Neil Young - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Phoenix Festival, Long Marston Airfield, Stratford-upon-Avon, Britain, 7-19-199

For a long time, I thought the only BBC concert Neil Young ever performed was a well-known one he did for BBC TV back in 1971. But I recently found this one and a later one. This was performed with his backing band Crazy Horse, so it's very much in rocking mode, except for a couple of acoustic songs, "Heart of Gold" and "Music Arcade."

The concert took place just a couple of weeks after the release of his album "Broken Arrow," the eighth studio album he'd recorded with Crazy Horse. The songs "Big Time" and "Music Arcade" are from that.

Unfortunately, this album is edited down from a concert that was over two hours long. I found an audience bootleg of the full show. I considered adding some songs from it, but I decided the drop in sound quality wasn't worth it. However, I did use it for the little bit of banter before "Cinnamon Girl." According to what I heard on that bootleg, that was pretty much the only banter from the whole concert.

I had some trouble putting this together. While this played on the BBC, apparently different songs were played on different shows. So I had to piece it together from two sources, and then reorder the songs to match the full set list. For most of the songs, there was next to no audience cheering at the ends of songs, because the music was quickly cut off in favor of DJ talking. In fact, "Like a Hurricane" has "[Edit]" in the title because a BBC DJ spoke briefly about a minute or two into the song! (To my surprise, it was none other than famed DJ John Peel, who normally new better than to do that.) So, really all the songs were significantly edited in order for me to add in a decent amount of cheering at the ends. I took what little cheering I could find and repeatedly patched that in.

On the plus side, the sound quality is excellent, despite this remaining officially unreleased.

By the way, that 1971 BBC concert mentioned above has been renamed to "BBC Sessions, Volume 1." If you want the updated version with new cover art and mp3 tags, here's the link:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/06/neil-young-bbc-in-concert-london.html

This album is 57 minutes long.

01 Hey Hey, My My [Into the Black] (Neil Young)
02 Big Time (Neil Young)
03 Heart of Gold (Neil Young)
04 talk (Neil Young)
05 Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young)
06 Music Arcade (Neil Young)
07 Like a Hurricane [Edit] (Neil Young)
08 talk (Neil Young)
09 Sedan Delivery (Neil Young)
10 Rockin' in the Free World (Neil Young)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/D7U2wVrQ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/iELuThWh7hO2KG4/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.