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In 1973 after the Time Fades Away tour Neil returned to LA and started recording Tonight's the Night. During that time he played a series of unannounced club shows up and down California with the band he dubbed the Santa Monica Flyers. The Santa Monica Flyers were Ben Keith, Nils Lofgren, Billy Talbot, and Ralph Molina. Basically a super group of Neil's last three solo albums minus Danny Whitten who died the year before. They continued to some bigger gigs nationally and England. Although far less (in)famous than the Time Fades Away tour the Santa Monica Flyers shows are an even better representation of the Ditch era.
Here is an example of one of the early club show setlists
Tonight's The Night / Mellow My Mind / World On A String / Speakin' Out / Albuquerque / New Mama / Roll Another Number / Tired Eyes / Tonight's The Night / Cowgirl In The Sand
And one of the later and bigger shows
Don't Be Denied / When You Dance I Can Really Love / Tonight's The Night / Mellow My Mind / New Mama / Roll Another Number / Tired Eyes / The Needle And The Damage Done / Flying On The Ground Is Wrong / Human Highway / Helpless / I Believe In You / Cinnamon Girl / Cowgirl In The Sand / The Losing End / Tonight's The Night
This tour, in my opinion, was one of the first glimpses of what would turn into, decades later, the alt-country movement. Neil had taken the golden California-Country sound developed by The Byrds, Gram Parson, and himself in Buffalo Springfield and evolved and enriched it through CSNY and Harvest. Then during 1972 and 1973 gave that sound a heavy dose of darkness and depression.
Post by stallion pt. 2 on Feb 28, 2012 12:43:24 GMT -5
Couldn't find the poster for the earlier combo bill in LA (The show that closed the Trip on Sunset Blvd) but any night from this tour with the Mothers as support would be a dream come true.
John: We don't even understand our own music Spider: It doesn't, does it matter whether we understand it? At least it'll give us . . . strength John: I know but maybe we could get into it more if we understood it
The Who 1969, Talking Heads 1980, Peter Gabriel 1993 and White Stripes 2003 would be my back up plans.
Which White Stripes show? the one on that DVD? I saw them in NOLA '03 front row.....pretty epic.
A lot of good ones in here.... Pink Floyd Pompeii, Talking Heads '80, Last Waltz......all good ones!
For me, I would rather hit up whole tours. I would have liked to hit up all of H.O.R.D.E tour '91 or Lollapolloza '91. I have older friends that did this vending on break from GD tour......great stories from those.
It would be nice to hit up that whole '77 Grateful Dead summer tour. Or Dylan & the Dead tour '87.
For one epic show it is hard to choose for me... Frank Zappa Helsinki '74.......maybe Buffalo '80.
For recent shows Soundgarden/Mars Volta @ Red Rocks last summer.
I just meant that Elephant tour in general. I didn't get to see them until the GBMS tour in '05. Those two are far and away the best two, but I would need to be there for an Elephant show to truly compare.
-When I Hear My Name -Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground -Blue Orchid -Passive Manipulation -Red Rain -Death Letter -My Doorbell -Hotel Yorba -Same Boy You've Always Known -Lovesick -Little Ghost -We're Going to Be Friends -The Hardest Button to Button -Black Math -The Nurse -I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Encore: -Ball and Biscuit -Seven Nation Army -Screwdriver