We were watching CNN all the time, watching this shit happen, and then going out to play, singing these songs about conflict. The album consists of feedback, guitar noise, improvisations and vocal fragments which were recorded during various live shows on the 1991 US tour, and then re-edited into a 35-minute composition.

Young placed a video camera on his amplifier during the 1987 tour and recorded the beginnings and endings of various songs, and later edited them down into the film's soundtrack. It was initially released as a limited edition three-disc set entitled Arc-Weld, with the Arc portion being a single disc consisting in its entirety of a sound collage of guitar noise and feedback. Is there anything special with this copy, cause I can't find it listed with the "P" at the end of the catalog number?

The tour coincided with the Gulf War, which had an impact on how the band played the songs, and influenced Young to make changes to the setlists, adding the violence themed songs " Cortez the Killer" and " Powderfinger".

Young then showed the video to Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, who suggested that he record an entire album in a similar manner. However, crime in the city is as infectious as it gets, if for some unknown reason you do not have Weld, just get it now and understand what all the fuss is about when people talk abour Neil Young. Cette inspiration hendrixienne est à son sommet dans la reprise de Blowin' in the Wind de Dylan, que Neil Young joue littéralement sous les bombes. The mix on the video is by longtime Young collaborator David Briggs and is a harder-edged, superior mix, according to biographer Jimmy McDonough in his book Shakey.L'interprétation qu'ils livrent de la set list est marquée par l'utilisation poussée de la distorsion et des feedbacks qui transforme l'ad libitum des fins de morceaux en champs de bataille. It was the sound of the entire band being sucked into this little limiter, being compressed and fuckin' distorted to hell," Young said to Martin, referring to the soundtrack of Muddy Track.

The album includes Young's "Gulf War" version of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind", which has air raid sound effects. The highlights for me are Love to Burn and Crime in the City, but there is not much here that falls down. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. However, Arc was not recorded through video camera microphones, as was the case with Muddy Track, but instead was compiled from various professional multi-track recordings made throughout the tour. Comme l'avait fait Jimi Hendrix lors de la guerre du Vietnam en reprenant un hymne américain apocalyptique et décimé par les décibels des bombardements, Neil Young et le Crazy Horse vont reprendre des anciens morceaux de Young, ainsi que de nouvelles compositions issues de Ragged Glory et en faire un hymne dénonçant la violence de ce qu'il se passe là-bas.

According to an interview with Steve Martin of Agnostic Front that appeared in the December 1991 issue of Pulse! We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

Neil Young est à son apogée électrique, utilisant sa Gibson pour faire une peinture du monde sombre et violente. Young's use of experimental guitar feedback was also inspired by Sonic Youth, the noise rock band who opened for parts of his live tours in 1990 and 1991. I´ve bought a vinyl copy with the catalog number 7599-26671-1P and an "PR-Copy" sticker at the back side of the cover, printed in Germany by WARNER MUSIC MANUFACTURING EUROPE. But when I recently tried to rearrange the CD songs, there were sounds between the songs that did not fit together.S'il fallait n'en retenir qu'une, cette version est depuis passée à la postérité comme l'une des interprétations live les plus marquantes du rock. Simply put, if you're ever going to own one album each by the two Neil Youngs (the electric rock'n'roll animal and the gentle acoustic troubador), make damn sure that Weld is the former and Harvest is the latter.