I.O.F© Exclusive! Neil Young Talks About Rare Gold Rush Track!

The fortieth anniversary edition of After The Gold Rush includes the previously unreleased track Break, a major archive discovery. Neil graciously agreed to be interviewed by valve radio for an Isle O' Foam© exclusive!

FT3: Hey Neil! You're looking great!

NY: Uh, this is radio, man.

FT3: I stuck this picture of Buffalo Springfield over the speaker. When you were great!

NY: Can we talk about the track? I'm really proud of Break. Not even the bootleggers knew about this one. Took everyone by surprise! [laughs - Ed.]

FT3: I just listened to it. Kinda puzzled?

NY: Right! David Briggs produced it. It's just me and my guitar, man. Purity. I wanted space, you know?

FT3: You and your guitar? I'm not hearing that. Or anything.

NY: Me and my guitar, sitting there in the studio, everything turned off. I wanted to turn everything off, see how the world would sound with everything turned off. Noise is pollution, man. Electricity is pollution. It was gonna be one side of the album. It's edited down from, I think, twenty minutes? Nearly twenty minutes. That's what I wanted. One side of, like, total ... uh. David [Briggs - Ed.] edited it down, and then it was kinda lost. But I found it again! The whole track. Gonna release it on the next Archives set. There'll be this, the single edit, and the original album version. Maybe a stereo remix.

FT3: Friend of mine [jcc - Ed.] says it's better than anything on Greendale.

NY: We're gonna tour it. The Break Tour. Me and Pancho and Lefty and Dozy and Grumpy. To empty halls, we're not allowing audiences in because Covid.

FT3: Well, that's one silver lining right there. Hey, I have to go, Neil - microwave just pinged.

NY: Microwaves are destroy- [tape break here - Ed.]

As a Foam Exclusive, the track Break is available to download in the comments.