-- RM (rm...) (webmail), December 25th, 2004 2:00 PM. (link)
I WISH this could be true; unfortunately while driving home the oldies station decided to inflict not one not two but THREE stephen stills songs on me in a row. so apparently people still like him.
meltzer is always way ahead of the curve, man.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 25 December 2004 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― KeithW (kmw), Saturday, 25 December 2004 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 25 December 2004 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Saturday, 25 December 2004 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Steely Zan (AaronHz), Saturday, 25 December 2004 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 25 December 2004 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― stew, Saturday, 25 December 2004 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link
frightening words
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 26 December 2004 01:41 (nineteen years ago) link
(Hey Michael, three-letter user names were great until the spammers came along; now every time someone spam-runs (all combinations)@mydomain, I'm one of the first stops.)
― Jeff Wright (JeffW1858), Sunday, 26 December 2004 02:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― bahtology, Sunday, 26 December 2004 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link
It might be the best example of sixties disillusionment put on record.
― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 02:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 03:10 (seventeen years ago) link
i like some of stills other solo stuff.
― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 03:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Wand Milius (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 03:35 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.nrk.no/img/493374.jpeg
― Hot Hot Heat (Hot Hot Heat), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 06:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 06:36 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 06:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 06:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hot Hot Heat (Hot Hot Heat), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 07:16 (seventeen years ago) link
I've just spent the last few days listening to "Stephen Stills" and "Stephen Stills 2". Perhaps the lyrical sentiments are tired and cliched, but the music and the performances are pretty damn good. Dude had a lot of southern white-boy soul.
And funny enough, I felt compelled to listen to these albums after I read Shakey. And Stills DEFINITELY was the most loathsome character in the book. I shied away from ever checking him out because I've always detested CSN, and only ever had time for Ohio and Helpless when it came to the CSNY canon.
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 21 September 2006 09:11 (seventeen years ago) link
Interesting
― C. Grisso/McCain, Monday, 25 June 2007 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I am totally interested, but I'm a fan of early Still.
― QuantumNoise, Monday, 25 June 2007 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link
"Change Partners" came in while I was shopping in Home Depot a couple weeks back and it sounded great.
that disc does look interesting, thanks for the heads-up.
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 00:22 (sixteen years ago) link
ok so I picked up 'Stephen Stills II' and "Change Partners" is truly incredible ... C'mon Amateurist
― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 08:29 (sixteen years ago) link
c'mon stormy, it took you this long?!?
― hstencil, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 08:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Stephen Stills sucks?
Well we wouldn't have had Christina Applegate if he hadn't...
― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 08:42 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah hstencil I am a lame-o, what can I say!! I am always late to the party. Other super later acquisitions include the entire Bonnie Raitt catalog which I have been gorging on recently/
"Change Partners"'s time changes -- verse/chorus-- are pretty and slinky, and this ode to 70s free love is real fine from where i sit
― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 08:49 (sixteen years ago) link
you're not lame - oh wait, you like bonnie raitt, maybe you are lame!
no seriously it had more to do with amateurist than anything. you're still my bro.
ps. kenny williams better make a trade already, amirite?
― hstencil, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 08:51 (sixteen years ago) link
dude the Sox bullpen is a travesty .. If they end up trading Buehrle, so be it, as far as I care -- Mark deserves better than the bunch of bums they assembled behind him. first five Bonnie Raitt albums are incredible, dude, check them out!!
― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 09:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i can't get behind raitt
i can get behind buehrle as a met tho!!!!!
(never will happen, dr. morbs doth protest too much)
(dude hates lo duca too, i don't get it)
― hstencil, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 09:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm rocking Manassas all the time. Stills put together some great over-amped Springfield/Sanatana/Hendrix type throwdowns. But I like the country-rock side the best.
I'm starting to check out the first couple Raitt albums. She's definitely channeling a post-Springfield California: early Little Feat, Paul Pena, singer-songwriter meets the blues. Cool.
― QuantumNoise, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/510FYuSKkOL._AA240_.jpg
http://www.amazon.com/Super-Session-Bloomfield/dp/B00008QSA5
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/510FYuSKkOL._AA240_.jpg
Rhino's new Manassas rarities package
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I like his demo of "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" - you can really hear his guitar playing and it's pretty amazing.
― Mark, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Isley Brothers version of "Love the One You're With" is killer.
― Garnet Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 00:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought I liked 'Turn Back The Pages' when I heard it once after not hearing it for 25 years. Then I realized I despise the sentiment of the lyric, the music isn't much, and the arrangement is pretty lame. I am so very sorry.
― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 02:14 (fourteen years ago) link
he doesn't suck, but good lord he can be irritating. i was just listening to a Stills-Young Band bootleg and it's sort of amazing how mush mouthed his singing was at that point. Like he didn't feel it necessary to sing his lyrics, just kinda approximate them vaguely. But he's got some good stuff. Like his collab w/ Al Kooper on "Season of the Witch" is pretty sweet. I don't think I've really heard Manassas, but I probably should.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 05:53 (fourteen years ago) link
besides buffalo springfield, it's the best thing he ever did.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Monday, 23 May 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link
hehe, cool! just getting into it
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 10:32 (one year ago) link
Ha, I was listening to a streaming radio station recently and this kinda swampy, kinda funky, early 70s rock banger came on and it totally turned by head cuz I certainly hadn't heard it before, couldn't quite place the singer thought he was def familiar and it was of course Manassas and I was like "goddammit I have to listen to the whole record now don't I?"
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 13:41 (one year ago) link
me too
am very much enjoying this thread. also very much missing scott seward at times like this.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 13:45 (one year ago) link
Stephen Stills aboard his boat "Manassas" docked in Gold Beach, Oregon in 1977. pic.twitter.com/T9esBbMfNB— JoyToKnow (@JoyToKnow1) October 13, 2018
I have my shipAnd all her flags are a-flyingShe is all that I have leftAnd music MANASSAS is her name!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:25 (one year ago) link
Just checking his wiki, learned a his pearl:
He sold out MSG the day before George Harrison organised the Concert For Bangladesh, and Stills donated his stage, sound, lighting system and production manager but was upset when Harrison "neglected to invite him to perform, mention his name, or say thank you". Stills then spent the show drunk in Ringo Starr's dressing room, "barking at everyone". Stills's Madison Square Garden show was professionally recorded and filmed but has never been released, although a filmed recording of "Go Back Home" was played in early 1972 on the Old Grey Whistle Test, and two acoustic tracks were released on Stills 2013 box set Carry On.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 9 October 2022 03:00 (one year ago) link
lol
― calstars, Sunday, 9 October 2022 09:43 (one year ago) link
I dunno, I'd probably be a little annoyed, too
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 9 October 2022 10:07 (one year ago) link
THat first Manassas lp is pretty great as were live sets I have heard from the time. & CSNY had some great guitar burn live too. I think I need to get his solo lp and the set of demoes from between Buffalo Springfield and CSN.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 9 October 2022 10:11 (one year ago) link
Somehow “stills barking at everyone” is very easy to imagine, backstage, maybe sitting on a fold out metal chair, whiskey in hand Also like to imagine “stills banking at everyone” where he’s still barking but also giving advice on credit default swaps and fx rates
― calstars, Sunday, 9 October 2022 11:18 (one year ago) link
The fact that he was married to Veronique Sanson blows my mind somewhat.
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Sunday, 9 October 2022 12:51 (one year ago) link
xp Yeah, I'd be annoyed too. Donating all that is no small thing, the least George could've done is say thank you. But getting drunk and yelling at everyone wasn't the way to handle it.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 9 October 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
psshIt’s the perfect way to handle it
― calstars, Sunday, 9 October 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
otm
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Sunday, 9 October 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
Stephen Stills did not like Punk Rock. Foreigner get a pass though. pic.twitter.com/dilG3ehFP8— Bobby Lee (@BobbyLeeBoogie) December 9, 2022
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Friday, 9 December 2022 18:28 (one year ago) link
johnny "rotten" is right
― mark s, Friday, 9 December 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
Is that real?
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Friday, 9 December 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
i sure hope so.
― Oh, Stevie, you are my number one gypsy goddess. (Austin), Friday, 9 December 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link
Dirty, Loud, and Tasteful: the Stephen Stills Storyby Stephen Stills
― Oh, Stevie, you are my number one gypsy goddess. (Austin), Friday, 9 December 2022 18:50 (one year ago) link
"FIRST QUESTION: IS THIS A GUY OR A CHICK?"
"sir this is a wienerschnitzel"
― Oh, Stevie, you are my number one gypsy goddess. (Austin), Friday, 9 December 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
Do you think he was slapping random things all offbeat when he said "That groove my man Mick is laying down"
― Oh, Stevie, you are my number one gypsy goddess. (Austin), Friday, 9 December 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 December 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link
xpost LOL!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 9 December 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
From FB:
"I keep bass strings on my bass for two years at a time. I play bass so hard that I really thump it so, when I get a new string, I buy some barbecue sauce and sit and rub it in. This is because it's got to get a little funky, rusty, and greasy in there so it will start to respond. And that's something you can't build on a machine." Stephen Stills
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:30 (one year ago) link
it rubs the BBQ sauce on its skin
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:31 (one year ago) link
so gross!
― listened to "Mississippi" one take too long (morrisp), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:32 (one year ago) link
Does he say what brand of BBQ sauce he uses? I need to know if thicker sauce = thicker bass
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:43 (one year ago) link
Anything left over from what the strings he slathers on his ribs.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:44 (one year ago) link
it's actually really common practice not to change bass strings, they are really "zingy" when they are new (talking roundwounds not flatwounds) that can be overly aggressive and unpleasant esp for certain kinds of music.
the god of bass, James Jamerson, never changed strings unless one broke. Plenty of Nashville guys and reggae guys too. It really does help get that deader thump sound. I've even read about some old Southern down home trick of rubbing bacon fat on bass strings.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:48 (one year ago) link
I personally only change them every year or two years when I take my bass into the shop for a setup and adjustment, I just have the shop put new ones on but I'm sure I've gone longer than that before.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:50 (one year ago) link
one time recently when I saw Shellac somebody asked Bob Weston how often he changes his bass strings and he said "every other show", so he must really like that zing
― sleeve, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link
they are a very zingy band
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 18:01 (one year ago) link
but yeah that makes sense, Bob's sound is totally new strings
Didn't Jaco do something similar using fried chicken grease or something?
I do question the authenticity of that blindfold test posted above. Did people use the phrase "killing it" back then? I'd go look for the source of the interview but I'm too lazy
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 18:54 (one year ago) link
And just to be clear, literally his own torso.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 21:23 (one year ago) link
Ahem. Bass Players Who Never Change(d) Their Strings
― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 22:06 (one year ago) link
Tired: Bass Players Who Never Change(d) Their Strings
Wired: Bass Players Who Never Change(d) Their Sauce
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 22:27 (one year ago) link
okay, he's a creep and i hate him and animal fat on the strings is a thing sure buuuut... actual bbq sauce and literal rusty strings? lolwhat!? is he okay?
― "i'm grateful." (Austin), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 22:47 (one year ago) link
the sauce is that extra mojo you need
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 22:48 (one year ago) link
okay, right. i like how dumble amps sound. i "get it man."
but the rust? (thinking emoji)
― "i'm grateful." (Austin), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 22:49 (one year ago) link
Rust Never Something Something
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 22:54 (one year ago) link