Neil Young 20 Feb 2008

A Rock Legend - Neil Young

Many of you know my musical taste is a bit esoteric. Well last night I was treated to a Living Rock Legend. Neil Young played his last of 3 shows in Amsterdam. It was amazing. His Chrome Dreams II tour started in the States last year and he kicked off his European Tour in Antwerp a couple of weeks ago.


He is only playing small venues like the Orpheum in Boston, the Tower in Philadelphia and the United Palace in NYC. In Amsterdam he played the RAI Theater. The place seated about 3000. I took Christopher to the show and I can only hope he liked it as much as I did. He was by far one of the youngest in the auidence.

Neil came out and did an acoustic set first all by himself, really mellow really communing with the crowd. He talked in between songs and you could really see the Man. The acoustic set was great. After a 25 minute break he came back with his band and did an electric set.........he was a different person. The electric set blew me away. The power of his playing was awsome......spinning around, making faces as he made his guitar cry.

We had 3rd row seats dead center so we were in pretty good shape. We were probably less than 15 feet from him.

Here is his set list from last night.

Set 1: From Hank To Hendrix / Ambulance Blues / Sad Movies / A Man Needs A Maid / Try / Harvest / Love In Mind / Old King / Love Art Blues / Don't Let It Bring You Down / Campaigner / Old Man //

Set 2: Dirty Old Man / Spirit Road / Down By The River / Hey Hey, My My / Too Far Gone / Oh, Lonesome Me / The Believer / Powderfinger / No Hidden Path //

Encore 1: Cinnamon Girl / Rockin' In The Free World //

Encore 2: The Sultan

Awsome Show. May have to go to London to see him in March.

I took some pictures and video and I'll be uploading and adding to this post as bandwidth alllows.

Videos of Neil Young 20 Feb 2008 Amsterdam RAI Theater

Old Man.

A man Needs a Maid




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