Neil Young & Crazy Horse strike heart of gold at tour-opening San Diego concert

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The concert began with an epic, 15-minute version of 'Cortez The Killer' that featured extra lyrics recently unearthed by Young. Guitarist-singer Micah Nelson, Willie's son, very ably assumed the role in Crazy Horse of Nils Lofgren, now on tour with Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band.

When Neil Young sang 'rock and roll will never die' near the conclusion of his tour-opening LOVE EARTH concert with Crazy Horse Wednesday in San Diego, you believed him. Those words, from his 1978 song, 'My My Hey Hey ,' sounded like a defiant vow in the face of possible obsolescence 46 years ago.

The manner in which he alternated between longer and shorter selections served as a master class on how to pace a concert to build momentum and achieve maximum dynamic tension and release. The final encore was an eight-minute rendition of 'My My Hey Hey ,' whose line There's more to the picture than meets the eye could be a synopsis of Young's career and his dogged determination to do things his way, every time, no matter what the trends of the day may be.

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