At about 4 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, a affiliate of the Shoreline Amphitheatre aegis detail radioed his co-workers to acquaint them that Guns N' Roses' bout bus had accustomed at the venue. Now, Axl Rose isn't absolutely accepted to be punctual, so for him to access at a area with the sun still out, there have to be a acceptable reason. And there was: GNR, forth with Jack White, the Flaming Lips and Ray LaMontagne, up-and-comers like Gary Clark Jr. and Foster the People, and songstresses k.d. lang, Sarah McLachlan, and Lucinda Williams were all appointed to accomplish at the Mountain View area for the aboriginal night of Neil Young's anniversary Bridge School account concert, now in its 26th year of adopting money for accouchement with accent and concrete impairments.
If Rose did access at 4 p.m., he fabricated it in time to see Young himself accessible the anniversary by assuming "Sugar Mountain" to the Bridge School acceptance and their families, who sat in the rafters anon abaft the date for the absoluteness of the about nine-hour show. Young afresh arrive his wife Pegi to accompany him on a poignant, attractive arrangement of "Comes a Time." Eight hours and a dozen acts later, Young, this time abutting by Crazy Horse, would acknowledgment to the stage.
Photos: Live at the 2012 Bridge School Benefit
Gary Clark Jr. had the unenviable role of afterward Young and arena for the masses of concertgoers award their seats or spots on the backyard afterwards the mile-long airing from the parking lot. Afterwards ambience the accent for the night with active performances of "When My Train Pulls In" and "Don't Owe You a Thang," Clark's set was abominably cut abbreviate afterwards three songs due to the bound scheduling. Foster the People acceptable encountered the aforementioned bearings if their about-face accustomed afterwards on: They performed a scattering of tracks, including the hit "Don't Stop (Color the Walls)," but "Pumped Up Kicks" didn't accomplish the cut.
After four hours of music – including an alluring and funny set by Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers – it was time for the Flaming Lips, who would conceivably be the a lot of abandoned by the Bridge School's all-acoustic doctrine. No matter, Wayne Coyne had a abstruse weapon: Actor and animal exhausted box Reggie Watts, who replicated every abysmal bass, 808, and absent complete aftereffect on "Fight Test," "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots," and "It's Summertime." To abutting out their set, the Lips abashed the army with a awning of the Beatles' ballsy "A Day in the Life," featuring Coyne and Watts administration articulate duties (with the actor aboveboard account the lyrics off his corpuscle phone).
Next up was Jack White and his all-female abetment band, who helped accomplish the Blunderbuss-heavy actual complete as admitting it was getting interpreted by the Rolling Thunder Revue. White captivated up his 30-minute set with a brace of White Stripes classics: A rollicking, country-fried adaptation of "Hotel Yorba" and the breakable "We're Going to Be Friends."
After White's set, there was a longer-than-usual breach afore the next appointed act, Guns N' Roses. The crowd, already afraid from the arctic weather, was growing restless. Some admirers associates audibly wondered whether Axl was about to demolition the Bridge School account with his now-infamous antics. However, the adjournment was due to what concluded up getting the night's better surprise: an abrupt achievement by Pearl Jam frontman and Neil Young acolyte Eddie Vedder.
The admirers anon access into revelry. "This is the endure abode I anticipation I'd be if I woke up today . . . aperture for Guns N' Roses," Vedder joked afore ablution into "Last Kiss," which he said was a admired of one of the Bridge School students. He followed that up with "Elderly Woman," and with the army now in agitation from his abruptness performance, he bound exited to let GNR yield the stage.
If an all-acoustic concert seems like the absolute ambience for GNR to focus on the aback bisected of their EP Lies, that aforementioned angle didn't escape Axl: Three of the seven songs GNR performed were adopted from that disc: Set opener "You're Crazy" (with Axl bottomward the F-bomb in foreground of an admirers of accouchement no beneath than 5 times), "Used to Love Her," and "Patience." The butt of the set was angled out by exhilarating, beginning takes on Appetite for Destruction's three better singles, "Welcome to the Jungle," "Sweet Child O' Mine" and "Paradise City." Credit aswell has to go to GNR's army of guitarists – abnormally DJ Ashba and Bumblefoot – for involving the Bridge School kids in the performance.
Finally, it was time for the Godfather of Grunge, Neil Young. Like the majority of shows on this accepted Young trek, the Bridge School set account focused on actual from his accessible Psychedelic Pill, admitting in acoustic form, from the autobiographical "Born in Ontario" to the Dylan/Grateful Dead accolade "Twisted Road" and a tight, truncated arrangement of the behemothic "Ramada Inn." Alongside old favorites like "Powderfinger" and "The Needle and the Damage Done," Neil did bandy some ambit balls: The unreleased "Singer Without a Song," featuring Young on piano, resurfaced already again, and Crazy Horse bankrupt out "Like a Hurricane," which hadn't been played at the Shoreline Amphitheatre for about a decade.
That clue set the date for the evening's final performance, the acceptable all-star jam. Vedder, White, Coyne, Watts, Foster the People, everybody – except Axl – abutting Young for a activation arrangement of "Rockin' in the Free World," its mantra alveolate in the active of bags of annoyed music admirers as they journeyed aback against the parking lots, acquisitive to acquaintance the accomplished accident afresh on Sunday.
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