Live Rust

by Crazy Horse, Neil Young, Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Overview

All 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. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	10/25/1990
Label:	Reprise
UPC:	0075992725026
Rank:	22709

Tracks

1. Sugar Mountain
2. I Am a Child
3. Comes a Time
4. After the Gold Rush
5. My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
6. When You Dance I Can Really Love
7. The Loner
8. The Needle and the Damage Done
9. 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

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Neil Young   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals,Harmonica,Keyboards
Crazy Horse   Primary Artist
Neil Young & Crazy Horse   Primary Artist
Frank "Poncho" Sampedro   Guitar,Strings,Keyboards
Ralph Molina   Drums,Vocals
Elliot Roberts   Director
Frank Sampedro   Guitar,Keyboards
Billy Talbot   Bass,Guitar

Technical Credits

Jeff Blackburn   Composer
Neil Young   Arranger,Composer,Lyricist
Tim Mulligan   Producer
David Briggs   Producer
Dick Pearce   Photography
Bernard Shakey   Producer
Paul Goldsmith   Photography
Chuck Cochran   Arranger