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A new Timeline Concert of the Moment is now streaming on Neil Young Archives. (Thanks Andrew!)
The latest Timeline Concert is Neil Young w/ The Lost Dogs@ Entertainment Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on April 18, 1989. The concert features an acoustic Ordinary People.
A 1996 Tour of Europe concert with Neil Young & Crazy Horse at Leipzig Festwiese in Leipzig, Germany on July 10, 1996 is now streaming on Neil Young Archives. (Thanks Steve L. !)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
1996-07-10, Leipzig Festwiese, Leipzig, Germany Photo by Agostino Viglione via Sugar Mountain Setlists
More on Neil Young & Crazy Horse, The Years of the Horse and tales of 4 guys who like to rock.
Thrasher's Wheat Radio 2.0 Vodcast/Podcast - Episode #7 | Hosted by WBKM.org
This week's episode features our very first special guest Rustie Lone Red Rider who discusses the new Concert Performance of the Week series, as well as, tips and tricks on navigating NYA Timeline and locating concerts.
So, here is a complete listing of all of the Neil Young concerts on the NYA Timeline courtesy of Sugar Mountain (Thanks Tom H. & Andrew B. & Jeff R. Robert B. !):
UPDATE: Also, please note that Neil Young Unreleased Timeline Concerts Guide by Robert Broadfoot includes the full list of concerts
with links to the NYA page, track listings and instrumentation details
(basically courtesy of SugarMtn.org but with additions) and
track timings to help folks find specific song
recordings. Also includes details of the main raps which aren’t
included on SugarMtn or on NYA.
Thrasher's Wheat Radio 2.0 Vodcast/Podcast - Episode #7 | Hosted by WBKM.org
This week's episode features our very first special guest Rustie Lone Red Rider who discusses the new Concert Performance of the Week series, as well as, tips and tricks on navigating NYA Timeline and locating concerts.
A 1976 Tour of Japan & Europe concert by Neil Young & Crazy Horse at Sportpaleis Ahoy' in Rotterdam, The Netherlands on Mar 24, 1976 is now streaming on Neil Young Archives.
Touring with the Horse in 76, after arriving in Oslo Norway from Japan, we crossed Europe and played a great rock and roll hall in Rotterdam.
Then we went on and toured the the US. An album was made and a film was
created to memorialize that world tour. Perhaps the Horse was at the
first peak of its powers. It was a great tour. Coming soon in NYA Volume
3, the film and the record.
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?
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.
Epic night in Amsterdam. 26 songs, three and a half hours, the
longest concert of the current tour and the longest Neil Young concert
in his more than fifty year career. "Don't Be Denied" and "Change Your
Mind" first time on the European Tour. The total number of different
songs of the Tour now up to 57, [sic - see above/below] Also, two song encore: "Like An Inca"
& "Here We Are In The Years”.
Pretty cool that NYA is using TW as a resource. Thanks NYA crew! But sorry the Sugar Mountain link got clipped, right there at the hanging comma. :(
The latest Neil Young Archives TIMELINE CONCERT OF THE WEEK | NYA is from the Solo Trans Tour at Memorial Auditorium in Buffalo, New York on Feb 17, 1983.
The first Solo/Trans show to sellout (according to Neil on
stage).
Also the first show at Buffalo's Memorial auditorium that I
attended that sold beer! This might have added to the amazing crowd
enthusiasm that night to an acoustic show! Neil was blown away by the
crowd & thank the crowd many times throughout the show & said
he'd never miss playing Buffalo on any upcoming tours. I think he has
held to that promise. This was a very special night for everyone there,
including Neil. A nice recording to replace the audience recording most
fans have would be nice to hear (If possible). [ed note: it was possible!]
My first Neil show. Feb 23, 1983 Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
I can NO longer say I remember it like yesterday, but still, there are memories....
"Scalping"
(for $30 ea) a pair of $8 EIGHTH ROW Floor seats, moments before the
show was to go on. Don't even know if he had an opener? It was SOOO cold
outside, we didn't haggle. went there w/o tickets, weren't planning on
spending that much (No $ left fer merch.)
I had the Trans album,
Decade album & a copy of "Hawks & Doves" in the cassette deck,
along for the ride. Turns out that's all I needed. Very eclectic
performer. moved seamlessly from instrument to instrument, singing thru
his harmonica rig. until he wasn't. The rig was swapped for what I've
come to know as a "Vocoder". On came the New wave Black shades & out
came Ol' Black. An "evening with Neil Young, Solo, Acoustic" had
morphed into so much more. But only for one or two songs. That persona
would later re-appear performing some familiar classics. What a great
show. I was hooked, for Life! Have Not missed him since, often on
multiple outings, in the Tri-State region. I also began wearing a Beige
Corduroy jacket with Dark brown elbow patches b/c of Neil. I was a
college student.
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!