ALCHEMY is Crazy Horse Live through Europe, Australia and Canada. The third in the Crazy Horse Rust Trilogy, ALCHEMY is the last recorded album by Crazy Horse: Ralph Molina, Billy Talbot, Poncho Sampedro and myself, to this date. Truly spoken, there are four live Crazy Horse recordings, one done in rehearsal for the other three Rust Live shows. ‘A Rusted out Garage,’ where one of the rehearsals happened, is confusing in a trilogy. If you count ODEON-BUDOKAN as a Crazy Horse live album, the earliest, pre-dating LIVE RUST, then that is further confusing. But the Crazy Horse Rust Trilogy does sound cool.
ALCHEMY is a new Crazy Horse album. Recorded in high resolution audio and video during 2012-13, Crazy Horse performs Walk Like a Giant, Dangerbird, Mr. Soul and Fuckin’Up among others like Surfer Joe, Ramada Inn and Red Sun. Unreleased and rare songs from the period are included as well. All the songs were picked right after and during the tour. These are the ones we like. All that we are doing now is post production and mastering. We made this record and did not put it out until now. No one heard it back then but us.
Music and natural phenomenon come together in a big way for Like a Hurricane, recorded during a raging thunderstorm at the Paleo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland. The full length live video of that performance is a gem for Crazy Horse lovers. Some may have seen parts of this performance, captured by the crowd during the torrential wind-blown downpour and featured on You Tube. NYA has the whole multi camera capture of this unreal experience and will preview it at the premiere of NYA’s Movie Night.
Crazy Horse is looking forward to this release. The wait is almost over. For me, ALCHEMY harkens back to the best of LIVE RUST and WELD, beginning to look like a circle… but not totally joined. Time shows us what we can do and when we can do it. Crazy Horse moves with the wind. Of course, ALCHEMY is a little like Spinal Tap as well… Crazy Horse’s big amps are still there, now tattered and worn, but listen to them now…
This is going to be a great experience for Crazy Horse fans everywhere! Watch for the cover to start taking shape on the timeline at NYA. When the cover is done, the release is imminent.
I hope you love it!
NY