Neil Young’s final show at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, April 2, 2014.
The video sucks but the audio is pretty good.
Enjoy.
“Goin’ Back”:
“A Man Needs a Maid”:
“Ohio”
“Southern Man”:
“Mr. Soul”:
“If You Could Read My Mind”:
“Harvest Moon”:
“After the Gold Rush”:
“Heart of Gold”:
“Thrasher”:
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Neil Young rarely plays “Thrasher” live, but he did it last night at the Dolby Theater.
Check it out:
“Thrasher”:
“A Man Needs A Maid”:
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Neil Young performed solo at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles last night March 30, 2014.
Thanks to a couple of fans, we can see and hear some of the show.
Over at Thrasher’s Wheat, some fans who saw the show were enthusiastic. However some fans at the show went overboard.
Blogger Rasputin1981 writes:
Great show .. Sadly still haven’t seen Thrasher .. Basically the same setlist except Blowin in the Wind instead of Thrasher, no harvest moon or flying on the ground and Reason to Believe instead of Are you ready for the country …
There was a complete ass who yelled for Cinnamon Girl after ever single song .. Just insane .. What’s wrong with these people? Neil finally couldn’t take it anymore and just screamed “fuck you” back. Everyone erupted in applause.
You can see Young scream “Fuck you” in this clip:
“Mellow My Mind”:
“Someday”:
“Harvest”:
“A Man Needs A Maid”:
“Southern Man”:
“If You Could Read My Mind”:
“Heart Of Gold”:
“Heart Of Gold,” another view:
“Long May You Run”:
“Long May You Run” another view”:
Setlist (thanks to Sugar Mountain):
From Hank To Hendrix/ On The Way Home / Only Love Can Break Your Heart / Love In Mind / Philadelphia / Mellow My Mind / Reason to Believe / Someday / Changes / Harvest / Old Man // Goin’ Back / A Man Needs A Maid / Ohio / Southern Man / Mr. Soul / If You Could Read My Mind / After The Gold Rush / Heart Of Gold // Blowin’ In The Wind / Long May You Run
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Last year Neil Young went down to Nashville and recorded the Bert Jansch song “Needle of Death” at Jack White’s Third Man Records in the 1947 Voice-o-Graph machine.
Apparently Young recorded the song for the Celebration of Bert Jansch at The Royal Festival Hall on December 3, 2013. The video of Young cutting the track was shown at the event.
The video was online briefly, then pulled.
Now it’s back. Watch it while you can.
And here’s a version of the song from Jan. 6, 2014, Carnegie Hall:
“Needle of Death,” Jan. 7, 2014, Carnegie Hall:
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Last night Neil Young performed at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Times reviewed the show:
It wasn’t a big leap to wonder during Saturday’s opening night of Neil Young’s four-night run of solo acoustic concerts in Hollywood whether Jesus, if he returned to address a modern-day audience, would have to contend with a steady stream of shouts from the back for “Sermon on the Mount!” “Water into wine!” and “Free Bird!”
Young fielded a similar barrage of requests (“Cinnamon Girl!” “Down By the River!”) and comments (“You’re the man!”) from the sold-out crowd at the Dolby Theatre good-naturedly.At one point he tacitly acknowledged the tone of almost spiritual pilgrimage in the air by shaking the water out of a harmonica onto folks sitting in the first few rows, a rock ’n’ roll priest anointing his flock. He even shifted into request mode himself after another outburst from fans, mock shouting “The Beatles!” “The Rolling Stoooooones!” “Free Bird!”
Read the full review here.
Check out the review in the Hollywood Reporter here.
(Watch videos from the March 30, 2014 show in this post.)
Below I’ve got a full take of “Goin’ Back” that sounds awesome, and then fragments of some other songs. Hopefully more complete songs will surface soon.
“Goin’ Back”:
“From Hank to Hendrix” fragment:
“If You Could Read My Mind” fragment:
“Mr. Soul” fragment:
“After the Gold Rush” fragment:
Here’s the setlist for the March 29, 2014 show.
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Devo Redux: Devo will perform its experimental music from 1974-1977 on a North American tour this summer. The 10-date North American tour is dedicated to the memory of the late Robert “Bob 2″ Casale, whose family will get a portion of the proceeds. According to Bob 2’s brother Gerald, Gerald Casale, Bob 2 “had no will or insurance.” — Slicing Up Eyeballs
Dylan’s Bed Jumping: Bob Dylan jumped on Johnny Cash’s bed the first time they met, according to the account the singer gave to his son, John Carter Cash which he commented about in a Reddit Q&A. Johnny Cash met Dylan in a New York City hotel room in the early Sixties. Although they had exchanged letters, upon finally meeting one another, “Dylan rushed into his room, jumped on the bed and began bouncing up and down chanting, ‘I met Johnny Cash, I met Johnny Cash.'” Although they fell out of touch as time went by, they remained friends. — Rolling Stone
Break the Code?: Fans think they’ve discovered the release date for ç upcoming album in a teaser video released this week. The date? May 26, 2014. Time will tell. — NME
Check out the video for yourself:
Gimme Money!: Neil Young’s PonoMusic Kickstarter campaign has now passed the $5 million mark. As of Saturday, March 29, 2014 14,808 people had contributed $5,006,618.
A Love Supreme: Six rolls of undeveloped film shot by Chuck Stewart during sessions for John Coltrane’s transcendent album, A Love Supreme, were found by his son. Check out a few of the photos at the NPR website. — NPR
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On March 11, Real Estate played the Fonda Theater in L.A. and covered Neil Young’s “Only Love Can Break Your Heart.”
“It’s pretty ramshackle, as it should be,” Real Estate Tweeted.
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Neil Young’s 1973 live album, Time Fades Away, has never been issued on CD, and has been unavailable in any format for decades despite demand from fans.
There was some excitement when Warner Bros. announced recently that for Record Store Day, April 19, a four-album box vinyl box set that would include a remastered Time Fades Away would be released.
Now we learn that project has been pushed back until November 2014.
The delay is due to “several other projects that Young has in the works that he wishes to focus on,” according to a press release.
Young recently told Spin that his next album, A Letter Home, is “likely” to be released in the spring, and that a second memoir, “Special Deluxe,” is coming on October 7, 2014, according to Amazon. And of course he’s got PonoMusic and an upcoming tour. Busy guy.
Listen to Time Fades Away via my previous post.
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Neil Young recorded his entire upcoming album, A Letter Home, in Jack White’s 1947 Voice-o-Graph vinyl record recording booth at Third Man Records in Nashville.
Young calls the the album “retro-tech,” and says the album “sounds like Jimmie Rogers or something.”
“Well, A Letter Home is going to be very confusing to people because it is retro-tech,” Young told Spin’s Garrett Kemps. “Retro-tech means recorded in a 1940s recording booth. A phone booth. It’s all acoustic with a harmonica inside a closed space, with one mic to vinyl. Directly to vinyl.”
Young told Rolling Stone the album is now “likely” to be released in the spring.
“It’s an amazing time capsule. From nothing, to nowhere,” Young told Rolling Stone’s Gavin Edwards. “No one knows why. It’s a good piece, a real nice piece. I look forward to people getting it, especially in light of what I’m doing now. It’s coming out pretty soon.”
Young said that Jack White plays on two of the tracks. The album is being released on White’s Third Man Records.
In December 2013, the Neil Young website Thrasher’s Wheat had these quotes from a source: “It is an album of covers. In it, as anticipated, he pays tribute to other renowned singer-songwriters. There are 12 tracks on it. There are no Neil Young originals…”
I’ve speculated that the album will include “Needle of Death,” as well as Phil Ochs “Changes” Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind,” Gordon Lightfoot’s “Early Morning Rain,” Ivory Joe Hunter’s “Since I Met You Baby” and Tim Hardin’s “Reason To Believe,” songs that Young played at the 2013 Farm Aid concert.
On Neil Young’s and Third Man’s websites the album was described as “An unheard collection of rediscovered songs from the past recorded on ancient electro mechanical technology captures and unleashes the essence of something that could have been gone forever……”
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