Neil Young : 08-17-2000, Jones Beach Amphitheater, Wantagh, New York w/ The Music In Head Band
1.Motorcycle Mama--Comes a Time '78
2.Powderfinger--Rust Never Sleeps '79
3.Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere--Everybody Knows... '69
4.I Believe In You--After the Goldrush '70
5.Unknown Legend--Harvest Moon '92
6.Dance, Dance, Dance--Crazy Horse's Crazy Horse '71
7.Buffalo Springfield Again--Silver and Gold '00
8.Razor Love--Silver and Gold '00
9.From Hank To Hendrix--Harvest Moon '92
10.Daddy Went Walkin' --Silver and Gold '00
11.Peace Of Mind--Comes a Time '78
12.Walk On--On the Beach '74
13.Winterlong--Decade '76
14.Bad Fog Of Loneliness
15.Words--Harvest '72
16.Harvest Moon--Harvest Moon '92
17.World On A String--Tonight's the Night '75
18.Tonight's The Night--Tonight's the Night '75
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19.All Along The Watchtower--Dylan's John Wesley Harding '67,Hendrix's Electric Ladyland '68, Bobfest at Madison Square Garden '93
20.Like A Hurricane--American Stars 'n' Bars '77
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21.Mellow My Mind--Tonight's the Night '75
Music In Head Tour Band : The Music In Head Band
Neil Young - vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica
Donald "Duck" Dunn - bass
Jim Keltner - drums
Ben Keith - Pedal Steel
Spooner Oldham - keyboards
Pegi Young - background vocals
Astrid Young - background vocals
some dude said :
"Terrific show, very interesting setlist, I'm sure you'll agree, lots of stuff from deep in the catalogue, lots of stuff I've never heard in concert before (or, perhaps,
don't remember--how could that happen?), like "Motorcycle Mama," with Astrid and Pegi really belting out accompanying vocals; "Dance, Dance, Dance," which Neil gave to Crazy Horse for their first solo album and which can also be found, my sources tell me, on a '91 Neil bootleg, "Winterlong," an early composition unreleased until the Decade collection; "World on a String" and "Mellow My Mind," not the best-known tunes from Tonight's the Night ; and "Bad Fog of Loneliness," an ancient-sounding psychedelic-pop thing with a country edge that I can find no history for. Pretty much everything had some kind of an edge to it, as you would expect from Mr. Young; even the slowest, mellowest tunes seemed dangerously
unstable. Pretenders opened, and did a couple of the star's songs, kicking off their set
with a sinuous "The Loner" and doing a hard-rock take on "The Needle and the Damage Done." "Brass in
Pocket (I'm Special)" was the encore and the highlight.
another dude (Steve) saw him saturday @ pnc (pa?)
NEIL at P.N.C
This was a full band set throughout, and a family affair.
Hell, they coulda been just playing up at the barn on a Saturday
night for the locals...everyone was spot on where they needed to be...
Spooner Oldham - piano
Ben Keith - lap steel
Duck Dunn - bass
Jim Keltner - drums,
Pegi Young & Neil's sister (missed name)
on harmonies > yeAH! His sister especially > smoother Janis
9:20 start (the black Les Paul)
MOTORCYLE MAMA (straight into the blues laydown)
POWDERFINGER (yes, Neil's solo, yes)
EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE (they were dancing in New Jersey)
I BELIEVE IN YOU (weird standing next to my ex-; beautiful rendition)
UNKNOWN LEGEND ('everyone' in audience singin' along > gorgeous)
HOMEGROWN (went back up to the blanket, and said, OK i'm ready for more)
9:50 (switch to acoustic)
BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD AGAIN (from new album)
RAZOR LOVE (from new album)
both renditions brought them more to life for me...
DADDY WENT WALKING (from new album)...at first I thought it was
the song about his old dog King...same diff. perhaps...up til
the intro to this song, Neil had kept his banter interaction with
the crowd to a straight "how you doing out there?" Prior to this he
said something to effect of "I haven't played this state in 30 years?"
huh? "Well I'm from Canada." to which a largish fellow standing next
to me bellowed "Yeah I know that dump..just keep playing!" A bit more
banter which I couldn't hear..."Canada" comes through again to which the
largish fellow bellowed again "Yeah, so is William Shatner..just keep
playing!" ...
PEACE OF MIND
10:13 (switch to hollow body electric)
WALK ON (some get strong, some get strange indeed...extended ending...
always wanted this song to be longer than 2:40)
then, more banter I couldn't hear out there in the lawn..sand actually
where we were..
WINTERLONG
NEW SONG? (couldn't place it, nice long unfolding melody..nice)
WORDS (...damn! in full! great breakdown/solo .. yup)
10:40 (back to acoustic)
HARVEST MOON
10:46 (back to black Les Paul)
band intro..
WORLD ON A STRING (!!!)
10:51 (.. piano ..)
TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT (!!!)
END at 11:00
11:03 encore (back to bLP, natch..)
COWGIRL IN THE SAND (well, ahlll be...)
END at 11:16
11:19 encore (acoustic+harp)
MELLOW MY MIND which i watched from the Special Needs Lawn Access
on the side there...
WHOLE INDEED!!
Review of Jones Beach (Spoiler) Neil Young, Burning Castles To Move Out of the Past by ANN POWERS for NYT
08/19/00
WANTAGH, N.Y., Aug. 17 - " 'Southern Man,' what are you, kiddin' me?"
Neil Young said, between guffaws, from the stage at the Jones Beach Theater
here, responding to one of a few shouts from the audience that he play some
rock-and-roll. Mr. Young hadn't come to indulge in big meltdowns like that
song. He'd done enough of them earlier this year, blowing away his buddies
David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash during the C.S.N.&Y. reunion
tour. He had different plans for this summer outing, and as any Neil Young
fan knows, it's no use trying to argue when this star has set the route.
Mr. Young has a few favorite paths on his musical property. To support his
rustic new album, "Silver and Gold" (Reprise), he strolled down a gently
sloping one. New songs like "Daddy Went Walkin' ," about his aged father
traversing his farm in Ontario, shared the set list with paeans to country
life like "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere," historical fictions like
"Powderfinger" and slow dances like "Harvest Moon." It was a show for lovers
of Neil Young the cranky sweetheart, who plows up the sugar mountain of the
American song tradition just as fearlessly as he battles darkness in his
harder rocking songs.
What makes Mr. Young's romanticism endearing is its matter-of-factness,
enhanced on this tour by a placidly expert backing band. This crew of studio
legends is years beyond grandstanding, although each claimed attention now
and then. Spooner Oldham added delicate keyboards to the recent "Razor Love."
Donald Duck Dunn's intense bass playing fed the mellow freak-out of "Words
(Between the Lines of Age)." Jim Keltner turned the drums into a wall of
sound during "Peace of Mind." Ben Keith's pedal-steel playing offered
friendly competition to Mr. Young, always an athletic guitarist, throughout.
When he is with these old pals, unlike when he is with his other frequent
collaborators in Crazy Horse or C.S.N.&Y., Mr. Young sheds his
competitiveness. Instead, he swapped musical lines with them like jokes on a
fishing trip. The intimate mood was enhanced by the presence of Mr. Young's
wife, Pegi, and sister, Astrid Young, on backing vocals and by his jovial
running commentary to the crowd.
There's a ploy behind such complacency, however: Mr. Young dons it to shed
it. His best ballads incorporate rough threads. "Unknown Legend," for
example, is a love song to a single mom who rides a Harley Davidson to free
her soul. It could have been written by another careful rustic, Lucinda
Williams.
After wending through such songs, Mr. Young and his band did return to the
country psychedelia his devotees crave. Versions of "Tonight's the Night,"
"Like a Hurricane," and Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" were less
noisy than the feedback fests he has delivered on other tours, but they were
still intense. He flexed that muscle, then concluded with "Mellow My Mind,"
one of his most pleasant lazy-day toss-offs. It is a sweet final word from
this pugilist at rest.
Mr. Young chose another scrappy veteran with a serious soft spot to share the
bill on this tour: Chrissie Hynde led the Pretenders through an easygoing set
of favorites, from "Brass in Pocket" to "Night in My Veins." She honored Mr.
Young with a heartfelt version of "Needle and the Damage Done," saying that
such great songwriters made you feel that they had you in mind when writing.
The same can be said for Ms. Hynde, and the standing ovation the crowd gave
her and the Pretenders was not just for the night, but also for a lifetime of
insightful cranky romanticism.
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1.Motorcycle Mama--Comes a Time '78
2.Powderfinger--Rust Never Sleeps '79
3.Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere--Everybody Knows... '69
4.I Believe In You--After the Goldrush '70
5.Unknown Legend--Harvest Moon '92
6.Dance, Dance, Dance--Crazy Horse's Crazy Horse '71
7.Buffalo Springfield Again--Silver and Gold '00
8.Razor Love--Silver and Gold '00
9.From Hank To Hendrix--Harvest Moon '92
10.Daddy Went Walkin' --Silver and Gold '00
11.Peace Of Mind--Comes a Time '78
12.Walk On--On the Beach '74
13.Winterlong--Decade '76
14.Bad Fog Of Loneliness
15.Words--Harvest '72
16.Harvest Moon--Harvest Moon '92
17.World On A String--Tonight's the Night '75
18.Tonight's The Night--Tonight's the Night '75
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19.All Along The Watchtower--Dylan's John Wesley Harding '67,Hendrix's Electric Ladyland '68, Bobfest at Madison Square Garden '93
20.Like A Hurricane--American Stars 'n' Bars '77
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21.Mellow My Mind--Tonight's the Night '75
Music In Head Tour Band : The Music In Head Band
Neil Young - vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica
Donald "Duck" Dunn - bass
Jim Keltner - drums
Ben Keith - Pedal Steel
Spooner Oldham - keyboards
Pegi Young - background vocals
Astrid Young - background vocals
some dude said :
"Terrific show, very interesting setlist, I'm sure you'll agree, lots of stuff from deep in the catalogue, lots of stuff I've never heard in concert before (or, perhaps, don't remember--how could that happen?), like "Motorcycle Mama," with Astrid and Pegi really belting out accompanying vocals; "Dance, Dance, Dance," which Neil gave to Crazy Horse for their first solo album and which can also be found, my sources tell me, on a '91 Neil bootleg, "Winterlong," an early composition unreleased until the Decade collection; "World on a String" and "Mellow My Mind," not the best-known tunes from Tonight's the Night ; and "Bad Fog of Loneliness," an ancient-sounding psychedelic-pop thing with a country edge that I can find no history for. Pretty much everything had some kind of an edge to it, as you would expect from Mr. Young; even the slowest, mellowest tunes seemed dangerously unstable. Pretenders opened, and did a couple of the star's songs, kicking off their set with a sinuous "The Loner" and doing a hard-rock take on "The Needle and the Damage Done." "Brass in Pocket (I'm Special)" was the encore and the highlight.
- bill 8-22-2000 5:44 pm
another dude (Steve) saw him saturday @ pnc (pa?)
NEIL at P.N.C
This was a full band set throughout, and a family affair. Hell, they coulda been just playing up at the barn on a Saturday night for the locals...everyone was spot on where they needed to be...
Spooner Oldham - piano
Ben Keith - lap steel
Duck Dunn - bass
Jim Keltner - drums,
Pegi Young & Neil's sister (missed name)
on harmonies > yeAH! His sister especially > smoother Janis
9:20 start (the black Les Paul)
MOTORCYLE MAMA (straight into the blues laydown)
POWDERFINGER (yes, Neil's solo, yes)
EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE (they were dancing in New Jersey)
I BELIEVE IN YOU (weird standing next to my ex-; beautiful rendition)
UNKNOWN LEGEND ('everyone' in audience singin' along > gorgeous)
HOMEGROWN (went back up to the blanket, and said, OK i'm ready for more)
9:50 (switch to acoustic)
BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD AGAIN (from new album) RAZOR LOVE (from new album) both renditions brought them more to life for me... DADDY WENT WALKING (from new album)...at first I thought it was the song about his old dog King...same diff. perhaps...up til the intro to this song, Neil had kept his banter interaction with the crowd to a straight "how you doing out there?" Prior to this he said something to effect of "I haven't played this state in 30 years?" huh? "Well I'm from Canada." to which a largish fellow standing next to me bellowed "Yeah I know that dump..just keep playing!" A bit more banter which I couldn't hear..."Canada" comes through again to which the largish fellow bellowed again "Yeah, so is William Shatner..just keep playing!" ... PEACE OF MIND
10:13 (switch to hollow body electric)
WALK ON (some get strong, some get strange indeed...extended ending... always wanted this song to be longer than 2:40) then, more banter I couldn't hear out there in the lawn..sand actually where we were.. WINTERLONG NEW SONG? (couldn't place it, nice long unfolding melody..nice) WORDS (...damn! in full! great breakdown/solo .. yup)
10:40 (back to acoustic) HARVEST MOON
10:46 (back to black Les Paul) band intro.. WORLD ON A STRING (!!!)
10:51 (.. piano ..) TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT (!!!)
END at 11:00
11:03 encore (back to bLP, natch..)
COWGIRL IN THE SAND (well, ahlll be...) END at 11:16
11:19 encore (acoustic+harp) MELLOW MY MIND which i watched from the Special Needs Lawn Access on the side there...
WHOLE INDEED!!
- bill 8-22-2000 5:55 pm [add a comment]
had front row for neil there once and he tried to flip me his pick (like you do with a bottle cap) and it just dribbled and he just made a strange face and looked away...
- Skinny 8-23-2000 12:42 am [add a comment]
Review of Jones Beach (Spoiler) Neil Young, Burning Castles To Move Out of the Past by ANN POWERS for NYT 08/19/00
WANTAGH, N.Y., Aug. 17 - " 'Southern Man,' what are you, kiddin' me?" Neil Young said, between guffaws, from the stage at the Jones Beach Theater here, responding to one of a few shouts from the audience that he play some rock-and-roll. Mr. Young hadn't come to indulge in big meltdowns like that song. He'd done enough of them earlier this year, blowing away his buddies David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash during the C.S.N.&Y. reunion tour. He had different plans for this summer outing, and as any Neil Young fan knows, it's no use trying to argue when this star has set the route.
Mr. Young has a few favorite paths on his musical property. To support his rustic new album, "Silver and Gold" (Reprise), he strolled down a gently sloping one. New songs like "Daddy Went Walkin' ," about his aged father traversing his farm in Ontario, shared the set list with paeans to country life like "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere," historical fictions like "Powderfinger" and slow dances like "Harvest Moon." It was a show for lovers of Neil Young the cranky sweetheart, who plows up the sugar mountain of the American song tradition just as fearlessly as he battles darkness in his harder rocking songs.
What makes Mr. Young's romanticism endearing is its matter-of-factness, enhanced on this tour by a placidly expert backing band. This crew of studio legends is years beyond grandstanding, although each claimed attention now and then. Spooner Oldham added delicate keyboards to the recent "Razor Love." Donald Duck Dunn's intense bass playing fed the mellow freak-out of "Words (Between the Lines of Age)." Jim Keltner turned the drums into a wall of sound during "Peace of Mind." Ben Keith's pedal-steel playing offered friendly competition to Mr. Young, always an athletic guitarist, throughout.
When he is with these old pals, unlike when he is with his other frequent collaborators in Crazy Horse or C.S.N.&Y., Mr. Young sheds his competitiveness. Instead, he swapped musical lines with them like jokes on a fishing trip. The intimate mood was enhanced by the presence of Mr. Young's wife, Pegi, and sister, Astrid Young, on backing vocals and by his jovial running commentary to the crowd.
There's a ploy behind such complacency, however: Mr. Young dons it to shed it. His best ballads incorporate rough threads. "Unknown Legend," for example, is a love song to a single mom who rides a Harley Davidson to free her soul. It could have been written by another careful rustic, Lucinda Williams.
After wending through such songs, Mr. Young and his band did return to the country psychedelia his devotees crave. Versions of "Tonight's the Night," "Like a Hurricane," and Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" were less noisy than the feedback fests he has delivered on other tours, but they were still intense. He flexed that muscle, then concluded with "Mellow My Mind," one of his most pleasant lazy-day toss-offs. It is a sweet final word from this pugilist at rest.
Mr. Young chose another scrappy veteran with a serious soft spot to share the bill on this tour: Chrissie Hynde led the Pretenders through an easygoing set of favorites, from "Brass in Pocket" to "Night in My Veins." She honored Mr. Young with a heartfelt version of "Needle and the Damage Done," saying that such great songwriters made you feel that they had you in mind when writing. The same can be said for Ms. Hynde, and the standing ovation the crowd gave her and the Pretenders was not just for the night, but also for a lifetime of insightful cranky romanticism.
- bill 8-23-2000 3:55 pm [add a comment]