copy limited-edition called Arc Weld (Reprise 26746) containing a third disc made up of guitar feedback and called "Arc."] ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Tracks

CD 1

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)	Neil Young	Neil Young & Crazy Horse	(5:42)
Crime in the City (Lyrics)	Neil Young	Neil Young & Crazy Horse	(6:32)
Blowin' in the Wind	Bob Dylan	Neil Young & Crazy Horse	(6:49)
Welfare Mothers	Neil Young	Neil Young & Crazy Horse	(7:04)
Love to Burn	Neil Young	Neil Young & Crazy Horse	(10:01)
Cinnamon Girl	Neil Young	Neil Young & Crazy Horse	(4:45)
Mansion on the Hill (Lyrics)	Neil Young	Neil Young & Crazy Horse	(6:14)
F*!#in' Up (Lyrics)	Neil Young	Neil Young & Crazy Horse	(7:09)

CD 2

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Cortez the Killer (Lyrics)	Neil Young	Neil Young & Crazy Horse	(9:46)
Powderfinger (Lyrics)	Neil Young	Neil Young & Crazy Horse	(5:58)
Love and Only Love	Neil Young	Neil Young & Crazy Horse	(9:17)
Rockin' in the Free World (Lyrics)	Neil Young	Neil Young & Crazy Horse	(9:22)
Like a Hurricane (Lyrics)	Neil Young	Neil Young & Crazy Horse	(14:00)
Farmer John	Dewey Terry, Don "Sugarcane" Harris, Don Harris	Neil Young & Crazy Horse	(5:00)
Tonight's the Night	Neil Young	Neil Young & Crazy Horse	(8:45)
Roll Another Number (For the Road)	Neil Young	Neil Young & Crazy Horse	(5:19)

Credits

Neil Young (Vocals), Tim Mulligan (Digital Mastering), David Hewitt (Engineer), Ralph Molina (Drums), Ralph Molina (Vocals), Billy Talbot (Vocals), Brian Leskowicz (Assistant Engineer), Crazy Horse (Performer), John Hausman (Studio Assistant), Billy Talbot (Producer), Billy Talbot (Mixing), David Briggs (Producer), Frank "Poncho" Sampedro (Guitar), John Hanlon (Mixing), Elliot Roberts (Director), Neil Young & Crazy Horse (Performer), Neil Young (Guitar), Chuck Johnson (Mixing Assistant), John Nowland (Mixing), Phil Gitomer (Assistant Engineer), Dave Roberts (Assistant Engineer), David Briggs (Mixing), Tim Mulligan (Mixing), Billy Talbot (Bass), Frank "Poncho" Sampedro (Synthesizer), David Briggs (Engineer), Rebecca Holland (Design), Joel Bernstein (Photography), Tim Mulligan (Digital Editing), Frank "Poncho" Sampedro (Strings), Tim Mulligan (Engineer), Frank "Poncho" Sampedro (Vocals), Frank "Poncho" Sampedro (Univox), Neil Young (Mixing), Janet Levinson (Art Direction), Neil Young (Producer), Frank Gironda (Director), Larry Cragg (Photography)

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