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[Hanson]

Listening to it now. Classic Neil Young guitar - it has that unmistakable sound.

Saw Neil Young live in Montreal back in the early 90's - still the best show I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of shows!

[igotthisguitar]

[desultude]

Asa!

Thanks for that!

[igotthisguitar]

[Zulu]

SOunds good. I'll have to check it out

[igotthisguitar]

Young Leaves Bandmates In The Dust

Lynn Saxberg, The Ottawa Citizen
Sunday, July 09, 2006



http://www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/index.html

Less than halfway through last night's Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young concert at Scotiabank Place, an unsettling thought began to emerge.

Neil Young should have left the old guys at home.

Think about it: When the legendary Canadian rocker cranked out his landmark Living With War disc this spring, he should have mounted a quick 'n' dirty tour to back it up, accompanied by the band he recorded with.

Actually, Young did bring the guys he recorded with -- drummer Chad Cromwell and bassist Rick Rosas made up the rhythm section, but he also went along with the CSNY reunion idea that was already in the works before the disc was recorded, and brought along his aging cohorts, David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, too. Last night, it seemed like a bloated endeavour that only resulted in inflated ticket prices and added little to the music.

Up against a Bluesfest passport, last night's $200 ticket was a tough sell; even a last-minute block of cheap seats wasn't enough to sell out the stadium. Attendance was believed to be a little more than 11,000, an underwhelming figure for what should have been a historic event -- the first appearance in the nation's capital of an iconic supergroup.

Based on the advance buzz, it seemed to make sense to combine the CSNY Vietnam-era anthems with Young's Bush-bashing, anti-war sizzlers. But, at least in the first set, there was too much tepid solo material, and too few anthems of any sort.

Oh, there was a flicker of promise in the opening track Flags of Freedom, one of the great songs on Living With War. People jumped to their feet and cheered to its marching beat, while the four music legends formed a human fortress of guitars, two electric and two acoustic, and giant flags unfolded behind them.

There was a surge of patriotic noise from the crowd when the Canadian flag unfurled, but by the end of the song, there were snickers as the flag mechanism malfunctioned and the flags failed to change on cue

The mustachioed Crosby, white hair flowing, shared lead vocals on Wooden Ships with the barefoot, but neatly groomed, Graham Nash. It was an unexciting version until Young stepped in with some ragged electric guitar, facing off against Stills, a cherubic-looking old hippie who can still play a mean guitar when Young is in his face.

Again, Young's spidery guitar work was the most interesting thing about the CSN nugget, Long Time Gone, and the 1971 Nash solo remnant, Military Madness, which matched the anti-war theme of the evening, but lacked a fist-pumping pulse.

From Stills's solo catalogue came another thematic filler, the bluesy Wounded World, before a couple of new Young songs, After the Garden is Gone and the title track, in which it became painfully obvious that Stills, Nash and Crosby singing in unison are a poor substitute for a 100-voice gospel choir.

The edgy Restless Consumer made the most of Young's reedy, urgent voice, while Shock and Awe and Families gave a much-needed punch to the proceedings.

After rocking out so hard, Young gave the old guys a break, a perfectly sensible idea for a concert that was expected to last for three full hours.

They came back with a nicely harmonized, pleasant acoustic segment that included Helplessly Hoping, Our House, and Only Love Can Break Your Heart.

But at press time, we were still waiting for them to break out the anthems, ramp up the anti-war sentiment and live up to the spirit promised in the tour title, Freedom of Speech 06.

� The Ottawa Citizen 2006

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/arts/story.html?id=8cb2e2a4-e834-445a-8fbf-f0b56fa5ab7c&k=76802

[Bulsajo]

She got it completely wrong, as usual.
It was a great show, and it was great to see CSNY together one more time rather than Neil with a bunch of studio musicians.
And yeah, they went on for 3 hours, no opening act.