stephen stills sucks

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.

http://onlinetalent.com/artist/rock/images/stephen%20stills.jpeg http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/harry_hendersons.jpg

http://www.ugo.com/movies/bizarre-movie-deaths/images/entries/robocop.jpg

http://www.astronerdboy.com/comic-strips/images/toons/ZippyStillLife.jpg

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

Sure is. I mean, he does suck, but he gave the world that Isleys cover and the peerless anecdote about taking so much coke he believed he'd fought in Nam so he's got that going for him.

I've probably mentioned this on another thread but I know someone who sincerely believes that Stills was the most talented member of CSNY, with Neil coming in third, which just makes my jaw drop.

He was good in Buffalo Springfield, but not that good... 2nd to Neil, though I liked Richie Furay a lot too

and the peerless anecdote about taking so much coke he believed he'd fought in Nam

LOL, yes, I'm glad somebody else remembers that! He seemed like the most sincere and genuine guy of the lot of them in that film about Neil Young's "Living With War" tour, Graham Nash cam across as a bit gilb, and David Crosby came across as David Crosby

"49 Bye-Byes/America's Children" off 4 Way Street is absolutely dreadful. Stills rants, and the content is bad enough (standard late 60s sentiments, pretty much, written in horrid verse). But his "ohhhh yeahhhh" grunts after each line are more appalling: or funny, I guess, because each one makes me laugh at how bad they are. It makes Neil's weird intro to Stills on the song more understandable, like, ok everybody, let's cart out tonight's train wreck for his requisite two songs, before we get back to the good stuff.

oh boy: on "Black Queen" Stills tells a ridic story about how he learned to play this way from "an old black man" that he met as a child in "Lou'siana" (uggh), and then after playing this "country blues" (as he calls it) for a little while, the crowd starts laughing. Stills stops, and growls "one thing the blues ain't, is funny". It's a horrible moment.

there's a few good songs on Manassas like "It Doesn't Matter" but overall it's a typically padded double-album.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, September 21, 2006 9:11 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark

wrong wrong RONG. Manassas is good-to-great all the way thru, solid songs touching on country folkie and harder rock. this is Stills MOMENT afaic.

you have to be one twisted motherfucker to enjoy Love the One You're With

I'm gonna break rank here.

I think SS has some awesome shit in his (admittedly spotty) back catalog. All of his stuff from the three Buffalo Springfield albums, like "Rock and Roll Woman", "Questions", and "Bluebird" (the short version will suffice). And has any other song ever captured late-'60s Vietnam-war-era zeitgeist better than "For What It's Worth"?

The original Band of Joy (vocals: Robert Plant, drums: John Bonham) did a great cover of "For What It's Worth" in 1967, which was a cornerstone of their live set.

Some good stuff from his first two solo albums, the early CSN/CSNY material, and Manassas. Didn't Jimi Hendrix play on his first solo LP?

After that the good moments became few and far between, but there are some. His voice, never great to begin with, has deteriorated badly over the years. Still, doesn't suck IMO.

Used to hang out here:

http://images.channeladvisor.com/Sell/SSProfiles/12000635/Images/111/081227989149.jpg

Lived in Manassas and went to High School not far from there.

Hated Manassas. Ambivalent about Stills.

More stories from Shakey, please. Thank you.

buy the book, you won't regret it

"Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" is enough for me, but he also wrote a bunch of good-to-great songs with Buffalo Springfield. He's not Neil Young, but neither is he David Clayton-Thomas (or someone truly annoying from that era).

The Dean has some insights here:

Stephen Stills 2 [Atlantic, 1971]
Stills has always come on as the ultimate rich hippie--arrogant, self-pitying, sexist, shallow. Unfortunately, he's never quite fulfilled this artistic potential, but now he's approaching his true level. Flashes of brilliant ease remain--the single, "Marianne," is very nice, especially if you don't listen too hard to the lyrics--but there's also a lot of stuff on order of an all-male chorus with jazzy horns singing "It's disgusting" in perfect tuneful unison, and straight, I swear. Keep it up, SS--it'll be a pleasure to watch you fail. C

Weird I bought manssas yesterday on vinyl and I'm loving it. Works as a double, but could be edited down to one classic. That said stills would have picked the wrong songs so I'm glad for the sprawl.

On second listen this is p awesome. This blues stuff sucks but lots of nice country rock and folky stuff. Chris hillman is all over this

yeah i dig that 1st manassas record a whole bunch. the one that came after is a little generic but i'm hesitant to call it bad. worth a buck or so if you come across it.

I don't think Stills gets enough credit. Suite Judy is such a great song

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/StillsStephen1983.jpg

Joe Maphis rolling over in grave.

Larry Collins looking askance.

Oh that is a horrible photo

Jacket is such a poor choice for rocking

Cool guitar though

Stephen Stills Sucks

I keep getting reminded of the existence of this, and kept forgetting to do the same for the people of ilx...no more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMxHcSz-64s

I had a dream last night that I was witnessing a Stephen Stills retrospective journey through time. I blame ILM

did Don 'n' Glenn like CSN(Y)?

DON: The first CSN album really set laid the blueprint for the whole Los Angeles scene of the late '60s and early '70s. The call it the "Mellow Mafia" now, but that trivializes the power these guys had, these men who could be romantic, idealistic, and political right at the top of the charts, both on their own and in their solo work. Those amazing albums spent alot of time on the turntable at the Eagles' nest and you can believe we were taking notes.

GLENN: The track we identified with most was "Love The One Your With", because you could walk into any joint in LA, and think, "I've loved that chick her over there, and the one in the corner, and I'll be with that one by the pinball machine tonight!"

DON: Well, yeah.

A couple other tales start shortly after this: Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young: C/D, S/D

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/this_brian_eno_stephen_stills_mashup_will_flush_your_mind_down_the_toilet

I been jamming Super Session a lot lately

"Harvey's tune" is a jam.