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These videos are from a September 11 1970
half hour television performance Graham and
David did for the BBC.
It was right after CSNY had finished their
famous...or infamous... four way street
summer tour. with stories of epic melt downs
and cosmic feedings between them all, the all
star endeavor which had only began two years
prior had all but imploded on itself.
Fortunately, all of the guys didn't abandon
their relationships all together. Neil
recruited Stephen, David, and Graham for
backing vocals on After the Gold Rush and
Harvest. Crosby invited, among other amazing
musicians, Nash, and Young to sing and play
on his consummate album If I Could Only
Remember My Name.
(Interestingly, of all the musicians David
invited to play on his album: Nash, Young,
Jerry Garcia,Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart,Bill
Kreutzmann, Jorma Kaukonen, Joni Mitchell,
Grace Slick, David Freiberg, Paul Kantner,
Jack Casady, Gregg Rolie, and Michael
Shrieve...missing was Stephen Stills)
Of all the members of CSNY David and Graham's
relationship seemed to be the one that stayed
most friendly. In these videos you can really
see how jovial and genuinely humorous they
were with each other and with their audience.
not to mention their majestic vocal blending.
(the two part harmonies, which sound like
five part, on Guinnevere and Song With no
Words are particularly mind blowing)
If you dig this flavor of Crosby and Nash i
would recommend finding a copy of their
10/10/1971 live recording Another Stoney
Evening if you haven't already.
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This first clip opens with Nash playing
Simple Man by himself, then joined by Crosby
doing ending harmonies; transitioning to
guitars, they play Marrakesh Express.
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"[Following the break up] Crosby and Nash
embarked on a successful acoustic tour
accompanied only by their own guitars and
piano, captured for the document Another
Stoney Evening.
On tour, Nash and Crosby rediscovered the joy
they had felt with CSN at first, minus the
egotistic in-fighting that had made the last
CSNY shows so difficult. That enthusiasm led
to the studio for their first album as a duo,
a mix of abstract introspection from Crosby
and concise pop tunes from Nash prosaically
entitled Graham Nash David Crosby, which
peaked at #4 on the pop album chart."
Tags : Marrakesh Express Simple Man David Crosby Stephen Stills Graham Nash and Neil Young |
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Affichage : 112894
Durée : 352 s |
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