Shakey and the band record their performances from the “Rust Never Sleeps” tour and release the album, “Live Rust” on November 14, 1978. Personally, it’s Neil and Crazy Horse at their live best.
Happy 74th to arguably one of the most important singer/songwriters of a generation …
Neil Young’s debut album is released on November 12, 1968 …
You gotta love Shakey …
Neil Young has outlined an ambitious plan to release an enormous cache of unreleased music onto his Neil Young Archives website in 2020.
Source: Neil Young Wants You to Hear His Unreleased Music Before You Die – Rolling Stone
November 10, 1968 ~ Shakey performs “Sugar Mountain” at the Canterbury House in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The recording of the song is used as the B-side for “The Loner” and is later included on the Decade compilation album.
Fifty-one years later and we still don’t know who that rube is coughing at the end.
#7 from Shakey is released on November 10, 1975. “Danger Bird” can not be played loud enough.
Shakey releases his 10th album a day before the 1980 presidential election … November 3, 1980 …
Shakey releases his first compilation album on October 28, 1977.
We’re thinking about making it sound real, like you can feel that this means something to the people playing it … We’re not trying to impress anybody.”
Source: David Greene, Taylor Haney and Vince Pearson ~ NPR Music
Shakey’s not giving up on the holy grail of sound …
In fact, part of the problem was solved long before Young came along. First there were AIFF and WAV files, soon followed by the more taggable FLACs, for distributing CD or better quality, the standard Neil Young Archives would ultimately follow.
