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Live Rust [Live]

Neil Young, Crazy HorseAudio CD
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Product Details

  • Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Live
  • Label: Reprise Records
  • ASIN: B000002KDI
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (79 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,279 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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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

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Great for listening when youre reading or just hanging out or for jamming out to. Mary  |  11 reviewers made a similar statement
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302 of 324 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars The #1 reason we should all own a turntable February 24, 2005
Format:Audio CD
Imagine, if you will, that Capitol Records chose years ago to put out the Beatles' "White Album" on compact disk when the format was in its infancy, and for whatever reason decided not to invest the funds to put out a double CD, instead choosing to cram the entire thing onto one CD, and advertising it as a "specially low-priced single disk." But in doing so, they found that the whole thing wouldn't fit onto a standard disk, so they hacked about a minute or so out of "Revolution #9" (thinking nobody would notice), eliminated or shortened the silence between songs (if any), and nickel-and-diming the album until it fit just under the time limitations of a single disk. Then pretend that Beatles fans were too blinded by their fanaticism for the album to objectively criticize, let alone realize, the absolute horror of this corporate hatchet job. If this fictitious story sounds too weird for you, then now you know how I feel seeing five-star review after review here, when Warner-Reprise has performed the ultimate sin right under all our noses.

I only recently started amassing a CD collection of Neil, preferring to stick to the vinyl. I figured there will eventually be a remaster job of these albums, although with Neil you never know, and I could wait until then. But I broke down and went ahead and bought "Live Rust" on CD, which is one of my absolute top 10 favorite albums of all time. Knowing the guitar majesty of "Cortez the Killer" on this album better than I know my own date of birth, and having heard it countless times note-for-note, I immediately fast-forwarded to that track and waited for my world to be sonically blown to bits by the digital clarity of the CD, which happened indeed. For about four minutes.

And then I stopped cold. I stared out the window. I was frozen, playing air guitar to notes that were no longer coming out of the speaker, singing guitar parts in my head that weren't happening. "Am I getting that progressed into Alzheimer's already?" I thought, or is this some sort of a defective joke? Well, my Neil fan faithful, I'm here to tell you: the actual track of "Cortez" is approximately a minute and a half shorter than not only the vinyl version, but a minute and a half shorter than THE TIME GUARANTEED TO ME ON THE CD INSERT by good ol' Warner-Reprise. And where did this extra 90 seconds come from? well, it was right there in the LEAD GUITAR parts of the song, right prior to the "hate was just a legend" lyric. They have AXED a huge section of Neil's guitar lead, digitized it out to save space, and done God-knows-what to the rest of the album to give us a low, low price.

I frantically fast-forwarded the track to the end and compared the ending times on my CD player to the one on the CD cover. I was right. And I was disgusted. Then I started REALLY losing it: who was responsible for this? And why in the living name of God could any self-respecting Neil fan put up with the absolute desecration of one of the greatest recorded versions of one of his most jaw-droppingly gnarly songs?

I for one took the CD back. It took me a while to explain to the clerk why, but he chalked it up to a bad mistake on WB's part. Personally, I think their strange urgency in reissuing four of his least-selling albums "remastered with the original cover art" on CD is unusually nice, but I would much rather have a full-blown remastered version of "Live Rust" than anything else in his catalog. Especially now that I know about this hatchet job that sits on the shelf indefinitely, with no plans to improve on it. And Reprise, while you're at the task of putting that 90 seconds of guitar bliss back into "Cortez" that you so thoughtfully took out, go ahead and put out some other songs from that tour that weren't on the original CD to restore my faith in corporate America, because this is more of a disgrace than Watergate, "read my lips", and Monica's dress put together. Get the President on the horn.
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35 of 38 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars one of my favorite albums November 13, 2001
Format:Audio CD
I am 30, and bought the vinyl, Live Rust, when I was 14 at a used record store. It was cheap, so I took a chance. I still vividly remember listening to the first side of album one, the acoustic stuff - After the Gold Rush, I am a child, etc - in my parents' den. I was blown away by the beauty and expressiveness of Neil's songwriting, and am to this day. In particular, Sugar Mountain takes me back to the times I went to Six Flags as a kid, and thought being on those rides and staying up til midnight was the best life could ever get.

In addition to the mellow songs, there are some louder, electric ones that are incredible as well, with Cinnamon Girl and Like a Hurricane being good examples. This album definitely has the 'live' thing going for it, and when you hear these cuts you won't settle for the studio versions anymore - it's cool to hear Neil connect with the audience - "When I get big, I'm gonna get an electric guitar. When I get real big".

I kid you not - there is not a dud on the album. It is just incredible, and capable of providing pleasure worth orders of magnitude more than its price. I actually am typing this review because I would love to think someone bought this album as a result of it and enjoyed it as much as I have over the years (in CD format now, of course!)

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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Consider the DVD February 26, 2007
Format:Audio CD
After reading Garbageman's review, where he points out the butchering of "Cortez", I decided instead to pick up the DVD "Rust never sleeps". It is the same concert (Oct 22, 1978), and as I write this, costs exactly the same as this CD. It includes the complete Cortez, a few extra songs (Thrasher, Welfare Mothers, Tonight's The Night), and of course, visuals (which are sometimes tacky, it must be said). The audio of course uses a lossy codec, but I find it excellent -- with a 5.1 system it will probably be superior to the CD. And if you want the CD anyway, it is "fair use" in most countries to rip the audio and burn a CD for your own private use.

I haven't heard the CD: I give it 3 stars because Amazon requires some sort of rating, the DVD gets 5 stars, and the truncated Cortez would be sufficient to take away two stars for me.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Best representation of Neil Young/Crazy Horse live.
This is the live album most representative of Neil Young. If you don't own any live album of Neil Young's, start here. Starts solo acoustic, ramps up to hard rock with Crazy Horse.
Published 3 months ago by James D. Clark
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Live Recording
This is a great live recording, not too much crowd noise. I loved this album when it was first released and I still enjoy it now.
Published 3 months ago by Tim Francisco
5.0 out of 5 stars Neil Young at his very Best
Live Rust is Neil Young at his very best. The energy is contagious and palpable and the songs are classics. Crazy Horse has always inspired his hard rocking side.
Published 3 months ago by James L. Baglini
5.0 out of 5 stars It's Neil!
What else can you say!? It's Neil Young...with his band...'captured' live! Enough said...You gotta have it... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Ed Jr.
2.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as Rust Never Sleeps
I bought Rust Never Sleeps and loved it, so I got this album as a follow-up. It falls far short of what I thought it would be, and the sound quality of the recording is terrible. Read more
Published 5 months ago by B. Parnin
3.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyed the Concert
Enjoyed hearing and seeing this concert. I am a real Neil Young fan and really like the old stuff. Thanks Neil.
Published 5 months ago by FBW III
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic
If you even mildly like Neil Young, Live Rust is the quintessential album for you. Unlike many others, Neil Young and Crazy Horse often sound better live then they do in studio. Read more
Published 5 months ago by robert w carkhuff
5.0 out of 5 stars Neil Young at his best
In my opinion "Live Rust" is Neil Young at his best. I enjoy the rawness of his live playing and this disc includes many of his most popular songs from his early "Decade" era. Read more
Published 6 months ago by C. J. Wynne
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Neil - always wonderful
I love Live Rust! Has so many iconic Neil Young hits and exceptional energy. Great for listening when youre reading or just hanging out or for jamming out to.
Published 8 months ago by Mary
5.0 out of 5 stars Neil Young, "Superstar of the Seventies!"
Brings me up and takes me back... classic selection of NY hits in live performance. A talent too irrepressible for even the likes of CSN to absorb.
Published 8 months ago by Stephen K. Braulick
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