Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Hey Hey,My My/Down By The River /Cortez The Killer(04/24/2024)

                       Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre, San Diego, California,    

                       Neil Young & Crazy Horse are back!  The "Love Earth"   tour                     

                                                     Down By The River

When Neil Young sang "rock and roll will never die" near the conclusion of his tour-opening LOVE EARTH concert with Crazy Horse Wednesday in San Diego, you believed him.(

                                      Story by George Varga, The San Diego Union-Tribune 

 

 At SDSU, Young and his longtime Crazy Horse compadres — bassist/singer Billy Talbot and drummer Ralph Molina, both 80 — were focused and in sync from start to finish. They were joined by guitarist/singer Micah Nelson, 33, who on Monday had played a key role accompanying his father, Willie Nelson, at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park.

 

                                                                     Cortez The Killer

 

 Micah Nelson was performing in place of Crazy Horse charter member Nils Lofgren, who is now on tour in The E Street Band with his other longtime employer, Bruce Springsteen. Those are big shoes to fill, but Nelson was so in sync with Young you'd think they had been musical partners for decades.

                                                          My My,Hey Hey 

The final encore was an eight-minute rendition of "My My Hey Hey (Into the Black)," whose line There's more to the picture than meets the eye could be a synopsis of Young's career and his dogged determination to do things his way, every time, no matter what the trends of the day may be.