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NEIL YOUNG ARCHIVES TIMELINE CONCERT OF THE MOMENT: w/ Crazy Horse at Bonnaroo Festival, TN - June 15, 2003

Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse
Bonnaroo Festival, TN - June 15, 2003
image via Bonnaroo.com - '03 Daily Gallery
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A new Timeline Concert of the Moment is now streaming on Neil Young Archives.  (Thanks the Road Dawg!) 

The latest Timeline Concert is Neil Young and Crazy Horse at Bonnaroo Festival, TN on June 15, 2003.

Bonnaroo Journal from Knoxville News: "Neil Young and Crazy Horse hit the stage at 9:42 p.m. and opened with a 18 minute version of "Love to Burn." Crazy Horse - guitarist Frank "Poncho" Sampedro, drummer Ralph Molina and Bassist Billy Talbot created a beautiful explosion of sound."

The New York Times said:

    "Despite the revolving jam sessions, this was a crowd with a long attention span, and the festival's best stretches were when bands just held their own for long chunks of time. Neil Young, on Friday, performed with his three-decade-old band, Crazy Horse, under a custardy full moon. For three hours he played expanded versions, some of them 29 minutes long, of his best songs"Love to Burn," "Cortez the Killer," "Cinnamon Girl" and others. He was the only soloist, breaking to solo at length several times per song. Playing in his ragged, stuttering phrases, he made strings of notes crumble into noise, then recohere toward graceful endings. (The festival's excellent concert sound made his guitar tone feel a mile thick.) It was extraordinary, the ideal of a gnarled yet sophisticated technique."

Review via Sugar Mountain


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6 comments:

  1. herbsworld9/06/2026 11:43:00 AM

    What I loved about this concert:
    Neil & the Horse not only ran @ full gallop but they also flipped the script of the setlist.
    That summer, on every other stop, they played Greendale beginning to end, with too few classic tunes as short encores.
    I have come to fully appreciate Greendale in the years since.
    But I distinctly recall the groans of fans who came unprepared to hear an entire concert of a new album.
    Especially when it was billed as a “Neil Young & Crazy Horse” show.

    As an added bonus, I believe this set was also broadcasted by a cable channel (that I may have captured on a DVD-R? Gotta start digging thru the Wreck’d Room)
    😎

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    1. herbsworld9/07/2026 03:54:00 PM

      “We got a pile of shit!
      Pile of shit!”
      From RITFW
      R
      Could be republicants in the free world…
      Pile
      Of
      Shit
      Let’s change the station…
      The situation of a nation.
      That’s maybe lost it’s way?
      To a destination.
      Is it
      Within yer gestation?
      I’m just say’n.

      Sometimes.
      Just sing’n A song
      CAN change the world…

      Delete
  2. thrasher9/06/2026 12:08:00 PM

    Hey HW, yes we also remember the video.

    if you locate that video, we should suggest that NYA to include.

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    1. herbsworld9/16/2026 12:01:00 PM

      Found this on the YouTube:
      https://youtu.be/ACakcJiyYT0?is=mGE4lb7qXf7nC3b3

      I haven’t been able to locate my Dvd-R but, based on the length, I’m pretty sure it would have been low quality video (LP or ELP)?
      I tried to do a “Dark Side of Oz” sync but dang youtube ads! Ugh…

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  3. thrasher9/07/2026 12:04:00 PM

    Also note that Buffalo Springfield played Bonnaroo in 2011 @
    https://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2011/06/buffalo-springfield-bonnaroo-festival.html?m=1

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  4. mshare9/07/2026 08:47:00 PM

    Chuck your soundboard or matrix copy of this concert - this recording sounds significantly better!

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