Went to see Neil Young last night @ Jones Beach. No beer sold here ! Drove from JC over the bayone bridge to Staten Island expwy to belt pkwy to southern state pkwy. Cleaned the return trip at midnight in one hour.Super excelent sound system and it was net broadcasted as well.
The pretenders opened. CH looks the exact same as when I saw her 20 years ago! They finished up with Neil's "The Needle".
Neil's touring with I guess you'd call it the family band. Wife and Sister on back up vocals and back up hippy groove dancing (the sister is HOT) plus keyboard, drum, peddle steel, bass and NY. Mentioned that steel peddle guys been with him 30 yrs and the rest averaging 10 or so. These people have names and I do them a diservice not to mention them.
Opened with "Motor Cycle Momma" and the sister really wailed. The sound guy must have turned her down after that but it was a nice blast while it lasted. Lots of acoustic and electric but it all really cooked. "Harvest Moon" got a big pop from the new upper deck croud 'cause they alone could see an early H M coming up from behind the stage. Neil kept asking every one how they were doing and that he was good. He noted that last time he was here that there was no upper deck and that all those people would have been up in the sky for another big upper deck croud pop.
I really dug "Walk On", they worked it for it's full rockin' potential.
They played from 9:15 to almost midnight.
Let me dig arround the NY news group for a set list and I'll be back in a while with sumore.
I'm gushing cause it was my first NY show.
Ran into Jeff Lazar (sp?) at the spontaneous Wednesday Green Market Conflux (Dewey,Rachael,Diti,Steve,Jeff,Me.) He said he was going to the Neil show as well. If I remember correctly he was saying that the peddle steel player was from Booker T.'s band? Is that right? Anyway, Steve recognized the name (I can't remember) and launched into a story about "oh yeah, I now his neice... in fact I'm going to stay with her in Memphis..." or something like that. Steve knows everyone. And the point of this message? Not sure.... Sounds like a good show though.
Gushing is a good word to describe a Neil Young concert. Only did one, Austin in the eighties maybe? He had been on tour hiatus for years and was coming back to show he still had the stuff, boy did he, split the show in two, first half old stuff, mainly acoustic, came back after a break with wrap around shades, fully electified and played this awsome shit copying and superceding the style of that time, him saying to all the new kids on the block of that era, "I'm Neil Young children, I'm your daddy."
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The pretenders opened. CH looks the exact same as when I saw her 20 years ago! They finished up with Neil's "The Needle".
Neil's touring with I guess you'd call it the family band. Wife and Sister on back up vocals and back up hippy groove dancing (the sister is HOT) plus keyboard, drum, peddle steel, bass and NY. Mentioned that steel peddle guys been with him 30 yrs and the rest averaging 10 or so. These people have names and I do them a diservice not to mention them.
Opened with "Motor Cycle Momma" and the sister really wailed. The sound guy must have turned her down after that but it was a nice blast while it lasted. Lots of acoustic and electric but it all really cooked. "Harvest Moon" got a big pop from the new upper deck croud 'cause they alone could see an early H M coming up from behind the stage. Neil kept asking every one how they were doing and that he was good. He noted that last time he was here that there was no upper deck and that all those people would have been up in the sky for another big upper deck croud pop. I really dug "Walk On", they worked it for it's full rockin' potential.
They played from 9:15 to almost midnight.
Let me dig arround the NY news group for a set list and I'll be back in a while with sumore.
I'm gushing cause it was my first NY show.
- bill 8-18-2000 4:29 pm
Ran into Jeff Lazar (sp?) at the spontaneous Wednesday Green Market Conflux (Dewey,Rachael,Diti,Steve,Jeff,Me.) He said he was going to the Neil show as well. If I remember correctly he was saying that the peddle steel player was from Booker T.'s band? Is that right? Anyway, Steve recognized the name (I can't remember) and launched into a story about "oh yeah, I now his neice... in fact I'm going to stay with her in Memphis..." or something like that. Steve knows everyone. And the point of this message? Not sure.... Sounds like a good show though.
- jim 8-18-2000 4:36 pm [add a comment]
Gushing is a good word to describe a Neil Young concert. Only did one, Austin in the eighties maybe? He had been on tour hiatus for years and was coming back to show he still had the stuff, boy did he, split the show in two, first half old stuff, mainly acoustic, came back after a break with wrap around shades, fully electified and played this awsome shit copying and superceding the style of that time, him saying to all the new kids on the block of that era, "I'm Neil Young children, I'm your daddy."
- jimlouis 8-18-2000 11:28 pm [add a comment]