Neil Young is kicking off a tour in July following a four-year hiatus from the road — but don’t expect a traditional set. He revealed that he’s been rehearsing a show centered largely around songs he’s never played live.
kicking off a tour in July following a four-year hiatus from the road — but don’t expect a traditional set. In a live Zoom late Wednesday afternoon with paid Patron subscribers to the Neil Young Archives, he revealed that he’s been rehearsing a show centered largely around songs he’s never played live. The official announcement is slated for Friday, but he said it’ll begin on the West Coast in early July.
The rationale for dumping his traditional repertoire is simple: “I don’t want to come back and do the same songs again,” he said. “I’ll feel like I was on some sort of carnival ride. I’d rather be doing these others songs I haven’t done…I won’t have to compare how I’m doing ‘Heart of Gold’ to [how I played it in] 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020…”
Young said that he’s prepared a list of about 15 tracks for the show, including “Song X” from his 1995 Pearl Jam collaborationouttake “If You Got Love.” “I did a demo of [“If You Got Love”] a few years [after] with a synclavier, a drum machine, harmonica, and some effects,” Young said. “I listened to it [recently], and it turned me on again. I’m now doing it with the organ and harmonica. It’s pretty cool.
He’s not totally jettisoning his classic tunes, but he estimates that 80 percent of the show will be songs known largely to hardcore fans. “They’re not new songs,” he says. “They’re old songs. But I wake up with them in my head every morning. They are songs that apply to my life right now, and apply to everyone’s lives in this era that we’re in. Some of them were written 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago, but never really played live.
We’ll have to wait until Friday to see where exactly the tour is hitting, but Young says it’ll begin with a four or five-night residency at a West Coast “tiny, little unknown theater that’s close to one of the most well-known theaters in the world.”
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