My First Neil Young Crazy Horse Show, Boston, November 22, 1976

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The very first night I saw Neil & Crazy Horse they encored with "Homegrown" (in honor of his new 2017 release of his unreleased 1975 LP) but I was home asleep in my dorm at prep school.  This was the era of separate admissions (7pm and 10pm) and you must be home before Mr Cobb finds out.
As I skipped out on a weekend from Andover during my Senior Year to see Neil Young & Crazy Horse rock the Boston Music Hall where I had seen the Dead twice earlier that year in June. Note that I had seen tthe short lived Stills Young Band at the Garden just two weeks after the Dead.

Since I had a 11pm curfew (or was it 1030?), I could only stay for the seperate admission first show.  And since I bought a single ticket the night of the show, I sat in the Front Row, stage left. Crazy huh. Maybe I paid $8.50.  And sure enough 15 or 20 yearslater  I discovered that the first show this night was a classic Neil Young bootleg with numerous versions and numerous covers.

This is a monster show (actually two monster shows) which is a greatest hits. Can you imagine, all those Neil jams back to back to back to back to back from the front row.  I would only see a few more shows in my life, but very happy that a young version of me who had only seen the Dead 3 times at this point got to see this one.  You can have both shows here.


First Show (Saw)
The Old Laughing Lady
Guilty Train
Human Highway
Journey Through the Past
Pocahontas
The Needle and the Damage Done
Give Me Strength
A Man Needs a Maid
Sugar Mountain

Country Home
Don't Cry No Tears
Down by the River
Lotta Love
Like a Hurricane
After the Gold Rush
Cortez the Killer
Cinnamon Girl
Encore Are You Ready for the Country?

Second Show (Didnt See)
Tell Me Why
Roll Another Number (For the Road)
Journey Through the Past
The Needle and the Damage Done
Harvest
Campaigner
Pocahontas
A Man Needs a Maid
Sugar Mountain

Country Home
Don't Cry No Tears
Drive Back
Cowgirl in the Sand
Bite the Bullet
Lotta Love
Like a Hurricane
After the Gold Rush
Are You Ready for the Country?
Cortez the Killer
Cinnamon Girl

Encore:
Homegrown
Southern Man