Album: Rust Never Sleeps
Year: 1979
Recorded at the Cow Palace, San Francisco on October 22, 1978
Believe it or not, when Live Rust came out, there was actually some debate as to whether or not it even needed to exist.
After all, Neil had recently put out the career-spanning retrospective, Decade, on which you could find near-definitive versions of many of the songs, and even more scandalous, Live Rust repeated four tracks from Rust Never Sleeps, including the exact same recording of “Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black),” making it the only song that used the exact same performance on all three documents that came from that tour: Rust Never Sleeps, Live Rust and the film Rust Never Sleeps, though this version has some overdubs.
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