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Pretty Good considering......




Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)
Review Comments: I would say some of the reviews here are a bit unfair, ok so we know the legendary NY video archive, if it ever sees the light of day, is going to blow our cosmic minds, but if this was on VHI one evening we'd all be glued to it and enjoy it immensely. It's not the holy grail granted, but it's a good documentary, has some interesting contributors and some great footage i haven't seen before for one [like that cool BBC concert from London in 1970 ish] . Certainly worth a few repeat watches. If you like Neil enough, worth buying for sure.
Blah Blah Blah (and a guy that called CSN three choir boys)
Album Rating: (1 of 5 stars)
Review Comments: I was excited to see this DVD as soon as I noticed that it supposedly included live "music" clips from 1966-1975. Thinking that it might offer rare shots of Buffalo Springfield, clues about Springfield's unreleased album "Stampede," or even a few insights about the failed project with CSNY circa 1974, I looked forward to viewing it. I wanted to see more Neil and less journalism. Instead, I watched a seemingly endless number of aged rock critics--their extensive book, record and CD libraries in the background--expound about the music. If you are a fan of Neil and watch this, you will understand why he doesn't like people writing or compiling stuff about his life or career. If you are a fan of Buffalo Springfield and CSN and CSNY, it will make you angry how these "intellectuals" spend one hour and twenty-eight minutes in tiny lessons of semantics. I get angry over the fact that I wasted an hour and a half with such dribble. It gets a one star from me, because "no star" doesn't seem to be available as a rating.
Really Terrible--Unwatchable
Album Rating: (1 of 5 stars)
Review Comments: I really regret buying this one. We all should have realized how bad this was going to be when we saw the cheesy cover. I guess I has hoping this was going to be a video pre-cursor to Young's much heralded "Archive" series. The makers of this video probably thought they could make some quick cash on just such an assumption.
There ARE some good commentators on this, Johnny Rogan and John Einarson for example, are pretty knowledgable. However, everyone on this is dry and dull and some of the so-called "experts" don't know what the hell they're talking about. The least I expected was accuracy. One of the "experts" claims that the Springfield wouldn't "let" Young sing "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing". Yet, according to Einarson's book, co-authored by Richie Furay, Stills and Furay re-arranged the song before the Springfield even got together and Young loved their arrangement!
Too many things seem "off the cuff" on this video. A good editor would have taken out the comments that are baseless and stuck with just the facts.
But, even if all of the commentatators were accurate, this would still be a dull and lifeless "biography". Awful! I wish Young could sue the distributors and get this thing off the market. It diminishes him somehow.
WEAK
Album Rating: (1 of 5 stars)
Review Comments: Avoid this. Nothing new here. You are better off with all previous NY DVDs (which are great, BTW).
This is a bunch of talking head critics rambling on with nothing new to add.
blas, bla,bla,
Album Rating: (1 of 5 stars)
Review Comments: Demasiados comentarios -plagados de lugares comunes sobre Neil Young- y muy poca música. Olvidable.