Farm Aid 2018 Memories: "Eat As If Everybody’s Watching"

Neil Young + Promise of the REAL

Farm Aid 2018 - Hartford, CT, Sept 22

Photos by Rand Snyderman

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Here is a Farm Aid 2018 memory from last weekend in Hartford, CT on Sept 22: "Eat As If Everybody’s Watching" by Rand Snyderman.

Rand Snyderman is a photographer and film producer/Director. His first rock gig was as a roadie for the Flying Burrito Brothers. He also worked for NFL Films and owned his own media production company. We welcome Rand to the Thrashers Wheat family.

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Eat As If Everybody’s Watching

by Rand Snyderman

"Hey! Maaaaaaaaannnnnnn…. isn’t this concert great!?" The millennial asks me, as I’m walking down the aisle to my seat at Farm Aid.

“Yes…. yes it is.” I reply with a smile… and I think back... to 25 years ago… my first Farm Aid… my chance, after having lived abroad for many years… to see my musical idols and to “wallow” in their music.

Lukas Nelson

BUT! BUT! BUT! It was so much more than “just the music, man!” It proved to be my reawakening.

After all, I had attended many events in my life, all over the world. This event however changed my life. I heard about the family farmer, the loss of the family heritage, the rise of the evil empire known as corporate America, the inability for those of us working stiffs, to receive our daily bread in the manner of our parents, our grandparents and those before.

I was forced to think again. Not about the evils of the world… after all, we have been bombarded by those thoughts since we, the boomer generation, were in our teens. No.. this time I was forced to think about a more local demon. The inability to find food that hadn’t been altered, filled with chemicals, or worse yet infected with insecticides that would slowly eat away at the fabric of my body and tear it down.

Why was I always tired? Why did I have reflux? Why did my stomach always hurt after a big meal?

I did my research. I listened to the alternative medical world. And I thought long and hard about what I was putting into my body.

It was bad enough I couldn’t control the air I breathed, or the traffic in which I drove everyday. BUT!… I was able to control the substances that I was applying to my life… and food all of a sudden took on a whole different meaning.

This year at Farm Aid, we heard the anguish yet again… and we listened to the successes which always make me feel uplifted and hopeful. Most importantly however, I heard and knew in my heart that the fight is not yet over. We are still losing family farms at an unprecedented rate and we are still fighting big business from using our food as another way to manipulate society.

There was a beacon this year… the beacon was in the form of Neil (Young). This year, instead of anger, I heard a plea, an order, a mantra…. “Every time you see a Local Farmers Market, stop and go in and look at all the beautiful food that has been grown locally by real people… and connect with them… speak to them… get to know them… and most importantly… buy the food they have grown.

Yes… yes… yes.. Neil… right on.. you got it this time… and now… as I continued to “groove to the music man”…. and to Dance like No one was watching.. I remember to Eat Like Everyone is Watching.. to be thoughtful about what I eat… where it comes from… and what it means to my personal health and the general health of my neighbors, friends, and family.

So… next time YOU see a farmers market…. what do you intend to do? Stop? Look? Listen? and buy the “good stuff”.

Neil Young & John Mellencamp

Peace Out.

Rand Snyderman
rands@me.com

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Thanks so much to our new friend Rand! A really fine read with some wonderful imagery from the day.

And -- yes -- we do try and "Eat As If Everybody’s Watching". A very good mantra, indeed. See you at the Farmer's Market! Lastly, thanks to Hounds That Howell for making the connection. Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone...

More on Farm Aid 2018:

• Farm Aid 2018 - Hartford, CT, Sept 22 (reviews, photos, setlists, etc.)
• VIDEO FULL SET: Neil Young + Promise of the REAL @ Farm Aid 2018 - Hartford, CT, Sept 22
• Press Conference Farm Aid 2018: Neil Young + John Mellencamp + Dave Matthews - Hartford, CT - Sept 22
• LOOKING FWD: Farm Aid 2018 This Weekend - Hartford, CT
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Neil Young + Promise of the REAL - The Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, New York - 9/26 & 27/2018

 

Neil Young + Promise of the REAL

Photos by Hounds That Howell

Setlist Grid via Sugar Mountain.

Neil Young Closes Sold-Out Capitol Theatre Run with Political Fervor :: https://t.co/LkElGOtC3k pic.twitter.com/kTlJSWHgvk

— Relix (@RelixMag) September 28, 2018

*14* different songs on 2nd night @ Port Chester!

2018-09-27
The Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, New York, USA
w/ Promise Of The Real

1. Out On The Weekend (acoustic guitar)
2. World On A String (electric guitar)
3. Albuquerque (electric guitar)
4. Speakin' Out (piano)
5. Field Of Opportunity (electric guitar)
6. I've Been Waiting For You (electric guitar)
7. Love To Burn (electric guitar)
8. Love And Only Love (electric guitar)
9. Heart Of Gold (acoustic guitar)
10. From Hank To Hendrix (acoustic guitar)
11. Turn Off The News (electric guitar; vocals by Lukas Nelson)
12. Everything Is Bullshit (electric guitar; vocals by Micah Nelson)
13. Powderfinger (electric guitar)
14. Children Of Destiny (electric guitar)
15. Ohio (electric guitar)
16. Rockin' In The Free World (electric guitar)
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17. Mansion On The Hill (electric guitar)

Band: Promise Of The Real
Neil Young - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, harmonica
Lukas Nelson - electric guitar, vocals
Micah Nelson - electric guitar, vocals
Corey McCormick - bass, vocals
Anthony Logerfo - drums
Tato Melgar - percussion

You guys, I saw Neil Young with Promise of the Real last night and I'm still beaming. It was legendary and my heart is so full ❤️🎶❤️#NeilYoung #RockNRoll#PromiseOfTheReal#FridayFeeling pic.twitter.com/4yZWaVILTP

— Angela Careccia (@LIBeerGal) September 28, 2018

2018-09-26

1. Like An Inca (electric guitar)
2. Tell Me Why (acoustic guitar)
3. Field Of Opportunity (electric guitar)
4. Heart Of Gold (acoustic guitar)
5. Lotta Love (acoustic guitar)
6. (Eternity) (electric piano)
7. Words (electric guitar)
8. Winterlong (electric guitar)
9. Unknown Legend (acoustic guitar)
10. Harvest Moon (acoustic guitar)
11. F*!#in' Up (electric guitar)
12. Cortez The Killer (electric guitar)
13. Cinnamon Girl (electric guitar)
14. Rockin' In The Free World (electric guitar)
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15. Roll Another Number (electric guitar)

Length: roughly 2 hours

So fortunate to have seen Neil Young & Promise Of The Real in such an awesome, intimate & historic venue 9/27/18 @capitoltheatre #NeilYoung #LukasNelsonandPromiseoftheReal @lukasnelson @Neilyoung pic.twitter.com/MKFrYw23et

— TheMusicNeverStopped (@MusicDoesntStop) September 28, 2018

"Eternity" (new song)

My daughter saw Neil Young last night.
(she claims she's into classic rock because I used to sing to her for hours when she was a colicky baby) pic.twitter.com/61AUFrrIBX

— more or Les (@LesterHammerer) September 28, 2018

Neil Young played a different set of classics at the Cap night 2 (pics, setlist, videos) https://t.co/Pnt2NRzbO7

— BrooklynVegan Photos (@BVpics) September 28, 2018

Heart of Gold

#MediaMemes/#PumpUpThaVolume: Live Review: Neil Young + Promise Of The Real, Port Chester, NY, Sept. 26, 2018 https://t.co/LoCEHhAuts via #MAGNETmagazine

— MediaMonarchy.com (@mediamonarchy) September 28, 2018

Micah Nelson - Lotta Love

Eternity

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September 27, 2018 @neilyoung @lukasnelsonofficial @capitoltheatre Rockn in the Free World 📷@jayblakesberg @coreymccormickofficial

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Words

"Words"

Words

"Big ideas shift, and band members come and go, but at the core of Young’s art, it’s all one song – incandescent and alive with a strange mix of joy and rage. "@Neilyoung @lukasnelson @jacmnelson3 @POTR https://t.co/rLeJ3mMA91

— ThrashersWheat (@ThrashersWheat) September 28, 2018

Photo by P Squared | Brooklyn Vegan

Photo by Wes Orshoski | Magnet Magazine

Just about set to see Neil Young at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY. As @tonykornheiser1 says...Good Night 🇨🇦. Thank you @capitoltheatre for another great evening to be. pic.twitter.com/EiC6N3gzHm

— Rob Petz (@robpetz) September 26, 2018

Neil Young + Promise of the REAL will perform in concert tonight (Wednesday, 9/26) and tomorrow (Thursday, 9/27) at The Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, New York.

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
Telluride, Colorado - 9/30/16
Photo by thrasher

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34+ minute version of "Like A Hurricane" on NYA Movie Night @ Hearse Theater

"Like A Hurricane"
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
NYA Movie Night @ Hearse Theater

An epic "Like A Hurricane" by Neil Young & Crazy Horse is featured on NYA Movie Night @ Hearse Theater.

The 34+ minute version of "Like A Hurricane" at the Paleo Festival, Nyon, Switzerland on July 23, 2013 takes places during a torrential thunderstorm... and the band plays on. And on. And on.

"Like A Hurricane"
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Paleo Festival, Nyon, Switzerland on July 23, 2013
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There are quite a few epic songs in Neil Young's vast catalog.

But what makes "Like A Hurricane" often especially spectacular when played is not what happens just on stage but all around it simultaneously. As we have seen over the years, the song's performance sometimes seems to literally alter the weather to create the ultimate alternate state of reality transporting the audience to far away dimensions.

Such is the case at the Paleo Festival, Nyon, Switzerland on July 23, 2013. The Concert Review of the Moment is from the Neil Young & Crazy Horse concert by wolle:

July 24th nearly 6 o clock in the morning..comin back home by car after a long ride 430km from western switzerland, all clothes , all is wet, wet as can be after all that....

First all of it started in a very good mood, nice weather and a beautiful organized paleo festival , it was my first time there and i was overwhelmed by the people there, all continents were there , african musicians, asian people, food and art and music from all over the world.

The concert of neil young and the horse began at night at 23.00 pm and it started with an epic long version of love and only love, got over to powderfinger with 3 solo parts after another, moved over to the psychedelic pill and a tremendous burning thundering walk like a giant over to hole in the sky and then the acoustic part began with heart of gold. After that song, neil was not comfortable with the hank williams D28 , was not in tune ...the new larry who looks like andy warhol had to come out and tune hanks guitar on stage while neil was standing there grinning.

At blowin in the wind it happened a lyrics mistake and at comes a time he had a wrong chord but didn't matter^^ then he started with singer without a song and no woman with a guitar bag was seen on stage the first time he played that xD but as he started playin that a cold wind came around the scene and thunderbolts and then it began slightly to rain...neil saw that and played it til the end , stood up from the piano and then the wind came mighty and blew his black hat from his head away! Neil was surprised , saw that rain also from the roof comin down on stage and the flashings at heaven . He ordered the organ to get it down on stage and they began like a hurricane to play!

The thunderstorm now was more and more heavy and like the monsoon at australia the storm blew us nearly away we got wet all around and neil and the horse played the strongest, most brutal but also melodic and most emotional hurricane ever heard at concert!!! he sang nearly 6 verses of hurricane he played solo 100 times over hurricane, at the end of the song he started again from the beginning and all culminates into an extended excessive sound and thunder , that was so incredible to the whole scene all around !

The audience was so great and cheered to the boys on stage tremendously so they played on and on. Neil saw the wet audience gave hurricane a thunder ending and moved immediately over to rockin in the free world and the water of the monsoon came rollin down from the hill behind me and right beside me so i stood in a lake!

We cheered the horse and held the line like soldiers at a kamikaze mission and neil and the horse appreciated that much that they came at the end of rockin to the front of the stage and bowed to us neil prayed to us, after they decided to break down the concert because of the incredible storm and too much rain . I thought while he played hurricane, now it is the right moment to die , have no fear, neil and the horse are staying with you, leading you the way to the nirvana, while the stage bursts and break down on me.

i couldn't imagine such a concert in my hardest dreams and it took place reality! It was a spiritual moment feeling the power of nature the storm and the energy the horse played and filled the earth altogether with that enormous power and thunder . That was really magic! After the concert broke down i try to get to my car walking through rivers that the rain caused and found my car and could get out of that mud , drove many hundred kilometres through thunderstorm through switzerland to germany back in the prairies where all was dry but all things i had were almost wet and i was still alive-

Very, very cool wolle! We've had the privledge of some epic LAH ourselves, but never the total 3D experience. Maybe someday...

"Like A Hurricane"
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Photo by GenevaLunch News
Concert Reviews and more on Paleo Festival, Nyon, Switzerland: Neil Young & Crazy Horse Concert Reviews - July 23, 2013 .

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VIDEO FULL SET: Neil Young + Promise of the REAL @ Farm Aid 2018 - Hartford, CT, Sept 22

Here is the full video set of Neil Young + Promise of the REAL at Farm Aid 2018 in Hartford, CT on Sept 22.

1. Tell Me Why
2. Field Of Opportunity
3. Show Me
4. Powderfinger
5. Heart Of Gold
6. Ohio
7. Children Of Destiny* (song debut)
8. Love And Only Love

More details @ Farm Aid 2018 - Hartford, CT, Sept 22 (reviews, photos, setlists, etc.)


Full concert stream

Also, Neil Young + John Mellencamp @ 2018 Farm Aid Press Conference in Hartford, CT - Sept 22.

Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young & Dave Matthews
Photos by Hounds That Howell

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Neil Young + John Mellencamp + Dave Matthews @ 2018 Farm Aid Press Conference in Hartford, CT - Sept 22

Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young & Dave Matthews
Photos by Hounds That Howell

Neil Young at 2018 Farm Aid Press Conference in Hartford, CT on Saturday Sept 22.

Carolyn Mugar, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp & Neil Young

John Mellencamp at 2018 Farm Aid Press Conference in Hartford, CT - Sept 22.

Dave Matthews

Dave Matthews at 2018 Farm Aid Press Conference in Hartford, CT - Sept 22.

More details @ Farm Aid 2018 - Hartford, CT, Sept 22 (reviews, photos, setlists, etc.)

Filmed by Hounds That Howell.

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Neil Young + Promise of the REAL: Saratoga Springs, NY, 2018-09-23

Setlist via Sugar Mountain:

2018-09-23
Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
Outlaw Music Festival
w/ Promise Of The Real

1. Tell Me Why (acoustic guitar)
2. Field Of Opportunity (electric guitar)
3. Country Home (electric guitar)
4. Show Me (electric guitar)
5. Heart Of Gold (acoustic guitar)
6. Lotta Love (acoustic guitar)
7. Human Highway (acoustic guitar)
8. (Eternity)* (electric keyboard) - song debut, title unconfirmed
9. Powderfinger (electric guitar)
10. Love To Burn (electric guitar)
11. Are You Ready For The Country? (piano)
12. Ohio (electric guitar)
13. Rockin' In The Free World (electric guitar)

14. On The Road Again (acoustic guitar; guests with Willie Nelson)
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15. Will The Circle Be Unbroken (acoustic guitar; guests with Willie Nelson)
16. I'll Fly Away (acoustic guitar; guests with Willie Nelson)

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