Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young: C/D, S/D

My parents had the CSNY hits album, so I heard that a lot. The best song on it was "Ohio," which set me up for further Neil explorations later.

I'm no great CSN(Y) stan but the first two CSN(Y) records run circles around any full-length the Eagles recorded.

After surviving the Eagles listening thread, deep in my heart I know this to be true

CSN each had one classic solo album in them imo. songs for beginners, if I could only remember my name, and manassas (which is hardly solo at all but I'll throw stills a bone.)

Crosby and Nash were a good duo. idk I think CSN overall had a pretty solid run.

nah

al leong otm, obviously 2 of these guys are buffoons, one of them is a genius who's still pretty easy to mock, but the sum of all their recorded output has truly awesome moments and a lot of pretty good ones.

I think that applies to me. I was vaguely aware of them beforehand but always ignored them because everyone in it who is not Neil Young was awful.

― Οὖτις, Friday, June 20, 2014 9:29 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sorry but this is absolutely ridiculous. Makes no sense. Every guy in that band except for Nash had some transcendent moments. This kind of post does nobody any good.

lol

oh shit bill magill is otm

i want to elect bill magill sheriff of oldtimey ilxtown

I mean idon't post on a csny board is u think 75% of the group is "awful". I don't post on one direction or 5 seconds of summer boards, this clown should steer clear.

haha

bill otm though i do need to offer a rebuttal to that last point:

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/zeppelin19102013.jpg

is there really a band called 5 seconds of summer? how is bill magill more in touch w/ the streets than me????

Being a young Zep-head is why I initially resisted the dulcet harmonies of CSN, but thankfully I eventually began to enjoy music that didn't rock with a capital-R

no offense to Zep, legends forever obviously, and a group I still enjoy more than just about any of their contemporaries.

I'll take Nash's best songs w the Hollies over any shit Crosby or Stills ever wrote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbgYwHEneP8

Plant and Bonham covering Stills pre-Zep:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq_7Dz4txY0

also: guitar riff in Zep's "Friends" = guitar riff from CNS&Y "Carry On"

Thanks. Little bit of "For What It's Worth" at the end of this: Zep with Neil playing lead, "When The Levee Breaks."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aFqjP1iuzY

http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012/10/01/22_nystillsnash_co-2f31c432a2fa73d960e1c7e0012fffc01c42dbcc.jpg?s=6

I’m basically a blues singer and blues singers are supposed to suffer.

http://cdn.mos.totalfilm.com/images/j/jake-blues-the-blues-brothers-_142168-fli_1375801117.jpg

lol al

Would pay good money to see CSNY take on the Illinois Nazis.

Side 2 of led zep III is not that far away from the first CSN record. That was my entrance.

So the songs are copy and paste jobs...does it matter? Doesn't bother me but glad I know.

Also see link to Neil arcana at the bottom of this article:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/crosby-stills-nash-young-may-release-deja-vu-box-set-20140626?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

Really like the long electric jams, which for a while were Down By The River but I think became something else later. I have one version of that by them that's 20 minutes long of 3 or 4 guitars blazing with a zen like repetitive rhythm instrument that keeps repeating. Think it may be a '69 Balboa Park set.

AQ lotof the '74 sets have been turning up on Dime recently. Haven't really taken in what the new '74 box set is, is that Wembley? Would explain why there wouldn't be overlap with US and Canadian shows being upped if so

Love the clip of them doing Down By The River from the Festival at Big Sur film. Don't really like the Stills scene elsewhere in that film, guess that would be 'telling it like it is' at the time or something.

Still not familiar with the 4 Way street set, saw that it used to not get much critical recognition but was taht because of the band or it not being a good live lp by them, since I do love them, at least the electric sets by them, elsewhere.

http://photos-e.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-xap1/10488585_1441202232799508_246518657_n.jpg

Scored this yesterday for $1.50! I was flipping through pages randomly and it looks like the captions to the photos are all descriptions of what drugs he was on at the time.

Never forget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti87WdGDGBY&feature=kp

Lots more to it than the captions though:

Speaking of oral history, don't miss the Cros's autobio, which sometimes looks like the Synoptic Gospels, with ancient heads giving various accounts of the same incident, on the same page (of the book, that is).

― dow, Friday, June 20, 2014 5:51 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It's insidiously entertaining. Had me considering the actual purchase of old Cros albums I'd heard and knew were shit (but did I really know? If I could only remember my brane)

http://m.rollingstone.com/music/news/crosby-stills-nash-young-may-release-deja-vu-box-set-20140626

lol at Shakey itt. David Crosby is a musician's musician, if you actually give a shit about harmony your respect for him has to be at the level of respect you give Brian Wilson. I personally don't dig the Beach Boys, that's just me, but you'll never find me talking shit about B.W.'s actual musicianship, because I'm not a total moron. Any take other than "David Crosby is an outstanding musician" is straight ignorance

I did not disparage his musicianship fyi

For Cosby, musicianship plus voice. Guy has great pipes.

David Crosby burned brightly but briefly.

Any take other than "David Crosby is an outstanding musician" is straight ignorance

this is suspiciously close to:

http://www.wwlax.org/uploads/2/6/8/7/26877109/4259749_orig.jpg

http://domenicpriore.hollywoodhangover.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/scan0003-lg.jpg

He's my least favorite voice in the Byrds. (I have a harder time picking him out of CSNY)

Not that hard to pick him out

Guinnevere
Almost Cut My Hair
Deja Vu

I'm assuming he can't pick DC out because he can't stand to listen to CSNY for long enough.

crosby's great. it's too bad he didn't make at least four or five more records like if i could only remember in the 70s.

I meant I have a harder time picking his voice out from their harmonies

I know which horrible songs he wrote

Aww sadface!

Crosby's new album "Croz" is dope. Better than anything I expected out of dude at this date.

lol at this from first response:

I follow Strunk and White..."in the names of business firms the last comma is usually omitted."

Another preview:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hear-neil-youngs-only-love-can-break-your-heart-from-csny-1974-20140701?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

the new david crosby album is kinda ok!!!

Never forget Stills' cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NinBbafMn3c