― gear (gear), Sunday, 9 July 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― flëétwøöd måçk (jaxon), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Euler, Friday, 25 July 2008 21:41 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 July 2008 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― jaxon, Saturday, 26 July 2008 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
just picked up the '77 CSN album. so good. Dark Star is a fucking stormer
― jaxon, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
cathedral would make a good movie song
― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
i bought "wild tales" by graham nash for $1 a couple months ago, it's pretty great.
― omar little, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 20:15 (fifteen years ago) link
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!
― thirdalternative, Thursday, 7 August 2008 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
"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.
― ColinO, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
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 ...
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― rent, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
God, when they were on, so classic:
― thirdalternative, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Charlie Howard, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 12:49 (fifteen years ago) link
you crazy, mang. he almost CUT HIS HAIR.
― hologram of balls (gnarly sceptre), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― extremely intoxicated & uncooperative outside a Hסּסּters in Winston-Salem (will), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
― rent, Tuesday, January 6, 2009 11:54 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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.
― extremely intoxicated & uncooperative outside a Hסּסּters in Winston-Salem (will), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― rent, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
"Almost cut YOUR THROAT!"
― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link
"Why can't we go on as three---you, me, and the Grim Reaper?"
― Euler, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^PRINT IT
― rent, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
haha. Nash could probably be his murderous sidekick, too. "Teach your children ... TO DIE."
― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Your grave will be a very very very fine grave.
― Ye Mad Puffin, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link
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!"
― ColinO, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
it's rich territory it's true
― rent, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 17:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I can see the poster now:
HIS HARMONIES WILL ENTRANCE YOU.
HIS BULK WILL CRUSH YOU.
― Ye Mad Puffin, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
"What's Happening?!?!"
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― wilter, Thursday, 5 March 2009 10:50 (fifteen years ago) link
military madness also owns
― wilter, Thursday, 5 March 2009 10:52 (fifteen years ago) link
finally picked up 'songs for beginners' the other night for $1. it's incredible. sitting here listening to it and just zoning out.
― u have a new mistress my friend and her name is little debbie (omar little), Saturday, 16 May 2009 05:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I was really enjoying the CSN debut last night until the thought popped into my mind: "What's next, Bread?"
― Brad C., Saturday, 16 May 2009 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Euler, Friday, 1 January 2010 11:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 1 January 2010 11:33 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Euler, Friday, 17 September 2010 13:45 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA00VNhlnHQ
― thirdalternative, Monday, 10 January 2011 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― tylerw, Monday, 10 January 2011 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Mangrove Earthshoe (herb albert), Monday, 10 January 2011 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― thirdalternative, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 01:49 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
The movie poster:
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/rolling-stone/63-1.jpg
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgu33ndVwj1qdf09mo1_500.pngthis was supposed to be the cover of the second CSNY album "Human Highway" (which obv. never came out). pretty gnarly pic though.
― tylerw, Friday, 18 February 2011 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
are there bootlegs of that album or did the songs just make it onto other records?
― jaxon, Friday, 18 February 2011 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Friday, 18 February 2011 22:41 (thirteen years ago) link
human hairway
― buzza, Saturday, 19 February 2011 00:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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".
― Mucho! Macho! Honcho! (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 26 May 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
Listening to any CSNY is a constant reminder of the vast gulf between talent and genius.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 May 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
Rick James
― calstars, Friday, 22 July 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link
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
― brimstead, Friday, 22 July 2022 21:38 (one year ago) link
Art Garfunkel actually substituted for Crosby on CSN albums for awhile.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 22 July 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
Crosby, Stills, Parsons, and Garfunkel
― calstars, Friday, 22 July 2022 22:24 (one year ago) link