Not to people who know anything of his music beyond "Heart of Gold" or "Four Strong Winds". Very legitimate argument to be made for "On The Beach" being his crowning achievement as an album, way back when his soul was deeply implicated in the creative process.
Thank you all for the beautiful comments!! Truly humbled! All I did was to be at the right place at the right time. Honestly, was debating all morning whether I should go. I did not have any buddies to accompany me. I bit the bullet and never looked back. Truly a great experience - only in Austin, Texas. The Whitewater Amphitheater is an amazing venue located on the Guadalupe River. Pot smoke flowing everywhere. ...I grew up in Zambia and fell in love with Neil after my brother brought home "4-Way Street" from the US in 1974 where he was studying at SIU - Carbondale. I became a revolutionary then. I lived in the Bay Area and would always be on the lookout for Neil in Half Moon Bay. :-) ...What an amazing Being and an influence on me. _/I\_
FUCKEN SO COOL.... 59 year old lifetime Neil fan,,,,,,,,,,,,, started playing guitar after listening to neil for first time in 1969.......ive been playing ever since.......... I got my old Gibson les Paul out right now with the old fender tweed over cooking the tubes,, the knobs only go up to 10,,,, but I found some vice grips and cranked them up to about 13 playing revolution blues,,,,,,, had to let my Golden Retriever out,,,, He gets scared when Dad is Rocken out,,,,,,,, thanks Neil for a lifetime of playing the guitar...... Your as relevent today as you ever were.......
Neil was scorching on this tour, I think playing with the young guys really fired him up. I've seen him 5 times, once solo, twice with the Horse, once with CSNY and on this tour with Promise of The Real. They were all amazing shows, but this one was the best, he played for about two and a half hours under a full moon in July and it rocked from start to finish. Long live Uncle Neil!
He was right. He's always been soooo ahead of his time it's scary. It's only ONE of the many reasons I LOVE this magically talented musician! 2017 now, everything he created decades ago is new again and again
LMAO. Typical Neil-can’t decide if he’s a left-wing hippie or a right-wing nut. You do realize that he originally wrote this song about a bunch of acid-fueled violent hippies, NOT as a warning about the government.
Rudo lf Yes, I’m aware it’s about Manson. Like I said, an acid-fueled hippie and his acid-fueled “Family.” As originally written this has nothing to do with being an “anti-government” song. Anti-social, maybe. The rhetorical bilge water that Manson spouted focused on the generation gap. Now “Powderfinger,” that’s another story.
Man, I'm so glad this video exists and is still here. I keep coming back to it again and again. I believe I MAY (OK, I think I am) be the guy going "WOOOOO" at :38. Was at this gig, near this spot in the crowd, had seen Neil probably 20 times and "Revolution Blues" was my absolute #1 probably-will-never-see-live-but-would-kill-to song, and then he goes and busts it out in the encore with a full band for the first time in 40+ years. I'm normally not a "WOOOOO" guy, but it was involuntary. I make no apologies.
I just realized that this is truly a rare recording. The only one of a live version in recent vintage. Willie NELSON showed up as a surprise and again - what a sight to see him play with his son, Lukas. ...Again, truly humbled. This was the last song he played at this venue at the Whitewater Amphitheater. Thank you Neil!! Love You!!
He was doing crazy one-off encores on this tour with these guys. I was totally psyched for F#ckin' Up in Portland (hadn't seen it since Weld), but the night before he'd done Here We Are In the Years and played Time Fades Away the night after. He did a Vampire Blues, too. This is phenomenal, thanks for capturing and for sharing.
Had on the beach as a senior in high school back in 76 when we did a lot of field partying. Must of had it on the car stereo or something when a schoolmate was pointing out the provocative lyrics. Back then I was more tuned into the .music but after that I did start to ponder them a bit more. So many years since I have heard this. And what a cool version.
God he is always right on! I love the stuff that come out of his head and then you have his unbelievable sound, can’t get any better than this. Thank you for sharing.🌻✌️🦆
Fuuuuuck. Neil Young is someone you can set your watch by but even better you can see him smash that timepiece into smithereens and watch as he reassembles it into a hundred thousand different things that make you forget all about time. I was looking for a live version of this song but had no idea I'd find such a murderous rendition from so recent. So much for burning out.
One of my favourites too. Those lyrics are chilling. I read that, in the 70s, David Crosby absolutely refused to play this with Neil, arguing that it was too dark and `tempting fate`. Illustrative of how much deeper an artist Neil was relative to his CSN buddies.
AWESOME! I just want to know one thing? Who posted that pop up ad over this that warns of 4 signs that you are having a heart attack!!!!! I'm listening to a electric, live, song Neil hasn't done in 30 years - OF COURSE - I'm having a heart attack!!!!!
Favorite Neil album all time. No question dudettes and dudes. I’m a barrel of laughs w my carbine on and I got the revolution blues. Sing it bro. When the album came out in ‘74 everyone wanted another Harvest. Neil did what he wanted. Always. Album tanked but it’s his best in my stupid opinion.
Seen NY about 6 or 7 times but never seen this, a standout from my fave album. Never seen this live in any form so many thanks for posting. Perhaps I'll see it in person one day.
When I first heard this on his album On the Beach I thought it could be about Charles Manson and never gave it much thought after that, figured that thought was bullshit and forgot about it. Many, many years later I found out Neil had met Manson and the song was in fact about Manson. Still a great song......seen Neil eight times and he never played this one.
Smokin', rockin' version ! Seen Neil and POTR at Hyde Park London July 2019 Superb show. They preceded Bob Dylan and Neil commented when referring to some of his lyrics that they did not usually play in daylight !
This, among all the Neil Young songs i know (those of his 8 first main albums (7 first studio albums + Time Fade Away) + Sleep with Angels & Harvest Moon), is the undisputed best one IMO. I have the physical cds of Sleep with Angels & Harvest Moon since forever, and in them the only Neil Young songs i knew, until recently, where in these last months I've been going, in ascending order, through a Neil Young album list based on the list under "Albums" of the Neil Young discography in Spotify. (Where I've been "stuck" in the first 8 albums since I started more than half a year ago, constantly editing a google sheets where I'm rating each album and each song of each album, and I think after today I'm finally ready to move on to the next ones- gonna start with 2020's Homegrown though (since the songs were written in 1975), before going to 1976 Long May You Run) About the album, to me On the Beach is tied with Zuma as the best of the 8 (or 10 if you include Harvest Moon and Sleep with Angels), so at this moment I'm hearing these two albums one after the other to distinguish which is best (if I can).
He's got sooo many gems in his catalogue.. wouldn't you luv to see a 6+ hr show (or two 3hr) of a few from each album.. I'm dreamin.. (1st show, R.N.S. ca.79' 5th row from stage, forum calif.)
It's a great band that rocks like a storm but also manages to NOT bury the singer with extraneous noodling, fills, etc. (You can discern every single word.) IMO, this was already the best song of OTB -- now, it's even deeper.
Je voulais dire : un peu plus de patience que pour les Archives!!! A ce propos OTB est-il enfin sorti en CD ou toujours en 78 tours ? C'est que je ne peux plus suivre « l'actualité » du haut de mon déambulateur au bout de tout ce temps.
This song is about his brief friendship with Manson and how he felt about it after hearing about the murders. Neil actually liked Mansons music which is very folksy. He tried to help him get into the music industry. However when Terry Melcher Doris Days son turned him down. Things spiraled out of control.
i remember after Harvest how bummed i was by On the Beach, but it captures disaffection of early 70s. This song sounds topical today as if it could be right wing revolutionary revolutions as opposed to failed left wing revolution of 60s
There's only one Rick Danko. I've seen Lukas play with his dad but I would like to see him with his own band, every recording of one of their shows I've heard has been excellent.
ON THE BEACH is a criminally underrated album. What an amazing version!!
One of my favorite Neil albums ........... and this song is just a gut punch ....... love it. And P of the R crushed it this night.
Absolutely! "Ambulance Blues" is NY's mastersong!
hear hear
Neil's music is awesome!!! On the Beach is, in my opinion, his best ever album. Fan forever !!! I'm 61 now.....................................
Not to people who know anything of his music beyond "Heart of Gold" or "Four Strong Winds". Very legitimate argument to be made for "On The Beach" being his crowning achievement as an album, way back when his soul was deeply implicated in the creative process.
Thank you all for the beautiful comments!! Truly humbled! All I did was to be at the right place at the right time. Honestly, was debating all morning whether I should go. I did not have any buddies to accompany me. I bit the bullet and never looked back. Truly a great experience - only in Austin, Texas. The Whitewater Amphitheater is an amazing venue located on the Guadalupe River. Pot smoke flowing everywhere. ...I grew up in Zambia and fell in love with Neil after my brother brought home "4-Way Street" from the US in 1974 where he was studying at SIU - Carbondale. I became a revolutionary then. I lived in the Bay Area and would always be on the lookout for Neil in Half Moon Bay. :-) ...What an amazing Being and an influence on me. _/I\_
I saw Neil and Crazy Horse on the Greendale Tour here in Australia. Then they did an hour of Live Rust. That was incredible.
FUCKEN SO COOL.... 59 year old lifetime Neil fan,,,,,,,,,,,,, started playing guitar after listening to neil for first time in 1969.......ive been playing ever since.......... I got my old Gibson les Paul out right now with the old fender tweed over cooking the tubes,, the knobs only go up to 10,,,, but I found some vice grips and cranked them up to about 13 playing revolution blues,,,,,,, had to let my Golden Retriever out,,,, He gets scared when Dad is Rocken out,,,,,,,, thanks Neil for a lifetime of playing the guitar...... Your as relevent today as you ever were.......
Neil was scorching on this tour, I think playing with the young guys really fired him up. I've seen him 5 times, once solo, twice with the Horse, once with CSNY and on this tour with Promise of The Real. They were all amazing shows, but this one was the best, he played for about two and a half hours under a full moon in July and it rocked from start to finish. Long live Uncle Neil!
I've seen him play Danger Bird, if I get to see him play Revolution Blues I can die happy.
A bucket list song, so envious👍
You just never know how deep the old boy will dig. Amazing performer, always so tight.
"And ten million dune-buggies comin' down the mountain"...God I love this song
Neil is just awesome live. This is a brilliant version.
Saw him in sweden yesterday, he told us to "keep a close eye on your government" and then started playing this. Blew my mind.
He was right. He's always been soooo ahead of his time it's scary. It's only ONE of the many reasons I LOVE this magically talented musician! 2017 now, everything he created decades ago is new again and again
FUCK THE GOVERNMENT
LMAO. Typical Neil-can’t decide if he’s a left-wing hippie or a right-wing nut. You do realize that he originally wrote this song about a bunch of acid-fueled violent hippies, NOT as a warning about the government.
@@lenr7137 it's about Charles Manson...
Rudo lf Yes, I’m aware it’s about Manson. Like I said, an acid-fueled hippie and his acid-fueled “Family.” As originally written this has nothing to do with being an “anti-government” song. Anti-social, maybe. The rhetorical bilge water that Manson spouted focused on the generation gap. Now “Powderfinger,” that’s another story.
One of my favourite albums... the poignant, haunting sounds of See The Sky About To Rain. Enjoy every second of life.
Undoubtedly the best Neil Young is this kind of Neil Young.
🎩
2016 and Neil sounds as fresh and biting as on the '74 album. Damn!
Man, I'm so glad this video exists and is still here. I keep coming back to it again and again. I believe I MAY (OK, I think I am) be the guy going "WOOOOO" at :38. Was at this gig, near this spot in the crowd, had seen Neil probably 20 times and "Revolution Blues" was my absolute #1 probably-will-never-see-live-but-would-kill-to song, and then he goes and busts it out in the encore with a full band for the first time in 40+ years. I'm normally not a "WOOOOO" guy, but it was involuntary. I make no apologies.
Wish I'd been there to WOO alongside you!
This is the definitive version of Revolution Blues. Thanks for posting.
A beautiful twisted slow burning intensity all these years later one of those songs I long wished he'd revive and here it is 👍
I just realized that this is truly a rare recording. The only one of a live version in recent vintage. Willie NELSON showed up as a surprise and again - what a sight to see him play with his son, Lukas. ...Again, truly humbled. This was the last song he played at this venue at the Whitewater Amphitheater. Thank you Neil!! Love You!!
He was doing crazy one-off encores on this tour with these guys. I was totally psyched for F#ckin' Up in Portland (hadn't seen it since Weld), but the night before he'd done Here We Are In the Years and played Time Fades Away the night after. He did a Vampire Blues, too. This is phenomenal, thanks for capturing and for sharing.
Had on the beach as a senior in high school back in 76 when we did a lot of field partying. Must of had it on the car stereo or something when a schoolmate was pointing out the provocative lyrics. Back then I was more tuned into the .music but after that I did start to ponder them a bit more.
So many years since I have heard this. And what a cool version.
Good God. I love Neil Young!
I will never forget this concert. Thank you Neil!
So many shows from 1976 to now and now he plays it. THANKS
Thank you so much for recording this song! So grateful! REVOLUTION BLUES!
One of rocks most demented tunes. Crosby hated it, scared him.
Neil doesn't fear anyone! Except himself!
last time played 29 years ago..
God he is always right on! I love the stuff that come out of his head and then you have his unbelievable sound, can’t get any better than this. Thank you for sharing.🌻✌️🦆
Fuuuuuck. Neil Young is someone you can set your watch by but even better you can see him smash that timepiece into smithereens and watch as he reassembles it into a hundred thousand different things that make you forget all about time. I was looking for a live version of this song but had no idea I'd find such a murderous rendition from so recent. So much for burning out.
Hey GREAT i just discover that... a song from my favorite Neil's album
Proud to say, "I was there."
My favourite Neil Young song. I'm seeing him in Glasgow a week today. Hope he plays it again!
One of my favourites too. Those lyrics are chilling. I read that, in the 70s, David Crosby absolutely refused to play this with Neil, arguing that it was too dark and `tempting fate`. Illustrative of how much deeper an artist Neil was relative to his CSN buddies.
This might be my favourite video on UA-cam.
Might be?
roflmfoa
AWESOME! I just want to know one thing? Who posted that pop up ad over this that warns of 4 signs that you are having a heart attack!!!!! I'm listening to a electric, live, song Neil hasn't done in 30 years - OF COURSE - I'm having a heart attack!!!!!
Favorite Neil album all time. No question dudettes and dudes. I’m a barrel of laughs w my carbine on and I got the revolution blues. Sing it bro. When the album came out in ‘74 everyone wanted another Harvest. Neil did what he wanted. Always. Album tanked but it’s his best in my stupid opinion.
Straight to the heart!! the essence of rock and roll ....
My favorite album
Best version ever
Revolution Blues reminds me so much of Sister Morphine
I just heard this song after 64 years it's unbelievable Neil Young is Neil Young!
30 year wait well worth it go Neil rock on. Got the revolution blues,got the blues.
One of the greatest songs of all time.
Got tics to see him at Desert Trip in Oct. Counting the days!
can't wait to see them in 12 days!
Not only do you need to be lucky to see this one live, no, you also need to be lucky for the drummer to know the song.
thank you...
add a comment?
thought I did
this is required listening for ALL
hey thanks for posting this for us redwalla, post LYRICS por favor!
Seen NY about 6 or 7 times but never seen this, a standout from my fave album.
Never seen this live in any form so many thanks for posting. Perhaps I'll see it in person one day.
When I first heard this on his album On the Beach I thought it could be about Charles Manson and never gave it much thought after that, figured that thought was bullshit and forgot about it. Many, many years later I found out Neil had met Manson and the song was in fact about Manson. Still a great song......seen Neil eight times and he never played this one.
It was an anti Manson song about the family and David Crosby told him he’s was crazy to write about it but Neil felt he needed to make a statement
Smokin', rockin' version ! Seen Neil and POTR at Hyde Park London July 2019 Superb show. They preceded Bob Dylan and Neil commented when referring to some of his lyrics that they did not usually play in daylight !
This, among all the Neil Young songs i know (those of his 8 first main albums (7 first studio albums + Time Fade Away) + Sleep with Angels & Harvest Moon), is the undisputed best one IMO. I have the physical cds of Sleep with Angels & Harvest Moon since forever, and in them the only Neil Young songs i knew, until recently, where in these last months I've been going, in ascending order, through a Neil Young album list based on the list under "Albums" of the Neil Young discography in Spotify. (Where I've been "stuck" in the first 8 albums since I started more than half a year ago, constantly editing a google sheets where I'm rating each album and each song of each album, and I think after today I'm finally ready to move on to the next ones- gonna start with 2020's Homegrown though (since the songs were written in 1975), before going to 1976 Long May You Run)
About the album, to me On the Beach is tied with Zuma as the best of the 8 (or 10 if you include Harvest Moon and Sleep with Angels), so at this moment I'm hearing these two albums one after the other to distinguish which is best (if I can).
CRAKING GOOD
What a great song...thanks for posting this
Rock n Roll as it should be played
Loved this album, had it on 8Track about 76' maybe
He's got sooo many gems in his catalogue.. wouldn't you luv to see a 6+ hr show (or two 3hr) of a few from each album.. I'm dreamin.. (1st show, R.N.S. ca.79' 5th row from stage, forum calif.)
Undercover agent for the Blues
Neil is Gold.fantastic
one of the best rock music songs
This should have been on Noise & Flowers.
OMG ...Life is a Gift...
.. takk !
heal yeah
I love this version
Love this man the best never the same
Masterpiece for sure
My favourite Neil Young, love it.
It's a great band that rocks like a storm but also manages to NOT bury the singer with extraneous noodling, fills, etc. (You can discern every single word.) IMO, this was already the best song of OTB -- now, it's even deeper.
Demented song! Love it!
This is fckn awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!
smokin'
Je voulais dire : un peu plus de patience que pour les Archives!!!
A ce propos OTB est-il enfin sorti en CD ou toujours en 78 tours ? C'est que je ne peux plus suivre « l'actualité » du haut de mon déambulateur au bout de tout ce temps.
I was in a crappy band in the mid-80's that did this song. It wss epic. Because of Neil, not us.
È immortale il grande Neil
oh no, they have 2 more rifles this time.
how to rock, right there
The saddest thing about being at a Neil Young gig is that his set needs to be about 10 hours long.
It just is the dirtiest and scariest piece you will ever hear! You listen to me! - see! Get it!
This song is about his brief friendship with Manson and how he felt about it after hearing about the murders. Neil actually liked Mansons music which is very folksy. He tried to help him get into the music industry. However when Terry Melcher Doris Days son turned him down. Things spiraled out of control.
David Crosby plays guitar on the original version, he didn't like the song at first. , Crosby told Young, "Don't sing about that. It's not funny."
Crosby can be the asshole of the planet but he's got a point here....
The early to the mid seventies song.
The bomb
We need more NEIL Young these days and more revolution bluse . Charlie manson rest in peace man . ✌
Albert Noriega
Ah No! May he Rot in Hell! No Peace for that Evil Turd!
No live versions (covers or Neil) do the drums right.
Lucky son of a bitch! I saw him once, and spent most of the set hoping he'd play this. Nice!
Does anyone know whey he changed the number of the rifles?
the godfather of rejection
I wonder why 27 rifles now, instead of 25 ?
Savage
I live in a trailer at the edge of town
Neil thanks for all the trials and tribulations! Say hi to Jackson Browne for me! No nukes!!!
Do you think he waited for Charlie to die before he played this live?
I’d like to dedicate this to Charles Manson! He practically wrote it! Or at least he was the main inspiration!
Spellbinding Neil.
OhYeah ....
i remember after Harvest how bummed i was by On the Beach, but it captures disaffection of early 70s. This song sounds topical today as if it could be right wing revolutionary revolutions as opposed to failed left wing revolution of 60s
Fallait juste un peu de patience!
My only complaint is the bass isn't as badass as the record.!! But fucking WOW!!!❤
There's only one Rick Danko. I've seen Lukas play with his dad but I would like to see him with his own band, every recording of one of their shows I've heard has been excellent.
It’s Danko and Levon Helm on the record. You’re never getting near the way those two play so you just hit it hard and real. Excellent version
Rogan owns all on Spotify. Neil who... okkk.
rogan owns all rights for feeding bugs and worms to people
@@artvallejos1460 And you chew them slowly.
You be good to me. And l will be good to you. I got the joe Biden blues.
i no digg it
Put it in your pipe and smoke it bra
Shite!
Too similar to 'Ohio'.