“Dream
Machine”, Neil Young, Sportpaleis Ahoy, Rotterdam, Holland, 7th May
1993.
Set-list:
Disc One (64:43)
1.
Mr.
Soul
2.
The
Loner
3.
Southern
Man
4.
Helpless
5.
This
Note's for You
6.
Motorcycle
Mama
7.
Like
a Hurricane
8.
I
believe in You
9.
Love
to Burn
10.
Separate
Ways,
Disc Two (64:30)
1.
Powderfinger
2.
Only
Love Can Break Your Heart
3.
Harvest
Moon
4.
The
Needle and the Damage Done
5.
Live
to Ride
6.
Down
by the River
7.
Dock
of the Bay
8.
All
Along the Watchtower
9.
Rockin'
in the Free World (w/ Pearl Jam).
Notes:
Complete show: Yes
Musicians: Neil Young: Guitar, Vocals. Backed by
Booker T and the MGs – Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Donald Dunn and (?)
drummer Jim Keltner
CD quality: Very Good audience recording.
Sound quality: fine, seamless copy
Remarks:
The Old Grey Cat wrote this about the bootleg:
Features
Neil with Booker T. & the MGs from their combined 1993 European jaunt..
This is worth the price of admission just to hear Neil's rendition of the
classic Otis Redding song "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay."
"Left my home in Canada ..." he sings, his voice as distinctly
different from Otis's as imaginable--and you know what? It works. As does this
entire set, which basically plays as a greatest hits-type affair bolstered by
the inclusion of several unreleased songs and a few other relatively rare
renditions of old favorites, such as "Motorcycle Mama" and "I
Believe in You." In addition to the above, highlights include the
unreleased "Separate Ways," a powerhouse take of
"Powderfinger" (Question: when is this song not a highlight? Answer:
Never!), Neil's unreleased ode to motorcycles "Live to Ride,"
"Down by the River" and "All Along the Watchtower."
Booker T. & the MGs provide more than adequate backup; where Crazy Horse gets by on brute strength, they deliver their punches with more of a deftness and subtlety. Neither approach is better or worse, mind you, but it is a noticeable difference. Of note, Pearl Jam backs Neil for a fiery "Rockin' in the Free World" (they were the opening act that tour). An audience recording, Dream Machine is actually pretty good. (A-)
Tim Parrish ("Boots for Beginners" for the Neil Young FAQ) wrote:
Here we have a boot from the European Tour with Booker T & the MGs.
This is possibly the best boot of the 1993 tour- it's an audience tape, but very
near soundboard quality. This show is from Ahoy Hall in Rotterdam on July
5, 1993. A couple nice things about this complete 2CD package is it has
two songs that were not played during the U.S. tour (This Note's for You and I Believe
in You, not played since 1973), two currently unreleased songs and Rockin' in
the Free World is filler from Stockholm on June 28th. This is a standard
set-list for the European tour. It's too bad that Change Your Mind wasn't
debuted for another couple days - that would have put this boot in the
"can't pass it up" category.