After years of trying I went to a Neil Young concert in Amsterdam two years ago. He played his longest solo concert ever. I hardly knew any of the (new) songs, but after three and a half hour I thought: Wow, I was totally into his music for two and a half hour... ..to realize it was an hour more!
He started acoustic. Then band and acoustic guitar. The Falcon was next and when Blackie came on it happenend. Oer the show he changed from an old man with an acoustic to a guitar god. THE sound I heard so many nights on my headphones, listenint to Weld and Rust Never Sleeps; it was there! I so loved it. He's one of my all time favourite guitar players and I rank his Blackie tone very high. With the P90 era Townshend.
That concert was so cool. I think Macca played like 40 songs in three hours and Young 25 in 3,5 so an average of 8 minutes. He also played short songs so there were those enourmous solo's and after 15 minutes you thought: wow, this is still the same song, when the chorus kicked in again. I really loved it!
Nice note. Still a bit rebellious. That tour he played 2.5 to 3 hours a show and this was his longest ever. A lot of personnel of the venue had to catch trains and buses so afterwards I heard there was a lot of panicking in the venue and trying to keep all bars manned, when he kept on playing.
That promise of the real band is great.