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Sold Date:
November 16, 2015
Start Date:
November 3, 2015
Final Price:
$225.00
(USD)
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NEIL YOUNG Owned Triangular Test Pressing SOUTHERN PACIFIC/MOTOR CITY 10"
OWNED BY NEIL AND GIVEN TO A CLOSE ASSOCIATE--WITH COA
We’re proud to offer here Neil Young’s own test pressing of his triangular shaped single “Southern Pacific/Motor Ciy”, given to a longtime associate. The provenance is best explained by the included letter of authenticity from Joel Bernstein:
“This letter is to authenticated a test pressing of Neil Young’s triangular single “Southern Pacific/Motor City” with a blank white label, from his 1981 album Re-ac-tor. I was working with Neil at the time and he gave this to me.
I photographed Neil Young for the first time at his first East Coast show with Crazy Horse, at the Bitter End in New York City, in February 1969. I went on to work with Neil extensively, as both his and CSNY’s tour photographer, and shooting him for eighteen of his album covers (including After The Gold Rush, Harvest, Time Fades Away, Tonight’s The Night, Decade and Rust Never Sleeps) plus numerous other official projects including publicity, advertising, songbooks, posters, et al. On various tours from 1973-1993, I also worked with Neil as his guitar technician; and served as his archivist for 20 years, researching and presenting him with every source for audio, artwork and text used in his massive box set Archives Vol. 1 1963-1972.
During the course of working for Neil, he gave me various acetates, test pressings, set lists and other memorabilia. Neil knew I was a collector and he wasn’t, so once he was done with things like this, instead of throwing it away, he often gave it to me. This is one of those items, from my personal collection.
Sincerely, Joel Bernstein”
The test pressing is in Near Mint condition and comes with it’s original sleeve, Joel Bernstein’s letter of authenticity, and Recordmecca’s lifetime guarantee of authenticity. A very rare opportunity to own one of Neil Young’s own Neil Young records.