Neil Young has explained the recent cancellation of his tour with Crazy Horse.
Back in June, Young and the band cancelled remaining shows, saying that some band members had taken ill following a gig in Detroit.
Confirming the decision to cancel their tour via his Neil Young Archives website, the singer said that they would have to take "a big unplanned break".
Speaking on a recent Zoom conference call for his Neil Young Archives followers via a video on Reddit, Young had this to say.
“I was doing great and we were moving right along. Everybody’s loving the shows. Then I just woke up one morning on the bus and I said, ‘I can’t do this. I gotta stop.’ It was like I felt sick when I thought of going on stage", he said.
Young continued: “My body was telling me, ‘You gotta stop.’ So I listened to my body. Then it gets into all the legal matters: ‘You got this, you got that, people bought tickets, they did this, they did that.’ I understand that. What matters to me is the art of playing, and the music. That’s what matters. That’s what people loved. That’s what they come to see. But if that’s not there, me going is not happening. My body told me to not do it".
Elsewhere, Neil Young also shared a fresh update regarding the health of his Crazy Horse bandmates.
“But now I’m starting to feel like I could do it again and that’s a great feeling. Not all of Crazy Horse — this happened to a couple of us, and we’re not all the way back. Crazy Horse will be back, god willing. And we’ll play more", he revealed.
Young also outlined plans to return with a bigger tour soon.
“We haven’t announced any shows yet, but they are mostly theaters that I played before, little theaters, and then I can play a little bit of acoustic, and then have the band come out and play. They’ll probably be on the East Coast and then going towards Michigan and then Ohio, and then a few other ones. They won’t be marathons. They won’t be two hours and 10 minutes of blasting rock and roll like it was with Crazy Horse", he said.
