Comment of the Moment: NEW TIMELINE CONCERT: Neil Young + POTR - "EPIC NIGHT IN AMSTERDAM!" | NYA

Neil Young: Noise + Flowers
Amsterdam on July 9, 2016
Photos by Roel @ Rust Radio
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The proof is now in for all to hear: it was -- without a shred of doubt -- an "epic night in Amsterdam", as we described back in 2016 as reports rolled in here in real time at TW.

From post NEW TIMELINE CONCERT: Neil Young + POTR - "EPIC NIGHT IN AMSTERDAM!" | NYA, the Comment of the Moment is by Minke:

Amazing show.

Many surprise songs. So many highlights. Razor Love is beautiful. Winterlong fits them like a glove, as do Alabama, Western Hero and a scourging Revolution Blues.

The band was in an elated mood that night. Dutch herbs perhaps.

From note one of Out on the Weekend you hear the glee (this song doesn’t get the best performance though). The concert shows why Neil Young liked to play with these guys. The songs sound fresh and light. Don’t go there searching for the Crazy Horse stomp.

What surprised me most was the sparkling funkiness of their playing. Especially Love to Burn (at 1:12:15) and Love and Only Love (at 2:42:50) get such funky treatments; although 18 and 20+ minutes long it felt like they could go on forever. Pure bliss and with Revolution Blues the absolute pinnacles of the concert.

Moments where Lukas and Micah Nelson’s playing really added a new flavour to the songs and turned them into something completely different from the original Crazy Horse setup. The band continued to bestow song after song on the audience.

Check out the great videos of the concert made by Rialto1961 on YT. Watch Micah Nelson. What was he doing there noodling all the time? But it worked. As do the bongos.

Greetings to all!

 

Thanks for comment Minke!  Definitely a night for the ages.  So was it the Amsterdam herbs?  Or was there more to the picture than meets the eye?

Micah Nelson w/ Promise of the Real
Amsterdam on July 9, 2016
Photos by Roel @ Rust Radio
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In going back to TW posts around this date (See:

• VIDEOS: Amsterdam, Netherlands, Concert: Neil Young + Promise of the Real - July 9, 2016
• Photos and Comment of the Moment: Amsterdam, Netherlands, Concert: Neil Young + Promise of the Real - July 9, 2016 
• Amsterdam, Netherlands, Concert: Neil Young  + Promise of the Real - July 9, 2016 )

it would seem that the night had magic in the air.  It was a Saturday night. If you look at  Sugar Mountain's Chronological Grid (Thanks Tom on SM!), you can see the band had the night off before (traveling from Norway on July 7) and had the next 2 days off before going onto Montreux, Switzerland on July 12.  So they had love to burn in more ways than one.

Neil Young + Promise of the Real
Amsterdam on July 9, 2016
Photos by Roel @ Rust Radio
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