neil young

The best way to start off a rainy Friday is with some melancholy Neil Young. You can move onto happier music as a weekend of social interaction approaches, or get stuck in a depressive rut and spend the weekend watching crappy movies on TV and touching yourself – totally up to you. If you’re one of the lucky ones who punctually scored tickets to the greatest Canadian’s solo acoustic show at Jones Hall on June 4th, then you certainly have nothing to be depressed about. If you’re like me and didn’t get them on time, don’t give up hope yet. You can still pay exorbitant scalper prices (cheapest are $230 right now) on Stubhub… ugh, looks like I’m going the depressive route. This one’s off Harvest, but you already knew that.

Two of my musical heroes took the stage together two nights ago for a full-on psychedelic version of The Beatles' classic "A Day In The Life." Neil Young closed out his headlining performance at the Hard Rock Calling Festival in London's Hyde Park, which also featured performances by the likes of The Killers, Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band, Dave Matthews Band, Fleet Foxes, Passion Pit and Ben Harper & the Relentless 7. To close out his set, Young performed the first part of "ADITL" by himself, thrashing the breakdown half way through. As soon as the bouncy keys came alive to begin the second distinct part of "ADITL," one of the songs original composers, Sir Paul McCartney, joined Young at the microphone for very playful vocal duet. After Young ripped his strings out during the second breakdown, he again joined McCartney for another duet on marimba to close out the song. Check it out:

It would've been pretty damn cool to be there, but I'm sure if I just happened to be in the UK last weekend, i'd be attending Glastonbury. Good shit, though.