Rock In Rio Madrid, Spain Concert Reviews: 6/27/08

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Neil Young will be performing tonight at Rock In Rio Madrid, Argranda del Ray, Madrid, Spain.

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Lyon, France Concert Reports: 6/25/05

Cover of The Beatles "A Day In The Life"!!! Uploaded by mathieu135

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Neil Young will be performing tonight at Halle Tony Granier, Lyon, France.

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An Essential Q&A with Neil Young

An essential Q&A interview with Neil Young in The Billboard.

On CSNY/Deja Vu film:

"It's CSNY," he told Billboard recently during a lengthy interview about the new film. "It really is CSNY. It's not overdubbed. There's no fixes. It's straight from the board."

"The basic mixes are the mixes that people heard when we were playing it," Young continues. "So it's got rough spots all the way through it, which I think is refreshing, especially considering the subject matter. Why should we polish? Why polish this? Who gives a shit whether it's polished or not? It is what it is, and that's the message of the music. It's what we're doing. If you don't like, you don't like it. If you like it, you like it. But it is what it is. Chroming it is not going to help it."

The thinking, Young said, was that the more raw the soundtrack is, the better they will sound and the more exciting it will be. "And nobody's heard that from CSN," he said.

On let's impeach the president:

And he needs to be impeached for what he did. I mean, the Senate has verified it. It needs to happen for history. It's like a dirty business. It needs to be taken care of. Nobody wants to be bothered, but it should happen, because do we want to let this go down in history? It's a cancer. It's a blight. It has to be eradicated. You have to look at this and go, "The president mislead the people into going to war, lost 5,000 troops, there's hundreds of thousands of people killed in Iraq, billions and billions of dollars were taken out of the economy for the war, and now we've discovered for sure -- the Senate committee has said, 'Yeah, he did. He lied.'" So what do you have to do to get impeached? What do you need to do? And who are we if we don't do it ... if we don't actually say, "Hey -- the law! You can't do that!"

Later in the interview, Neil's comments on his search for the Holy Grail are inspiring and definitely worth a read here.

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Verona, Italy - 6/23/08: Concert Reports

Photos by Vittorio "tulsa61" sessantuno


You must check out YouTube video at 4:29!!!

Positively insane "All Along The Watchtower". We have never seen this Neil before.

Thanks oldrust!

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Photos by Roberto Caddeo

Neil Young will be performing tonight at Arena di Verona, Verona, Italy.

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Neil Young 2008 Summer Tour Kicks Off Tonight in Florence, Italy

Photos by Matt Barbieri


"All Along The Watchtower"

Thanks oldrust and rustvision.

Also, see travelogue/concert review by Gary Carter on Rust: "My Full Report on Neil in Florence".

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Neil Young will be performing tonight at Nelson Mandela Forum in Florence (Firenze), Italy.

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Looking Ahead to Euro Tour

From a good, old Anonymous comment. As always, consider the source.

I met Neil & Elliot yesterday in Florence...

Words from Neil:
"This summer tour will be all electric... a completely different show from the last Euro tour... I can't play acoustic in big outdoor arenas" " I have no plans to release new material soon... At the moment I wrote only two new songs". "There won't be any CSNY live concert DVD... a CD soundtrack will be out soon".

Words from Elliot Roberts:
"A single CD with the CSNY/Déjà Vu original soundtrack will be out in 6 weeks from now.... we delivered the album to Warner last friday".

"This summer tour is with Chad Cromwell replacing Ralph Molina on drums... we'll be back again in Europe in August for 15 days".

"Toast? Out next year. Harvest Moon Live? Out next year. Archives Vol.1? Out this year. Crazy Horse? Maybe next year. More NYA Performances Series CD's will be available to the public in the future".

Now this is quite official.... isn't?

We report. You decide.

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We Have All Been Here Before: CSNY: Deja Vu Promo - Long Version

Here's a 7 minute promo for CSNY: Deja Vu film on YouTube.

We have all been here before.
We have all been here before.
We have all been here before.

Pre-order soundtrack album of CSNY: Deja Vu on Amazon.com. (You'll be helping to support Thrasher's Wheat's Neil Young News. Thanks!)

Also, see official CSNY Deja Vu film site.

More on CSNY: Deja Vu Film and Neil's comments in interviews.

Thanks for the link Simpson!

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