Neil Young - 1996-08-25 - Saratoga Springs NY (SBD)

Neil Young 

& Crazy Horse

1996-08-25 

Saratoga Performing Arts Center

Saratoga Springs NY

Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. Hey Hey My My

02. Pocohauntus

03. Big Time 

04. Slip Away

05. Welfare Mothers

06. Needle & the Damge Done

07. Heart Of Gold 

08. Cinnamon Girl X 2 <2 For The Price Of One Neil Quote>

09. Fuckin Up

10. Cortez The Killer

11. Music Arcade

12. Like A Hurricane

  

Encore:

13. Crowd

14. Sedan Delivery

15. Dangerbird  

Neil Young - 1996-08-25 - Saratoga Springs NY (SBD)

On June 20, 1996, Neil Young launched a European tour with Crazy Horse, his first series of live shows with his long time backing band in about 5 years. In between tours with the The Horse, Neil had played live with both Pearl Jam and Booker T and The MGs. He also headlined several solo acoustic tours. The passage of time, however, did nothing to lessen the intensity of a Neil and Crazy Horse concert, as evidenced in this soundboard from Saratoga on Augst 28, 1996, 27 years ago today.

Believe it or not, the links between Neil and The Grateful Dead go all the way back to 1963. Neil was with John Phillips (of the Mama’s and Papa’s) when John wrote Me & MY Uncle, a tune that later became a staple of The Dead’s live shows. Neil should have been on stage on the last night at Monterrey Pop, right before The Who and The Dead, but he was feuding with the other members of Buffalo Springfield at the time and skipped the festival. He and The Dead were both at Woodstock, as CSNY played just their 2nd concert ever. Neil also appeared at The SNACK benefit in March 1975, one of just 4 concerts the Dead played that year, playing alongside Bob Dylan and The Band, 2 other groups with long time ties to the Grateful Dead. In November 1991, Neil sat in with the Dead at the Bill Graham Memorial concert, playing Dylan’s Forever Young in memory of the late, great promoter. 

Fellow Canadian Neil Young was also a guest at The Band's 1976 Last Waltz concert, playing Helpless with supporting vocals by Joni Mitchell. According to legend, Neil was snorting cocaine backatge before he went on, and rocks of coke coukd be seen in his notrils on some of the filn of hi performance.  As mentioned above, Nei sat in with The Band and Dylan a year prior to The Last Waltz, at the Snack Benefit Concert.  And while Neil and The Allman Brothers really don't have any musical ties, they both were inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame in the same year!