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This is the first domestic release of the Rockets on CD. The album features all of the original artwork along with new liner notes and was produced by Barry Goldberg (an in-demand session musician and member of the Electric Flag, who worked with Mich THE ROCKETS The Band That Became Neil Young’s Crazy Horse It’s easy to see why The Rockets attracted Neil Young’s attention. Over a deceptively simple and hypnotic rhythm, Danny Whitten’s electric guitar begins a slow but determined build, erupting into fits and snarls and showers of sparks, never turning to speed riffs but relying instead on the pulse and amplified grit of two or three notes. Neil Young’s distinctive electric sound is, of course, a variation on this approach, and it first caught the public ear on 1969’s Everybody Knows This is Nowhere album, on which Young exchanged this kind of staccato, rapid-fire note-play with Danny Whitten. By then, The Rockets had become Crazy Horse, and the chemistry that developed between the band members and Neil Young has served them well for more than three decades. The Rockets was originally released in 1968 on White Whale Records, the same label that had turned the world on to The Turtles and “Happy Together.” Four years earlier, Danny Whitten and Billy Talbot as Danny & the Memories, had released one single. Drummer Ralph Molina joined in ’66, and the band relocated to San Francisco where their ranks swelled with the addition of guitarist brothers George and Leon Whitsell. Neil Young, was one of The Rockets biggest fans, and enjoyed jamming with the band. After he recorded Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, on which he’d employed Whitten, Talbot, Molina and (on one song) Notkoff, Young wanted a road band and he wouldn’t take no for an answer so, Danny, Billy and Ralph rode off into history as three-quarters of Neil Young & Crazy Horse. TRACK LISTING: 1 Hole In My Pocket 2 Won’t You Say You’ll Stay 3 Mr. Chips 4 It’s A Mistake 5 Let Me Go 6 Try My Patience 7 I Won’t Always Be Around 8 Pill’s Blues 9 Stretch Your Skin 10 Eraser |
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