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Live Rust
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AMG Review of Live Rust
William Ruhlmann
All Music GuideAll the kudos Neil Young earned for Rust Never Sleeps he lost for Live Rust, the double-LP live album released four months later. Live Rust was the soundtrack to Young's concert film Rust Never Sleeps (he had wanted to give it that title, but Reprise vetoed the idea, fearing confusion with the earlier album), and likewise was recorded October 22, 1978, at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. But much of the Rust Never Sleeps album had been recorded on the same tour, and Live Rust repeated four songs from that disc; besides, since Young had released the career retrospective Decade in 1977, critics felt he was unfairly recycling his older material and repeating his new material. In retrospect, however, Live Rust, now a single 74-minute CD, comes off as an excellent Neil Young live album and career summary, starting with the early song "Sugar Mountain" and running through then-new songs like "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" and "Powderfinger." Young is effective in both his acoustic folksinger and hard-rocking Crazy Horse bandleader modes. The various distractions of the concert itself and the film, such as the pretentious props and cowled roadies, are absent, and what's left is a terrific Neil Young concert recording.
friday random ten, 1977 edition
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1. Crystal Gayle, "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue." 1977 is an odd year, a transition year. I tend to think of it as the year punk blew up, but there was also disco (which got randomized out of this particular list, but which was running strong in 1977), and pop music by the likes of Crystal Gayle. It's probably safe to say that the people who listened to Gayle in 1977 were unaware that punk ...
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Finally Neil Young is heading downunder
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The planets are all aligned and all is good. Neil is finally coming to my town-this si exciting news. I am not sure if Crazy Horse are part of the deal but i hope so.
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Priceless Moments Like These Only Happen Once In Life
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If you are so inclined please share with others, comment and rate because it would be very nice to print out all the comments and keep them for him to read when he is older! This is his music debut!! (Yes I'm a proud father) Last night I captured my 3 year old boy's first attempt ever at piano playing improvisation (we've never seen him do anything like this before) and I got the idea to combin...
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Neil Young
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A little blast from the past. I have seen Neil live about a dozen times in his various incarnations and he never has disappointed.
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Nod to Neil
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Having only known "Powderfinger" as a hard-rockin'-live-only track, I was surprised to come across an acoustic demo. Like "Revolution 1" or "Idiot Wind" (the bootleg series version), it transcends a great song, giving it new depth. I read a quote in reference to this song: "Neil thinks he's the Shakespeare of rock n' roll" (I don't remember who said it).
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Tweet of the Moment: "Listening to Neil Young's Live Rust and ..."
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