Customer Reviews
SAD - By: J. C. Bailey, 27 Aug 2008 
It's sad to see once-great musiciansin this state, but that's no reason to spend good money on a travesty of a performance. I've you haven't already got "4 Way Street" (one of the best live rock recordings ever), spend your money on that instead.
vapid and irrelevant - By: K. Bonsink, 27 Aug 2008 I have to strongly disagree with the first reviewer...this release sucks big time Nothing we haven't heard before [and especially from Young ]. The voices have gone [apart from Nash, but then...who cares about his stuff anyway?]. The guitars are pretty poor [Young especially, retreading the same old distortion pedal to hide the fact he really ain't that hot anyway]
Avoid!!!
Neil Young's CSNY - By: Bodhi Heeren, 04 Aug 2008 
Ever since this legendary band reformedin 1999 it has very much been with Neil Young at the steering wheel. He has chosen the backing bands & he has vetoed any official releases from their prevoius, highly succesful tours,in 2000 & '02.
This isn't a proper livealbum either, but the soundtrack to his film about the band's "Freedom Of Speech" tourin '06, promoting Neil's "Living With War" album.
Where the tour was a mix of new & old songs, & the 30+ songlist somewhat equally shared between the four great songwriters, here it's all Neil, with 9 out of 16 songs being from "Living..", while the other three have to share the remaining 7. That Neil is by far the most succesful through the years, commercially & mediawise, hardly justify such a malproportion. And although I can wholeheratedly agree with Neil's poignant lyrics about War, Iraq & Mr. Bush, the musical qualities of his new tunes are more dubious.
The highlights of the CD is undoubtly the fine versions of the classics "Deja Vu" & "Wooden Ships", where it sounds like a band & where we get some of the famous twin leadguitar interplay between Neil & Stephen Stills.Whereas CSN is hardly audible through the new Neil songs. It's also on the classic tracks that the impeccable backing musicians really gel, not least the fine bassplayer Rick Rosas & drummer Chad Cromwell.
As evidenced by their recent collaborations with David Gilmour ("Island" & the live-DVD) David Crosby & Graham Nash arein topform vocally, whereas Stephen isn't, he doesn't even sing on his own "Find The Cost Of Freedom", but plays some fine guitar - when he's allowed to step out that is.
But else it's all Neil, & he's certainlyin great form through out.
A fine release by one of the all-time greatest bands, though I personally would have preferred a whole show.
