Q Who is that
man in the window on the cover of the first
CS&N album?
A
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?
A
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?
A 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?
A
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".
Q
Who is the photographer of the Déjà Vu
cover?
A
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.
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?
A
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?
A
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"?
A 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?
A
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?
A
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?
A
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?
A
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?
A 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 ?
A
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?
A
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"?
A
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?
A
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?
A
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?
A 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.
Q
What are the 'lost songs' of the latest CSN&Y CD
"Looking Forward"?
A
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"?
A
It is Henry Stills,
Stephen Stills' son, at age three.
Q
What was the working
name of the CD "Looking Forward"?
A
"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?
A
No, it is not David Crosby's boat The Mayan.
David Crosby: "It was the boat of a friend, the Mayan is even
prettier".
