Note that although this is the second album I'm posting from the concerts, I'm not calling this "Part 2" or anything like that. That's because A) I don't know the order of performers each night from the four nights of concerts, and B) the albums are often compiled from sets that took place on different nights. So order them however you like. This, though, is a rare case of having the entire set from just one night, on September 19, 1979.
This concert is special in my opinion, because although Nash performed in zillions of concerts as part of CSN, he very rarely performed solo concerts until 2013. CSN was starting to break apart then, and he's become a solo performer after CSN broke up for good in 2015. But prior to that, he only did short tours in 1979-1980, 1986, and 2002. I suppose that, even though he wrote most of CSN's chart hits, he wasn't considered as "serious" or "heavy" as Crosby or Stills, so he wasn't considered as much of a concert draw. I could be wrong, but I think this is the only full set of him as a solo performer from the 1970s with soundboard-level sound quality.
At the time of this concert, Nash was working on a solo album called "Earth and Sky." However, it wouldn't be released until early 1980. Even so, the songs "Out on the Island," "Barrel of Pain," and "In the 80's" were from that future album. The other songs were generally CSN hits he wrote, although "Wild Tales" is from a 1973 solo album.
There's only one sonic flaw here, but it's a very noticeable. For whatever reason, the bootleg I found only had the first minute of the song "Chicago." But I did find an audience bootleg of this same set. That allowed me to fill in the rest of the song. It also confirmed that there were no entirely missing songs. But unfortunately, the sound quality of the audience boot is much worse. You will definitely hear the difference. If it bothers you too much, then just delete it. There's a CSN set coming later in this No Nukes series, and it includes a CSN version of "Chicago," so you won't be missing much. But still, I thought I should include it for the completist types out there.
The song "Cathedral" was released on the official "No Nukes" album. I don't know if Nash did other solo sets or not, so I don't know if that version is exactly the same as this one. Otherwise, everything else here is unreleased.
This album is 37 minutes long.
01 Wild Tales (Graham Nash)
02 talk (Graham Nash)
03 Pre-Road Downs (Graham Nash)
04 talk (Graham Nash)
05 Out on the Island (Graham Nash)
06 Cathedral (Graham Nash)
07 talk (Graham Nash)
08 Our House (Graham Nash)
09 talk (Graham Nash)
10 Barrel of Pain (Graham Nash)
11 talk (Graham Nash)
12 Chicago [Edit] (Graham Nash)
13 talk (Graham Nash)
14 In the 80's (Graham Nash)
The cover photo is taken from one of the No Nukes concerts. However, I had a hard time finding many photos from any of these concerts, and I didn't find any from his solo set (or sets). This photo was taken from one of those big finales where he was on stage with other stars, but he happened to be standing apart from the others.
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