{"id":3676,"date":"2025-07-15T08:48:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T08:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/neil-youngs-european-tour-in-stats-150457\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T08:48:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T08:48:48","slug":"neil-youngs-european-tour-in-stats-150457","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/neil-youngs-european-tour-in-stats-150457\/","title":{"rendered":"Pie chart of gold! Neil Young\u2019s European tour in stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"post-preview\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content google-ld-json\">\n<div class=\"editable-content\">\n<p>Now that the European leg of <strong>Neil Young And The Chrome Hearts\u2019<\/strong> Love Earth 2025 tour has come to a triumphant close, we\u2019ve compiled a cornucopia of facts and figures about this historic jaunt.<\/p>\n<p>This was Young\u2019s 16th major European tour (of ten dates or more) and the final night in Paris marked his 322nd European show out of a lifetime total of 2634 gigs since the beginning of <strong>Buffalo Springfield<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number of shows on this tour:<\/strong> 13<br \/><strong>Number of countries visited:<\/strong> 10<br \/><strong>Longest show:<\/strong> 125 minutes (The Lake Stage, Montreux, Switzerland; BST Hyde Park, London)<br \/><strong>Largest (non-festival) attendance:<\/strong> 22,000 (Waldb\u00fchne, Berlin)<\/p>\n<p>Confoundingly, <strong>Neil Young And The Chrome Hearts<\/strong> didn\u2019t play any songs from their only album together, 2025\u2019s <strong>Talkin To The Trees<\/strong>. So which albums did they draw on most for the <strong>Love Earth 2025<\/strong> European tour set lists?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere<\/strong> (1969)<br \/>3: Cinnamon Girl, Down By The River, Cowgirl In The Sand<br \/><strong>After The Gold Rush<\/strong> (1970)<br \/>3: When You Dance, Southern Man, After The Gold Rush<br \/><strong>Harvest<\/strong> (1972)<br \/>3: The Needle &amp; The Damage Done, Heart of Gold, Old Man<br \/><strong>Ragged Glory<\/strong> (1990)<br \/>3: Fuckin\u2019 Up, Love &amp; Only Love, Love To Burn<br \/><strong>Zuma<\/strong> (1975)<br \/>2: Cortez the Killer, Don\u2019t Cry No Tears<br \/><strong>Greendale<\/strong> (2003)<br \/>2: Be The Rain, Sun Green<br \/><strong>On The Beach<\/strong> (1974)<br \/>1: Ambulance Blues<br \/><strong>American Stars\u2019n\u2019Bars<\/strong> (1977)<br \/>1: Like A Hurricane<br \/><strong>Comes A Time <\/strong>(1978)<br \/>1: Comes A Time<br \/><strong>Live Rust<\/strong> (1979)<br \/>1: Sugar Mountain<br \/><strong>Rust Never Sleeps<\/strong> (1979)<br \/>1: Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)<br \/><strong>American Dream (CSNY)<\/strong> (1988)<br \/>1: Name Of Love<br \/><strong>Freedom<\/strong> (1989)<br \/>1: (Keep On) Rockin\u2019 In The Free World<br \/><strong>Harvest Moon<\/strong> (1992)<br \/>1: Harvest Moon<br \/><strong>Mirror Ball<\/strong> (1995)<br \/>1: Throw Your Hatred Down<br \/><strong>Looking Forward<\/strong> (CSNY) (1999)<br \/>1: Looking Forward<br \/><strong>Silver &amp; Gold<\/strong> (2000)<br \/>1: Daddy Went Walkin\u2019<\/p>\n<p>And here are those setlist choices arranged as a pie chart by decade:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncut.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Neil-Young-pie-chart.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-150470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncut.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Neil-Young-pie-chart.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.uncut.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Neil-Young-pie-chart-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncut.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Neil-Young-pie-chart-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uncut.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Neil-Young-pie-chart-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.uncut.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Neil-Young-pie-chart-1392x1044.jpg 1392w, https:\/\/www.uncut.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Neil-Young-pie-chart-1068x801.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\"><\/figure>\n<p>Diving for deep cuts has often been a highlight for many of hardcore fans following <strong>Neil Young<\/strong> from show to show. There haven\u2019t been any really rare songs played (as in less than 10 live outings ever), but there\u2019s some interesting stats to be had around a few of the core songs that have entertained audiences this past month\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSugar Mountain\u201d<\/strong><br \/>Neil Young has played this familiar song over 450 times but it hasn\u2019t featured often at all in the latter years of Young\u2019s live career. After a run in 2019 and a Covid appearance (on the Fireside Sessions) in 2020, \u201cSugar Mountain\u201d resurfaced once in 2024 and then showed up in four of the first six shows on the current tour.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"TRaT_V7XYGs\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Neil Young &amp; The Chrome Hearts @ Brussels Palace 2025 3006 2145-2345 Main Stage - Sugar Mountain\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TRaT_V7XYGs?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>\u201cBe The Rain\u201d<\/strong><br \/>This underrated eco-blast was a cornerstone of both the acoustic and electric <strong>Greendale<\/strong> shows in 2003 and 2004 but hadn\u2019t been played since, save for three surprise showings on the 2014 Crazy Horse European tour. The distinctive arced metallic <strong>Greendale<\/strong> mic set-up was an instant clue to long-time aficionados that it was back in favour, and indeed \u201cBe The Rain\u201d was played on every show of the Love Earth European tour, along with another <strong>Greendale<\/strong> song, \u201cSun Green\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWhen You Dance, I Can Really Love\u201d<\/strong><br \/>An <strong>After The Gold Rush<\/strong> song that\u2019s drifted in and out of NY sets over the last 25 years but again was a feature of every Love Earth European show.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cLooking Forward\u201d<\/strong><br \/>Here\u2019s one that no one saw coming. Debuted late in 1998 as a gentle solo acoustic song, it was rejigged to fit the <strong>CSNY<\/strong> album of the same name, coated in harmonies that didn\u2019t really enhance the song (many didn\u2019t think it worked in the band format). The Love Earth tour gave it a new lease of life, with gentle band harmonies and smart second acoustic picking from <strong>Micah Nelson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"_TfYwnT-i7k\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Looking Forward, Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_TfYwnT-i7k?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>\u201cName Of Love\u201d<\/strong><br \/>Written during the mid-1980s, this song was debuted on the infamous Crazy Horse Muddy Track tour of Europe in 1987. Recorded for the disappointing <strong>CSNY<\/strong> reunion record <strong>American Dream<\/strong> in 1988, the song was only played once by the reformed supergroup, and was shelved until the uninspiring 2014 Horse tour of Europe. It then lay dormant once more until this year, Young playing a not-seen-before electric piano for the opening show in Sweden, then the upright piano in Bergen, before settling on pump organ for the rest of the tour\u2019s performances of the song.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThrow Your Hatred Down\u201d<\/strong><br \/>Recorded and debuted live with <strong>Pearl Jam<\/strong> in 1995, \u201cThrow Your Hatred Down\u201d fell away from setlists as the millennium approached. It featured twice in 2006, once in 2014 and then popped up on several European dates with <strong>Promise Of The Real<\/strong> in 2019. It returned for the solo <strong>Coastal<\/strong> tour in 2023 before becoming part of the encore at Glastonbury and Hyde Park this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cAmbulance Blues\u201d<\/strong><br \/>One of the most lauded, revered works in the sprawling <strong>Neil Young<\/strong> canon. First coming to prominence on the famous Bottom Line bootleg of May \u201974, it resurfaced later that year across eight dates of the CSNY stadium tour. For 24 years it was left as a mythic creature, unplayed live until <strong>REM<\/strong> agreed to play the Bridge Benefit shows in 1998, but only on the proviso that they could back <strong>Neil Young<\/strong> on \u201cAmbulance Blues\u201d. It featured throughout his 1999 solo tour and enjoyed sporadic appearances throughout the 2000s, but usually as a solo song. So fans were stunned and overjoyed when it suddenly reappeared in Groningen and established itself as a set-opener from then on.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"8tqgq-53lAI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Neil Young  - Ambulance Blues - Summerstage Groningen op 1 juli 2025.\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8tqgq-53lAI?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>\u201cDaddy Went Walkin&#8217;\u201d<\/strong><br \/>You can guarantee that this curio from <strong>Silver &amp; Gold<\/strong> was on absolutely no-one\u2019s radar. In the grand scheme of things, it isn\u2019t a rare <strong>Neil Young<\/strong> song (77 performances now) but those were mostly on Young\u2019s stellar solo tour of North America in 1999 and the following year\u2019s <strong>Friends &amp; Relatives<\/strong> tour. Since then, the song has been performed on just two occasions \u2013 at Bridge in 2009, and in a Fireside Session during the 2020 Covid pandemic \u2013 before resurfacing at Montreux this year, and again at the final date in Paris.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncut.co.uk\/features\/blogs\/neil-youngs-european-tour-in-stats-150457\/\">Pie chart of gold! 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