Weld (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Weld
Type = Live album
Artist = Neil Young and Crazy Horse


Released = October 22 1991
Recorded = 1991 North American tour
Genre = Rock
Length = 115:54
Label = Reprise
Producer = Neil Young, David Briggs, Billy Talbot
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ptcibkg9hakq link]
Last album = "Ragged Glory"
(1990)
This album = "Weld"
(1991)
Next album = "Arc"
(1991)

"Weld" is a live album and concert video by Neil Young & Crazy Horse released in 1991, comprising performances recorded on the tour to promote the "Ragged Glory" album. 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, with equally discordant backing by the Horse, undoubtedly influenced by Young's choice of Sonic Youth as his opening act. "Arc" has since been released as a separate title.

"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 acclaimed "Ragged Glory" album with Crazy Horse, then celebrating that return with an accompanying multi-disc live document and concert film. An interesting cut on this album is Young's "Gulf War" version of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind", which had air raid sound effects.

Track listing

All tracks written by Neil Young except as noted.

Disc One

# "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" - 5:42
# "Crime in the City" - 6:32
# "Blowin' in the Wind" (Bob Dylan) - 6:49
# "Welfare Mothers" - 7:04
# "Love to Burn" - 10:01
# "Cinnamon Girl" - 4:45
# "Mansion on the Hill" - 6:14
# "Fuckin' Up" - 7:09 [Written on the inserts and labels as "F*!#in' Up"]

Disc Two

# "Cortez the Killer" - 9:46
# "Powderfinger" - 5:58
# "Love and Only Love" - 9:17
# "Rockin' in the Free World" - 9:22
# "Like a Hurricane" - 14:00
# "Farmer John" (Don Harris, Dewey Terry)- 5:00
# "Tonight's the Night" - 8:45
# "Roll Another Number (For the Road)" - 5:19

Personnel

* Neil Young – guitar, vocals
* Ralph Molina – drums, vocals
* Frank "Poncho" Sampedro – guitar, Univox Stringman synthesizer, vocals
* Billy Talbot – bass, vocals

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