CROSBY, STILLS AND NASH
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RECORDS YOU NEED
New Chris Stills cut on this complilation
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CSN TOUR 2003
Singing & playing together 34 years strong and counting...
*There is NOTHING like LIVE CSN!!!!*
*Thanks to Gerry Tolman for the full itinerary*
NOTE: There are some date changes - please refer to the itin for
the latest.
You know Poster Artist RANDY TUTEN for his classic CSNY posters.
Right now on his site he is selling 2 items of note.
The original framed art from a well known Manassas poster
and a 1974 CSNY poster from their
shows @ Nassau Coliseum.
If you have some extra dough to burn, you may want to scoop these
up.
I would if I could...
Due to copywrite restrictions I am not going to post these items.
Check out his site for further details
Click on his logo above.
Have fun!
I want to reccomend this site
A classic photographer and a gentleman.
There are some fun things here, ie: the MY WEEK section and loads
of great images; also for purchase.
The superlative film SUPERSHOW is due for DVD release 05/20/03
in Canada and USA
A great, great film!
The Zep!, Buddy Guy! Stephen Stills with Buddy Miles!, Clapton!,
Jack Bruce!, etc... superb.
A MUST for Stills fans. Stephen performs BLACK QUEEN electric
with Buddy Miles on drums.
HOT!
Let's Talk Gee-tars!
Dick Boak of CF Martin & Co. interview
@ MARTIN GUITAR Signature Series Pt 1
Article Pt 2
These are good reads about the series w/ csn and related content.
CROZ on GUITARS
from
March 2000 Issue #87
Acoustic Guitar Magazine
David Crosby owns about 30 guitars, including approximately 20
acoustics–five Martin D-45s (including three 1971s and a one-of-a-kind
12-string), a Collings dreadnought, a prewar Martin 00-45, and
a 1964
Ramírez classical. Although he dearly loves his vintage Martins,
as well as
his one-of-a-kind Brazilian rosewood Gibson J-200 and his other
collectible
beauties, Crosby’s current favorite is undeniably a Brazilian
rosewood and
German spruce six-string built by independent luthier Roy McAlister
(40
Eucalyptus Dr., Watsonville, CA 95076; [831] 761-2519; mcaguitars@aol.com).
"I was fooling around with Santa Cruz guitars," Crosby recalls,
"which I
think are really good guitars. I would notice that every once
in a while
there would be a stellar one, one that stood out from all the
others. Come
to find out that there was a guy there, Roy McAlister, who was
building them
who left there and went out on his own. He just came to me with
this guitar
and said, ‘Here, try this.’ And I’m telling you, man, this thing
sings! It’s
a bell. And he doesn’t charge a million dollars for the guitars.
He just
really loves doing it. He just made me a 12-string that’s as good
as the
six-string. He came down here with three guitars, and I wanted
to buy all of
them. I gave this one to Nash, and he played it for 15 minutes
and said,
‘OK, give me the guy’s number’ and immediately ordered one."
Crosby’s love for the McAlister is all the more surprising considering
the
fact that it’s a concert model and he’s always played dreadnoughts.
He
describes it as being "sort of like a 000 with a large lower bout"
and says
that "it’s a delight to play." McAlister says of the instrument,
"The air
volume and surface space of the top is along the lines of an OM
or 000. That
was kind of the starting point. But I changed the basic design
and
appointments. I call it a concert model, but it’s more of a grand
concert. I
stayed away from herringbone and ivoroid bindings. I like an all-wood
look.
I bind the fretboard with cocobolo. I also like to stay away from
the glues
you have to use with plastics.
"The bracing is completely changed," McAlister explains. "It’s
still
scalloped and I use maple bridge plates, but it’s basically my
own bracing
pattern. I worked at Santa Cruz for four years, which was a really
great
place to learn. All I did was voice tops for two years. The neck
is a single
piece of mahogany with a dual-action truss rod and an ebony fretboard.
It’s
dovetailed . . . nitrocellulose lacquer . . . pretty traditional."
McAlister, who describes himself as a "home dad," builds between
15 and 20
guitars per year in his home shop and is currently back-ordered
by about a
year.
Crosby gets most of his acoustic guitars through Fred Walecki
of Westwood
Music (10936 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90025; [310]
478-4251;
www.westwoodmusic.com). "Fred is my guitar guru," he says. "He
really knows
guitars. He’s struggling to stay open in the onslaught of the
chains, where
nobody knows squat about acoustic guitars. It’s very dangerous
to go into
Fred’s! I do have some guilt about having guitars sit unplayed,
so I try to
play them all. Sometimes I give away guitars now that I love dearly.
I had a
Martin dreadnought, a D-28 herringbone, that was one of those
exact replicas
of the old ones. It said right inside it, ‘Don’t string this up
with
anything more than light gauge or it will collapse.’ They made
them with
really light bracing, and they were like cannons. I had one of
those, and I
gave it to Jeff Pevar, because it should be played! I often thought
of
giving a guitar to Michael Hedges, but he already had ones that
were as good
as anything I could give him."
When it comes to amplification, Crosby is not afraid to install
electronics
in any of his guitars, including the vintage Martins. His primary
consideration is playing a guitar that "thrills him" on record
and in
performance. [For the reunion tour with CSN&Y, however, he is
using
microphones as his primary amplification source (although he’ll
probably set
up a monitor feed via one or more of the pickups in the guitars
he plays).]
One of his Martin D-45s is set up with a Trance Audio transducer,
and two
others with Highlander under-saddle pickups combined with Sunrise
soundhole
pickups. "Between the really clean primary that you get off the
Highlander
and the overtones and stuff that you get off the Sunrise," says
Crosby, "you
get a pretty amazing guitar sound.
"It’s a long search for the Holy Grail of the unbelievable acoustic
performance guitar. The beloved and mighty and wise David Lindley
is our
great leader. And Jackson [Browne] is right on his heels. And
Michael Hedges
certainly was, and Neil [Young], with the help of Larry Cragg,
who’s his
guitar guy–an unbelievable guitar guy. But David and Jackson have
been the
banner bearers of this tribe of guys who are trying to make the
ultimate
acoustic performance guitar."
–Simone Solondz
The Cardigans - Swedish group has a new cd out titled
“Long Gone Before Daylight”
Their first single is entitled
"FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH"
With some research, I found it is NOT a cover the Stephen Stills
Buffalo Springfield classic.
Uk Music Magazine, Q put out a special edition
100 SONGS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
Logging in @ #51 is The Byrds with Mr Tamborine Man
found on pages 62-63
David - far left in his Capt Kirk top.
In the April 2003 issue of UK Music Magazine
MOJO
There is a David Crosby quote, in an article that is an excerpt
from the forth-coming book by
Jeff Tamarkin,
called
Got a Revolution! The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane
page 64 - April Mojo
In regards to Monterey Pop & Jimi Hendrix
David Crosby:
"I remember Paul Kantner and I and David Freiberg of Quicksilver
watching Jimi Hendrix, and going,
You can't do that. That's impossible. What is he? Waitaminute!
Holy shit!"
Thanks to Mark Wegner for this link!
The Museum of Musical Instruments
