Neil Young and Crazy Horse suspended their work Love the Earth The North American tour, which was set to resume on July 8 in Toronto, will keep them on the road until the end of the month.
“When a couple of us got sick after Detroit's Pine Knob, we all had to stop,” they wrote in a statement to Neil Young Archives. “We are still not fully recovered, so unfortunately our tour will take a long unscheduled break. We'll try to play some of the dates we miss as time goes on when we're ready to rock again! We know many of you have made travel plans and we apologize for the inconvenience. Thank you for your understanding and patience. Health is #1. We want to stay and make more shows and more albums for you… and for us.”
July occurs across Canada and the Western United States tickets/artist/864424″ target=”_blank”>all have been cancelled, according to Ticketmaster. The tour is scheduled to continue on September 19 at the Bourbon and Beyond festival in Louisville, Kentucky. The date is also booked at the Ohana festival in Dana Point, California on September 28th, and at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on September 29th. It is not clear if these three shows are continuing.
The Love the Earth The tour kicked off on April 24th at the Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theater in San Diego, California. Crazy Horse guitarist Nils Lofgren was unable to participate due to his commitments to Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Micah Nelson took his place. “I would cancel almost anything I had to play with Neil and Crazy Horse,” Nelson said Rolling rock on March. “It's like asking me at 15, 'Which band in your wildest vision would you like to play and be with?' It would probably be Crazy Horse. It's very, very surreal to end up here.”
The shows were centered around vintage Neil Young and Crazy Horse songs such as “Cortez the Killer”, “Powderfinger”, Down By the River and “Like a Hurricane”. The newest song played most nights was 1996's “Scattered (Let's Think About Livin'), which Young dedicated to David Briggs, the band's longtime producer who died in 1995.
“The songs we're playing here tonight were all produced by this guy named David Briggs,” Young told the crowd in Mansfield, Massachusetts. “A long time ago, he left this planet and went outside. It's still out there. When he disappeared, we played our first album. We went there without him and we felt it.”
Hours before they were supposed to take the stage at Chicago's Huntington Bank Pavilion on Northerly Island on May 23, they announced that the show had been postponed “due to illness.” Two shows later that week in Austin and Dallas were also postponed. They haven't said which band members are sick or when make-up dates might appear.
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