TONIGHT: Neil Young + Promise of the Real - Arroyo Seco Weekend, Pasadena, CA, June 23, 2018

Arroyo Seco Rocked Our World!
A personal note by Neil via Neil Young Archives: Times-Contrarian

Setlist via Sugar Mountain:

Neil Young
2018-06-23
Brookside Park, Pasadena, California, USA
Arroyo Seco Weekend
w/ Promise Of The Real

01. Like An Inca (~21 minutes)
02. F*!#in' Up
03. Cortez The Killer
04. Forget About Georgia (Lukas Nelson song; Lukas vocals)
05. Everything Is Bullshit (Micah Nelson song; Micah vocals)
06. I Am A Child*
07. Lotta Love
08. Rockin' In The Free World
09. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
10. Angry World
11. Powderfinger
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12. Ohio
13. Down By The River (~15 minutes)
14. Roll Another Number

*- Lotta Love started and aborted after about 5 seconds just prior to I Am A Child

Band: Promise Of The Real

Neil Young - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica
Lukas Nelson - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
Micah Nelson - electric guitar, vocals
Corey McCormick - bass, vocals
Anthony Logerfo - drums
Tato Melgar - percussion

Length - ~125 minutes

Neil Young at Arroyo Seco.

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Neil Young + Promise of the Real
(Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

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Have said this before but I highly recommend seeing Neil Young + Promise of the Real whenever you get the chance. They’re always dialed in and every show is thrilling. pic.twitter.com/yQC4coz7Lx

— Tom Ceraulo (@tceraulo) June 24, 2018

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— Browne's Ear (@BrowneEar) June 24, 2018

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Had no idea I would enjoy seeing Neil Young as much as I did. He blew my mind, proper. #neilyoung #arroyosecoweekend pic.twitter.com/8sXkfibDwK

— mct (@maricari) June 24, 2018

Last night i finally got to see Mr. Neil Young live!!!! I stood in the same spot for two and a half hours before he started just to make sure I was in the front to see him and it was totally worth it #NeilYoung #arroyoseco #keeponrockin #arroyosecoweekend #goat #roadtrip

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Neil Young + Promise of the Real will perform tonight, Saturday, June 23 at the Arroyo Seco Festival, Brookside at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California.

Arroyo Seco Weekend

When: Saturday and Sunday, June 23-24

Where: Brookside at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena

How much: $149 single day or $249 weekend GA ticket. $349 single day or $449 weekend VIP. $999 weekend Clubhouse VIP. Preferred parking is $65.

More @ ArroyoSecoWeekend.com

The Saturday lineup: Belle & Sebastian, Dwight Twilley, Gomez, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Jack White, Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, Kamasi Washington, Margo Price, Maxim Ludwig, Neil Young + Promise of the Real, North Mississippi Allstars, Pharoah Sanders, Seu Jorge, Shakey Graves, The Milk Carton Kids, The Pretenders, The Specials, Typhoon.

The Sunday lineup: Aaron Neville, Alanis Morissette, Allen Stone, Capital Cities, Dorothy, Fantastic Negrito, Gary Clark Jr., Irma Thomas, Kings Of Leon, Los Lobos, Margaret Glaspy, Robert Plant & the Sensational Shape Shifters, The Bangles, The Revolution, Third Eye Blind, Tracksuit Wedding, Trampled By Turtles, Violent Femmes.

Never to early to wait for Neil Young or Jack White. #arroyosecoweekend pic.twitter.com/7OxspmTIKU

— GirlUndergroundMusic (@GUMusic_) June 23, 2018

Rolling to @arroyosecowknd tomorrow with #potr. Turn on the LOVE sign! pic.twitter.com/WOxSz4dJXn

— Neil Young (@Neilyoung) June 23, 2018

Neil Young Archives: Times-Contrarian

Neil Young + Promise of the REAL
Lobero Theater, Santa Barbara, CA, June 19
Photo by Sweet Joni

Neil Young + Promise Of The Real
Telluride, Colorado - 9/30/16
Photo by thrasher

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Analysis Video: How Neil Young and Joni Mitchell Faced Adulthood

Here is an analysis of Neil Young's song “Sugar Mountain“ and Joni Mitchell's “Circle Game” and their vastly different view of teenage transition to adulthood.

Polyphonic, who creates incredibly informative video essays about music, took a look a the vastly different ways in which singers/songwriters Neil Young and Joni Mitchell approached the inevitable subject of getting older. In Young’s iconic song “Sugar Mountain“, he essentially proclaims that the age of 20 is when everyone must put away childish things, whether ready or not, while Mitchell’s song “Circle Game” offers a glimmer of hope, while still lamenting lost youth.

On Neil Young’s 19th birthday he penned a song about a milestone in his life ‘Sugar Mountain’, it’s a powerful song a lament for the loss of youth and the impending responsibilities of adulthood. It’s simultaneously beautiful and heartbreaking. But upon hearing it one of Neil Young’s friends decided there was something missing from the story and so Joni Mitchell wrote a response ‘The Circle Game’, another stunning song about time and aging.

More on Joni Mitchell and Neil Young.

Joni Mitchell w/ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Wembley Stadium, London, 1974-09-14
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UPDATE: From an earlier discussion on the origins of "Sugar Mountain" on REVIEW: Neil Young's Hitchhiker | American Songwriter :

At 9/04/2017 10:11:00 AM, Blogger Syscrusher said...

SUGAR MOUNTAIN

I've never heard this discussed before so here goes. This is off the top of my head so I'm may have some of the details wrong and haven't checked my references.
For years I had always believed that Neil Young had written the song 'Sugar Mountain' on his 19th birthday in Fort William, ON. (I think there was even a detail to that story involving Steve Stills at the Victoria Hotel?).
Now I know this date and location is referenced in John Robertson's 'A Visual Documentary', but I think the story was originally told by John Einarson, probably in his book 'The Canadian Years'.
This had long been one of my most used NY factoids over the years.
Now, it seems that that information was incorrect all along. Though I wonder how such a story could come to be?
In one of Neil's recent memoirs he tells the story of writing 'Sugar Mountain' on his 20th birthday while staying at Joni Mitchell's place in Detroit. That's November 12, 1965 by the way. This story of course makes more sense given the lyrics of the song, and given Joni's close connection to it. She wrote 'The Circle Game' about 'Sugar Mountain' well before 'Sugar Mountain' had ever been released.
So has anyone else noticed these conflicting stories? Is there anyone who always New the real story? If so where did you first here it? Anything to add? Or subtract?

From a continuation of discussion on the origins of "Sugar Mountain" on REVIEW: Neil Young's Unearthed 1976 Recording 'Hitchhiker' Is a Lost Treasure" | Rolling Stone :

At 9/08/2017 08:24:00 PM, Blogger Syscrusher said...

@Babbo B.,
So I found the information after some scouring. It's the Sugar Mountain rap on Live at The Riverboat. Straight outa the man's lips. This is very important and conflicting information that I've never heard discussed before.

I don't see how Neil's memory could be wrong so soon after the events. I was thinking maybe he confused it with The Old Laughing Lady but he tells that story 3 months earlier in at the Canterbury House, about writing The Old Laughing Lady in Detroit on a Napkin.
I don't have a blu-Ray player at the moment and so don't have access to the full Riverboat rap. Is anyone able to pull up a transcript?

At 9/09/2017 01:24:00 AM, Blogger Babbo B. said...

@syscrusher: It's on YouTube, he indeed says that he wrote "Sugar Mountain" on his 20th birthday in 1965 while visiting Joni Mitchell in Detroit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puGfBfBIoKs (see above)

As we discussed previously, this contradicts the common version of the story in "Shakey" and elsewhere that the song was written on his 19th birthday in a hotel in Fort William while he was there with The Squires. And in "Shakey," discussing that period in Fort William in 1964, he says, "We were the new kids in town and we were pretty hot. Chick Roberts of the Cryin' Shames, he told me, 'That is one of the greatest songs I've ever heard.' That was just after I'd written 'Sugar Mountain.' "

So yeah, it's confusing - though certainly not the first contradiction in the Neil canon, and probably not the last. (And for those who are confused, period, this is a continuation of a discussion that started in a different thread.)

At 9/09/2017 09:44:00 AM, Blogger Syscrusher said...

@Babbo B.,
Good info, very interesting.
So I'm Waging Heavy Peace on page 277 Neil mentions the Chick Roberts story in a paragraph about Toronto in 1965. Says he heard the song at a hootenanny. In this paragraph he's also describing the evolution of his folk style writing first writing The Ballad Of Peggy Grover, then Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing, and then Sugar Mountain. That's how I read it anyway.
I think the Fort William story could be confused with the place where we first lost himself while playing, on Farmer John. Sugar Mountain in '65 where we first came into his own as a writer.
I feel like the 1964 story started with John Einarson, would like to ask him.

At 9/09/2017 01:43:00 PM, Blogger Babbo B. said...

So now we have two versions of the Chick Roberts story, too, one in Fort William in 1964 and one in Toronto in 1965. If the latter is true, guess it all depends whether that hootenanny happened before or after Nov. 12. We know Neil led off with "Sugar Mountain" during his Elektra demo session, which the Archives book tentatively dates as Dec. 15, so that really solves nothing.

And FWIW, Scott Young in "Neil and Me" repeats the 1964 Victoria Hotel version, tying it in with a letter Neil wrote him about being away from home on his birthday for the first time.

At 9/09/2017 03:07:00 PM, Blogger Syscrusher said...

Sorry for the multi-post Thrasher, meant not to do that.

@Babbo B.
Very interesting that the '64 story is in Neil & Me too. That must be the first occurrence of that story.
I feel like The Riverboat rap should get the final word as it is told only 3 years after the fact, or is it 4...
Though to further confuse the matter on The Canterbury House rap which takes place on November 9/10, 1968 he says that he wrote the song '5 years ago' which would place the song in November 1963! And this would be the earliest known reference to the writing of Sugar Mountain.

More on the musical intersections and influences of Joni Mitchell and Neil Young.

Also, see Photo of the Moment: Joni Mitchell and Neil Young.

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3rd CONCERT ADDED: Neil Young + Promise of the REAL - Santa Barbara, CA, June 21

Neil Young + Promise of the REAL
Lobero Theater, Santa Barbara, CA, June 20 - NIGHT #2

A 3rd concert has been added tonight for Neil Young + Promise of the REAL at the Lobero Theater, in Santa Barbara, CA on Thursday, June 21.

The concerts are part of a warm up for Arroyo Seco Weekend. More on last night's concert at Lobero Theater, Santa Barbara, CA, June 20 - NIGHT #2 and Lobero Theater, Santa Barbara, CA, June 19 - NIGHT #1.

Got a report? Drop us a comment below.

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

Neil Young + Promise of the REAL
Lobero Theater, Santa Barbara, CA, June 20 - NIGHT #2
Screen captures by HtH

Neil Young + Promise of the REAL
Lobero Theater, Santa Barbara, CA, June 19 - NIGHT #1
Photo by Sweet Joni

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CONCERT LIVE STREAM TONIGHT: Neil Young + Promise of the REAL - Santa Barbara, CA, June 20

Neil Young + Promise of the REAL
Screen captures by HtH

Setlist via Sugar Mountain:

Neil Young
2018-06-20
Lobero Theatre, Santa Barbara, California, USA
w/ Promise Of The Real

01. Like An Inca (~28 minutes)
02. Lotta Love
03. I Am A Child (dedicated to the children separated from their parents by the USA)
04. Sign Of Love
05. Someone's Gonna Rescue You
06. Rockin' In The Free World
07. Love And War
08. Peaceful Valley Boulevard
09. The Ocean (Micah Nelson song; Micah on vocals)
10. Forget About Georgia (Lukas Nelson song; Lukas on vocals)
11. Powderfinger
12. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
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13. Angry World
14. Like A Hurricane


length: ~120 minutes

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Neil Young Archives

Tonight's concert of Neil Young + Promise of the REAL at the Lobero Theater, in Santa Barbara, CA on June 20 will be streamed live on Neil Young Archives.

Per NYA T-C, Neil will sing "I Am A Child" for the children separated from their parents at the border.

The concerts are part of a warm up for Arroyo Seco Weekend. More on last night's concert at Lobero Theater, Santa Barbara, CA, June 19.

Got a report? Drop us a comment below.

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

Neil Young + Promise of the REAL
Lobero Theater, Santa Barbara, CA, June 19
Photo by Sweet Joni

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CONCERT TONIGHT: Neil Young + Promise of the REAL - Santa Barbara, CA, June 19

Neil Young + Promise of the REAL
Photo by Sweet Joni

Setlist via Sugar Mountain

Neil Young
2018-06-19
Lobero Theatre, Santa Barbara, California, USA
w/ Promise Of The Real

01. Rockin' In The Free World
02. Love And War (acoustic guitar - never seen before)
03. Peaceful Valley Boulevard (acoustic guitar - never seen before)
04. Sign Of Love (White Falcon)
05. Someone's Gonna Rescue You (White Falcon)
06. Angry World (White Falcon)
07. Human Highway (acoustic guitar - Hank)
08. Out On The Weekend (acoustic guitar - Hank)
09. Unknown Legend (acoustic guitar - Hank)
10. The Ocean (Micah song; Neil on acoustic guitar - never seen before)
11. Forget About Georgia (Lukas song; Neil on electric guitar)
12. Love And Only Love
13. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
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14. F*!#in' Up
15. Roll Another Number

length: ~105 minutes

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Lobero Theater, Santa Barbara, CA

Neil Young + Promise of the REAL will be performing this week at the Lobero Theater, in Santa Barbara, CA on June 19 & 20 as part of a warm up for Arroyo Seco Weekend.

Got a report? Drop us a comment below.

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

Neil Young & Promise Of The Real
Summerfest, Milwaukee July 5, 2015
Photo by Jason Gonulsen

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Neil Young and Promise of the Real: Telluride, CO - October 1, 2016

Neil Young + Promise of the REAL will be performing this week in Santa Barbara, CA on June 19 & 20 as part of a warm up for Arroyo Seco Weekend.

Here is Neil Young and Promise of the Real in Telluride, CO on October 1, 2016 performing "Down By the River" and "Powderfinger".

Neil Young + Promise Of The Real
Telluride, Colorado - 9/30/16
Photo by thrasher

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Gregg Allman, Warren Haynes & Derek Trucks Cover Neil Young's "The Needle and the Damage Done"

Gregg Allman, Warren Haynes & Derek Trucks cover Neil Young's song "The Needle and the Damage Done".


The performance was part of the Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival. This is night two on April 13, 2013 at Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY.

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