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Bisogna essere ben armati per la lunga traversata di folk acustico-elettrico che Neil Young ci propone con questo album; registrato durante lo storico 1978 Rust Never Sleep Tour, questo live rappresenta la manifestazione più pura della vena folk-rock & roll di questo magnifico artista canadese. Una chitarra, un armonica ed un piano bastano per ricreare l'atmosfera intimista che da sempre ha caratterizzato ogni suo lavoro, non eccezionali in teoria ma magiche nei risultati.
Accompagnato dai Crazy Horse, Young sa esprimere anche potenza nelle sue canzoni come la più elettrica "When You Dance I Can Really Love" "The Loner" o "Cinnamon Girl" ed al contempo ci delizia con colpi micidiali di esuberante melodia "Sugar Mountain" e "I am a Child" ad esempio. Ritroviamo ogni aspetto della caratteristica "younghiana", gli ululati infiniti e il quasi parlato delle strofe, la voce traballante pressochè stonata, tutte sfumature che rendono questo cantante uno dei migliori nel suo genere, a mio parere ovviamente.
Nei suoi lavori (racchiusi in questo live) sembra quasi che Young abbia messo le canzoni insieme senza pensarci, perchè le aveva a portata di mano; potranno apparire canzonette, ma in realtà vi trasporteranno lontano, nei vostri sogni, in territori mai esplorati fatti di praterie e natura alo stato brado. Per chi non la pensa così, potrà ignorare ogni prospettiva, ogni merito e seguire l'andare traballante di queste canzoni, amandone a seconda del momento una piega diversa.
"Oh, to live on sugar mountain
With the barkers and the colored balloons,
You can't be twenty on sugar mountain
Though you're thinking that you're leaving there too soon,
You're leaving there too soon"
Indimenticabili melodie.
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10 Sedan Delivery (04:50)
Last night I was cool at the pool hall
Held the table for eleven games
Nothing was easier than the first seven
I beat a woman with varicose veins.
She stopped to see herself in the mirror
Fix her hair and hide heir veins
And she lost the game.
Next day I went to the dentist
He pulled some teeth and I lost some blood
We'd like to thank you for the cards you sent us
My wives and I were all choked up.
I recall how Caesar and Cleo
Made love in the Milky Way
They needed boats and armies to get there
I know there's a better way.
I saw the movie and I read the book
But when it happened to me
I sure was glad I had what it took
To get away.
Gotta get away, gotta get away
Gotta get away, gotta get away
I'm making another delivery
Of chemicals and sacred roots
I'll hold what you have to give me
But I'll use what I have to use.
The lasers are in the lab
The old man is dressed in white clothes
Everybody says he's mad
No one knows the things that he knows.
No one knows, no one knows
No one knows, no one knows
I'm sleepin' in every hallway
I just can't accept the stares
I'm using too many covers
I'm warm now so I don't care.
I'm thinkin' of no one in my mind
Sedan delivery is a job I know I'll keep
It sure was hard to find.
Hard to find. hard to find
Hard to find. hard to find
12 Cortez the Killer (06:19)
He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Looking for the new world
In that palace in the sun.
On the shore lay montezuma
With his coca leaves and pearls
In his halls he often wondered
With the secrets of the worlds.
And his subjects gathered round him
Like the leaves around a tree
In their clothes of many colors
For the angry gods to see.
And the women all were beautiful
And the men stood straight and strong
They offered life in sacrifice
So that others could go on.
Hate was just a legend
And war was never known
The people worked together
And they lifted many stones.
They carried them to the flatlands
And they died along the way
But they built up with their bare hands
What we still cant do today.
And I know shes living there
And she loves me to this day
I still cant remember when
Or how I lost my way.
He came dancing across the water
Cortez, cortez
What a killer.
15 Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) (04:37)
Hey hey, my my
Rock and roll can never die
There's more to the picture
Than meets the eye.
Hey hey, my my.
Out of the blue and into the black
You pay for this, but they give you that
And once you're gone, you can't come back
When you're out of the blue and into the black.
The king is gone but he's not forgotten
Is this the story of Johnny Rotten?
It's better to burn out 'cause rust never sleeps
The king is gone but he's not forgotten.
Hey hey, my my
Rock and roll can never die
There's more to the picture
Than meets the eye.
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