In 1976 Neil Young and Crazy Horse went on an extensive tour of Japan and Europe. The tour started in Japan and hit a substantial number of European venues before ending in Glasgow, Scotland, on April 2. The only dates in England were a four-show run at the Hammersmith Odeon in London from March 28 to 31. The quintessential Neil Young & Crazy Horse album Zuma had been released just a few months earlier, in November 1975 and it included one of the best-known songs they’ve ever done together, the fertile jam and concert favorite, much-covered by admirers, “Cortez the Killer.”

Neil Young aficionados recognize this video, recorded on the last night of that run, on March 31, 1976, as one of the finest out there, this even though it’s in black and white and isn’t that interesting from a visual perspective. This chunk sometimes makes it to YouTube but then gets yanked, as we (accurately) warned readers of a similar upload back in 2013.

This one’s been up for a few months, so fingers crossed......
 

 
From Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography by Jimmy McDonough we get this amusing account of an unwitting solo performance from that same night by Frank Sampedro that benefited from a little pharmaceutical enhancement:
 

A show at London’s Hammersmith Odeon at the end of March was also being filmed and recorded, and Billy and Poncho dropped acid again. “I can vividly remember ‘Southern Man,’” said Sampedro. “It was wildly out of control—fast, slow, up, down, everywhere. At the end we were singing. I had my eyes closed and I hear this little tiny voice and I turn around and it was just me. Everybody else had quit even playin’.”

 
Alas, that song is not part of this video, which does includes “Tell Me Why,” “Stringman,” “Human Highway,” “Down By The River,” and a sweet “Cortez the Killer.”
 

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
‘Oh Susannah’: Track from new Neil Young and Crazy Horse album