Neil Young On Rockets Album? Dept.

Cover shouldn't work, but does, like the band. Everybody misses Neil, cropped out of shot at bottom edge!

Today's wantable deliverable is this here barely-an-album by troubled Left Coast combo The Rockets! It's an album shrouded in mystery, the main one being why Neil thought "gee whillickers! This is th' band for me!" on hearing it. He was right; the shining beacon of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere would not have burned so bright without this happy band of bickering substance abusers.

They managed to stretch it out to an over-generous twenty-nine minutes with the help of interminable nails-on-chalkboard violin initiatives from Bobby Notkoff, of Notkoff's™ Cough Syrup fame, to which the band was addicted [left - Ed.]. Neil makes a guest appearance on the cover, usually cropped out due to wrapping the slick around the card cover - he's visible on this rare copy.

I had an original vinyl on White Whale®, which is amazing because it only sold two copies. It's no masterpiece, but it has a bizarre knotty charm, coupla swell songs, and nags at you to play it again.

Flash forward, and simultaneantly back, to '71, when the band had morphed/would morph into Crazy Horse, and recorded this smashing elpee [left - Ed.]. Nothing wrong with this one, Gib Gilbeau ("Gilbo") supplying the required fiddle, except the wretched, stinking, nogood cover design. Or, you like it!

Both albums contained in one hermetically sealed deliverable.

This post homologated by Artie's Auto Autoclaving™, Mons Veneris, AK.