{"id":5597,"date":"2025-09-06T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/?p=5597"},"modified":"2025-09-08T01:43:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:43:30","slug":"neil-young-absolute-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/neil-young-absolute-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Young. Absolute Magic."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MrP30LkCVME?si=5u9I0b1YsEtaO0TN\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Amazing night. I saw Neil once before at The Bridge School benefit in 1999. All acoustic then and not a full on Neil show. This. This was beautiful. Hearing the warble of his voice on the first song just brought an immediate feeling of calm. A set full of sweet acoustic melodies and raw slashing guitars that every grunge act owes a debt. I certainly spent a lot of time with Rust Never Sleeps spinning on my turnable in &#8217;79.<br><br>First time to Deer Lake Park and it&#8217;s a natural amphitheater that slopes down to an old Irvine Meadows type stage. All surrounded by big beautiful trees. Colorado&#8217;s got Red Rocks, but we&#8217;ve got Green Trees.<br><br>Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) was just so brilliant (oh that guitar) and Old Man being sung by a now old Neil Young seemed even more beautiful. Both are on the video. Also, I&#8217;m always so impressed by the audio quality of my iPhone. Dang man, I wish I had this for concerts of yesteryear. He was so good though and he&#8217;s in good shape voice wise compared to a lot of his contemporaries. Attended the show with my show bro Craig. On the second song he leaned in and said, &#8220;This is waaaaay better than I thought it would be.&#8221; Indeed, indeed. The show finished at a reasonable 10pm.<br><br>Get a load of that setlist! Southern Man! Ohio! Mr. Soul! No Heart of Gold tonight but heard that in &#8217;99. You can have your sports games, cinema, blah de blah but nothing better than a concert with a legend who can still bring it.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"setlistImage\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.setlist.fm\/setlist\/neil-young-and-the-chrome-hearts\/2025\/deer-lake-park-burnaby-bc-canada-2b5bc4de.html\" title=\"Neil Young &amp; The Chrome Hearts Setlist Deer Lake Park, Burnaby, BC, Canada 2025, Love Earth World Tour\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.setlist.fm\/widgets\/setlist-image-v1?id=2b5bc4de\" alt=\"Neil Young &amp; The Chrome Hearts Setlist Deer Lake Park, Burnaby, BC, Canada 2025, Love Earth World Tour\" style=\"border: 0;\" \/><\/a>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.setlist.fm\/edit?setlist=2b5bc4de&amp;step=song\">Edit this setlist<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.setlist.fm\/setlists\/neil-young-and-the-chrome-hearts-7b921254.html\">More Neil Young &#038; The Chrome Hearts setlists<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing night. I saw Neil once before at The Bridge School benefit in 1999. All acoustic then and not a full on Neil show. This. This was beautiful. Hearing the warble of his voice on the first song just brought an immediate feeling of calm. A set full of sweet acoustic melodies and raw slashing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MOCs-1sh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5597"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5620,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions\/5620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}