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

I got to see them on a free ticket a few years ago and I was really amazed by how well they can hit those harmonies live.

Hating on CSNY is like making fun of your ex-hippy uncle that teaches middle school.

thats really good then? i always look at it in the store but am suspicious of it. maybe its the book cover packaging

CSNY is pretty great and I've been wanting to check out "If I Could Only Remember My Name" for awhile now

People be saying crazy things.

No thread just on Graham Nash, so I thought I'd just revive this instead.

I'm listening to Songs For Beginners and it's gorgeous. I can't get enough of the group of musicians surrounding CSNY around 1970, including Garcia, Lesh, Grace Slick, and so on; the PERRO thing. This record is part of this group. "I Used To Be A King" is a highlight.

Evidently Nash has a retrospective box set coming out later this year. Does anyone know anything else about this?

And did any of you pick up the Crosby box last year? And was it any good? I love the outtakes from "If I Could Only Remember My Name" (linked to earlier in this thread), but evidently these didn't come out on the box. I'd love a box of just the PERRO stuff.

and i'm listening to the self titled crosby/nash and there have been moments where i've literally had to stop writing/reading and just listen because they're so beautiful

Yes - this is a really really good record and I don't know anything at all about the rest of the CSNY universe. Search "Immigration Man" if nothing else.

ha. i was reading that quote right above ^ and thought i could've written it, and i did! been listening to that album again a lot lately

just picked up the '77 CSN album. so good. Dark Star is a fucking stormer

cathedral would make a good movie song

i bought "wild tales" by graham nash for $1 a couple months ago, it's pretty great.

someone upthread says that the harmonies on "Helpless" ruin the song, but I think it's the piano that's the problem. Turns Neil's raw lament into something sort of sickly sweet.
have been listening to a bootleg of a stills/young show from 76 that is interesting. even though young was reported to not be into the tour, he sounds kind of in to it here, singing backup enthusiastically on suite judy blue eyes. it's stills' band, so it's got a weird jimmy buffet cocaine vibe at times. but i kind of dig it.

I love this footage, extraordinary, young (I mean in years) and at their peak (no lsd pun intended):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QsSc95pPPY

It'll melt your face, dude!

"Simple Man" off of Nash's Songs for Beginners is such a beautiful little tune. I haven't really gotten into the rest of the album much yet.

There's a youtube clip floating around of Nash singing it unaccompanied on piano until Crosby creeps up on stage to add those incredible harmonies- gorgeous stuff.

Was just listening to this unreleased CSNY track from 1974 -- "Pushed It Over The End", which is pretty killer. Weird jazzy vibe, pretty different from the only other version I've heard of it, which is a Neil Young solo acoustic live thing. Not sure if anything they did really sounds like this ...

i would like to see a short film where david crosby creeps up on people singing in the shower and adds harmonies from the other side of the curtain and that's how they know their time is up. xp

God, when they were on, so classic:

i would like to see a short film where david crosby creeps up on people singing in the shower and adds harmonies from the other side of the curtain and that's how they know their time is up.

I would pay to produce this film.

i'd chip in some cash too ...
That clip above is pretty much where they peaked I think! Pretty rad. I've heard some pretty intolerable bootlegs of CSNY though. Mainly Stills' fault I think.

that 'deja vu' record is kind of nice, but is distinctly lacking a unified personality. a little bit sugary at times, could perhaps do with some more grit and unharnessed soul-searching.

you crazy, mang. he almost CUT HIS HAIR.

edd hurt otm way up there at the tippy-top: "pre-road downs" is A++.

i only have the first two and enjoy both but rarely listen to either. i'm probably partial to deja-vu tho.

came across a really good copy of that first Manassass record the other day for cheap and have been pleasantly surprised. i never thought i'd have much use for stills outside of BS or CSN& sometimes Y

i would like to see a short film where david crosby creeps up on people singing in the shower and adds harmonies from the other side of the curtain and that's how they know their time is up. xp

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lol!! time's up in the shower? or like, on earth? because if that fat bastard snuck up on me in the shower i would certainly hope that all my worldly affairs were in order.

oh yes he's is a psychokiller. maybe blows a puff of cocaine from his cupped hand and whispers "deja vu, bitch" or something. haven't had much time to work on it tbh.

"Almost cut YOUR THROAT!"

"Why can't we go on as three---you, me, and the Grim Reaper?"

"Almost cut YOUR THROAT!"

^^^PRINT IT

haha. Nash could probably be his murderous sidekick, too. "Teach your children ... TO DIE."

Your grave will be a very very very fine grave.

Shit- this Crosby movie pitch is cracking me right the fuck up.

You could have the obligatory teen horror sex scene with "Triad" playing in the background, the girls refusing his advances before he murders them. "WHY CAN'T WE GO ON AS THREE!"

it's rich territory it's true

I can see the poster now:

HIS HARMONIES WILL ENTRANCE YOU.

HIS BULK WILL CRUSH YOU.

"What's Happening?!?!"

songs for beginners is so fucking catchy, love every song. i think the songs ppl have mentioned they love in this thread so far are simple man and i used to be a king. my fave is prob man in the mirror

military madness also owns

finally picked up 'songs for beginners' the other night for $1. it's incredible. sitting here listening to it and just zoning out.

I was really enjoying the CSN debut last night until the thought popped into my mind: "What's next, Bread?"

I'm enjoying Looking Forward this morning, esp. the NY and Crosby songs, but wow are Stills' songs duds here. "Hard rock" guitars or "Latin" beats + and Stills' bleating = wreck. But if you enjoy latter day NY, this is on the whole worth your time.

some sort of Graham Nash tribute album coming out in a few months featuring lots of current psych/freak/etc bands, with some really nice names involved.

search "Helplessly Hoping" off the CSN debut: that album has its ups & downs (I think I've internalized NY's relationship with Stills) but this song is a very high up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA00VNhlnHQ

i would like to see a short film where david crosby creeps up on people singing in the shower and adds harmonies from the other side of the curtain and that's how they know their time is up.
has this movie been made yet or what

been really into the 4-Way Street double-live album lately (which the above clip might be from or at least the same Deja Vu tour). so great

Unfortunately that movie hasn't been made yet but I think this is the video that inspired the idea:

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

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.

how about a female singer? Oh, right -- these guys were pigs.

Mama Cass? She didn't write songs though. But how about Dave Mason?

how about a female singer? Oh, right -- these guys were pigs.

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

right, i mean, we're assuming that they're basically pigs, also, we start getting women involved and crosby/stills are pretty quickly outclassed

mike patto might be interesting. dave mason! yeah, that's definitely gotta be it, it'd have to be dave mason in that role.

Duh, Mike Love.

Although in reality it would have been Stills' buddy Peter Tork.

Richie Furay would have fitted in pretty well but then it would just have been Buffalo Springfield.

Rick James

the thing is that Nash’s voice is a really vital component of their gorgeous awesome vocal harmonies… Dave mason sounds too much like stills, imo

Art Garfunkel actually substituted for Crosby on CSN albums for awhile.

Crosby, Stills, Parsons, and Garfunkel