Neil Young pulls back the curtain on his decision to cancel his tour with Crazy Horse.
Two months after the singer-songwriter, 78, announced on his website that the rest of his and the band’s Love Earth Tour had been cancelled, vaguely citing illness among the performers, he gave his fans a more detailed explanation.
In a livestream with fans that has since been posted on the singer’s subreddit, Young said that “a few” acts from the tour – including himself – had “really hit the wall”.
“One morning I woke up on the bus and said, ‘I can’t do this, I have to stop.’ And it was as if I got sick when I thought about going on stage – the musician recalled. “My body was telling me, ‘You have to stop.’ So I listened to my body.”
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Neil Young is performing in May 2024 before canceling his tour with Crazy Horse.
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The “Harvest Moon” singer said that despite the difficulties the cancellation presented, it was for the best because he couldn’t give fans the performance they deserved to see.
“Then he gets into all the legal stuff. ‘You have this, you have that, people bought tickets, they did this, they did that.’ I understand that, but what’s important to me is the art of playing and the music,” Young explained on the live stream. “That is what is important. That’s what people loved. That’s what they liked to come and see.”
“But if that’s not there, my departure is not happening,” he said. “My body told me not to.”
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How is he doing right now? The music icon told fans he’s “starting to feel like I might do it again.”
“And it feels great,” Young said.
Some band members, however, “are not completely backwards,” he noted. “Crazy Horse will be back, God willing, and we’ll play more,” Young said. “But in the meantime, I have many friends to play with.”
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Neil Young performs with Crazy Horse.
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The musician is set to return to the stage this fall at New York’s Farm Aid Festival, the music festival announced on Tuesday, July 23. The festival lineup also includes Willie Nelson and Family, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews (with Tim Reynolds).
Additionally, Young teased in a new live stream for fans, he’ll be embarking on a “shortened” theater tour with partially acoustic shows featuring members of Promise of the Real in “a few weeks.”
“It’s not going to be marathons,” he said of the upcoming shows. “It’s not going to be two hours and 10 minutes of rock ‘n’ roll rock ‘n’ roll like there was with Crazy Horse.”
Young originally announced the cancellation of the Love Earth Tour in a late June blog post on his website.
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