Behind the Scenes of the Star-studded Supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 'Déjà Vu' was released 50 years ago today. Read our 1969 feature on the supergroup

Nash choruses: “He gives us that bit of direction we may need to resolve a question. He’s good at making records.”

From that point on — what, five minutes into the set — Crosby was pretty much out of it, and the program had to be overhauled. David’s usual solo,” Guinevere,” was dropped, along with a couple of duets with Graham, and Neil stepped in to sing a medley of Buffalo Springfield tunes, on acoustic guitar, with Stills.

“Don’t ask him about Christine,” someone had suggested, thinking of David’s fragile shell, so badly cracked when his lady of nearly three years was killed in a bus collision on a road near his Novato home. David had been spun nearly out of his mind; the group cancelled what would have been a lovely stay at the Winterland, with close friend John Sebastian on the bill with them, and David took to the waters, to a schooner, to escape.

— But it was a synopsis, rather than any analysis. And at the Vietnam Moratorium rally at Golden Gate Park, he pounced on the piano to pound out a searing, machine-sun paced version of “For What It’s Worth” — but only after shouting to the 125,000 marchers: “Politics is bullshit! Richard Nixon is bullshit! Spiro Agnew is bullshit! Our musicbullshit!” Music, by a wide margin. Or, as Neil put it: “Steve’s trip comes to its head When he sings.

Neil, the fourth corner, is wandering off from the control room following a playback on the track he and Greg have just done, and he unleashes a thought: “What we’ve got to do is listen with an eye to simplicity,” he says. “Think how we can make it bigger by simplifying it.” “I didn’t want Crazy Horse to die just as we were getting it together,” he says. Crazy Horse is important to Neil as a counterbalance to the tight, structured kind of music Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young put out. “Crazy Horse is funkier, simpler, more down to the roots.” Neil has production control with Crazy Horse. “I dig a lot of bass and drums, man. To my mind, the bass drum should hit you in the stomach.

Neil, married for a year now, plans to stay at his redwood, hillside Topanga Canyon house, their home since August 1968. He’s even building a 16-track recording studio under the house. Crosby has settled into a ranch in Novato, in north Marin County, and Steve is looking for a house in Marin County. Greg lives about 90 miles north of San Francisco, in Guerneville. If Neil moves, he says, it’ll be to either Big Sur, on the Pacific Coast, or back to Canada.

 

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Think their best album by far was four way street

Deja Vu was my coming of age album. Why is it that tragedy brings us unforgettable music?

Omg -and at rhis exact moment I'm having Déjà Vu' ... ((😵))🌀

I feel like I've seen this before ...

Fifty? How’d dat happen?

Still one of my favorite albums.

thedavidcrosby I know must entangle the entire area.

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