That same uncle delivers a story like “Pocahontas” in the first person, sitting around the fire, swapping tall tales that sound feasible, but which couldn’t possibly be. Separated from the narcotic fuzz of Tonight’s the Night, “World on a String” seems less threatening and more like a piece of earned knowledge passed on by a learned sage – maybe that burnout uncle who still wears his fringe-sleeved coat. Where Young shines brightest on Unplugged is on the solo tracks that open the album. The chief oddity of tracks is “Transformer Man” - the Trans cut on which Young made his voice weep through a vocoder - now re-imagined as a song that could have fit comfortably on, well, Harvest Moon. “Long May You Run” is another band highlight, an elegy to an old friend (in this case, one of the automotive sort) that’s every bit as moving as the original. Of the new cuts, “Unknown Legend” and the title track from Harvest Moon fare the best, thanks to the harmonies and the flexible accompaniment of the band. The set also incorporates three of the album’s songs with classics and rarities. Understandably, considering the personnel involved, the sound of Unplugged hews closely to that of Harvest Moon.
With the supple accompaniment of these musicians, Young recorded a second Unplugged, which would be played on MTV a month later and released as a standalone album on June 15, 1993.
YOUTUBE NEIL YOUNG UNPLUGGED PLUS
Young would not permit the film of the show to be broadcast.Ī little less than two months later, in February 1993, Young brought a band to Universal Studios in Los Angeles that included three-fourths of the Stray Gators (with whom he had recorded Harvest Moon), plus background singers Nicolette Larson and Astrid Young, and Nils Lofgren alternating on several instruments.
Neil never came back to finish the show.”Īctually, he did come back and play two songs before splitting for good, but the evening was a washout.
“He ran down Broadway, and Alex Coletti ran after him. Young “was onstage, he was singing and suddenly, for whatever reason, he got agitated and ran outside,” Jim Burns, the late co-creator of Unplugged, remembered in I Want My MTV.
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