Neil Young News: Comment of the Moment: Seeing Neil Young 50 Years Ago

Thursday, April 02, 2026

Comment of the Moment: Seeing Neil Young 50 Years Ago

"Across The Water"Hearse Theatre | Neil Young Archives (Click photo to enlarge)

Hey there!

Thanks for everyone returning after much mischief and hilarity here at Thrasher's Wheat yesterday.

Admittedly, ARC Day/April Fool's day is made for these times of absurdity, irrelevance and general chaos. But we gotta just have fun and laugh at least one day a year, you know what we mean, right?

Which brings us yet again to another Comment of the Moment on seeing Neil Young 50 years ago by Ron:

Haha, well done John Kwit and Thrasher. Made me laugh, which is welcome these days. [ed.: Amen!)

It's now the 2nd April, which is the 50th anniversary of my first Neil show at the great but long gone Glasgow Apollo. Nice to see Neil commemorating this and the London Hammersmith shows on NYA and by showing Across The Water all week in the Hearse Theatre.

I had hoped to mark this milestone by seeing Neil again in Glasgow this summer, but sadly it's not to be. I can always eat a peach instead I guess. To be honest I was more surprised when the tour was announced than when it was cancelled. Just hope they are all healthy and well.

Never would have thought 50 years ago I would still be enjoying Neil's music today, and be able to watch and listen to performances from that tour, and even the final encore from the Glasgow show itself. Hard to believe really.

So tonight I will be having a glass or two of wine to celebrate and watching and listening to Across The Water and Odeon Budokan. Oh and I will have to watch the film of Neil busking The Old Laughing Lady outside Glasgow Central station as well - mustn't forget that!

Thanks for the memories Ron! What a long strange trip we've been on.

"Too Far Gone"

Neil Young - 1976

via Hearse Theatre | Neil Young Archives

We had our 50th anniversary of our first Neil show back in 2024 so we know that feeling well of being too far gone.

So if you enjoyed this "Trespassin' with Neil" (TM) saga, then here's some more of our Intrepid Chicago Reporter (ICR) John Kwit's tales from the TW Vault @

Back to April 1st.

April Fool jokes are a long running rustie tradition going back to the '90's by playing ARC at full blast -- with the windows open -- on repeat for 24 hours.

Ever since, rusties have traditionally tried to raise the stakes with gags and jokes. TW also has a long tradition of ARC inspired April foolery over the years. On some years, literally breaking the Internet. (sorry -- not sorry)

For example, here are a few April 1 highlights from the TW Archives:

At the bottom of these posts, we often clearly indicate Happy Arc Day -- shorthand for "Don't Get Fooled Again". Even Archives Guy has commented in the past on some of our more clever attempts.

Even Neil gets in on the annual fun. ~~See Neil's tweet in 2019.~~

Anyways, all in good fun. Traditionally we avoid the internet on 4/1 and are always using our disCERNment the other 364 days of the year.

The fakery and chaff reach new heights practically daily.

TW does it's part in trying to prepare folks for The Big Shift -- separating the wheat from the chaff... or truth from lies ... or real from fake -- as best we can. At least our detractors can't say we didn't try...

But hey?!

Afterall, Lukas Nelson sings "Turn Off The News" and his brother Micah sings "Everything Is Bullshit". Even Willie sings "Everything Is Bullshit".