stephen stills sucks

Stephen Stills Sucks

I keep getting reminded of the existence of this, and kept forgetting to do the same for the people of ilx...no more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMxHcSz-64s

I had a dream last night that I was witnessing a Stephen Stills retrospective journey through time. I blame ILM

did Don 'n' Glenn like CSN(Y)?

DON: The first CSN album really set laid the blueprint for the whole Los Angeles scene of the late '60s and early '70s. The call it the "Mellow Mafia" now, but that trivializes the power these guys had, these men who could be romantic, idealistic, and political right at the top of the charts, both on their own and in their solo work. Those amazing albums spent alot of time on the turntable at the Eagles' nest and you can believe we were taking notes.

GLENN: The track we identified with most was "Love The One Your With", because you could walk into any joint in LA, and think, "I've loved that chick her over there, and the one in the corner, and I'll be with that one by the pinball machine tonight!"

DON: Well, yeah.

A couple other tales start shortly after this: Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young: C/D, S/D

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/this_brian_eno_stephen_stills_mashup_will_flush_your_mind_down_the_toilet

I been jamming Super Session a lot lately

"Harvey's tune" is a jam.

I really dislike Stephen Stills, but I recently picked up the first Manassas album and even I have to admit that it's pretty damn good.

he wrote "judy blue eyes", "helplessly hoping", "carry on", "dark star", and "southern cross". therefore, he rules.

NB: AS A SONGWRITER NOT A PERSON

The 12 minute Bluebird is quite jawdropping.
But I thought he was a twat in the Big Sur movie which has coloured the way I've seen him since.

I've got a great Manassas gig on my walkman. Not sure where from. Also great 19 minute Down By The River by CSNY from Balboa Park I think.

Brimstead OTM. Stills and Young also one of the great guitar duos, especially when one of them reins it in enough to play second banana - e.g. "Ohio," "Long May You Run," virtually the entirety of the first Buffalo Springfield album.

"stephen stills still sucks" is a good tongue twister.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=74FvxjiIIfo

No NFL fan will forget 1975 when O.J. Simpson led the AFC in rushing while Stephen Stills paced the NFC. pic.twitter.com/f5cAnvJsMm

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) May 2, 2022

Stills-Young version of "Separate Ways" on the NYA vol. 2 is a great dirge take.

Isley Brothers version of "Love the One You're With" is killer.

― Garnet Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, September 23, 2009 12:30 AM (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Was just coming here to post this because I'm working for the afternoon on a bar patio and this is on the P.A. It totally justifies the existence of the song, which needs justifying.

I despise the song but I like it when the Isley Brothers and Aretha Franklin (her Fillmore album) cover it.

I f-ing hate CS&N, but I like quite a bit of what each of them did before they formed that group, specially Stills.

He's had his moments. I've always been partial to "Dark Star."

^

I also like “southern cross” though it’s cheesy af

"Southern Cross" is a great song to sing with your drunk friends.

those are both great songs

"Southern Cross" has been a periodic earworm for me ever since it first came out. I don't know why, but out of nowhere I'll get stuck in my head, "I have been arou-ow-ow-ow-nd the world ..."

C&N have good choons.

They couldn't ruin it even with "Looking for that woman-girl."

4 + 20 blaze it

is CSNY the biggest classic rock band whose members are all still alive? Sabbath?

Buckingham-Nicks Fleetwood Mac, but there's an asterisk.

On that tip, so does Sabbath (Dio).

All the Grand Funk guys are still around, iirc.

Does U2 count?

There are better and old bands who are all still alive, but I picked out U2 because of their album/ticket sales and IIRC their pre-Achtung Baby hits were staples of Chicago classic rock radio.

*older

I'd like to add Roxy Music but the late Graham Simpson was a founding member - he left after one album and I don't think they ever had a bassist who was considered a permanent/official member after that.

I think I determined on some other thread that all the original members of Manfred Mann, formed 60 years ago, are still around.

Anyway, I'll never be a Stills lover, but the first Manassas album is probably the best "solo" record by any of C, S or N.

For a project, I had to digitize the 9 minute version of "Bluebird", which is essentially the original song with an appended live version tacked onto it.. and there's a part at the end of the song where Stills starts "primally" grunting in a "sexual" way. It's every cliche about everything bad about "classic"/60s rock rolled up into one moment.. bad faux primal grunts. Thank you Stephen.
― donut christ (donut), Saturday, December 25, 2004 1:49 PM

i must hear this legendarily awful performance.

Heh heh...I only ever heard that extended "Bluebird" one time, on a college radio station. The deejays did an extended comic routine about the greatness of college radio & how no other stations would allow you, the listener, the privilege of hearing Steven Stills grunting.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, December 25, 2004 3:23 PM

MUST HEAR

i'm only about a minute in. description accurate so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gJMj8tWDbs

Yeah but the 9 min Bulebird is good
Had it on cassette back in the day

Has some sick acoustic licks

3:25 grunting begins. typical hippy freakout yelp.

4:23 after a very stoned fuzzbox solo, HOOAAHs have begun. somewhat off beat. charming.

5:50 vamping. grunts very tame and minimal so far.

6:15 "SANG IT CHILDUNN, YESSSSING!!!"

7:30 the jammy parts in this are really good! and that's what it's mostly been so far!

8:00 chorus comes back in.

8:28 wow, so the best part is almost at the very end and is totally acapella. nice.

well it wasn't as plentiful as i was anticipating, but it completely exceeded my expectations in grossing me out.

(next therapy session—
t: so what's on yr mind?
me: O_O have you ever heard of the band buffalo springfield?)

nah, it wasn't really that bad.☺

but yeah, nobody ever needs to hear a recording of someone else making that sound.

I think you guys are over emphasizing the vocals
The musics the thing, lyrics maybe

If anyone wants to know what makes Nash worthwhile, you need to hear the later Hollies tracks that he wrote and sang (not so much their singles).

young
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crosby
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stills =(

If anyone wants to know what makes Nash worthwhile, you need to hear the later Hollies tracks that he wrote and sang (not so much their singles).

Here are some songs I really like:

So Lonely
I've Got a Way Of My Own
Oriental Sadness
Stop Right There
Maker
Away Away Away
Postcard
Butterfly
Wings

It's not necessarily going to convince anyone who thinks of Nash as a lightweight, but his melodic sensibilities and voice make more sense to me in the context of UK psychedelic "Ye Olde Toffee Shoppe" pop than laidback West Coast rock.

Anyway, I'll never be a Stills lover, but the first Manassas album is probably the best "solo" record by any of C, S or N.

actually the first Manassass record (surprisingly
solid) and the one right after it, Down the Road (mostly forgettable and I sold it long ago), are really the only two “solo” Stills records I’ve heard from stem to stern iirc