Written by bnbrainer on 11 August 2012
Neil Young and Crazy Horse Mix the Old and New at S.F.’s Outside Lands Festival
By Ian S. Port, Sat., Aug. 11 2012 at 12:25 AM
Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Friday, Aug. 10, 2012
Outside Lands Festival, San Francisco
Better than:
Any Pearl Jam concert.
While he’s putting everything into a solo, Neil Young’s face looks like his electric guitar sounds: flush with feeling, vaguely threatening, and thoroughly aged. Not old as in frail, but venerable; geologic. On the chilly, windy opening night of San Francisco’s Outside Lands festival, Young the legend and his old group of noisemakers treated the sold-out crowd to a demonstration of rock as dinosaur music: gray hair and ancient, howling amplifiers, unapologetic nostalgia, 15-minute jams, the singer’s O.G. nasal twang spooning out at times a bit too much lyrical honesty to keep the buzz going. (Even if they then built it back up.) It was the exact opposite of today’s byte-sized, hyper-compressed, we’ll-do-anything-to-hold-your-attention music culture. And it was great — occasionally.
Most bands giving a headlining performance at a major festival would keep their set list to the greatest hits side of things. Or perhaps play a bunch of songs off the record they just released. Not Neil Young and Crazy Horse. They spent nearly half of their two hours last night trying out new tunes from their upcoming album — songs no one except Young obsessives have heard yet. “Ontario” and “Walk Like a Giant” both sounded like classic, dirty Crazy Horse dirges, but our favorite was the new acoustic song about hearing Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” for the first time. There wasn’t a single selection from the album of Americana covers Young and Crazy Horse put out this year.
Young never apologized for the set list, but he did obliquely quip about its newness: After a long, bleak new tune about alcoholism, he said, “I wrote this one this morning” — just before launching into “Cinnamon Girl.” You could feel a collective sigh of relief from the shivering masses. “Fuckin’ Up” brought a familiar, reckless joy, and Young trading middle fingers and sumo-dancing in sync with Frank “Poncho” Sampedro, his longtime guitarist. All four musicians spent the show close to one another, often maintaining eye contact, which contributed to the feeling that the performance was more for benefit of the guys onstage than the tens of thousands watching.
Until the end, that is. Young and his mates aired a towering version of “Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)” that nearly keeled us over with its power. The song — which has Young laying down a guttural riff and insisting, “Rock and Roll will never die” — confirmed the larger theme of the set. When he sang, it’s “Better to burn out/ than to f-f-f-f-fade away,” dragging it out and leaning over to taunt the crowd, it felt like all of Golden Gate Park was on the receiving end of some very rare and hard-earned wisdom. Here, with his snarling visage and snarling guitars, Young’s age was a trump card, an exalted status only he and his bandmates possessed. They may not have done what most fans would’ve wanted. But they’d certainly earned the right not to.
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Written by bnbrainer on 11 August 2012
thanx to tom of sugar-mountain as always:
" corrected 13 songs of course
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Neil Young
2012-08-10
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, USA
Outside Lands Music and Arts 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. Ramada Inn
8. Cinnamon Girl
9. F*!#in' Up
10. Psychedelic Pill
11. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
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12. Mr. Soul
13. Roll Another Number
Neil Young - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Frank Sampedro - guitar, keyboards, vocals
Billy Talbot - bass, vocals
Ralph Molina - drums, vocals
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Written by bnbrainer on 10 August 2012
thanx to Tom H of sugar-mountain fame.
Neil Young
2012-08-09
Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys, Stateline, Nevada, USA
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. For The Love Of Man
8. Ramada Inn
9. Cinnamon Girl
10. F*!#in’ Up
11. Psychedelic Pill
12. Jesus’ Chariot
13. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
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14. Over And Over
Neil Young – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Frank Sampedro electric guitar, keyboards, vocals
Billy Talbot – bass, vocals
Ralph Molina – drums, vocals
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Written by bnbrainer on 08 August 2012
Neil Young
2012-08-06
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Colorado, USA
1. Love And Only Love (electric guitar)
2. Powderfinger (electric guitar)
3. Born In Ontario (electric guitar)
4. Walk Like A Giant (electric guitar)
5. The Needle And The Damage Done (solo - acoustic guitar )
6. Twisted Road (solo - acoustic guitar)
7. For The Love Of Man (electric guitar)
8. Ramada Inn (electric guitar)
9. Cinnamon Girl (electric guitar)
10. F*!#in' Up (electric guitar)
11. Psychedelic Pill (electric guitar)
12. Mr. Soul (electric guitar)
13. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) (electric guitar)
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14. Jesus' Chariot (electric guitar)
15. Roll Another Number
Neil Young - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Frank Sampedro - guitar, keyboards (for the love of man), vocals
Billy Talbot - bass, vocals
Ralph Molina - drums, vocals
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Written by bnbrainer on 08 August 2012
Neil Young and Crazy Horse Launch Tour With New Tunes in Albuquerque
Ferocious two-hour set features classics and previously unheard tracks from Young’s next LP
By Andy Greene, August 4, 2012 10:35 AM ET
The official T-shirt of Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s 2012 American tour has a very simple message on it: “Equal parts past, present and future.” It’s not just an empty slogan. Throughout the course of a blazing two-hour-plus show at Albuquerque’s Hard Rock Pavilion, Neil and the Horse dipped deep into their catalog of classics, but gave almost equal time to material from Young’s next album with Crazy Horse, supposedly due on shelves later this year. The only real misnomer is the word “present.” Only a single song was played from their new folk covers disc, Americana.
more on Rolling Stone.
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