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Saying goodbye on RBP

COME SEE ABOUT ME — Original Supreme Mary Wilson (1944-2021) tells Record Collector's Lois Wilson about Motown's greatest girl group (2008) and Melody Maker's Brian Case meets jazz-fusion pioneer Chick Corea (1941-2021) in 1975. Plus NME's Sean O'Hagan in conversation with Stefan Cush (1960-2021) and his fellow Men They Couldn't Hang (1985) and Elliot Mazer (1941-2021) talks to Harvey Kubernik about producing Neil Young's Harvest.

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Neil Young's Harvest made him the superstar he always wished to be. Therefore, he cherished what happened and made the biggest possible tour, where he gave the buyers what they wanted – I'm pulling your leg. Mind you, a lot of circumstances did influence his thinking at the time, since Time Fades Away, the live album from the time after Harvest, show him a bit lost. You can tell that from the lyrical content and also from the fact his playing seems to be quite strange. However, I do believe he would've done something similar, had there been normalcy around him. He always had a mischievous side – check Human Highway for that –, so Time Fades Away makes sense in the long run, though I do ask myself how the original pressing sounded, since he hated the album for a while.

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♫ Heart of Gold ♫

I hadn’t thought of this song in a long while until Richard (ryinger77) mentioned it yesterday in a comment, and since then it has been stuck in my head!  You know what happens when a song gets stuck in my head … I must share it to stop the noise inside my noggin!!!  I last played this in … I think the archives said 2020 … so you should be ready to hear it again by now! While this one is not in…

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Elliot Mazer

Audio engineer and record producer best known for his work with Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, The Band, and Janis Joplin.

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Elliot Mazer, the longtime producer and engineer who helped craft albums for Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, and The Band, among others, died at his San Francisco home on Sunday. He was 79...

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Elliot Mazer Dead at 79

- “Cheap Thrills,” “Harvest,” “The Last Waltz” among producer’s credits

Elliot Mazer, the producer who worked extensively with Neil Young and also counts Big Brother & the Holding Company, Linda Ronstadt, the Band and others among his credits, died Feb. 7

Mazer was 79 and had a heart attack after suffering for years with dementia, Rolling Stone reports.

Mazer’s work with Young spans 1972’s Harvest, ’73’s Time Fade Away, 1983’s Everybody’s Rockin’ and ’85’s Old Ways.

Mazer engineered The Last Waltz for the Band, produced Big Brother & the Holding Company’s Cheap Thrills and albums by Linda Ronstadt, Gordon Lightfoot and others. As music changed, so did Mazer.

“His work with Neil Young, the Band and even the Dead Kennedys and Dream Syndicate was legendary,” Drive-By Trucker Patterson Hood said on social media. “Plus, he was a cool guy. He will be missed, but his work lives on. RIP.”

Dream Syndicate credited Mazer’s “rocket-fuel inspiration” for helping to make the live Ghost Stories such a success.

“It remains one of our best-loved records and a testimonial to Elliot’s talent and desire for capturing a moment in all of its honest and unvarnished beauty,” the band said. “He was one of a kind and we’ll miss him.”

2/10/21

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Elliot Mazer, Engineer-Producer for Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, and the Band, Dead at 79

Producer behind Young’s Harvest and Time Fades Away also worked with Janis Joplin and Gordon Lightfoot