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Neil Young & Paul McCartney!

goldrushgoldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,633
edited July 2009 in Other Music
I've just got back from the Hard Rock Calling festival in Hyde Park and I had to share this with you.

Neil Young was fucking amazing once again. Today was the 6th time I've seen him but the encore was a real 'once in a lifetime' experience. After a set that lasted just over 2 hours he came back out to play 1 encore, The Beatles' "Day In The Life" (as he has done for most of this tour). This time however, when the second part kicked in (the "Woke up, got out of bed..." bit) PAUL MCCARTNEY ran onto the stage and sang it with him!

Fuck!

I don't really care much about The Beatles but this was really bloody special. I still can't quite believe it to be honest. We also had a 17-minute version of "Down By The River", 12 minutes of "Words" and a 10-minute "Rockin In The Free World" that seemed to be never-ending. Needless to say, I'll have more videos on YouTube in the morning!

Apart from Neil, The Pretenders (Chrissie Hynde has still got it), Ben Harper & The Relentless 7, Fleet Foxes, blazing sunshine and cold beers made it a really awesome day!

Over and out!
“Do not postpone happiness”
(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

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  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,567
    goldrush wrote:
    I've just got back from the Hard Rock Calling festival in Hyde Park and I had to share this with you.

    Neil Young was fucking amazing once again. Today was the 6th time I've seen him but the encore was a real 'once in a lifetime' experience. After a set that lasted just over 2 hours he came back out to play 1 encore, The Beatles' "Day In The Life" (as he has done for most of this tour). This time however, when the second part kicked in (the "Woke up, got out of bed..." bit) PAUL MCCARTNEY ran onto the stage and sang it with him!

    Fuck!

    I don't really care much about The Beatles but this was really bloody special. I still can't quite believe it to be honest. We also had a 17-minute version of "Down By The River", 12 minutes of "Words" and a 10-minute "Rockin In The Free World" that seemed to be never-ending. Needless to say, I'll have more videos on YouTube in the morning!

    Apart from Neil, The Pretenders (Chrissie Hynde has still got it), Ben Harper & The Relentless 7, Fleet Foxes, blazing sunshine and cold beers made it a really awesome day!

    Over and out!

    +1

    Except fleet foxes made me incredibly sleepy, what a lame band. Maybe i was just amazed about Ben Harper and R7 melting my face.

    Was so riding on Cortez after not hearing it a few days ago bah

    But yeah, really nice ending to his tour.
  • goldrushgoldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,633
    The main problem with Fleet Foxes for me was that the sound guy had an absoulte nightmare! On the songs that had a bass guitar, it totally drowned everything else out. They should definitely have been on before Ben Harper, he was superb again and should have been the main support.

    I saw Neil at the IOW festival 2 weeks ago as well so I can happily say that 4 of the best hours of my gig-going life have been spent in awe of true greatness
    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • ArmchairJammerArmchairJammer Posts: 294
    Fucking awesome day!! Had everything, contrasting weather and some shit hot bands, BH & R7 were incredible again, Seasick Steve was good fun and Neil Young was unbelievably emmense. Got a nice pic of him with Paul aswell.

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  • goldrushgoldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,633
    ArmchairJammer wrote:
    Fucking awesome day!! Had everything, contrasting weather and some shit hot bands, BH & R7 were incredible again, Seasick Steve was good fun and Neil Young was unbelievably emmense. Got a nice pic of him with Paul aswell.

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    Cool pics, thanks for putting them up! I've got a video of the second half of Day In The Life but it's too big for YouTube
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    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • TravelarTravelar Kalamazoo, USA Posts: 3,413
    Awesome! Wish I could have been there.
  • chimechime Posts: 7,839
    Was a great end to an awesome day :mrgreen:

    I enjoyed Fleet Foxes :P

    Thought Seasick Steve was great too :D
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  • redrockredrock Posts: 18,341
    Great, fun day.... Uncle Neil is 'immense'! Loved Seasick Steve, Ben Harper. Thought Fleet Foxes were 'inoffensive', nice but a bit 'background music', quite repetitive.
  • McVeddermanMcVedderman Posts: 24
    I had the absolute pleasure of seeing Neil Young in Aberdeen last Wednesday and was completely blown away by just how brilliant the man is performing live. Having been a fan of his music for many a year, the chance to see him live and for the gig to be so close to where I stay was unmissable. I came out of that gig a bigger fan of him and his music. No fancy light shows, pyrotechnics or smoke machines - just Old Black with a load of distortion and some subtle acoustic numbers - backed up by a great backing band. Doesn't get much better than that. Pure and raw music, brilliantly performed too. The man is a sheer genius.
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  • redrockredrock Posts: 18,341
    McVedderman wrote:
    just Old Black ..

    :mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen: I love Old Black!
  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    that is awesome thanks for sharing
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    thanks for sharing..
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  • restlesssoulrestlesssoul Posts: 6,951
    holy shit that is cool....how is neils cover of "day in the life?"
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  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,567
    restlesssoul wrote:
    holy shit that is cool....how is neils cover of "day in the life?"

    It's amazing, he destroys his strings at the end. Search youtube.

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