Neil Young announces tour, playing songs he’s never played live before
nme.comNeil Young has announced a tour of the West Coast of the US, his first tour in four years, at which he will play songs rarely or never aired live before.The solo acoustic tour will begin next month with 13 gigs currently announced, and as Rolling Stone reports, Young shared the news with paid subscribers of his Neil Young Archives website on a Zoom call this week (June 7).On the call, he revealed that he will be playing around 15 songs that he has rarely or never played live before.“I don’t want to come back and do the same songs again,” he said. “I’ll feel like I was on some sort of carnival ride.
I’d rather be doing these others songs I haven’t done… I won’t have to compare how I’m doing ‘Heart of Gold’ to [how I played it in] 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020…”He added: “They’re not new songs.
They’re old songs. But I wake up with them in my head every morning.“They are songs that apply to my life right now, and apply to everyone’s lives in this era that we’re in.
Some of them were written 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago, but never really played live.”See the dates below.JULY 2023 1 – Los Angeles, CA – John Anson Ford 2 – Los Angeles, CA – John Anson Ford 4 – Los Angeles, CA – John Anson Ford 5 – Los Angeles, CA – John Anson Ford 7 – Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl 8 – Paso Robles, CA – Vina Robles Amphitheatre 11 – San Diego, CA – The Shell 13 – Los Angeles, CA – The Greek Theatre 15 – Berkeley, CA – The Greek 17 – Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater 18 – Ridgefield, WA – RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater 20 – Auburn, WA – White River Amphitheatre 23 – Napa, CA – Oxbow RiverStageEarlier this year, Young made his live comeback at a march and rally in support of the United For Old Growth campaign, which is looking to.
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