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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. | |
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 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. |
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