we came
to praise geezers
not to bury them.
(Pete, still churning it out with that same energy and anger, talking ’bout his generation)
Photos by Marie Feeney
Pete Townsend at Desert Trip 2016
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Paul McCartney and Neil Young at Desert Trip
A few quotes from Neil:
“I tell you what….naw, I won’t tell you what”.
“Roger (Waters) is going to build a wall tomorrow night to make Mexico great again”.
Neil joined Paul McCartney on stage for “A Day in the Life”, “Give Peace a Chance” and “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road”. For me, this was the highlight of the weekend. McCartney has recorded with Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Elvis Costello, Rihanna without ever getting close to the partnership he had with John Lennon and it occurred to me watching him with Neil Young that he was not only enjoying himself immensely but I got the sense that he was up there with someone who has a melodic and lyric talent in the same league as Lennon, but above all else, someone who has Lennon’s love of anarchy.
The Piano Men:
Another quote from Neil:
“We’ll play ‘Down by the River’ when we’re ready to play ‘Down by the River'”.
And he eventually did in a great set that included “Powderfinger”, “Out on the Weekend”, “Words”, “Human Highway” and of course “Rockin’ in the Free World”.
All Photos by Marie Feeney
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“And the desert is an absence
the road an endless trance”
From “The Road” by The Mitchell Feeney Project. Click here to check out our album, also available on iTunes (search for “The Mitchell Feeney Project”).
Roger Waters at Desert Trip (a poem, photos and a shameless segue)
A Conversation Overheard at the Craft Beer Barn at Desert Trip (a triple slimverse)
I’m from New
Yawk, we were
raised to hate
Donald Trump.
My mother
used to say:
beware of
the man with
orange hair,
beware of
the man with
orange hair.
Roger
“The Sun is the same
in a relative way
but you’re older”
Maybe so, but Roger has lost none of his anger, he managed to have a go at Donald Trump and the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestine and entertain 75,000 people at the same time. Oh yes, and that pig in the title photo carried a none too subtle message.
This incensed the guy in front of us, who was obviously a Trump supporter, he started to swear at the pig, and give it the finger, but the pig sailed on full of truth and helium.
(All photos by Marie Feeney)
Shameless Segue
“He’s got a concealed weapon’s licence
a shot gun and a rack,
and he has no idea
how he’ll pay the hospital bill
he says guns never hurt nobody
only people kill”
from “Saturday Morning in Idabel” by The Mitchell Feeney Project. Click here to check out our album, also available on iTunes (search for “The Mitchell Feeney Project”).
