Neil Young & Crazy Horse at Warnors Theatre, May 1, 2018

Warnors Center for the Performing Arts presents Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Warnors Theatre
1412 Fulton St, Fresno, CA 93721 USA
8:00 PM, Tuesday, May 1, 2018

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[8:00 PM lights down, band out]

1. [8:01 PM] No One Was Like Vermeer »
2. [8:06 PM] ? (unidentified, sample lyrics: “don't walk past, it's not a no kill shelter”)
3. [8:08 PM] Let Me Do This Right!
4. [8:11 PM] People Are Disgusting (aborts) > He Gave Us the Wine to Taste It
5. [8:16 PM] Because Her Beauty Is Raw and Wild
6. [8:22 PM] ? Bonfire
7. [8:24 PM] ? (Very short instrumental)
8. [8:25 PM] ? (unidentified, sample lyrics: “Let us go home, why do you roam that foreign land”)
9. [8:27 PM] Old World
10. [8:31 PM] ? La Festa (“This is a great party”, sung in Italian)
11. [8:35 PM] ? (unidentified, sample lyrics: “She ruminates”)
    [set ends 8:40 PM]

• Tommy Larkins: drums;
• Jonathan Richman: acoustic guitar, maracas, hand percussion, vox.

[9:16 PM lights down, band out, Neil on a brown Telecaster]

1. [9:17 PM] Big Time
2. [9:24 PM] Country Home
   [Neil swaps to a Gretsch White Falcon]
3. [9:33 PM] Don't Cry
4. [9:38 PM] Winterlong
   [Back to the Telecaster? Nope, something wrong, swap to Old Black (Gibson Les Paul) instead; Nils to the upright piano, Neil: “how ya doing?”]
5. [9:44 PM] World on a String
6. [9:48 PM] Scattered (Lets Think About Livin’)
7. [9:52 PM] F#@kin' Up
   [Neil to acoustic guitar, Nils to lap steel; Neil stops to tie his shoes]
8. [10:03 PM] Too Far Gone @
   [Nils to upright piano]
9. [10:08 PM] Only Love Can Break Your Heart @
   [Both back to electric, Neil on Old Black]
10. [10:12 PM] Cinnamon Girl
11. [10:16 PM] Cortez the Killer
    [NY swaps from Old Black to Gretsch; Nils swaps the Ben Keith hat to Neil, Nils playing slide guitar]
12. [10:31 PM] Walk On
    [Down comes the bird flag draped synth for Nils, Neil back to Old Black]
13. [10:34 PM] Like a Hurricane VIDEO
    [Up goes the organ, Nils to gold Gibson]
14. [10:47 PM] Mansion on the Hill
    [set ends 10:54 PM, back in two min, Neil on Gretsch, Nils at upright piano]
    
    Encore
15. [10:56 PM] Roll Another Number
    [show ends 11:00 PM]

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

• Nils Lofgren: guitar, slide guitar, lap steel guitar, upright piano, synthesizer, harmony vox;
• Ralph Molina: drums;
• Billy Talbot: bass, harmony vox;
• Neil Young: guitar, @ acoustic guitar, vox.

I was kinda miffed how unruly the crowd was: lots of rowdy drinkers, bellowing singers and distracting talkers. Note to self: next time try and get seats closer to the PA stacks!

I don't recall Neil playing anything but guitar tonight: kinda strange!

A grand piano painted white with psychedlic pink and yellow flower blossoms was placed at front on stage right, but no one played it all night.

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Of course, there were plenty of reviews posted for the show. Besides reciting the setlist, most of them didn't say all that much. Here are a few:

• Scott Bernstein, at JamBase
• Andy Greene, at Rolling Stone
• Marek Warszawski, posting for the Fresno Bee, deserves extra props for correcting my guitar identifications. Gear geeks unite!
• Assal Shah, at Setlist.fm

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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