Neil Young Shares Rare Live Performance of ‘Silver & Gold’
The deep cut is taken from Neil Young’s 2000 album, Silver and Gold.
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Neil Young has got into the festive spirit by sharing a video of himself performing ‘Silver & Gold’ for the first time in nearly two decades.
Originally written by Young in the 80s, ‘Silver & Gold’ didn’t appear on record until 2000s Silver & Gold. It’s one of many deep cuts Young rarely plays live, with the most recent live version of the song coming in 2007.
Discussing the song in an interview with KGSR Radio in 2000, as shared by Rolling Stone Magazine, Young said, “I tried it several ways. And it was such a nice, it’s just such a song, you know. It just kind of lives with the guitar. It’s just there.”
Young continued, “I really recorded, I think, a total of 11 times with different people in all kinds of different configurations. And we got ’em all, none of them are worth listening to. But this one here finally just got back to the roots of it and just sat down with my guitar and played it and said, ‘That’s it.’ Because I love the song and I feel the song now and it means something to me now.
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Along with sharing the performance of ‘Silver & Gold’, Young recently took to his website Neil Young Archives to reveal he and his band Chrome Hearts are dropping a new album in 2025, Takin To The Trees.
Young and co also plan on taking the record on the road, performing shows across the US and Europe.
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