First Union Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 20, 2000
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The
Confirmed
Set List
First Set
- Carry On
- Southern Man
- Stand And Be Counted
- Pre-Road Downs
- Heartland
- 49 Bye-Byes
- Slowpoke
- Marrakesh Express
- Faith In Me
- Almost Cut My Hair
- Cinnamon Girl
Second Set
- Helplessly Hoping
- Our House
- Old Man
- Dream For Him
- Someday Soon
- Looking Forward
- After The Goldrush
- Guinnevere
- Out Of Control
- Seen Enough
- Teach Your Children
[7th Inning Stretch]
- Woodstock
- Long Time Gone
- Ohio
- Love The One You're With
- Down By The River
Encore
- For What It's Worth
- Rockin' In The Free World
First Union Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 20, 2000
review by Too Far Gone
Great show. Neil was rocking and CS&N were
very good. I can see how some may think Stills can get lazy but that won't
happen with Neil coming over to his side of the stage during most songs to
check on him. Seen Enough, (Neil's favorite Stills song of the last
decade) was great. Neil had the Blue Notes sound thing going.
Woodstock was outstanding.
Nash sang his songs and stayed out of the way. He has some good tunes. During
Marrekesh Express (the train song from the first album) Neil yelled out
"All aboard" like a conductor would.
Crosby has the look of a great man. "Songs, we have songs," he says.
The dude gets into every song. Like Neil, the man was all over it. I
would love to see David Crosby on stage as a member of Neil's band every time.
Neil was the man. I wasn't that close and I didn't have my glasses but from
his body language I could tell he was in control. In some strange way I felt
proud of Neil last night. Him doing this tour for the music, and having fun
along the way. Like when Baltimore built Camden Yards. I went to the first
game wanting to hate it. I love Memorial stadium, but Camden Yards is so
fantastic. How could I not love it?
The band was great. Yes, I'd rather hear more Neil songs but what the hell.
I'm going to say it.. I'd rather see Neil with this band than Craz....
Never mind!
TFG
First Union Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 20, 2000
notes by Graham Clews
What can I say: great show in Philly last night. Apart from Neil's & CSN's
overall enthusiasm, the other thing that impressed me was Neil's lead guitar
breaks -- he's playing with more control & complexity than I've ever heard him
play live before. This seems to bring the standard of the whole band up as
well. Stephen's guitar playing was also great, some of the guitar
conversation between the two was brilliant.
Interesting points I noticed during the show:
- Stills seemed to be on much better form tonight, I immediately noticed
his solos & vocals in the first set were much stronger, the only miscue was
in 49 Bye-Byes. (They should definitely drop this or Woodstock
in favour of No Tears Left.) Great version of Faith In Me.
- Marrakesh Express -- No "Train Station" intro, but Neil shouted
"All aboard" conductor style in the chorus!
Stills also pulled off the top harmony on the "All aboard the train" sections.
It was a good version & one of the best received numbers of the show.
- Neil introduced Seen Enough by saying "Hey,
listen, this is my favorite Stills song of the last decade". And a great
version followed. Neil tearing up on old Black, and Stills replied with a good
acoustic solo at the end. This song and Looking Forward were the best
received songs from Looking Forwar. Stills just seems to
raise his game for the new songs -- he obviously enjoys playing them more than
the older stuff.
- There was another false start on Cinnamon Girl it started too slow
again, Neil jumped up and down in front of Keltner to demonstrate how fast
he wanted to play it, then they started over. Much faster!
- They finished with a killer version of RITFW, following great versions
of DBTR and FWIW. But no Eight Miles High or Long May
You Run? I had been looking forward to hearing both of those tunes! Oh well...
- I heard on a local radio station on the way to the show that this was one
of "only 4 cities being filmed professionally for the tour video"?
If that's the case I would like to bet that they'll use some of the footage
from this show's acoustic set: Old Man was flawless, with great vocal
harmonies. In fact the whole acoustic segment was great. They should have filmed
the VH1 Storytellers towards the end of the tour, the acoustic set
was just on a higher level last night. It was actually dominated, I have to say,
by some great playing by Stills. After one rush of flamenco in Some Day
Soon, Croz looked across & grinned at Stephen -- knowing that we are now
seeing the quality of playing that Stills is capable of. (I think he was rusty
earlier in the tour -- he mentioned in an interview that he doesn't like long
breaks between touring.)
All in all, a top class show, (I haven't had time to mention Graham & Croz but
their performance was great also, even faultless. A real group effort.)
Glad I flew over from the U.K. to see them!
(more reviews coming soon... --RE*AC*TOR)