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Maria Craft's Review
(more reviews coming)
Also See:
The show details.
A Seattle Times review.
A Post-Intelligencer review.

First Set
1. Carry On
2. Southern Man
3. Stand And Be Counted
4. Pre-Road Downs
5. Heartland
6. 49 Bye-Byes
7. Slowpoke
8. Marrakesh Express
9. Faith In Me
10. Almost Cut My Hair
11. Cinnamon Girl
    Second Set
12. Helplessly Hoping
13. Our House
14. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
15. Dream For Him
16. Someday Soon
17. Looking Forward
18. After The Goldrush
19. Guinnevere
20. Out Of Control
21. Seen Enough
22. Teach Your Children
    [7th Inning Stretch]
23. Woodstock
24. Long Time Gone
25. Ohio
26. For What It's Worth
27. Mr.Soul
28. Dark Star
29. Rockin' In The Free World
    Encore
30. Long May You Run

What a night-definitely one of the best if not the best concert I have ever seen. (Neil Young with Crazy Horse at The Gorge in 96 in the pouring down rain is second.) They all seemed to really enjoy being there -- they were not just going through the motions. There was a lot of banter between songs along with plenty of laughing and genuine camaraderie.

Neil was amazing-hopping around, stomping, laughing and smiling often. He doesn't smile if he doesn't mean it, and a couple times I caught him in the binoculars with this huge grin on his face. We had good seats (row 18) so the binoculars were not a necessity, but I like to see their facial expressions!

Crosby was equally amazing. His voice is crystal clear even after all these years, and he tore down the house on Almost Cut My Hair. When Crosby wasn't singing or playing, he just stood there looking around at his bandmates or at the crowd with this look of total contentment. It was very cool. Graham looked great, and it was hard to believe he broke both legs in October. I usually think of him as the "quiet one" but you should have seen him working the crowd into a frenzy putting his arms in the air and getting everyone to shout along with Rockin' In The Free World.

Stills got into the dueling guitar thing with Neil and even did a little hopping and dancing of his own. Two of his songs from the new album, Faith In Me and Seen Enough turned out great live. I liked the songs on the album well enough, but live was excellent, and they went over really well with the crowd. On Seen Enough, you could tell Neil was really into it -- he smiled a lot during this one.

Favorites included the hard rocking Cinnamon Girl, Almost Cut My Hair, Woodstock, and Rockin' In the Free World and the acoustic Only Love Can Break Your Heart, Helplessly Hoping, Looking Forward, and Guinnevere. I was checking out the binoculars again on Helplessly Hoping, and noticed how they each sang a line on the part where it goes:

"We are one . . ." [sung by Stills]
"We are two together . . ." [sung by Nash]
"We are three . . ." [sung by Crosby]
"We are four . . ." [sung by Young]

I think they had the same outfits on as was previously reported from the other shows. Stills: Hawaiian print shirt, jeans, tennis shoes; Nash: jeans, black t-shirt, black jacket, brown slip on type shoes; Crosby: black jeans, red plaid flannel shirt, brown vest, brown boat shoes; Young: jeans, "This Note's for You" shirt that was so old and faded you could barely tell what it was, red plaid flannel shirt for the first half, green and blue plaid flannel shirt for the second half, brown hiking type boots. Stills walked on stage wearing a jacket, but took it off and handed it to someone before the first song.

A few other tidbits...

• You could see Neil's son, Ben, sitting in his wheelchair behind Neil's part of the stage.
• I was impressed with how well-run everything was -- it started right on time.
• Only had about a 20 minute intermission.
• The "boys" as some people keep calling them, stayed out on stage and hammed it up during the "seventh inning stretch", where they changed from the acoustic back to the electric set.
• When they came out for the encore, S, N, and Y held back for a minute and let Crosby walk by himself out to the center of the stage. I'm not sure if they were honoring him or kind of playing a trick on him (maybe both), but it was an amusing touch.
• I would have loved to have seen Down By the River, and I was hoping for more than a one song encore, but I am NOT COMPLAINING. It was an incredible show.

(reviews coming soon... --RE*AC*TOR)