Pace on Earth

Old Man

The thought that kept popping into my mind after Neil Young finished rocking the shit out of Harbour Station the other night was that if that is what 63 looks like I am not as concerned about getting old as I was before the Saturday's show. He kicked it, for two solid hours.

As per the policy we missed the opener (and heard zero reviews good or bad) and arrived about 15 minutes before Neil hit the stage. We waited in line for a beer and hit the floor as he was starting his second song which just happened to be Hey Hey, My My. From there he went into my (current) favourite Neil Young song Everybody Knows This is Nowhere. I actually got worked up thinking that this song should be New Brunswick's theme song. As the quintessential have-not province (mostly in that only people from New Brunswick remember New Brunswick) this song is the ultimate back home song, mostly because of this line, the one that hit me - "Every time I think about back home, It's cool and breezy; I wish that I could be there right now, Just passing time.". Soon after he did Pocahontas and I completely forgot how badly I wanted to hear that song when the show was announced. He followed that up with Cortez the Killer and Cinammon Girl in the (2nd most) rockin' part of the show. BTW - The full setlist can be found here.

Highlights from there included Heart of Gold followed by Old Man (Craig's highlight). The most rockin' part of the show was the encore - Keep on Rockin' in the Free World. He played it out for about 10 minutes and faked the climax 3 times before finally bowing and leaving the stage. The message was clear; he's still rockin' so we best all follow suit.

It was the best stadium show I've seen in some time. Everything I could hope for; he played classics and he played the hell out of them.

Pace out.

posted by Vitamin S @ 5:34 p.m.