Neil Young - Re·ac·tor Live MegamixAs a bootleg bonus to this week’s “T-Bone”-tastic All One Song episode with Matthew Specktor, here’s a little something I threw together — a live Re·ac·tor redux made up of performances spanning 1978-2013. Neil and Crazy Horse didn’t tour behind this album, so these songs never really became onstage standards — and indeed, this little megamix is incomplete since both “Rapid Transit” and “Get Back On It” have never been played live. There’s still time, Neil! What a strange album though, even by Neil’s standards — its themes seem to be transportation, gentrification and frustration. Also career choices. One interesting thing is that “Southern Pacific,” “Motor City” and “Shots” are all represented here in solo renditions, giving Re·ac·tor that acoustic/electric duality that Neil was so fond of at the time. That “Southern Pacific,” taped in 1999, is particularly breathtaking, the haunting banjo and harmonica helping Young find the devastated heart of the…
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