The October 2013 issue of Uncut features a DVD review of Jim Jarmusch concert documentary “Year of the Horse” shot in 1996.
They write: “This isn’t older musicians trying to sustain some delusion of youthful potency; this is a bunch of middle-aged men, led by a surly, stomping guitarist in baggy knee-length shorts and a nondescript T-shirt.
” But the very lack of self-conscious stagecraft carries with it the implication that what you’re being given is something purely musical, unmediated by modern digital strategies that demand everything be a multi-platform, multi-media, interactive experience. It’s pure rock’n’roll, as the introductory tagline explain:
“Made loud to be played loud. CRANK IT UP!”.
It’s far from the ideal Neil and Crazy Horse setlist, Uncut opines, with only a handful of classics – including a version of “Tonight’s The Night” following a segment about the deaths of Danny Whitten and Bruce Berry – sprinkled parsimoniously through the show.
But it barely matters: as Young maintains, “It’s all one song,” an ongoing flow of music hewn into eight-to ten-minute chunks. And any technical effects are kept to a minimum, and used subtly, as when stage footage of the band playing “Slips Away” is blended with a tour bus shot of passing sky and landscape.
from the now legendary Paléo-Festival in Nyon again (23 July 2013, Switzerland, Europe), here a graphic video, you can hear the sounds of the thunderstorm and it blows Neil’s last hair away (and at one point the hat as well):
“At the end of the song Neil started again from the beginning and it culminated into an extended, excessive sound and thunder that was so incredible” [Wolle live on HH.org]
Neil Young -- 2013-06-15
RDS Arena, Dublin, Ireland
w/ Crazy Horse
01. Love And Only Love
02. Powderfinger
03. Psychedelic Pill
04. Walk Like A Giant
05. Hole In The Sky
06. Comes A Time
07. Blowin' In The Wind
08. Ramada Inn
09. Cinnamon Girl
10. F*!#in' Up
11. Mr. Soul
12. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
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13. Cortez The Killer
Tour: 2013 Alchemy Tour with Crazy Horse - Europe
Band: Crazy Horse, Line Up 3
Neil Young - vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, harmonica
Frank Sampedro - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
Billy Talbot - bass, vocals
Ralph Molina - drums, vocals
“Americana, Young says. The new album, he says, \"has a choir in it that sings with Crazy Horse. A very young choir of children. They\'re songs we all know from kindergarten, but Crazy Horse has rearranged them, and they now belong to us.\"” by -- Neil Young campaign 2012 with Crazy Horse on Rolling Stone, February 2, 2012
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Sugar Mountain setlists
Tom Hambleton provides BNB with setlists, thankfully. His website is the most comprehensive searchable archives on the Internets about anything Neil Young related setlists. Goto Sugar Mountain.