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Tonight, Saturday, March 2 at 9:00 PM EST, (~now) the Thrashers Wheat Radio Hour from WBKM.org will be posted for your listening pleasure here.

Tonight's edition will feature news from Neil Young & Crazy Horse's Australia Concert Tour Leg kick off in Perth, Australia. In addition, we'll have a report direct from the Perth concert by Pete who attended the concert and will bring us an eyewitness report. The segment will have the opener setlist, commentary and other assorted thoughts on the Australia leg.

For tonight's special edition, the podcast is now posted @ PODCAST: Thrasher's Wheat Radio Hour.

Thrashers Wheat Radio Hour is presented and produced each week by WBKM.org in the heart of Burlington, Vermont.

Don't Be Denied.

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse's Australia Concert Tour Leg Kicks Off Tonight in Perth

Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Perth Arena, Perth, Australia - 3-2-2013
Photo via Perth Arena on Twitter
1st report --- New song: "Hole in the Sun", apparently references ozone layer.

Set List via Bad News Beat.

1. Love And Only Love
2. Powderfinger
3. Born In Ontario
4. Walk Like A Giant
5. Hole In The Sky*
6. Heart Of Gold
7. Twisted Road
8. Singer Without A Song
9. Ramada Inn
10. F*!#in' Up
11. Cinnamon Girl
12. Mr. Soul
13. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
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14. Roll Another Number

"That left the slightly bruised audience in no doubt that they had witnessed one of rock's most sturdy , most forceful , most earthly performance in some time."
~REVIEW: Neil Young with Crazy Horse - The West Australian by RAY PURVIS

@neilyoung live in concert - Done #bucketlist. The guy is brilliant!

— Dave Brown (@Fid210) March 2, 2013

So Neil Young just kicked absolute ass. 70 odd years old and still rocking #Whatalegend

— Ben Rix (@BenLewisRix) March 2, 2013

Tonight I saw Neil Young. He looked me straight in the eye and called me a fuck up. It was a special moment. The end.

— Cameron Scull, MD. (@CameronScull) March 2, 2013

Standby, report just starting to roll in...

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Tonight the Neil Young & Crazy Horse World Tour continues!

Neil Young & Crazy Horse will be performing tonight at Perth Arena, Perth, Australia.

Got a report? Drop us a comment below.

Check Sugar Mountain for setlist updates and Chronological Grid, Recording Summary, Statistics and Extras.

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Don't Be Denied!

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30 Years Ago: Nicolette Larson Talks Neil Young

Nicolette Larson
Here's an interview with Nicolette Larson from thirty years ago in 1983 when she was playing a concert in Vancouver.

Nicolette Larson sang on Neil Young's 1977 album, American Stars 'n Bars, with Linda Ronstadt on the tracks "Old Country Waltz", "Saddle Up the Palomino", "Bite the Bullet", "Hold Back the Tears", and "Hey Babe".

From 30 Years Ago: Nicolette Larson talks Neil Young, Eddie Van Halen, and roommate Linda Ronstadt | Georgia Straight by Steve Newton:

How did you come to meet Neil Young?

Nicolette Larson:When he did American Stars 'n Bars his initial concept was to get two unknown singers and do the album with them, but he tried that and it didn't work at all. And then he decided to take the other route and get Emmylou and Linda, but Emmylou wasn't available to do it, so she and Linda recommended me. Neil kind of functions on cosmic operations, you know, and that was cosmic enough for him. If everyone had recommended me then I was supposed to work with him. So Linda and I went up to his ranch and sang backups on that album, and then when he did Comes a Time he called me again to come and sing on it.

Did you release your own version of "Lotta Love" before he did his?

Nicolette Larson:Well, this is what happened. He recorded it first, and I heard it and said "Gee that's great. How come you don't put that song out?". And he goes, "Oh, do you want it? It's yours." That was what he said with every song of his that I admired. It was kind of like, "Don't ask me why I don't put this out. You want to put it out, you put it out." So I recorded it, and got it all ready to put out, then at the very last minute he changed his mind on Comes a Time and put it on that. So we both released it the very same day, actually. I changed it around quite a lot from Neil's version. His is a lot different with all the "la la la la's" at the beginning.

Full interview at 30 Years Ago: Nicolette Larson talks Neil Young, Eddie Van Halen, and roommate Linda Ronstadt | Georgia Straight by Steve Newton.

Also, see Neil Young News: Nicolette Larson's "Lotta Love" & Neil Young.

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Copenhagen - Another New* Europe Date for Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Neil Young & Crazy Horse
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Earlier this week, a new Europe date in Liverpool for Neil Young & Crazy Horse was announced.

So it looks like there will be a fifth leg of Neil Young & Crazy Horse world tour.

We're now hearing of a date in Copenhagen, Denmark on 12 August at the The Forum. *No additional details available at this time but stay tuned.

More Europe 2013 Concert Dates for Neil Young and Crazy Horse Tour.


Also, see 2013 Australia/New Zealand Tour Dates: Neil Young and Crazy Horse.


Don't Be Denied!

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Photo of the Moment: Neil Young - Copenhagen, 1976

Neil Young
Copenhagen, 1976
Photographer Gijsbert Hanekroot
(Click photo to enlarge)The Photo of the Moment is Neil Young in Amsterdam 1976.

Neil was on tour in Amsterdam 1976 and appears to be hanging out in a hotel.

There's not much more info on this photo. If you know more, drop us a comment.

UPDATE:
1976-03-16, Falkonerteatret, København, Denmark
w/ Crazy Horse

More @ Neil Young Posed In His Hotel In Copenhagen Denmark On… News Photo | Getty Images | 96714223.

Thanks to all for updates!

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Liverpool - NEW Europe Date for Neil Young & Crazy Horse Announced

A new Europe date for the Neil Young & Crazy Horse tour has been announced for Echo Arena Liverpool on 18 August. This show will also be the opening concert for the Liverpool International Music Festival.

Priority booking begins tomorrow at 9am, Tuesday 26 February. Quote promo code NY13STAND (standing) or NY13SEAT (seating) when prompted. Offer available online only.

For details, see Neil Young and Crazy Horse Priority Booking.

More Europe 2013 Concert Dates for Neil Young and Crazy Horse Tour.

Also, see 2013 Australia/New Zealand Tour Dates: Neil Young and Crazy Horse.

Don't Be Denied!

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1994 Academy Awards: "Philadelphia" by Neil Young

Both Neil Young's "Philadelphia" received an Academy Award nomination in 1994 and he performed the song during the Oscar ceremony. Young's wife Pegi and sister Astrid sang on background vocals.



Bruce Springsteen and Young were nominated for Best Song in a film for Jonathan Demme's "Philadelphia". Bruce's nominated song was the film opening "Streets of Philadelphia" and Neil's was the closing title track "Philadelphia".

Bruce Springsteen won the Oscar award for his song "Streets of Philadelphia". In his acceptance speech, Springsteen acknowledged Young and said that the award really deserved to be shared by the other nominee's song.

Another sidenote. When Jonathan Demme first heard Neil Young's score for the movie "Philadelphia" while driving, he was so overcome with emotion that he had to pull over to the side of the road to recover.



"Here's the final heart breaking scene as it plays over the "family movies" of the characters as children. If anyone can watch that scene with this song playing over it and now be moved...well. you just don't have a heart." (Thanks for link El.)

More on Film Director Jonathan Demme and Neil Young.

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Nils Lofgren Interview | Iconic Axes: The Instruments Used By The Gods of Six Strings

Neil Young & Crazy Horse w/ Nils Lofgren
Bruce Springsteen 2013 MusiCares Tribute
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A new and pretty comprehensive interview conducted with Nils Lofgren, current guitarist in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and former member of Neil Young's band. In the interview he talks a lot about working with Neil on After the Gold Rush and Tonight's the Night, some funny anecdotes and lots of inside info.

From Nils Lofgren Interview | Iconic Axes: The Instruments Used By The Gods of Six Strings by Corbin Reiff:

Iconic Axes: To go back in time a bit, you got your start in a lot of way working with Neil Young on the albums After the Gold Rush and Tonight’s the Night. How did that opportunity come about, and what were those sessions like?

Nils Lofgren: I met Neil when I was seventeen when my band Grin was headed out to L.A. I did the After the Gold Rush album when I was eighteen, mostly playing piano, a little acoustic guitar and some singing. That was all pretty much done live in the studio, those sessions, with Greg Reeves on bass and Ralphie Molina, the Crazy Horse drummer and I. We did it all up at Neil’s home with a remote truck. They were great sessions, very earthy. Neil was always singing live with us in the studio, a tiny room in his home. We would take breaks and have a sandwich on his deck overlooking Topanga Canyon.

It was a very beautiful project to be a part of. Tonight’s the Night was kind of an antithesis to production. There was no overdubbing, we all did everything live, it was always a live take on a song. Neil didn’t even want us to know the songs very well; he wanted to get a very powerful, emotional performance before the musicians had time to really craft parts, which happens inevitably if you work on a song long enough. It was kind of a theme record, kind of a wake for our friends that we had lost, Danny Whitten and Bruce Barry. They were just historic records that I was very honored to be a part of.

Iconic Axes: Neil in his new autobiography Waging Heavy Peace has said that when you arrived to L.A. from Washington you actually walked fifteen miles from the airport to his house in Topanga, is that true?

Nils Lofgren: Yeah, that was kind of crazy. I had met him three weeks earlier, he was very kind and supportive and said come up to L.A. and eventually turned me on to his producer David Briggs so I moved in with Dave and I got to know both of them pretty well. But, the day I landed in L.A. I dragged a giant suitcase, and of course I tried to hitchhike, but no one would pick me up so I ended up dragging this thing. It took me all day long, I got there early in the day and I didn’t get to Neil’s house until mid-afternoon; it was hours and hours of dragging this suitcase.

So then I got to Topanga Canyon and I dragged it into the middle of Topanga, and I didn’t have any idea of where he lived. It was weird it was like a Mission Impossible Force. I kept asking people and trying to assure them that I meant him no harm, of course I was just seventeen and a tiny teenager so it wasn’t like I was threatening.

Iconic Axes: Both Neil and Bruce are incredible songwriters, what are some of the similarities and differences you’ve noticed between them, and what have you personally learned from them?

Nils Lofgren: Not to get too analytical about it, they’re both at the top of the list of songwriters. I think really you’ve got Dylan, and Bruce, and Neil Young, The Beatles and the Stones; I think those are the top five bodies of work in popular music history. There’s a lot in common with Neil and Bruce in the sense that they kind of leave you alone to your own instincts. While they’re working on their stuff they give you some rope to find something that feels right for you to add, and it usually works. Just to be around them is inspiring, you don’t analyze it too much you just work with them and watch how they tweak their songs.

More of Nils Lofgren Interview | Iconic Axes: The Instruments Used By The Gods of Six Strings.

Thanks Corbin!

Nils Lofgren and Neil Young
Vote For Change tour 2004
St. Paul, Minnesota
Photo by Joseph Quever
Also, see more on Nils Lofgren and Neil Young.

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