L.A. Roxy added a second Neil Young show with Crazy Horse for 50th anniversary.Hollywood’s iconic Roxy venue has added a Bob Marley tribute and a second Neil Young show with Crazy Horse to its plans to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
The concert came exactly 50 years after Young opened the Roxy on Sept. 20, 1973. That night he was backed by the Santa Monica Flyers, essentially Crazy Horse under a different name.
Most of the musicians who backed Young in 1973 returned for the 50th anniversary show, including drummer Ralph Molina, bassist Billy Talbot and multi-instrumentalist Nils Lofgren, who was originally supposed to be on tour with Bruce Springsteen before the Boss was forced to postpone dates.
Many of the songs Young performed at the Roxy hadn’t been played live in decades, or, in one case, ever at all. A trio of Tonight's the Night tracks – “Borrowed Tune,” “Lookout Joe” and “Tired Eyes” – hadn’t been heard in concert since 1973.
Meanwhile, the Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere song “Round & Round (It Won’t Be Long)” had never been performed, largely because backing singer Robin Lane had been prominently featured in the album version. Young and his band rearranged the song for their Roxy gig, with Molina handling some of Lane’s harmonies, as UCR reports.
The venue, which is located on Sunset Blvd in LA’s West Hollywood, opened its doors on September 20, 1973,
Neil Young has announced a second show with the Crazy Horse at the Roxy, the iconic Los Angeles club, on September 20. That night will mark 50 years to the day that the venue opened; Young performed its inaugural concert in 1973. Goldenvoice is set to announce more celebration concerts at the venue soon, according to Pitchfork.
Neil Young, 9/20/23, The Roxy Theatre, Los Angeles
(Tonight's the Night portion of the set)
1. "Tonight's the Night"
2. "Speakin' Out"
3. "World on a String"
4. "Borrowed Tune"
5. "Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown"
6. "Mellow My Mind"
7. "Roll Another Number (For the Road)"
8. "Albuquerque"
9. "New Mama"
10. "Lookout Joe"
11. "Tired Eyes"
12. "Tonight's the Night"
(Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere portion of the set)
13. "Cinnamon Girl"
14. "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere"
15. "Round & Round (It Won't Be Long)"
16. "Down by the River"
17. "The Losing End"
18. "Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets)"
19. "Cowgirl in the Sand"
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When the now-famous nightclub The Roxy flung open its doors in West Hollywood in September 1973, Young and his band, the Santa Monica Flyers, were invited to be its inaugural live act. They were fresh out of a makeshift recording studio in Hollywood, where Young, pedal steel player Ben Keith, multi-instrumentalist Nils Lofgren, and the Crazy Horse rhythm of bassist section Billy Talbot and drummer Ralph Molina had been recording live jam sessions.
