Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Tarrant County Convention Center, Fort Worth, Texas, November 10, 1976

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Tarrant County Convention Center, Fort Worth, Texas, November 10, 1976Yes, that 39-disc Rolling Thunder 1976 Bob Dylan box is out today. But you know what other ‘76 tour I need a 39-disc box of? Neil Young & Crazy Horse in November of that year. Neil released a solo acoustic highlights disc — Songs for Judy — a few years back. And two shows have made it onto the Archives Timeline — Berkeley (from whence that great pic above comes) and Boulder. It’s not enough, obviously. These performances are among the wildest, loosest and most debauched Crazy Horse situations we’ve got, with the band raging joyously, sending Neil into flights of incandescent, unhinged majesty. Never mind the Tonight’s the Night tour, this trip sounds to my ears like the most gloriously wasted period of Young’s 1970s, fueled by rivers of booze, dumpsters full of drugs and a relentless pursuit of a good time. “I am lucky to be alive,” he’s said when remembering the era. In recent years, Neil…

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