"This is why God made bootlegs. Late [one evening in 1974], Neil Young took the stage at The Bottom Line, a new showcase club in lower Manhattan, as an unexpected special guest after late-show sets by Ry Cooder and Leon Redbone. Over the next hour, Young performed mostly as-yet-unreleased material including four songs from his next album, On The Beach ... The recording (...) has the challenged audio of a cassette machine hidden inside a coat or under a napkin. It also has the precious, authentic thrill of one-night-only-magic: Young so charged by the room, the moment, and his latest writing, that he had to grab a guitar and mike ... There has been nothing like this show on Young's long shelf of archival releases - until now".