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Photo of the Moment: Dave Grohl & Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Central Park, New York City, 9/29/12
Rockin' In The Free World
Neil Young & Crazy Horse w/ Dave Grohl
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The Photo of the Moment is Dave Grohl & Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Central Park, New York City, 9/29/12. (Thanks Zak!)
Zack H. commented:
I read through comments before watching the video of "Rockin' in the Free World" and I was expecting to see a really pitiful performance by an old man well past his prime. That's not what I saw.
I saw a rock n' roll genius and legend who commanded a stage full of some twenty or thirty musicians and an audience of tens of thousands more. He was yelling and barking into the mic like a man possessed, wailing on his guitar, and stomping around the stage like some kind of...well...giant.
All of those other musicians seemed to be in complete awe, even the long-time members of Crazy Horse could look on at the younger guys with an expression on their face like "we still can't believe it and we've been playing with this dude for DECADES."
And how about that coda of the chorus? All that feedback and screaming guitar, and then Neil counting the band right back in? Everyone lost their mind at how much energy and passion that "old man" was showing. Neil himself couldn't help but smile at how well it had pulled off.
Retire "Rockin' in the Free World"? I don't think so. Neil just gave that song as much life as it's ever had, and I wouldn't put it past him to be able to top it yet.
Thanks Zack! A true rock & roll giant if there ever was one, we'd say.
2012-09-29, Central Park, New York City, New York, USA
Global Festival
w/ Crazy Horse
1. Love And Only Love
2. Powderfinger
3. Born In Ontario
4. Walk Like A Giant
5. The Needle And The Damage Done
6. Twisted Road
7. F*!#in' Up
8. Rockin' In The Free World
Rockin' In The Free World
Neil Young & Crazy Horse w/ Dave Grohl
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I don't need to see another act in concert ever again. Just yards away from Neil young crazy horse Dave Grohl AND Dan Auerbach jam
For the concert’s finale Mr. Auerbach and Mr. Grohl brought their guitars to join Mr. Young and Crazy Horse in “Rockin’ in the Free World”; Band of Horses and K’Naan became a backup vocal choir. The song isn’t a simple celebration. It’s a juxtaposition of dire conditions in the verses and ironic joy in the choruses. It’s Mr. Young’s take on the complacent “free world” versus real life, and perhaps a song for those who want tweets to suffice as international actions. It was a clamorous multiguitar blowout and, for those who know the song, a hint of the real work ahead before the world can be saved.
The headliner was Neil Young with Crazy Horse, the band that has perfected rock as a primordial stomp.
Mr. Young’s set was molten and unkempt, yet it had his own kind of finesse. He and Crazy Horse, on their first tour since 2004, often huddled near the center of the stage, bobbing back and forth until their heads nearly touched, and their songs sometimes welled up out of a caldron of drone and distortion.
But Mr. Young’s voice was pure and precise, and his lead guitar could peal with straightforward melodies, or scrabble with frenetic intensity, or plunge to grapple with subterranean forces. The set included three songs from Mr. Young’s next album, “Psychedelic Pill,” due Oct. 30, and they were openly autobiographical.
“Walk Like a Giant” was also a pithy eulogy for 1960s idealism: “We were ready to save the world,” Mr. Young sang. “Then the weather changed and the white got stained and it fell apart/And it breaks my heart to think about how close we came.” It ended with blast after slow blast of the closing chord, dozens of times, turning into slabs of abstract noise.
F*!#in' Up
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Fell asleep tonight while reading 'Waging Heavy Peace', an amazingly transcendent autobiographical journey the the past, only to be awoken by "Powderfinger" from the YouTube page I had put on a couple of hours previously. I was coming out of a pretty hazy dream state, and hearing the Horse live suddenly was like a dream come true. It's past 3am here in CA as I write this and I can only say that their set was, for me anyway, like that gospel light shining! The boys were having a blast and the Horse was deep in the groove. These guys were putting their heart and soul into it, and if Neil seemed a bit winded at the end, well, who on God's green earth wouldn't be?! It's just a blessing they're still making great new music and laying it all on the line. If you're lucky enough to see them live on tour, soak it up and cherish it. You never want to say it'll be the last ride, but remember life is short. Dig this NOW.
Young was also focused on the present, playing several new songs in a set that featured only two tracks released before 1989. It began with a heavy, nearly fifteen-minute jam on Ragged Glory’s "Love and Only Love," with Young and guitarist Frank "Poncho" Sampedro facing each other, playing blistering solos with punk attack. Young quickly launched into "Powderfinger," full of twin-guitar mastery. He also went acoustic for moving versions of "The Needle and the Damage Done" and the new "Twisted Road." "I'm remembering the first time I ever came here for an audition," Young said of New York City before the twangy new "Born in Ontario." "It’s a great place, even though I didn't get it."
Young was also focused on the present, playing several new songs in a set that featured only two tracks released before 1989. It began with a heavy, nearly fifteen-minute jam on Ragged Glory’s "Love and Only Love," with Young and guitarist Frank "Poncho" Sampedro facing each other, playing blistering solos with punk attack. Young quickly launched into "Powderfinger," full of twin-guitar mastery. He also went acoustic for moving versions of "The Needle and the Damage Done" and the new "Twisted Road." "I'm remembering the first time I ever came here for an audition," Young said of New York City before the twangy new "Born in Ontario." "It’s a great place, even though I didn't get it."
Global Citizen Festival To End Extreme Poverty Concert replay stream
Dave Grohl, Neil Young and Dan Auerbach perform onstage at the Global Citizen Festival In Central Park To End Extreme Poverty - Show at Central Park on September 29, 2012 in New York City.
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UPDATE: Concert is now streaming live. Looks and sounds great! Enjoy. (link below)
Tonight, Saturday, September 29th, Neil Young & Crazy Horse will perform a free concert* on the Great Lawn in New York City's Central Park.
The concert will be for the Global Festival, designed to bring awareness and funds to the cause of ending global poverty. Along with Neil Young & Crazy Horse, will be the Foo Fighters, Black Keys, Band of Horses and K'naan.
"Global Poverty Project organizers are hopeful about their tuneful approach to activism. "Since 1981, the proportion of people living in extreme poverty has been halved to 25 percent. While progress has been remarkable, there's still a long way to go," he says. "Music and movements go hand-in-hand: from ending the slave trade in the 1800s through the freedom chant against apartheid in South Africa, music has been a key part of social change, and that's still so true today. It gives us an outlet to express that which we care about in the most meaningful and passionate of ways, which is the whole point of the Global Festival: it's equitable, so anyone can get involved in uniting so many people and non-profits around one cause. It's become a lot bigger than any of us have ever dreamed."
FREE CONCERT*: Neil Young & Crazy Horse @ Global Festival - Great Lawn, Central Park, September 29, 2012
A new concert date has been added for Neil Young & Crazy Horse this fall.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Foo Fighters, Black Keys, Band of Horses and K'naan will perform at the Great Lawn in New York's Central Park on September 29th as part of the Global Festival, a concert designed to bring awareness and funds to the cause of ending global poverty.
"Global Poverty Project organizers are hopeful about their tuneful approach to activism. "Since 1981, the proportion of people living in extreme poverty has been halved to 25 percent. While progress has been remarkable, there's still a long way to go," he says. "Music and movements go hand-in-hand: from ending the slave trade in the 1800s through the freedom chant against apartheid in South Africa, music has been a key part of social change, and that's still so true today. It gives us an outlet to express that which we care about in the most meaningful and passionate of ways, which is the whole point of the Global Festival: it's equitable, so anyone can get involved in uniting so many people and non-profits around one cause. It's become a lot bigger than any of us have ever dreamed."
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