stephen stills sucks

It might be the best example of sixties disillusionment put on record.

i like some of stills other solo stuff.

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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.

Interesting

I am totally interested, but I'm a fan of early Still.

"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.

ok so I picked up 'Stephen Stills II' and "Change Partners" is truly incredible ... C'mon Amateurist

c'mon stormy, it took you this long?!?

Stephen Stills sucks?

Well we wouldn't have had Christina Applegate if he hadn't...

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

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?

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!!

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)

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.

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http://www.amazon.com/Super-Session-Bloomfield/dp/B00008QSA5

i mean http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/510FYuSKkOL._AA240_.jpg

Rhino's new Manassas rarities package

I like his demo of "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" - you can really hear his guitar playing and it's pretty amazing.

Isley Brothers version of "Love the One You're With" is killer.

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.

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.

I wanted to like Manassas, but I'm just couldn't get with Stills' use of Latin sounds. Think "Uno Mundo" but for long suites at a time. One of these days maybe I'll see what's great about it.

What a fascinating thread.

Well, teh Latin stuff is only one side of the double album...

Really? I guess I never got that far. I still have the cd, on the hopes that someday I'll put it on and love the one I'm with.

its taking all of my self control not to edit the title to "Steven Stills still sucks". been looking at it and thinking that all day.

ITS MADDENING

steven stills sucks, still

still, stills, steven, sucks

stephen stills sucks still, stephen

http://onlinetalent.com/artist/rock/images/stephen%20stills.jpeg

stills.... you turn me on

this video is comedy gold to me in so many ways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CboU0iUefv4

lol, I read this as "stephen still sucks" & I was like no wonder we haven't seen that dude around here lately.

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otm

Stephen Stills did not like Punk Rock. Foreigner get a pass though. pic.twitter.com/dilG3ehFP8

— Bobby Lee (@BobbyLeeBoogie) December 9, 2022

johnny "rotten" is right

Is that real?

i sure hope so.

Dirty, Loud, and Tasteful: the Stephen Stills Story
by Stephen Stills

"FIRST QUESTION: IS THIS A GUY OR A CHICK?"

"sir this is a wienerschnitzel"

Do you think he was slapping random things all offbeat when he said "That groove my man Mick is laying down"

johnny "rotten" is right

xpost LOL!

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

it rubs the BBQ sauce on its skin

so gross!

Does he say what brand of BBQ sauce he uses? I need to know if thicker sauce = thicker bass

Anything left over from what the strings he slathers on his ribs.

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.

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.

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

they are a very zingy band

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

Anything left over from what the strings he slathers on his ribs.

And just to be clear, literally his own torso.

Ahem. Bass Players Who Never Change(d) Their Strings

Tired: Bass Players Who Never Change(d) Their Strings

Wired: Bass Players Who Never Change(d) Their Sauce

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?

the sauce is that extra mojo you need

okay, right. i like how dumble amps sound. i "get it man."

but the rust? (thinking emoji)

Rust Never Something Something