Neil Young and the Lost Dogs (formerly the Restless)
Civic Auditorium
Portland, OR
February 20, 1989
JP Master in association with JEMS

Aiwa CM-30 > Sony WM-D3
Master Cassette > Nakamichi CR-7A > Peak 5.2 > TC Finalizer (gentle JEMS remaster) > Marantz CDR-620 > CD-R master > FLAC

Disc One
01 Comes a Time
02 Sugar Mountain
03 The Needle and the Damage is Done
04 After the Gold Rush
05 For the Turnstiles
06 Sliver and Gold
07 The Wave of Love
08 Days That Used to Be
09 Heart of Gold
10 Heavy Love
11 Don't Cry
12 Cocaine Eyes
13 El Dorado
14 Passenger

Disc Two
01 Mr. Soul
02 Cinnamon Girl
03 Down By the River
04 Hey Hey, My My
05 On Broadway
06 Tonight's the Night

If there's any Neil Young era of that I particularly appreciate, it is circa El Dorado. To me, this is the sound of Neil finding himself again, and there aren't all that many documents of the period.

JEMS' brother-in-arms JP was living in Portland when Neil rolled through with a set that sandwiched a lot unreleased material between more familiar acoustic and electric sets, and despite a typically annoying Neil crowd (what is it with his fans and the need to yap and yell?), he did a rock-solid job on the recording.

The master had never been digitized so I ran it through the Nak, though not without problems. We had issues with the tape getting stuck and while it didn't snap, the crinkling left some noise artifacts on a couple tracks, though nothing too obtrusive.

As the tape was a wee bit distant I did a little gentle remastering to lift levels and open up the soundscape. Sounds pretty good to me. Samples provided.

I've credited this to the Lost Dogs as, during the show, Neil renames the band.

Comments welcomed please. JP is reading, too.

Butterking for JEMS