Live Rust
Live Rust is a live album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse, recorded during their fall 1978 Rust Never Sleeps tour.
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| Released | November 14, 1979 | |||
| Recorded | October 1978 | |||
| Venue | Cow Palace, Daly City; Boston Garden, Boston, Massachusetts; Civic Center, St. Paul, Minnesota; Chicago Stadium, Chicago, Illinois; and McNichols Arena, Denver, Colorado | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, country rock | |||
| Length | 71:47 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
| Producer | David Briggs, Tim Mulligan & Bernard Shakey (aka Neil Young) | |||
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| Singles from Live Rust | ||||
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| Christgau's Record Guide | A− |
Live Rust is composed of performances recorded at several venues, including the Cow Palace near San Francisco. Young also directed a companion film, Rust Never Sleeps, under a pseudonym "Bernard Shakey", which consisted of footage from the Cow Palace.
The CD version of the album was slightly edited to fit on a single compact disc, which were limited to 74 minutes at the time this album was first issued on CD. In 2014, a remastered, high-resolution download was made available on the Pono store, restoring the album to its original length.
Between tracks 2 and 3 on side 2 there is a stage announcement calling for people to get off of a tower and comments on an ongoing rainstorm. This is actually taken from Woodstock, almost a decade prior where Young performed as a member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.