Concert Review of the Moment: Neil Young & The Kids in Europe, Summer 2013

Kristine, "The Loner" & Rafael
Lucca Festival, Italy: Neil Young & Crazy Horse - July 25, 2013
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The Concert Review of the Moment is about seeing Neil Young & Crazy Horse this summer in Europe with the kids. Here's the experience in Lucca and Rome with two nine years old by The Loner:

Neil Young and Crazy Horse!

My family had enjoyed our summer holiday in Italy, planned when we knew that Neil Young and Crazy Horse were going to play concerts in Lucca and Rome. My two nine year old children were attending their first Neil Young concert in Lucca. Finally the day arrived - with an aching shoulder. The painful shoulder is probably due to tense driving with manual transmission in Italian cities and made ​​shifting very painful. A few painkillers and adrenaline caused that I could add sixty kilometers behind the wheel towards the fine city of Lucca in Italy. We arrived a piazza, giving a lovely frame for the concert.

A nice person in the audience had my kids alternately on his shoulders, something people around us only thought was cozy. Thanks to those people! Already from the first notes of Love and Only Love came lump in the throat, and the good feeling lasted throughout the concert. I finally got to experience Walk Like A Giant and Ramada Inn from last year's album – what versions! Time and place are insignificant when Neil and horses go to the peripheries of the world with their instruments. Adding that Neils voice was in very good shape and that the acoustic songs like Red Sun sounded perfect.

I've been on so many Young concerts that I will complain about songs that are not played, but enjoying myself with those who come. Some of the most obvious crowd favorite did not come. Like a Hurricane I did not expect, as this supposedly got an incredible version of thunderstorms two days earlier. The concert ended a quarter past midnight and we were all very tired when it was over.

The concert the next day in Rome was about as strong. After running 3000 kilometers by car, visited Siena once again, delivering the car and arrived hotel, I should now see Neil Young and Crazy Horse without my kids. The crowd here was much younger than in Lucca, but they hung on to both old and new material. Ramada Inn seemed even better than the night before and people were singing along to Blowin ' In the Wind (the acoustic version), Heart of Gold and Rockin' In The Free World. I particularly enjoyed a superb Sedan Delivery - none of my favorites otherwise - and Surfer Joe and Moe the Sleaze. But Lucca meant something special to me. For those who have tickets in Norway, only to rejoice! Will my children come along? If Neil promises to play Hey Hey, My My. My son wants so bad to be like the woman in the video from Weld.

-The Loner
Oslo, Norway

Thanks The Loner! What a great father. Lucky kids. Enjoy the concert in Norway!

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GIVEAWAY: Thrasher's Wheat Radio T-shirts

Sandy & Tami
The Arkansas Girls
(Click photo to enlarge)You may recall the remarkable story of The Arkansas Girls from last year.

If not, check it out, because it's essentially one of those dream come true Neil Young stories that makes your heart smile as a fan.

So now the The Arkansas Girls are helping us out with a little t-shirt give away just in time for the 3rd Leg of the Neil Young & Crazy Horse Europe Tour.

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Neil Young News on Thrashers Wheat Radio - July 27, 2013 (Show #46)

Something new here on Thrasher's Wheat.

We now have available the Neil Young News segment from Thrashers Wheat Radio on YouTube. Here's the Saturday, July 27, 2013 (Show #46) news on the 2nd Leg of Europe tour wraps up, an epic Hurricane in Switzerland, and Billy Talbot's Rolling Stone interview.

Grazi Sergio!

More information on earlier broadcasts of Thrasher's Wheat Radio Hour Show on WBKM.org.

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Photo of the Moment: "Walk Like A Giant" - Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Köln, Germany - July 12, 2013

"Walk Like A Giant"
Neil Young
Köln, Germany on July 12, 2013
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The Photo of the Moment is from "Walk Like A Giant" at Neil Young & Crazy Horse in concert in Köln, Germany on July 12, 2013.

Thanks Paolo!

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YouTube: "Love and Only Love" - Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Lucca, Italy 2013

A scorching opening of "Love and Only Love" by Neil Young & Crazy Horse @ Lucca Summer Festival, Piazza Napoleone, 25.07.2013.

Great video, you can see everybody in the band, even Ralph! Thanks Roel!

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VIDEO: "Cortez the Killer" - Neil Young & Crazy Horse @ Moon and Stars Festival, Locarno, Switzerland, July 14, 2013

An awesomely transcendent of "Cortez the Killer" by Neil Young & Crazy Horse at Moon and Stars Festival, Locarno, Switzerland on July 14, 2013.

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Photo of the Moment: Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rock in Roma, Italy - July 26, 2013

Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Rock in Roma, Italy - July 26, 2013
Photo by Francesco Lucarelli
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The Photo of the Moment is from Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rock in Roma, Italy - July 26, 2013.

This was the final bow of the 2nd leg of 2013 Europe Summer Alchemy Tour. The 3rd leg resumes in August in Helsinki, Finland.

Thanks Francesco Lucarelli and to all for the photos, videos, and reviews from Europe this summer!

And thanks to everyone for supporting Thrasher's Wheat Radio Goes To Europe!

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Message From Crazy Horse Personnel + RAN & EKTIN: Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Lucca Summer Festival, Italy, 2013

Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2013-07-25 Lucca Summer Festival, Lucca, Italy


"Roll another Number" & "Everybody knows this is nowhere "

Neil: "Just remember, don't leave anything here tonight. It might not be here tomorrow."

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Rock in Roma, Italy: Neil Young & Crazy Horse Concert Reviews - July 26, 2013

Neil Young forever http://t.co/nj5mOLDhhb via @wordpressdotcom

— elisabetta malvagna (@bittimalva) July 27, 2013

e stasera un bel NEIL YOUNG & The Crazy Horse live in Rome …ci sta proprio bene! #neilyoung pic.twitter.com/BhBN74toBH

— Adolfo Franzò (@AdoFRANZO) July 26, 2013

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse will be performing tonight at Rock in Roma, Rome, Italy.

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Lucca Festival, Italy: Neil Young & Crazy Horse Concert Reviews - July 25, 2013

Neil Young & Crazy Horse http://t.co/lFbKUoGwmI #FaceTheMusic #FTM

— Mickey Mac (@MickeeMack) July 26, 2013

Gran concerto neil young #LuccaSummer pic.twitter.com/PKGq6M6s1d

— Sara 'Princi' (@SaraprinciSara) July 25, 2013

Neil Young #summerfestival pic.twitter.com/JQFslwnive

— Nicola (@nicvaccani) July 25, 2013

Waiting for Neil Young in beautiful Lucca #LuccaSummer pic.twitter.com/JSLPnuw25t

— Jorgen Vranken (@jvranken) July 25, 2013

We're rocking in the free world! Come on Neil Young! #LuccaSummer pic.twitter.com/hDPVW0uiFT

— Jo Shore (@pennbrookjo) July 25, 2013

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse will be performing tonight at Lucca Summer Festival, Lucca, Italy.

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Concert Review of the Moment: Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Paleo Festival, Nyon, Switzerland - July 23, 2013

"Like A Hurricane"
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Paleo Festival, Nyon, Switzerland on July 23, 2013
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There are quite a few epic songs in Neil Young's vast catalog.

But what makes "Like A Hurricane" often especially spectacular when played is not what happens just on stage but all around it simultaneously. As we have seen over the years, the song's performance sometimes seems to literally alter the weather to create the ultimate alternate state of reality transporting the audience to far away dimensions.

Such is the case at the Paleo Festival, Nyon, Switzerland on July 23, 2013. The Concert Review of the Moment is from the Neil Young & Crazy Horse concert by wolle:

July 24th nearly 6 o clock in the morning..comin back home by car after a long ride 430km from western switzerland, all clothes , all is wet, wet as can be after all that....

First all of it started in a very good mood, nice weather and a beautiful organized paleo festival , it was my first time there and i was overwhelmed by the people there, all continents were there , african musicians, asian people, food and art and music from all over the world.

The concert of neil young and the horse began at night at 23.00 pm and it started with an epic long version of love and only love, got over to powderfinger with 3 solo parts after another, moved over to the psychedelic pill and a tremendous burning thundering walk like a giant over to hole in the sky and then the acoustic part began with heart of gold. After that song, neil was not comfortable with the hank williams D28 , was not in tune ...the new larry who looks like andy warhol had to come out and tune hanks guitar on stage while neil was standing there grinning.

At blowin in the wind it happened a lyrics mistake and at comes a time he had a wrong chord but didn't matter^^ then he started with singer without a song and no woman with a guitar bag was seen on stage the first time he played that xD but as he started playin that a cold wind came around the scene and thunderbolts and then it began slightly to rain...neil saw that and played it til the end , stood up from the piano and then the wind came mighty and blew his black hat from his head away! Neil was surprised , saw that rain also from the roof comin down on stage and the flashings at heaven . He ordered the organ to get it down on stage and they began like a hurricane to play!

The thunderstorm now was more and more heavy and like the monsoon at australia the storm blew us nearly away we got wet all around and neil and the horse played the strongest, most brutal but also melodic and most emotional hurricane ever heard at concert!!! he sang nearly 6 verses of hurricane he played solo 100 times over hurricane, at the end of the song he started again from the beginning and all culminates into an extended excessive sound and thunder , that was so incredible to the whole scene all around !

The audience was so great and cheered to the boys on stage tremendously so they played on and on. Neil saw the wet audience gave hurricane a thunder ending and moved immediately over to rockin in the free world and the water of the monsoon came rollin down from the hill behind me and right beside me so i stood in a lake!

We cheered the horse and held the line like soldiers at a kamikaze mission and neil and the horse appreciated that much that they came at the end of rockin to the front of the stage and bowed to us neil prayed to us, after they decided to break down the concert because of the incredible storm and too much rain . I thought while he played hurricane, now it is the right moment to die , have no fear, neil and the horse are staying with you, leading you the way to the nirvana, while the stage bursts and break down on me.

i couldn't imagine such a concert in my hardest dreams and it took place reality! It was a spiritual moment feeling the power of nature the storm and the energy the horse played and filled the earth altogether with that enormous power and thunder . That was really magic! After the concert broke down i try to get to my car walking through rivers that the rain caused and found my car and could get out of that mud , drove many hundred kilometres through thunderstorm through switzerland to germany back in the prairies where all was dry but all things i had were almost wet and i was still alive-

Very, very cool wolle! We've had the privledge of some epic LAH ourselves, but never the total 3D experience. Maybe someday...

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VIDEO: "Walk Like A Giant" - Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Nimes, France 17-07-2013

VIDEO: "Walk Like A Giant" - Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Nimes, France 17-07-2013.

Also, see Nimes, France: Neil Young & Crazy Horse Concert Reviews - July 17, 2013.

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Interview: Crazy Horse Bassist Billy Talbot | Rolling Stone

Billy Talbot & Neil Young
Photo via Douglas Mason/Getty Images | Rolling Stone
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A lengthy interview with Crazy Horse Bassist Billy Talbot in Rolling Stone by Andy Greene.

Here's just one interesting comment that says a lot about the whole Neil deal...

Q: It would be so easy to play two hours of hits and then one or two new songs. That's what most other bands do in your position.

Billy Talbot: When we were in Australia, we were in the same hotel with Kiss. We heard that one of them said, "I have the best gig in the world. I've been playing the same 17 songs for 35 years." We heard that and it didn't sit right with us.

Our job isn't easy. It's not meant to be easy. Our job is to keep the edge, be out on the edge, always seeing, exploring the limits of what we do and who we are, never letting up. Spiritually and cosmically, not to sound all hippified, but we don't sound good unless we're really connected and on the edge of everything.

More of Billy Talbot interview in Rolling Stone.

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Paleo Festival, Nyon, Switzerland: Neil Young & Crazy Horse Concert Reviews - July 23, 2013

"Like A Hurricane"
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Photo by GenevaLunch News

like a hurricane baby #neil young pic.twitter.com/ADyAODFvmC

— Frank Rheme (@frankrheme) July 23, 2013

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse will be performing tonight at Paleo Festival, Nyon, Switzerland.

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Comment of the Moment: Neil Young & Crazy Horse Concert in Stuttgart, Germany - July 22, 2013

Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Stuttgart, Germany - July 22, 2013
Foto: Max Kovalenko - Schwarzwälder Bote Mobil
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The Comment of the Moment is from Neil Young & Crazy Horse's concert in Stuttgart, Germany - July 22, 2013 by Wiindigoo:

“How could people get so unkind?”

At this particular landing zone of the alchemical psychedelic mothership, I was riding the Holy Rail stage left. Like Mr. Leighton writes, emotions ruled and rolled.

The prayer in Love and Only Love, “Spirit come back to me, Give me strength and set me free, Let me hear the magic in my heart” was like the full moon pulling all of that water around inside my head until it was leaking out of my eyes. Ideally, perhaps, the venue at Mercedesstraße 69 would have a retractable roof so that we could all cool off and the moon could play along, but Luna was a definite session player in the proceedings. It the only date on the European leg coinciding with a full moon (see the moon icons on http://www.neilyoung.com/tour.html), and the Horse was on stage maybe an hour and a half after the exact full moon moment (19:16 at UTC +1). Those heavy tides resulted in yet more anonymous rantings above, matched in comedy by the staged Alchemy road eye fights, and the emotional weight of countless sublime moments.

Considering it was 22 July in the middle of a German heatwave, it did appear that we were involved in a sweaty summer rock concert. That may have been a factor for a woman also clutching an unholy break in the rail who got overwhelmed with boozy consequences midway through Hurricane, or maybe it was her gut reaction to the deliciously heinous bass frequencies from Poncho’s tie-dyed suspended Danger Bird organ rig. The hairs on my arms and my internal organs were surging in the unparalleled deep bass waves. The onstage stacks produced a massive range of sounds and the clarity and intensity of the vocals revealed so much undiscovered poetry. At the Berlin show that opened the European tour, these new lyrics eluded me: “The tracks ahead were long and straight, We were riding on a desert wind, We were pulling in the spiritual, Riding on the desert wind…” But last night, Neil as the gunslinger led the Crazy Horse ka-tet through to the spiritually shining lights. The poetic imagery of his storytelling shone through, and he connected directly with so many of us. Mr. Reindl’s Full Moon Hurricane definitely happened.

As in so many shows this tour, they connected with each other in joyful ways, like Billy sharing an intimate laugh with Neil after Surfer Joe or Neil reaching out and holding onto Ralph after his long walk around the stacks from the drum kit for the final bow. At the piano bench, Neil may have had to ask, “Can someone turn off that fan? It’s louder than I am,” but I don’t think anyone other than Anonymous Number Two can say that they didn’t enjoy themselves. I’ve never felt closer to these guys, their music, or myself as a soul lurching and dancing around on this hot spinning planet than I did last night.

Thanks for sharing Wiindigoo! Great memories.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Alchemy-Tour 2013 am 22.Juli in der Schleyerhalle in Stuttgart

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Stuttgart, Germany: Neil Young & Crazy Horse Concert Reviews - July 22, 2013

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse will be performing tonight at Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle, Stuttgart, Germany.

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VIDEO: "Fuckin' Up" - Neil Young & Crazy Horse @ Vienne 15/07/13

Video of "Fuckin' Up" by Neil Young & Crazy Horse @ Vienne, France on 15/07/13.

you're such a fuck up. ;)

enjoy!

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Festival Vieilles Charrues, France: Neil Young & Crazy Horse Concert Reviews - July 20, 2013

Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Photos by Le Télégramme

Great, amazing, giant ! @neilyoung #vieillescharrues pic.twitter.com/7yRU1ZHHXp

— Clem V (@ViardClem) July 22, 2013

Neil Young Soundchecking pic.twitter.com/vebH6L89kS

— Bastien Phillips (@BastienPhillips) July 21, 2013

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse will be performing tonight at Festival Vieilles Charrues, Carhaix-Plouguer, France. Got a report? Drop us a comment below. Check Sugar Mountain for setlist updates and Chronological Grid, Recording Summary, Statistics and Extras. Also, see Neil Young & Crazy Horse 2013 Concert Tour Reviews and the right, middle sidebar for continuous real time RSS feed updates.

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"Surfer Joe and Moe the Sleaze" Neil Young & Crazy Horse @ Biarritz, France on July 18, 2013

"Surfer Joe and Moe the Sleaze" by Neil Young & Crazy Horse at Big Festival, Biarritz, France on July 18, 2013.


Thanks dirtyrockeu!

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Video: Heart of Gold + Human Highway + Blowin in the Wind by Neil Young - Biarritz, France 2013

The acoustic set of Heart of Gold + Human Highway + Blowin in the Wind by Neil Young at Big Festival, Biarritz, France on July 18, 2013.

Thanks Iñaki!

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