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Neil Young’s Harvest as well as records by
The Band, Linda Ronstadt, Gordon Lightfoot, The Dream Syndicate and many more, has died aged 79.
Mazer suffered a fatal heart attack at his San Francisco home on Sunday (February 7) after years of battling with dementia.
“Elliot loved music,” his sister
Bonnie Murraytold Rolling Stone. “He loved what he did; he was a perfectionist. Everybody has so much respect for him, and he’s been suffering for a couple years.”
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Mazer started out working for jazz label Prestige in the early 1960s. After moving to Nashville, he worked on recordings by the likes of
Veteran rock music producer and engineer Elliot Mazer, who worked with artists such as Neil Young, Bob Dylan, the Band, Gordon Lightfoot and Linda Ronstadt, has died at the age of 79.
Mazer died at his home in San Francisco on Sunday (Feb. 7), as confirmed to Rolling Stone by his daughter, Alison. The cause of death was a heart attack, although the producer had experienced dementia for several years. Mazer s family has asked that any donations instead be made to MusiCares, the musician-assisting non-profit branch of the Grammy-conducting Recording Academy. Elliot loved music, his sister, Bonnie Murray, shared with Rolling Stone. He loved what he did; he was a perfectionist. Everybody has so much respect for him, and he s been suffering for a couple years.
Rolling Stone Menu Hear Neil Young’s Unreleased ‘Harvest’-Era Gem ‘Goodbye Christians on the Shore’
Song was recorded in December 1972 and then placed in a vault for 48 years
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There are 12 songs on Neil Young’s new box set
Archives Volume II: 1972–1976 that have never been released before in any form. One of the most beautiful is “Goodbye Christians on the Shore,” which even die-hard Young fans didn’t know existed until very recently. It’s on disc one (
Everybody’s Alone 1972-1973) and Young also just posted it on YouTube along with a video.
He recorded the song on December 15th, 1972 with the Stray Gators (drummer Kenny Buttery, bassist Tim Drummond, pianist Jack Nitzsche, guitarist Ben Keith) just before the launch of the Time Fades Away tour. The same session yielded “Come Along and Say You Will” and “Time Fades Away.” Those two songs were played live on the tour, but “Goodbye Christians on the Shore” was shoved into the v
One-time pop star and acclaimed
Mixmag columnist the Secret DJ continues to chronicle the last 30-plus years of dance music’s evolution as a superstar DJ before it all went pear-shaped. Yet
Book Two is not a direct follow-up to the biographical
The Secret DJ: From Ibiza To the Norfolk Broads. Rather, they take a more anthropological approach, recounting the purity of a youth movement falling prey to gentrification and filthy lucre. “No one in publishing would have the balls to touch this book with a bargepole,” the Secret DJ said in a statement on the Velocity website. “It takes courage to speak up. There’s not much in the way of reward for telling it like it is, not any more. If you expose an industry and that industry hates you for life with the intensity of the sun.”