Neil Finn - Home Concerts 2, Los Angeles, CA, 3-29-2020 to 4-4-2020

Since I've gotten a good response to the first Neil Finn home concert I posted, here's another one. I've made six so far, and this is one of my favorites. I think it's especially interesting because a majority of the songs he plays are cover versions.

As I mentioned in my last post about him, Finn is performing a home concert nearly every single day. Note though that not all of them are being posted on the Internet for later listening. For instance, yesterday's was not. So if you want to hear them all, you should listen live, here:

https://www.neilfinn.com/fangradio

These are the cover versions he does this time:

Quicksand - David Bowie

After the Gold Rush - Neil Young
Love Song - Lesley Duncan / Elton John
Across the Universe - Beatles
Soul Love - David Bowie
Ashes to Ashes - David Bowie
Here Comes the Sun - Beatles

Note that he did no less than three David Bowie covers! So far, he's done a lot of nice Bowie covers, including one of "Heroes" that has been getting some traction on YouTube, with half a million views so far. I'll include that in a later album in this series. The version of "Ashes to Ashes" here is especially interesting, because it's not usually done in a solo acoustic format.

By the way, sometimes he's messed up playing these songs, since he's usually winging it. For instance, he messed up badly on Quicksand and stopped in the middle of the song. But I managed to edit out his main flub, so the pause is gone. But he also hits a few wrong chords here and there, or forgets a few words, or the like. I don't mind though, and you shouldn't either, because he's taking a lot of risks, and the result is a bunch of new music nearly every single day. As I mentioned in my last blog post on him, if he really messes up badly, he stops playing the song altogether and then almost always gives it another go on the next day, in which he gets it right. I'm not including the flubbed versions.

01. She Will Have Her Way (Neil Finn)
02. Quicksand (Neil Finn)
03. After the Gold Rush (Neil Finn)
04. Love Song (Neil Finn)
05. Across the Universe (Neil Finn)
06. Message to My Girl (Neil Finn)
07. The Climber (Neil Finn)
08. Soul Love (Neil Finn)
09. Into the Sunset (Neil Finn)
10. Elephants (Neil Finn)
11. Last to Know (Neil Finn)
12. Ashes to Ashes (Neil Finn)
13. Here Comes the Sun (Neil Finn)

https://www73.zippyshare.com/v/a5I8cLGe/file.html

The cover art is a screenshot taken from one of the few YouTube videos he's made from his home concerts series. This one comes from his "Heroes" video.