Neil Young Time Fades Away WB MS2151 White Label Promo w/Poster Near Mint +
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Neil Young
Time Fades Away
White Label Promotional Copy
Stunning Copy!
If I rated any records Mint, This would have been the one!
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Time Fades Away is a 1973 live album by Neil Young, consisting of previously unreleased material. It was recorded with The Stray Gators on the tour following 1972's highly successful Harvest and has not been reissued on CD due to Young's dissatisfaction with that particular series of concerts. Although Time Fades Away received much critical praise, has been widely pirated, and is highly sought after by fans, there are no current plans to reissue the album.
Though "Love In Mind" dates from a 1971 solo tour (on the January 30 date of the tour, "The Needle and the Damage Done" was recorded, the version on Harvest), all other songs on the album were from recordings made during a 62-date tour in early 1973 that featured an acoustic set with Young followed by an electric set with backing band the Stray Gators. Longtime collaborator and former Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten, who had just died of a heroin overdose, had been set to join the Gators as a second guitarist but was sent home after it became evident that he was in no condition to embark on a rigorous tour. This motif of death and gloom recurred throughout the period, culminating in Tonight's the Night.
The tour came on the heels of the success of the country-tinged Harvest. Audiences did not always react positively to the new songs premiered; neither were they fond of the Gators' new sound, more reminiscent of the hard-rocking Crazy Horse of old. Young grew mentally unstable as the tour progressed, frustrating drummer Kenneth Buttrey to the point where he left the group two-thirds of the way through. He was replaced by ex-Turtles and CSNY (and future Jefferson Airplane) percussionist Johnny Barbata, who plays on all of the recordings on the album. Similarly frustrated was pianist Jack Nitzsche, who according to producer Elliot Mazer in the book Shakey, would often spew obscenities into his switched-off vocal microphone. Similarly, pedal steel/ dobro player Ben Keith was so inebriated at one sound check that he had no idea of what instrument he was playing. For the tour, Young switched guitars from his trademark Gibson Les Paul to a Gibson Flying V.
Alcohol abuse, combined with his near-falsetto singing style on the tour, would lead Young to develop a throat infection in the final days of the tour. Called in to supplement the harmonies and add some extra guitar were David Crosby and Graham Nash. Clashes continued, with Nitzsche complaining that he couldn't hear himself playing because Crosby's 12-string electric guitar overpowered the sound mix. After ninety days, the tour ended in Salt Lake City.
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Original Thick Heavy Vinyl
Stored In Heavy Plastic Outer Sleeve Since Purchase
Official Release Information
Label: WB MS 2151
Released: 1973
Format: 12" vinyl LP (album), 33 1/3 RPM
Disc Condition
Near Mint
Visual Inspection
No visable flaws - Looks unplayed
Cover Condition
Near Mint
Visual Inspection
No Notable Exceptions
Shipment Information
All records are carefully packaged and shipped in heavy duty commercial grade #200 corrugated Record shipping boxes!
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All records come from my personal collection accumulated during my years in the music industry. When purchased new or received as a promotional copy, the album or single was placed in a plastic outer sleeve and sometimes a plastic inner sleeve. When possible the records will include these plastic sleeves. Most were listened to once and transferred to tape.I rate rather conservatively but work closely with Goldmine standards. My Near Mint ratings are generally what everybody else rates as Mint or Brand New.
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