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Q Who is that man in the window on the cover of the first CS&N album?
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It's Dallas Taylor, the man on drums on "Crosby, Stills & Nash" (1969). Taylor was pasted in later.


Dallas Taylor ... pasted in!

Q Why was Dallas Taylor pasted in?
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Dallas Taylor: "Originally, on the 69 album it was Stephen’s idea to put me on the back of the album. However, the building was torn down before we could go back to reshoot the photo, so, the photo was taken at David Crosby’s back door, and pasted into the doorway photo that already existed. "

Q Where was the "sofa-photo" taken in 1969 with Crosby, Stills & Nash on the cover?
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Graham Nash: "Henry Diltz photographed us on a sofa outside an old  abandoned house on Santa Monica Boulevard close by the Santa Monica car wash, but when we saw the shots, we realized we were in the wrong order for the name. We went right back to re-shoot it but the house had been torn down, so on the cover of the first album I’m Crosby, David is Nash and Stephen is the only one with the right name over his head."

Q What was Stephen Barncard's role on Déjà Vu?
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Stephen Barncard: "For the most part, I was the ASSISTANT on most of the sessions, and when Bill - Halverson - wasn't there, I had to be 'the man'. I ended up recording  the track for 'Helpless' and 'Country Girl', and the overdubs on 'Teach Your Children', when Bill was having 'problems' elsewhere.. This is the era when assistants weren't considered that important   (even though we got paid a lot more in those days compared to today), and not worth noting in credits".

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Who is the photographer of the Déjà Vu cover?
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Tom O' Neil/Gundelfinger (in approx. 2000): "I took my wife's name 18 years ago when we decided to have a family. Gundelfinger is still listed in the phone book, and all my LA connections have managed to locate me after all these years. (I worked with a lot of rock and roll groups, and had a career in the 60's in LA in the music biz)".
Tom O'Neil has a website.

Deja Vu out take
Out take from Déjà Vu photo session
Tom O' Neil/Gundelfinger
©1998 TGO Photography. All rights reserved.

Q Where was the Déjà Vu photograph taken?
A Tom O' Neil: "The cover was shot at Crosby's house in Novato, California".

Q The atmosphere represented the Civil War era. Who's idea was it to do it this way? 
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Dallas Taylor: "The cover was Stephen’s idea. He was a big Civil War buff. The camera belonged to Graham Nash. He collected antique cameras. The photo was taken at David Crosby’s house north of Sausalito California. The dog wandered into the picture accidentally and we kept the shot. We still don’t know where the dog came from, or who he or she belonged to. Stephen called it “Fred”."

Q What was the story on that giraffe on Stephen Stills' first album?
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According to Henry Diltz, the photographer who took the photo, only Stephen knows and he's not talking. Diltz thinks it was a kind of secret message to someone. He said that he started snapping photos of Stephen playing and that suddenly Stills jumped up and ran into his cabin and brought out the giraffe and said that Diltz could start snapping again. After a few shots, Diltz suggested that they lose the giraffe and Stills said basically "no way."
Bill Haverson: "The giraffe was a gift from a woman. I'm not sure which one."

Q What did David Crosby say at the end of "Cowboy Movie"?
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Stephen Barncard: "I think it's Michael Shreve talking; he played the tambourine. It could also be the 'clap' track, and several of the guys did that".

Q Is the "Another Stoney Evening" CD the same as the "A Very Stony Evening" boot?
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Stephen Barncard: "No. Same tour, different evening. The boot was recorded the second night in Berkeley 10/15/71, 'ASE' recorded 10/10/71."

Q What are the Missing Six?
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The term "Missing Six" refers to the six Neil Young albums originally released on the Reprise label which have never been legitimately released on CD anywhere in the world". Specifically, they are:

  • Journey Through the Past
  • Time Fades Away
  • On the Beach
  • American Stars 'n Bars
  • Hawks and Doves
  • Re*Ac*Tor

Albums released on the Geffen label, such as "Trans", may be difficult to find in the US, but are not considered "missing" because they have been issued on CD in Europe and can be found as imports in the US.

Q Why are they missing?
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Neil Young: "I really don't see these albums on CD because CDs don't sound very good. I like the original analog masters and I didn't want people to have bad-sounding CDs to listen to for the rest of time. I want to wait until the things are ready to be dumped into a format that I can understand and is relative to the original format."

But... the Missing Six are now only the Missing Two. Still to be released are "Time Fades Away" and "Journey Through the Past"

Q What are the Abandoned Albums?
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Albums which were either recorded or planned and then scrapped....

  • Neil Young : A Live Acoustic/Electric Album - 1970/71
  • Stephen Stills, (Eric Clapton?) and Jimi Hendrix: no title. "Old Times, Good Times" was the first try at that album after Stills' first solo album. Stills and Hendrix were going to go back to England and do that album, but then Hendrix died. - 1970?
  • Neil Young : "Bus Crash" (album with unreleased stuff but some songs might have been used on Re*ac*tor) - year?
  • Neil Young : "Home Grown" - 1974
  • CSN&Y: "Human Highway" - 1974
  • Stephen Stills: "Stolen Stills". Stills: "That was just a bunch of songs I ended up not using over the years. I’d either run out of room on a particular album, or they weren’t quite up to snatch. I’m going to have to take some time off one of these days and go through all my old tapes again and figure out what’s there". - 197?
  • CSN&Y : "Long May You Run" (was released with only Stills & Young) - 1976
  • Neil Young : "Chrome Dreams" - 1977
  • Neil Young & Crazy Horse : "Ranch Romance - 1977
  • David Crosby : "" Might As Well Have A Good Time" - 1980
  • Stephen Stills : "Southern Cross" (Stills did with Barry Beckett at Rudy Records Studios for, and rejected by, CBS - his record company at the time - prior to "Daylight Again") - 1980
  • Graham Nash : "Earth & Sky" (was originally planned as a C&N album) - 1980
  • Neil Young : "Island In The Sun" - 1982
  • Stills & Nash : "Daylight Again" (was finally released with Crosby content) - 1982
  • Neil Young : "Old Ways" 1 and 3 (Old Ways 2 was the released album) - 1985
  • Neil Young : "Times Square" - 1989


The unused cover for the Human Highway album
(photograph from CS&N Boxed Set)

Q What was Stephen Barncard's contribution on Daylight Again?
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Stephen Barncard: "A bit more than the credit implied. Many of the vocal overdubs on the Crosby contributions to D.A. during  his darkest hours. A month at Devonshire studios in June, 1980, for   the aborted Capitol solo record."

  • Melody
  • Flying Man
  • Jigsaw (unreleased)
  • Baltimore (unreleased)
  • Might as well Have a good time (track [with Stanley Johnston] and overdubs)
  • Kids and Dogs - New parts on original 1971 track (unreleased )
  • Drive My Car (unreleased Miami version)

Might As Well and Delta were the only ones used on Daylight again and Melody, Flying Man were used on his 1986 solo.

Q Wasn't there some sort of difficulty getting Neil Young's stuff for the CS&N Boxed Set ?
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Graham Nash: "What happens with Neil is that you get caught between the good cop/bad cop thing between him and Elliot. I talk to Neil and Neils totally into it, I can use anything I want. Great, I'll be discreet and use only great stuff. And Elliot calls me and says, "No man, you can only use seven things". I wanted to represent what music CS&N and CSN&Y had done in there careers."

Q When can we expect Neil's Box Set?
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Neil Young is now readying a 180 track compilation of his three decade career for CD Decades I, II and III to be made available on Warner Bros late "next year". But this is what we hear every year...
Neil Young: "There'll be 50 or 60 unreleased songs. There's three whole unreleased albums to go on too - 'Homegrown', 'Big Room' and 'Old Ways', the album Geffen sued me over. There's stuff from back in 1962 going on this collection, there's a bunch of stuff with CSNY - a whole aborted album called Human Highway, a-bunch of live Crazy Horse, some of my best stuff. Songs like 'Nothing Is Perfect', the 'hostages' song I did at Live Aid and 'Ordinary People' 'this 15 minute number I left off 'Eldorado'. Both those songs dated too quickly. They were too topical. But they work in a retrospective like this."
Update from 2007: "Those shelves and others are now being cleared. Fresh rumors have Young's long-imminent archival box set (possibly 32 CDs in all) coming out later this year. In the meantime, the first CD of the Archives: Performance Series -- the stellar, if truncated (at 43 minutes) "Live at the Fillmore East": March 6 & 7, 1970 -- was released late last year on Reprise Records, long the label home of Young. The second release of the series ("Live Massey Hall") includes a DVD component, with film footage or a photo montage from the Toronto shows. No further CDs in the series are planned."

Q Is there any chance of a new remastered version of "If Could Only Remember My Name"?
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Stephen Barncard: "Well, there might be techniques for a better a-d conversion, but those will not remove the hiss, and I refuse to do so using 'plugins'. If one wants to do that from their own copy, they are free to do so, but any and all techniques for 'hiss' removal comes at the peril of trashing the music and dynamics. I haven't heard any hiss removal that doesn't sound weird. At least on complex mixes, and I am NOT going to attempt to remix it-- at least for stereo. (5.1 hmmmm, subject for another post....) It all comes down to what is called 'better'. Better to me involves reproducing exactly what is on the master tape as well as one can. The hiss is part of it, and it doesn't bother me or Crosby. Consider it part of the music as presented at the time. And considering the attitude of Atlantic Records, we supposedly are supposed to bow down and thank our lucky stars that they have allowed it to still be sold. The fact is, they just keep getting those re-orders. What else can explain a record in the stores that is almost 28 years old and still is in the racks? Anyway with their attitude, I doubt that a remastering could be in the works, but I will investigate the possibility. I'd like Dave Collins to do it this time, in his state-of-the-art room at A&M."
In 2006 the album was finally remastered!
Stephen Barncard (who recorded and mixed the original IICORMN album, and remixed the new release) to 4waysite.com: "There are two separate media in the package. The CD is comprised of the original stereo mixes of IICORMN with bonus track 'Kids And Dogs'. The DVD-A contains new surround mixes made by me. The surround is presented in several formats, just to make sure it can be played in any player."

Q If "yes" will bonus tracks be added?
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Stephen Barncard: "I don't know if we want to give Atlantic any more stuff. We'd rather put that out ourselves. Besides, it would make "If I Could Only Remember My Name" cost more, and we'd rather see it in its original form."

Q Is this what eventually happened? 
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No, there is an extra song on the remastered release of 2006 "Kids and Dogs". 

Q Why did it take so long until the second CSN&Y album - American Dream - was released?
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It had started with a promise Neil Young made during a 1984 radio interview, where he'd vowed to record again with Crosby, Stills and Nash if David Crosby succeeded in conquering his now fabled addiction to free-base cocaine. Three years later Crosby had achieved just that and Young was left with no alternative but to deliver on his word.

Looking ForwardQ What are the 'lost songs' of the latest CSN&Y CD "Looking Forward"?
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According to our notes, the record originally had:

  • Half Your Angels (Nash)
  • Liars' Nightmare (Nash)
  • Lost Another One (Nash)
  • Try To Find Me (Nash)
  • Acadienne (Stills)
  • Feel Your Love (Stills)
  • Everybody's Talkin' (Fred Neil)
  • Turn, Turn, Turn (the Byrds)
  • Navigator (Allan Thomas)
  • Rock and Roll Woman (Buffalo Springfield) - with Joe Walsh on guitar!
  • White Line (Young)
  • Good To See You (Young)

Q Who is the boy on the cover of "Looking Forward"?
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It is Henry Stills, Stephen Stills' son, at age three.

Q What was the working name of the CD "Looking Forward"?
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"Heartland". Neil Young thought "Heartland" would be confused with a few other songs and commercials that had similar titles or themes.
Graham Nash: "We just thought that 'Looking forward' would be a better idea. 'Heartland' was the working title."

Q Is the cover of the '77 CSN album, the Mayan?
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No, it is not David Crosby's boat The Mayan.
David Crosby: "It was the boat of a friend, the Mayan is even prettier".

Q Why did it take over a decade since Stills' last solo album, to release "Man Alive!"?
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Stephen Stills: "I would make the mistake of playing [songs] for the other guys, and they would pick the three or four best songs and say, 'Hey, let’s make a new CSN or CSNY album!' Five projects later, I finally said, 'No, you can’t hear it'".
"Man Alive!" was released in 2005.

 

Q And what about Graham Nash' silence?
A
Nash had a simple explanation for avoiding the solo format for so long.
Graham Nash: "I enjoyed being a member of a band. I've always preferred being a member of a band than being a solo artist".
In 2002 he released "Songs For Survivors".

Q What Neil Young albums are part of the "Ditch Trilogy"? 
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Neil Young's three consecutive early 1970's albums "Time Fades Away", "On The Beach" and " Tonight's The Night" are considered by many fans the Rosetta Stone to understanding his entire body of work. Because of their dark, haunting brilliance, the albums are known as "The Ditch Trilogy".

     

Mirror BallQ Which album did Pearl Jam and Neil Young record together?  
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The collaboration between Neil Young and Pearl Jam dates back to at least 1994 when Pearl Jam played the Bridge School Benefit Concert (more about this annual concert can be found in the Concert section). Since then Neil & Pearl Jam have recorded and toured together. 
Neil Young: "Recording 'Mirror Ball' was like audio verity, just a snapshot of what's happening. Sometimes I didn't know who was playing. I was just conscious of this big smoldering mass of sound."

 

Q Is it true the date mentioned on Stills' latest release "Just Roll Tape", is not correct?!
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All of the stories and press releases for "Just Roll Tape" tell the story about how on April 26th 1968 Stills asked the studio director for an extra hour to record these songs. But if you look in your Buffalo Springfield box set book you will see that the Buffalo Springfield played in Arizona on April 26th and 27th and was in Tennessee on the 24th. Maybe the date is wrong or something, but there is no way he was in New York during that BS tour.... Sometime in 1968, the exact date is still a matter of some conjecture, but it was either during Stephen Stills' last days with the Buffalo Springfield, or later that same year, uh, either way it was before he and Crosby had persuaded Nash to leave the Hollies and form CSN, anyway, uh, where was I? Oh yes, sometime in 1968, the singer-songwriter found himself in Vietn... sorry, New York at a recording session with his then-girlfriend and muse Judy Collins. The exact date of this recording session can probably be cross-referenced by checking Judy Collins's recording schedules for that year, or alternatively you could just say it was April. Not that it matters, it's still a great listen!


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