Crazy Horse Crazy Moon (Vinyl, RCA Records, 1978) ****
Genre: rock
Places I remember: Real Groovy and Marbecks Records
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: I Don't Want To Talk About It (CH)
Gear costume: Downtown (CH); She's Hot (CM)
Active compensatory factors: Every song on the debut album is red hot - a band firing on all cylinders. Against the odds too - Jack Nitzsche is notoriously difficult to work with and Danny Whitten was a junkie.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: I Don't Want To Talk About It (CH)
Gear costume: Downtown (CH); She's Hot (CM)
But somehow they pulled it off. Maybe it's the steadiness of Ralphy and Billy but I don't think so. They were both there for the next two - Loose and At Crooked Lake which I used to own but sold them off a long time ago.
Must be Nils Lofgren who steadied the ship because this album captures lightning in a bottle! A five star classic because every track is superb - clunker free! Ry Cooder plays sublime slide on three tracks btw.
By Crazy Moon, seven years later, Danny was dead and Neil Young had brought in Poncho as his guitar foil, so he joins Ralph Molina and Billy Talbot for a grungy sludgy wig out.
It's great!! Sloppy in classic Crazy Horse fashion and all three sing in a convincing way throughout the album.
Btw - Neil appears on a number of tracks - clearly, he couldn't help himself!
Where do they all belong? No need for the other albums - trust me, your next stop is Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
Where do they all belong? No need for the other albums - trust me, your next stop is Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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