Neil Younger and Loopy Horse have suspended their Love Earth Tour, which was slated to renew July 8 in Toronto, and preserve them on the street by means of the top of September.
“When a few us received sick after Detroit’s Pine Knob, all of us needed to cease,” they wrote in a press release on the Neil Younger Archives. “We’re nonetheless not totally recovered, so sadly our tour could have a giant unplanned break. We are going to attempt to play a number of the dates we miss as time passes after we are able to rock once more! We all know lots of you made journey plans and we apologize for the inconvenience. Thanks to your understanding and persistence. Well being is #1. We need to keep and do extra exhibits and extra albums for you… and for us.”
The July exhibits throughout Canada and the Western United States have all been canceled, based on Ticketmaster. Further September exhibits on the Ohana Pageant in Dana Level, California, and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles have been pulled as properly.
The Love Earth Tour kicked off April 24 on the Cal Coast Credit score Union Open Air Theatre in San Diego, California. Loopy Horse guitarist Nils Lofgren was unable to take part because of his commitments to Bruce Springsteen and the E Road Band. Micah Nelson took his place. “I might cancel absolutely anything I had occurring to play with Neil and Loopy Horse,” Nelson advised Rolling Stone in March. “It’s like when you had requested me at 15, ‘What band in your wildest imaginative and prescient would you like to play with and be in?’ It will in all probability have been Loopy Horse. It’s simply very, very surreal to finish up right here.”
The exhibits have been centered on classic Neil Younger and Loopy Horse songs together with “Cortez the Killer,” “Powderfinger,” Down By the River,” and “Like a Hurricane.” The most recent tune performed most nights was 1996’s “Scattered (Let’s Assume About Livin’),” which Younger devoted to David Briggs, the band’s longtime producer who died in 1995.
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“The songs we’re enjoying right here tonight have been all produced by this man whose identify was David Briggs,” Younger advised the group in Mansfield, Massachusetts. “A very long time in the past, he left this planet and went outward. He’s nonetheless on the market. When he disappeared, we performed our first album. We went in there with out him, and we have been feeling it.”
Hours earlier than they have been presupposed to take the stage at Chicago’s Huntington Financial institution Pavilion at Northerly Island on Might 23, they introduced that the present was being postponed “because of sickness.” Two exhibits later that week in Austin and Dallas have been additionally postponed. They haven’t indicated which members of the band fell in poor health or when make-up dates may probably happen.