Laughter, Love and Music, Bill Graham Memorial, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, 11-3-1991, Part 3: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Here's the third out of four volumes of the 1991 Bill Graham memorial concert, called "Laughter, Love and Music." This one features Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (CSNY).

Bill Graham was pivotal to the career of CSNY, so it was fitting they were one of the headlining music acts for his memorial concerts. He was involved in most of the really key concerts for the band, from Woodstock to Live Aid. In 1970, when CSNY was just starting out, he called them "America's Beatles." That quote got a lot of mileage and really helped them. But probably his most important role was in 1974, when he organized their big reunion tour. 

Graham Nash told a interesting story relating to Graham in his autobiography "Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life." It relates to an episode at one of their Fillmore East shows in New York City in 1970. After a three-hour show and two encores, the band was in their dressing room, refusing to come out while the crowd was cheering for more. Nash wrote, "Bill Graham slipped a note under our door. It said: 'Your audience awaits you.' 'We’re not coming out, no matter how much you pay us,' Neil told Bill. The next thing we knew, a hundred-dollar bill came sliding under the door. As soon as Neil saw that, he shouted, 'Not enough!' Seven more hundred-dollar bills came sliding through at regular intervals. We were all laughing our asses off about it. Neil scooped those bills up and we went out to do another encore." 

That showed the lengths Bill Graham would go to in order to make sure the audience went away fully satisfied. I would guess that any other concert promoter would have figured two encores was plenty after a long concert, and kept all the money.

CSNY got together for a reunion album in 1988, "American Dream." But they only played about five concerts together from 1988 to 1990, all of them benefit concerts. Graham's death caused them to reunite again, after over a year of not performing together. It would be their last concert as a foursome until they went on tour in 2000. In this concert, they skipped the songs from their reunion album and stuck to their classics.

This album is 43 minutes long.

46 talk by emcee (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
47 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
48 Teach Your Children (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
49 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
50 Love the One You're With (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
51 Long May You Run (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
52 Long Time Gone (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
53 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
54 Southern Cross (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
55 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
56 Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
57 Wooden Ships (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
58 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
59 Ohio (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
60 talk by emcee (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Le4MDZsb

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/KA7dtrXCoVKLj0i/file

I have to admit I cheated with the cover. I couldn't find any good photos of CSNY together at this concert, and even only a couple of bad ones. They were spread too far apart on the stage. But I did find a good one of Neil Young and David Crosby on stage at this exact concert, so I used that one. I also found a good one of just Stephen Stills, also at this exact concert. So I cheated by using Photoshop to paste Stills into the image between Young and Crosby. Sorry if that bothers anyone, but I liked it better that way.

The Allman Brothers Band and Friends - Tune In to Hep C Benefit, Beacon Theatre, New York City, 6-27-2011

When it comes to the Allman Brothers Band, I like all their music up to about the year 2000. That's when Dickey Betts was kicked out of the band. It very well could be the band has good reasons to kick him out, but in my opinion it just wasn't the same without him. However, this concert is an exception. I really like this one, even though it's from 2011, which was close to the end. (The band folded in 2014.) The reason is this had interesting guest stars for a majority of the concert, resulting in the band playing different songs than usual.

When I found this bootleg, it came with a file that contains the text of an article from Rolling Stone Magazine describing the concert in detail. I've left that in the download zip. I recommend you give it a read.

The short version is the band's main singer-songwriter at this point, Gregg Allman, got hepatitis C when he was younger. It gave him health problems, and in 2010, he had to get a liver transplant. So when a non-profit charity called Hep C asked him to perform a benefit concert to help them out, he readily agreed, and he brought some special guests. The guests weren't chosen by accident, since most of them also had hepatitis C. Phil Lesh, bassist for the Grateful Dead, had to get a liver transplant. So did David Crosby, of Crosby, Stills and Nash. Natalie Cole also had the disease. I'm guessing Graham Nash didn't, but was there to assist Crosby, his longtime musical partner.

The concert started out as a typical Allman Brothers Band performance for its era, though even here the band did some nice covers of classic songs, like "I Want on Guilded Splinters," "Into the Mystic," and "Blind Willie McTell." Even one of their old originals, "Black Hearted Woman," ended with an instrumental jam based on "That's It for the Other One" by the Grateful Dead. 

Then came the guest vocalists, starting with Natalie Cole (who also came back later). The five songs with Crosby and Nash were all songs written by Crosby or Nash (with one song, "Find the Cost of Freedom," written by their longtime bandmate Stephen Stills). Phil Lesh joined them for the last two. Then three Grateful Dead classics followed, with Lesh still anchoring things with his bass playing. There were other guests too, including Bill Evans playing saxophone on a few songs, and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top playing some lead guitar on the last song. 

The music here is unreleased. This concert was broadcast on the radio, which is why the sound quality is excellent. For some of the songs, like the Grateful Dead covers, the lead vocals were low in the mix. So I fixed that with the help of the MVSEP program.

This album is two hours and 56 minutes long. 

UPDATE: On April 16, 2026, I updated the mp3 download file. The songs are exactly the same. But, a commenter named Bob said all the songs were a bit slow, and sent me a corrected version. So the update is that version.  

01 Don't Want You No More [Instrumental] (Allman Brothers Band)
02 It's Not My Cross to Bear (Allman Brothers Band)
03 I Walk on Guilded Splinters (Allman Brothers Band)
04 One Way Out (Allman Brothers Band)
05 Into the Mystic (Allman Brothers Band)
06 Statesboro Blues (Allman Brothers Band)
07 Blind Willie McTell (Allman Brothers Band)
08 Black Hearted Woman - That's It for the Other One (Allman Brothers Band)
09 talk (Allman Brothers Band)
10 A Change Is Gonna Come (Allman Brothers Band with Natalie Cole)
11 The Weight (Allman Brothers Band with Natalie Cole)
12 In Memory of Elizabeth Reed [Instrumental] (Allman Brothers Band with Bill Evans)
13 talk (Allman Brothers Band)
14 talk (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash)
15 Teach Your Children (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash)
16 talk (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash)
17 Guinnevere (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash)
18 talk (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash)
19 Find the Cost of Freedom (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash)
20 talk (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash)
21 Cowboy Movie (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash, & Phil Lesh)
22 talk (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash, & Phil Lesh)
23 Almost Cut My Hair (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash, & Phil Lesh)
24 talk (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash, & Phil Lesh)
25 Shakedown Street (Allman Brothers Band with Phil Lesh)
26 Sugaree (Allman Brothers Band with Phil Lesh)
27 Franklin's Tower (Allman Brothers Band with Phil Lesh & Bill Evans)
28 Whipping Post (Allman Brothers Band with Natalie Cole)
29 talk (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash, & Natalie Cole)
30 Midnight Rider (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash, & Natalie Cole)
31 talk (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash, & Natalie Cole)
32 Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash, Natalie Cole, & Billy Gibbons)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/iDwmfrV7

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/W639upo80TT7BiV/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. In the front row, from right to left, that's Warren Haynes of the Allman Brothers Band, Graham Nash, David Crosby, and Phil Lesh. I darkened the large video screen shown at the top of the image, so the writing on it wouldn't conflict with the writing of the band name I added in that area.

Various Artists - MusiCares Tribute to James Taylor, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2-6-2006

Here's another MusiCares tribute concert. I only have a couple more of these after this one, and I want to post them in the next days. This one honors James Taylor.

This concert followed the usual format for these kinds of things: a bonus of famous musical acts sang covers of his songs, then he accepted an award and gave a speech, and finally he played a couple of his songs. If you look at the song lists, a lot of big names showed up to perform his songs, including Bruce Springsteen. 

Another big name also played one of his songs at the concert: Paul Simon sung "Sweet Baby James." But unfortunately, this is sourced from a DVD, but that song wasn't included, and I couldn't find any version of it anywhere. If anyone has it, please let me know so I can add it in.

I know Simon played that song in this concert, because it's mentioned in this article, which is a good summary of the concert in general:

MusiCares Honors Singer James Taylor - CBS News 

Also, while trying to find a good photo for the cover art, I went through a stash of hundreds of photos from the concert, and noticed that other big names like Neil Young and Brian Wilson attended. But I doubt they performed, or they probably would have been mentioned in that news article I just linked to. 

As mentioned above, this is sourced from an official DVD, so the sound quality is excellent. No version is any audio format has been released. As I sometimes do, I converted the video to audio, then broke it into mp3s.

This album is an hour and 18 minutes long. 

01 talk (Bill Clinton)
02 talk (emcee)
03 talk (Dixie Chicks)
04 Shower the People (Dixie Chicks)
05 talk (emcee)
06 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
07 Rainy Day Man (Bonnie Raitt)
08 talk (emcee)
09 talk (India.Arie)
10 Secret o' Life (India.Arie)
11 talk (emcee)
12 talk (Jackson Browne, David Crosby & Sheryl Crow)
13 Mexico (Jackson Browne, David Crosby & Sheryl Crow)
14 talk (emcee)
15 talk (Sting)
16 You Can Close Your Eyes (Sting)
17 talk (Dr. John & Taj Mahal)
18 Everybody Has the Blues (Dr. John & Taj Mahal)
19 talk (Alison Krauss & Jerry Douglas)
20 Carolina in My Mind (Alison Krauss & Jerry Douglas)
21 talk (emcee)
22 talk (Keith Urban)
23 Country Road (Keith Urban)
24 talk (emcee)
25 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
26 Millworker (Bruce Springsteen)
27 talk (Carole King)
28 You've Got a Friend (Carole King with James Taylor)
29 talk (Neil Portnow)
30 talk (James Taylor)
31 Shed a Little Light (James Taylor)
32 talk (James Taylor)
33 How Sweet It Is [To Be Loved by You] (James Taylor)
34 Fire and Rain (James Taylor)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/T6dgDM1s

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/5ezYaz8DOi7Zc9L/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. It shows Taylor receiving the award from Neil Portnow, the head of MusiCares at the time. 

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - VH-1 Storytellers, MTV-VH-1 Studios, Santa Monica, CA, 2-18-2000

The flood of VH-1 Storytellers albums continues. This time, it's a episode of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY).

In 1999, CSNY had one of their occasional reunions, putting out the studio album "Looking Forward." Like most later CSN and CSNY studio albums, it had overproduction issues and song selection issues, so it wasn't nearly as good as it should have been. But all four of them remained talented songwriters just the same. That can be seen by the two songs here from that album, "Dream for Him" and "Seen Enough."

Other than those two, all the songs were classics from the late 1960s and early 1970s. There was a mix of acoustic and full-band performances. This was one of the first concerts for the band's 2000 tour, their first big tour as CSNY since 1974.

As I've done with most of these, I had to do a lot of editing to fix the flow from song to song. For instance, oftentimes, the applause cut off abruptly, so I'd have to patch in more applause from somewhere else. I made an especially big edit for the song "Helplessly Hoping," which is why that one has "[Edit]" in its title. As this series usually did, it started part way through the first song. So I found a soundboard version from the band's 2000 tour, and used that to fill in the missing part.

This album is 45 minutes long.

01 Helplessly Hoping [Edit] (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
02 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
03 Our House (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
04 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
05 Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
06 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
07 Guinnevere (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
08 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
09 Long May You Run (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
10 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
11 Dream for Him (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
12 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
13 After the Goldrush (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
14 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
15 Seen Enough (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
16 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
17 Teach Your Children (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17102811/CROSBSTLLSNSHYNG2000Strytllrs_MTVH1StdosSntaMncaCA__2-18-2000_atse.zip.html

alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/vnAmSyFi

I could have used a screenshot from this exact concert, but it would have been poor quality, based on a low-res video file. Instead, I used one from a concert in San Jose, California, on February 4, 2000, just two weeks prior to this concert.

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 2, Part 11: Crosby, Stills & Nash

The eleventh album from Day Two of the Woodstock '94 Festival is a set by Crosby, Stills and Nash (CSN).

CSN were one of the stars of the 1969 Woodstock Festival, playing then with Neil Young as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. It was reported that the promoters of this festival offered Young a large amount of money to reunite with CSN and play this festival. CSNY had last played a concert together in 1991, and wouldn't do so again until 2000. However, Young objected to the commercialization of the festival, for instance there were corporate sponsorships by the likes of Pepsi and Apple. He also felt it besmirched the reputation of the original Woodstock. So he refused to participate.

CSN was promoting their 1994 album "After the Storm," which by coincidence was released on August 16th, just a couple of days after this concert. That album was not well received. In my opinion, it was too slick and overproduced. They played five songs from that album (tracks 8, 12, 14, 16, and 20). In my opinion, the songs sound a lot better here, where the overproduction was largely avoided.

John Sebastian, the main singer-songwriter from the 1960s band Lovin' Spoonful, introduced CSN. He also played harmonica on the song "Deja Vu," just as he did on the original recording. He would have his own set at the festival a day later. An interesting fact is that Sebastian was strongly considered as a potential addition to CSN in 1969, but ultimately Neil Young was chosen instead.

This album is an hour and 24 minutes long.

01 talk by John Sebastian (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
02 Love the One You're With (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
03 Military Madness (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
04 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
05 Helplessly Hoping (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
06 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
07 Deja Vu (Crosby, Stills & Nash with John Sebastian)
08 Only Waiting for You (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
09 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
10 Marrakesh Express (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
11 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
12 It Won't Go Away (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
13 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
14 Unequal Love (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
15 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
16 In My Life (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
17 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
18 Long Time Gone (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
19 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
20 Street to Lean On (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
21 For What It's Worth (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
22 Pre-Road Downs (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
23 Southern Cross (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
24 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
25 Wooden Ships (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
26 Carry On (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
27 Woodstock (Crosby, Stills & Nash)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/vuukR4Bk

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/IyFqGSzgD6QmsJ0/file

The cover photo shows Crosby, Nash, and Stills, from left to right. I moved Stills closer to the other two in Photoshop.

Various Artists - Children of the Americas Radiothon, United Nations Building, New York City, and Palace Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 11-12-1988

Here's another big benefit concert with a bunch of different famous musical acts. But this one was unusual in a couple of ways. For one, it was held in two locations simultaneously and broadcast live over the radio. And for the other, it's quite an odd selection of acts. I like all of them, but it seems pretty random to me to have, say, Pat Benatar followed by Al Stewart, then followed by Midnight Oil, and so on, which is what happened here. But hey, it's all good music, with excellent sound quality.

This benefit concert certainly had a good cause, which was to fund non-profits helping poor children in Latin America. This was the second annual concert for this cause. I don't know anything about the first concert or subsequent ones. But we know about this one because it was broadcast live on the radio, and a bootleg recording of it survives.

I made many, many edits to make this listenable. The concert took the form of a radiothon, which is just like a telethon, except for the radio instead of TV. And if you're familiar with telethons at all, you know they're notorious for constantly asking for donations. That's what happened here. Between acts, and even during acts, there were emcees giving pleas to donate, with the donation phone number in particular repeated endlessly. Even the musical artists would sometimes mention the phone number between songs. I got rid of all that because it's all moot now, with the number obviously no longer working. I stripped this down to just the music and the banter relevant to the music.

I also did some edits to make this flow better. Oftentimes, as soon as a song wound end, the emcee's voice would come on with more pleas for donations. So I would patch in some more applause to give the songs a decent sounding ending. I didn't bother marking those edits with "[Edit]" in the song titles, 'cos I did it so much.

Some of the acts performed at the Palace Theatre in Los Angeles. Those were Jackson Browne, Midnight Oil, and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (CSNY), plus earlier appearances by Graham Nash and David Crosby. All the other acts performed at the United Nations Building in New York City. Note that the crowd in Los Angeles sounds much larger than the one in New York City. I'm guessing only a few dozen were allowed into the United Nations Building for this, based on the clapping one can hear.  

The star attraction here was CSNY. They put out a new album in 1988, "American Dream," but Neil Young decided not to take part in a tour to support it. However, he did take part in a very limited number of concerts with CSN around this time. There was the Bridge Benefit in 1988 (which I have also posted here), the Bridge Benefit in 1989, and this. (There also were a couple more in 1987 and 1990 and 1991, if you want to go that far.)

It's quite possible that there was more to these two concerts that what was heard here. For instance, there was no introduction to the CSNY set, and I doubt they started with the new song "This Old House." It also seems odd that Midnight Oil would have been recruited but only played less than ten minutes of music. I'm guessing this is just the stuff that made it to the radio broadcast, and while music was broadcast from one location, we were probably missing the music taking place at the other location. If anyone has any more of it, please let me know.  

This album is two hours and 25 minutes long.

01 Teach Your Children (Graham Nash)
02 talk (Emcee)
03 I Love L.A. (Randy Newman)
04 Dixie Flyer (Randy Newman)
05 Sail Away (Randy Newman)
06 talk (Randy Newman)
07 Political Science (Randy Newman)
08 Short People (Randy Newman)
09 talk (Randy Newman)
10 I Want You to Hurt like I Do (Randy Newman)
11 talk (David Crosby)
12 Crow on the Cradle (Jackson Browne & Graham Nash)
13 talk (David Crosby)
14 talk (Jackson Browne)
15 Lives in the Balance (Jackson Browne with David Crosby & Graham Nash)
16 talk (Jackson Browne)
17 My Personal Revenge (Jackson Browne with Sangre Machuwa)
18 talk (Jackson Browne)
19 Fruita Almarga [Bitter Fruit] (Jackson Browne)
20 talk (Jackson Browne)
21 Lene Verde [Instrumental] (Jackson Browne with Sangre Machuwa)
22 talk (Graham Nash)
23 Rock Me on the Water (Jackson Browne with David Crosby & Graham Nash)
24 Powerful Stuff (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
25 talk (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
26 Look at That, Look at That (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
27 talk (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
28 She's Tough (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
29 talk (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
30 Wrap It Up (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
31 talk (Pat Benatar)
32 All Fired Up (Pat Benatar)
33 Run Between the Raindrops (Pat Benatar)
34 talk (Pat Benatar)
35 Let's Stay Together (Pat Benatar)
36 talk (Emcee)
37 Antarctica (Al Stewart)
38 talk (Al Stewart)
39 Princess Olivia (Al Stewart)
40 The Year of the Cat (Al Stewart)
41 talk (Graham Nash)
42 Wealth Is Virtue (Midnight Oil)
43 The Dead Heart (Midnight Oil)
44 This Old House (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
45 Love the One You're With (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
46 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
47 Name of Love (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
48 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
49 Tracks in the Dust (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
50 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
51 Don't Say Goodbye (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
52 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
53 Southern Cross (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
54 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
55 Long Time Gone (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
56 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
57 My Country 'Tis of Thee (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with J. D. Souther)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/DQZ2b6A2

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/z8t3Ajl7bhZ3NZF/file

I found the cover image from some promotional art related to this concert. It's a drawing of all the major stars that took part. In the top row, from left to right: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. In the bottom row, from left to right: Jackson Browne, Pat Benatar, Peter Garrett of Midnight Oil, and Randy Newman. The banner at the top was in the original, but I changed the text there, and added more text at the bottom. 

I couldn't find any actual photos from this concert, so I'm lucky to have found this.

Various Artists - An All-Star Tribute to Brian Wilson, Radio City Music Hall, New York City, 3-29-2001

Here's something that any fan of the Beach Boys will certainly enjoy. I don't know much about the backstory for this one (maybe someone else can explain?) - I'm guessing it was an anniversary of some sort. But in 2001, a bunch of great musicians got together to celebrate the music of Brian Wilson. That's basically the same thing as celebrating the music of the Beach Boys, since I think all but one of the songs performed here was originally recorded and released by the Beach Boys. (The lone exception, "Love and Mercy," is from Wilson's more hit and miss solo career.) 

In my opinion, most of these kinds of tribute concerts have more dud performances than good ones. But this one is solid pretty much all the way through. It's hard to go wrong with Beach Boys songs, for starters. But also, a lot of big names took part, such as Paul Simon, Elton John, Billy Joel, Heart, David Crosby, Aimee Mann, and many more, and it's hard to go wrong with them as well. Plus, Brian Wilson himself joined in at the end.

Most or all of the performances are unique, meaning these particular artists never did these songs before, and probably not since. They were special versions just for this show.

This concert has never been released in any kind of audio format, as far as I know. But the songs here all come from a DVD that has been released. I edited it down somewhat to remove some speeches praising Wilson. I wanted to keep it more focused on the music. (One section I removed was a talk by Beatles producer George Martin about the song "Good Vibrations.")  However, I did keep all the talking that directly preceded or followed each song that was relevant.

Unfortunately, there was a lot more to this concert that was not included on the DVD, and I can't find it anywhere else. For instance, Wilson sang lead or co-lead on five songs at the end of this album. But in the concert, he sang a few more: "Lay Down Burden," "Do It Again," "Caroline, No," and "Surfin' U.S.A." If anyone has more than I do, please let me know so I can add it in.

This album is an hour and 12 minutes long.

01 talk (Chazz Palminteri)
02 Our Prayer (Boys Choir of Harlem)
03 California Girls - Help Me, Rhonda (Ricky Martin)
04 talk (Chazz Palminteri)
05 Surfer Girl (Paul Simon)
06 Surf City (Go-Go's)
07 talk (Chazz Palminteri)
08 In My Room (David Crosby, Carly Simon & Jimmy Webb)
09 talk (David Crosby)
10 The Warmth of the Sun (Vince Gill)
11 talk (Chazz Palminteri)
12 I Get Around (Evan & Jaron)
13 talk (Chazz Palminteri)
14 God Only Knows (Elton John)
15 talk (Chazz Palminteri)
16 I Just Wasn't Made for These Times (Aimee Mann & Michael Penn)
17 talk (Chazz Palminteri & Billy Joel)
18 Don't Worry Baby (Billy Joel)
19 talk (Chazz Palminteri)
20 Sail On Sailor (Darius Rucker & Matthew Sweet)
21 talk (Chazz Palminteri & Chynna Phillips)
22 You're So Good to Me (Wilson Phillips)
23 talk (George Martin)
24 Good Vibrations (Heart)
25 talk (Chazz Palminteri)
26 Surf's Up (David Crosby, Vince Gill & Jimmy Webb)
27 talk (Chazz Palminteri & Brian Wilson)
28 Heroes and Villains (Brian Wilson)
29 talk (Elton John)
30 Wouldn't It Be Nice (Elton John & Brian Wilson)
31 talk (Brian Wilson)
32 Barbara Ann (Brian Wilson & Everyone)
33 Fun, Fun, Fun (Brian Wilson & Everyone)
34 talk (Brian Wilson)
35 Love and Mercy (Brian Wilson with the Boys Choir of Harlem)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16584567/VA-_2001AllStrTrbtetBrnWlsnRdoCtyMsicHllNwYrkC__3-29-2001_atse.zip.html

I have to admit, the cover is a bit fakey. I found a photo of Elton John, Billy Joel, and Paul Simon sharing the same microphone during a finale at this concert. But since it's a Brian Wilson tribute and he was there, I wanted him on the cover too. So I Photoshopped him in, using a photo that also comes from the finale at this concert. They were on stage together, just not this close. The lighting is pretty accurate. For instance, there's a shadow falling on his body that actually fell on someone else standing there.

No Nukes Concerts, Madison Square Garden, New York City, 9-23-1979: Crosby, Stills and Nash

The fourteenth album I'm posting of the 1979 No Nukes concerts is a set by Crosby, Stills and Nash (CSN). I believe this is the longest of all the albums I'm posting for these concerts.

I previously posted a set by Graham Nash, from September 19, 1979. I'm not entirely sure, but I think what happened was that Nash performed solo sets for the first three nights, but then on the last night, he played as part of the CSN "supergroup" instead. This concert comes entirely from the Madison Square Garden show in New York City. CSN also played the Battery Park concert in New York City that day. But they seem to have only played four songs, and all of them were performed here as well, so I didn't see any reason to include them.

As a big CSN fan, I have long looked for a worthy concert recording from the 1977 tour, done in support of their 1977 album "CSN." However, I've only come across (very) partial soundboards. So this is probably the next best thing. Yes, it took place two years later, so the set list would have been pretty similar. Unfortunately though, they only played two songs from their "CSN" album ("Just a Song Before I Go" and "Cathedral"), leaning on earlier classics instead.

I ran into a problem with the song "Wooden Ships." By now, I must sound like a broken record, because the soundboard recording was missing a section. Something similar happened to probably a majority of the No Nukes albums I've posted. Anyway, like I usually did with these concerts, I patched in the missing bit with some of the audience bootleg. Luckily, in this case, the missing bit was just the first two minutes out of an eleven minute song, and all of that was before the lead vocals came in. The sound quality isn't terrible this time, probably helped by the fact that there were no vocals on that bit.

I'm pretty sure CSN's set was the last one of the night, based on the length as well as the fact that it ended with a cover of the John Hall song "Power." Like other final encores of this song in the concerts, they were joined by other stars who took turns singing some of the verses. 

This album is an hour and 21 minutes long.

01 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
02 Helplessly Hoping (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
03 Change Partners (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
04 You Don't Have to Cry (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
05 4 + 20 (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
06 Suite- Judy Blue Eyes (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
07 Our House (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
08 Pre-Road Downs (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
09 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
10 Love the One You're With (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
11 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
12 Just a Song Before I Go (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
13 Long Time Gone (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
14 Cathedral (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
14 Wooden Ships [Edit] (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
16 Carry On (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
17 Chicago (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
18 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
19 Teach Your Children (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
20 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
21 Power (Crosby, Stills & Nash with John Hall. Michael McDonald, James Taylor & Jackson Browne)
22 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17318127/VA-NONUKS1979MdisnSqurGrdnNwYrkC__9-23-1979_CrsbyStllsnNshatse.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/T16yqGh8

The cover photo comes from this exact concert. From right to left, that's David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash. I improved it some with the Krea AI program.

Foamfoot (The Black Crowes and Others) - The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, 1-8-1994

So who the heck was Foamfoot? This was a band made up of a couple key members of the Black Crowes, plus a key member of Jellyfish, plus others, that came together to play one concert entirely of cover songs back in 1994. The concert was professionally recorded for official release, but it never actually got released. But it makes for a great concert album because they guys really knew how to play classic rock. And, as a bonus, David Crosby joined in to sing a song.

The Black Crowes have mainly been led by the Robinson brothers, with Chris Robinson on lead vocals and Rich Robinson on vocals and guitar. But another key member in the 1990s was Marc Ford on lead guitar. The band was at the height of their popularity and creativity around 1994, with their first two albums selling millions in the U.S. 

Jimmy Ashurst, bass player from the Ju Ju Hounds, later explained what happened next. "There were several jams with Chris (Robinson), Marc (Ford), and Andy (Sturmer – drummer for Jellyfish). Chris was for the first time in his career living far from his brother Rich and I think he was interested in seeing what he was capable of doing without him. The live shows we did, Foamfoot and Big Toe, were more for fun and we did covers of other people’s songs."

So, as mentioned in that quote, in addition to this one show as Foamfoot, there was another show or two by the same band using the name "Big Toe," but that's mostly forgotten due to the lack of a high quality recording like this one. Furthermore, in late 1993, basically the same group of people plus a couple more did some recordings of songs written by Chris Robinson using the band name "Sweet Pickle Salad." Those have never been released, but exist on bootleg. 

In addition to the band members previously mentioned (Chris Robinson, Marc Ford, Jimmy Ashurst, and Andy Sturmer), Eric Bobo also played in the band on percussion. He'd previously played with Cypress Hill and the Beastie Boys. And note that while Sturmer was a key lead vocalist and songwriter for Jellyfish as well as being the band's drummer, in this band he just played drums. Furthermore, Gary Louris of the Jayhawks joined in to play guitar on one song in this concert. And David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, and Nash dropped in to help sing a song he wrote, "Long Time Gone."

This band seems to have been mainly led by Chris Robinson, and since he's the lead vocalist of the Black Crowes, it sounds a heck of a lot like the Black Crowes doing a bunch of cover songs. And although that band was most popular in the 1990s, they were heavily influenced by the classic rock of the early 1970s, especially bands like the Rolling Stones, the Faces, and Southern Rock bands like the Allman Brothers. In fact, in 2022, a reformed Black Crowes put out an EP called "1972" containing covers of songs from 1972 by those types of bands.

Given all that, it's not too surprising that the covers here are mostly from the early 1970s, plus a few from the 1960s. Here are the original artists for each song:

01 talk (Foamfoot)
02 Walk in My Shadow - Free
03 Bottle of Red Wine - Eric Clapton
05 Tin Soldier - Small Faces
07 Take the Highway - Marshall Tucker Band
08 Deal - Grateful Dead
10 Love Me Till the Sun Shines - Kinks
12 Long Time Gone - Crosby, Stills and Nash
14 Jemima Surrender - Band
15 One Way Out - Sonny Boy Williamson II / Allman Brothers Band
17 Presence of the Lord - Blind Faith

The sound quality is excellent. Note that this bootleg has gotten around a lot. There are rumors that the band members made it available as a bootleg after they couldn't get it officially released. But most of the versions had the last song, "Presence of the Lord," fade out before it ended. But a year or two ago (as I write this in 2023), a compete version of the song was posted on YouTube, so I used that version.

Even if you're not familiar with the Black Crowes, if you like classic rock from the early 1970s, you should enjoy this, because it's expertly sung and played by people who clearly love this kind of music.

Here's the usual song list:

01 talk (Foamfoot)
02 Walk in My Shadow (Foamfoot)
03 Bottle of Red Wine (Foamfoot)
04 talk (Foamfoot)
05 Tin Soldier (Foamfoot)
06 talk (Foamfoot)
07 Take the Highway (Foamfoot with Gary Lewis)
08 Deal (Foamfoot)
09 talk (Foamfoot)
10 Love Me Till the Sun Shines (Foamfoot)
11 talk (Foamfoot)
12 Long Time Gone (Foamfoot with David Crosby)
13 talk (Foamfoot)
14 Jemima Surrender (Foamfoot)
15 One Way Out (Foamfoot)
16 talk (Foamfoot)
17 Presence of the Lord (Foamfoot)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16055299/Foamfoot_1994_ThTroubdourLsAnglesCA__1-8-1994_atse.zip.html

I couldn't find any photos of Foamfoot. The popular bootleg of this concert just uses a drawing of a crow. So instead I used a photo of Chris Robinson, singing at a Black Crowes concert in 1993.

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (with Joni Mitchell) - Roosevelt Raceway, Westbury, NY, 9-8-1974

If you want just one full-length Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY) concert recording, I would suggest this one. Although there was a lot of drug and ego trouble between band members backstage on their 1974 tour, the four of them were peaking in terms of songwriting and performance. And as a bonus, Joni Mitchell sang backing vocals on no less than nine of the songs.

This was the last night in the U.S. of CSNY's ill-fated 1974 concert tour. They only did one concert in 1974 after this, in London, Britain (which was their only appearance in Europe). Due to the troubles mentioned above, the four of them nicknamed this the "Doom Tour" amongst themselves, and they ran wild with 1970s superstar lifestyle excess. But despite all that, they had many good nights on stage, and this clearly was one such night. They played in front of 80,000 people as part of an all-day concert with Jesse Colin Young, the Beach Boys, and Joni Mitchell as opening acts.

The fact that Mitchell was an opening act helps explain why she joined in singing on a bunch of songs. I believe she did the same for the Wembley show, where she also was an opening act, but I don't think she did that on the other dates in the tour. By the way, the day of this concert, American stuntman Evel Knievel attempted to jump across Snake River Canyon in Idaho on a rocket-powered motorcycle. That happened to be broadcast on pay-per-view TV during Mitchell's set, and she actually took a break from her set to watch it for a few minutes, telling the audience that she was going to go watch some idiot commit suicide. (Knievel survived, but landed at the bottom of the canyon short of crossing the river.) Neil Young made a comment about the Knievel jump before one of the songs he played.

Unfortunately, I looked for the opening sets, but could only find this bootleg with worthy sound quality (or, in most cases, any versions at all).

This is a soundboard recording, and the sound quality is excellent. There were only a couple of snags. For one, a tiny section in the middle of "Deja Vu" was missing, but it seems it was only a few seconds long. It was during an instrumental passage, and I edited it so the missing bit won't be noticed. Also, the last part of "Black Queen" was missing, probably a minute or two. This was more difficult. But I used the version on the album "CSNY 1974" to bring it to a conclusion. That's why those two songs have "[Edit]" in their titles.

Speaking of the album "CSNY 1974," that's an official album released in 2014 that features highlights from this tour. It was a big triple album drawn from ten different concerts, but none of those concerts happen to be this one, so I'm pretty sure everything here is still officially unreleased. Personally, I usually prefer listening to entire concert recordings instead of live albums drawn from lots of different shows. If you feel the same, I'm pretty sure this is the best show from the tour, as the few other soundboards are incomplete or have other flaws. (For instance, there's a soundboard recording of the Wembley show too, but it was considered a disappointing performance.)

As with all the shows on this tour, the concert was broken into three sections. CSNY was backed by a full band for the first part and the last part, while there was a big acoustic section in the middle. The acoustic section is roughly from track 16 to 36. Each member got to do their own solo spot. Weirdly though, Crosby only did one song, while Nash, Stills, and Young each did three songs. But the solo songs weren't always really solo, others often joined vocals, including Mitchell on a few.

By the way, Mitchell's participation is a bit odd in that I didn't hear any banter between songs thanking her or even mentioning her. It's very possible that banter like that got cut out. (This also was the day that it was announced that President Ford pardoned former President Nixon for his Watergate crimes. Crosby told that to the crowd during the concert, and the crowd booed. But that's not on this recording, so at least some banter got cut.) But what also is a bit unusual is that she came and went from the stage at least seven different times. I figure that she only sang on the songs that she knew well and had something to contribute on vocal harmonies, and those were randomly scattered throughout the long concert. I find it particularly interesting that she helped sing "Our House," since that song was written by Nash about her when they had a romance around 1970.

This is quite a long concert. This album is three hours and nine minutes long.

01 Love the One You're With (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
02 Wooden Ships (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
03 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
04 Immigration Man (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
05 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
06 Helpless (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with Joni Mitchell)
07 Military Madness (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
08 Johnny's Garden (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
09 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
10 Walk On (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
11 Almost Cut My Hair (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
12 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
13 Teach Your Children (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
14 Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with Joni Mitchell)
15 The Lee Shore (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
16 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
17 Time After Time (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
18 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
19 Southbound Train (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
20 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
21 Another Sleep Song (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with Joni Mitchell)
22 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
23 Our House (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with Joni Mitchell)
24 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
25 Hawaiian Sunrise (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
26 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
27 Long May You Run (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with Joni Mitchell)
28 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
29 Ambulance Blues (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
30 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
31 Old Man (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with Joni Mitchell)
32 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
33 Change Partners (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with Joni Mitchell)
34 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
35 Myth of Sisyphus (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
36 Word Game (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
37 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
38 Suite- Judy Blue Eyes (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with Joni Mitchell)
39 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
40 Deja Vu [Edit] (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
41 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
42 First Things First (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
43 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
44 Don't Be Denied (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
45 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
46 Black Queen [Edit] (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
47 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
48 Revolution Blues (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
49 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
50 Pushed It Over the End (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
51 Pre-Road Downs (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
52 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
53 Carry On (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
54 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
55 Sugar Mountain (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with Joni Mitchell)
56 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
57 Ohio (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)

https://www.imagenetz.de/jeKeG

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/6rMMex7V

second alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/f9nB9iMAMIHIH8U/file 

The photo used on the cover is from the CSNY Wembley concert a few days later (September 14, 1974). I couldn't find any good color ones from this exact one. I used this particular photo because it has Mitchell there with CSNY, and I thought it was particularly neat to see all five of them together. Neil Young's face was blocked by two microphones, but I did some tweaking in Photoshop so one can now see his eyes.

Also note that I found a concert poster for this exact concert. I based some of the cover art on the poster. However, I inverted the bright and dark bits to better match with the black background of the photo. I'm including the poster here, in case you want to see it. Note that the sketch in the middle was drawn by Mitchell, and was also used for the cover of the band's best of collection "So Far."

David Crosby & Venice - For the Arts Benefit, Santa Monica High School, Santa Monica, CA, 3-5-2011

Here's an interesting bootleg that I just discovered. Not long after David Crosby died in January 2023, the band Venice put this concert on their YouTube page. I found it there and converted it to mp3s. It features Crosby and Venice performing some of the best known Crosby, Stills, Nash and sometimes Young songs. It's professionally recorded, and sounds great.

I've been a fan of the band Venice since the 1990s. I think I found out about them when I saw a quote where Crosby called them his favorite musical artist. That's not totally surprising, since they have a soft rock, 1970s sound that's very similar to CSN. They're especially known for their harmony vocals. But although they've released many albums and worked with many famous musicians (including Jackson Browne, who has played with them a bunch of times), they never hit the big time.... except, oddly, in the Netherlands, where they're stars.

The band Venice is very closely tied to the neighborhood of Venice in Los Angeles, as their name shows. As part of that, they've taken part in annual concerts that benefit the music programs of schools in Santa Monica. Each year, Santa Monica High School gets some surprisingly big names to play at their benefit concert, for a mere high school. For instance, in 2011, the year of this concert, not only did David Crosby and Venice play together as the headline act, but the supporting acts were America and Richard Page of the band Mr. Mister. You can read an article about the concert here:

Artists Rock For Santa Monica School District: America, David Crosby, Richard Page of Mr. Mister, and Venice Support Local Schools - SM Mirror

I would have included more of the concert, but the video posted on YouTube only included the set with Crosby and Venice together. Even an earlier set just by Venice wasn't included. America and Richard Page did join in singing on the last song, "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," but you can't really hear them.

Crosby and Venice didn't just play songs where Crosby sang lead vocals. Venice has two lead vocalists, Kip Lennon and Mark Lennon (the four band members are all brothers). So Crosby sang the Crosby-written songs, and either Kip or Mark sang the lead vocals on the other CSN(Y) songs, while Crosby sang his usual harmony parts. In my opinion, the combined vocals often sound better than the CSN live versions. But that's not all. They were backed on some songs by the Santa Monica High School orchestra, plus choir, as well as a local horn section and a local drum corps! So at times there were dozens of people on stage. But they must have practiced, because it sounds very professional and well put together.

It seems that Crosby performed with Venice in this annual concert multiple times. However, there aren't available recordings for most years. However, I also found a soundboard recording of the 2004 show. The first 12 tracks here are from the 2011 one. But they played two different songs at the 2004 show, "Woodstock" and "My Country 'Tis of Thee," so I've added those at the end. They happened to be the last two songs of the 2004 show, so they fit as the last songs here as well.

Just the 2011 portion is 41 minutes long. But with the two extra songs at the end included, the concert is 50 minutes long.

01 talk (David Crosby & Venice)
02 Long Time Gone (David Crosby & Venice)
03 talk (David Crosby & Venice)
04 Guinnevere (David Crosby & Venice)
05 talk (David Crosby & Venice)
06 Wooden Ships (David Crosby & Venice)
07 talk (David Crosby & Venice)
08 Carry On (David Crosby & Venice)
09 talk (David Crosby & Venice)
10 Ohio (David Crosby & Venice)
11 talk (David Crosby & Venice)
12 Suite- Judy Blue Eyes (David Crosby & Venice)
13 Woodstock (David Crosby & Venice)
14 talk (David Crosby & Venice)
15 My Country 'Tis of Thee (David Crosby & Venice)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15162252/CrosbVnice_2011_FortheArtsBnefitSantaMnicaHghSchool__3-5-2011_atse.zip.html

The cover is a screenshot taken from the YouTube video of the 2011 concert.

Crosby, Nash & Young - United Farm Workers Benefit, Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz, CA, 8-12-1977

Note that this is an unreleased acoustic concert of David Crosby, Graham Nash, and Neil Young of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (CSNY), but Stephen Stills was not there.

In 1977, Neil Young was not on particularly good terms with Crosby, Stills, and Nash. There had been an attempt to record a CSNY studio album in 1976, but it had ended acrimoniously when Stills and Young wiped the harmony vocals of Crosby and Nash and released their songs as the Stills and Young album "Long May You Run." Stills then reunited with Crosby and Nash and put out the very commercially successful Crosby, Stills and Nash album "CSN" in 1977. Young went to the studio with CSN and listened to an early copy of the album, and complimented the album and generally had a good time with them, according to an article I once read. But around the same time, he wrote the song "Thrasher" in which he harshly criticized CSN saying, "So I got bored and left them there, they were just dead weight to me." (Although he didn't mention CSN by name in the song, in a later interview, he said, "'Thrasher' was pretty much me writing about my experiences with Crosby, Stills and Nash in the mid-1970s.")

So yeah, it was complicated. Clearly, there was a love/hate thing going on. A big factor that hurt Young's relationship with the others was their excessive drug use, especially Crosby's cocaine addition, which would later turn into a crack addition before he cleaned up later in the 1980s. That too was referenced in "Thrasher" where he complained they were "lost in crystal canyons." Young would barely perform with the others until after Crosby got clean around 1986.

But this show is a rare exception. It was originally billed as a benefit show headlined by David Crosby only, co-headlined with the David Grisman Quartet. The first six songs do feature only Crosby. But Graham Nash publicly promised to be there, and he did show up. The show turned into a de facto Crosby-Nash concert for the next five songs.  But for all of the summer of 1977, Young lived in Santa Cruz and played many unannounced concerts at small clubs with his short-lived band the Ducks. So he was on good enough terms to join the concert for the last eight songs, including doing four written by him.

By the way, I found a mention that Stills also wanted to join the show, but he was playing a concert overseas. He tried to get back in time, but didn't make it.

Regarding this recording, it's only an audience bootleg. However, it's an unusually good one, which is why I'm posting it. It almost rises to soundboard quality level, but you do get some more crowd noise. It helps that it was an acoustic concert - a good recording becomes increasingly important with more instruments involved.

This is an excellent show in my opinion. It helps that it was a bit longer than typical concerts at the time, at an hour and 45 minutes long. It's heavier on Crosby material since he played the whole show, and lighter on Young's material in particular since he only was there for the final third. But it's great they patched things up enough to play together. I could be wrong, but I think the next time Young appeared on stage with them was at Live Aid in 1985.

01 The Lee Shore (David Crosby)
02 Page 43 (David Crosby)
03 talk (David Crosby)
04 Triad (David Crosby)
05 talk (David Crosby)
06 Homeward through the Haze (David Crosby)
07 talk (David Crosby)
08 Naked in the Rain (David Crosby)
09 talk (David Crosby)
10 Laughing (David Crosby)
11 talk (Crosby & Nash)
12 Southbound Train (Crosby & Nash)
13 talk (Crosby & Nash)
14 Guinnevere (Crosby & Nash)
15 talk (Crosby & Nash)
16 Cathedral (Crosby & Nash)
17 talk (Crosby & Nash)
18 Carry Me (Crosby & Nash)
19 talk (Crosby & Nash)
20 Low Down Payment (Crosby & Nash)
21 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
22 Human Highway (Crosby, Nash & Young)
23 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
24 New Mama (Crosby, Nash & Young)
25 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
26 Deja Vu (Crosby, Nash & Young)
27 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
28 Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Crosby, Nash & Young)
29 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
30 Our House (Crosby, Nash & Young)
31 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
32 Wooden Ships (Crosby, Nash & Young)
33 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
34 Teach Your Children (Crosby, Nash & Young)
35 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
36 Sugar Mountain (Crosby, Nash & Young)
37 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)

https://www.imagenetz.de/auLZn

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/UByb694s

second alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/QTFcbARE53e402b/file 

I'm very happy to say the cover photo was taken at this exact concert.

The Byrds - Love that Never Dies - Non-Album Tracks (1989-1998)

The Byrds disbanded in 1973. There were some reunions and collaborations between various key members in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but those faded out. Then, in 1989, the Byrds had a brief renaissance, culminating in all five original members appearing on stage to accept being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, and even playing a few songs together. 

But things faded out again soon after that. One factor was that, only a few months after the Hall of Fame induction, key member Gene Clark died of cancer, exacerbated by various addictions, But also, Roger McGuinn was always central to the Byrds sound, with both his distinctive voice and guitar playing. He put out his first solo album in many years in 1991 with "Back to Rio," and even had a minor hit, "King of the Hill." However, shortly thereafter it seems he decided he wasn't interested in a conventional rock music career, and switched to mostly performing solo acoustic versions of traditional folk songs. Since 1991, he's only put out one conventional rock album of new songs, "Limited Edition," in 2004, with none of the other former Byrds on it. He rebuffed many requests by David Crosby for a Byrds reunion, saying he didn't need the money and preferred to keep the Byrds as a fond memory from long ago. Now, as I write this in 2023, Crosby has died as well, so no further Byrds reunions are possible.

This collects the best of what I could find from that early 1990s reunion time period. I've included songs actually done by the Byrds, which is defined here as original members McGuinn, Crosby, and Chris Hillman. Those three were on the outs with the other original members, Clark and Michael Clarke, due to legal battles over the use of the band name (other than their reunion for the Hall of Fame). Additionally, I've included a couple of songs with at least two members, McGuinn and Hillman or Hillman and Crosby. Finally, I've included songs just by McGuinn that had that Byrdsy sound to it. Putting all that together is just enough material for what I think is a very solid album.

McGuinn, Crosby, and Hillman played a few concerts as a threesome in 1989, as part of their legal battle to argue that they were the real Byrds, and different bands led by either Clark or Clarke were not. I'm not including any songs from those concerts since the sound quality is rougher than everything else here. But if people are interested, I could post the best sounding bootleg from those shows. However, those concerts led to McGuinn, Crosby, and Hillman recording four songs together in the studio, which came out on the 1990 box set simply titled "The Byrds." Three of those were covers, but the fourth, "Love that Never Dies," is a very nice McGuinn original. 

Tracks six through ten are what I consider the best songs from McGuinn's 1991 album "Back from Rio." However, one of those, "Without Your Love," is labelled as a Byrds song, because Crosby and Hillman also played and song on it. In 1996, McGuinn released a live acoustic album called "Live from Mars." But it had two new, original extra studio songs on it, "Fireworks" and "May the Road Rise," that were done with a full band. So I've included those here. The final song come from a Hillman solo album.

I didn't include any songs from the 1991 Hall of Fame induction. The performance was pretty rough, obviously with no practice, and Clarke totally drunk. (He would die of liver failure due to years of heavy alcohol consumption in 1993.) You can find videos of a couple of songs from that on YouTube. Far better were two songs done for a Roy Orbison tribute concert in 1990. I've posted that full concert here recently. But I'm including the two Byrds songs from that as bonus tracks, for those who don't want the whole show.

This album is 48 minutes long, not including the bonus tracks.

01 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Roger McGuinn & Chris Hillman)
02 He Was a Friend of Mine (Byrds)
03 Paths of Victory (Byrds)
04 From a Distance (Byrds)
05 Love that Never Dies (Byrds)
06 Someone to Love (Roger McGuinn)
07 Suddenly Blue (Roger McGuinn)
08 King of the Hill (Roger McGuinn with Tom Petty)
09 Without Your Love (Byrds)
10 If We Never Meet Again (Roger McGuinn)
11 Fireworks (Roger McGuinn)
12 May the Road Rise (Roger McGuinn)
13 I'm Still Alive (Chris Hillman with David Crosby)

Mr. Tambourine Man (Byrds with Bob Dylan)
Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Byrds)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16700743/TBYRDZ1989-1998_LvethatNverDies_atse.zip.html

The cover photo was taken backstage at the Roy Orbison tribute concert in 1990. From right to left, that's Hillman, Crosby, and McGuinn. I used Photoshop to darken the background, because there were some distracting balloons and other things there.

Various Artists - Roy Orbison Tribute Concert to Benefit the Homeless, Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, CA, 2-24-1990

I recently stumbled across this Roy Orbison concert. As far as I can tell, it's never really appeared as a bootleg, other than as a single file with no song titles or artists given. So I had to some research just to figure out what this was exactly. But I think it was worth it because it's a very interesting show, with lots of big names. Despite it being ostensibly about Roy Orbison, probably the biggest musical event of the concert was the reunion of three key members of the Byrds - Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, and Chris Hillman - who were then joined by Bob Dylan for the song "Mr. Tambourine Man." Dylan wrote it in 1964, and the Byrds had a Number One hit with it in 1965, but they'd never done the song on stage together.

Roy Orbison died of a heart attack at the end of 1988, when he was only 52 years old. The timing of his death was especially unfortunate because he hadn't had much commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, but that drastically changed right as he died, with him being a member of the Traveling Wilburys supergroup. He even had his first Top Ten hit in over 25 years with "You Got It." 

Regardless, Orbison was a much admired musical legend. So when he died, his wife Barbara Orbison put together a tribute concert that also doubled as a benefit concert to help the homeless. It's an odd concert as these things go, because most of the acts paid tribute to Orbison by covering his songs, but some other acts went in a different direction and played songs that seemed to have no link to Orbison whatsoever. For instance Iggy Pop played "Home," a song from his then-current album. Speaking of Iggy Pop, another odd aspect to the concert was the musical acts involved. Some made lots of sense, because they'd been heavily influenced by Orbison, such as John Fogerty or Chris Isaak. 

Others were more mystifying musically. For instance, you may well wonder what Patrick Swayze is doing here, dueting on the Everly Brothers song "Love Hurts" with Larry Gatlin. Yes, that Patrick Swayze, the famous actor. He released a few songs here and there, but never put out an album. Apparently, some acts mainly got involved because they liked the charitable cause.

Aside from Iggy Pop, the Patrick Swayze and Larry Gatlin duet, and the Byrds songs, plus a duet version of "I'm in the Mood" by John Lee Hooker & Bonnie Raitt, and "The Thrill Is Gone" by B. B. King, I believe all the rest of the songs have some Orbison connection. For instance, "In the Real World," "Rock House," "Chicken Hearted," and "That Lovin' You Feelin' Again" are fairly obscure songs, but they were all written and/or sung by Orbison. (He also did "Love Hurts," although the Everly Brothers did it first.)

Anyway, this contains all of the music performed at the concert that I could find. However, I cut out some of the talking between songs. There were some pitches for people to donate to the charitable cause, which is no longer relevant since the phone number mentioned has long gone dead, I'd assume. But I suspect there was more banter between songs, and maybe even more songs, that didn't get bootlegged. The show was broadcast on TV, but I think it's a safe bet a lot of edits were made to get it to fit within the allowed screen time. There were some acts involved that didn't get any songs featured at all, such as Michelle Shocked and the duet of Wendy and Lisa. They did help out along with some others on the all-female version of "Oh, Pretty Woman," but I wouldn't be surprised if they did songs that got cut from the TV show, and thus this bootleg, because they weren't so famous.

Also, near the end of this concert, the Byrds did four songs: "Turn, Turn, Turn," "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Eight Miles High," and "He Was a Friend of Mine." Dylan took part with "Mr. Tambourine Man," as I previously mentioned. " He also took part in "He Was a Friend of Mine," but just barely, because he merely strummed along on guitar and didn't sing at all, so I didn't add his name to the credits for that song. I know this because I found a video of it on YouTube.

The Byrds performances of "Turn, Turn, Turn" and "Mr. Tambourine Man" have been officially released on a Byrds box set. But the other two remain unreleased, as far as I know.

This album is an hour and 39 minutes long. If anyone knows the correct order of the songs, please let me know.

UPDATE: On February 12, 2023, I updated the mp3 download file. Musical associate Lilpanda had a different source for this concert, with the same high quality sound. Most of it was the same, but there were five songs I didn't have. So I added those. I don't know the correct song order, so I put three of the newly discovered ones at the start (the ones by NRBO, Joe Ely, and Syd Straw). That also included two songs by the Byrds, "Eight Miles High" and "He Was a Friend of Mine," so I put those with the rest of the Byrds' set. That added about 20 minutes of music to the album.

01 Chicken Hearted (NRBQ)
02 Working for the Man (Joe Ely)
03 She's a Mystery to Me (Syd Straw)
04 talk (John Fogerty)
05 Ooby Dooby (John Fogerty)
06 Mean Woman Blues (Levon Helm)
07 I'm in the Mood (John Lee Hooker & Bonnie Raitt)
08 talk (Chris Isaak)
09 Leah (Chris Isaak)
10 Dream Baby [How Long Must I Dream] (Shrunken Heads [Tom Tom Club & Jerry Harrison])
11 Crying (k. d. lang)
12 The Thrill Is Gone (B. B. King with Al Kooper & Don Was)
13 You Got It (John Hiatt with Don Was)
14 It's Over (Was [Not Was])
15 In the Real World (Booker T. Jones)
16 Home (Iggy Pop)
17 Oh, Pretty Woman (k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt & Emmylou Harris)
18 That Lovin' You Feelin' Again (Emmylou Harris & Michael McDonald)
19 Claudette (Dwight Yoakam)
20 talk (Bernie Taupin)
21 Running Scared (Benny Mardones)
22 Love Hurts (Larry Gatlin & Patrick Swayze)
23 talk (Stray Cats)
24 Rock House (Stray Cats)
25 talk (Barbara Orbison)
26 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
27 Candy Man (Bonnie Raitt with Chris Isaak)
28 Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Byrds)
29 Eight Miles High (Byrds)
30 talk (Roger McGuinn)
31 Mr. Tambourine Man (Byrds & Bob Dylan)
32 He Was a Friend of Mine (Byrds)
33 Only the Lonely (Everyone)

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For the cover, I used a photo of Dylan with the three former Byrds from this exact concert. The section at the top with the title comes from some promotional artwork for this concert, but I cropped and stretched it to fit.

The Byrds - The Boarding House, San Francisco, CA, 2-9-1978

David Crosby reunited with other key members of the Byrds for three acoustic concerts in the late 1970s. I've posted one of those concerts already, which took place at the Boarding House in San Francisco in December 1977. There's another one that took place at the Roxy in Los Angeles in early 1978. I don't know much about that, since it hasn't been bootlegged, but all four of the band's original singer-songwriters united there: Crosby, Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, and Gene Clark.

Finally, there's this concert, which also took place at the Boarding House in San Francisco, but in February 1978. Again, Crosby, McGuinn, Hillman, and Clark reunited on stage. We're lucky, because this concert was broadcast live on the local radio station KSAN, so this bootleg recording exists with professional sounding quality.

There are pluses and minuses of this concert compared to the December 1977 one at the Boatding House. In that one, Hillman wasn't there. So this is a fuller reunion. In fact, I could be wrong, but I think the only time after this that these four appeared on stage together was for their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 1991. The earlier show was longer by about twenty minutes, and they did some great, lesser known songs that they didn't do here, such as "She Don't Care about Time," "Wild Mountain Thyme," and "Chimes of Freedom." So that one is definitely worth hearing. But the sound quality is better for this one, and the performance was more assured.

Just like the December 1977 show, the concert began with solo spots for most of the members. Crosby didn't do a solo spot, but Clark, McGuinn, and Hillman did two songs each. Hillman was assisted on vocals by a female singer, Kim O'Kelley, who had been singing with him in his solo concerts at the time.

There was a major sound quality issue with one of Clark's songs, however: "Release Me Girl." The acoustic guitar sounded great, but the vocals were all messed up. For nearly all of the song, the vocals were quiet and distant. I tried using the audio editing program X-Minus to boost them, but when I did they still sounded muffled and bad. Only near the very end of the song was an apparent problem with the microphone fixed, and Clark came through loud and clear. So instead, I used X-Minus to strip the vocals entirely from the song. Then I took the vocals from another concert around this time and patched that it, carefully matching the pitch and tempo and so forth. That one happened to have McGuinn joining in on backing vocals, so there's that bonus now, even though he didn't actually do that for this show. 

The vast majority of this concert had all four of the Byrds on stage singing and playing together. Clark and McGuinn had been doing an acoustic tour together in late 1977, so they knew these songs and arrangements well. Hillman had joined that tour by this time, so he had gotten up to speed with them. However, like the previous Boarding House show, Crosby was flying by the seat of his pants, often singing harmonies on songs that the Byrds did only after he'd left the band in 1967, such as "Chestnut Mare," "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere," and "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," not to mention relatively new songs like "Crazy Ladies" and "Bye Bye Baby." Still, a fun time was had by all.

These reunion concerts led to three of the ex-Byrds forming the band "McGuinn, Clark and Hillman." They wrote some good new songs. Unfortunately, when they put out two albums, one called "McGuinn, Clark and Hillman" in 1979 and the other called "City" in 1980, they opted for a slick, contemporary sound that didn't suit them, even touching on disco at times. They deliberately stayed away from their 1960s Byrds sound, such as the distinctive use of the Richenbacher guitar by McGuinn. This was a big mistake. They sounded much better in concert.

As part of wanting a contemporary sound and moving away from the Byrds sound, they didn't want to get too involved with Crosby. When they recorded their first album "McGuinn, Clark and Hillman" in Miami, Crosby actually flew there from the West Coast with the idea of adding harmonies to one or more of the songs, only to have that rejected by the others. That led to more bad feelings, so there were no more reunions for a long time. The next time Crosby appeared on stage with McGuinn and Hillman would be in 1989, when the three of them did a few concerts as the Byrds as part of a legal battle to win the rights to the band's name from the band's original drummer, Michael Clarke. They did some other things together around that time, including some studio recordings, before petering out again around 1991.

It so happens that there aren't any really good bootleg recordings of those 1989 reunion shows. As a result, this show and the 1977 Boarding House show stand out as the best documents of Byrds reunion shows. They're all the more important because not many recordings has survived of the original Byrds on stage back in the 1960s when Crosby was still in the band.

This concert has been bootlegged many times, often with the name "Doin' Alright for Old People," based on a comment Clark made between songs. In recent years, due to European copyright law, different "grey market" versions of this have gone on sale. However, don't be fooled. Those are basically bootlegs, with none of the profits going to the actual artists. I imagine there are legal complications to getting the rights of all four band members, so this probably will never be officially released. Ditto with the 1977 reunion show. But at least we have the bootlegs.

This album is an hour and seven minutes long. By the way, for the 1977 show, I merged an early and late show together. This time, I don't know if there was just one show, or if only one was recorded. Either way, this is just one complete show this time.

01 Silver Raven (Gene Clark)
02 Release Me Girl [Edit] (Gene Clark & Roger McGuinn)
03 talk (Gene Clark & Roger McGuinn)
04 Bound to Fall (Chris Hillman & Kim O'Kelly)
05 It Doesn't Matter (Chris Hillman & Kim O'Kelly)
06 The Ballad of Easy Rider (Roger McGuinn)
07 Jolly Roger (Roger McGuinn)
08 talk (Byrds)
09 Chestnut Mare (Byrds)
10 Crazy Ladies (Byrds)
11 talk (Byrds)
12 Train Leaves Here This Morning (Byrds)
13 talk (Byrds)
14 Mr. Tambourine Man (Byrds)
15 talk (Byrds)
16 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Byrds)
17 talk (Byrds)
18 Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Byrds)
19 Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Byrds)
20 talk (Byrds)
21 Bye Bye Baby (Byrds)
22 So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (Byrds)
23 talk (Byrds)
24 Eight Miles High (Byrds)
25 talk (Byrds)
26 I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better (Byrds)

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What I did to try to get an accurate, color photo is a bit complicated. I found one photo that showed all four Byrds here on stage at the Boarding House in the late 1970s. It had to be this exact show, because it had Hillman in it, and he wasn't there for the 1977 show. However, that photo was only in black and white, and the band members were spread out on stage, making it not a good one to use for the cover. I found another one in color with them wearing exact same clothes, so that one must also have been from this exact concert. However, by chance, that one didn't have Hillman in it. So I took another photo of Hillman from a different late 1970s concert and used Photoshop to add him in.

For the band name at the top, like I did with the 1977 show, I used the lettering from the band's 1973 reunion album "Byrds."

The Byrds - The Boarding House, San Francisco, CA, 12-8-1977

Here's a concert I'm particularly psyched to present, as part of commemorating the recent death of David Crosby (as I write this in January 2023). As far as I can tell, Crosby reunited on stage with other key members of the Byrds for only three concerts in the late 1970s. One of them, at the Roxy in Los Angeles, apparently hasn't been bootlegged at all. But very luckily, the other two have been bootlegged with excellent soundboard quality. I plan on posting both of them. Here's the first one that took place chronologically.

By 1977, the solo career of former Byrds member Roger McGuinn was losing steam. He resorted to going on an acoustic tour as a duo with former Byrds member Gene Clark. In early 1978, another former Byrds member, Chris Hillman, would join them and they would release a couple of albums as "McGuinn, Clark, and Hillman." At the time this concert took place, Hillman wasn't in the picture yet. 

But former Byrds member David Crosby was living in the San Francisco Bay Area at the time, so when the McGuinn and Clark tour came to town, McGuinn called Crosby and asked them to join them on stage. Crosby was a big star at that point, with the Crosby, Stills and Nash album "CSN" released earlier in the year and selling millions. So it's surprising that not only did Crosby join his former Byrds band mates on stage, he played most of both the early and late shows with them. All five original members of the Byrds had reunited for a studio album in 1973, simply called "Byrds." But Crosby, Clark, and McGuinn hadn't played on stage together since 1966 (when Clark quit the band).

Both the early and late shows were recorded with soundboard quality. However, there are pluses and minuses of both shows, and some different songs were played. So what I've done is combined the best parts of both shows, creating one ideal show that contains all of the songs from both. If you want to know which song is from which show, that info is in the comments field of the mp3 tags.

Generally speaking, I tried to use the late show song versions. The format of the show was that each band member played two or three of their songs in a solo acoustic format, then all three played together for the rest of the show. For the songs played together, Clark and McGuinn had been doing this tour together for some time, so they knew the songs well. But Crosby hadn't sung with the others on stage in a decade, and many of the songs they did were from AFTER the time he'd been fired from the Byrds in 1967! So he was flying by the seat of his pants much of the time, trying to come up with harmony vocals on the spot. I figure he did a better job of that in the late show, because he at least got a whack at the songs in the early show.

For the solo spots in the first portion of the show, I carefully combined songs from the early and late shows. For instance, Clark's "Release Me Girl" and "Train Leaves Here This Morning" are from the early show, and "Silver Raven" is from the late show. I didn't include his performance of "Denver or Wherever" because it was the one song in the whole bootleg where the sound was really messed up. (That's probably because it was the first song of the late show and some technical problems had to get worked out.) It seems that Crosby only did a solo spot for the late show. That's why he only has two solo songs, while Clark has three and McGuinn has four, since Clark and McGuinn played some different songs in each of their solo spots. 

For the main part of the show, with all three playing together, they generally did the same songs in roughly the same order. There were a few exceptions. For instance, "Wild Mountain Thyme" was only done in the early show, and "Little Mama" was only done in the late show. As I mentioned above, I generally used the late show versions. But a few of those were marred by a kind of crackling noise. So in those cases I used the early versions instead. Also, the first part of "Mr. Tambourine Man" had really bad sound quality on the vocals. But since that was just the chorus, I patched in the chorus from later in the song.

There's a lot of banter between songs. One can tell all three of them were having a great time. I used as much banter as possible, taking bits from the early show and adding them in to the late show banter. Hopefully, the end result sounds like one seamless whole.

I consider this a "must have" for any Byrds fan. It was a special and even historic evening. The three of them did songs they never did together before, like "Chestnut Mare," "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere," "Wild Mountain Thyme," and "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," as well as rare songs from their early Byrds days like "She Don't Care about Time" and "Chimes of Freedom" that they didn't even do in other reunion shows.

This album is an an hour and 33 minutes long. I plan on posting their 1978 Boarding House reunion show soon.

01 talk (Gene Clark)
02 Release Me Girl (Gene Clark)
03 Train Leaves Here This Morning (Gene Clark)
04 Silver Raven (Gene Clark)
05 talk (Gene Clark)
06 The Lee Shore (David Crosby)
07 talk (David Crosby)
08 Drive My Car (David Crosby)
09 talk (David Crosby)
10 Dreamland (Roger McGuinn)
11 talk (Roger McGuinn)
12 The Ballad of Easy Rider (Roger McGuinn)
13 Wasn't Born to Follow (Roger McGuinn)
14 talk (Roger McGuinn)
15 Jolly Roger (Roger McGuinn)
16 talk (Roger McGuinn)
17 Mr. Tambourine Man (Byrds)
18 Chestnut Mare (Byrds)
19 Crazy Ladies (Byrds)
20 talk (Byrds)
21 Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Byrds)
22 talk (Byrds)
23 I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better (Byrds)
24 She Don't Care about Time (Byrds)
25 talk (Byrds)
26 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Byrds)
27 talk (Byrds)
28 Wild Mountain Thyme (Byrds)
29 talk (Byrds)
30 Chimes of Freedom (Byrds)
31 talk (Byrds)
32 He Was a Friend of Mine (Byrds)
33 talk (Byrds)
34 My Back Pages (Byrds)
35 talk (Byrds)
36 Little Mama (Byrds)
37 Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Byrds)
38 talk (Byrds)
39 So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (Byrds)
40 talk (Byrds)
41 Eight Miles High (Byrds)

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The cover photo comes from one of the late 1970s reunion shows with Crosby, but which one? This shows Clark (left), Crosby (center), and McGuinn (right). It actually had Hillman in it too, but I cropped him out. I have another photo with all four of them on stage at the Boarding House. So that must be from a later reunion concert they did in that venue in 1978, since Hillman wasn't there on this night. Thus, by process of elimination, I'm pretty sure this photo comes from the other reunion show with all four of them, at the Roxy in Los Angeles. 

For the band name at the top, I used the same unusual lettering as what was on the cover of their 1973 reunion album.

I later used the Krea AI program to improve the image quality.

Crosby, Nash & Young - Sheriff Hongisto Prisoners' Benefit, Winterland, San Francisco, CA, 3-26-1972

Here's an interesting acoustic concert from 1972. Instead of Crosby, Stills and Nash, or Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (CSNY), it features the rather unusual combination of Crosby, Nash and Young. It was broadcast live on a local radio station (KSAN), so it's professionally recorded and sounds great.

In early 1972, the various members of CSNY were arguably at or near the peak of the critical and commercial success. All four of them had put out solo albums on top of group albums, and all of those had done very well. Crosby and Nash went on tour together in 1971, and recorded an album as a duo, "David Crosby and Graham Nash," that would be released only a week or two after this concert. Neil Young released "Harvest" in February 1972. It would be his biggest commercial success. The song "Heart of Gold" was released as a single, and was well on its way to hitting Number One in the US at the time of this concert.

CSNY as a group was broken up at the time of this concert, but that was mostly due to problems between Stephen Stills and the others. Stills had gone overboard with alcohol and cocaine abuse, leading to megalomania so bad that the others decided to kick him out of the group in July 1970. That was exacerbated by the fact that Stills had been dating singer Rita Coolidge, who then left him for Nash. So maybe that explains why Crosby, Nash and Young played together in this concert but Stills wasn't there. (I know of only two other CNY concerts. I plan on posting one of the other two eventually.) The four of them would reunite in 1973, though that would be rocky, very much an on again, off again thing.

Crosby and Nash only played two concerts as a duo in 1972, both of them in the month of March. This one was because of a benefit concert, and I'm guessing the other one was as well. The cause in this case was a seemingly odd one for political progressives like CSNY, at least at first glance. The concert was basically to support Richard Hongisto, the elected sheriff of San Francisco at the time. I was curious about this, so I did a little research. It turns out that Hongisto was about as progressive as a sheriff could be in the 1970s. He was a colorful character who made many bold moves as sheriff, for instance hiring an unprecedented number of minorities and openly gay and lesbian officers, and openly advocating for the legalization of marijuana. He also worked to reform prisons and support more prisoner rights. 

Here's an interesting article about his fascinating time as San Francisco's sheriff:

Sheriff Richard Hongisto, the Notable Exception | History of the San Francisco Sheriff's Department (sfsdhistory.com) 

This concert was specifically to raise money for the county jail inmate welfare fund. At the time, the jails were in a terrible condition due to years of neglect and lack of funding. Hongisto drew public attention to this by going to work as sheriff for several days in tattered and torn clothing, because those actually were the clothes the inmates were issued at the time. The shoes they were issued deliberately had big holes causing all the toes to stick out, so one size could (roughly) fit anyone's feet. In light of all that, one can see why CNY thought this was a worthy cause for a benefit concert. Between songs, you can hear them talk about Hongisto and the reason for this benefit a little bit.

Crosby and Nash started the concert by playing three songs just as a duo. Then Young joined them and they did two songs as a threesome. Then each one of them took turns playing two songs while alone on stage. After that, all three finished the concert with three more songs (oddly, all of those at the end written by Nash).

By the way, Young didn't tour at all in 1972, despite having a both Number One album and hit single early in the year. This was the only full concert he took part in that year. (He made three appearances at other artist's concerts, playing only a few songs each.)

This album is an hour and 11 minutes long.

01 Wooden Ships (Crosby, Nash & Young)
02 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
03 I Used to Be a King (Crosby, Nash & Young)
04 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
05 The Lee Shore (Crosby, Nash & Young)
06 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
07 Harvest (Crosby, Nash & Young)
08 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
09 Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Crosby, Nash & Young)
10 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
11 Southbound Train (Crosby, Nash & Young)
12 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
13 Almost Cut My Hair (Crosby, Nash & Young)
14 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
15 Page 43 (Crosby, Nash & Young)
16 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
17 And So It Goes (Crosby, Nash & Young)
18 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
19 Immigration Man (Crosby, Nash & Young)
20 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
21 Heart of Gold (Crosby, Nash & Young)
22 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
23 The Needle and the Damage Done (Crosby, Nash & Young)
24 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
25 Teach Your Children (Crosby, Nash & Young)
26 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
27 Military Madness (Crosby, Nash & Young)
28 Chicago (Crosby, Nash & Young)
29 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)

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I found one photo of Crosby, Nash and Young on stage in March 1972. The credits give it a different date and location, but the very thorough Sugar Mountain Neil Young concert database only have Young joining Crosby and Nash on this date, so it must have been taken at this concert. Since it was a rather rough black and white photo, I tried to jazz it up by adding some color to it.

Also, while looking at the Sugar Mountain database just now, I found a poster for this concert, so I'm including it here for anyone who is interested.