Various Artists - Peace Sunday, Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA, 6-6-1982, Part 2: Timothy B. Schmidt & Don Felder, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Stephen Stills & Dave Mason, and Taj Mahal

Here's the second out of five albums that make up the "Peace Sunday" concert in 1982.

If you want a full explanation of what the concert was about, please read my write-up for Part 1. In that, I also explained about the sound quality issue. In short, the only known source for the whole concert is an audience bootleg. It didn't sound very good, so this concert recording hasn't been shared that much. But I could tell there was potential there, if I could get rid of most of the much. As I explained in detail in my write-up, I think I did get rid of most of it. It still doesn't have excellent sound, but it's pretty good, and worthy of being posted at my blog, where I have pretty high sound quality standards.

Now, switching to the music here, most of this Part 2 section is dominated by Crosby, Stills and Nash (CSN). Graham Nash already sang a song on his own in Part 1. Weirdly though, only two songs were performed by CSN here. Then Stephen Stills stayed on stage and performed three more songs on his own (with a back-up band), and then two more with Dave Mason joining in. (However, Mason could mostly be heard helping with lead guitar, not singing lead vocals.) The two songs with Mason weren't ones that Stills usually did with CSN. But the other three he did solo definitely were CSN standards. I would guess that CSN was going through tough times in the early 1980s, mainly due to David Crosby's excessive drug use. So Stills probably was more interested in his solo career. 

On a different note, the Eagles broke up around 1980. But two members of the Eagles, Timothy B. Schmidt and Don Felder, sang an Eagles hit, "I Can't Tell You Why." Most Eagles songs were written and sung by other band members, but that was one that was mainly written and sung by Schmidt.

This album is 49 minutes long. 

By the way, note that the track list numbering picks up where Part 1 left off. That way, you can easily listen to all of the songs from the entire concert in a row if you want to. 

17 talk (Graham Nash)
18 I Can't Tell You Why (Timothy B. Schmidt with Don Felder)
19 talk (Graham Nash)
20 Long Time Coming (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
21 Chicago (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
22 talk (emcee)
23 Love the One You're With (Stephen Stills)
24 For What It's Worth (Stephen Stills)
25 Dark Star (Stephen Stills)
26 talk (Stephen Stills)
27 Hoochie Coochie Man (Stephen Stills & Dave Mason)
28 Rocky Mountain Way (Stephen Stills & Dave Mason)
29 talk (emcee)
30 talk (Taj Mahal)
31 Going Up to the Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue (Taj Mahal)
32 Stagger Lee (Taj Mahal)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/2P8yiZNv

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/GHuHYJqbFPuA5TV/file

The cover photo of CSN is from this exact concert.

Various Artists - 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert, Madison Square Garden, New York City, 10-29-2009

Here's a really great concert filled with lots of big stars performing classic songs. It was a two-day concert in New York City, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I'm posting both days of the concert, and this is the first one. I highly recommend this.

This two-day long concert had an unusual and interesting format: eight major artists were chosen: Crosby, Stills and Nash, Paul Simon (with and without Art Garfunkel), Stevie Wonder, and Bruce Springsteen for the first day, and Aretha Franklin, Jeff Beck, Metallica, and U2 for the second day. Each of those major stars were hosts for one fourth of the days they were on. Then they invited other stars to join them, to play a song or two. For instance, the first major artist, Crosby, Stills and Nash, had Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, and James Taylor as their guests. The result was that, between the major stars and their guests, most of the major areas of rock and roll going back to the 1950s were represented. 

There were some key gaps though. For instance, although Mick Jagger was a guest on the second day to represent the Rolling Stones, there really wasn't any special representation of the Beatles, the most important musical act of all. (Although there were occasional covers of Beatles songs, at least.) Bob Dylan was also very missed. But then again, you can only do so much in two concerts containing about four hours each. 

I spent a long time putting this together. It was quite tricky. I was able to find all the songs from this, the first night, but only two and a half hours from the second night, even though that one probably lasted about four hours as well. The main source I used was an officially released DVD. But the longest version of that was only about three hours for both concerts combined. Plus, many of those were bonus tracks, which meant they were out of order and often had the starts and ends cut off.

Luckily for me, Wikipedia came through for me particularly well, with a list of all the songs performed in the correct order, including lots of details. You can see that, and more info about the concert, here:

25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts - Wikipedia 

From that, I was able to figure out the songs I was missing, and try to find them. It turns out four hours of highlights were shown on HBO the year the concert happened. That was longer than the DVD, so I found some extra songs there. Then I found an audience bootleg of the entire first day. That's why I was able to include all the songs. However, the sound quality of the songs from the audience bootleg was significantly poorer than the songs from the DVD and the HBO broadcast. But, luckily, I was able to clean things up quite a lot, by putting a lot of effort into audio editing. I ran all the audience boot sourced songs through two processes that I use in cases like this. For one thing, I used the MVSEP audio editing program to raise the volume of the lead vocals in contrast to the instruments. (That is such a common problem for concert bootlegs.) Then I also used MVSEP to wipe out the crowd noise during the songs, while keeping the cheers at the beginnings and ends of songs. In my opinion, that made the quality gap between the different sources a lot smaller, though still noticeable. ("Marrakesh Express" is an example of one of the audience boot sourced songs, and the songs just before and after it are not, if you want to make a comparison.)

However, I still had a lot of work to do. Another problem with the audience boot-sourced song is that the cheering at the ends of songs sounded quite different, with the sound of clapping of individual people near the taper more prominent. I mostly fixed this by copying and pasting cheering from the ends of DVD-sourced songs, and slathering it over the cheering of the audience boot-sourced songs. I also had a lot of transition issues. It was rare to have two songs in a row from the same source. I generally fixed that by patching in more generic cheering. Yet another problem was the banter between songs. The ones from the audience boot-sourced songs sounded really weak. So I did extra editing to pull the actual talking out from the background noise. 

I could go on and on. There were lots of little tweaks. But I'm hoping that the end result is this will sound like one coherent concert from one source, more or less, and you won't notice the "making of the sausage" with all the editing to get it to sound that way. It would be really great if this whole thing gets officially released one day, in top quality. But I'm not holding my breath waiting for that.

One thing that makes this concert special is all the collaborations. There are too many to count. Lots and lots of big names performing songs together, and usually the only time they ever did that for the songs. There were some interesting cover versions as well, as an attempt to have some inclusion of famous musician who died or otherwise didn't attend. Stevie Wonder singing the Michael Jackson song "The Way You Make Me Feel" and Paul Simon with Crosby and Nash singing "Here Comes the Sun" are just two examples of that.

This should particularly delight Bruce Springsteen fans. He dominated this first night, which his section of the concert lasting an hour and a half, easily the longest. And he assisted Jerry Lee Lewis on the first song of the night as well. (Plus, he showed up on the second night as well, as we shall see later.)

This album is four hours and eight minutes long.

01 talk (Tom Hanks)
02 talk (Jerry Lee Lewis)
03 Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On (Jerry Lee Lewis with Bruce Springsteen)
04 Woodstock (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
05 Marrakesh Express (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
06 talk (Graham Nash)
07 Almost Cut My Hair (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
08 talk (David Crosby)
09 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
10 Love Has No Pride (Bonnie Raitt & Crosby, Stills & Nash)
11 Midnight Rider (Bonnie Raitt & Crosby, Stills & Nash)
12 talk (Graham Nash)
13 talk (Jackson Browne)
14 The Pretender (Jackson Browne & Crosby, Stills & Nash)
15 talk (James Taylor)
16 Mexico (James Taylor & Crosby, Stills & Nash)
17 Love the One You're With (James Taylor & Crosby, Stills & Nash)
18 Rock and Roll Woman (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
19 talk (Graham Nash)
20 Teach Your Children (Crosby, Stills & Nash & Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne & James Taylor)
21 Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes (Paul Simon)
22 Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (Paul Simon)
23 You Can Call Me Al (Paul Simon)
24 talk (Paul Simon)
25 Here Comes the Sun (Paul Simon with Crosby & Nash)
26 talk (Paul Simon)
27 The Wanderer (Dion & Paul Simon)
28 Late in the Evening (Paul Simon)
29 talk (Paul Simon)
30 Two People in the World (Little Anthony & the Imperials)
31 The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel)
32 Mrs. Robinson - Not Fade Away (Simon & Garfunkel)
33 The Boxer (Simon & Garfunkel)
34 Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon & Garfunkel)
35 Cecilia (Simon & Garfunkel)
36 Blowin' in the Wind (Stevie Wonder)
37 talk (Stevie Wonder)
38 Uptight [Everything's Alright] (Stevie Wonder)
39 I Was Made to Love Her (Stevie Wonder)
40 For Once in My Life (Stevie Wonder)
41 Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours (Stevie Wonder)
42 Boogie On Reggae Woman (Stevie Wonder)
43 talk (Stevie Wonder)
44 The Tracks of My Tears (Smokey Robinson & Stevie Wonder)
45 talk (Stevie Wonder)
46 Mercy Mercy Me [The Ecology] (Stevie Wonder & John Legend)
47 The Way You Make Me Feel (Stevie Wonder with John Legend)
48 talk (Stevie Wonder)
49 The Thrill Is Gone (B.B. King & Stevie Wonder)
50 Living for the City (Stevie Wonder)
51 Higher Ground - Roxanne - Higher Ground (Sting & Stevie Wonder)
52 Superstition (Stevie Wonder & Jeff Beck)
53 10th Avenue Freeze-Out (Bruce Springsteen)
54 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
55 Hold On, I'm Comin' (Bruce Springsteen & Sam Moore)
56 Soul Man (Bruce Springsteen & Sam Moore)
57 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
58 The Ghost of Tom Joad (Bruce Springsteen & Tom Morello)
59 Fortunate Son (John Fogerty & Bruce Springsteen)
60 Proud Mary (John Fogerty & Bruce Springsteen)
61 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
62 Oh, Pretty Woman (John Fogerty & Bruce Springsteen)
63 Jungleland (Bruce Springsteen)
64 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
65 A Fine, Fine Boy (Darlene Love & Bruce Springsteen)
66 Do Run Run Run (Darlene Love & Bruce Springsteen)
67 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
68 London Calling (Bruce Springsteen & Tom Morello)
69 Badlands (Bruce Springsteen & Tom Morello)
70 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
71 You May Be Right (Billy Joel & Bruce Springsteen)
72 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
73 Only the Good Die Young (Billy Joel & Bruce Springsteen)
74 New York State of Mind (Billy Joel & Bruce Springsteen)
75 Born to Run (Billy Joel & Bruce Springsteen)
76 [Your Love Keeps Lifting Me] Higher and Higher (Everybody)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/QU2h1WV1

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/7oTCzzonspG0GVX/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. From left to right: John Fogerty, Darlene Love, Bruce Springsteen, and Sam Moore.

Various Artists- MusiCares Tribute to Neil Young, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1-29-2010

So far, I've posted three MusiCares tribute concerts. I recently got a request to post this one honoring Neil Young sooner rather than later, so here it is. I still have five more to post after this, so look for those eventually as well.

Tons of talented stars showed up to sing their favorite Neil Young songs. There's a lot of great music here. Unfortunately, there's also some that's missing. This comes from a DVD of the event. Generally speaking, only a small crowd of the rich and famous attend these MusiCares concerts, so bootlegs of them are very rare. We know from media accounts that three songs were performed that weren't included on the DVD. Those are:

"Long May You Run" by Stephen Stills & Sheryl Crow 
"Comes a Time" by Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin & Lucinda Williams
"A Man Needs a Maid" by Red Hot Chili Peppers

If anyone has any of those so I can add them, please let me know. I found a video of the Red Hot Chili Peppers song recorded on a cell phone and posted on YouTube, but the sound quality is terrible. I'm guessing a lot of the banter between songs was cut out as well. Actor Jack Black was the emcee, but he's not really heard at all in the recording.

Typically, the person honored in these tributes performs a couple of songs at the end of the concert. But while Neil Young was there, and gave a short speech, it seems he didn't perform any songs. 

Here's a good account of the concert by someone who attended:

https://tinnitist.com/2023/08/11/back-stories-neil-youngs-musicares-tribute-jan-29-2010/

And Rolling Stone Magazine published a bunch of photos from it, here:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/musicares-person-of-the-year-tribute-to-neil-young-210831/red-hot-chili-peppers-2-19005/

This album is an hour and eight minutes long.

01 Down by the River (John Mellencamp & T-Bone Burnett)
02 Mr. Soul (Ozomatli)
03 Don't Let It Bring You Down (Jackson Browne)
04 Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Lady Antebellum)
05 Tell Me Why (Norah Jones)
06 Broken Arrow (Wilco)
07 Harvest Moon (Josh Groban)
08 Revolution Blues (Everest)
09 Cinnamon Girl (Dierks Bentley & Booker T. Jones)
10 Ohio (Ben Harper)
11 Rockin' in the Free World (Keith Urban, John Fogerty & Booker T. Jones)
12 The Losing End [When You're On] (Elvis Costello)
13 Lotta Love (Jason Mraz & Shawn Colvin)
14 The Needle and the Damage Done (Dave Matthews)
15 Heart of Gold (James Taylor)
16 Helpless (Elton John, Leon Russell, Neko Case & Sheryl Crow)
17 Human Highway (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
18 talk (Neil Young)
19 Rockin' in the Free World [Reprise] (Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/BNxSXgS9

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/UhnFSv0eArgOnvZ/file

The cover is from this exact concert. From left to right: Dave Matthews, Jason Mraz, Emmylou Harris, Elvis Costello, Shawn Colvin, and James Taylor.

Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary - Madison Square Garden, New York City, 5-14-1988, Part 4: The Manhattan Transfer, Genesis, Crosby, Stills and Nash, The Bee Gees, & The Rascals

Here's the fourth part of a six-hour long version of the Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert. 

Atlantic Records put out a lot of records by jazz artists. But since jazz music isn't a big seller, most of those artists didn't get invited to this concert. Two who did, Herbie Mann and Bobby Short, got cut out of the TV broadcast versions, so I don't have their performances. That just leaves the Manhattan Transfer to represent jazz, since they had some hits and wider commercial success in the 1970s and 80s.

Genesis is a band was only intermittently together in the 1980s. Phil Collins split his time between being in Genesis and having a hugely popular solo career. Mike Rutherford also carved out a successful solo career as the leader of Mike + the Mechanics. Genesis had last put out an album in 1986, "Invisible Touch," then toured to support it into 1987. However, this was the only concert they reunited for in 1988. Their twenty-minute long set was essentially one gigantic medley, although I've broken it into four tracks so I could get all the song names in.

As I mentioned previously, Crosby Stills and Nash sang the song "Southern Cross" to start this concert, but I don't have that recording. Then they returned for their own twenty-minute-long set. Most bootlegs of this concert have "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" earlier in the show, because the song order was scrambled up a bit on some TV broadcasts. But you can tell they did it here with the songs "Wooden Ships" and "Teach Your Children" because actor Michael Douglas referred to all three songs when he introduced them.

The Bee Gees played a relatively short set. In addition to "Lonely Days" and "Jive Talkin'" presented here, they also performed "To Love Somebody." However, I couldn't find a recording on that one. I found mention of it being posted on YouTube and then taken down, so it must be out there. If anyone has it, please let me know. Personally, I think the Bee Gees deserved another song or two, since they've one of the best selling acts of all time, but probably in the late 1980s they were still suffering from the backlash of their disco era overexposure.

The final musical act in this part is the Rascals. They broke up in 1972. This concert was their first reunion since then, going back to the original line-up that ended in 1970. After this concert, they would go on a short tour for a few months. After that, there were further one-off reunions in 1997 and 2010, and another tour in 2012 and 2013.

This album is an hour and 18 minutes long.

069 talk (Manhattan Transfer)
070 Mack the Knife (Manhattan Transfer)
071 Birdland (Manhattan Transfer)
072 Turn It On Again - Land of Confusion - Misunderstanding (Genesis)
073 Throwing It All Away (Genesis)
074 That's All - Tonight Tonight Tonight - Invisible Touch - Turn It On Again [Reprise] (Genesis)
075 You Can't Hurry Love - Shortcut to Somewhere - All I Need Is a Miracle (Genesis)
076 talk (Michael Douglas)
077 Wooden Ships (Crosby Stills & Nash)
078 talk (Crosby Stills & Nash)
079 Our House (Crosby Stills & Nash)
080 Suite- Judy Blue Eyes (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
081 talk (Bee Gees)
082 Lonely Days (Bee Gees)
083 Jive Talkin' (Bee Gees)
084 talk (Dan Aykroyd & Bill Murray)
085 Good Lovin' (Rascals)
086 Groovin' (Rascals)
087 People Got to Be Free (Rascals)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/t2DmMTS8

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/3pBToJ89aaas4tj/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. It shows Mike Rutherford on guitar and Phil Collins singing.

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.

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.

Live Aid - JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, PA, 7-13-1985, Part 2: Crosby, Stills and Nash, Judas Priest, Bryan Adams & The Beach Boys

Here's Part 2 of the Philadelphia portion of the 1985 Live Aid benefit concert. With this part, we generally get to bigger name acts than those in Part 1.

Later on in Live Aid, Crosby, Stills and Nash would reunite with Neil Young for a short Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young set. But first, they did a set just as Crosby, Stills and Nash. 

Next up was the heavy metal band Judas Priest. (I'll bet that was the only time CSN was followed on stage by a heavy metal band!) They were followed by Bryan Adams, then by the Beach Boys. Note that Brian Wilson, the genius who wrote most of the Beach Boys' hits, only occasionally played live with the band. But he did play Live Aid, since it was such a big occasion.

As with all the parts, I had to do a lot of work to get the recording to sound its best, including remixing the balance between vocals and the instruments for all the songs using UVR5. Also, sometimes I was able to find introductions to the musical acts, and sometimes I wasn't. As I explained previously, Live Aid wasn't professionally recorded, so sometimes when DJs talked over the introductions, they were lost. Sometimes, celebrities made the introductions. For this part, actor Jack Nicholson introduced Bryan Adams and Marilyn McCoo of the band the Fifth Dimension introduced the Beach Boys.

This album is an hour and seven minutes long.

027 Southern Cross (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
028 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
029 Teach Your Children (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
030 Suite- Judy Blue Eyes (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
031 Livin' After Midnight (Judas Priest)
032 talk (Judas Priest)
033 The Green Manalishi [With the Two-Pronged Crown] (Judas Priest)
034 talk (Judas Priest)
035 You've Got Another Thing Comin' (Judas Priest)
036 talk (Jack Nicholson)
037 Kids Wanna Rock (Bryan Adams)
038 talk (Bryan Adams)
039 Summer of 69 (Bryan Adams)
040 talk (Bryan Adams)
041 Tears Are Not Enough (Bryan Adams)
042 talk (Bryan Adams)
043 Cuts like a Knife (Bryan Adams)
044 talk (Bryan Adams)
045 talk (Marilyn McCoo)
046 California Girls (Beach Boys)
047 Help Me, Rhonda (Beach Boys)
048 Wouldn't It Be Nice (Beach Boys)
049 talk (Beach Boys)
050 Good Vibrations (Beach Boys)
051 talk (Beach Boys)
052 Surfin' U.S.A. (Beach Boys)
053 talk (Bill Graham)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/CCG6sJr3 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/4xjOzfQNog1I1e8/file

For the cover, I generally noticed there are four big acts per album, so from here on in I'm dividing each cover into four parts so I can show all of them. All the photos are from Live Aid. Crosby, Stills and Nash are in the top left, Rob Halford of Judas Priest in the top right, Bryan Adams in the lower left, and Al Jardine, Mike Love, and Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys in the lower right.

Graham Nash - Club Quatro, Tokyo, Japan, 11-21-1990

Last week, I posted a solo album by Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (CSNY). I pointed out then that he tends to get overlooked when compared to the other musical heavyweights in CSNY, but he's definitely been a worthy member of that group. So here's another solo album by him. 

This time, it's a full concert. For many years, he didn't do solo concerts very often, because he was usually paired with David Crosby in Crosby-Nash when he wasn't part of CSN or CSNY. He did do a couple of brief tours in 1973 and 1986, but it wasn't until 2013 when he started to tour on his own more often. This appears to have been his only concert in the year 1990. Judging from his comments between songs in this concert, he was in Japan mainly to show off some of his photographs at a gallery (since he also has a passion about photography), and this concert was a bit of an afterthought. 

But it's a lucky thing it happened, because it's one of very few Nash solo concert bootlegs with excellent sound quality. This must be a soundboard. 

Of course, it's always nice to hear Nash's songs in the context of CN, CSN, or CSNY, with vocal harmonies and often a full band. But it's also nice to hear them like this, stripped way back to just one voice and one acoustic guitar.

The only flaw came in the song "America" (a cover of the Simon and Garfunkel classic). It wasn't a flaw with the recording. Instead, it seems Nash broke a guitar string during the song. He had to stop briefly to deal with it. I edited the song to remove the interruption. That's why there's "[Edit]" in the name for that one. Also, I did a little cutting of dead air between songs, such as guitar tuning. And I boosted the vocals of his banter.

Note that the last song, "Try to Find Me," isn't actually from this concert. It was performed during a Nash solo spot in a CSN concert in 1991. But I've had this bootleg in my music collection for ages with that song added at the end, so I'm keeping it that way. I think it's a very overlooked tune. Even Nash overlooked it and didn't put it on any album for many years after he wrote it.

This album is an hour and five minutes long, including the extra song at the end.

01 Wind on the Water (Graham Nash)
02 talk (Graham Nash)
03 Just a Song Before I Go (Graham Nash)
04 talk (Graham Nash)
05 Don't Say Goodbye (Graham Nash)
06 talk (Graham Nash)
07 Marrakesh Express (Graham Nash)
08 talk (Graham Nash)
09 Simple Man (Graham Nash)
10 talk (Graham Nash)
11 Lady on the Island (Graham Nash)
12 talk (Graham Nash)
13 Wasted on the Way (Graham Nash)
14 America [Edit] (Graham Nash)
15 talk (Graham Nash)
16 Cowboy of Dreams (Graham Nash)
17 talk (Graham Nash)
18 House of Broken Dreams (Graham Nash)
19 I Used to Be a King (Graham Nash)
20 talk (Graham Nash)
21 Military Madness (Graham Nash)
22 Cathedral (Graham Nash)
23 talk (Graham Nash)
24 Our House (Graham Nash)
25 talk (Graham Nash)
26 Teach Your Children (Graham Nash)
27 Try to Find Me (Graham Nash)

NOTE: I've removed the download link due to a copyright issue. Sorry about that.

The cover photo comes from a CSN concert in St. Paul, Minnesota, in June 1990. I couldn't resist using a Japanese styled font, since the concert took place in Japan.

Graham Nash - Live Acoustic, 2010-2016

Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills, Nash and (sometimes) Young (CSNY) released a new solo album, "Now," in May 2023. It was such a low-key release that I didn't notice until now, two months later. To celebrate that, here's an album from him.

Nash tends to get knocked as the most lightweight and poppy of the four singer-songwriters in CSNY. And while that is probably true, he is still very worthy as a solo artist. I've fallen in that trap by posting solo albums by Crosby, Stills, and Young but not Nash, but I'll try to rectify that with this post and others.

Nash's last solo album came out in 2016 and was called "This Path Tonight." I think it's a particularly strong album, so you might want to check it out if you've missed it. This album largely focuses on that. The first five songs are from 2010 to 2015, and are generally acoustic versions of CSNY classics, with the exception of a cover of the Buddy Holly song "Peggy Sue." There's also an interesting version of the Neil Young song "Ohio," except sung by Nash. But the other nine songs were done in support of his "This Path Tonight" album, and mostly consist of songs from that album, though there are versions of "Bus Stop," which Nash did with the Hollies, and "Just a Song Before I Go" and "Military Madness" from the 1970s.

The vast majority of the songs here were performed by Nash for in-person radio station appearances. ("Peggy Sue" was done for a small audience at a museum, and "Mississippi Burning" is a "This Path Tonight" bonus track, and the only song officially released here.) As a result, the sound quality is excellent, usually on par with studio recordings. There's a little bit of clapping at the end of a few songs, but not much. I deliberately avoided any actual concert recordings to keep the focus on acoustic versions and to keep the sound quality high.

Nash wrote all the songs for his 2016 album with lead guitarist Shayne Fontayne. On the vast majority of the songs here, it's just Nash and Fontayne on guitars, with Fontayne sometimes singing backing vocals. Note that although "Mississippi Burning" is a bonus track, it sounds like it was recorded live as an acoustic duo in front of a small audience, so it fits in with the others.

This album is 48 minutes long.

01 Peggy Sue (Graham Nash)
02 Chicago (Graham Nash)
03 Ohio [Nash Vocals Version] (Graham Nash)
04 Our House [Guitar Version] (Graham Nash)
05 Teach Your Children (Graham Nash)
06 Mississippi Burning (Graham Nash)
07 Golden Days (Graham Nash)
08 Bus Stop (Graham Nash)
09 Myself at Last (Graham Nash)
10 This Path Tonight (Graham Nash)
11 Just a Song Before I Go (Graham Nash)
12 Encore (Graham Nash)
13 Another Broken Heart (Graham Nash)
14 Military Madness (Graham Nash)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15429728/GrahmN_2010-2016_LveAcoustc_atse.zip.html

The cover photo was taken at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on November 16, 2016.

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.

David Crosby - Rockefellers, Houston, TX, 4-18-1987

Two days ago, January 19, 2023, another great musician passed away. David Crosby of both the Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash and sometimes Young (CSNY), died at the age of 81, after a long illness. He lived a wild rock and roll lifestyle, including using lots of heavy drugs in his younger days, so I'm sure he was as surprised as anyone that he lived as long as he did. That's especially true considering his liver failed and he got a transplanted one in 1994.

In 2015, Crosby had a falling out with his longtime musical partner Graham Nash, and they never reconciled. As a result, there were no CSN or CSNY concerts or albums after that. It's too bad that there will never be one last hurrah for them now. But at least Crosby went out on a high note musically. For decades, he was known as the least prolific songwriter in CSNY. But from 2014 to 2021, he released five solo studio albums, all them generally well rated by critics. I saw a quote from him today where he basically said he didn't know how much time he had left, so he wanted to go all out making music that would last well beyond his passing.

I've already posted tons of CSN and CSNY music. To commemorate Crosby's death, I want to post some more of his music. I've never posted any solo concert recordings from him, so this is a good time for this. This one is one of my favorites. It came at a key point in his life. In the early and mid-1980s, his life seemed ruined due to an addiction to crack. He hit a low point in 1985 and 1986, when he had to serve nine months in a Texas prison due to drug and gun possession offenses. But he got clean in prison and stayed that way the rest of his life. He also rediscovered his musical muse, after barely writing any songs for the previous five or six years. Thus, this concert found him newly revitalized, almost like a musical rebirth. He wrote a bunch of excellent new songs and his voice was back in top form. 

Unfortunately, the recordings of most of those new songs would be marred by bad production choices, both on the 1988 CSNY reunion album "American Dream" and his 1989 solo album "Oh Yes I Can." This concert featured him in solo acoustic mode. That's a great thing in my opinion, because the songs are stripped down to their core, free of the many bad production trends of the 1980s. The new songs here are "Drive My Car," "He's an American," "Oh Yes I Can," and "Compass." I think they hold their own with the other songs here. "(He Played Real Good) For Free" is a Joni Mitchell song, and "Drop Down Mama" is a cover.

A great thing about this bootleg is that it's a soundboard, with really excellent sound quality. There were no problems to fix, although I boosted the volume of the cheering after many of the songs because the recording didn't capture much crowd noise. 

This actually consists of two concerts, an early show and a late show. He played many of the same songs at both. So I combined them to make one show without any repeats. I removed the intro to the second show, so it sounds like one long show. The first five songs, up through and including "Delta," are from the early show, and the rest are from the late show. The ones he played in both are: "Almost Cut My Hair," "Oh Yes I Can," "Compass," "Guinnevere," "Wooden Ships," and "Long Time Gone." I generally used the late show versions, but I used the early show version of "Almost Cut My Hair" because he gave a longer and more interesting verbal intro for that one.

This album is an hour and 29 minutes long.

01 talk (David Crosby)
02 The Lee Shore (David Crosby)
03 talk (David Crosby)
04 [He Played Real Good] For Free (David Crosby)
05 talk (David Crosby)
06 Almost Cut My Hair (David Crosby)
07 talk (David Crosby)
08 In My Dreams (David Crosby)
09 talk (David Crosby)
10 Delta (David Crosby)
11 Drop Down Mama (David Crosby)
12 talk (David Crosby)
13 Carry Me (David Crosby)
14 talk (David Crosby)
15 Triad (David Crosby)
16 talk (David Crosby)
17 Drive My Car (David Crosby)
18 He's an American (David Crosby)
19 Almost Cut My Hair (David Crosby)
20 Bittersweet (David Crosby)
21 talk (David Crosby)
22 Oh Yes I Can (David Crosby)
23 talk (David Crosby)
24 Compass (David Crosby)
25 talk (David Crosby)
26 Guinnevere (David Crosby)
27 talk (David Crosby)
28 Wooden Ships (David Crosby)
29 talk (David Crosby)
30 Long Time Gone (David Crosby)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16375927/DAVIDCRSB1987RckefllrsHustnTX__4-18-1987_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is apparently from April 11, 1987, only a week before this concert. I don't know the location.

Crosby, Stills and Nash - Unplugged in Saratoga (Paul Mason Winery, Saratoga, CA, 6-26-1991)

In the early 1990s, "MTV Unplugged" acoustic concerts were all the rage. Some artists who got started in the 1960s and had lost much of their commercial appeal sold millions upon millions of their "unplugged" albums. For instance, Eric Clapton's "Unplugged" album sold no less than 26 million copies! Crosby, Stills and Nash (CSN) have made many, many boneheaded decisions on what to release or not release. In my opinion, one of their biggest mistakes was to not release an acoustic live album at the peak of the "unplugged" trend. They excelled at the acoustic format, so you'd think they would have been all over that. The only thing they did was release a DVD called "The Acoustic Concert," but it was short and stripped of most of their banter.

So, still in keeping with my mental "alternate universe" in which CSN(Y) released many more albums than they actually did, I've crafted an unplugged album for them that probably would have come out in 1992, which was the same year as many other huge sellers. Nearly all of it comes from a soundboard bootleg of a concert in Saratoga, California. The sound quality of it is stellar, and there's lots of entertaining banter between songs.

I made a few changes or additions. I added "Wasted on the Way" to the start of the concert, because that was their typical first song on all their concerts that year, but it wasn't on the bootleg. Similarly, they typically ended with "Teach Your Children," and that wasn't there either, so I added that too. Also, in the middle, the song "Soldiers of Peace" was played. I really don't like that song. I'm all in favor of peace, but it's just not a good song despite the message of it. Since that was during Graham Nash's solo spot, I replaced it with another Nash song, "These Empty Days."

Luckily, there are a few other soundboard bootlegs from that year, so I was able to take the songs from those. I found a couple more that didn't get played at this particular concert but I thought would improve the concert: "4+20" and "Daylight Again - Find the Cost of Freedom." So I added those to the very end.

I made some minor adjustments, generally boosting the volume of the banter and removing some dead air moments, like guitar tuning. But there wasn't much of that. Also, I generally boosted the volume of the audience applause after each song. One trickier thing was that there were a few singalong moments during a couple of songs, where the audience was supposed to take over the singing for a little while. In those cases, I boosted the audience noise a lot so there wouldn't be a strange mostly silent gap there.

All in all, this is a long concert, at two hours and 32 minutes. Nearly all their classic songs got played, plus some new ones for the time that in my opinion kept up their high standards. I imagine had CSN actually released a live album at this time it wouldn't have been that long, but I don't need to be limited by album lengths.

01 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
02 Wasted on the Way (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
04 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
05 Blackbird (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
06 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
07 The Lee Shore (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
08 You Don't Have to Cry (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
09 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
10 Just a Song Before I Go (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
11 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
12 Helplessly Hoping (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
13 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
14 Marrakesh Express (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
15 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
16 Long Time Gone (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
17 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
18 Suite- Judy Blue Eyes (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
19 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
20 Wind on the Water (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
21 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
22 On the Other Side of Town (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
23 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
24 These Empty Days (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
25 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
26 Thousand Roads (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
27 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
28 Almost Cut My Hair (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
29 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
30 Guinnevere (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
31 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
32 Love the One You're With (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
33 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
34 For What It's Worth (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
35 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
36 Southern Cross (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
39 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
40 Wooden Ships (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
41 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
42 Our House (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
43 Teach Your Children (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
44 4+20 (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
45 Daylight Again - Find the Cost of Freedom (Crosby, Stills & Nash)

https://www.imagenetz.de/cUvsa

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/8XbpAvhK

second alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/v8Rd1Fk0giq0Gpo/file

The cover photo comes from a concert in Portland in 1991. I moved Crosby so he'd be closer to the other two.

Stephen Stills - Bread and Roses Festival, Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA, 9-4-1978

I just posted a concert from Joni Mitchell which took place at the Bread and Roses Festival on September 3, 1968. I only discovered that a few days ago. When I did, I thought about the name of the festival and the year, and I realized I had a Stephen Stills concert that also took place at the same festival in the same year. So as long as I was posting that one, I'm posting this one too.

In my opinion, this is the best acoustic concert recording from Stills' long career, at least that I know of. It's an excellent performance, excellent sound, and he plays lots of interesting songs instead of just the usual suspects. So if you're a Stephen Stills fan at all, you should give this a listen.

It was a three day festival. This is from the last day, and took place one day after the Joni Mitchell concert I just posted. Apparently, Stills wasn't scheduled to play, but one or more of the big names on the last day couldn't make it, so Stills was a last minute addition.

I believe the reason a recording of this has been bootlegged is because it was played live on the radio at the time. So that's why the sound is so good, though there's a bit of background hiss. 

For nearly all the songs, it's just Stills on guitar. But he's briefly joined by a harmonica player, then by a fiddle player. As I mentioned above, some of the songs were only rarely done by him, especially a few cover songs. Of special note is "Spanish Suite." In my opinion, it's a great original song by him, but for some inexplicable reason he never really did anything with it. A very different studio version wasn't released until 2005, though that recording was done in the late 1970s.

I made a few minor fixes to the recording. For the talking between songs, I generally boosted the volume of Stills' voice some. Also, for three songs near the end, the audience reaction faded out quickly. I patched in some more cheering from the ends to other songs to make those sound complete.

Finally, the last song, "Come On in My Kitchen," is a bonus song of sorts, because it comes from a different concert altogether, in 1979. But the sound and performance is so similar that it fits exactly in, in my opinion. It even works great as an extra encore. The previous song had backing vocals by the Persuasions (who were playing at the festival too). I'm not sure, but they might be backing him up on the bonus song too.

01 talk (Stephen Stills)
02 Love the One You're With (Stephen Stills)
03 Not Fade Away (Stephen Stills)
04 talk (Stephen Stills)
05 Spanish Suite [One Moment at a Time] (Stephen Stills)
06 Everybody's Talkin' (Stephen Stills)
07 4 + 20 (Stephen Stills)
08 talk (Stephen Stills)
09 Colorado (Stephen Stills)
10 talk (Stephen Stills)
11 Take Me Back to the Ohio Valley (Stephen Stills)
12 talk (Stephen Stills)
13 Jesus Gave Love Away for Free (Stephen Stills)
14 talk (Stephen Stills)
15 Fallen Eagle (Stephen Stills)
16 talk (Stephen Stills)
17 Ole Man Trouble (Stephen Stills)
18 Thoroughfare Gap (Stephen Stills)
19 Crossroads - You Can't Catch Me (Stephen Stills)
20 49 Bye Byes - For What It's Worth (Stephen Stills with the Persuasions)
21 Come On in My Kitchen (Stephen Stills)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15288180/StephenS_1978_BreadRsesFestivalGreekTheatreBrkeleyCA__9-4-1978_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo is from 1978, but it's from another concert. It's from a Crosby, Stills and Nash concert in San Francisco. I cropped it so only Stills was in the frame. For the logo at the bottom, I found that from a concert poster of the 1978 festival. I cropped out just the part I wanted, and added some text at the bottom.

Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, plus the Grateful Dead with Stephen Stills - The Winterland, San Francisco, CA, 10-25-1969

This is a very curious bootleg. I only found out it existed today, and I was so psyched about it that I posted it straight away. I didn't know about it because it only emerged in the last year or so. It's an excellent soundboard of an excellent performance. The main downside is that it's rather short.

Crosby, Stills and Nash released their first album, simply called "Crosby, Stills and Nash," in May 1969. By October 1969, they were well into recording their second album with Neil Young, which would turn out to be called "Deja Vu." I'm sure, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young all either lived near San Francisco at the time or spent a lot of time there. On this night, October 25, 1969, both the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane were going to play at the Winterland. One or more of the opening bands had to cancel, and Stephen Stills and Graham Nash were there. So they got up and performed a short acoustic set just as a duo, without any preparation whatsoever.

This is virtually the only time Stills and Nash appeared on stage as a duo, without David Crosby. (They also did about three concerts together in the early 1980s, when Crosby was flirting with death due to his drug use.)

It's fascinating to hear what the two of them came up with on stage at the spur of the moment. As they stated at the outset, their intention was to try out some new songs, and that's just what they did. Nash wanted to start out with "Teach Your Children." This could well be the very first time that classic song was sung in public. (Setlist.fm claims it was played four times with CSNY in 1969, but all of them were after this.) However, after introducing the song, Nash briefly left the stage to get something to drink, so Stills filled the time with a cover of the blues classic "Crossroads." Only then did they get around to doing "Teach Your Children" together.

"How Have You Been," a song written by John Sebastian of the Lovin' Spoonful, followed. Given that Stills and Nash worked out harmonies for it, and there's a studio outtake version of it, it's likely this song was strongly considered to go on "Deja Vu." In fact, CSN briefly toyed with having Sebastian join their band before settling on Neil Young instead.

The next song, "Lonesome Valley," is a real treat, because no version of CSN or any variation thereof has ever known to have sung the song. It was originally done by Woody Guthrie.

The short Stills and Nash concert ended with "Black Queen." Like "Crossroads," it was an acoustic guitar showcase for Stills.

That's the end of the short set they did together, only 22 minutes long. (By the way, the man welcoming them on and off the stage is Bill Graham.)

But that's not the end of this album. It turns out that when the Grateful Dead played their set later that night, Stills joined them for one song, "Turn On Your Lovelight." When the Dead played that cover song, it was always was sung by Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, and that's the case here. But Stills added backing vocals as well as helping with lead guitar. If you listen carefully, you can definitely hear his voice at times.

Since this version of "Lovelight" is over 20 minutes long, it almost doubled the length of this album, all by itself. By the way, McKernan's voice was very low in the mix. It was mostly in one stereo channel, so I boosted the volume of that channel and lowered the volume of the other channel. That helps, but it's still somewhat low. I didn't want to overdo things by making one channel much louder than the other.

That's the end of the material from the Winterland show. But Stills made one more guest appearance with the Grateful Dead a couple of months later. That also is available on a soundboard bootleg, and it's a nice performance, so I've added it in as a quasi-bonus track. It's the song "Black Queen," which was played in the Winterland show. But that had been Stills alone on his acoustic guitar. This drastically different version was played by all of the Grateful Dead, yet with Stills singing lead vocals as well as playing more lead guitar. Apparently, Stills wrote the song with the intention of giving it to the Dead to record, but they never did. However, they learned it well enough to back him up. 

If you include that last song from a different concert, this album is 55 minutes long. It's kind of a strange beast, half acoustic with Stills and Nash, and half electric with Stills and the Dead. But I think it's an interesting album just the same that's a "must have" for any fan of CSN in their glory years.

01 talk (Stephen Stills & Graham Nash)
02 Crossroads (Stephen Stills & Graham Nash)
03 talk (Stephen Stills & Graham Nash)
04 Teach Your Children (Stephen Stills & Graham Nash)
05 talk (Stephen Stills & Graham Nash)
06 How Have You Been (Stephen Stills & Graham Nash)
07 talk (Stephen Stills & Graham Nash)
08 Lonesome Valley (Stephen Stills & Graham Nash)
09 talk (Stephen Stills & Graham Nash)
10 Black Queen (Stephen Stills & Graham Nash)
11 talk (Stephen Stills & Graham Nash)
12 Turn On Your Love Light (Grateful Dead with Stephen Stills)
13 Black Queen (Grateful Dead with Stephen Stills)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17363397/STEPHNSTLLSNSH1969WnterlndSnFrncscoCA__10-25-1969_atse.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/cMFJ9523

I have no idea when or where the cover art photo of Stills and Nash was taken. But judging by their appearance, I think it's a safe bet it's from either 1969 or 1970. If anyone knows, please let me know. It might be from the famous Woodstock concert. I moved Stills a little bit closer to Nash so I could make their heads larger.

Crosby, Stills and Nash - Solo Demos, Volume 3: 1970-1971

I've posted two albums of solo demos from Crosby, Stills and Nash already. This is the third and final one. Solo demos are what they are - each of the songs feature just Crosby, Stills or Nash. As with the earlier albums in this series, most of the songs are well known ones. But I think it's interesting to hear these stripped down, acoustic versions.

Seven out of the 11 songs have been officially released. Of the four unreleased ones, they're all studio recordings and sound just as good as the others. The album is a bit short at 35 minutes, but these are all the performances I could find that fit the format.

Most of the songs are the kinds of songs you'd expect. But there are two exceptions. Graham Nash does a solo version of "Everybody's Been Burned," a David Crosby song that he originally performed with the Byrds. And I've included a rare and unreleased Crosby original, "Under Anesthesia" (also known as "You Sit There"). It would have made sense for me to include it on one of my CSN/Y stray tracks albums, but I felt it wasn't quite good enough to make the grade.

Unfortunately, this series ends because there just aren't enough solo demos after 1971 to allow me to keep going. CSN wrote many of their classic songs in the 1969 to 1971 time frame, so there's a lot more interest with those. Thus, there have been more officially released versions and more bootlegs too.

UPDATE: On October 21, 2021, I updated the mp3 download file. I added two songs, "Bach Mode" and "Where Will I Be." I also upgraded "Dancer" and "The Wall Song" from unreleased to released versions. All of these songs come from the 50th anniversary edition of "If I Could Only Remember My Name."

01 Chicago (Graham Nash)
02 Where Will I Be (David Crosby)
03 4 + 20 (Stephen Stills)
04 Dancer (David Crosby)
05 Simple Man (Graham Nash)
06 Love the One You're With (Stephen Stills)
07 The Wall Song (David Crosby)
08 Man in the Mirror (Graham Nash)
09 Under Anesthesia [You Sit There] (David Crosby)
10 Everybody's Been Burned (Graham Nash)
11 Singin' Call (Stephen Stills)
12 Be Yourself (Graham Nash)
13 Bach Mode [Pre-Critical Mass] (David Crosby)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17363414/CROSBSTLLSNSH1970-1971SloDmosVlum3_atse.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/tkcQqHaV

For the cover art photo, I found a 1970 photo of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, with their bassist and drummer included as well. But I cropped the photo so it only showed Crosby, Stills and Nash. Neil Young happened to be sitting while the others were standing, so it was pretty easy to crop him out of it.

Crosby, Stills and Nash - Solo Demos, Volume 2: 1969

A few weeks ago, I posted an album that collected all the solo demos by Crosby, Stills and/or Nash in 1968, so long as I didn't use them somewhere else. This is a continuation of that series. This time, it deals with 1969. I have one more album coming, for 1970 and 1971.

As you can see from the song list, these are the demo versions of some of the biggest songs by CSN. They're a mix of songs from their first and second albums, plus a few others. Note that I included a version of "Marrakesh Express" on the "Sol Demos, Volume 1" album. But that version just had Graham Nash on it, and this version was a bit later and featured David Crosby as well. It's a similar situation with "Guinnevere." He made two demos, one in 1968 and one in 1969. So I've included the latter version here.

All but one song ("Black Queen") has been officially released, so the sound quality is great. The album is a bit on the short side at 39 minutes.

01 Teach Your Children (Graham Nash)
02 So Begins the Task (Stephen Stills)
03 Almost Cut My Hair (David Crosby)
04 Pre-Road Downs (Graham Nash)
05 Black Queen (Stephen Stills)
06 Guinnevere [Alternate Demo] (David Crosby)
07 Marrakesh Express (Crosby & Nash)
08 Triad (David Crosby)
09 Our House (Graham Nash)
10 The Lee Shore (Stephen Stills)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16383337/CROSBSTLLSNSH1969SloDmosVlum2_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo comes from a series of publicity photos relating to the 1969 "Crosby, Stills and Nash" album. I made some adjustments in Photoshop to add some background above their heads, since it cut off right at the very tops of their heads.

Crosby, Stills and Nash - Solo Demos, Volume 1: 1968

I've already posted about 20 Crosby, Stills, Nash and/or Young albums that form a kind of alternate history in which they released a lot more music together than they actually did. This is the start of a  series of three albums that's kind of an addendum to that. For the first few years CSN were together, they recorded a bunch of solo demos. When the demo songs were unique, I included them on one of those alternate history albums. But that still left a bunch of demos of well known songs. So I've gathered those up into their own albums.

By luck, there's enough material for one album dealing with 1968, another with 1969, and a third for both 1970 and 1971. This, obviously, is the 1968 one. What's interesting about that is that CSN hadn't joined together yet. All three of them were leaving or had left their original bands (the Byrds for Crosby, Buffalo Springfield for Stills, and the Hollies for Nash). While they searched for what to do next, they continued to write and record demos of new songs, which is what we have here.

This album is rather short, at 32 minutes. I could have made it longer by including songs from Stills' archival album "Just Roll Tape, April 26th, 1968." But if you're into this sort of music, you should have that album. It's really good. The three Stills songs here are different versions from different sources.

The album is dominated by Crosby, who wrote and sings five of the ten songs. But that's just luck in terms of what has become publicly available. Apparently, all three of them wrote lots of songs in 1968, some of which they would record until years later. But we only have a smattering of the demos. That's especially the case for Nash. Apparently, he wrote some songs in this time period that still haven't been released in any form.

Three of the performances are officially unreleased. But in terms of sound quality, I don't think you can tell which ones those are.

01 Deja Vu (David Crosby)
02 49 Bye-Byes (Stephen Stills)
03 Horses through a Rainstorm (Graham Nash)
04 Games (David Crosby)
05 Marrakesh Express (Graham Nash)
06 Guinnevere (David Crosby)
07 You Don't Have to Cry (Stephen Stills)
08 Long Time Gone (David Crosby)
09 49 Reasons [49 Bye-Byes] (Stephen Stills with David Crosby)
10 Wooden Ships (David Crosby)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15100312/CrosbSN_1968_SoloDemsVolume1_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo is a publicity photo of CSN from 1969.

Crosby, Stills and Nash - "Crosby, Stills and Nash" Alternate Takes (1969)

First off, I want to make clear this is not meant to be a replacement for the 1969 album "Crosby, Stills and Nash." That's a classic album that needs no changes whatsoever. Instead, I have a bunch of unreleased alternate versions of every song from the album, all with great sound quality. I've simply ordered them in the same order as the original album to create a supplementary version of the album for those who want a different listen after hearing the original version lots of times.

I could be wrong, since it's been a long time since I collected these songs, but I think only two of them have been officially released.  The rest of the songs come from bootlegs called "Four Way Harmonies," "Session Selections," and "Studio Archives." These are unusual bootlegs due to their sound quality as well as uncovering studio performances that usually don't get bootlegged.

All of these performances have interesting variations.  "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" is only an alternate mix, but it brings forward some drums that weren't included on the final version, as well as different vocals. The others generally have significant additions or subtractions. In a few cases, all-acoustic versions have been replaced with electric versions, including bass and drums that had been missing. Some of these aren't necessarily as good as the final versions, but the differences are interesting.

For "Wooden Ships," Stephen Stills was actually tuning his guitar when the song began, and he was quite out of tune for about the first half minute. It sounds really bad. So I cut that part out and faded it in right when he got in tune.

The first nine tracks are in the same order as on the official album. I've added some interesting extras for the last three tracks. "Blackbird," the cover of the Beatles song, was very nearly included on the official album. So I have an alternate of that too. Then there's Stills encouraging David Crosby to sing the snippet of the blues song "Come On in My Kitchen" that ended up going right before the start of "Long Time Gone." Finally, I've included an interesting instrumental version of part of "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes."

01 Suite: Judy Blue Eyes [Alternate Mix] (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
02 Marrakesh Express [Alternate Version] (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
03 Guinnevere [Electric Version] (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
04 You Don't Have to Cry [Alternate Version] (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
05 Pre-Road Downs [Alternate Version] (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
06 Wooden Ships [Alternate Version] (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
07 Lady of the Island [Alternate Version] (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
08 Helplessly Hoping [Electric Version] (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
09 49 Bye-Byes [Alternate Version] (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
10 Blackbird [Alternate Version] (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
11 Come On in My Kitchen (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
12 Suite: Judy Blue Eyes [Instrumental Version] (Crosby, Stills & Nash)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16383330/CROSBSTLLSNSH1969CrsbStllsNshAltrnatTkes_atse.zip.html

Since this is an alternate version of "Crosby, Stills and Nash," I'm glad to say I was able to find an alternate version of the cover art photo. This was taken in the exact same photo session, with the three of them sitting on the same sofa.

Crosby, Stills and Nash - Watch Out for the Wind - Non-Album Tracks (2013-2015)

Whew! I'm soooo glad to finally post this album. I've been wanting to post it for months. It's the last of my long series of "alternate universe" Crosby, Stills and Nash albums, in which I imagine they had their act together much more than they really did, and finished more albums together than they really did.

I created this album a couple of years ago. But the reason I delayed on posting it had to do with sound quality. When I was about to post it, I listened to it and decided that a bunch of songs simply didn't sound good enough. I figured I could probably find better sounding versions if I searched high and low, but I was too lazy to do that for a long time. I've finally gotten around to it, and I'm glad to say I did find better versions in almost every case. I replaced most of the songs. I decided that sound quality was more important than using versions with all of Crosby, Stills, and Nash on them, especially since I originally had some versions from CSN concerts that were effectively solo versions anyway, played during the solo spots of those concerts. The only song that still sounds subpart to me is "Olympia," but I found a version that at least is acceptable for my standards.

Now, let me address the musical content, sound quality issues aside. CSN broke up in 2015 (and CSNY for that matter). So far, it seems that may well be a permanent end, because there were a lot of hurtful things said, and a lot of bad blood. It's a tangled story, but the long and the short of it is that the others couldn't stand working with Crosby anymore, and Crosby admits he can be very difficult to deal with.

It's a shame that they didn't pull themselves together enough to release one last studio album of new material before breaking up, because they actually were having a creative renaissance in their last few years. For nearly ten years, roughly 2003 to 2013, it seems that Crosby, Stills and Nash wrote relatively few few good new songs. But Crosby and Nash have been on a songwriting tear since then. Stills, not so much, but at least he's been musically revitalized playing with his new blues rock band, the Rides. CSN had so much good material in their last couple of years together that I had enough material to make an album that could have been released in 2014, and another that could have been released in 2015. Here's the link to the 2014, by the way:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2019/09/crosby-stills-nash-back-home-various.html

Crosby released a new album in 2014, and another in 2016, and he's gone on to release new ones in 2017 and 2018 too! That's remarkable, because for pretty much the entire existence of CSN, he was the least prolific songwriter. Stills released an album with the Rides in 2013, and another with them in 2016. Graham Nash has only released one album in that time frame, in 2016. But that's strange to me, because he played enough new songs in concert for at least another new album in that time.

The bottom line of all that is that I had plenty of new songs to choose from. Even making two albums from this time period, I was able to be picky, and choose the songs I liked the best. I ended up going with three Stills songs, three Crosby songs, and five Nash songs. I could have chosen many more Crosby songs in particular, but his recent rash of new albums are all good, and I didn't want to detract to much from those. The reason I chose more Nash songs is because he's written some really good ones that he still hasn't put on album. Or, in one case, "Watch Out for the Wind," the song was only released as a hard to find bonus track.

All the versions here are officially unreleased, except for that Nash bonus track I just mentioned, plus one song from Stills. That's the first one, "Don't Want Lies." Again, I didn't want to step on the material from his studio albums with the Rides, but for their 2013, he put a rocking version of that song on the album proper, and then included a more CSN-esque acoustic version as a bonus track only. So, naturally, I used that bonus track version.

Due to sound quality issues, the vast majority of the songs here are done as solo artists. But, in fact, nearly all of them, or maybe even all of them, were played in CSN concerts. It's just that I didn't use those versions for the sound quality issue I keep mentioning. I also included two versions from 2016, outside the time frame of CSN still being together, also for sound quality issues. Both those songs were played a lot in 2015 and sometimes earlier.

The bottom line is, one could easily imagine an alternate universe in which CSN really did get their act together to release one last really good album before breaking up. Heck, if you pick the best of my 2014 album "Back Home" and this one, it could have been a truly excellent one. But even though that didn't happen in reality, we at least can make it happen through reconstructions like this one.

Believe me, the songs on this album aren't as good in total as, say, the songs on CSN's first album in 1969. But they're significantly better than the actual albums CSN and CSNY put out from the late 1980s onwards. Even though CSN were turning into senior citizens in these years, they still had "it" both in terms of songwriting and singing. In my opinion, that makes their 2015 break-up that much more frustrating.

I suppose I could continue making more CSN albums out of post-2015 material. But I'm going to pass on doing that, at least for now, in part because they seemingly have broken up for good, but also because their recent solo albums are generally good enough for CSN fans to want to listen to all of the songs on them, as opposed to only picking and choosing some good songs from each one, as was the case since around the early 1980s.

UPDATE: On February 18, 2020, I found a Stephen Stills song I previously missed, "Look Each Other in the Eye." It's from 2016, which is a bit outside the time frame of this album. But it's an Internet only single release that doesn't fit anywhere else, so I've stuck it on the end.

01 Don't Want Lies [Acoustic Version] (Stephen Stills & the Rides)
02 Burning for the Buddha (Graham Nash)
03 The Clearing (David Crosby)
04 Golden Days (Graham Nash)
05 Only Teardrops Fall (Stephen Stills & the Rides)
06 Watch Out for the Wind (Graham Nash)
07 Somebody Home (David Crosby)
08 Virtual World (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
09 Olympia (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
10 What Makes It So (David Crosby)
11 Myself at Last (Graham Nash)
12 Look Each Other in the Eye (Stephen Stills)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16408067/CROSBSTLLSNSH2015WtchOtfrthWnd_atse.zip.html

For the album cover, I found a CSN concert poster. I don't know the year, but I'm guessing it's from the last couple of decades, despite the fact that the artwork relates to the "Wooden Ships," idea, from their 1969 song of that title. I made some edits and crops so the rectangular artwork would fit for a square album cover. I also added the text at the bottom. I like to imagine that the artwork matches the title, in that the people on the ship should "watch out for the wind" that the sea goddess is about to blow their way. :)

Crosby, Stills & Nash - Back Home - Non-Album Tracks (2009-2014)

In late 2015, Crosby, Stills and Nash (CSN) broke up. As i write this in 2019, it seems probable that CSN will never make music again, which is a big shame. CSN hadn't put out a studio album since 1999 (with Neil Young). But it's not for a lack of good songs. In the years right before they broke up, they had a real creative renaissance. That's so much the case that I was able to fill up two albums with stray tracks. This is the first of those two.

In 2003, David Crosby and Graham Nash released an album together, and Stephen Stills put out an album in 2004. After that, all three of them were mostly silent for about a decade. CSN made an effort to record an album around 2009 and 2010, but it was going to be an album of all covers. That made it seem that their songwriting had all but petered out. And it does seem that they did write very few songs for most of those years.

But around 2012, it seems that Crosby and Nash in particular got busy writing songs again, and very good songs. Both of them have been on a streak ever since, especially Crosby, who has put out a surprising number of good solo albums in recent years. Stills spent a lot of time with his new band with Kenny Wayne Shepherd, called the Rides. He didn't write many songs, but the few he did write were pretty good.

The songs come from a variety of sources. There were three new songs on a CSN live album from 2012, so I've included those. I've also included the three best songs from Crosby's 2014 solo album, called "Croz." The rest are from various sources, including some unreleased versions of songs played in concert.

The sound quality is generally excellent, including for the unreleased songs. One partial exception is "I'm Here for You," which sounds a bit echoy. But it was good enough to my ears to include.

If you're under the impression that CSN were washed up after the 1960s and 1970s, you should give this a listen. They did go downhill in terms of their career due to bad production, being way out of step with musical trends, ego clashes, and so on, but they never lost their talent for songwriting.

01 Almost Gone [The Ballad of Bradley Manning] (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
02 Radio (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
03 Wrong Thing to Do (Stephen Stills)
04 Exit Zero (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
05 Time I Have (David Crosby)
06 In Your Name (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
07 Set that Baggage Down (David Crosby)
08 Low Barefoot Tolerance (Stephen Stills)
09 I'm Here for You (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
10 What's Broken (David Crosby)
11 Can't Get Enough (Stephen Stills & the Rides)
12 Back Home (Graham Nash)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16408058/CROSBSTLLSNSH2014BckHme_atse.zip.html

For the album cover, I used an outtake for the cover for CSN's 2012 live album, simply called "CSN 2012." It's very similar to the cover for that album, but I don't mind because it seems very few people got that album. I found the lettering for the band's name from a CSN T-shirt.