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This year's Farm Aid festival will be in TBD, on Saturday, Sept. 25.
The festival lineup will feature performances by Farm Aid board members
Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Dave Matthews. Additional
artists will be announced later this summer.
Recently, we have been remembering that glorious day -- 20 years ago! -- that Neil Young came to town in order to open for the Dave Matthews Band at Scott Stadium, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA on April 21, 2001.
The concert highlight everyone would agree on was Neil Young walking on stage to join Dave Matthews
Band on"All
Along the Watchtower". (Listen to reminisces and concert recording on the play link @ PLAYLIST: Neil Young Deep Dive | WTJU.net - 91.1 FM)
The 2001 concert kicked off the tour to raise funds for BamaWorks, which supports charitable programs in the Charlottesville, VA area.
The Dave Matthews Band and Neil Young have performed together a number of times together over the years. Matthews is a fellow Farm Aid concert organizer along with Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young. Dave Matthews has also supported the Bridge School Benefit Concerts on several occasions.
Dave Matthews and Neil Young Farm Aid Press Conference
Photo Gallery by photographer Mary Francis Andrews
(via Linda @ www.stillisstillmoving.com)
Dave Matthews Band played Neil Young's "Hey Hey, My My" on June 4, 2008 as the first encore at Camden, N.J. It was the first performance of the song by Dave Matthews Band who have previously covered Young's "Cortez the Killer" and "Down by the River."
Dave Matthews, Neil Young and Pegi Young
The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing GRAMMY Event
Village Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California - January 21st, 2014
Neil Young joined the Dave Matthews Band concert at the Vote for Change Concert Tour on October 3, 2004 at the Palace in Auburn Hills, MI. Dave Matthews introduced Young by saying 'a good friend of ours,' before launching into a 15 minute electric performance of Bob Dylan's 'All Along the Watchtower.'
Remember that day that Neil Young came to Charlottesville, Virginia?
This past weekend, we reminisced on "That Day" over on radio station WTJU.net (91.1 FM, Charlottesville, VA) on an extended edition of "Why Sleep" with DJ Alex Shoabi, where we played played extensive deep cuts by Neil Young as a special guest host.
The program began on very local angle with "All
Along the Watchtower" by Neil Young (w/o Crazy Horse) in concert with the Dave Matthews
Band, recorded live at Scott Stadium on UVA's campus in Charlottesville, VA at a BamaWorks Benefit on April 21, 2001.
Check out the crowd reaction when the heavily favoriteDave Matthews Band hometown crowd realizes that Neil Young has walked on stage.
The full playlist / podcast can be downloaded or streamed @
Sedan Delivery / Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) / Love And Only Love / Cinnamon Girl / F*!#in' Up / Cortez The Killer / Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown / Rockin' In The Free World / Down By The River // All Along The Watchtower (w/ DMB)
Yes, back in the day, I was connected, and Coran Capshaw set me and my
kids up in the 4th row at Scott Stadium for the benefit.
It was sure
weird to see Neil open for Dave. Not my favorite place to see a show - a
huge stadium - but you take what is dealt. I could walk to it from my
house! I wasn't going to miss it. In the early 90's before Dave hit big
and DMB was still doing the weekly shows on Tuesday at Trax in
Charlottesville, he would play some stuff live in the studio, then in
the basement of Peabody Hall at the University, for the rock marathons.
I
still have a recording of it somewhere.... fun stuff.
Great memories Aer! Thanks for re-connecting. We have a recording also ... that we found and played!
We recall driving down that morning with our rustie buddy Expecting 2 Fly and catching up with the NeilBillies Gang. Funny, but if you listen to opening of WatchTower you can hear this guy behind us freaking out: "OMG! It's Dave & Neil on the same f'n stage. i can't believe this!"
Another note on the day was how apologetic Dave was to Neil about Neil opening for him. Dave felt very strongly it was just wrong, although it was the right move for a Charlottesville concert.
And while we were broadcasting, someone called and said they knew you. But didn't catch her name. We did get some crazy calls during broadcast as we mentioned in comments yesterday. So cool that you were a WTJU DJ and "Neil & Beyond".
We're honored to carry the Rust torch forward w/ DJ Alex to a new UVA crowd. Can't believe you played the entire ARC?! We only played about an 8 minute heavy feedback chunk.
We'll keep "rockin' the boat without you"! Wahoo wah!
ps - "There's a bar hall queen down in Charlotte town."
Early this morning, over on radio station WTJU.net (91.1 FM, Charlottesville, VA) the extended edition of "Why Sleep" with DJ Alex Shoabi, played extensive cuts by Neil Young with a special guest host .... yours truly, thrasher.
In The Studio
WTJU.net - 91.1 FM "Why Sleep" DJ Alex & Special Guest
The theme of the playlist was Deep Dive cuts of Neil Young's music and in depth background discussion of each song.
The program began on very local angle of "All Along the Watchtower" by Neil Young in concert with the Dave Matthews Band, recorded live at Scott Stadium on UVA's campus in Charlottesville, VA at a BamaWorks Benefit on April 21, 2001.
Check out the crowd reaction when the heavily Dave Matthews Band hometown crowd realizes that Neil has walked on stage.
The full playlist / podcast can be downloaded or streamed @
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