Northern California Folk-Rock Festival, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA, 5-18-1968, Part 1 - The Youngbloods

I'm posting another rock festival. Before I say more, I need to note the sound quality of the recordings from this festival have issues. With the recent advances in audio editing technology, I wanted to see if it's possible to elevate mere average sounding audience bootlegs, which is what the source here is. I'm happy to say I did make a lot of improvements. I wouldn't be posting this if I didn't think it's listenable. But be warned it's not up to my usual sound quality standards.

There were a lot of great rock festivals in 1960s that are largely forgotten now because of the lack of good audio or video recordings from them. Such as this one. If you're a fan of classic rock from that era, the lineup of acts from this two-day-long festival is impressive. First, the big names: the Doors, Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin, the Steve Miller Band, Country Joe and the Fish, Jefferson Airplane, the Youngbloods, the Electric Flag, Kaleidoscope, Taj Mahal, and Ravi Shankar. There also were lesser knowns: the Sons of Champlin, People, the Loading Zone, Trans Atlantic Flash, Smokestack Lightning, Chrome Syrcus, the Indian Head Band, the Dirty Blues Band, Mint Tattoo, and the New Mourning Reign. Additionally, the Grateful Dead weren't scheduled to play, but performed a set anyway. And apparently, Eric Burdon and the New Animals were on the bill but didn't perform for some reason.

Unfortunately, I don't have most of that music, but I was able to find most of the big names: the Youngbloods, the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Steve Miller Band, Country Joe and the Fish, Jefferson Airplane, and the Electric Flag. The big miss, unfortunately, is the Doors. Jefferson Airplane was the main headliner (and final act) on the first day of the festival, and the Doors was the same for the second and last day of the festival. But while there's a few minutes of video of the Doors performance that's survived, it has no sound, and there isn't any audio bootleg. 

It seems there are two sources that someone put together. One was just an ordinary taper in the crowd. The other was Jorma Kaukonen, lead guitarist of Jefferson Airplane, who taped some of the acts from or near the stage. The Kaukonen taped parts sound slightly better, but only slightly. I believe he taped the Big Brother and the Holding Company set, plus just the second half of his own band's set, Jefferson Airplane.

There's a Wikipedia entry about this festival, but it says very little. Here's the link:

Northern California Folk-Rock Festival (1968) - Wikipedia

However, there's a Doors fan website that has a lot more pictures and information about the festival, here:

The Doors | Northern California Folk Rock Festival 1968

The festival was created and promoted by a person named Bob Blodgett. He did the festival again in 1969. I've posted the Jimi Hendrix set from that, which can be found here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2026/01/jimi-hendrix-northern-california-folk.html

That seems to be the only set from the 1969 festival that's available. But there was some controversy about the 1969 festival, because Blodgett claimed some acts like Led Zeppelin would be performing, when they hadn't even been contacted. He did this to help drive ticket sales, but it backfired. It ruined his reputation as a festival promoter, so there was no 1970 version.

That link to the Doors fan site includes a photocopy of an article in the San Francisco Examiner reviewing both days of the festival. I'll quote some interesting parts of it here: "There is little doubt that the capacity of the flat, drab arena was reached both days, especially yesterday when listening and squatting space was at a premium even when the rains came, along with the Doors, at about six o'clock. The sound system was excellent and most of the groups performed splendidly. But overall production was disgraceful, particularly considering the 28,000 tickets sold for a gross of close to $100,000. Refreshment facilities were abominable, relaxation was impossible on the hot, dirty field (no seats, folks), and the clumsy staging required lengthy pauses between each presentation, when a split stage could easily have enabled each succeeding band to set up in advance.

"Yesterday's involvement of the Hell's Angels as a free-loading, swaggering stage guard, treated as honored guests (and announced as "our guardians") was wholly uncalled for and an obvious concession to intimidation. but sour grapes thus strewn, this observer still got great kicks out of all manner of performances. I was regularly surprised that the crowd (about two-thirds from the South Bay area, I'd say) was so passive at the end of magnificent presentations." 

Here's a direct link to the entire article, if you're curious:

San Francisco Examiner Concert Review 

Now, let me get to the sound quality issue. I decided to try to improve the sound quality of the recordings of this festival because while they come from audience boots, I sensed they had potential to sound a lot better. Plus, a festival from all the way back in 1968 with this line-up deserves to be preserved. So I put a lot of work into this. Typically, I ran each song through audio editing programs multiple times. With the source being an audience boot, one frequent problem was the sound of the crowd being heard during the songs. There was constant background noise. But worse, sometimes one could hear snippets of conversations of people nearby. Running the files through the MVSEP crowd noise filter helped a lot. I also ran the songs through MVSEP to separate the vocals from the instruments. Usually, I boosted the vocals relative to the instruments before putting the two parts back together again. While the vocals were separated, I often was able to delete conversations. But occasionally people would be talking while someone was singing. Sometimes, I was able to fix that, by running that song through MVSEP again and separating out different vocals. But that only worked maybe half of the time, so there's still some annoying talking heard here and there.

So that was a lot of fixing there. But there were additional problems. One really annoying problem was that there was a fair amount of hiss, and worse, a high buzzing sound that came and went. I ran all the songs through an MVSEP denoise filter. That got rid of most of the hiss. I took extra steps to deal with the buzzing sound. Luckily, it usually was the worst during the times between songs. That meant I could use a noise reduction filter against those parts, since I only use that during talking, not music, because it damages the music. Also, for the songs with the most buzzing, I used MVSEP yet again to separate each instrument onto its own track (guitar, bass, drums, piano, etc...). Sometimes I got lucky, and the buzzing would only be on a track that otherwise was silent, so I was able to wipe more of the buzzing that way. But still, there's some buzzing that remains, often at a lower volume than before. It's not on all the sets from this festival, but one can still hear some of it in this Youngbloods set.

There were other problems as well. One common problem with bootlegs with this era is that tapers would frequently turn tape recorders off and on between songs in order to save tape. That did happen a lot in this case, but at least the taper managed to turn the recording back on in time to capture much of the banter. But also, occasionally the taper didn't resume taping until after the song had already started. That happened here with the song "Let's Get Together." About the first minute was missing. So I filled that in with another recording from the era. It sounds somewhat better, so you can probably hear the difference between the two parts. That's why that song has "[Edit]" in its title. 

I edited these albums months before posting them, so I forget why "Rain Song" also has "[Edit]" in its title. But I think it's because I copied and pasted one part of the song over another part in order to get rid of some loud talking or some other problem like that. Whatever I did, I can't tell what it is anymore from listening, so I must have done a good job! ;)

I had yet more problems with the applause at the ends of some songs. Again, due to the tape recorder getting turned off and on, the applause often got prematurely cut off. So I patched in applause from the ends of other songs to make sure all songs had a reasonable amount.

One last point. I'm not entirely sure about the order of the performances. But if you look at the images from that Doors fan site I linked to above, there are a couple of images that show the scheduled order of the bands in the festival. So I went with that order. But it's possible there were some changes to the schedule, I don't know. And the Youngbloods were listed as performing on both dates of the festival. I don't know if that's what they actually did. But the bootleg source says this is from the first day, so I'm assuming that's true unless I get evidence otherwise.

This album is 35 minutes long. 

01 talk (Youngbloods)
02 Ain't that Lovin' You Baby (Youngbloods)
03 Rain Song [Edit] (Youngbloods)
04 talk (Youngbloods)
05 Beautiful (Youngbloods)
06 talk (Youngbloods)
07 Reason to Believe (Youngbloods)
08 talk (Youngbloods)
09 On Sir Francis Drake [Instrumental] (Youngbloods)
10 talk (Youngbloods)
11 Four in the Morning (Youngbloods)
12 talk (Youngbloods)
13 Wine Song (Youngbloods)
14 talk (Youngbloods)
15 Darkness, Darkness (Youngbloods)
16 talk (Youngbloods)
17 Too Much Monkey Business (Youngbloods)
18 talk (Youngbloods)
19 Let's Get Together [Edit] (Youngbloods)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/c6sEDcNX

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/quXaD58YIG3oECi/file

I believe the cover image of Jesse Colin Young is the only one not actually from this festival. Instead, it's from Carnegie Hall in New York City, on May 30, 1970. The picture was taken indoors, but I removed the background and replaced it with blue sky to match the other ones from the festival.

The text at the top comes from a poster for the concert. I added some color to some of the words. The festival took place over two days, as I mentioned above. This is from the first day, May 18. I highlighted that date in red in that text at the top. For the sets that took place on May 19, I highlighted that text instead. 

Various Artists - Rally for Nuclear Disarmament, Central Park, New York City, 6-12-1982

A few days ago (as I write this in December 2025), I posted five hours of a concert called "Peace Sunday," which was a big benefit concert for the anti-nuclear war movement in 1992, held in Los Angeles. As I was researching that one, I discovered there was another concert for the same cause that took place a week later in New York City. I did a little more digging, and found part of it that got broadcast on radio station WNEW at the time. So I'm presenting that here. 

There's a lot about this concert that I don't know, apparently lost in the mists of time. I do know there was an absolutely enormous protest rally in Central Park on June 12, 1982. News reports say about a million people attended, making it the largest protest rally in the history of the U.S., at least up until that time. Part of that all day event was a concert. Some of it was broadcast on the radio, and that's what I have here. But I can't find any information about how much more there was that is now missing. 

However, I do have some clues. Rita Marley actually performed four songs, which I found on YouTube. But the sound quality, apparently from homemade video footage was poor. I managed to salvage one song to at least represent her, but I had to do a LOT of work on it (using the MVSEP program) to make it at least listenable. Note the sound quality gets better after that, so don't be discouraged because it's the first song. I also know Jackson Browne played the song "For Everyman," which is not here. The radio broadcast cut in part way through the song, and there were technical problems, so only the last minute was salvageable. That was so little that I decided to just cut it out entirely. I also know performed a duet of the song "I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine." One can find a video of that on YouTube, but the quality was so bad that I had no hope of salvaging that one. They also did the song together in the studio for Ronstadt's 1982 album "Get Closer," by the way.

Furthermore, at the end of the concert, there were appearances by Jesse Colin Young, Bonnie Raitt, Carly Simon, and Graham Nash. I suspect one or more of them probably had songs of their own earlier in the concert. I also saw a mention that Holly Near sang something at some point. The problem is, the radio broadcast only showed highlights of some of the big names, and even then it seems they took commercial breaks from time to time, skipping songs. If anyone knows more (for instance if you attended and remember what happened), please let us know.

To make matters more complicated, two days earlier, there was a related concert with a very similar name, the "Concert for Nuclear Disarmament," held at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, just outside New York City. That holds about 15,000 people. I found a review of that concert. There were only three acts: James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, and Jackson Browne. But because there were fewer acts, each of them performed almost full sets. I found one audience bootleg of part of that, but the sound quality was pretty terrible, so I won't be posting it. 

Anyway, having something (in worthy sound quality) is better than having nothing. What we have here is pretty nice, even though many of the performers are the same ones who played in the "Peace Sunday" concert a week earlier in Los Angeles. Linda Ronstadt even played "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" with the same two well-known backing singers, Rosemary Butler and Nicolette Larson.

It was notable that Bruce Springsteen performed. However, I consulted the "Brucebase" website, which is very thorough, and that confirms that he only performed on two songs, while a guest during Jackson Browne's set. He sang his own song, "Badlands," with Browne on backing vocals, then Browne sang his own "Running on Empty" with Springsteen on backing vocals. 

Another interesting tidbit is that James Taylor and John Hall jointly performed the song "Children's Cry." Taylor mentioned before the song started that they had written it together specifically for this concert. I did a little searching. It seems the only time this song was ever played was at this concert and at the "Concert for Nuclear Disarmament" two days earlier. And it apparently was never officially released in any form.

This concert recording sounded pretty decent, but there were issues. Some time back, musical friend Lil Panda did some audio editing to improve just the Linda Ronstadt songs. So I used his version for those. I also tried some editing of my own. I ran all the songs through MVSEP, and got rid of most of the crowd noise during songs while keeping it at the ends of songs. I then ran all the songs through MVSEP again, and adjusted the balance between the lead vocals and the instruments. For maybe half the songs, the lead vocals were too low.

It anyone has more of this concert (or the related Concert for Nuclear Disarmament), please share it. 

This album is an hour and 33 minutes long. 

01 One Love (Rita Marley)
02 The Pretender (Jackson Browne & Gary U.S. Bonds)
03 talk (Joan Baez)
04 Imagine (Joan Baez)
05 Promised Land (Bruce Springsteen with Jackson Browne)
06 talk (Jackson Browne)
07 Running on Empty (Jackson Browne with Bruce Springsteen)
08 talk (Jackson Browne)
09 Tumbling Dice (Linda Ronstadt)
10 Blue Bayou (Linda Ronstadt)
11 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
12 The Shoop Shoop Song [It's in His Kiss] (Linda Ronstadt with Rosemary Butler & Nicolette Larson)
13 Desperado (Linda Ronstadt)
14 Heat Wave (Linda Ronstadt)
15 Living in the U.S.A. (Linda Ronstadt)
16 That Lonesome Road (James Taylor)
17 You've Got a Friend (James Taylor)
18 talk (James Taylor)
19 Up on the Roof (James Taylor)
20 Stand and Fight (James Taylor)
21 talk (James Taylor & Chaka Khan)
22 It's Growing (James Taylor & Chaka Khan)
23 talk (James Taylor)
24 Children's Cry (James Taylor & John Hall)
25 talk (Joy Ryder & Avis Davis)
26 No More Nukes (Joy Ryder & Avis Davis)
27 talk (John Hall)
28 Plutonium Is Forever (John Hall)
29 talk (John Hall)
30 talk (Jackson Browne & Graham Nash)
31 Power (John Hall, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Graham Nash & Carly Simon)
32 talk (John Hall)
33 Let's Get Together (Jesse Colin Young & Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/hjST8tt6

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/NVjT1WCkPe1RhvJ/file

The cover photo shows Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor. I would bet this was taken during the duet they did, "I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine," which unfortunately is not included here. The original was in black and white. But I used the "Kolorize" program to colorize it.

Various Artists - Peace Sunday, Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA, 6-6-1982, Part 1: Gil Scott-Heron, Jesse Colin Young, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt, and Donovan

I really like posting big rock festivals. I feel these often get forgotten. This was a very interesting one. Just look at some of the musical acts that took part: Gil Scott Heron, Jesse Colin Young, Bonnie Raitt, Donovan, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Stevie Wonder, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Dan Fogelberg, Stevie Nicks, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, and Tom Petty. However, the problem with this one is that only known recording is a problematic audience bootleg. However, I have spent many, many hours getting this into listenable shape. It's still far from ideal sound quality, but I think it's definitely worth listening to, after all the audio edits I've made. I've split this long concert into five albums. This is the first one.

First, let me explain what this concert was about. In the early 1980s, the Cold War between the U.S. and Russia (then the Soviet Union) heated up. Ronald Reagan was president of the U.S., and struck a more militaristic posture, such as calling Russia "the evil empire." The U.S. decided to base intermediate nuclear weapons in Western Europe for the first time. This led to a growing anti-nuclear war movement, which was related to an anti-nuclear power movement triggered by the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979. 

This concert in 1982, which was attended by about 85,000 people, was meant to draw attention to the nuclear war issue, and put pressure on the U.S. to reduce it's aggressive policies. It was just one of many around that time. For instance, one week later, there was a protest march and concert in New York City attended by about a million people that was the biggest protest in history up until that time. In 1983, there were 50 simultaneous protests across the U.S. Also in 1983, the TV movie "The Day After" depicted the results of a nuclear war on a family. It was one of the top ten most watched TV shows of all time, showing how concern was spiking over the issue. In Europe, there were even more opposition and protests. Eventually, there were peace talks, and in 1987, the U.S. and Russia signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which led to the destruction of all intermediate range nuclear weapons. That, and other peace treaties, helped lower the tensions and fear.

It turns out the protesters had good reason to be concerned. In 1983, the world actually came very close to being destroyed in a nuclear war, entirely by accident. A Russian early warning system mistakenly showed five nuclear missiles heading towards Russia. A Russian engineer on duty was supposed to pass the warning up the chain of command. But he had a feeling it was a false alarm, and didn't pass the warning on. It turned out he was right, and the early warning system had malfunctioned.

You can read all about it in this Wikipedia article:

1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident - Wikipedia 

The common perception is that the trend of musicians staging benefit concerts for altruistic reasons began with Live Aid in 1985. But this concert was in 1982. And there were others like it in those years, such as the No Nukes concerts in 1979, and the 1982 New York City concert I mentioned above, which starred Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Bonnie Raitt, and many more. (I've only found some of that one, but I'm looking for more.)

Okay, so that explains what this concert was all about. Now, let me address the sound quality issue. As I mentioned above, the only source I could find for this concert is a merely decent audience bootleg. It suffered from the usual problems audience boots have, some one which I could fix, and some I couldn't. It's clear the person who recorded it turned their tape recorder off between songs a lot, so we miss many introductions and other banter. There was nothing I could do about that. 

But the main problem, of crowd noise, was one I could fix, although it turned out to be a very big pain in the ass. For starters, I ran all the songs through the MVSEP program, specifically separating the crowd noise from everything else. Then I wiped out most of the crowd noise, except where it was appropriate to keep, for instance at the ends of songs and during sing-alongs. That alone made a BIG difference. There had been a constant level of backround noise, and I got rid of nearly all of it. 

However, there was more crowd noise that was harder to fix. Often during songs, people near the taper would shout "WOOHOO!" and the like. Sometimes there would be entire conversations. I ran all the songs through MVSEP again, splitting the vocals from everything else. Then I carefully went through the vocals and got rid of anything that didn't belong. Occasionally, the bits I wanted to remove overlapped with singing, and I couldn't remove it. But that was relatively rare. Most of the time, people saved their "woohoos" and such for the instrumental parts.

The result is still not great. But it's way better than before, in my opinion, and sometimes it could be mistaken for soundboard quality. Luckily, the audience bootleg was fundamentally good. If that hadn't been the case, I wouldn't have taken on this time-consuming task.

Luckily, as far as I can tell, the taper did record all the songs by all the musical acts, even if some of the banter is gone. For instance, not only is there no introduction of the first artist, Gil Scott-Heron, the recording began in the middle of some comments he made. And while we have an introduction for Donovan, we don't have one for Jesse Colin Young. Lots of little missing bits like that. But the main thing is the music.

Oh, speaking of the banter, that often was muffled and hard to understand. So I ran all the "talk" tracks through the Adobe voice enhancer program. That only works for talking, not singing, but it really helps with the clarity.

This album is 52 minutes long.  

01 talk (Gil Scott-Heron)
02 Alien (Gil Scott-Heron)
03 talk (Gil Scott-Heron)
04 Please Save the Children (Gil Scott-Heron)
05 talk (Gil Scott-Heron)
06 Shut 'Em Down (Gil Scott-Heron)
07 Imagine (Jesse Colin Young)
08 Let's Get Together with Susie Young, Graham Nash & Jerry Corbitt (Jesse Colin Young)
09 talk (Graham Nash)
10 Military Madness (Graham Nash)
11 talk (Bonnie Raitt & Graham Nash)
12 Love Has No Pride (Bonnie Raitt with Graham Nash)
13 talk (Graham Nash)
14 Sunshine Superman (Donovan)
15 Season of the Witch (Donovan)
16 Mellow Yellow (Donovan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/JPtfeBmR

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Drcen3BFlcbmwxj/file

I found photos of musical acts performing for all the albums I've made out of this festival, except for this first part. However, I did find this cover of the official program for the festival, and I thought the image of a nuclear bomb blast morphing into a tree was interesting, so I used it. I had to crop it a bit, and clean it up some in Photoshop. Other than that, the only change I made was adding the text at the bottom. All the text at the top was on the original image.

The Youngbloods - Fillmore East, New York City, 8-21-1970

I'm writing this on March 18, 2025. Yesterday, Jesse Colin Young, former lead singer of the 1960s band the Youngboods, died. He was 83 years old. So many great musicians from that era are passing away. When someone likes that dies, sometimes I'm slow to post an album in tribute, or I forget about it altogether. But this time, I had an album I'd been wanting to post already, so here it is, an unreleased concert from the Youngbloods.

The Youngbloods were together from 1965 to 1972. Their most acclaimed album, "Elephant Mountain," was released in 1969. They followed that up with a live album, "Rock Festival," which was released the same month as this concert. Naturally, there are similarities with the songs played on that album and this concert. However, that album is rather short, only 37 minutes long. I think this concert is much better, especially because the live album lacks all their biggest songs, like "Let's Get Together," "Darkness, Darkness," and "Sunlight."

This is a soundboard bootleg, and the sound quality is excellent. However, the recording had a lot of problems that I needed to fix. It was unusual in that it has wide stereo separation. The two stereo tracks often sound drastically different if you play just one at a time. But that turned out to be a lucky thing, because oftentimes a problem was just on one of the tracks. The biggest problem was that there was a loud hum during the first half of the concert. It generally went away during the actual songs, but it could get annoyingly loud during the applause and banter between songs. Since it was just on one of the stereo tracks, I deleted that track during the applause and banter, and then pasted in the other track for those spots. So every now and then, this stereo recording turns into mono. It's better than the loud hum, believe me.

There were other problems too, especially during the applause and banter. I often had to use noise reduction to reduce other buzzing and annoying background noises. But don't worry, I'm very aware of the problems that can cause, so I only did that during the applause and banter. I also boosted the volume of the applause a lot, since it was unusually low in the mix. And there was a lot of dead air between songs, so I cut most of that out while keeping all the banter.

In short, although this was a well recorded soundboard, it had lots of issues, but they're all fixed now. So if you had this already, you should definitely replace it with this version. 

This album is an hour and four minutes long.

01 Faster All the Time (Youngbloods)
02 Darkness, Darkness (Youngbloods)
03 talk (Youngbloods)
04 Rain Song (Youngbloods)
05 Sunlight (Youngbloods)
06 talk (Youngbloods)
07 On Beautiful Lake Spenard [Instrumental] (Youngbloods)
08 My Sweet Little Child (Youngbloods)
09 Sugar Babe (Youngbloods)
10 Interlude (Youngbloods)
11 talk (Youngbloods)
12 High on a Ridgetop (Youngbloods)
13 Hippie from Olema [Okie from Muskogee] (Youngbloods)
14 Donna (Youngbloods)
15 Misty Roses (Youngbloods)
16 talk (Youngbloods)
17 On Sir Francis Drake [Instrumental] (Youngbloods)
18 talk (Youngbloods)
19 Baby What You Want Me to Do (Youngbloods)
20 talk (Youngbloods)
21 Fiddler a Dram (Youngbloods)
22 Let's Get Together (Youngbloods)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/LzK85WAQ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/Ext4wFaOQi15F2g/file

The cover shows Jesse Colin Young in concert in Berkeley, California, in May, 1970. It was the only good photo I could find from 1970. Unfortunately, it was in black and white, so I colorized it with the Kolorize program. These programs are getting so good. Notice, for instance, how it made different colored stripes on the shirt.

No Nukes Concerts, Madison Square Garden, New York City, 9-21-1979 to 9-23-1979: Jesse Colin Young

The eight album I'm posting from the 1979 No Nukes concerts features singer-songwriter Jesse Colin Young.

Young is most famous as the lead singer and main songwriter for the group the Youngbloods in the 1960s and early 1970s. He had a reasonably successful solo career for much of the 1970s, but his popularity declined towards the end of the decade. His most recent album before these concerts was "American Dreams" in 1978. It only reached the lower portion of the Top 200 album charts in the U.S. Still, Young was politically progressive and a natural fit for these kinds of benefit shows. His Youngbloods song "Let's Get Together" in particular was a sure crowd pleaser and also fit in with the themes of the concerts.

As is often the case with these albums, this was put together from more than one set. The first five tracks are from the September 21st concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The remainder are from the September 23rd concert at Battery Park, also in New York City.

Jackson Browne helped sing and play piano on "Chain Reaction." And I'm guessing he was joined by lots of other stars for "Let's Get Together," since one can see that happen in the "No Nukes" movie. 

This album is 29 minutes long.

01 talk by Graham Nash (Jesse Colin Young)
02 Back to Rock and Roll (Jesse Colin Young)
03 talk (Jesse Colin Young)
04 American Dreams Suite- Sanctuary - What If We Stay (Jesse Colin Young)
05 talk (Jesse Colin Young)
06 Children of the Night (Jesse Colin Young)
07 talk (Jesse Colin Young)
08 Chain Reaction (Jesse Colin Young with Jackson Browne)
09 Let's Get Together (Jesse Colin Young)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17318136/VA-NONUKS1979MdisnSqurGrdnNwYrkC__9-21___9-23-1979_JssClinYngatse.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ap3kgRMW

I found some photos of Young at the No Nukes concerts, but they were low res and poor quality. So instead I used a photo of him in concert in Berkeley, California, in September 1977.