#live rust

[lastriptotulsa]

neil young & crazy horse "live rust" cassette tapes.

[rastronomicals]

10:24 PM EDT August 24, 2024:

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - "Sugar Mountain (Live)" From the album Live Rust (November 14, 1979)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Roadeye Music

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[meadow-dusk]

Albums I Loved in 2022

November - Live Rust (1978)

"Every band rusts," we're told by a man dressed as a research scientist while Neil looks on in playful childlike wonder. This is presented to be the consequence of the musicians getting caught in the rain a bit earlier in the show, an uncanny echo of the stormy memory of the Woodstock Festival. They play on.

At the time of this post, Neil and Crazy Horse have been rusting together for over five decades, recently releasing their World Record album. No one seems to know exactly which number it is in their chronology, but it's certainly up there. And it's a gift in every way. I very seriously contemplated awarding it the first place spot this month, but it was hard to knock this one off of the podium for fear of retaliation. It's that strong.

I think I'm finally starting to get it. Crazy Horse is a relentless beast that clops along at a strenuous but sustained pace, and Neil is the six-foot jockey steering them down the track. By the same token, they're his tether to earth, so he doesn't go flying off into space when they round the curves (which, from the sound of it, could be entirely possible). He's comfortably saddled atop knowing that they've got it down, and it gives him freedom to let go of the reins. It worked then, and it works now. They're still going. It's 75% of the same exact unit that plays on the new album, and it's given me perspective in hearing this record as it reveals the threads that continue to hold them together. They've got the range to round out "Lotta Love" and reenergize "Tonight's the Night" and endure the exhaustive force of "Like A Hurricane." You can let yourself get a little lost in it and trust that you'll be brought back no sooner than you need to be.

But we get to experience that rush only after we're treated to the proven formula of Neil opening alone on harmonica and a twelve-string guitar (😍), illustrating what would be the story of his life through song. And he is completely radiant: absolutely nothing's missing. In fact, that's exactly what I wanted when I first sought out this performance (blessedly, captured on video in the film of the same name). It was one of those nights where I felt like disappearing from the rest of the world. So I just lay in bed and watched, letting it erase everything that wasn't Neil. Little by little I felt myself soften with it, and by the time they brought out the electrics the feeling in my veins was something completely different. What an incredible power music has. There's not much more to say.

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[rustvisioneil]

[tuuneoftheday]

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Comes a Time (Live 2016 Remaster)

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[cicadatree]

rust crick by @faeryac

DA: 7167-8664-4413

[starbuck]

john darnielle will say “no you don’t understand guys, this line was SO bad, it’s literally the worst thing ever i couldn’t even release the song because it was so awful and i couldn’t fix it,” and then the line will be “I've got a Kenmore single-room window unit air conditioner.”

[toyastales]

A grand estate

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Type O Negative - Cassette Θ

[lastriptotulsa]

i love neils little inflections here oh my god

[rastronomicals]

10:00 AM EDT May 12, 2024:

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - "Sedan Delivery" From the album Live Rust (November 14, 1979)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Roadeye Music

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[thenotsofantasticlifestory]

“Try it now”

You turned the handle of the faucet waiting for the flow of water to run through, but nothing did.

“It’s still not working,” you said.

Kid muttered a curse beside you. The captain was currently down on his hands and knees, head buried under the sink trying, unsuccessfully, to fix the lack of running water in the kitchen.

“Are you sure you know what you’re doing?” You peered down at his back and stifled a grin at the thunk of Kid knocking his head against the cabinet as he crawled out to glare at you.

“Of course I do,” he snapped back. Truth be told, plumbing wasn’t Kid’s specialty but he had a basic enough understanding, and really, how hard could it be compared to the machinery he’s made before?

“I just need another minute,” he said as he crawled back under the sink.

You gave a skeptical hum, “Alright, but if we can’t get this working Killer’s gonna be mad, you know how particular he is about his kitchen.”

“Killer,” Kid grunted as he gave a sharp turn of the wrench to one of the pipes, “will have to deal with it until I figure this out.”

You rolled your eyes when Kid suddenly gave you a sharp kick with his boot.

“Hey! What was that for?!”

“I can practically hear you roll your eyes,” Kid’s voice came from beneath the cabinet, and you had to marvel how he could read you even without seeing you. Crossing your arms you huffed as sounds of clinking and metal echoed from below. After several minutes Kid withdrew himself, hand on the counter as he pulled himself up to sit on his knees.

“Alright try it now.”

You gave a him skeptical look before reaching forward and turning the handle again. To your surprise water began flowing freely and you gasped in excitement.

“See?” Kid planted a hand on his hip, chest puffing, “I told you I had it handled.”

You grinned in response, eyes still on the running water as your hand trailed down to brush through Kid’s hair, “Good boy.”

Kid chokes on his response, a sudden heat crawling across his face at the words and suddenly he’s very aware of his position on his knees looking up at you. You don’t react, rather you didn’t even seem to realize what you’d just said, until Kid’s uncharacteristic silence caught your attention and you looked down at him. Kid was flushed, staring up at you with mixed emotions playing out across his face seemingly frozen in the spot and in that moment, you realized what crossed your lips.

“I mean good job!” you yanked your hand back from his head as if it’d been burned, fighting a flush across your own face while Kid hastily stumbled up muttering a curse as he trips over his own feet.

“I-I said good job!” you reiterated as Kid finally rights himself. His eyes darted around the kitchen, seeming to settle anywhere but you and his face is still beet red but he gives an awkward cough and a nod before agreeing.

“Right, well-just tell Killer his damn sink is fixed,” and with that he turned and marched out of the room awkwardly. Kid practically flees to the safety of his own quarters and when he shuts the door all he can hear is the way you called him a good boy and how annoyed he is when he realized he was getting hard off it. But perhaps what annoyed him even more was how much he wanted to hear you call him that again.

[tapeworrmart]

Circles

[lesbianjonimitchell]

Joan Baez presenting boygenius with the Variety 'Group of the Year' Award:

“I’m here to offer the award for Group of the Year to three women who have personally and musically stolen my heart. [...] I believe that the songs of these three women speak to the delicacy of the human condition. And they are in a sense trailblazers, not just with their music and its uniqueness, but in their willingness to speak out for people who are marginalized, and in fact ostracized and persecuted in this society. To bring about any society of decency and caring is going to take a lot of work, and you women have been a part of that work. A word about the music: I was brought up listening to and singing harmonies, and I’ve heard a lot of them in my day. I have seldom heard harmonies as true and as fucking angelic as yours. It’s just a glory to listen to. [...] Actually, they, I believe, will teach us something about the kind of friendship in musicians that I didn't really know back then. I was trying to imagine Crosby, Stills and Nash romping through an outdoor amusement park [...]. Friendship and pleasure and joy and trust, all of these come through clearly to me, and I think we can all learn from that as well."

[twobrokenwyngs]

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