The perfect holiday gift for your grandparents. Just kidding! But really, lots of Portland grandpas would love it. Nash is a two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and just because he took a shot at the Eagles for not playing new songs doesn't mean I can't take a shot at him for an aggressive presentation at the merch table. There were plenty of high-quality moments at Monday's concert.
Fontayne was impressive early and often, lifting "I Used to Be a King" with a scalding solo and saving "Immigration Man" from Nash's warnings to "watch out for The Man" with another electric workout.
Nash shined on "Fieldworker," a song he dedicated to "one of my heroes, Cesar Chavez," and on "Wind on the Water. It remains true to this day. I got this song, man, I think I need you for this song. Would you drive down here? He plays "War Song" for me and goes "What d'you think, Willy? I loved him for including me so equally in that.
What happened? I remember at one point, Stephen was so high - in my home studio, we were working on one of his songs called "My Angel" - and he asked me to sing a major melody through a minor set of chords. Instinctively, my body wouldn't do it.
I'm very good at what I do, but I couldn't do it. I kept getting halfway through the phrase, and it just sounded so horrible to me that I had to stop. I did that two or three times, and I said, "Stephen, I just can't do this. He actually found the master of "Wind on the Water" and cut it in half with a razor blade. I called a friend of mine, who lived next door, to throw Stephen out of my house. By , the quartet hadn't been seen together in public for four years.
The pressure was intense. That summer, they became the first rock act to play exclusively in stadiums, for big crowds, for big money. Things had changed since the days of The Frozen Noses. After the massive success of his Harvest album, Young had become the superstar and the major draw - and his manager, Elliot Roberts, took control of the proceedings early on. And Crosby, Stills and Nash didn't have a lot of say in the matter. Nash: Elliot had dollar signs in his eyes and persuaded us to throw away our whole production team and go with Bill Graham.
So everything kind of changed. Then Neil didn't want to travel with us, and drove himself across America in his own little tour thing. He was kind of isolated from us.
There was too much cocaine around. Even in the blizzard of lies, as I call it, we were pretty good. I'm going through all the two-tracks right now, but I can hear the drugs screaming off the tape.
There are some good things, and I'm sure I'll be able to find a good record It makes me crazy to listen to it. It's part of why I wrote "Wasted on the Way. At tour's end, another attempt at a studio reunion failed, and the four again went their separate ways.
Stills recorded and toured with his new wife, French vocalist Veronique Sanson, while Young took off on an extended road trip with his trusty backup band, Crazy Horse. Crosby and Nash made Wind on the Water, their second album together. Young turned up unannounced at Nash's door with a cassette of four songs - including "Midnight on the Bay" and "Long May You Run" - he and Stills had roughed out for their first-ever duo project.
Why not fly down, he said, and make this a full-blown CSNY record? Nash: David agreed that they were great songs, and we knew we had good songs, since we were in the middle of a record.
So we went to Miami to sing with Stephen and Neil. We completed the record - it was done. We sang on every single track. And then we went back to finish Whistling Down the Wire. Well, they decided to take me and David's voices off and put it out as a StillsYoung record because they needed a piece of product to promote on the StillsYoung tour, which they'd already booked. And to this day I can't get an answer out of Neil's camp as to whether the tapes with our voices even exist.
It was track then, and I know they would've needed the tracks to complete a StillsYoung record. But they must have made safeties. I was so pissed because the chances to makes a CSNY record are few and far between; the vocal blend between us all was fabulous. And there was no reason that it shouldn't have been a CSNY record, except for greed. It's been such a sore point that we have never talked about it with Stephen and Neil. We have never brought it up. How could you look him in the eye?
When you're pissed at Stephen, and he plays you a song that breaks your fuckin' heart, you've got to forget it. If you cling on to negative stuff, you won't get anywhere.
Especially not in this combination of people. I remember very clearly working on the final mix of "Shadow Captain. One of the engineers comes in and says, "Hey, there's some old man pissin' in the bushes outside! Now what the fuck he was doing in Miami, and taking a piss in the bushes outside of Criteria, I have no idea. But he came in, and he listened, and he realized that CSN was still a force to be reckoned with.
Where is he? Nash: I had been calling David's house. I called 37 times, to be told that he was at the beach.
Now, I'm a patient man Maybe he had a beach in his closet. I realized that the drugs had totally taken over his life. But we were faced with a problem. So Stephen and I made the decision to undo the entire album and fit Crosby in where we could. Jackson Browne is a personal hero of mine and has been for a long time. I know of no other musician except maybe Bonnie Raitt who wants to make the world a better place for everyone as much as Jackson.
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