Review of first Chicago show. Neil plays again tonight, Tuesday April 22. More reviews from Human Highway roving reporter to come.
Chicago Tribune review of the Monday, April 21 Neil Young solo acoustic show starts:
“His eyes shaded by a black fedora, Neil Young strapped on a guitar that once belonged to Hank Williams Sr. and leaned in, as if ready to whisper in someone’s ear.
‘Come a little bit closer, hear what I have to say,’ he sang near the end of his sold-out concert Monday at the Chicago Theatre.”
Neil Young 2014-04-21 Chicago Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Solo
01. From Hank To Hendrix
02. On The Way Home
03. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
04. Love In Mind
05. Mellow My Mind
06. Reason to Believe
07. Someday
08. Changes
09. Harvest
10. Old Man —
the second set opened with some sort of spoken “Hippy Beatnik” poem by Neil
11. Pocahontas
12. Cortez The Killer
13. A Man Needs A Maid
14. Ohio
15. Southern Man
16. Mr. Soul
17. Harvest Moon
18. If You Could Read My Mind
19. After The Gold Rush
20. Heart Of Gold
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21. Thrasher
Tour: 2014 Solo Tour
Band: Solo
Neil Young – vocals, acoustic guitar, 12 string acoustic guitar, piano, pump organ, harmonica
WOW. Thrasher’s Wheat had the honor of publishing the best Neil Young concert review ever by Bucks Burnett, who attended the April, 18, 2014 solo acoustic show at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas.
To read journalism like this is to be in the presence of greatness. WOW again.
Sit back and enjoy the read of your life.
It’s titled: “Why I’m Not Here Anymore.”
“Last night was not a concert. It was a congregation being blessed by snake oil from a traveling salesman. But this guy carries the real stuff because we are healed from our earthly concerns. This was a very rare example of paying $200 for a four million dollar show. He took us away and we are not coming back. I do not want to hear music today or talk to people today. Or be seen. I want to be alone with this vibration in my soul.”
Neil Young played a two-set solo acoustic show in Dallas April 17, 2014 and towards the middle of the second set Young was telling the story behind his Martin D-28 guitar when an audience member cut him off by repeatedly yelling “Play it!”
“I don’t think I’m going to play it,” Neil said. “I’m trying to remember the last time I did what somebody told me to do.” Neil continued to get into it with the fans, exclaiming “what is this, a job?” and “How about you talk, and I’ll listen?” He then offered a biting take on “Harvest Moon” after which he noted, “Funny — that song is not supposed to be angry, You get what you demand.”
2014-04-17, Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
Solo
1.From Hank To Hendrix
2.On The Way Home
3.Only Love Can Break Your Heart
4.Love In Mind
5.Mellow My Mind
6.Are You Ready For The Country?
7.Someday
8.Changes
9.Harvest
10.Old Man
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11.Goin’ Back
12.Pocahontas
13.Ohio
14.Southern Man
15.Mr. Soul
16.If You Could Read My Mind
17.Harvest Moon
18.Red River Valley
19.After The Gold Rush
20.Heart Of Gold
““Fort McMurray is a wasteland,” Young said. “The fuel’s all over, the fumes everywhere – you can smell it when you get to town. The closest place to Fort McMurray that is doing the tar sands work is 25 or 30 miles out of town and you can taste it when you get to Fort McMurray,” he said. “People are sick. People are dying of cancer because of this. All the First Nations people up there are threatened by this.”” by -- Neil Young
Neil Young on Tour
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.
Review of first Chicago show. Neil plays again tonight, Tuesday April 22. More reviews from Human Highway roving reporter to come.
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