David Newbould: "Powderfinger" (Live In Germany) (Neil Young cover) 

Thanks Gerry. There’s a lot on my page (including this entire show), and on Spotify etc. Cheers.

Thanks! Even when I’m jamming this song to hardly anyone at all, it’s easy to close the eyes and feel like you’re in a stadium. That kind of song indeed.

Thanks, Jack. Saw him last week here in Nashville too. Amazing. Cheers.

Yeah, seem like more energy.. more guitar licks... great vocal

Thanks Stephen!

Thanks! The only thing better than 2 teles is 3 teles! PS check out the Beat Farmers version, also very cool.

Ok

@DavidNewbould Thanks for the tip on the Beat Rodeos, I will definitely give 'em a listen IF I can find a good recording. I got a good laugh from your classic take on Telecasters. I appreciate this gift of laughter, and the serious aspect of it too! Albert Lee and James Burton have been masterful Telecaster Gods! Clarence White, another Teley master, was buried 1/2 mile from here July of 1973. My buddy lived directly across the street and we watched the burial from a short distance. Clarence was a legend, and his B-Bender '54 Telecaster was an example of his "brilliance," or as some say: his "genius". "Keep on Rocking in the free world,"-David!

Check out Angry Johnny and the Killbillies, they do a great version as well

Check out the Cowboy Junkies version. Very good! Dave & Co. also do right by the song.

Thanks a bunch! Glad you enjoyed.. 👊

indeed!

🙏 Love this song. Check out Beat Rodeo’s version too.

Cowboy Junkies

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Thanks, Richard!

Thanks, Don.

Thanks. Yeah always felt that way about this song as well.

Thank you, Michelle.

Thanks @arnebey! Plenty of original material here and on streaming . Cheers, David.

Excellent , I play this song ...I can only dream at play with this energy in the best cover I have heard

One of the best Neil Young covers I’ve heard. They totally capture his energy. Big thumbs up to the band, the Guitar playing is awesome. The imagery in this song is so real it feels like history. One of my favorites by Neil.

Thanks Jack.

Thanks, Mike!

Changed my life, that concert video.

Thanks, Richard.

Thanks for listening

Powderfinger” is an inscrutable rock & roll koan: a song sung by a dead man, but full of life and longing. The narrator, just turned 22, was leaving boyhood behind by defending his family's land against a gunboat coming up the river. The day he became an adult, however, was also the day he died.

thanx, Dan. a govt. gun boat? the same people who killed the kids in 'OHIO'? what inspired Neil to pen this masterpeice?

Thanks for that info, I didn't realize he died that day but it all fits now. I'm gonna guess that was a union gunboat?​@@danhines2296

Thanks Dean! We’re tuned down a half step because I was pretty sick at the time so we turned down to help my voice out. So…tune your guitar down to Eb and you’ll be right there! Thanks for the kind words.

@@DavidNewbould Thanks David, and excellent work. Big fan of your stuff!

Thanks for asking. Might do at some point, but just here on RU-vid at the moment.

That’s a great song! One performance ever, correct?

@@DavidNewbould Yes, Neil played After Berlin only once the day after he composed it after the first Berlin show in 1982. The next day he played it at his second show. I tried to make a cover as close as possible to the original, trying to copy the solo too.

Thanks?