What a show ! Patti & band opened with Dancing Barefoot, closed with Gloria...
Neil and Crazy Horse were just fantastic - Neil looks like he's having such a good time up there on stage
I was right up front
one of the best shows I've ever seen....
Keep on rockin' in the free world !
oh yeah...and I got a drum stick from Ralph !
Wow ! Patti Smith/NY&CH in Boston
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Rionach aka Spec K
, Nov 27 2012 10:57 PM
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Posted 28 November 2012 - 06:32 PM
Sorry just got on here and saw this.
Yup......show was awesome!!!
I digged Patti Smith and Neil blew me away as usual.
Yes....he charges alot but man what a great show!!!!
When Neil Young gets together with Crazy Horse, as he has since 1969’s “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere,” the songs become something else. They’re jams that unfurl in long stretches, clanging and guttural one moment and then unexpectedly lyrical the next.
To give you a sense of just how unhurried Young and Crazy Horse were Monday night at TD Garden, consider the numbers: 13 songs spread over two hours and 15 minutes, with no intermission.
The performance, needless to say, was epic. Epic enough that it required a singular approach to the music: You had to succumb to it, to let the solos sink in, to realize the whole was greater than the sum of its parts.
There was no denying Young’s chemistry with his Crazy Horse bandmates. Revving up with “Love and Only Love,” from 1990’s “Ragged Glory,” Young huddled with guitarist Frank Sampedro and bassist Billy Talbot, with Ralph Molina anchoring the songs behind them on drums. Together they locked like mad scientists testing a new experiment. The only thing headier than their solos was that first whiff of pot that tickled the nostrils right as the music started. (How did they do that?)
When they locked into a tight groove, as they did on “Ramada Inn” (from their new album, “Psychedelic Pill”) and “Cinnamon Girl,” you lost sense of time and space. More often than not, though, the performance was impenetrable, leaving you steamrolled in the service of self-indulgence.
Simplicity was in short supply but a welcome respite, especially when Young went solo with an acoustic guitar for “The Needle and the Damage Done,” followed by “Twisted Road,” his new ode to the magic of first discovering Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, and Roy Orbison.
Spiraling to 23 minutes, “Walk Like a Giant” captured the essence of both the evening and the new album. It was on another frequency, ending with an extended coda that found Young and the band coaxing distortion from their instruments as a wind machine blew debris across the stage. It was something you’d expect from a young indie-rock band in Brooklyn, not from a veteran rocker who just turned 67.
By contrast, Patti Smith, who opened the show with her band, concentrated her intensity into a potent 45 minutes. Even then she unleashed the fire and force that have made her compelling well into her 60s. She raged on “People Have the Power,” loosed a low, coarse growl on “Beneath the Southern Cross,” and became one with the sway of “Dancing Barefoot.”
After all these years, “Gloria,” a cover of the Them song that led off her 1975 debut, “Horses,” is still her tour de force. It plays up Smith’s strengths: a serpentine crawl that builds to a feral swagger. Right in the middle of the song, just as it picked up speed, Smith did the most logical and perfect thing. She spat, as if she couldn’t stand the taste of the words.
Yup......show was awesome!!!
I digged Patti Smith and Neil blew me away as usual.
Yes....he charges alot but man what a great show!!!!
When Neil Young gets together with Crazy Horse, as he has since 1969’s “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere,” the songs become something else. They’re jams that unfurl in long stretches, clanging and guttural one moment and then unexpectedly lyrical the next.
To give you a sense of just how unhurried Young and Crazy Horse were Monday night at TD Garden, consider the numbers: 13 songs spread over two hours and 15 minutes, with no intermission.
The performance, needless to say, was epic. Epic enough that it required a singular approach to the music: You had to succumb to it, to let the solos sink in, to realize the whole was greater than the sum of its parts.
There was no denying Young’s chemistry with his Crazy Horse bandmates. Revving up with “Love and Only Love,” from 1990’s “Ragged Glory,” Young huddled with guitarist Frank Sampedro and bassist Billy Talbot, with Ralph Molina anchoring the songs behind them on drums. Together they locked like mad scientists testing a new experiment. The only thing headier than their solos was that first whiff of pot that tickled the nostrils right as the music started. (How did they do that?)
When they locked into a tight groove, as they did on “Ramada Inn” (from their new album, “Psychedelic Pill”) and “Cinnamon Girl,” you lost sense of time and space. More often than not, though, the performance was impenetrable, leaving you steamrolled in the service of self-indulgence.
Simplicity was in short supply but a welcome respite, especially when Young went solo with an acoustic guitar for “The Needle and the Damage Done,” followed by “Twisted Road,” his new ode to the magic of first discovering Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, and Roy Orbison.
Spiraling to 23 minutes, “Walk Like a Giant” captured the essence of both the evening and the new album. It was on another frequency, ending with an extended coda that found Young and the band coaxing distortion from their instruments as a wind machine blew debris across the stage. It was something you’d expect from a young indie-rock band in Brooklyn, not from a veteran rocker who just turned 67.
By contrast, Patti Smith, who opened the show with her band, concentrated her intensity into a potent 45 minutes. Even then she unleashed the fire and force that have made her compelling well into her 60s. She raged on “People Have the Power,” loosed a low, coarse growl on “Beneath the Southern Cross,” and became one with the sway of “Dancing Barefoot.”
After all these years, “Gloria,” a cover of the Them song that led off her 1975 debut, “Horses,” is still her tour de force. It plays up Smith’s strengths: a serpentine crawl that builds to a feral swagger. Right in the middle of the song, just as it picked up speed, Smith did the most logical and perfect thing. She spat, as if she couldn’t stand the taste of the words.
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Posted 29 November 2012 - 05:58 PM
I'm still on my Patti / Neil high !
I have Dancing Barefoot on a compilation CD a friend made for me...I must have played it about 10 times Saturday night so then when she opened with it, I was floored !
...and I had Gloria on my mind all day before the show.... kept texting people I know "Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine..."
Patti Smith setlist:
1. Dancing Barefoot
2. April Fool
3. Fuji-san
4. People Have the Power
5. Beneath The Southern Cross
6. Because the Night
7. Pissing in a River
8. Gloria
Neil Young & Crazy Horse setlist
1. Day in a Life Intro
2. Star Spangled Banner
3. Love and Only Love
4. Powderfinger
5. Born in Ontario
6. Walk Like a Giant
7. The Needle and the Damage Done
8. Twisted Road
9. Singer Without a Song
10. Ramada Inn
11. Cinnamon Girl
12. Fuckin' Up
13. Mr. Soul
14. Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)
Encore:
15. Farmer John
I have Dancing Barefoot on a compilation CD a friend made for me...I must have played it about 10 times Saturday night so then when she opened with it, I was floored !
...and I had Gloria on my mind all day before the show.... kept texting people I know "Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine..."
Patti Smith setlist:
1. Dancing Barefoot
2. April Fool
3. Fuji-san
4. People Have the Power
5. Beneath The Southern Cross
6. Because the Night
7. Pissing in a River
8. Gloria
Neil Young & Crazy Horse setlist
1. Day in a Life Intro
2. Star Spangled Banner
3. Love and Only Love
4. Powderfinger
5. Born in Ontario
6. Walk Like a Giant
7. The Needle and the Damage Done
8. Twisted Road
9. Singer Without a Song
10. Ramada Inn
11. Cinnamon Girl
12. Fuckin' Up
13. Mr. Soul
14. Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)
Encore:
15. Farmer John
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Posted 29 November 2012 - 08:19 PM
Well, he was born there.
Plus at the end i had just enough time to jog to the bathroom and take a whizz before walk like a giant.
Best lodge seat ever....go out the door and the mens room was right on the left.
I am with you special K been humming neil for days.
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Posted 30 November 2012 - 04:20 AM
i wouldnt hesitate to drop that kind of money again on neil and crazy horse
that show was so epcot, it redefined epcot
i loved every minute
the flow was awesome and it was just sheer perfection from start to finish
i literally have not one syllable or moment to complain about
neil should teach rockers a third of his age how to do it right
if i was still unemployed, i would have dropped everything and started following him around
serz biz
he was THAT GOOD
words fail me...it was amazing!
nice getting to hug carl and ryan on the way out
tony liked having bobby orr's balls tickling his head
how was that for a show to end your bday month on tony? i think pretty effin damn good!
that show was so epcot, it redefined epcot
i loved every minute
the flow was awesome and it was just sheer perfection from start to finish
i literally have not one syllable or moment to complain about
neil should teach rockers a third of his age how to do it right
if i was still unemployed, i would have dropped everything and started following him around
serz biz
he was THAT GOOD
words fail me...it was amazing!
nice getting to hug carl and ryan on the way out
tony liked having bobby orr's balls tickling his head
how was that for a show to end your bday month on tony? i think pretty effin damn good!
