Live Rust

Live Rust
Live album by
Neil Young and Crazy Horse
ReleasedNovember 14, 1979 (1979-11-14)[1]
RecordedOctober 1978
VenueCow Palace, Daly City
Boston Garden, Boston
Civic Center, St. Paul
Chicago Stadium, Chicago
McNichols Arena, Denver
Genre
Length71:47
LabelReprise
Producer
Neil Young chronology
Rust Never Sleeps
(1979) 		Live Rust
(1979) 		Hawks & Doves
(1980)
Crazy Horse chronology
Rust Never Sleeps
(1979) 		Live Rust
(1979) 		Re·ac·tor
(1981)
Singles from Live Rust
  1. "The Loner" / "Cinnamon Girl"
    Released: February 1980
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Christgau's Record GuideA−[3]

Live Rust is a live album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse, recorded during their fall 1978 Rust Never Sleeps tour.

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.[4]

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.

  1. ^ "Neil Young Archives". Neilyoungarchives.com. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  2. ^ Allmusic review
  3. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: Y". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 23, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  4. ^ "PonoMusic - Store". Ponomusic.com. Retrieved 8 August 2018.