Yet as the first release of the long-promised purge of Young's extensive archives, the format of Live at the Fillmore East is condescendingly slight, selecting only highlights from the band's two-night/four-show run rather than providing complete, unabridged sets.  Full text...

The show offers a thrilling affirmation of the synergy between band and leader: rarely before have the contradictions of the Crazy Horse style - the tight but loose playing, and the tough fragility of the sound - been captured with such freshness.  Full text...

Epic jams on "Down by the River" (twelve minutes long) and "Cowgirl in the Sand" (sixteen minutes) are highlights of the disc, which also contains "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere," "Winterlong" and "Wonderin.'"  Full text...

An album of rough beauty and electric density, "Fillmore East" captures the formerly frail troubadour at his most fired up.  Full text...

Around Young’s wandering, railing soul, Crazy Horse make the woods grow thick and rocky, weathered branches knitting together densely enough to almost shut out the light.  Full text...

Live at the Fillmore East finds Young in 1970 patenting the monolithic groove that has sustained him since and jousting with his guitar foil, Danny Whitten. Cowgirl in the Sand lasts for 14 minutes, and could happily chug on for ever.  Full text...

Don’t buy this album; copy it from a friend.   Full text...