Neil Young: ‘Crazy Horse Will Be Back, God Willing’
Neil Young has spoken about the reasons behind the cancellation of his recent shows with Crazy Horse in a video shared with members of his Archives site.
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“I was doing great and we were moving right along,” the singer revealed. “Everybody’s loving the shows. Then I just woke up one morning on the bus and I said, ‘I can’t do this. I gotta stop.’ It was like I felt sick when I thought of going on stage.
“My body was telling me, ‘You gotta stop.’ So I listened to my body. Then it gets into all the legal matters: ‘You got this, you got that, people bought tickets, they did this, they did that.’ I understand that. What matters to me is the art of playing, and the music. That’s what matters. That’s what people loved. That’s what they come to see. But if that’s not there, me going is not happening. My body told me to not do it.”
Young went on to reassure fans by suggesting that more shows are on the horizon, “Now I’m starting to feel like I could do it again and that’s a great feeling. Not all of Crazy Horse — this happened to a couple of us, and we’re not all the way back. Crazy Horse will be back, god willing. And we’ll play more.
“We haven’t announced any shows yet, but they are mostly theatres that I played before, little theatres, and then I can play a little bit of acoustic, and then have the band come out and play. They’ll probably be on the East Coast and then going towards Michigan and then Ohio, and then a few other ones. They won’t be marathons. They won’t be two hours and 10 minutes of blasting rock and roll like it was with Crazy Horse.”
As ever, it has been a busy time of late for Young, with announcements of his enormous box set Archives III and the standalone release of the four albums from the Official Release Series Volume 5.