Neil Young
Time Fades Away

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Soundforge Notes:  

- I removed most of the pops from the vinyl, the ones I could easily find anyway.
- Fades added at start and finish of LP sides.

01.  Time Fades Away (Miriad - Oklahoma City) 3/1/73
02.  Journey Into The Past (Public Hall - Cleveland) 2/11/73
03.  Yonder Stands The Sinner (Coliseum - Seattle) 3/31/73
04.  L.A. (Myriad - 0klahoma City) 3/1/73
05.  Love In Mind (Royce Hall - UCLA) 1/30/71
06.  Don't Be Denied (Coliseum - Phoenix) 3/28/73
07.  The Bridge (Memoirial Auditorium Sacramento) 4/1/73
08.  Last Dance (Sports Arena - San Diego) 3/29/73

Produced By:
Elliot Maizer & Neil Young

Tim Drummond, Johnny Barbata, Jack Nitzsche, Ben Keith

Guests: David Crosby, Graham Nash

Copyright '73  (So when this does become available again, BUY IT!  Till then enjoy.)

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Notes:

  Time Fades Away (Reprise 2-2151)
Q: Where can I buy a CD copy of "Journey Through The Past" soundtrack,
"Time Fades Away", "On The Beach", "American Stars N Bars",
"Hawks & Doves", "re-ac-tor" &/or "Where The Buffalo Roam" soundtrack?
A: None of these albums have been issued on CD by Reprise or MCA.
99.99% of the time, whenever these albums are offered for sale on CD,
the disc is actually a PIRATE (an illegal copy of a legitimate recording)
and the fidelity is definately NOT going to be the best quality. We're not
sure about the MCA/Backstreet album, but we do know for sure that the
six Reprise albums were actually mastered for CD release in late 1995.
(Test Pressing CDs are incredibly RARE, although 2-3 copies of each
title have been verified as REAL Reprise CDs and/or sold since 1996.)
A source close to Neil Young has attributed the delay in release simply
due to the record industry's inability to agree on a high frequency curve
standard for CDs (--ever notice how you have to adjust the volume every
time you put in a different CD? One CD's too loud, the next is too soft?)
Countless thousands of CDs will need to be remastered (and re-bought
by consumers) if/when an RIAA standard is finally recommended. "The
six" will be remastered to this standard, and Mr. Young will be able to
"issue them (right) once" and be done with it. (Personally, I expect that
we'll see these titles released in the DVD-Audio format before they are
released (if ever) on CD --even "Archives" has already been remastered
for DVD, which Mr. Young called "everything that CD promised to be."

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Time Fades Away (1973)

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Time Fades Away was Neil Young's first album of original songs to be released after the enormous commercial success of Harvest. All the music was recorded live with pretty much the same band as its predecessor. Those expecting the sweet melodies and clean production of Heart of Gold, however, were bound to be dissappointed, but the material in Time Fades Away provides the artist's audience with previously unseen glimpses into his deepest persona. These songs are essential to keeping up with what was to follow. 
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Time Fades Away - A catchy tune with a stark theme of junkies "too weak to work" out on pain street. At the beginning of the tune there are fourteen junkies; the number is reduced by one in the last verse through the attrition of the street. The narrator spent his days back in Canada "riding subways through haze." 

Journey Through The Past - A favorite from his solo tour in 1971, describing the thoughts of home and lover during a Canadian sojourn. This one was performed solo on piano and introduced as a "song without a home." 

Yonder Stands The Sinner - Before this one begins, guest musician David Crosby introduces it as being "kind of experimental." Neil's seems to be experimenting with some notes he can't quite reach but the attack on the "I'm right so you're wrong" nature of some organized religion is compelling. 

LA - This song, which dates back to a few years before the record was released, opens with a promising guitar riff and the tune doesn't dissappoint. The image of Los Angeles turning to "bubbles in the sea and an ocean full of trees" is shocking, but shouldn't be, according to the singer. He also has a few problems with the "uptight city in the smog" but asks later, "Don't you wish that you could be here too?" 

Love In Mind - Another attack on organized religion, this time through the sweet reminisces of a lover and how "man made rules been holdin' back my love, can't hold it back no more." The song is effectively performed solo on piano. 

Don't Be Denied - This is the most autobiographical song in Neil Young's catalog. It describes the heart-wrenching breakup of his family, the subsequent move to Winnipeg and the resulting adjustment difficulties: "the punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the schoolyard." We are then treated to a description of guitar discovery and the start of a marathon musical ride. The ambivalance of leaving Canada is also depicted, though only on the lyric sheet; he left the verse out of the recording. Neil's rejection of the businessman's view of the musician is portrayed poignantly in the latter verses. This is an incredibly intimate look into the soul of this intrigueing songwriter. 

The Bridge - Yet another piano tune. This provides a nice interlude after the intensity of the last song. The song celebrates those intimate moments best shared with one you love. 

Last Dance - A real rocker. One of Neil's songs that describe dancing as a means of escaping everyday life. "You can live your own life, making it happen, working on your own time, laid back and laughing." Graham Nash provides some enthusiastic vocals. 

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The live recording Time Fades Away (1973 - with The Stray Gators) finds him singing in a tremulous voice pure soft-rock melodies. He refused to make an expected follow-up of Harvest and lost a lot of aficionados because changing style. Feeling boxed in by commercial success, Young had steered away from it. The chart performance of "Heart Of Gold" had brought him a lot of things he found he didn't want. "I was still only 23 or 24, and I realized I had a long way to go and this wasn't going to be the most satisfying thing, just sittin' around basking in the glory of having a hit record. It's really a very shallow experience, it's actually a very empty experience". Next came the tragedy of Bruce Berry's death. Berry, a CSNY's roadie, died of a drug overdose, just like Danny Whitten. In came the aching Tonight's The Night (1975), recorded with Crazy Horse reconstituted after the lost of Whitten. Molina (vocals and drums), Talbot (vocals and bass), guitarist Nils Lofgren and steel-guitar player Ben Keith got stoned for the recording, as well as Young. Tonight's The Night is a very dark album filled with personal pain. It is dedicated to Danny Whitten and Bruce Berry. Neil Young once explained: "The whole thing is about life, dope and death". In the same year he also recorded the hard-rocking Zuma, featuring a new Crazy Horse line-up with Ralph Molina, Billy Talbot and guitarist Frank Sampredo.  


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