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.

John Mayall (feat.Mick Taylor) - Walking On Sunset

                                  Recorded on January 2nd 1969 at the Marquee Club in London

John Mayall-vocals/guitar/harmonica.Steve Thompson-bass.Colin Allen/drums.Mick Taylor-guitar
 

                        Walking On Sunset (album Blues From The Laurel Canyon)

                         not enough attention from the filmmaker for Mick Taylor....

Blues from Laurel Canyon is a 1968 album by John Mayall, featuring British blues music. It was his first album after the breakup of his band the Bluesbreakers in May 1968, although others claim it was on 14 July 1968. It was also his last album with Decca before moving to Polydor.
 

Arthur Lee & Love - Live in Copenhagen March 1970.

        Arthur Lee                          George Suranovich            Frank Fayad               Gary Rowles
 

                                                 Doggygone

It was strange and suspenseful to meet singer and guitarist Arthur Lee on Tivoli's concert stage. The leader of the legendary underground group, Love, whose former constellation has been disbanded and now continues with just Arthur Lee and three new members. Love was, together with the Byrds, the great American breakthrough band on the rock scene. They laid the musical foundation for all that is now called the hippie generation. Love chose to live in anonymity and to leave it to others to be world famous bands, and it's first today that Arthur has shown up to harvest some applause for his enormous contribution.

                         August

What one first looks for is what remains: what remains of the originally beautiful, fantastic, precise and incredibly sentimental tones that are to be heard on Love's first three records. The answer to what remains is not much. For Arthur tried to recreate the feelings and the atmosphere close to them. But time has moved on and his three new members seemed more interested in rocking.

                

                    Good Times

 It was as if Arthur Lee tried to remind himself as well as us of what once had been, but it remained most a show number. But a meeting with a new Arthur Lee was also impressive enough. He's a musical authority on par with Jimi Hendrix and he guides his group with incredible precision. His voice and his tones are much changed. The open and the naked have been replaced by wildness and a more rock inspired energy.

                                              

                                                           Love is more than words

                   Arthur Lee in Tivoli's Concert Hall - An Exciting Experience (review Politikan,Danmark)

Arthur Lee is still working on the edge. Where once it was sentimentality it's now a balancing act between wildness and ecstasy, and all his use of tones timed with a meticulous precision. However the music and lyrics of his new songs still revolve around his same main theme - love. Everything is either a nostalgic return, or an attempt to give the simple experience a renewal. He examines everything again and again in a new light but from the same focus as before. His new song, Better too Late Than Never in lyric and music goes back to his first songs, and it's here that Arthur Lee and Love show themselves to be one of our era's greatest rock bands - and as one of the few to create and express a new perspective. A lot of things in this concert could have been left out, but the new elements are well worth hearing again.

             Arthur Taylor Lee (born Arthur Porter Taylor; March 7, 1945 - August 3, 2006)