Cripple Creek performs Neil Young's "After The Gold Rush" *seated show*
Sat, 04 July
|Lyric's Underground


Time & Location
04 July 2020, 7:00 pm
Lyric's Underground, 22 Lyric Ln, Maylands WA 6051, Australia
About the event
Some of Perth's finest players get together to perform Neil Young's iconic album After The Good Rush for a seated show at Lyric's Underground on Saturday, July 4. The '60s were barely over and the '70s just starting when Neil Young recorded a requiem for the era. The mournful title track to his third album, After the Gold Rush (which was released on Sept. 19, 1970), is ostensibly an ode to the environment, but viewed from other angles, deeper implications surface. It's also the end of an early chapter in Young's career. After breaking from Buffalo Springfield and releasing his debut solo album in 1968, the singer-songwriter would begin what would become the first of many career left turns. On 1969's Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, he plugged in and scraped away at the scabs with the young Crazy Horse. But by the following year, when he was set to make a follow-up LP, he had fired them (but retained a…