Rust Never Sleeps

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Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young & Crazy Horse studio album

Publication
(s)

June 1979

Label (s) Reprise Records

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

Folk rock , rock , hard rock

Title (number)

9

running time

38:16

occupation

production

Neil Young, David Briggs, Tim Mulligan

chronology
Comes a Time
(1978) 		Rust Never Sleeps Live Rust
(1979)
Neil Young (1976)

Rust Never Sleeps is both the title of an album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse and a recorded at the same time concert film .

album

The first half of the album released in 1979 - corresponding to the first LP side - was recorded with acoustic instruments. The first three pieces are based on partly reworked concert recordings from Young's solo tour in May 1978. Two tracks are studio recordings: Sail Away was recorded during the recording of Comes a Time and Pocahontas solo around 1975. At Sail Away , Young was “Gone With The Wind Orchestra ”, which consisted of Nicolette Larson , Joe Osborn (bass) and Carl T. Himmel (drums).

The second half was recorded during the "Rust-Never-Sleeps Tour", which Young and his companion band Crazy Horse played in the fall of 1978. The tracks are based on live recordings, with some heavily distorted electric guitars being heard. In post-production some overdubs were added, for example the song Hey Hey, My My, which was the only song from Rust Never Sleeps recorded on October 22, 1978 at Cow Palace. Although it is largely identical to the version of the same recording published on the Live Rust album , it contains e.g. B. an additional guitar solo after the first verse, which is not included in the original version of the concert on Live Rust . The version on Rust Never Sleeps is about half a minute longer. In contrast to Live Rust , most of the audience track has been removed on Rust Never Sleeps (it can still be heard at the beginning and end of the pieces).

The album title quotes an advertising slogan for rust-oleum paint that is picked up in the song Hey Hey, My My . This last track on the album is an electrically amplified variation of the opening track My My, Hey, Hey, which is played with acoustic guitar accompaniment. Like the album Tonight's the Night and later Freedom , Rust Never Sleeps is framed by two versions of a song. In terms of text, both pieces differ only in details. The line "It's better to burn out than it is to rust" from My My, Hey Hey comes from Jeff Blackburn, with whom Young played in 1977 in the band The Ducks . In Hey Hey, My My it is varied to “It's better to burn out 'cause rust never sleeps” .

My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) is the cover story of Dennis Hopper's 1980 film Out of the Blue .

The titles Sedan Delivery and Powderfinger were first written by Neil Young for Lynyrd Skynyrd .

The music magazine Rolling Stone ranks the album at number 351 of the " 500 best albums of all time ".

Track list

Page 1:

  1. My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) [3:45]
  2. Thrasher [5:38]
  3. Ride My Llama [2:29]
  4. Pocahontas [3:22]
  5. Sail Away [3:46]

Page 2:

  2. Powder finger [5:30]
  3. Welfare Mothers [3:48]
  4. Sedan Delivery [4:40]
  5. Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) [5:18]

All songs were written by Neil Young, except My My, Hey Hey (Neil Young, Jeff Blackburn).

Movie

Movie
Original title Rust Never Sleeps
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1979
length approx. 103 minutes
Rod
Director Neil Young
production LA Johnson
music Neil Young
camera Jon Else et al. a.
cut Neil Young
chronology

←  Predecessor
Comes a Time

Successor  →
Live Rust

The film Rust Never Sleeps was made as a recording of a concert on October 22, 1978 at the Cow Palace in San Francisco . Directed by Bernard Shakey , a pseudonym behind which Neil Young hides himself. The album Rust Never Sleeps was recorded at various concerts on the 1978 tour, but not on that October 22nd (exception: Hey Hey, My My, see above). Instead, the album Live Rust was released as the soundtrack for the film (initially as a double LP, later as a CD).

Title list movie

  1. Introduction: Star Spangled Banner / A Day in the Life [7:29]
  2. Sugar Mountain [4:46]
  3. I Am a Child [2:50]
  4. Comes a Time [3:04]
  5. After the Gold Rush [3:55]
  6. Thrasher [5:37]
  7. My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) [3:59]
  8. When You Dance I Can Really Love [3:53]
  9. The Loner [4:43]
  10. Welfare Mothers [3:42]
  11. The Needle and the Damage Done [2:05]
  12. Lotta Love [3:16]
  13. Sedan Delivery [5:45]
  14. Powder finger [5:26]
  15. Cortez the Killer [8:43]
  16. Cinnamon Girl [4:05]
  17. Like a Hurricane [10:35]
  18. Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) [5:28]
  19. Tonight's the Night [7:40]

Publications

The film was released on VHS in 1979 . The DVD was re-released on September 24, 2002. In 2005, Falcon Neue Medien released a DVD entitled neil young & crazy horse LIVE, which (as the back cover reveals) is also the film Rust Never Sleeps .

Soundtrack

The album Live Rust was released as the official soundtrack , on which the concert is reproduced slightly abbreviated; The introduction, the titles Thrasher and Welfare Mothers as well as some cutscenes that are not supported by music are missing . In Europe in 2007 the Dutch Immortal label released a double LP / CD entitled Live in San Francisco , which contains all of the pieces played by Neil Young during the concert on October 22, 1978.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c HyperRust chronology (English), accessed November 18, 2009
  2. ^ A b Rust Never Sleeps ( Memento June 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) in the Neil Young Archives, accessed November 18, 2009
  3. ↑ Rust Never Sleeps lyrics on hyperrust.org, accessed August 7, 2009
  4. ↑ Everything you need to know about "Rust Never Sleeps" by Neil Young. July 2, 2019, accessed on November 14, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: Neil Young and Crazy Horse, 'Rust Never Sleeps'. In: Rolling Stone. May 24, 2012, accessed April 17, 2014 .
  6. ↑ DVD version imdb.com, accessed August 7, 2009
  7. ^ Live Rust at allmusic.com, accessed August 7, 2009
  8. ↑ Live in San Francisco at allmusic.com, accessed August 7, 2009