NEIL YOUNG TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT 1st UK PRES MiNt AuDiO/ViNyL ARCHIVE REPRISE ROCK

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[zipedit] [zipedit] Neil Young "Tonight's The Night"1975 Cat No K54040
Original Very Rare 1st UK Pressing Reprise Labels
Complete!

Very Rare Near Mint Archive Copy! (Barely Played A Handfull Of Times Only) You Can Still See The Plastic In The Spindle Hole!
Very Near Mint Stunning TOP Audio Quality Through out!
Near Mint Vinyl!
Near Mint 1st Issue Custom Unlaminated Gatefold Cover!
41 Years Old Like This! Absolutely Astounding Audio Archive Copy!
Bothe Sides Feature The Master Pressers Signatures (Only 1st UK Press)
Never Need To Upgrade! Very Very Rare In This Condition!

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Another from my personal collection of over 50,000 UK albums that I have collected over a period of more than 45 years! 1st UK pressing of Neil Young "Tonight's The Night" on the original Reprise labels  This album is a real beauty looks barely ever played in my personal opinion! The audio is truly stunning through out! The Vinyl and audio is graded as very Near  Mint in my opinion! Complete with the original textured un-laminated gatefold cover, original picture record sleeve  41 years old like this! Read the full full description below!

An audio archive copy! Hear for yourself in the player below! Actual Recording from The Vinyl!




Tonight's the Night is the sixth studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released in 1975 on Reprise Records, catalogue K54040 in the UK. It was recorded in 1973 (most of it on a single day, August 26, its release delayed for two years. It peaked at #25 on the Billboard 200. In 2003, the album was ranked number on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.





Tonight's the Night is a direct expression of grief. Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten and Young's friend and roadie Bruce Berry had both died of drug overdoses in the months before the songs were written. The title track mentions Berry by name, while Whitten's guitar and vocal work highlight "Come on Baby Let's Go Downtown"; the latter was recorded live in 1970. The song would later appear, unedited, on a live album from the same concerts, Live at the Fillmore East, with Whitten credited as the sole author.




Fans have long speculated that an alternate version of Tonight's the Night exists. Neil Young's father, Scott Young, wrote of it in his memoir, Neil and Me:




Ten years after the original recording, David Briggs and I talked about Tonight's the Night, on which he had shared the producer credit with Neil. At home a couple of weeks earlier he had come across the original tape, the one that wasn't put out. "I want to tell you, it is a handful. It is unrelenting. There is no relief in it at all. It does not release you for one second. It's like some guy having you by the throat from the first note, and all the way to the end." After all the real smooth stuff Neil had been doing, David felt most critics and others simply failed to read what they should have into Tonight's the Night -- that it was an artist making a giant growth step. Neil came in during this conversation, which was in his living room. When David stopped Neil said, "You've got that original? I thought it was lost. I've never been able to find it. We'll bring it out someday, that original."




The band assembled for the album was known as the Santa Monica Flyers consisting of Young, Ben Keith, Nils Lofgren, and the Crazy Horse rhythm section of Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina. One track as stated above was taken from recordings of an earlier tour with Crazy Horse, and another from an earlier session with his band for Harvest, The Stray Gators.





Included with the early original vinyl releases of Tonight's the Night is a cryptic message written by Young: "I'm sorry. You don't know these people. This means nothing to you."




On the front of the insert is a letter to a character called "Waterface". No explanation is given to this person's identity, although in Shakey: Neil Young's Biography, Young says that "Waterface is the person writing the letter. When I read the letter, I'm Waterface. It's just a stupid thing—a suicide note without the suicide."




The back of the insert has some text superimposed over the credits to Young's On the Beach album, released a year earlier. This text is reportedly the lyrics to an unreleased song titled "Florida", referred to in Shakey as "A cockamamie spoken-word dream, set to the shrieking accompaniment of either Young or Ben Keith drawing a wet finger around the rim of a glass."






When unfolded, a whole side of the insert features a lengthy article printed entirely in Dutch.







It is a review of a Tonight's the Night live show by Dutch journalist Constant Meijers for the Dutch rock music magazine Muziekkrant OOR. In 1976 Young said he chose to print it "Because I didn't understand any of it myself, and when someone is so sickened and fucked up as I was then, everything's in Dutch anyway." Meijers later spent a week at Young's ranch in California: during this visit, Young explained that he chose the article after some Dutch girls who were visiting him translated the story and made him aware of the fact "that someone on the other end of the world exactly understood what he was trying to say."







The Reprise Records label on the vinyl copy was printed in black and white rather than the standard orange color, a process Young undertook again on the CD label art for 1994's Sleeps with Angels. Early editions of the sleeve were made on blotter paper.







Scratched into the run-out grooves on Side One is the message "Hello Waterface" while the run-out grooves on Side Two read "Goodbye Waterface". The picture of Roy Orbison is taken from a bootleg tape Young came across and, feeling bad that Orbison most likely did not know the bootleg existed, printed it in the insert for him to see.





Side one
1. "Tonight's the Night" (with the Santa Monica Flyers) 4:39
2. "Speakin' Out" (with the Santa Monica Flyers) 4:56
3. "World on a String" (with the Santa Monica Flyers) 2:27 4. "Borrowed Tune" 3:26
5. "Come on Baby Let's Go Downtown" (live from the 1970 tour with Crazy Horse) Neil Young, Danny Whitten 3:35
6. "Mellow My Mind" (with the Santa Monica Flyers) 3:07

Side two
1. "Roll Another Number" (with the Santa Monica Flyers) 3:02
2. "Albuquerque" (with the Santa Monica Flyers) 4:02
3. "New Mama" (with the Santa Monica Flyers) 2:11
4. "Lookout Joe" (with The Stray Gators) 3:57
5. "Tired Eyes" (with the Santa Monica Flyers) 4:38
6. "Tonight's the Night" (with the Santa Monica Flyers) 4:52




The Matrix
side 1. "K-54040-A2" (Only 1st UK Press) "Export Hello Waterface" hand Etched only 1st press)
side 2. "K-54040 B-2 " (Only 1st UK Press) "Export Goodye Waterface" hand Etched only 1st press)








The Vinyl
On initial visual inspection the vinyllooks like a new vinyl in my opinion. Amazingly, I struggle see more than a handfull of spider marks on the labels! This lays perfectly flat on the turntable and are free from any warping. (Note! I have double checked these) The vinyl looks superb, still retaining its original glossy sheen from new. Only In strong light could possibly any or very (very) few surface marks be seen caused by the vinyl been slid in and out of its sleeve. Note: (no) deep needle scratches that would cause any loud constant clicks or pops at all!

The Audio Quality
I have played the vinyl prior to listing on a top system at very loud volume! The audio is superbe cristal clear and very vibrant throughout! Top audio seperation on all frequencies only heard like this on early original pressings! Note! Please allow for the odd isolated static/crackle or type pop perhapes heard in run ins or quieter place only.  This looks and plays like a new vinyl in my opinion, there were no loud constant clicks/ticks, pops or any jumps truly awesome and very rare for a 1st pressing. The audio is graded at very Near as Mint in my opinion!

PLEASE NOTE! I always add this disclaimer! I have played this album prior to listing as usual and have given my honest opinion on the audio quality. Please remember this is a 41 years old original vinyl (not a reissue) Please allow for the odd interference/static pop/crackle/tick but importantly nothing consistant through out the audio! Please remember  that this would have been originally played on a system that is 41 years old!
All indications i.e. that this vinyl has (not) been overplayed and in fact looks barely ever played in my personal opinion, at least no more than a handful of times in my opinion and the audio quality superbe on all frequencies and the fact there are no spider marks on the labels that I can see!
 
The labels
This features the "Reprise" yellow labels. (only 1st UK press) These are superbe barely a handful of spider marks seen (even when angled to the light) and little if (no) spindle ware! This vinyl has hardly been played at all, at least barely a handful of times in my personal opinion! You can still even see the plastic in the spindle hole!

The Record Sleeve
This is the original card type picture sleeve. Correct for this issue features correct catalogue nuber K5404. No splits or tears, stunning condition! The vinyl is now always stored seperately from the sleeve.

The cover
The original 1st issue un-laminated  custom gatefold cover is superbe! with (no) edge splits or tears. Please note , being primarily black these are almost impossible to find in this absolutely awesome condition.  The spine is awesome and generally square, not faded, and the writing can clearly be seen! Note!  A truly superbe example!  No real nasty creases bare minor crease lines not noticed unless looked for in my opinion. worth to mention. Any imperfections are very minor and are not really noticed unless looked for in my opinion.  Must be at least Excellent plus in my opinion rarely ever seen like this after 41 years!

HOW I SEND MY RECORDS!

THIS ALBUM WILL BE SENT IN A LARGE BOX WITH CARDBOARD STIFFENERS THE ALBUM IS ALWAYS PUT IS A POLY SLEEVE AND ENCASED IN THE BOX WITH PLENTY OF BUBBLE WRAP FOR ADDED PROTECTION (SEE PHOTOS)

                           

 

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