Elvis in Neil Young tribute show, Vancouver 18/19 Feb.'10

[Neil.]

Aw, good ol' Elvis - he does a good version, but I do wish he wouldn't try to be a guitar hero! It just doesn't suit him - wasn't it he himself that called himself the Little Hands of Concrete? Whenever I see him live, I always hold my breath and cross my fingers when he does this kind of thing. Historically, on record, though, he's always been tastefully brief when it comes to guitar solos - and they've been fab, whatever his self-confessed limitations. The demented little break in Tokyo Storm Warning, the lovely little riff in Last Boat Leaving etc., the spiky riff in Chelsea. Anyway, he ain't Hendrix (apart from the marvellous Earthbound demo), but we love him all the same!

[charliestumpy]

Thanks for link to fine longer clip of CITS.

[johnfoyle]

John H posts to listserv-


Just noticed this on Trader's Den


http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/sho ... hp?t=80614

Hal Willner's Neil Young Project
Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad
Thursday February 18, 2010
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Vancouver, BC


Taper: prof_peabody
Location: orchestra left centre section, row 4 (left stack)
Source: DPA4023 -> Aerco MP2 -> R-09HR (24/48)
Transfer: USB -> Wavelab 5 edits (dither with UV22HR) -> CDWAVE -> FLAC

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- Do not sell this live recording
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Notes:

There was a house band, but the house band musicians came on and
offstage regularly.
In some respects there was a US house band and a Canadian house band.

I was sitting stage right with the left stack just of to my left.


Artist List:

Chris Brown *keyboards in house band
Vashti Bunyan
Robert Burger *keyboards in house band
Brendan Canning (Broken Social Scene) *bass in house band
Fred Cash *played bass in house band
Jason Collett (Broken Social Scene)
Elvis Costello
Julie Doiron
Kevin Drew (Broken Social Scene)
Michelle Fairman? *cello in house band
Nadine Goellner
Sam Goldberg (Broken Social Scene, Hawaii)
Emily Haines (Metric, Broken Social Scene)
Kevin Hearn (Bare Naked Ladies)
Shahzad Ismaily *guitar and other instruments in house band
Colin James
Mark Kozelek (Sun Kil Moon, Red House Painters)
Danial Lapp *violin and trumet in house band
Eric Mingus
Jenni Muldaur
Janine Nichols
Ambrosia Parsley (Shivaree)
Justin Peroff (Broken Social Scene) *drums in house band
Ben Perowsky *played drums in house band
Elizabeth Powell (Land of Talk)
Bill Priddle (Treble Charger, Broken Social Scene)
Lou Reed (Velvet Underground)
Alasdair Roberts
Ron Sexsmith
James Shaw (Metric, Broken Social Scene)
Teddy Thompson
James "Blood" Ulmer
Joan Wasser (Joan as Police Woman)
Andrew Whiteman (Broken Social Scene)
Doug Wielselman *clarinet, sax, guitar, ultravibes in house band

Sam Beam (Iron & Wine) was on the bill, but I didn't see him.


Disc 1
01. <intro - Alfred Hitchcock & Olympic Anthem>
02. A Dream That Can Last (Teddy Thompson, Jason Collett, Julie Doiron)
03. Everybody Knows This is Nowhere (?)
04. Don't Cry No Tears (Teddy Thompson)
05. New Mama (Ron Sexsmith)
06. Down to the Wire (Elizabeth Powell - vocals, Julie Doiron, Jason Collett)
07. Mr. Soul (Jason Collett? - vocals, Julie Doiron? - vocals)
08. A Man Needs a Maid (Emily Haines - vocals, James Shaw - guitar)
09. Scenery (James Blood Ulmer)
10. For the Turnstiles (Eric Mingus - vocals & bass?, Nadine Goellner - vocals)
11. One More Sign (Alasdair Roberts)
12. After the Goldrush (Vashti Bunyan)
13. Love in Mind (Elvis Costello - vocals/guitar)

Disc 2
01. On the Beach (Joan as Police Woman - vocals/violin, Elvis Costello - guitar)
02. Helpless - (Lou Reed - vocals/guitar)
03. Harvest (Jenni Muldaur - vocals, Lou Reed - guitar)
04. Albuquerque (Mark Kozelek)
05. Bandit (Ambrosia Parsley)
06. Country Girl (Bill Priddle)
<Intermission>
07. <intro jam>
08. Harvest Moon (Brendan Canning)
09. Expecting to Fly (Janine Nichols - vocals, Kevin Hearn - vocals)
10. Needle and the Damage Done (Kevin Hearn?)
11. Out on the Weekend (Sam Goldberg)
12. Star of Bethlehem (Jenni Muldaur, Ron Sexsmith)
13. Wrecking Ball (Vashti Bunyan, Ambrosia Parsley)

Disc 3
01. Powderfinger (Mark Kozelek)
02. I Believe in You (Teddy Thompson)
03. Don't Let It Bring You Down (Elizabeth Powell, Joan as Police Woman)
04. On the Way Home (Eric Mingus)
05. Walk On (Kevin Drew - vocals/campfire host)
06. Cowgirl in the Sand (Elvis Costello - vocals/guitar)
07. Cinnamon Girl (Elvis Costello - vocals/guitar )
08. Fuckin' Up (many guests onstage)
09. Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Julie Doiron - vocals, Kevin Drew - vocals)

Comments: Thanks to Sara and FirmDragon for blocking support.

[johnfoyle]

Another link, with links for each song -

http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=436

[charliestumpy]

Again, thanks - I await hearing all of 'Cinnamon girl' tomorrow ...

[charliestumpy]

Nice - thanks, and for link to US & non-US versions of F.....' up...

[johnfoyle]

http://www.elviscostello.com/lies-inventions/page19

18th and 19th February 2010

Hal Willner's Neil Young Project during the Cultural Olympiad of the Vancouver Winter Olympics.

Other performers include, Lou Reed, Joan As A Policewoman, Ron Sexsmith, Broken Social Scene, Eric Mingus, Ambrosia Parsley, Jenni Muldaur, Emily Haines and Teddy Thompson.

Performance of the ballad, "Love In Mind", with Rob Burger at the piano, in the first half before returning to the stage to lead the ensemble with electric guitar for "Cowgirl In The Sand".

Following a duet with Joan As A Policewoman on "Cinnamon Girl", Costello joins Lou Reed and James "Blood" Ulmer for a finale performance of "Fuckin' Up"

[sweetest punch]

Cowgirl In The Sand: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKvYKoY8hFs
Love In Mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2PYhklRiOU
Cinnamon Girl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iPxGZ-0e-8

[bronxapostle]

Another link, with links for each song -

http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=436

thanks PUNCH for resurrecting this thread as i had missed the mp3's on these full songs. VERY COOL!! i knew that with a NEIL audience it had to have been recorded. and thanks for links as ever Mr. Foyle!!

[johnfoyle]

http://blogs.canoe.ca/ent/music/costell ... thumbs-up/

Costello gives new Sexsmith disc the thumbs up

jane.stevenson - March 2nd, 2011

Ron Sexsmith’s new album, Long Player, Late Bloomer, got the thumbs up from fellow musician and longtime supporter Elvis Costello way back in early 2010 before the disc’s March 1 release this past week.

Toronto-based Sexsmith played the Bob Rock-produced disc for Costello in his Vancouver home office – he’s married to Nanaimo-born jazz singer Diana Krall – just before the two men were part of the Neil Young Tribute during the Winter Olympics at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

“He told me it sounded like I was holding my head up for the first time,” said Sexsmith. “And I thought that was cool when he said that. I kind of see what he means ‘cause I think in the past, I was always afraid to call too much attention and this is not a shy record. It kind of comes crashing through the door, which is kind of part of again Bob being a real cheerleader and trying to get me out of my stubborness, my shell, sort of nudging me a bit, and keeping the tempos up, and everything.”

Sexsmith said the duo listened to half of the record at Costellos’s house.

“And then the car came to pick us up and we listened to the rest of it in the car,” he remembered. “So when we got to the venue there was still two more songs to go so he asked the driver to drive around the block a few times. So he’s been a real friend to me that way. He’s really been really good, just at advice. If I have a bunch of songs and I don’t know if they’re any good, I could send them to him and he would give me his two cents.”

Sexsmith’s cross-Canada tour kicks of March 3 in Kingston, Ont, and wraps up April 21 in Toronto.

[wardo68]

I finally listened to "Cowgirl In The Sand" from this show, and it strikes me that somebody (Elvis?) insisted on playing on the chords for "Down By The River" over it.

[johnfoyle]

In the ' smoke weed' interview Elvis seems not to have heard of Vashti Bunyan. Considering that they shared a stage in Vancouver in Feb. '10 that seems unlikely. Perhaps Elvis was more puzzled at the context the interviewer had put her in ie. Elvis doesn't classify her as unappreciated etc. Or maybe not!