Crosby Stills Nash & Young
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Woodstock - 1969
(1994)
DVD
The three-day Woodstock music festival in 1969 was the pivotal event of the 1960s peace movement, and this landmark concert film is the definitive record of that milestone of rock & roll history. It's more than a chronicle of the hippie movement...
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Live Aid - 1985
(2004)
DVD
Billed as "the day music changed history," the Live Aid
concerts of July 13, 1985, were held to raise money to fight the
horrifying famines sweeping Africa. The brainchild of Bob Geldof and
representing the efforts of countless musicians and technicians, Live
Aid was a genuine and inspiring effort.
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Crosby Stills & Nash
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Daylight Again
(1983)
DVD
You will rarely
find a CSN set list so comprehensive, top notch and extensive...21 songs
spanning 110 minutes and covering their entire catalogue...Of the 21
songs, at most 3 could be considered "fillers", and the rest
are all amongst their classics-- including somewhat rare performances of
"Chicago", "You Don't Have To Cry", and the Beatles'
"Blackbird", the latter two done acoustically with just
Stills' career-best guitar work.
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Crosby Stills Nash - Acoustic
(2004)
TIP
DVD
Filmed at San Francisco's Warfield Theater in November, 1991, this concert film features the legendary Crosby, Stills & Nash performing stripped-down version of over a dozen of their best-loved songs. Among the tunes included on the set list are "Just a Song Before I Go," "For What It's Worth," "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," and "Teach Your Children."
Definitely, a purchase worth making.
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Long Time Comin'
(1990)
DVD
Long Time Comin' is a 1990 documentary
summing up the first 20 years of Crosby Stills and Nash that was
re-issued on DVD in 2004. What makes it different from most
documentaries is that it simply tells the band's story through their
music and some interview snippets, without any narration -- which is
also probably its strength, as very few bands have been able to produce
such powerful music.
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CSN: The DVDs
(2004) TIP
DVD
Captured in this exclusive collector's edition
3-DVD set are three highly anticipated Crosby, Still & Nash
masterpieces. Acoustic brings to life a unique concert DVD of CSN's
greatest hits, filmed live at San Francisco's Warfield Theater in
November 1991. Daylight Again showcases the trio in an engaging live
performance recorded on the heels of their album of the same name;
filmed live in 1983 at L.A.'s Universal Amphitheater, Daylight is a true
testament to the staying power of one of America's most enduring bands.
Long Time Comin' is the never-before-released DVD documentary of CSN's
unforgettable 30-plus years together with a nostalgic musical and visual
retrospective.
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Woodstock
- 1999 (1999)
DVD
For all but the most apathetic viewers, this
concert souvenir is enjoyable in inverse proportion to familiarity with
the real-life Woodstock '99 festival: the less you know about the
hour-to-hour experiences of the audience and the event's violent
denouement, the more you can enjoy the show....
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Stephen Stills
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Supershow (2003)
DVD
The pairings of Steve Stills with Cream bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Buddy Miles, plus Eric Clapton with bluesman Buddy Guy and jazz saxophonist Roland Kirk, are the attraction of this so-called "last great jam of the '60s," recorded in '69 (we're not told where).
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Stephen Stills & Manassas (2005)
DVD
If you dig Stephen Stills, you need this
DVD. The sound quality is great, the graphics are killer, and the band flat out rips.
Manassas rolls through side one of their debut album and Stills' performance makes you realize how incredible he really is.
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Neil Young
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Rust Never Sleeps (1978)
TIP
DVD
Neil Young's 1978 concert tour, documented in this acclaimed two-hour film that was directed by Young himself (using the pseudonym Bernard Shakey), is a treat for the singer-songwriter's fans. The concept of the show is high (for Young, anyway), if rather odd: roadies (here called "Road Eyes") decked out like the Tusken Raiders from Star Wars, stage announcements from the original Woodstock during set changes, and giant amps, microphones, and so on for an "Incredible Shrinking Man" effect.
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The Last Waltz
(1978)
Video
NTSC format
Color, HiFi Sound
Martin Scorsese's 1978 capsule history of the
Band is mixed with footage of the group's allegedly last performance (certainly
their last performance as a quintet) in this particularly stylish
concert film.
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Human
Highway (1982)
Video
NTSC format
Color, HiFi Sound
Though
apparently mistaken for an incomprehensible tribute to cult idiocy,
HUMAN HIGHWAY was a time piece with the appropriate foolishness of
contemporary culture. 1982 was thought at the time to be the height of
the Cold War, and the Reagan administration was matched in stupidity
only by the social "administration" of the diner in HUMAN
HIGHWAY
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In Berlin (1986)
DVD
Neil Young has never been one to eschew change, and this 1983 concert certainly found him in a transitional mode. Recently signed to Geffen Records (who would later sue him for producing work they deemed insufficiently commercial), he had released Trans, an album that, with its computerized tracks and electronically altered vocals, remains one of the oddest (and more underrated) in his entire catalog.
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Weld (1991)
DVD
Neil Young's biorhythms have led him to the
brutal crucible of Crazy Horse every so often since his second solo
album, giving him the opportunity to, um, weld chaos and familiarity
into a precarious ritual that perhaps the Who, more than anyone,
best understand. This concert video, compiled from snatches of
performance shot during a long tour somewhere around 1990, is the
visual accompaniment to a double-CD package (also called Weld) of
live material released in 1991.
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Weld
(1991)
Video
NTSC format
Color, HiFi Sound This is the video to go with the "Weld"
CD. It has the same songs as the 2 CD-set except the classic "Like
A Hurricane" and "Farmer John" - it does have an
interesting introduction featuring the infamous Roadas (roadies dressed
as Jawas) as Jimi Hendrix's rendition of the Star Spangled Banner is
played.
The album features many classic Neil
tunes such as "Hey Hey My My", "Welfare Mothers",
"Cortez The Killer", "Powderfinger", "Tonight's
The Night" and "Roll another Number for The Road". There
are also newer classics such as the ultimate rendition of "Rockin'
In The Free World" (forget Pearl Jam's!)
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Ragged Glory (1991)
Video
NTSC format
Color, HiFi Sound
A must have for
any die-hard Neil Young / Crazy Horse fan! Collection of videos that I
had never seen before, professionally firmed, from the Ragged Glory
album. Includes Piece of Crap, Love and Only Love, Mansion on the Hill
(2 versions) and Country Home. Good video, just know that this is a
short, 30 minute collection of videos only!
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Unplugged (1993)
Video
NTSC format
Color, HiFi Sound
This video is a perfect example of why
Neil Young has survived 3 decades at the top of the music industry;
timeless classics ranging from his Buffalo Springfield days with "Mr.
Soul", to his more recent "Harvest Moon". It is truly an
essential for any Neil Young fan.
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Year
of the horse (1997)
DVD
Jim Jarmusch's low-tech tribute to the
30-year-old collaboration between grunge godfather Neil Young and his
favorite garage band, Crazy Horse, is both a quirky little movie and a
monument to one of rock & roll's greatest noisemakers. Partially
culled from some gritty archival material shot in 1976 and 1986, and
supplemented by lots of super-8 footage of Young and Crazy Horse between
shows while on a concert tour (the concert footage itself appears to be
shot on 16mm), Year of the Horse is very much like one of the
band's paradoxical performances: epic but transitory, ragged but direct,
focused but improvisational. Jarmusch understands Crazy Horse and its
quixotic musical quest too well to embalm them in a conventional
profile-and-performance "rockumentary." Instead, he honors the
off-and-on marriage of Young and the others by treating the various
chapters of their lives together as shadows in time, fleeting glimpses
of a brotherhood that has no secrets.
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