Neil Young Celebration
Neil Young Tribute from local musicians plus a screening of Rust Never Sleeps

To celebrate the 81st birthday of one of our all-time favorites, a group of local musicians are coming together to honor the iconic work of Neil Young. The set will be followed by a screening of his iconic San-Francisco-set concert film Rust Never Sleeps.

Singer/songwriter Neil Young is sometimes visionary, sometimes flaky, sometimes both at once, but he has never been boring. Indeed, Neil Young has weathered runs of critical and popular ambivalence only to be vindicated by being periodically "rediscovered" by young musicians and fans. He has maintained a large following since the early '70s with music in three basic styles — solo acoustic ballads, sweet country rock, and lumbering garage rock (with some experimental music side trips), all topped by his high voice — and he veers from one to another in unpredictable phases. His subject matter also shifts from personal confessions to allusive stories to bouncy throwaways. A dedicated primitivist, Young is constantly proving that simplicity is not always simple.

Rust Never Sleeps is a concert film shot on Neil Young's 1978 U.S. tour, filmed at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. Divided into two segments, acoustic and electric, the film is Young at his best, shown just why the grunge generation holds him in such high esteem, and that not all 60's heroes were burnt out by the mid-70's.

DOORS at 7:00 PM | MUSIC at 7:30 PM | MOVIE at 8:15 PM