CROSBY, STILLS AND NASH - NEWS - "Rejoice, rejoice - we have no choice...." - SS "We'll be old friemds... tryin' 'Til the road ends ... flyin'" STEPHEN STILLS <a href="http://www2.fanscape.com/jamestaylor/affiliates/jamestaylor.a sp" target=_blank"><img CSN TOUR 2003 click on the bus for info TIME TO GET ON THE BUS FOLKS!!! *Thanks to Gerry Tolman for the full itinerary* Plan your road trips now..... Item added 04/25/03 Saturday @ 9:21pm Eastern time - NYC Jeanne Heacox showcases her beautiful STILLS SHIRT that she hand crafted for Stephen. Pre-show in Pittsburgh Photo by Lorraine ©   Item added 04/25/03 Saturday @ 11:14am Eastern time - NYC GRAHAM NASH ALERT! May 28, 2003 Graham Nash, performing the world premiere of  Music for Orchestra by Rock Artists CLASSICAL NASH Contemporary Youth Organization (CYO) performs the works of Graham Nash, including         Cathedral, Our House, Marrakesh Express, Teach Your Children     featuring Graham Nash with CYO ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME & CONTEMPORARY YOUTH ORCHESTRA PRESENT CLASSICAL NASH CSU WAETJEN AUDITORIUM WED MAY 28 2003 7:30PM Call Ticketmaster for tickets 216.241.5555 order online @ this link Tickets are $15. dollars It will be @ Cleveland State University @ Waetjen Auditorium   Thanks to Nash Afficionado *Fran* for this news item Item added 04/24/03 Friday @ 12:38pm Eastern time - NYC Neil Young commenced his Euro Tour this week in Stockholm He opened the show by playing 10 brand new songs. A preview of his forthcoming cd & film entitled GREENDALE Photo below is from the show Photo by Lars Pehrson © Item added 04/24/03 Friday @ 11:46am Eastern time - NYC On a lite note... Comedy Centrals' DAVE ATTELL recently did an episode of his show from Little Rock ARK Among others there he met with the infamous Sweet sweet Connie.... You know, of Grand Funk Railroad fame "On the road for forty days, Last night in Little Rock put me in a haze. Sweet, sweet Connie -- doin' her act, She had the whole show and that's a natural fact." Of note for us here is that among other photo's and memorabilia adorning her walls at home was a photo of CSN that she pointed out to Dave. Connie and Dave © Item added 04/24/03 Friday @ 12:30am Eastern time - NYC It's been a Long Time Gone since we had some NEW -CHRIS STILLS- Well, we have been bestowed with one selection to help satiate our hunger temporarily... A NEW CHRIS STILLS cut, recorded as MESCALITO can be found on Hootie and the Blowfish' label Vol 2 Hand Picked Compilation Mescalito- "Just Like the Rain" Mescalito -a new band out of southern California- are now looking to release their first LP. Leading member Chris Stills who first came onto the scene in 1998 with his critically acclaimed debut solo album "100 Year Thing", is ripe with new songs that, with Mescalito, reach a whole new level. Mescalito are shooting for a record release in fall 2003. The track featured here is a demo that Chris made while writing in LA. BUY IT! Special thanks to JEN & CHR-P for assistance on this news item. Item added 04/24/03 Thursday @ 5:40pm Eastern time - NYC Click on the link below for details where you can enjoy this audio-visual musical FEAST! !!!CATCH IT NOW!!! IMAX FILM - SOUNDTRACK featuring music by CROSBY, STILLS and NASH * * * Item added 04/18/03 Friday @ 5:03pm Eastern time - NYC Here are some photo's from GREG BLADECKI and his CSN show last week @ Soaring Eagle Casino Mt Pleasant, MI ~THANKS GREG~ Item added 04/17/03 Thursday @ 5:31pm Eastern time - NYC Been busy - I have alot more news items to post - more soon! CSN PITTSBURGH 2003 REVIEW Stephen performing OLD MAN TROUBLE @ Pittsburgh 2003 Photo by Buzz Person © Item added 04/05/03 Saturday @ 6:41pm Eastern time - NYC Hunter S. Thompson on the cover of the April - May issue of RELIX Pertinent content to mention Pg 49 - Mention of CSN appearing at this years New Orleans and Jazz Festival Pg 87 - CD Review by Mick Skidmore of the new Poco Record Running Horse available only online @ www.poconut.com Pg 89 in the Plundering the Vaults Column Mick Skidmore review's the reissued SUPERSESSION cd This cd, which is being released 04/08/03 here in the states; will be on The Legacy Label. This is the same label that is to release the forth-coming Stills Best Of. Tower records has it on sale now for $ 9.99 There are 4 bonus tracks added to this cd. Track Listing: 1.  Albert's Shuffle 2.  Stop 3.  Man's Temptation 4.  His Holy Modal Majesty 5.  Really 6.  It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry 7.  Season Of The Witch 8.  You Don't Love Me 9.  Harvey's Tune 10.  Albert's Shuffle - (previously unreleased, mix without horns) 11.  Season Of The Witch - (previously unreleased, mix without horns) 12.  Blues For Nothing - (studio outtake) 13.  Fat Grey Cloud - (previously unreleased, live) Excerpt of the review from the Tower records site "... although Bloomfield and Stills don't play together on any of the cuts (Bloomfield played on one side of the original LP, Stills on the other), all three principals get off lots of good licks and producer Kooper has some interesting tricks up his sleeve, as in the over-the-top phasing he lavishes on "You Don't Love Me." The only real disappointment here is that Stills, a far better singer than Kooper, never opens his mouth." Item added 04/05/03 Saturday @ 2:50pm Eastern time - NYC Been meaning to post these for a while. Finally scanned them for your perusal and enjoyment! This is some pertinent content from Ahmet Ertegun's epic book What I'd Say The Atlantic Story - 50 Years of Music. This is a oversized coffeetable book - choc full of tidbits, great stories, musicians, and photo ops. Obviously quite alot from the boys, BS, CSN and CSNY, et al.... Cover Art Back of hard cover text - under the jacket sleeve   Ahmet and David Crosby - 1974 tour. Atlantic Records Archives © found on page 253 of text   Ahmet and Neil Young - 1974 tour. Atlantic Records Archives © found on page 253 of text Stephen Stills - photo by Joel Bernstein © image found on page 257 The following text is quoted from AHMET ERTEGUN on page 257 © "Stephen Stills made alot of records on his own. He's an artist who really should be making solo records today, because he is a special kind of guitar player. As opposed to the British guitar players, who play in the style of black musicians they listened to, Stephen has his own original style of playing. He's also very much into black music and he can play the blues, but his blues have got a bit of country tinge to them .He's a natural musician, a great singer, and a very good songwriter. He wrote 'Love the One You're With in his hotel room when we were bothstaying at the Plaza Athene Hotel in Paris." * * * "Once when Stephen was recording in London, the night before one of the sessions, I think he'd gotten drunk in a West Indian bar and he endedup hiring the drummer and the bass player from the band that was playing in the club. Jimi Hendrix was also a great friend of Stephen's, so the nextnight he had Hendrix and Eric Clapton playing with him in the studio. They had already laid down the rhythm track with the drummer and thebass player from the club, and the three guitarists were doing overdubs. I was sitting in the control room with these two cats that Steve Stills had picked up the night before. One of them looked at me and said, 'Are you with the record company?' I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'Who arethose guys?' I figured maybe they'd heard of them, so I said, 'That's Jimi Hendrix.' They had no idea who that was, and they certainly did not know Clapton or Stephen Stills. He pointed to Steve and said, 'Well that cat was in the club last night.' Then they looked at me and one of them said,"Are we going to get paid?' I said, 'Yeah, you're going to get paid.' You can imagine how great the music was. Those are unforgettable moments." AHMET Item added 04/05/03 Saturday @1:23pm Eastern time - NYC Spotlight on: MICHAEL FINNIGAN Since the band is back on the road with Mr Michael 'Kelly' Finnigan, it's time to look back at some of his past work. This is his 1976 release Read here his bio - liner notes from the record Michael Finnigan, whose album you are now fingering , is a dazzling keyboard player and a giant among musicians. Six -foot-six, 30 years old ("but I have a 68-year-old liver," he admits proudly). Finnigan was born in Troy, Ohio. from which he migrated to Kansas, college (on a basketball scholarship, not surprisingly), and music, in that order, making his album debut as a member of the Serfs. Later, in San Francisco, Finnigan joined the Jerry Hahn Brotherhood, then formed Finnigan and Wood with former Kansas cohorts. They made a cultishly cherished but generally ignored album; "It was hard to keep everybody eating," Finnigan laments. For the past two years he has lived in Los Angeles and played behind Dave Mason and the silken voiced Maria Muldaur, who helped bring him to her label. And now the big kid from Ohio presents his very own solo album, for which he has assembled excellent songs and players of divergent styles - Dixieland, boogie-woogie, country, ballads, rock & roll (remember?), all held together with a strong, clear, untrammelled voice. "I want to have a lot of different kinds of songs," Finnigan says, but I didn't want to get so eclectic I'd seem too precious for words. Didn't want to be pigeonholed either." So he made this sweetly naive, brassily self-assired album. You'll like it. -Judith Sims Finns discography Item added 04/05/03 Saturday @12:36pm Eastern time - NYC I picked up the AYP Songbook last month. Inner page   Back cover Item added 04/05/03 Saturday @12:30pm Eastern time - NYC Here is the full page advertisement for NEIL YOUNG and CRAZY HORSE's Upcoming New York Appearances @ Jones Beach & Madison Square Garden From the April 2-8 issue of The VILLAGE VOICE Item added 03/30/03 Sunday @ 2:30pm Eastern time - NYC JONI MITCHELL On PBS Series Airs in NYC - Wed April 2nd, 2003 9:00pm American Masters show#1605  Repeat broadcast Sun, Apr 6 @ 12:30pm click link for broadcast channel and time in your area (usa) ALERT - There is footage shown in the special that will contain C S N & Y content Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind Joni Mitchell shares stories about her life and career in this documentary -- the first full-scale film portrait of the legendary singer. The documentary features rare performance footage, historic audio recordings of never-released songs, home movies, comprehensive photo archive, and interviews with musicians David Crosby, Graham Nash, James Taylor, Herbie Hancock, and other music industry greats.   READ PRESS RELEASE Item added 03/31/03 Monday @ 1:30am, Eastern time - NYC Congratulations to our friend Buzz Person!!!! His photos were recently published in a Japanese magazine that features DAVID CROSBY on their cover   THANKS BUZZ!!!! Item added 03/30/03 Sunday, Eastern time - NYC From the Gloucester City News - Thursday, March 20, 2003 Sent to the site by acb - THANKS!~