Most beautiful use of a Guild bass

[Mungi]

Sure most of you heard it already but anyway, this must be the most beautiful use of a Guild bass. My love for Jack Casady is endless.

 

[Minnesota Flats]

Link didn't work for me.

Here is an alternate path to what (I assume you posted) in case anyone else had the same problem I did:



BTW: thanks for posting beautiful version of which I was previously unaware.

 

[walrus]

Very nice!

walrus

 

[Mungi]

Link didn't work for me.

Here is an alternate path to what (I assume you posted) in case anyone else had the same problem I did:



BTW: thanks for posting beautiful version of which I was previously unaware.

Thanks for finding it on a more accessible media. Amazed that this was a demo made before CSN even existed but way better than the album verson imho. Crosby has said the same.

 

[Minnesota Flats]

BTW: if anyone goes looking for this in I-Tunes, it is listed under "David Crosby", not "CSN".

 

[Minnesota Flats]

I remember hearing demos of "Guinnevere" and "Long Time Gone" on KSAN Radio (San Francisco "underground" FM) before the first CSN album hit the record stores in 1969. Dug both songs and still do.

I strongly suspect that the version under discussion here is, in fact, that demo.

No wonder I preferred it to the version released on the LP!

 

[Mungi]

I remember hearing demos of "Guinnevere" and "Long Time Gone" on KSAN Radio (San Francisco "underground" FM) before their first album hit the record stores in 1969. Dug both and still do.

There are great demos of The Lee Shore and Laughing out now with the Deja Vu 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition.

 

[twocorgis]

There are great demos of The Lee Shore and Laughing out now with the Deja Vu 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition.

Agreed. All the demos on the Deja Vu 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition are great, but the Crosby songs are priceless!

 

[Westerly Wood]

Crosby really had a killer voice. It gets lost in a lot of CSN songs as his genius was in blending.
I read Crosby's book, and Grace Slick had a great quote re Crosby and his harmony and how she thought it was the most important of the 3 voices. I forget the exact quote however.

 

[spoox]

My favorite cover with Crosby...but he's facing the wrong way...

 

[Westerly Wood]

My favorite cover with Crosby...but he's facing the wrong way...

wait, which one is he?

 

[Minnesota Flats]

My favorite cover with Crosby...but he's facing the wrong way...

Yeah: great singer, but as a person, he's certainly easy enough to dislike.

Oh well...

 

[spoox]

It's a joke from 1968 when the album was released--Crosby was such an a**hole during the recording of the album--showing up late or not at all
that McGuinn and Hillman had had enough and booted him from the Byrds. Crosby thought they'd used the horse image purposely as an insult--McGuinn answered that if that had been the case they would have had the horse face the other way...

 

[walrus]

He's pretty entertaining answering random questions:












There's more if you care to look on youtube...

walrus

 

[Minnesota Flats]

I just found the way he sometimes seemed to feel compelled to pontificate politically from the the stage to be arrogantly presumptuous and highly annoying.

Thanks all the same, Dave, but my motivations for going to rock concerts do not include the furtive hope of
experiencing some sort of ideological epiphany...

 

[Minnesota Flats]

Getting back to the original topic...here's another obvious fan of the "alternate take":

 

[Mungi]

Yeah: great singer, but as a person, he's certainly easy enough to dislike.

Oh well...

I respectfully think you need to rethink your thoughts about that.

 

[Mungi]

Getting back to the original topic...here's another obvious fan of the "alternate take":

Lovely in every way!

 

[walrus]

Lovely in every way!

Agreed! He's has a great touch on that bass!

walrus

 

[fronobulax]

Thanks for finding it on a more accessible media. Amazed that this was a demo made before CSN even existed but way better than the album verson imho. Crosby has said the same.

Lots of interaction between members of Jefferson Airplane and and what became CSN. Check out the song "Wooden Ships" for more.