Music connoisseurs regard him as an icon of rock music, a legend from the 60s with influence to this day: the Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young. As a child, he received a plastic ukulele from his father, which marked the birth of his love for string instruments. Sixty years later, he still plays with the wisdom of a man who has seen life and with the sacred fire of a rocker who wants to keep rocking forever. And that is infectious.
A decade after the beautiful albums ‘Harvest’, ‘Tonight’s the Night’, ‘After the Goldrush’, ‘Zuma’, and ‘American Stars & Bars’, a young man in Drenthe wore out all that vinyl. He experienced the intensity and depth of Neil Young’s music and lyrics. Because it resonated with his own heart. In 2006, he started his Neil Young Tribute and played ‘On the Beach’ at the legendary beach club De Fuut in The Hague. People came in, closed their eyes, and wondered: ‘Who is this man?’ ‘Is that Neil Young?’.
Under the banner ‘Tonight’s the Night’, the four-man formation lets the audience experience the music of Neil Young in all its diversity: the raw electric work, the acoustic ‘country’, and the beautiful little solo songs. De Vries’s voice resembles Young’s so much that we must be dealing with a vocal doppelganger.
The starting point for the performances is always a specific record by ‘The Dinosaur’, supplemented with plenty of material from the masterpiece ‘Harvest’.
