The first of four nights at The Ford Amphitheater, which will be followed by a pair of shows at the Greek Theatre, saw Young delight fans with songs and stories.
Midway through Neil Young‘s lovely and sometimes shambling solo show on Friday June 30, he paused to chat with the audience again during the first of four sold out shows at The Ford in Los Angeles over the next week.
No one cared, for in a terrific set that offered 17 songs in 90 minutes, Young’s running commentary only added to the warm, casual nature of a night that saw the two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame play the unexpected – a handful of songs had live debuts on Friday – and the familiar – “Mother Earth ,” “Ohio” and “Heart of Gold.”
“Nice place, huh?” he said of The Ford, one of the more unique venues in Los Angeles, tucked into a hillside in the Cahuenga Pass across the 101 Freeway from the Hollywood Bowl, from which screams from fans of former One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson could be heard during quiet moments in Young’s set. “We could have been at the Podunk coliseum tonight.”
This, though, was only part of his introduction of the instruments he’d brought on tour with him. An upright piano on the opposite side of the stage, on which someone had placed Post-It notes with messages such as “I adore you” before the show? He rented that one when he came to Hollywood in the ’60s and had played it off and on ever since.
The back half of the show finally delivered a handful of familiar songs. Standing at the organ, Young asked the crowd to pick whether he should play “Mother Earth” or “Mr. Soul,” deciding after a minute of shouted requests that he’d play the former. The song is a hymn-like anthem to protect the planet, a topic about which Young has long deeply cared.
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