NEIL YOUNG - SELF-TITLED (original Reprise label) no name on cover

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Neil Young

Self-Titled

VG+/VG+

US 1969

Reprise Records - RS 6317

Neil Young started his long illustrious career in Toronto, Canada. He moved to Winnipeg and formed The Squires at Kelvin High School with himself (guitars), Jeff Wuckert (keyboards), Ken Koblen (bass) and Bill Edmundsen (drums). As an instrumental band they played at high schools, teen dance clubs and coffee houses and this is when he met Steve Stills and his band The Company. They became close friends and then Steve moved to Los Angeles in California.
The Squires went to the CKRC Radio Studio in town to record their only single "The Sultan b/w Aurora". A popular band, they toured the small nearby towns around Manitoba. But he left The Squires and performed at the folk clubs as a solo artist inspired by Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan. When he moved back to Toronto, he joined Rick James and The Mynah Byrds. This band included Rick James (vocals), John Taylor (guitars), Neil Young (guitars), Bruce Palmer (bass) and Rickman Mason (drums).
Things were well with this band. They signed with Motown Records and were advanced some front money to record a single. But their manager tried to steal the advance and they fired him. Rick James was avoiding the military and had migrated to Canada to evade the draft board. The manager reciprocated his firing by telling Motown Records that Rick was wanted and the authorities came up and arrested him.
A sudden end came to the band and Neil with Bruce Palmer sold the Mynah Birds band equipment, bought an old black 1953 Pontiac Hearse he called 'Mortimer Hearseburg' and traveled to California to find Steven Stills. They did meet and formed Buffalo Springfield scoring a top ten Billboard hit with "For What It's Worth" based on all the unrest, riots and counterculture clashes with the police at that time. The stage was set but the band seemed to be in disarray from the start.
Bruce Palmer was deported twice for drug possession and all, but Young, spent time in jail for marijuana charges. Only three albums were put out and the promising band was done in short order. Neil decided on a solo career, signed with Reprise Records and went to Wally Heider's Studio to record his first self-titled album. The critics had mixed reviews due to its country folk nature.
Neil hired some players from The Rocket's, a local band, that could join him on his quest for inspired folk and country rock music. Renaming as Crazy Horse, a second album was released, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, that found "Cinnamon Girl" and "Cowgirl in the Sand" as main-stays on the FM underground radio airwaves.
His next two albums, After the Gold Rush and Harvest put him near the top of the superstar list. He traveled the country with just him and a guitar and his Journey Thru the Past Solo Tour at big venues, opera houses, theatres and other places with John Hammond in support. 
Joining David Crosby, Steven Stills and Graham Nash; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young took America by storm as a hit making machine, but Neil was on and off with the band. They did play at the Woodstock Festival but he stood in the shadows and made threats to any cameraman who took a picture of him in performance.
Crazy Horse was still aboard as his touring band but they had their own drug problems with a member dying of heroin. He recorded nearly 100 studio albums and twice that many singles. Always anti-establishment, he was critical of the US Government and the Recording Industry in general. But his stature as a musical icon, regardless of his attitude, always sold records so nobody touched him throughout his career. 
Musically the early music is folk rock and country but he evolved according to his moods and hit all the genres of music in performance throughout his career which has slowed as of late, but he still plays concerts on occasion.
This was the first LP. An original Reprise label issue. A second stock copy with two-tone orange label and no name on the cover. Has RE-1 written in the dead-wax area each side. Includes "Sugar Mountain".
Gatefold cover has some minor shelf, edge, corner and ring wear with small green tape at the fold upper left. Also has a handwritten name on the back side upper area. Record has some sleeve and age marks with very light hairlines. Record plays with a few light ticks while spinning. Barely noticeable. Proper Reprise logo inner sleeve.




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