{"id":1598,"date":"2023-01-28T18:11:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T02:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2023-01-28T18:11:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T02:11:46","slug":"music-crosby-not-stills-nash-and-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/music-crosby-not-stills-nash-and-young\/","title":{"rendered":"music: Crosby not Stills, Nash, and Young"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeff Beck died, now David Crosby. So I listened to <em>If Only I Could Remember My Name<\/em>, his solo album. It&#8217;s beyond star-studded, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/If_I_Could_Only_Remember_My_Name\">Wikipedia<\/a>: &#8220;Guest musicians on the album include <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Graham_Nash\">Graham Nash<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_Young\">Neil Young<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joni_Mitchell\">Joni Mitchell<\/a>, and members of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jefferson_Airplane\">Jefferson Airplane<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Santana_(band)\">Santana<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quicksilver_Messenger_Service\">Quicksilver Messenger Service<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grateful_Dead\">Grateful Dead<\/a>; the ensemble was given the informal moniker of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Planet_Earth_Rock_and_Roll_Orchestra\">The Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra<\/a>.&#8221; It&#8217;s an indulgent meandering set of songs (only five with proper lyrics) but some of the songs have a kind of appeal. The mysterious harmonies are a step beyond the Beach Boys and Beatles. To tell the truth I can&#8217;t reliably identify CS&amp;N&#8217;s voices; Graham Nash is higher, Stephen Stills rougher?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tamalpais High (At About 3)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K7RKxZahFhg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A couple of the songs like &#8220;Tamalpais High&#8221; are so reminiscent of CS&amp;N&#8217;s &#8220;Guinnevere&#8221;. I remember buying <em>So Far<\/em> because I&#8217;d heard some of the hits and for its Joni Mitchell cover, I couldn&#8217;t believe how great &#8220;Suite: Judy Blue Eyes&#8221; was. I didn&#8217;t grasp until now that it&#8217;s a compilation album (Wikipedia: &#8220;the concoction of a greatest-hits album from two LPs and one non-LP single&#8221;); no wonder it&#8217;s so great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Crosby will probably be remembered as the John the Baptist heralding (and sleeping with) Joni Mitchell, not a bad place to have in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Beck died, now David Crosby. So I listened to If Only I Could Remember My Name, his solo album. It&#8217;s beyond star-studded, Wikipedia: &#8220;Guest musicians on the album include Graham Nash, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and members of Jefferson &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/music-crosby-not-stills-nash-and-young\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}