Neil Young & Bob Dylan in Hyde Park 2019

No long now! How are we all feeling?

Bob opened with “Ballad of a Thin Man” last night and Neil’s been playing “Over and Over” and “Danger Bird”!

 

Dylan will hide behind the keyboard and deliver the same setlist
he's been playing everywhere else. Young will be the second act.
I doubt if they will play together.

 

I am down in London and ready to go!

Would be great to meet up but highly unlikely amongst 60,000 people but you never know.... I will be the blond guy with either a “Keep On Rocking In The Free World” or a “Bob Dylan and His Band (in Blackpool on the back)” T Shirt with a NYAS badge.... not sure whether to show my allegiance to the Neil or Bob tribe especially as I am really in both!

Neil played On The Beach the other night, apparently the first time in 47 years and is in great form on his German tour.

Richard

 

I haven't seen bob play for seven years, and neil never - big occasion for me!

 

I think that might be 17 years. Forty seven years ago was before the song was recorded.

 

On The Beach released 1974 so 45 years ago.

 

My mistake must have been 45 years... if I see him this afternoon I will ask (if only!)

 

You are in for a real treat!

 

:-D on way now!

 

Apparently it’s 16 years.

Watch Neil Young Play “On the Beach” Live for the First Time in 16 Years | Pitchfork

 

I’ve got it wrong again, must be all the excitement!!!

 

First full band version since 74

 

Ill be there too! Hopefully Neil will have a cool On the Beach t-shirt I can buy, I've been looking for it since forever.

 

I made it.... I am here.... Sam Fender On stage... from Newcastle... cool

 

The sound is absolutely atrocious!

 

Try moving to another spot. I saw Paul Simon, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor there last summer and then sound was great. If you move more centrally it should improve (unless that’s where you are)

 

I was central and all I could hear was bass drum so moved to the left

 

I hope it improves for you. I love their summer series of concerts. This is the first time in 3 yrs we’re not going. I love Neil Young & Dylan but saw Dylan around 2002/3 and it was not good so don’t imagine he’s improved but I certainly hope he has. Neil though should be great!

 

Any news on setlists?

 

Neil was on good form, but the sound was muddy for much of the set and his guitar was often indistinguishable in the overall sound.

It was better in the songs with more open arrangements - Love And Only Love was fantastic. I thought Promise of the Real were great.

Dylan - I don’t know what to say. I was in hysterics for most of what I saw: surely he’s having us on? Desecrating some of the greatest songs ever written. I left after 30 ludicrous minutes.

 

Wish I had. Neil was great though....sound was great for me. Near “Delay 7”

 

Massive difference between bands for Neil and Bob tonight.
Bob’s like a funky chicken and tight as a crab’s ****. Neil’s like a plodding train.

Neil is under-stimulated with POTR. He should take a lesson from Bob and find musicians who can serve the songs and learn to leave spaces.

 

just got back Neil was amazing some surprise tracks

1. Mansion on the Hill
2. Over and Over
3. Country Home
4. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
5. Alabama
6. Walk On
7. Winterlong
8. Words (Between the Lines of Age)
9. Heart of Gold
10. From Hank to Hendrix
11. Old Man
12. Throw Your Hatred Down
13. Love and Only Love
14. Rockin' in the Free World
15. Encore:
16. Like a Hurricane
17. I've Been Waiting for You
18. started Roll Another Number (For the Road) (stopped playing as it wasn't dark enough he could have put his key in no problem )
19. Piece of Crap

 

What about the congas? Can you hear the congas???

 

Desecrating?

Dylan has changed the arrangements of his songs live for a long, long time. It's his prerogative, as they all belong to him. Don't criticize what you can't understand....