Neil Young played four solo shows over five nights at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, offering up a career spanning show.
The majority of the sets each night were set with just one song in the first set and two songs in the second changing, depending on the night, along with a fluid encore.
One real rarity was the ‘Rust Never Sleeps’ song ‘Thrasher’. Young performed the song for the first time in 39 years at this week’s show.
Harvest was the main entry from Young’s catalog with four of the songs from the set being played all four nights and a fifth on the first evening. There was also a generous number of covers, all coming from Young’s upcoming set A Letter Home.
The following is a combined version of the sets over the four nights with an indication of which evening the song was played (Saturday, March 29 [1]; Sunday, March 30 [2]; Tuesday, April 1 [3] and Wednesday, April 2 [4]):
First Set
From Hank to Hendrix (from Harvest Moon, 1992) [1, 2, 3, 4]
On the Way Home (from Buffalo Springfield’s Last Time Around, 1968) [1, 2, 3, 4]
Only Love Can Break Your Heart (from After the Gold Rush, 1970) [1, 2, 3, 4]
Love in Mind (from Time Fades Away, 1973) [1, 2, 3, 4]
Philadelphia (from the soundtrack of the movie Philadelphia, 1994) [1, 2, 3, 4]
Mellow My Mind (from Tonight’s the Night, 1975) [1, 2, 3, 4]
Are You Ready for the Country (from Harvest, 1972) [1]
Reason to Believe (from A Letter Home, 2014) [2, 3, 4]
Someday (from Freedom, 1989) [1, 2, 3, 4]
Changes (from A Letter Home, 2014) [1, 2, 3, 4]
Harvest (from Harvest, 1972) [1, 2, 3, 4]
Old Man (from Harvest, 1972) [1, 2, 3, 4]
Second Set
Goin’ Back (from Comes a Time, 1978) [1, 2, 3, 4]
A Man Needs a Maid (from Harvest, 1972) [1, 2, 3, 4]
Ohio (from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young single, 1970) [1, 2, 3, 4]
Southern Man (from After the Gold Rush, 1970) [1, 2, 3, 4]
Mr. Soul (from Buffalo Springfield’s Buffalo Springfield Again, 1967) [1, 2, 3, 4]
If You Could Read My Mind (from A Letter Home, 2014) [1, 2, 3, 4]
Harvest Moon (from Harvest Moon, 1992) [1, 3, 4]
Flying on the Ground Is Wrong (from Buffalo Springfield’s Buffalo Springfield, 1966) [1, 3]
After the Gold Rush (from After the Gold Rush, 1970) [1, 2, 3, 4]
Heart of Gold (from Harvest, 1972) [1, 2, 3, 4]
Encore
Thrasher (from Rust Never Sleeps, 1979) [1, 3, 4]
Blowin’ in the Wind (from A Letter Home, 2014) [2]
Long May You Run (from the Stills-Young Band’s Long May You Run, 1976) [1, 2]
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