Fifty years after opening the venerable L.A. club, Neil Young and Crazy Horse re-assembled, in all their ragged glory, to perform two of their classic albums.
With the release of his new Rick Rubin-produced album, ‘World Record,’ Young talks the climate crisis, boycotting Spotify and the 50th anniversary of ‘Harvest.’The LPs straddle his ascent to rock’s superstar class as a member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, whose smash “Déjà Vu” came out less than a year after “Everybody Knows,” and with his folky solo single “Heart of Gold,” which topped Billboard’s Hot 100 in 1972.
“Bruce Berry was a working man / He used to load that Econoline van,” he sang Thursday, a blend of sorrow and respect still detectable in his signature rough-edged whine. At the Roxy, Crazy Horse featured the stalwart rhythm section of bassist Billy Talbot and drummer Ralph Molina along with guitarist and pianist Nils Lofgren, who thanks to his job in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band hadn’t planned on being there but who turned up after Springsteen canceled a string of tour dates for health-related reasons; these OGs were joined by Willie Nelson’s son Micah Nelson, who’s backed Young for years as a member of Promise of the Real and who here handled much of the...
The show started with a complete run through “Tonight’s the Night,” deep cuts and all, after which the musicians took a break of 90 seconds or so before returning to the stage to do all of “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.” The crunchy opening riff of the latter’s “Cinnamon Girl” went off like a bomb in the room, which was packed with diehard fans and VIPs including Lou Adler and actor Rob Lowe.
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