Sugar Mountain-Live At Canterbury House 1968 (CD/DVD)

This is Neil when he is leaving a moderately popular band (Buffalo Springfiled) and has yet to be annointed as the carrier of fire for deep and mystical forces (if you've seen "Journey Through the Past," then you may get my drift). He actually askes the audience what they would like to hear. Crisp guitar and lyrical singing make this kind of fun.

I have not watched the DVD but I love the CD. I guess after a few dozen more listens I may get tired of hearing his tales about working at the bookstore, but I can tune that out in between songs :-). It's just so pure and beautiful and other than having to re-hear his stories, I do love hearing him talk, I feel like I know the young Neil a little better.

I bought this for a friend after my brother
sent me one. It's a great CD, from Neil Young's
concert in a coffee house in Ann Arbor back
in the mid to late 60s. Don't buy it expecting
lots of concert video. And I'm not sure I have
the technology sensitive enough to pick up the
enhanced quality of a DVD-audio recording. But
the sound on both discs is fine and it makes
me wish all the more that Neil hadn't canceled
his Kansas City concert date this past November
and attended a high tech conference in San Fran
instead to discuss his Lincoln revitalization
100+ mpg car project (being built in a Wichita,
Kansas, garage). Well, he's got an inimitable
style, it's great to hear his early voice, and
may he keep strumming and singing for many,
many years, or, in the words of CSNY, long
may he run...