Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2013-08-05
Helsinki Classic Festival
Kaisaniemen Puisto, Helsinki, Finland
Source: Edirol R-09 w/internal mics
Location: On the rail, right in front of Neil’s upright piano.
Transfer:
USB > Adode Audition: Eq(hp filter), normalization, Waves L3 UltraMaximizer, fade out, 16bit/44.1kHz conversion(dithering w/ Ozone Mbit+) > CDWave (tracking) > Flac(8)
Taped, transfered and torrented by tbugsett
I was standing on the rail with my usual setup: Schopes mics, Nbox preamp and Edirol recorder. Just as The Horse hits the stage I notice that no signal was going into the recorder whatsoever! In a hurry I checked every connection, unplugged and plugged in again but with the same result. Nothing was being recorded. So in a split second decision I unplugged the mics, took out the recorder from my pocket and holding it in front of me to use it’s internal mics.
Hence the first few seconds of Love And Only Love is missing. Also stupidity I plugged in again after a couple of minutes to check if there was a singnal now. Of course it wasn’t. So there’s a 4 second gap at about 2 minutes in in Love And Only Love because of this.
It was quite a task doing all this on the rail, with a security guy right in my face. I had to hide the recorder while still having it as much in the open as possible trying not to obstruct the sound. It’s a wonder he didn’t spot it 😉
Needless to say, the sound on this isn’t what I was expecting and hoping for. But after a little tweaking it’s quite listenable, even if there’s still some slight low end distortion and some hiss, particulary on the acoustic tracks. (Levels were not set up to use the internal mics obviously)
Finally, for those who care: Later I found out what was wrong: One of the four fresh 9v batteries in the mic preamp was completely dead, even though I’d checked them all before the show. Oh, well. Shit happens. And as we all know far bigger shits than this has happened with the tour now!
Anyway, enough of this technical rant. The music is the important thing. Enjoy the show! (One of the best Mr. Soul of the tour?)
- Love And Only Love
- Powderfinger
- Psychedelic Pill
- Walk Like A Giant
- Woodstock no rain interlude
- Hole In The Sky
- Human Highway
- Heart Of Gold
- Blowin’ In The Wind
- Singer Without A Song
- Ramada Inn
- Cinnamon Girl
- F*!#in’ Up
- Mr. Soul
- Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
- encore break
- Sedan Delivery
Tour: 2013 Alchemy Tour with Crazy Horse – Europe
Band: Crazy Horse, Line Up 3
Neil Young – vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, piano, harmonica
Frank Sampedro – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
Billy Talbot – bass, vocals
Ralph Molina – drums, vocals
themidnightcafe.org 
Try it now. Every now and again the Amazon Drive tells me it uploaded everything correctly and then the files wind up missing. I don’t know why.
Amazon discontinued their service a while back. All my shows that were uploaded to Amazon are now dead. I will eventually upload everything to Google Drive but it will take me a while. I’ll add this one to the front of the queue. Feel free to make other requests when you find dead links.
That is very kind! Again, thank you for this enormous collection. I just found this site and I am afraid that I will be using unmeasurable time listening to these.
You are welcome. I do ask that you not overload me with requests. I will fulfill every request (if I still have the show) and you can make as many as you like. But I’d prefer you to not make dozens at a time. Make a few, let me fill those, and then make some more. Also please make the requests as a comment on the show’s post. That helps me keep them organized.
Oh no no no, I absolutely want you to report dead links. But I do want you to do it in a specific way. If you find a dead link please leave a comment on that specific post. That will send me an e-mail and the subject of the e-mail will be the name of the post. This makes it easy for me to remember what to reupload.
Sometimes folks will leave a comment on one of my Daily Links posts with a bunch of requests for reups and sometimes those requests get lost because I forget the requests were made, if that makes sense.
But please feel free to make as many requests as you want. But again please don’t overload me. A few at a time is perfect.
Just wanted to express my BIGGEST thanks! You should see my smile listening to the gig where I saw and hear Neil play. Thank you!