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neil young - arc

dpmaydpmay Posts: 643
edited July 2009 in Other Music
what's up with this record? any fans of it around here?
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  • TravelarTravelar Kalamazoo, USA Posts: 3,413
    It's a good little jam....

    Arc is a composition of feedback, guitar noise, and vocal fragments that was realized from various shows on the 1991 Neil Young and Crazy Horse US tour, which was originally released with Weld in a special-edition 3-CD set called Arc-Weld. Arc bears no small resemblance to the music of Sonic Youth, which was one of the support acts on the tour.

    According to an interview with Steve Martin of Agnostic Front that appeared in the December 1991 issue of Pulse! magazine, Arc had its genesis in a film that Neil made (that he referred to as Muddy Track in an interview with David Fricke in the November 28, 1991, issue of Rolling Stone), which consisted of beginnings and endings of various songs from a mid-1980s European Tour. Young showed the video to Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, a noted figure in New York's avant-garde music scene, who suggested that he record an entire album in a similar manner. Neil placed a video camera on his amplifier during the 1991 tour and recorded the beginnings and endings of various songs that were later edited down into the single track of Arc. "It was the sound of the entire band being sucked into this little limiter, being compressed and fuckin' distorted to hell," Neil said to Martin.
  • dpmaydpmay Posts: 643
    yeah, i just listened to if for the first time the other day - it's pretty strange. anyone think there's any connection to PJ's "arc" - outside of the name?
  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    Don't know that I'm a fan of it, but I'm glad that Neil released it. He even released an edited (3-minute) version of it as a promo copy. Not sure why he thought it needed a promo copy, but gotta love the fact that he put one out.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • dpmaydpmay Posts: 643
    a 3 minute version as a promo? that's pretty hilarious...
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