A shiver runs down the spine as the first notes of Neil Young´s guitar open this double bill of towering musical geniuses (with Bob Dylan to follow). `Well, I saw an old man walkin´ in my place,` are the first words Young sings. The 73-year-old wrote them nearly 30 years ago for the album Ragged Glory. Ninety minutes later, as he faces into the wind, not especially steady-legged, wisps of hair blowing behind him as he plays `Like a Hurricane`, age has been defeated, time itself denied. He walks on with his band, Promise of the Real, and they proceed to kick it like Crazy Horse. They can be in harmony or make a racket, play quiet or very loud, but they always feel loose, even dirty....
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