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

I really like Stephen Stills lead playing on Wooden Ships. It has this really warm neck pickup sound with a bunch of tone rolled off, kind of a rock and roll jazz box sound which really fits in nice in the tune.

The movie poster:

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/rolling-stone/63-1.jpg

I listened to the "CSN" album the other day and actually find it rather fine. It may not be as essential as the first couple of albums, but it's still a nice late 70s softrock effort.

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgu33ndVwj1qdf09mo1_500.png
this was supposed to be the cover of the second CSNY album "Human Highway" (which obv. never came out). pretty gnarly pic though.

are there bootlegs of that album or did the songs just make it onto other records?

there's a csny version of human highway on bootlegs, other than that, I don't think they actually recorded all that much. "through my sails" from zuma might be from those sessions? i think i remember reading that only neil had actually written songs.

human hairway

http://www.hulu.com/watch/244673/late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-neil-young-with-crosby-and-nash-party-in-the-usa

Sounds like "LA Pt.2".

Listening to any CSNY is a constant reminder of the vast gulf between talent and genius.

The late 70s s/t knocks all other CSN albums on their ass. (solo and otherwise). Great songwriting, outstanding backing band, and top production. Cathedral, man, what a thing; gorgeous ending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kg0v0Er8Ak

CSNY & J

ha the looks crosby gives to tom

wish they'd replaced Stills w/ TJ

croz on the stil forthcoming CSNY 1974 live thing, via the twitter:
"It's going to be ....may well be the best Iive record ,certainly of us ..maybe you ever heard"

"It was a tour that reached a level of perfection the world had never before experienced--you know, just before Neil got bored and quit."

i like how he qualifies it with: "certainly of us" ... so, it's better than 4-Way Street, you say?

ha that tweet is great.

"It's going to be *takes bongrip* the best *cough cough* i mean, certainly of us... "

*long stoned silence*

"Maybe you've heard?"

a preview of what to expect...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mCKLt7A6sA

"It was a tour that reached a level of perfection the world had never before experienced--you know, just before Neil got bored and quit we split due to our sideburns newfangled 'artistic differences'."

― clemenza, Tuesday, April 9, 2013 2:48 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fixed

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/crosby-stills-nash-young-to-release-long-awaited-1974-live-album-in-august-20130416

lol at this:
The 1974 tour wrapped at London's Wembley Stadium on September 14th. They filmed that night and at least one other, but don't expect to see any video footage in this package. "I don't think Neil's gonna go for that," says Crosby. "He doesn't like the way he looked. He doesn't like his haircut on that tour."

also kinda lol but also sad
"I'd love to be Neil's friend," says Nash. "We're great friends on some level and great acquaintances and musical partners on some level, but I can't call Neil my friend. I had never had his cell phone number. That's a small detail, but very deep."

Someone should tell Nash that Neil Young does not have a cell phone. He's been sitting by his rotary dial waiting for Nash to call.

Actually, I get the impression Neil Young spends pretty much all his time less than 50 feet from the few people he'd ever want to call him on his cell phone. If he had one.

(If Neil Young had a cell phone, surely we'd have gotten a smart phone concept album by now.)

neil has a cell phone, but it only accepts calls in PONO fidelity. PHONO.

The only way to get Archives II is to sign a three year service plan for Phono from Crazy Horse Mobile.

how many years has Nash complained about Young not hanging out with him?

pretty much since neil joined the band.

He doesn't like his haircut on that tour.

megalol never change Neil

http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2014/05/crosby-stills-nash-young-live-1974-box.html?m=1

looks good. missing unreleased neil song is "homefires"... otherwise, i'm looking forward to it.

awesome cover photo
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fdRnXm9hJtQ/U34XnwOOuHI/AAAAAAAAJrg/NKBOzhFq-mI/s1600/csny-1974-joel-bernstein-oakland.jpg

One issue they faced was Neil Young's intense focus on audio quality. "Neil Young, God bless his cotton socks, has always wanted the audio to get as close to the recording experience as possible," says Nash. "He wanted us to do it in 24/192, and that's what we did. Of course, that happened one-third of the way into the project, so we had to redo an awful lot of stuff. But it sounds totally amazing. There's 40 songs and they'll show people that we were a very, very decent rock band."

I can see from that picture why Neil wasnt happy with his haircut.

missing unreleased neil song is "homefires"...

lol misread as "homefries"

homefries are all right with me

Written for this film IIRC

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9c/Home_fries_poster.jpg/220px-Home_fries_poster.jpg

did Don 'n' Glenn see this tour?

"a very, very decent rock band."

as opposed to coke-fueled Stills declaration: "We were the best fucking band in the history of the world, and that includes the Beatles, and Paul could barely play bass anyway."

DON: The CSNY tour of 1974 changed the way we all did things. Never before could a group or performer who wasn't Elvis do this massive, anything goes stadium touring party with all their friends in tow. Not the Stones. Not The Who. Nobody had that power yet. We thought, "We've got the harmonies, the meaningful songs, all the right friends, great PA equipment--we can do this!"

GLENN: But there were downsides to that excess. Three Sets? Solo Segments? Four hour shows? Fuck that noise! Two hours, one encore, wine, coke & an Eagles handjob backstage, punch Felder in the nose in the limo, call Randy a dickweed in the lobby, chainsaw party with Walsh back at the hotel--that's a show!

DON: Well, yeah.

my inner 16-year-old remembers a massive neil/joni duet on "sugar mountain" at the roosevelt raceway show. doesn't look like it made the cut tho.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-oral-history-of-csnys-infamous-doom-tour-20140619?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

haha that is great, so many quotable lines. there should be a whole book of this shit.

I would have been happy to read 200% more of that article (except for the goddamn typos, Jesus H. Christ).

"Stills: "I had just come back from coral diving in Hawaii. I was tan and really cut. There's an album cover of a solo album [1975's Stills] shot at those rehearsals. I look at it now and go, 'I want that body back!"I wore football jerseys before it was cool. People like Jann Wenner would always ask me, 'What's with the football uniform?' I'd say, 'We're in a football stadium and they're loud and colorful. And I like football.' The next year Mick Jagger shows up with a Philadelphia Eagles uniform at a show."

evidently still(s) on the rails

lmao @ stills throughout this piece:

Stills: "They didn't have video screens back then. I remember seeing the Beatles at Dodger Stadium. I thought to myself, 'There should be drive-in movie screens. What's wrong with these people?' Years later, I went to New York and tried to sell these pretty heavy-duty guys on how to do concerts. I said to them, 'You should have drive-in screens with a closed circuit feed of the show if you're doing things this big.' They looked at me like I was from Mars. Who knew that would become the standard for the industry? I was a very inventive twenty-three year old punk."

Nash: "Somewhere in the Midwest, I think in Minneapolis, we were at the hotel after the show and Bob Dylan came by. Stephen and Tim Drummond immediately corralled him into a different room and shut the door. That wasn't nice."

Drummond: "He played us all the songs from Blood on the Tracks on acoustic guitar. We were on twin beds, across from each other. Oh God, I can't tell you how great it was. At one point Stephen said something to him about the songs not being good. I was so Goddamn embarrassed. He was probably coked out. Dylan, being the arrogant man that he was said, 'Well, Stephen, play me one of your songs.' That was the end of it. Stephen couldn't even find one string from another at that point."

Nash: "Stephen walked out of the room and said to me, 'Bob's no musician.' In the back of my mind, I also remember Stephen buying a Precision bass for Paul McCartney and telling him it was time to start playing a 'real' instrument and not his old Hoffman. He's saying this to one of the greatest bass players in the world."

feel like drummond needs to write a memoir

Love Tim Drummond, but surely Macca was playing the Rickenbacker at that point.

McCartney has never retired the Höfner, apparently. At every point in his career, he has kept it around (although yes there have been Rickenbackers and Wals).

I would love to get this '74 set on vinyl but afaik the only vinyl version is that $500 boxset beast which does sound awesome. but no way.