![]() So he ropes in Nils Lofgren, ex- of Grin, then Crosby, Stills & Nash, who have recently hauled him into their supergroup for the multi-million seller, Déjà Vu. He begins sessions with Crazy Horse, but his guitar jam-buddy Danny Whitten's off the mark, scuppered by a heroin addiction that will kill him after Young has to fire him in a couple of years. Which brings us to 1970 and Gold Rush where Young finds himself spoiled for choice. His second, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, is a collaboration with Crazy Horse, an album that sets the template for decades of highly-praised, much-imitated and never-bettered bar band romping. His first, Neil Young, a baroque beauty, had been largely ignored on its release in 1968. Then there's the rear of the sleeve, a picture of the back of Young's jeans, a collection of sewn-on patches holding together worn denim – shabby chic if you will, and an image that visually sums up the odd patchwork of the album residing therein.Īfter The Gold Rush is Young's third solo LP after the break-up of Buffalo Springfield. Moving on to the centrefold, this features Young sprawled out backstage, or in some rehearsal room, managing to look simultaneously completely out of it and yet king of the world. His image is solarised and out of focus while an old lady passes in the opposite direction in the background in perfect focus. The front shows Young walking along a street. What Young will do, though, is autograph the gatefold sleeve of the copy of After The Gold Rush that I've brought along – a cover that, in my opinion, is the greatest in all of rock history. What Neil Young doesn't want to talk about is Kurt Cobain, who, just over a year earlier, had quoted his lyric, 'it's better to burn out than to fade away' from 'Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)', in his suicide note. ![]() I'd rather you just left it out – it's just distasteful to me.' I certainly don't wanna take advantage of talking about something like that for the interest of somebody else I've never met, and selling myself in a paper in the process. I respect the fact he's a guy who did what he did and, y'know, he did what he had to do and I don't wanna get any… I prefer to not be involved at all. Clutching his personally signed sleeve of this 1970 album, Steve Sutherland nonetheless welcomes the 180g vinyl reissue – it's a work of real genius, he says ![]()
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