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― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
he kinda makes me think of an aged sasquatch
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://scaryredhair.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/harry-of-the-hendersons_2.jpg
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
I can't think of a single Stills song that's better than okay.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
yikes that "make love to you" song is awful
― velvet underground - reloaded (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
"Black Coral" has a good Stills piano part but, wow, I have no idea what he's trying to do with his vocal melody -- or if he's got one!
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
^^^
Nash has the Hollies stuff, Crosby has the Byrds + "If I Could Only Remember My Name", Neil's obviously got tons of great songs... Stills has nothing
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
i like about half of manassas a lot
― velvet underground - reloaded (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
stills has a decent run going from springfield/csny/manassas. he's got this too, which is pretty sweet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWkMMXgQohc
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
that's a cover!
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
as I'm sure you know
I've never heard the Manassas record
Appropriately, it's named after one of the bloodiest of Civil War battles.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
xp yeah it's a cover, but it shows off how good a guitarist he could be.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
poor steven stills looks like this lil fella in a hawaiian shirt
http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/c/caveman.jpg
― i drive a wood paneled station dragon (La Lechera), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
Not sure if this means just solo, but if not, to me there are a bunch of great ones (some I already named on a Buffalo Springfield thread): "Go and Say Goodbye," "Hung Upside Down," "Rock & Roll Woman," "Four Days Gone," "Special Care," "Uno Mundo," "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," "Everybody I Love You" (the last was co-written with Neil; everything else was his alone). I think he was a really talented guy who a) is easy to knock today because he wasn't Neil, and because he got sillier and sillier as he got older, and b) seemed to have gotten a little messed up because he also realized he wasn't as good as Neil.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
i'm a Stills hater for the most part, but dudes, "FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH"
― In the long run, we will all be cyberpunks (Z S), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
A fair assessment. I don't know the BS stuff as well as I should.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
He also auditioned for the Monkees, so he gets many bonus story-telling points. Sorry--can't believe I forgot "For What It's Worth."
― clemenza, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
Listened to After The Goldrush again today. It ruled.
Also heard a live solo version of "Ohio" w/o those nails on chalkboard CSN harmonies and it was such an improvement.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
I can listen to "For What It's Worth" thanks to (a) The Muppets (b) Public Enemy's interpolation
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
I just did some online reading about Stills' Monkees audition and had a major misconception corrected (I think--it's the internet). I was always under the impression that he was turned away--you'd even often read that they said no because he actually knew how to play music. I found two different sources, though, that said he in fact landed one of the four parts and had to drop out because of another record contract he'd already signed.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Stills and Dewey Martin actually played on some Tork/Monkees sessions in '67-'68.
― Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't mean for "because he actually knew how to play music" to come across as sarcasm. I love the Monkees.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
[x-post]Wow, sorry for the triple post. :-O
― Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
Stills basically didn't realise that being an amazing guitarist didn't mean he also had to try to be a songwriter
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
tbh I don't really dig For What It's Worth all that much. it's so over-exposed I can't really find a way into enjoying it.
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
Stop Shakey what's that sound
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
the melodious keening of sasquatch
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
it's so over-exposed I can't really find a way into enjoying it.
if you weren't vice-prez of the Forrest Gump fanclub you probably wouldn't have to hear it so much
― In the long run, we will all be cyberpunks (Z S), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
Agree that "For What It's Worth" is badly overexposed--it, "Purple Haze," and "Somebody to Love" (or "White Rabbit") are the default songs for any footage involving Vietnam or hippies or LBJ. I wish somebody would have the imagination to use something like "Trouble Every Day" or "Omaha" instead.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m0yCM5uhQU
― i drive a wood paneled station dragon (La Lechera), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
My introduction!
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWTqj5lvkFs
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
I feel like I oughta know, but who's the host?
― clemenza, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
the guitar bit on that 2nd track sounds like a direct rip of Jumpin Jack Flash. what's the chronology?
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
"Mr. Soul" predates "Jumpin' Jack Flash" by over a year.
Also, it's weird how certain aspects -- the lead vocals, part of Neil's solo -- are live, and the rest is canned. And I've never heard that little backwards-guitar bit before.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnH--RjdmTc
always loved this song - his version is fine enough, but the isleys (and aretha, for that matter) made it fly.
― low content wine racing (stevie), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 07:22 (twelve years ago) link
The Seger version is pretty nice too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Wp-MhcZ6g
― Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 07:30 (twelve years ago) link
I thought Mr. Soul was an obvious rip of Satisfaction, not Jumpin Jack Flash...?
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i think stills didn't want to do that song because the riff was so similar to satisfaction. the riff is definitely derived from it, but once the song gets going i pretty much forget about it.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
I like a lot Stills' songs for Buffalo Springfield, it's his voice I don't like
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
I'll rep for this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbXKEjIApac
Rock and Roll Woman
― Lee547 (Lee626), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
love loads of stills' buffalo stuff... 'hot dusty roads' is great.
― assume makes an ass out of u and me (but mainly u) (stevie), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
here's a comp i made of (mostly) lost songs from 1973-1980. mainly avoiding chrome dreams stuff. http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/11101846032/sad-movies-a-secret-history-of-neil-youngsome incredible songs/performances. crazy that it's just scratching the surface of unreleased material from that period. bring on archives II!!!!
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
ooh!
yr a prince
― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks!
― Brad C., Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
thanks tyler! i added your blog to my reader at some point but then i stopped checking it, so i am always glad when you repost stuff.
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Thursday, 6 October 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
cool. there's some key stuff on this comp, some of it more readily available than others, but all in all it's pretty solid. even all the CSNY 74 songs are great. at that point he could write a total throwaway like "hawaiian sunrise" and it would still turn out amazing.
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 October 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link