Neil Young performs at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times
Here is the set list for Neil Young’s second night performance at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.
No Thrasher tonight during the encore – it was replaced with “Blowin’ in the Wind.”
Neil yells “Fuck You” to some drunk, asshole dude screaming “CINNAMON GIRL.” Bravo Neil, epic. Right before launching into “Long May You Run.”
During the first set Neil replaces “Are You Ready for the Country” with “Reason to Believe.” In the second set “”After the Gold Rush” is replaced with “Harvest Moon” and “Flying on the Ground is Wrong” is replaced with “Heart of Gold.”
Neil plays again on Tuesday April 1 and Wednesday April. 2
2014-03-30, Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA
Neil Young performs at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Neil as Jesus? Ok!
“Still brimming with his signature sense of spontaneity, of mercurial artistry alive in the moment, that makes Young such a hallowed figure to so many.”
Neil Young’s run at the Dolby continues with shows Sunday night, Monday and Tuesday. All are sold out.
Randy Lewis of the Los Angeles Times offers this review of the Dolby Show:
He writes: “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!””
A true Neil Young fan, Michael Thomas sends a review of last night’s Dolby Show in LA.
Neil plays again tonight, and Tuesday, April 1, and Wednesday April, 2.
Wow. Just came back from seeing Neil Young do “Thrasher” for the first time in 36 years. His greatest song in my opinion. (though I’m awfully fond of ‘Will to Love’, which he’s never performed!)
I was at the first public performance of that song at the Boarding House, as well as the last, during the final “Rust Never Sleeps” show at the LA Forum.
A master class in the poetics of song lyrics it tells me more about friendship, about death, and the commitment to life that we must make in the wake of loss than any work of art I know. And it reminded me of so many friends gone that Neil & I both shared…Larry Johnson, Jack Nitzsche, Bruce Palmer…
And the rest of the concert was damn powerful too, “Here’s a song I wrote while I was living two blocks from here,” he prefaced a gorgeous rendition of the Buffalo Springfield ballad, “Flying on the Ground is Wrong.” And an evocative performance of his Oscar nominated title song for “Philadelphia” brought the house down as did a surprisingly effective cover of Gordon Lightfoot’s “If You Could Read My Mind.”
But it was “Thrasher” that reduced me to tears, I recall it was the day we buried my grandfather when I flew to San Francisco to hear it performed for the first time. It was first time I ever met Neil, he came out and sat in the audience after the second show. “I liked that song about Elvis,” I told him, referring to the debut of “Out of the Blue.”
It would take me awhile to absorb the vast sprawling canvas of “Thrasher,” a far more complex song. It reminded me of Terrence Malick’s “Days of Heaven,” which would have made a great alternative title. I performed once in public with my late pal, Steve Esmedina, at the Spirit Club in San Diego. The poetry of the lyrics, and the life-lesson it teaches, is truly sublime.
Nowhere else I’d rather be than at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood last night. It was a religious experience, balm for the soul.
While we wait for the reviews to come in fans on social networks are saying Neil Young’s first show at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles was emotional. Young sand “Thrasher” for the first time in 36 years.
Some say there is a new fragility to his voice that brings a “a haunting, whispery quality to his voice.”
Concert dates are now Saturday, March 29, Sunday, March 30, Tuesday, April 1, and Wednesday April, 2.
Go Neil. He promises an acoustic set. Maybe songs from his upcoming album?
Young has said that the record will be released in March on the Third Man Records Label owned by Jack White.
The record is 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…”.
Young previously told Rolling Stone that recording the album was “one of the lowest-tech experiences I’ve ever had”.
A prospective tracklist of the album features Bob Dylan’s ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’, Tim Hardin’s ‘Reason To Believe’, Gordon Lightfoot’s ‘Early Morning Rain’ and Ivory Joe Hunter’s ‘Since I Met You Baby’ as well as ‘Needle Of Death’, originally by the late Bert Jansch
“So all you critics sit alone.
You\'re no better than me for what you\'ve shown. ” by -- Neil Young
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