Blown away ! He's awesome & the girl guitarist and the band play and look the part, in excellent form ! Johnny Depp has never stood a candle to Alice ! One coolest & greatest.
In high school all my friends would give me their folders to do art on. Would do during the next class and return after. SD skeleton logo was always and often the request. Awesome to see a band I grew up with still rockn.
Utterly life-affirming, Young and Crazy remain bold and stubborn freedom fighters, rooted deep in the soil and stretching at times beyond time and space. Unapologetically rock, always with an insuciant roll, they also lean heavily into the 'and' (of 'rock and roll') with Neil's exploratory/explosive guitar playing, poetically emotional lyrics, and a certain distance from commercial considerations. I have no doubt they gave an ecstatic and packed house a sermon for the ages (my friend Sean wrote that he was 'still in shock, processing' after seeing them a bit earlier on this tour), and hearing this, seeing this, reaffirms my faith. I don't know if rock will outlive the rock and rollers, or if so in what form(s), but if future folks want to feel the fuss, this is the living gospel. Them at their age (80 is the new 50?) still kicking the stalls because this day and age needs their courage (that's 'heart' and rage' in my translation) is a joyful java jolt not to go gentle. There are some answers suggested in relying on Billy's bedrock bass and Ralph's steady, ready engine, and the returning focus on love and humanity in the lyrics, but there are still questions, plenty and wondrously, in other lyrics, in the solos, and in the loose, long improvisatory structures for many of the songs. ( A shout out to Micah, a gem of an asset, with special props for the special props, ie: Keith Emerson's front porch swing). Acoustic Neil is just as often revelatory, the Yin to the Yang, and equally necessary, but the news is that instead of a choreographed, corporate-culture considered concert, this tour celebrates the best in rock and roll...(with so many well-loved songs in the set, it would make a 'killer' live album) but in contrast to so many legacy bands and big tent tours, it is important, beautiful and, as I say, utterly life-affirming, that they remain Young and Crazy. Thanks for posting this, btswim.
Punky's still got it. I wish he didn't go so far with the Plastic Surgery. I know Frank is singing and Flex is playing the bass, but who's the fat guy playing guitar? He definitely looks out of place.
Gotta be a social D nutter to fully understand. And i am most certainly not. Just another bunch of old dudes playing/ doing the only thing they do. They better sound cohesive. Even if its not for me.
How can people be jabbering away while being bathed in such a beautiful piece of music so magically played? Shut the F up already. Nobody cares what you have to say.
I was there! Still to this day, best show i ever seen. Thank you so much for posting. Ive been looking on youtube for this video for years. Today is my lucky day
How Jason not just counds in when the keyboards are still playing, no he waits longer so that theres a gab of silence. Just like you would get lost in a forest completely silence around you. After few seconds you hear finaly this song with the drums and then the whole band joining in back again.
