DAVID BRIGGS’ GENIUS
‘CRAZY HORSE LIVE’

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In the mid eighties, Crazy Horse was touring America with the ‘In a Rusted Out Garage’ tour. Briggs and a recording truck followed the band to the majority of the shows. The following is my notes upon first hearing this recording.

LIVE From a Rusted Out Garage

MR Soul and Cinnamon girl….we are in the eighties. everything is bigger!

It’s the eighties. we’ve been doing it now for maybe 16 years. Things have changed. Sounds are changing. Time is flying…..Ralph’s big snare! Briggs was going for it in these mixes. Wild tremolo/vibrato in When u Dance.

Down by the River - I feel that my voice is much stronger then than it is now. I am playing some crazy shit on old black. This was a long time ago. Life is a trip folks . . . .Hang in there . .

Acoustic guitar on Heart of Gold is more full to me now than on the recent versions. I was using a cord then and not a wireless system and I think the cord sounded better. Briggs had a big sound on the acoustic.

Gold rush is strong overall. even with the piano mis-balanced at the source, i feel good about the sound and the take.

Driveback… a seventies song… bars girls / drugs. they all are in there. Guitar sounds real good here. Larry Cragg (guitar tech) working his genius. Rough edit near the end but it rocks…easy to see why Briggs did that. great ending. How the horse falls together!

Opera star is over the top! The Horse is rockin’. Good times! You’ll never be an opera star.

Cortez the Killer

Happy Birthday kicks it off! somewhere in there . . . .!!

Cortez
The horse loves to play this song…We kind of lost it after a while and it didn’t feel the same, but thats life. This was a good one. We sure did love to play. I’m glad we were there. Sure am singing on this one . . .! playing my heart out. Living over the top. The Horse…..as crazy at it gets . . . . .Elvis barking . . .he loves it . . . .

Sugar mountain…written back when i was 20 somewhere in Ontario. Still a happy song to do today. I sing it for my son Ben on Facetime sometimes. It is always fun to do that. It was good this night too.

Sample / Computer age. It was the Horse that started Trans.

Violent Side
Briggs. This is so cool. It’s the eighties.I can finally hear Violent side! Love you man ! I can smell the horse.

Needle
Briggs is in his element here. This is really the magic touch I love so much. His hands are on those faders. Thanks David!

The source is 1/4” analog reels, produced by David Briggs, engineered by Niko Bolas.

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This recording will be included in NYA Volume 3.