Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Live Rust (1979)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Live Rust
Label: Reprise | 1979 | Rock | Flac Level 8 | 526 MB
Notes & Personnel Info
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Neil Young (vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards); Frank Sampedro (guitar, keyboards); Billy Talbot (bass); Ralph Molina (drums).
Producers: David Briggs, Tim Mulligan, Bernard Shakey.
In the fall of 1978, Neil Young and Crazy Horse undertook a tour that mixed in songs off of what became RUST NEVER SLEEPS with a variety of older material. The stage set included oversize amps and a road crew cloaked not unlike Star Wars' Jawas, making this tour's distinctions as visual as they were aural. The film and recording of this tour were released as LIVE RUST. The show starts out with Neil Young solo, using acoustic guitar, harmonica and piano to perform the country-folk "Sugar Mountain," "I Am A Child," "After The Gold Rush" and "Comes A Time," the title track of the record released shortly before the tour started.
Unlike his peers, Young embraced the punk scene by writing "My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)," his tribute to Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten, which wrapped up the acoustic section of the show. Other new material debuted on this tour included "Sedan Delivery," "Powderfinger" and "Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)." These tunes benefited from the might of Crazy Horse, whose punch provided particularly potent on "Cinnamon Girl," "Like A Hurricane" and the sobering "Tonight's The Night."
Reviews:
Q (8/93, p.107)
- 5 Stars - Indispensable - "…LIVE RUST really captures the essence of Neil Young, from aching fragility to the overwhelming power he can release in love or rage…"
Mojo (Publisher)
(11/01, p.151)
- "…Essential….equal parts noise and poignancy…"
Amazon.com
Mere months passed between the release of Neil Young's mid-career milestone Rust Never Sleeps and this 1979 tour recording, which documents a late-'78 San Francisco performance. Indeed, Live Rust boasts four songs from the album that gave it its name. It's also sequenced in the same spirit as its studio sibling. As with Rust Never Sleeps, Live Rust opens with steady-flowing acoustic numbers before swirling into an electric vortex. What was side 4 off the original two-record version–"Like a Hurricane," "Hey, Hey, My, My," and "Tonight's the Night"–is arguably Young and Crazy Horse at their peak as a live unit, with all due respect to 1991's estimable Weld and 1997's desultory Year of the Horse. Few rock bands rank with Young and his stalwart electric trio, and Live Rust presents them in all their raging glory. –Steven Stolder
Tracklist:
01 - Sugar Mountain
02 - I Am a Child
03 - Comes a Time
04 - After the Gold Rush
05 - My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
06 - When You Dance I Can Really Love
07 - The Loner
08 - The Needle and the Damage Done
09 - Lotta Love
10 - Sedan Delivery
11 - Powderfinger
12 - Cortez the Killer
13 - Cinnamon Girl
14 - Like a Hurricane
15 - Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)
16 - Tonight's the Night
Playing Time: 01:13:39
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