The roar of the crowd could sometimes be heard, serving as a reminder of how lucky the audience was to see the folk-rock legend and Godfather of Grunge at such an intimate venue, when he too could play the Bowl if he so chose.Īs promised, the intimate tour opener featured plenty of deep cuts, including the first “I’m the Ocean” since 1997 with Crazy Horse to open the show, the first “If You Got Love” since 1986, “Song X” from Young’s 1995 collaboration with Pearl Jam, Mirror Ball, and the live debuts of “A Dream That Can Last”, “Don’t Forget Love”, and “Love Earth”.
The underplay at the Ford Theatre took place just down the road from Hollywood Bowl, where Louis Tomlinson was performing. He also played a series of Fireside Sessionslivestreams from his cabin in the Colorado mountains during quarantine with his wife Daryl Hannah behind the camera, but Thursday was his first ticketed, headlining concert since pre-COVID. Neil Young returned to the road for the first time since 2019 on Thursday, kicking off his mostly acoustic, train-themed West Coast solo tour at the intimate, 1,200-capacity Ford Theatre in Los Angeles.īefore Thursday, Young had performed live just three times since Farm Aid in 2019, taking protestors by surprise when he appeared at the “United For Old Growth Rally” in Victoria, BC in February, joining his former Buffalo Springfield bandmate Stephen Stills at the guitarist’s Light Up The Bluesbenefit for autism in April, and making a brief appearance as part of the star-studded Willie Nelson 90th birthday concert at the Hollywood Bowl the following week.
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