Dangerbird
Melbourne, Intimate Show. With lots of Crazy Horse stuff.
Archive for March, 2013
Neil Young Set List: 2013-03-15, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
thanx to Tom @ Sugar Mountain
Neil Young, 2013-03-15 Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia w/ Crazy Horse 01. Powderfinger 02. Love To Burn 03. Born In Ontario 04. Walk Like A Giant 05. Hole In The Sky 06. Heart Of Gold 07. Twisted Road 08. Singer Without A Song 09. Ramada Inn 10. Cinnamon Girl 11. Cortez The Killer 12. F*!#in' Up 13. Prisoners Of Rock 'n' Roll 14. Welfare Mothers 15. Sedan Delivery 16. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) --- 17. Mr. Soul 18. Roll Another Number Tour: 2013 Alchemy Tour with Crazy Horse - Australia & New Zealand Band: Crazy Horse, Line Up 3 Neil Young - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, harmonica Frank Sampedro - electric guitar, vocals Billy Talbot - bass, vocals Ralph Molina - drums, vocals
Melbourne review by Zuman James M.
an excellent review by James Morrison about the Melbourne intimate show at the Plenary:
“… Like any fan, I had my favourites that I was hoping would show up, and seeing the previous set lists I knew at least a couple were going to be there (‘Powderfinger,’ ‘Cinnamon Girl’ (my wife is a redhead…)), and resigned myself that others probably weren’t going to make the cut. When ‘Cinnamon Gir’l wound down, I was expecting to hear ‘Fucking Up,’ one of my personal least-liked. Instead, Neil wanders off to the right, his back to the others, and the intro to ‘Cortez’ starts. I’ll step into some dangerous territory here and mention (remember not a critic!) that to me, the arrangements to most of the old songs seemed very different and fresh. My wife used the word ‘ethereal’ and it was spot on.
Previous set lists were out the window, as ‘Cortez’ wound into ‘Danger Bird.’ (My only disappointment for the night was two-fold media-related – not getting this on tape in its entirety and running out of memory before ‘Like a Hurricane.’) The guitar work in this song however is worth the partial post. He does this thing with his hand over the strings, not strumming, but almost caressing, that vibrates in your chest. It was easily the darkest, most intense version I’ve heard of this song. I understand Bob’s comment about ‘out of body’ experience. Barstool Blues continued the diversion, and again taken as a group, the songs following Cinnamon Girl were played with an almost manic ferocity.
…read the whole review on Human-Highway.
Melbourne setlist includes pearls like Dangerbird, Barstool Blues, Cortez, Sedan Delivery, Prisoners of Rock’n’Roll, Opear Star… here is the complete setlist.
Neil Young Set List: 2013-03-13, The Plenary, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Neil Young 2013-03-13 The Plenary, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia w/ Crazy Horse 01. Love And Only Love 02. Powderfinger 03. Born In Ontario 04. Walk Like A Giant 05. Hole In The Sky 06. Heart Of Gold 07. Twisted Road 08. Singer Without A Song 09. Ramada Inn 10. Cinnamon Girl 11. Cortez The Killer 12. Dangerbird 13. Barstool Blues 14. Prisoners Of Rock 'n' Roll 15. Opera Star 16. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) 17. Sedan Delivery --- 18. Like A Hurricane Tour: 2013 Alchemy Tour with Crazy Horse - Australia & New Zealand Band: Crazy Horse, Line Up 3 Neil Young - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, harmonica Frank Sampedro - electric guitar, keyboards, vocals Billy Talbot - bass, vocals Ralph Molina - drums, vocals
Concert Review: The Age about Melbourne
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
The Plenary, March 13
Neil Young was up for pushing air around. He was in the mood to ram the laws of harmony through coils and cables until they bent the fabric of the universe, or else rupture the bowels of Satan trying. He also did Heart of Gold. In his sleep.
The disengaged solo acoustic flashback served two purposes. In terms of context, the easy listening nugget dovetailed ingeniously with Twisted Road, one of the more personal, reflective songs on his latest album with Crazy Horse, Psychedelic Pill.
It also showed the distance between the fireside singer-songwriter the world would love to have and hold, and the fringe-dwelling space-rock monster that long ago moved into the checked flannel shirt and stomped on every distortion device in sight.
Neil Young performs in Melbourne. Photo: Jason South
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