Neil Young's first ever performance of Harvest (Royal Festival Hall 1971)

This was recorded at the Royal Festival Hall, London on February 27, 1971.

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• Neil
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• Harvest
• Live
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• Royal
• Festival
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• 1971
• Lyrics

[ArchangelBoab]

A marvellous thing of outstanding natural beauty.

I can't actually listen to this in any way 'under the influence' as it has me howling with tears and alarming the neighbours once more.

Just magnificent.

[ArchangelBoab]

@zemzami1 Ehm... well, something along the lines of... If this track plays at home when I'm a little 'tired and emotional' (euphemism for hammered drunk) then I will undoubtedly sing along loudly and badly and then probably cry a bit. It has that effect (the booze and the music together)

Which will reach the ears of my long-suffering neighbours who will then wonder who in the building is killing a cat. Do you follow? No? Don't worry about it too much zemzami1...

[MPPFLIPP]

@peteyhook I still feel that way when I hear it & I've been hearing it since 1972 I never had any idea what it was about, but I have always loved it. I still have a original 33 copy of it in new looking shape and condition and I love to play it. I still think the quality of the 33 rpm album is better than any thing they try to sell now.I've blind tested it with other people & they all agreed. CD's & MP3 stink.

But this song is great no matter how you hear it. I always wished it were 10x a longr

[biblerockets]

this guy should start a band

[LeahRayMendez]

I love his intro to the song..."won't remember all the words."

[peteyhook]

im tingling with excitement thinking about hearing this song for the first time ;) jk but the first live performance

[jabuhrer1]

I'm only 6 weeks old & I love Neil Young! I was born 2 months premature & I'm still in the nursery, where all the other babies listen to crap like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Rock a Bye Baby & Lady Gaga. I obviously deserve a pat on the back from random internet commentators for my good taste in music, which will no doubt make such commentators feel good that appreciation of their generation's music is still alive, and make them feel better about their inability to understand today's music.

[CassandraAntares]

BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!

[zemzami1]

@ArchangelBoab What do you mean?

[theBESTdustyrose]

What an honor is it to hear the very first performance of "Harvest". Thank you rammestuss for posting. This is so beautiful.

[tpkat12]

it's a remarkable experience to hear the first performance of a song of such beauty. neil gives of himself in this vocal.