Weld

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Weld consists of rock and roll songs by Young and Crazy Horse, duplicating seven that had appeared on either Rust Never Sleeps or Live Rust from twelve years earlier. However, Arc was not recorded through video camera microphones, as was the case with Muddy Track, but instead was compiled from various professional multi-track recordings made throughout the tour. Young's use of experimental guitar feedback was also inspired by Sonic Youth, the noise rock band who opened for parts of his live tours in 1990 and 1991.

Comme l'avait fait Jimi Hendrix lors de la guerre du Vietnam en reprenant un hymne américain apocalyptique et décimé par les décibels des bombardements, Neil Young et le Crazy Horse vont reprendre des anciens morceaux de Young, ainsi que de nouvelles compositions issues de Ragged Glory et en faire un hymne dénonçant la violence de ce qu'il se passe là-bas. It was initially released as a limited edition three-disc set entitled Arc-Weld, with the Arc portion being a single disc consisting in its entirety of a sound collage of guitar noise and feedback. The album includes Young's "Gulf War" version of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind", which has air raid sound effects.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The album includes Young's " Gulf War" version of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind", which has air raid sound effects. We were watching CNN all the time, watching this shit happen, and then going out to play, singing these songs about conflict.

The album consists of feedback, guitar noise, improvisations and vocal fragments which were recorded during various live shows on the 1991 US tour, and then re-edited into a 35-minute composition.The tour coincided with the Gulf War, which had an impact on how the band played the songs, and influenced Young to make changes to the setlists, adding the violence themed songs " Cortez the Killer" and " Powderfinger". Simply put, if you're ever going to own one album each by the two Neil Youngs (the electric rock'n'roll animal and the gentle acoustic troubador), make damn sure that Weld is the former and Harvest is the latter. It was the sound of the entire band being sucked into this little limiter, being compressed and fuckin' distorted to hell," Young said to Martin, referring to the soundtrack of Muddy Track. The highlights for me are Love to Burn and Crime in the City, but there is not much here that falls down.