graham nash!

no dedicated thread. just discovered "songs for beginners." am really liking it, to my surprise.

Amazing album. Keep coming back to man in the mirror

also be yourself at the end of up in the air made the movie more tolerable imo

Songs For Beginners is really terrific.

It looks like the box set, Reflections, came out a year ago already. I missed that. I don't know much about him after the second Crosby / Nash album, but there looks to be a fair bit of material from later than that on the set. I've no idea how promising it is.

"Military Madness" is easily one of my favorite songs ever!

"Better Days" is easily one of my favorite songs ever!

how are those crosby-nash duet records? (or is it just one?)

Be sure to snatch up the next copy of Wild Tales you see!

first self titled is amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfycUkxbnlk

ok ^^^ clip is really astonishing; "Simple Man" is my favorite song on the debut but the sax on the chorus mars it just a bit, so this is good, & the vocal is just as tender & reaching. I love it when Crosby enters: he looks so sinister but he means well, this time.

or iow:

green66vw
4 days ago
I am not stuck in the 70s,80,s or 90s or in any era of music.But ive got to tell ya,this is way better than any group that plays on the radio at least.Some of these guys are at the end of their lives now.Its sad.

What is this "first self-titled" Jaxon speaks of?

Another big fan of "Songs for Beginners" right here.

crosby/nash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSVNtY6sYAU&feature=related

Just saw him live last night w/ a band that had an organist and a guitarist. Still sounds good at age 78. Did two one hour sets. Hollies “Bus Stop”, lots from 1st solo album, Beatles “A Day in the Life,” Buddy Holly “Everyday”, “Ohio,”, CSNY songs plus some good stories, left wing politics and he expressed his belief that Joni Mitchell will recover and create more, and that the pendulum will swing back leftward politically

lol i came here to post that the place where i work now is attached to a music venue and he played there last night. same as above -- 2 60-min sets with a break in between, same instrumentation. the people coming out of the show were raving about what good shape he's in. he's there for another night and i work tonight as well so i am going to try to poke my head in and listen a little.

he's 80!

So jelly

Be sure to snatch up the next copy of Wild Tales you see!

― Joint Custody

Listening to this makes me wonder how much of Neil Young is Tim Drummond. Specifically, that bass on "Hey You"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KwQORT1T6k

Innocent Eyes is a megajam. Not a Nash original. It was written by keyboard player Paul Bliss.

I suspected the synth-boomer stuff would earn reappraisal.

Just saw Graham Nash live again, 4 years after I first saw him (mentioned above). He's 82 now and his voice sounded strong with that great yearning quality and ability to harmonize well. Someone in the men's room at the intermission said he's not hitting the high notes like he used to , and another guy said he's still hitting them better than I did at age 22. He condemned Trump and Putin and urged attendees to vote for Harris. He has a talented younger band-- organist & keyboard player; drummer who played bass & drums simultaneously on one song and just bass on some; another guy who played lead guitar on some songs and switched to mandolin, sax, or acoustic guitar on others. Nash sang and played electric guitar , acoustic guitar, keyboard, and organ depending on the song.

Pretty similar set as 2020-- alas just One Hollies song "Bus Stop," which Nash says was written by then 15-year-old Graham Gouldman! He did CSNY songs "Right Between the Eyes" , "Our House," "Teach Your Children," "Find the Cost of Freedom," and "Ohio." Plus various CSN songs, a Stills song, some CN songs , and solo ones-- Marrakesh Express, Military Madness, Immigration Man, Love the One You're With, Just a Song Before I go , Winchester Cathedral..

Nash had stories ---

He said David Crosby invited him once on Crosby's boat in Ft Lauderdale and it become a 9 weeks boat trip to San Francisco with them seeing a whale which inspired the song "To the Last Whale..."

Crosby invited Jerry Garcia to play pedal steel on "Teach the Children," and he did and while Nash was wowed, Garcia wanted to do it over because he said he made 2 mistakes. Nash said we're keeping that take , a subsequent version will lack the spontaneity and brilliance of that one.

Immigration Man was about getting hassled coming back into US from Canada.

Stephen Stills heard Billy Preston say "Love the One You're with " at a Beatles studio session, and then asked Preston if he could use that line in a song

Just a Song before I go was written about a pot dealer in Hawaii challenging Nash to write a song in the next 90 minutes

"Our House" was about he and Joni going out for breakfast on a cold, rainy day and then her buying a vase at an antique store , and then coming home and putting flowers in it while he set a fire in fireplace"

"I Used to be a King" was written after Joni Mitchell Broke up with him

He also talked about his ex Rita Coolidge. Wiki also tells me : Nash was married to his second wife, actress Susan Sennett,[30] from 1978 until he left her for artist Amy Grantham in 2016.[31] Sennett, the mother of his three now-adult children, divorced Nash in 2016[32] and died of cancer in September 2020.[33][34][35] After moving to New York City, Nash married Grantham in April 2019.[36]

Seems like he has had some issues there

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/graham-nash/2024/the-barns-at-wolf-trap-vienna-va-1ba9359c.html

curmudgeon, how many shows do you watch a month? You're always posting about them and I admire it.

Ts immigration man vs immigrant song

x-post- I see lots of live shows (Some I pay for and many of them free as press people will either give them to me based on a preview I may have written for a show, or just based on my years of writing for Washington City Paper and elsewhere). My wife and I see about 2 or occasionally 3 a week often. This week we were out in California for a wedding and saw Joni Mitchell on Sunday, and then back in DC area we saw NYC based Congolese band Loboko on Friday and Graham Nash last night. I was going to go see some Afghan music this afternoon but wimped out. Seeing different genre artists helps keep it fresh for me. Seen a bunch lately - dc punk band band Ekko Astral w/ dc power pop band Bad Moves; Maxwell w/ Jazmine Sullivan; Stevie Wonder.

Graham Nash noted that he likes the playing music live part of his job, but doesn't like the traveling part of touring .

"Our House" was about he and Joni going out for breakfast on a cold, rainy day and then her buying a vase at an antique store , and then coming home and putting flowers in it while he set a fire in fireplace"

when he's right he's right

"Bus Stop," which Nash says was written by then 15-year-old Graham Gouldman!

Although this age was also stated recently as fact by somebody else in a podcast, I'm fairly sure that Gouldman played 'Bus Stop' to The Hollies in mid-1965, when he would have been around 19 years old. Gouldman definitely wrote the song on the bus to work, not to school.

CSNY Live at Fillmore East, 1969 out now vinyl, cd, etc and being hyped by Neil Young Archives email . It's also on streaming. Some of it also reminds me why I was never a big CSNY fan