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O/T Neil Young last night - in our local bar
Jun 23^rd, 2009 at 4:35am

Just the local watering hole - okay, quite a famous one given it's location to Government Buidlings here, but still 'tis the "local" watering hole for us on this street. Who walks in last night but the one and only Neil Young!!

Got the chance to chat with the great man, got an autograph, AND, bought him and his wife a pint of the black stuff!

A very Gracious & righteous dude, I got the most of my few minutes chatting with him and imparted as best I could my admiration for his music. On quite a high cloud here this morning after meeting the great man......^

NEIL YOUNG in Reilly's!!!! Quite the experience - they even bought 'Reilly's' Pub T-shirts to bring home, it was surreal

Let the good times roll

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Child of the Moon Rocks Off Regular Offline Plug in, flush out, and fire the fuckin' feed... Posts: 253 In the timbers of Fennario Gender:	Re: O/T Neil Young last night - in our local bar Reply #2 - Jun 23^rd, 2009 at 5:50am I saw that he played the old Springfield gem "Burned" the other night while he was there... for the first time, probably, since 1966! Very cool stuff. Congrats!
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Re: O/T Neil Young last night - in our local bar
Reply #3 - Jun 23^rd, 2009 at 6:09am

I was at the show on Sunday night and it was brilliant. (its up on dimeadozen as of last night)

Gearoid, you're one lucky bastard to get a one-on-one with him. What did you chat about? (And you weren't even at the show either! Grr..) Nearly fell off my chair yesterday when I got a text message saying he was in your local pub - and again a few minutes later when you said you'd bought him a Guinness.

Mind you, having forked out all that money for the Archives boxed set, had I been there, I'd have expected Neil to have bought my drinks for the rest of the week.....

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Reply #4 - Jun 23^rd, 2009 at 6:21am

Gaz, my good man, not only did you nearly fall off your chair, I neary fell off mine when he walked in with his wife^!!

Absolutely surreal - myself & some colleagues go to Reilly's once or twice a week for a few tipples, it's just on the corner of Merrion Street here. When Neil ambled through the doors it was just a stunning rock moment^

My friend Joseph chatted up Neil's missus at the bar andI took my chance to venture over (with paper and pen from our favourite barmaid Yana^), and say a few words to the great man. Chatted for a few minutes - just told him how long I'd been listening to his music, asked how he liked Dublin; he said he'd been enjoying alking around Stephens' Green and enjoyed the cosy li'l pub right here, Reilly's! He loves Ireland, and found the people very friendly.

I left him be to enjoy his pints; Yana told Mrs. Young I had picked up the tab, and before he left, over came Neil, a tap on the shoulder, handshake and a sincere 'Thank You' for the drinks!!

They bought some of the Reilly's T-Shirts to bring home aswell^

Wonderful stuff!

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Bitch Rocks Off Regular Offline I always get my Rocks Off! Posts: 4,900 FL - USA Gender:	Re: O/T Neil Young last night - in our local bar Reply #5 - Jun 23^rd, 2009 at 7:32am Lucky for you to be at the right place at the right time, IrelandCalling! I always imagined Neil would be down to earth and nice!
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Re: O/T Neil Young last night - in our local bar
Reply #6 - Jun 23^rd, 2009 at 8:04am

A know a couple people who saw the Stones' Wiltern show a few years back where Neil was in the audience. The word, then, was he was pretty hard to get to and 'chat' with.

Your experience is a true gem. Cherish it.

06-21-2009, O2 Arena, Dublin, Ireland
Neil Young & His Electric Band

1. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
2. Mansion On The Hill
3. Are You Ready For The Country?
4. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
5. Pocahontas
6. Words
7. Cinnamon Girl
8. Mother Earth
9. Don't Let It Bring You Down
10. Lost In Space
11. On The Way Home
12. Burned
13. Harvest Moon
14. Down By The River
15. Get Behind The Wheel
16. Rockin' In The Free World
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17. A Day In The Life

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jostorm Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 408 Gender:	Re: O/T Neil Young last night - in our local bar Reply #7 - Jun 23^rd, 2009 at 8:13am I can't tell from the setlist if he played an acoustic set at the beginning like he did at the Manchester show we caught, Gazza? Irelandcalling: lucky bugger...
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Re: O/T Neil Young last night - in our local bar
Reply #8 - Jun 23^rd, 2009 at 8:21am

" 06-21-2009, O2 Arena, Dublin, Ireland
Neil Young & His Electric Band

1. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
2. Mansion On The Hill
3. Are You Ready For The Country?
4. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
5. Pocahontas
6. Words
7. Cinnamon Girl
8. Mother Earth
9. Don't Let It Bring You Down
10. Lost In Space
11. On The Way Home
12. Burned
13. Harvest Moon
14. Down By The River
15. Get Behind The Wheel
16. Rockin' In The Free World
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17. A Day In The Life "

Nice . What a great set- list !!!!!!

We too got " A Day In The Life " at The QWEST CENTER !!!!!!

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sweetcharmedlife Agent Provocateur Offline Do the horrendous to that if you can Posts: 11,932 San Mateo Gender:	Re: O/T Neil Young last night - in our local bar Reply #11 - Jun 23^rd, 2009 at 9:40am Great story. Nice to hear Neil was a regular guy.
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Re: O/T Neil Young last night - in our local bar
Reply #12 - Jun 23^rd, 2009 at 10:13am

jostorm wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2009 at 8:13am:

I can't tell from the setlist if he played an acoustic set at the beginning like he did at the Manchester show we caught, Gazza?
Irelandcalling: lucky bugger... Smiley

No separate acoustic/electric sets like he did last year, Jo - but he did play acoustic guitar on a few songs, and piano on "Are You Ready For The Country" and "on The Way Home".

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Ginda Rocks Off Regular Offline The ghost of Belle Starr Posts: 926 WA State Gender:	Re: O/T Neil Young last night - in our local bar Reply #13 - Jun 23^rd, 2009 at 12:10pm What a lucky happenstance. I'm always happy when people do as you did when encountering a celebrity. Paid your respects, bought him a drink and left him alone.
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Saint Sway Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 2,356	Re: O/T Neil Young last night - in our local bar Reply #14 - Jun 23^rd, 2009 at 12:17pm this is even cooler than Feej antiquing with Charlie Watts!!! Drinking Guinness with Neil Young tops all! .... best Rocks Off encounter EVER fantastic set list too!
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Ade Rocks Off Regular Offline What's Occuring? Posts: 3,145 London, U.K Gender:	Re: O/T Neil Young last night - in our local bar Reply #15 - Jun 23^rd, 2009 at 1:50pm brilliant stuff - very happy for you
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left shoe shuffle Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 4,141	Re: O/T Neil Young last night - in our local bar Reply #16 - Jun 23^rd, 2009 at 2:01pm Nice! Did he happen to mention the release date of 'Archives, Vol. 2'?
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PartyDoll MEG Rocks Off Regular Offline Just one drink from your lovin' cup Posts: 3,125	Re: O/T Neil Young last night - in our local bar Reply #17 - Jun 23^rd, 2009 at 3:06pm Gearoid you lucky Irishman! Was gonna ask where the phone camera photo was!?-but heck you were a polite Irishman, weren't you?!!
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glencar Ex Member	Re: O/T Neil Young last night - in our local Reply #18 - Jun 23^rd, 2009 at 3:12pm I think I've been in that bar & I know I've met Gearoid so even though I'm not Neil's biggest fan, I feel a connection. It actually sounds like a great setlist. I was afraid he'd play his "lesser known" stuff.
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platter Ex Member	Re: O/T Neil Young last night - in our local bar Reply #19 - Jun 23^rd, 2009 at 4:46pm that mush have been a nice encounter. a great setlist but 17 songs seems a tad on the short side.
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Reply #20 - Jun 23^rd, 2009 at 4:59pm

Neil and his band headline Friday nights Glastonbury festival lineup...then Bruce and the boys on Saturday night, I hope we get complete show video from both of them!

I've been absorbing the blu-ray version of the Archives Vol. 1 set...I couldn't find the card that allows me to download the music in mp3 format from his website...I loked closer at the box and saw that I had missed a cigar box shaped box in the left end...it also contained the 1968 Canterbury DVD!

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Re: O/T Neil Young last night - in our local bar
Reply #21 - Jun 23^rd, 2009 at 6:10pm

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that mush have been a nice encounter.

a great setlist but 17 songs seems a tad on the short side.

Are you fucking serious?

Hardly, considering some of them clock in over 10 minutes. "Down By The River" lasted 15 minutes.

The show lasted about a minute short of two hours. Longer than a Stones show of 19 songs lasts nowadays and not too shabby for a guy of 63.

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Reply #22 - Jun 24^th, 2009 at 7:17am

Looking back a couple years, 17 would be considered "a tad short" simply in setlist numbers, but not necessarily running time.

2007 Chrome Dreams tour (US/CANADA) avg 22
2008 Euro Chrome Dreams avg 22
2008 Euro summer tour avg 14-16
2008 US/CANADA tour avg 20

I saw him in Toronto in December - two days after the 'Canterbury' release - with 21 songs. We didn't get the marathon Down By the River, but 'Cowgirl' and 'Cortez' were that shows' longer pieces.

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PartyDoll MEG Rocks Off Regular Offline Just one drink from your lovin' cup Posts: 3,125	Re: O/T Neil Young last night - in our local bar Reply #23 - Jun 27^th, 2009 at 6:21pm Talk about the luck of the Irish... Heard Neil Young and Paul McCartney singing "A Day in the life" from Hyde park!
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sweetcharmedlife Agent Provocateur Offline Do the horrendous to that if you can Posts: 11,932 San Mateo Gender:	Re: O/T Neil Young last night - in our local bar Reply #24 - Jun 27^th, 2009 at 6:33pm PartyDoll MEG wrote on Jun 27^th, 2009 at 6:21pm: Talk about the luck of the Irish... Heard Neil Young and Paul McCartney singing "A Day in the life" from Hyde park! Very cool. Looks like Gazza is off to a good start. Did ya hear Bruce today Meg
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