![]() Gone are expected crowd-pleasers like “Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black),” “Powderfinger,” “Rockin’ in the Free World” and “Tonight’s the Night,” all swapped out for oddball selections designed to scratch some itch of the band: American Stars ’n Bars’ cornpone romp “Homegrown,” a revved-up reading of the Re Playing in their own backyard-for fans who were close enough to be friends, and friends who were more like family-shaped the concert from its setlist to its execution. That’s precisely what happened in November 1990: With two months to go before a big arena tour, the time was ripe to kick off the cobwebs. The Ducks didn’t survive 1977, but Young’s connection to the Catalyst endured it became a place for him to limber up before heading back out on the road. ![]() Way Down in the Rust Bucket captures a Novemgig at the small Santa Cruz club the Catalyst, a hometown bar that became Young’s regular stomping ground in 1977, when he spent the summer figuring out whether his ill-fated group the Ducks had a future. Some of this change in tone is surely due to the change in venue. Here, Crazy Horse aren’t interested in assaulting their audience instead, they’re grooving along alongside them. Way Down in the Rust Bucket, the 12th live album in Young’s ongoing (and now absurdly active) Archives series, flips that energy on its head. The ensuing live 2xLP, Weld, and feedback-laden Arc EP tapped into the arena-sized aggression that fueled the band at its peak, all the way back to 1979’s incendiary Live Rust. Young’s decision to bring a pair of prominent alternative rockers on tour underscored the wild, untamed character of his work with Crazy Horse, with its swirls of distortion and primitive thump. The quick sessions resulted in an album with a spontaneous feel it was the liveliest and loudest Crazy Horse had ever sounded in the studio.Īs a full-bore rock’n’roll record, Ragged Glory was an ideal album to take out on the road, which is precisely what Neil Young and Crazy Horse did, spending the first four months of 1991 roaring through North America’s arenas with supporting acts Sonic Youth and Social Distortion in tow. Picking up a fuzzy strand left hanging from Rust Never Sleeps, the 1979 album that represented their last great triumph, Young and Crazy Horse knocked out Ragged Glory at his Broken Arrow Ranch in a few weeks. Buoyed by the creative and commercial rebirth of 1989’s Freedom, Young reconnected with Crazy Horse, the ambling backing band who had supported him through good times and bad since way back in 1969. Perhaps they had a point: Once he returned to his old home at Reprise, he started making music like he had in the old days. ![]() ![]() The label was so aggrieved by the mercurial singer-songwriter’s behavior that they filed suit against Young, accusing him of purposefully delivering uncommercial albums. He spent the bulk of the ’80s sowing wild oats while in an unhappy union with Geffen Records. Way Down in the Rust Bucket 4LP vinyl and 2CD:Ġ8.Neil Young entered the 1990s acting as if his erratic 1980s never happened. Way Down in The Rust Bucket is number 11.5 in Neil Young’s Performance Series (it sits between Bluenote Cafe and Dreamin’ Man Live ’92). The CD edition offers alternate cover art. It’s believed there were technical issues with the original audio. The DVD includes a bonus track, ‘Cowgirl in the Sand’. The show is being released as a 4LP package, a two-CD edition and a box set which includes both of those formats and a DVD of the show, which was filmed and recorded by Shakey Picture’s LA Johnson. ![]() The band played three sets, including tracks from the newly released Ragged Glory as well as the live debut of Zuma‘s ‘Dangerbird’. This album documents a 13 November 1990 show at The Catalyst, a small bar in Santa Cruz, California where Neil Young occasionally performed. ‘Way Down in the Rust Bucket’ is a new Neil Young and Crazy Horse live album issued under Young’s long-running ‘Performance Series’ banner. New live album 4LP – 2CD – Box set with DVD ![]()
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