{"id":22036,"date":"2014-10-10T10:14:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T14:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22036"},"modified":"2014-10-10T10:14:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T14:14:59","slug":"concert-review-neil-young-at-the-academy-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/concert-review-neil-young-at-the-academy-of-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Concert Review: Neil Young at the Academy of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sN3kpPpvDhE\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #141823;\" data-reactid=\".ht.1:3:1:$comment10204853129948471_10204855883897318:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0\"><span data-reactid=\".ht.1:3:1:$comment10204853129948471_10204855883897318:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$0:0\">Last night my wife and I went to see <strong>Neil Young<\/strong> at Philadelphia&#8217;s Academy of Music. We got an invitation earlier this week from old friends. It was a great show: all acoustic, great sampling of all that&#8217;s great and even occasionally larger-than-life lousy about Neil (eg, a didactic, 2-song &#8220;Environmental Hymns&#8221; set that Nei<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #141823;\" data-reactid=\".ht.1:3:1:$comment10204853129948471_10204855883897318:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3\"><span data-reactid=\".ht.1:3:1:$comment10204853129948471_10204855883897318:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0\"><span data-reactid=\".ht.1:3:1:$comment10204853129948471_10204855883897318:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0\">l of October 2014 clearly felt compelled to perform). His between-song banter was really funny. He played one of my favorite Buffalo Springfield songs (&#8220;On the Way Home&#8221;), surprisingly made a cover of Gordon Lightfoot&#8217;s &#8220;If You Could Read My Mind&#8221; (see clip, above, from his Boston show a few nights earlier) his own, and then some. The guy was all THERE: his songs, his performance of them, etc. We had some great laughs and bad pizza with our friends after the show. I went home feeling really good about the world.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"My Life in the Ghost of Neil\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/my-life-in-the-ghost-of-neil\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Previously<\/em><\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night my wife and I went to see Neil Young at Philadelphia&#8217;s Academy of Music. We got an invitation earlier this week from old friends. It was a great show: all acoustic, great sampling of all that&#8217;s great and even occasionally larger-than-life lousy about Neil (eg, a didactic, 2-song &#8220;Environmental Hymns&#8221; set that Neil <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/concert-review-neil-young-at-the-academy-of-music\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[225,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}