Weld (album) explained

Weld
Type:Live
Artist:Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Cover:Weld - neil young and crazy horse.jpg
Released:October 22, 1991
Recorded:February – April, 1991
Venue:Various
Genre:Hard rock
Length:121:49
Label:Reprise
Producer:
Prev Title:Ragged Glory
Prev Year:1990
Next Title:Arc
Next Year:1991

Weld is a live album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse released in 1991, comprising performances recorded on the tour to promote the Ragged Glory album. 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. Arc has since been released separately.

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. It also echoes those albums as Young, in both cases having spent most of a previous decade pursuing different musical avenues, returned to straightforward rock and roll via the Ragged Glory album with Crazy Horse, then celebrating that return with an accompanying live document and concert film.

The album includes Young's "Gulf War" version of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind", which has air raid sound effects. 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". Young explains in a November 1991 interview with David Fricke for Rolling Stone:

Weld was recorded by David Hewitt on Remote Recording Services' Silver Truck.

Young has stated that he permanently damaged his hearing while mixing this album.[1]

There was a brief release of the concert on VHS and Laserdisc. The mix on the video is by longtime Young collaborator David Briggs and is a harder-edged, superior mix, according to biographer Jimmy McDonough in his book Shakey.[2] The video was re-released in May 2009 for digital download.[3]

Track listing

All tracks written by Neil Young except where noted.

Disc one

  1. "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" – 5:42 (from Rust Never Sleeps)
  2. "Crime in the City" – 6:32 (from Freedom)
  3. "Blowin' in the Wind" (Bob Dylan) – 6:49
  4. "Welfare Mothers" – 7:04 (from Rust Never Sleeps)
  5. "Love to Burn" – 10:01 (from Ragged Glory)
  6. "Cinnamon Girl" – 4:45 (from Everybody Knows This is Nowhere)
  7. "Mansion on the Hill" – 6:14 (from Ragged Glory)
  8. "Fuckin' Up" – 7:09 [4] (from Ragged Glory)

Disc two

  1. "Cortez the Killer" – 9:46 (from Zuma)
  2. "Powderfinger" – 5:58 (from Rust Never Sleeps)
  3. "Love and Only Love" – 9:17 (from Ragged Glory)
  4. "Rockin' in the Free World" – 9:22 (from Freedom)
  5. "Like a Hurricane" – 14:00 (from American Stars 'n' Bars)
  6. "Farmer John" (Don Harris, Dewey Terry) – 5:00 (from Ragged Glory)
  7. "Tonight's the Night" – 8:45 (from Tonight's the Night)
  8. "Roll Another Number" – 5:19 (from Tonight's the Night)

Side one

  1. "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" – 5:36
  2. "Crime in the City" – 6:33
  3. "Blowin' in the Wind" (Bob Dylan) – 6:36
  4. "Love to Burn" – 9:49

Side two

  1. "Welfare Mothers" – 7:08
  2. "Cinnamon Girl" – 4:39
  3. "Mansion on the Hill" – 6:13
  4. "Fuckin' Up" – 7:08 [5]
  5. "Farmer John" (Don Harris, Dewey Terry) – 4:26

Side three

  1. "Cortez the Killer" – 9:47
  2. "Powderfinger" – 5:46
  3. "Love and Only Love" – 9:40
  4. "Roll Another Number" – 5:20

Side four

  1. "Rockin' in the Free World" – 8:44
  2. "Like a Hurricane" – 13:16
  3. "Tonight's the Night" – 8:07

Personnel

Crazy Horse

Additional roles

Charts

Chart (1991)!scope="col"
Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[6] 90
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[7] 27

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Artists sound off on hearing loss. https://web.archive.org/web/20160324105354/http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/arts/story.html?id=e4da789c-0e37-4ed1-aafb-edb110ae247f. dead. 2016-03-24. Perusse B. 2007-12-10. The Gazette (Montreal).
  2. Book: Shakey: Neil Young's Biography . Jimmy McDonough . Anchor . 2003 . 657 . 978-0679750963.
  3. Web site: Weld [1991 Live] - Neil Young & Crazy Horse | Release Info. AllMusic.
  4. Written on the inserts and labels as "F*!#in' Up"
  5. Written on the inserts and labels as "F*!#in' Up"
  6. 308.
  7. Web site: Sisältää hitin: Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1960: Artistit X Y . 2015 .

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