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Nov 12, 2016 · After early sessions in Hollywood’s Sunset Studios, most of it was recorded in the lead-lined basement of his house in the Canyon. There was barely space in the cramped room for CSN&Y bassist Greg Reeves, Crazy Horse drummer Ralph Molina, Young and his newest recruit, teenage guitarist Nils Lofgren.
After the Gold Rush is the third studio album by the Canadian-American musician Neil Young, released in September 1970 on Reprise Records. It is one of four high-profile solo albums released by the members of folk rock group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their chart-topping 1970 album Déjà Vu.
- August 1969 – June 1970
- Neil Young, David Briggs with Kendall Pacios
- September 1970
Sep 1, 2023 · Neil Young’s marvelous recording career has encompassed countless rocking anthems and enduring country-folk weepers. But has there ever been a Young song quite as mysteriously captivating (or maybe...
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- It was based on a screenplay for a movie that never happened. The title of the album was a direct reference to a screenplay of the same name by Dean Stockwell (any Quantum Leap fans out there?)
- It was Young's last ride with the original Crazy Horse. Young's intent was to combine band members from both CSNY, which had just released its second album, Déjà Vu, and Crazy Horse, which played on Young's 1969 album Everybody Knows This is Nowhere.
- The album wasn't an instant classic. When After the Gold Rush was released, it was critically panned, particularly by Rolling Stone, which called it "half-baked."
- Young's pianist had never played before. While most of the band was made up of seasoned musicians from CSNY and Crazy Horse, there was also newcomer Nils Lofgren, who was 19 at the time.
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In his extensive biography on Mr. Young, author Jimmy McDonough reveals that After the Gold Rush was an album loosely conceptualized around a screenplay of the same named written by child star, and Neil Young neighbor, Dean Stockwell. Apparently the only two songs on the album that are based on the as-yet-unproduced screenplay are this song and ...
The Story Of Neil Young ‘After The Gold Rush’. By the end of the 1960s Neil Young was catching the ear of many influential figures – not least his old band mate Stephen Stills, who was now part of the Grammy-winning folk-rock super group Crosby, Stills & Nash.
Nov 16, 2021 · He called the movie After the Gold Rush. The script is lost, but some details of the plot were recounted to McDonough by Shannon Forbes, an ex-girlfriend of Neil Young producer David Briggs.
