Micah Nelson Hopeful For Neil Young & Promise Of The Real Fall Tour

This summer’s Neil Young and Promise of The Real Rebel Content Tour was a winner thanks to the rarity-filled setlists and impressive improvisation found at most stops. Those hoping for another tour featuring the 69-year-guitarist and his band of 20-somethings just may be in luck according to a Rolling Stone article about the tour.

Rolling Stone’s Andy Greene spoke with guitarist Micah Nelson about performing with Neil Young and his brother Lukas’ band, Promise Of The Real. Micah reveals the tentative plan for a fall tour, “The rumor at the end of this run was that we’d start at Farm Aid [on September 18th] and then tour with Neil up the West Coast leading to the Bridge School Benefit [on October 24th.] I think it’s gonna happen. I hope it’s gonna happen. It sounds like it’s gonna happen, but I honestly have no idea. It’s an interesting process of getting information in the Neil world. His management will hear things after my brother and I hear them, or I won’t know that something is happening until I read about it in the press. There’s no system of communication. It just happens.”

Anything and everything in the world of Neil Young is subject to change at any moment, but Neil has shared a few messages that hint at another tour:

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Micah discusses many of the tour’s key moments including the 20-minute “Cortez The Killer” encore the ensemble laid down in Wantagh, New York on July 21:

“At the end, Neil played that three note riff for what seemed like 10 minutes straight while we all danced around the stage, waving our guitars like we were having a lightsaber battle. He hit the whammy bar so hard, all the strings just ripped out of the guitar. It wasn’t just one of my favorite moments of the tour, but of my entire life,” Nelson said about the Jones Beach “Cortez.”

Head to Rolling Stone for more of Micah’s thoughts about performing with Neil Young.