Live At The Fillmore East, 1969 will be available on 2xLP and CD.
The shows were recorded in eight-track analog with the audience captured in four-track analog and Young is keeping true to the original sources by “staying all analog throughout the production.” While fans will be able to purchase the set in digital, Neil promises “you can feel it in analog, that’s a real thing.” No release date or tracklist has been shared thus far.
“Now, we have the tapes, and they sound so real,” he shares. “We’re staying all analog throughout the production with a goal of creating a live double vinyl album. Pure. Analog. No digital.”
Young indicated that there actually will be a digital release, but recommends listening to it in analog, noting, “You can feel it in analog. That’s a real thing. That’s what I think music is. A feeling.”
When we took the stage, CSN would play their favorites along with some brand new songs that would later [become] classics. Some, like ‘Our House,’ were so new that only the writer-singer would perform them.”
That song would appear on the CSNY March 1970 album, Déjà Vu. That release’s “4+20” was also performed at the 1969 concerts. “The electric set quickly moved to a new space,” Young added. These included his own “Down By the River,” which closed the shows.
A week after CSNY’s stint at Fillmore East, the venue hosted fellow Woodstock festival alums Country Joe & the Fish, Sha Na Na and the Grateful Dead on the same bill for two nights.
Less than a year later, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young returned to the Fillmore from June 2-7, 1970. Many of the performances at those shows were released on the band’s 1971 double live album, 4 Way Street.
