For the first time in any format, Raven presents the Best Of the best garage band in the world: the incomparable CRAZY HORSE. Featuring the cream of their explosive recordings for Reprise, Epic, RCA and Heyday, Gone Dead Train 1971-1989 captures the essence of the band once called "the greatest hard-rockin' band in America, except for the Ramones" (Robert Christgau). Kicking off with the incendiary 'Pill's Blues' by the Rockets – the band from Laurel Canyon that formed the nucleus of Crazy Horse in 1968. Danny Whitten, Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina impressed Neil Young enough for him to ask them to play on his classic Everybody Knows This is Nowhere (1969). Their 1971 debut Crazy Horse included Grin (and later Bruce Springsteen) guitarist / songwriter Nils Lofgren and legendary producer/pianist/arranger Jack Nitzsche. These outstanding recordings for Reprise showed the band was a lot more than merely Young's backing group, still rockin' it out with Neil 30+ years later. The tragic loss of founder Whitten to drug overdose in 1972 allowed his replacement Frank 'Poncho' Sampedro to cement his place with Talbot and Molina as a unit that embodied the essence of grunge years before Nirvana etc. Gone Dead Train 1971-1989 is an essential testament to one of America's greatest rock'n'roll outfits. "They hoedown, they rave-up, they phase-out, they rock'n'roll".
Pill's Blues (By The Rockets) End Of The Line (Jim Baker) Gone Dead Train Dance, Dance, Dance Beggars Day I Don't Want To Talk About It Downtown Rock & Roll Band Don't Keep Me Burning Lady Soul Don't Look Back She's Hot Downhill End Of The Line Going Down Again Thunder & Lightning Left For Dead Child Of War World Of Love In The Middle