{"id":804716,"date":"2020-02-28T09:15:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T16:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=959599"},"modified":"2020-02-28T09:15:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T16:15:56","slug":"neil-young-plots-after-the-gold-rush-50-release-1971-concert-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/neil-young-plots-after-the-gold-rush-50-release-1971-concert-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Young Plots \u2018After the Gold Rush\u2019 50 Release, 1971 Concert Film"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Neil Young<\/a>\u2019s 1970 masterpiece After the Gold Rush<\/em> turns 50 in September and, according to a new post on the Neil Young Archives<\/em><\/a>, Reprise Records is planning a deluxe rerelease to celebrate. It\u2019ll be the first album in Young\u2019s catalog to receive such a treatment.<\/p>\n

The album might be paired with a concert filmed at the Shakespeare Theater in Stratford, Connecticut, on January 22nd, 1971, just three days after his famous performance at Massey Hall in Toronto. \u201cWhile Massey Hall was a homecoming for me and meant so much a the time, luckily recorded on a 7.5 ips tape recorder by David Briggs \u2014 it was not filmed,\u201d Young writes. \u201cAt the time, Massey Hall was for me my best early acoustic performance to date. A triumph! A celebration! That\u2019s how I felt at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

He released Massey Hall on CD in 2007, although it had circulated as a bootleg for decades. Fans considered it his definitive solo acoustic concert from the After the Gold Rush<\/em> era, a view that Young shared until very recently: \u201cIn fact, today as we listen and compare, [producer] John Hanlon and I both feel \u2018Shakespeare\u2019 is superior to our beloved \u2018Massey Hall.\u2019 A more calm performance, without the celebratory atmosphere of Massey Hall, captured live on 16mm film. \u2018Young Shakespeare\u2019 is a very special event. To my fans, I say this is the best ever. Young Shakespeare is the performance of that era. Personal and emotional, for me, it defines that time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bits and pieces of the film have been seen over the years, but Hanlon and has team recently reassembled the entire thing drawing from old 16 mm work prints and lost tapes they rediscovered, including some from a German TV show. Young is calling it the \u201cearliest known film of any of my performances,\u201d but he seems to be discounting a June 5th, 1970 show at the Caf\u00e9 Feenjon in New York City along with CSNY\u2019s stand at the Fillmore East that same year.<\/p>\n