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Weld is a live album and concert video by Neil Young & Crazy Horse released in 1991 comprising performances recorded on the tour to promote the Ragged Glory album. It was initially released as a limited edition three-disc set entitled Arc-Weld with the Arc portion being a single disc consisting in it s entirety of a sound collage of guitar noise and feedback. Arc has since been released as a separate title. Weld consists of rock and roll songs by Young and Crazy Horse duplicating seven that had appeared on either Rust Never Sleeps or Live Rust from twelve years earlier. It also echoes those albums as Young in both cases having spent most of a previous decade pursuing different musical avenues returned to straightforward rock and roll via the acclaimed Ragged Glory album with Crazy Horse then celebrating that return with an accompanying multi-disc live document and concert film. An interesting cut on this album is Young s Gulf War version of Bob Dylan s Blowin in the Wind which had air raid sound effects. Neil Young claims that while mixing this album he permanently damaged his hearing.
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