But when I recently tried to rearrange the CD songs, there were sounds between the songs that did not fit together. The album includes Young's " Gulf War" version of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind", which has air raid sound effects. 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". 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.

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. According to an interview with Steve Martin of Agnostic Front that appeared in the December 1991 issue of Pulse!

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. 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.

Neil Young est à son apogée électrique, utilisant sa Gibson pour faire une peinture du monde sombre et violente. Can't stop listening to this collection of songs, too many amazing songs to review, its all been said by the other reviewers. 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. 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 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. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.