Neil Young, Tonight's the Night , rare PROMO copy
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Reprise MS 2221 : Neil Young "Tonight's the Night". Very rare promo label copy (see picture). Very hard to find this album in this condition, this is by far the best copy I have seen.
Jacket: VG++ , Original matte paper jacket , original inner picture sleeve, rare insert with photos and lyrics. Jacket is in great shape, no splits. Note: these matte paper jackets used for this album are very prone to breaking down with age if not taken care of. Most that I have seen are tattered and usually have split seems. This one is in fantastic condition. Only flaws are minor shelf wear and a small spot on the front where the promo sticker fell off ( you might be able to clean this up). The story i have heard is that Neil specifically picked this jacket to go along with the overall feeling of this album.
Labels: Very clean , almost no spindle wear, "Promotion Not For Sale" listed on both sides. Dead-wax reads "Hello Waterface" on side 1 and "Goodbye Waterface" on side two.
Vinyl: NM , bright light shows light sleeve scuffs, nothing that affects playback. I play graded the album ( denon DL 103R cartridge). Plays like new, amazing quality with quite backgrounds.
All Music Review:
5/5 Stars
Written and recorded in 1973 shortly after the death of roadie Bruce Berry, Neil Young's second close associate to die of a heroin overdose in six months (the first was Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten), Tonight's the Night was Young's musical expression of grief, combined with his rejection of the stardom he had achieved in the late '60s and early '70s. The title track, performed twice, was a direct narrative about Berry: "Bruce Berry was a working man/He used to load that Econoline van." Whitten was heard singing "Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown," a live track recorded years earlier. Elsewhere, Young frequently referred to drug use and used phrases that might have described his friends, such as the chorus of "Tired Eyes," "He tried to do his best, but he could not." Performing with the remains of Crazy Horse, bassist Billy Talbot and drummer Ralph Molina, along with Nils Lofgren (guitar and piano) and Ben Keith (steel guitar), Young performed in the ragged manner familiar from Time Fades Away — his voice was often hoarse and he strained to reach high notes, while the playing was loose, with mistakes and shifting tempos. But the style worked perfectly for the material, emphasizing the emotional tone of Young's mourning and contrasting with the polished sound of CSNY and Harvest that Young also disparaged. He remained unimpressed with his commercial success, noting in "World on a String," "The world on a string/Doesn't mean anything." In "Roll Another Number," he said he was "a million miles away/From that helicopter day" when he and CSN had played Woodstock. And in "Albuquerque," he said he had been "starvin' to be alone/Independent from the scene that I've known" and spoke of his desire to "find somewhere where they don't care who I am." Songs like "Speakin' Out" and "New Mama" seemed to find some hope in family life, but Tonight's the Night did not offer solutions to the personal and professional problems it posed. It was the work of a man trying to turn his torment into art and doing so unflinchingly. Depending on which story you believe, Reprise Records rejected it or Young withdrew it from its scheduled release at the start of 1974 after touring with the material in the U.S. and Europe. In 1975, after a massive CSNY tour, Young at the last minute dumped a newly recorded album and finally put Tonight's the Night out instead. Though it did not become one of his bigger commercial successes, the album immediately was recognized as a unique masterpiece by critics, and it has continued to be ranked as one of the greatest rock & roll albums ever made.
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