Neil Young - Orpheum Theater - Minneapolis, Minnesota - 5/23/99
Setlist
1. Tell Me Why
2. Looking Forward
3. Going Back [superb]
4. Out of Control (upright piano)
5. Cortez the Killer
6. Dreamin' Man [3rd time this tour. Possible lyrics flub]
7. Don't Let it Bring You Down
8. Philadelphia (grand piano)
9. Old King (guitjo) [Elvis is back from the dead!!!! First time in first
set. Longest intro yet: rambled for about 20 minutes - talked about every
dog he's ever owned...No, just kidding. Actually no intro, no commentary at
all. Nuthin' but music. Hmmm...]
10. Love is a Rose (guitjo) [rare back-to-back guitjo pairing]
11. Daddy Went Walkin' [radically different, totally cool, extended blues
intro. For a minute or so, several of us thought we were gonna get "Florida"
or something. Nonetheless, a particularly good version with an all new, I
think, intro]
[intermission]
12. Distant Camera
13. Razor Love [gorgeous version - highlight of the night for me]
14. Southern Pacific (guitjo)
15. Old Man
16. Long May You Run (pump organ)
17. Harvest Moon
18. Sugar Mountain [first main set performance of the tour. Typical intro,
but fairly reworked middle parts. A welcome change from another
paint-by-numbers version]
19. Slowpoke
20. After the Gold Rush (upright / organ combo version)
[encore]
21. Good to See You
22. From Hank to Hendrix [4th time this tour; first since 3/20 Oakland]
No second encore for the first time since early in the tour (not counting
Akron where he played 24 songs with one encore).
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little disappointed with the setlist last
night. There were a few wrinkles (love that new "Daddy"), but no bombshells.
He's only debuted one song in the 5 shows of this leg. I saw 38 different
songs in 3 nights in Chicago; these two shows in Mpls added only 2 more to
the list. Still, an excellent performance. He just seems to be getting
better as the tour progresses. It's dawned on me that the new songs are
pretty important to him and that they are sorta the backbone of the setlist.
As long as he keeps playing at the level he has been lately, I wouldn't
hesitate for an instant to see him, even if he played "Old Man" "HOG" and
"Sugar Mountain" every night. He did open the "book" last night to check the
words after "Dreaming Man." Too bad he didn't keep turning the pages looking
for some never-heard chestnut.
Neil wasn't quite as talkative as he was Sat. night, but again seemed to be
in excellent spirits. He became smitten with a young lad in the front row -
he referred to him as "young Skywalker," sang "Daddy" right to him,
dedicated SM to him and specifically played it early "before he falls
asleep," and tossed him a harp on his way to the upright for ATGR. That's
one lucky little dude!
Crowd was considerably better behaved than Saturday.
This was my fifth and, most likely, final solo show this year. I'm
definitely feeling the inevitable emotional letdown a day later. Like my
wife said last night after the show, "well, now it's back to our boring
lives!" It was great to hang with everyone in Chicago and Mpls - can't wait
to do it again.
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