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ROIO of the Week [Recordings
of Indeterminate Origin]
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Neil
Young
Chrome Dreams
[Rust Edition]
Chrome
Dreams was planned for release in 1977 then abandoned. Instead Neil Young
released American Stars & Bars that year. Four songs on Chrome Dreams
were included in American Stars & Bars. A fifth, Hold Back The Tears,
was rerecorded with a band and added to American Stars & Bars. The
version on Chrome Dreams is a solo recording.
One song, Captain
Kennedy, was later released on Hawks & Doves in 1980. The remaining
six songs were all eventually released but in rerecorded versions.
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better view.
In the early 1990s,
an acetate of Chrome Dreams emerged in the collector's market in Germany,
finally putting to rest rumours of the album's existence. On the acetate
bore a date and year, March 16, 1977 and all the songs.
In the tracklist
below is the exact album submitted to Reprise as Chrome Dreams.
By the end of 1976,
Neil Young finished his lengthy World Tour with an appearance in San Francisco
for The Band's Last Waltz at the Winterland with an assembly of a Who's
Who of American rock. Young was now a premium, superstar artist with his
last album, Zuma, a hit.
His label, Warner-Reprise,
wanted product for the holidays. Decade, a triple LP, was proposed. But
Young was not prepared to issue a "greatest hits" package that suggested
he had peaked. He reportedly told Rolling Stone writer Cameron Crowe that
he wasn't ready to take a lookback at his career. Instead he offered a
new album, Chrome Dreams, in place of Decade.
The suits from Warner-Reprise
were impressed with the songs off Chrome Dreams that Young played for
them and left the meeting confident they had another hit album. But they
insisted that Decade could not be put off permanently. They set the release
date for Decade for another 12 months.
The story is unclear
as to why Young then abandoned the 12 songs meant for Chrome Dreams and
only used four of the songs - Will To Love, Star Of Bethlehem, Like A
Hurricane, Homegrown and a rerecorded Hold Back The Tears - for the next
album he proposed to Warner-Reprise. This was provisionally titled American
Stars & Bars with the idea that one side would offer songs about celebrities
and historical figures while the other was views from a barstool! ie the
common man.
If the rock critics
who first listened to American Stars & Bars thought it was directionless
and not as strong as Zuma, we can imagine what his record label must have
felt. Whatever the case, Young got his way and Chrome Dreams was left
in the bin but not before the suits extracted an earlier release for the
triple-LP, Decade, which was rushed out in October 1977, three months
after the release of American Stars & Bars in June.
So why did Neil Young
not want to release, what most who have heard Chrome Dreams consider,
a classic album?
Give us your views.
Drop a comment at the blog.
- The Little Chicken
Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality,
stereo MP3s - sample rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain,
these tracks have never been officially released.
These tracks are no longer available for download. Kindly email us at
mybigo@bigozine.com if you want
to download these tracks at a later time.
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| Track
01 |
Pochahontas
3.24m
(4.5MB)
Neil
Young and instruments. Recorded Sept 1975. Released Rust Never Sleeps
1979 but this is "naked mix" with the vocals up front.
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| Track
02* |
Will To Love
7.11m
Neil Young
and instruments. Recorded May 1976. Released American Stars &
Bars 1977.
SAME
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| Track
03* |
Star Of Bethlehem
2.42m
Neil Young, Emmylou Harris [vocals]; Ben Keith [dobro,
vocals]; Tim Drummond [bs]. Recorded November 1974. Released American
Stars & Bars 1977.
SAME
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| Track
04* |
Like A Hurricane
8.14m
Neil Young, Frank Sampedro [gtr]; Billy Talbot [bs];
Ralph Molina [drms]. Recorded November 1975. Released American Stars
& Bars 1977.
SAME.
Note the version of the 2005 reissue of AS&B is 8.20m. Longer
fade?
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| Track
05 |
Too
Far Gone 2.41m
(3.5MB)
Neil
Young, Frank Sampedro [mandolin]. Recorded November 1976. Diff version
found on Freedom released in 1989. |
| Track
06 |
Hold
Back The Tears 5.16m
(7.2MB)
Neil Young and
instruments. Released American Stars & Bars 1977 but this is the
solo version and not the same. |
| Track
07* |
Homegrown
2.20m
Neil Young,
Frank Sampedro [gtr]; Billy Talbot [bs, vcls]; Ralph Molina [drms,
vcls]. Recorded November 1975. Released American Stars & Bars
1977.
SAME
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| Track
08* |
Captain Kennedy
2.55m
Neil Young
and instruments. Recorded September 1975. Released Hawks & Doves
1980.
SAME
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| Track
09 |
Stringman
3.32m
(4.7MB)
Neil
Young and instruments. Recorded live in concert March 1976. Diff version
found on Unplugged 1993. |
| Track
10 |
Sedan
Delivery 5.22m
(7.1MB)
Neil
Young, Frank Sampedro [gtr]; Billy Talbot [bs, vcls]; Ralph Molina
[drms, vcls]. Recorded November 1976. Diff version found on Rust Never
Sleeps 1979, this is longer and sounds like "grunge".
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11 |
Powderfinger
3.23m
(4.4MB)
Neil Young and
instruments. Recorded September 1975. Diff version found on Rust Never
Sleeps 1979. This is shorter and without Crazy Horse. |
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12* |
Look Out For
My Love 4.06m
Neil Young, Frank Sampedro [gtr]; Billy Talbot [bs];
Ralph Molina [drms]. Recorded November 1976. Released on Comes A
Time 1978.
SAME
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appear.
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