The Obscure

Oh my god guys, the Neil Young concert was quite possibly the best three hours of my young life to date. It beats anything else I have said that about in the past, in any case. It wasn't a solo show, he played with crazy horse (his band) and at first they just played greendale, which was a LOT better than I thought it would be. They had a little acting/dancing troupe going with the band on the songs because the songs were a story of a small town family, so they had these people doing these really strange but enjoyable portayals of what was going on in the song. Plus, the main character girl was a fox.

Then he ended Greendale, waved, and they all walked off stage. Greendale had had a tremendous ending with "Be the rain", it kinda erupted into this eclectic jammy thing right at the end. So they all walk off and everybody is standing up because the ending was so good, and we all just stand and yell for like ten minutes till he comes back for an encore, playing up to date Neil Young With Crazy Horse songs, which was awesome because they were more like traditional Neil Young that we all love than Greendale was, as much as I liked greendale. Then he ended that after like five songs, left the stage, and now everybody was standing up and yelling and clapping for another five minutes till he came back for a second encore, where he played two crazy horse tunes and then BAM! "Keep On Rockin in the Free World" which is like my favorite ever neil young song, it was the first one I had ever heard by him ever and he played the best rendition of it I have heard too. He finished that out with a tremendous jam thing that lasted about 8 minutes and had a little ditty-hendrixesque-solo in it, you know how it is, they play some song for a while and during the solo play a little song that isn't hard but still sounds awesome when it's just by itself in there. He went, "Do do do, do do do. Do do do, do do do, do do do. Do do Dooo, do do do. Do do do." If any of you know what that is, I know I've heard it before. THEN after like ten minutes moved on and played a couple more songs and then "Roll Another Number For the Road" off of Tonight's the Night. and it was fantasmic. He finished that out after another jammy thing and then he said, "Goodnight folks, maybe I'll see you on down the road in a while." and then left again. then the houselights came on so we all went home haha.

We almost got lost driving home too, my dad stopped for directions a couple times. We were listening to Bringing it all back home. and I kept falling asleep in my seat, so I'd hear like the gates of eden in my half-dreaming state, and then WHAM! we were at a gas station, and then another song would be playing and WHAM! at a boigah ki. It was just weird.

AAAAAAAAAnywho, that was it. It was a tremendous occasion that, because of my mind's memory faculties, I am already forgetting. see you.