SSS 002 aka Pick of the Week
Old Black burning in the hands of it’s master.
I found one of my most prized possessions this morning.
My burn of Neil Young & Crazy Horse Park City, UT 7/15/97.
I’d been looking for this one for a few years. I saw this show at the peak of one of the craziest summers in my life. Living at Old Faithful and having a blast. My whole crew and I took a couple set of wheels from Yellowstone to Utah. Stopping in Wyoming’s Star Valley to camp on the way there and the Gros Ventre mountains on the way back.
Got to the venue and just missed the solo set Neil did on the small stage. No worries, I was there to juice up on the Horse. I did see the equivalent of a unicorn later that day on the small stage but that is a tale for another time. Watched Morphine (boring), Primus (good) and Leftover Salmon (no thanks) in the buildup to the Horse. Started psychedelic preparations while they were setting up Neil’s gear.
Enter the Horse.
This was the last great tour of Neil Young & Crazy Horse. They were winging the set list every night. And they were smoking. “Hippie Dream” from Landing on Water was completely redeemed, “I’m the Ocean cemented it’s status as legend and “Don’t Spook the Horse” came out of nowhere. During the short solo set Neil played an early version of “Slowpoke” which I took as a sign to buy a new guitar. “Cortez the Killer” was a flat out annihilator. My mind was blown after the show and being too wrecked to go anywhere we parked behind a church on the main drag and slept under the cross on the lawn. Protected from bad weather and Johnny Law by Neil, a church and psychedelic intervention. You can only get away with that shit when you are young and dumb.
Early set:
Sugar Mountain
Slowpoke (aborted)
Everybody’s Alone
Unknown Legend
Pocahontas
Out On The Weekend
Heart Of Gold
Late set:
Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
I’m The Ocean
Hippie Dream
Cortez The Killer
From Hank To Hendrix
Buffalo Springfield Again
Someday
Slowpoke
Crime In The City
Modern World (Neil lurching around the stage with just a microphone and a harmonica strapped to his head is something too see–not in a good way!)
Don’t Spook The Horse
Homegrown
Country Home
Rockin’ In The Free World
Special Pick of the Week offer.
I will burn you a copy of this bad boy and send it to you free of charge. With homemade packaging and all!
Contents:
2 CD
First set: The first set starts in the middle of Everybody’s Alone.
Second set: The first three are from a different, inferior source. Then the second set restarts and comes from a far superior source. So it’s all there. Not sure how the first source got in there. Oh well, that’s the way I’ve had it all these years.
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