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Rare Neil Young live album, Time Fades Away, gets Black Friday reissue Rare Neil Young live album, Time Fades Away, gets Black Friday reissue
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After decades out of print, one of Neil Young’s rarest albums is set to finally be reissued next month. Time Fades Away will be included in a vinyl-only box set for Record Store Day’s upcoming Black Friday event.After decades out of print, one of Neil Young’s rarest albums is set to finally be reissued next month. Time Fades Away will be included in a vinyl-only box set for Record Store Day’s upcoming Black Friday event.
Technically, Time Fades Away was Young’s first live album: he recorded its eight tracks over the course of a 1971-1973 tour. But unlike most albums, those songs had never previously been released; Young decided to share this new material as a kind of “audio verité”. The LP was first released in October 1973 but it has not remained in print and was never issued on CD. Technically, Time Fades Away was Young’s first live album: he recorded its eight tracks over the course of a 1971-1973 tour. But unlike most albums, those songs had never previously been released; Young decided to share this new material as a kind of “audio verité”. The LP was first released in October 1973, but it has not remained in print and was never issued on CD.
Time Fades Away was originally supposed to get a reissue in April, for Record Store Day’s main event. The record was to be packaged with On The Beach, Tonight’s The Night and Zuma for a vinyl set called Official Release Series Discs 5-8. The records were finalised, manufactured and shipped when organisers got a “last minute” call from Young, according to Record Store Day co-founder Michael Kurtz. “Neil [said], ‘I don’t want to do [it]. We’re going to wait and put [them] out on Black Friday,’” Kurtz told East Village Radio (via Uncut). Time Fades Away was originally supposed to get a reissue in April, for Record Store Day’s main event. The record was to be packaged with On the Beach, Tonight’s the Night and Zuma for a vinyl set called Official Release Series Discs 5-8. The records were finalised, manufactured and shipped when organisers got a “last minute” call from Young, according to Record Store Day co-founder Michael Kurtz. “Neil [said], ‘I don’t want to do [it]. We’re going to wait and put [them] out on Black Friday,’” Kurtz told East Village Radio (via Uncut).
Uncut now reports that the release will indeed go ahead on 28 November. But act fast: only 3,500 copies of Official Release Series Discs 5-8 have been pressed. Uncut now reports that the release will indeed go ahead on 28 November. But move fast: only 3,500 copies of Official Release Series Discs 5-8 have been pressed.
Young has previously referred to Time Fades Away as “the worst record I ever made”. Still, he said in 1987, “as a documentary of what was happening to me, it was a great record”. “It was just an uncomfortable tour. I felt like a product, and I had this band of all-star musicians that couldn’t even look at each other.”Young has previously referred to Time Fades Away as “the worst record I ever made”. Still, he said in 1987, “as a documentary of what was happening to me, it was a great record”. “It was just an uncomfortable tour. I felt like a product, and I had this band of all-star musicians that couldn’t even look at each other.”
Speaking to Guitar World in 2009, Young claimed that he intended to release a sequel to Time Fades Away using different recordings from the same tour. “I switched drummers halfway through the tour - Kenny Buttrey was in there for the first half, and Johnny Barbata came in for the second,” he said. “It’s a completely different thing, with completely different songs.” Time Fades Away II has yet to see the light of day.Speaking to Guitar World in 2009, Young claimed that he intended to release a sequel to Time Fades Away using different recordings from the same tour. “I switched drummers halfway through the tour - Kenny Buttrey was in there for the first half, and Johnny Barbata came in for the second,” he said. “It’s a completely different thing, with completely different songs.” Time Fades Away II has yet to see the light of day.
Young’s latest studio album, Storytone, is due on 3 November 2014. Young’s latest studio album, Storytone, is due on 3 November.