Crosby and Nash

There have been a few on. The Eagles were staggering. Neil Young is on on 12th.
Steve

They still have it! They appeared with David Gilmour at RAH in May, singing the back up vocals, and were exquisite. They sang "Find the Cost of Freedom" as an encore - definitely a spine-tingler.

Someone like us has got control of BBC3 & 4, at last.

Crikey, scary thought!

Crosby and Nash

Great programme. Brought back a lot of memories. Did you notice the audience in the background they were very quite and hardly ever moved!

BBC4 looks great at the moment. Also I think Neil Young is on tonight, whatever you do don't miss that.


jim.........

OK - I'll give Neil Young a go; I thought I'd enjoy this stuff, but perhaps my tastes have changed.

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Originally posted by jim learoyd:
Crosby and Nash

Great programme. Brought back a lot of memories. Did you notice the audience in the background they were very quite and hardly ever moved!

BBC4 looks great at the moment. Also I think Neil Young is on tonight, whatever you do don't miss that.


jim.........

Funny you should mention that I thought that the guy (who the camers kept panning on to in the white suit) looked about 8 years too early.
Looked like a budding John Travolta or a pimp.

BBC 4 is the dog bollocks! .....I guessed the beeb types who work there are all 40+ and revel in not having to rotate Westlife vids! (but they are probs 22 yr old but know their catchment audience!)

Following the excellent California Doc with the Byrds ..CSN&Y ...Joni ...Eagles etc

....Anyone else agree with me that BBC4 HAVE to get a Steely Dan Doc together?

....Anyone else agree with me that BBC4 HAVE to get a Steely Dan Doc together?[/QUOTE]

Yep. One of my favourite all time groups.

Just seen Neil Young, Graham Nash, Poco, James Taylor and Carly Simon, Little Feat etc. Oh this is fantastic. This is probably my favorite music of all time!!

Maybe I am getting older but the music just seems to sound like it did 20 odd years ago, it just does not age. Some friends I spent my childhood with who are no longer with us now are much very closer. Many many thanks to BBC4.

jim....................

BBC4 definitely have it together at the moment. I've just been watching the 'Whistle' and now 'Byrds to Eagles' again - fantastic stuff!

Mark

I still would have preferred to see Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jefferson Airplane and Country Joe and the Fish to the groups they chose to feature. I didn't manage to sit through either the Eagles or Neil Young (I tried - sorry just not me), but thought Joni Mitchell was superb.

Still it's great to see BBC4 making an effort and with so many people enjoying so much that has to be good news.

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Originally posted by Jet Johnson:
Anyone else agree with me that BBC4 HAVE to get a Steely Dan Doc together?

Now your talking. Don't know where they'd dig up archive footage though. Apart from the OGWT of Reelin' In The Years, the only other stuff I've seen was a couple of US tv appearances on Youtube, which were very quickly pulled.

If anyone is interested an author Barney Hoskyns has written a book "Hotel California" about the late 60s and 70s groups you're all seeing on TV. Very interesting tho I think he could have dealt more with individual albums and artistic expression as well as who was bedding whom. Geffen certainly was in the right spot at the time. That blend of rock and country could only haev come out of CA at that time. Lots of raw tallent.

oh no.... I don't get TV reception. I was so tired of reality makeover celebrity rubbish I thought I had done the right thing. Now I'm gutted...

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Originally posted by ROTF:
I still would have preferred to see Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jefferson Airplane and Country Joe and the Fish to the groups they chose to feature. I didn't manage to sit through either the Eagles or Neil Young (I tried - sorry just not me), but thought Joni Mitchell was superb.

Still it's great to see BBC4 making an effort and with so many people enjoying so much that has to be good news.

The Season was based around the Laural Canyon artists in LA. People like Jefferson Airplane, CCR were the San Francisco groups of the time.

The BBC Neil Young gig was superb. All my Neil Young CD's were immediately dumped onto my iPod.

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Originally posted by Wolf:
If anyone is interested an author Barney Hoskyns has written a book "Hotel California" about the late 60s and 70s groups you're all seeing on TV. Very interesting tho I think he could have dealt more with individual albums and artistic expression as well as who was bedding whom. Geffen certainly was in the right spot at the time. That blend of rock and country could only haev come out of CA at that time. Lots of raw tallent.

The programme was so good, I ordered that very book. David Geffen certainly did very well. He looked really good in the programme too, hardly seems to have aged!

How can you have a programme about LA music in the 60's & 70's without mentioning Elektra and their stable of artistes ? How can you have a history of the Byrds without the name of Gene Clark cropping up? These programmes were good, no doubt about it, but they were really just a promo for Geffen and his record company, not a history of LA music in it's formulative years.

Jack Holzman was definitely featured in the programme I saw!

I knew a guy once who collected every Elektra release. Singles, cassttes when they became the norm as well as albums. In fact anything he could get his hands on. Don't know at which point he stopped but that is serious collecting.

I almost forgot I read an interview once with Crosby where he says that Peter Asher and George Harrison came to look and hear CSN play. They were apparently wanting acts for Apple. CSN played the whole of the first album live for them and then got told they were not what they were looking for.

Does that rate as bad a decision as the Decca guy who turned the Beatles down?

My wifes craziest decision was not to go into partnership with George Harrison when he asked her.

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Originally posted by ewemon:
I almost forgot I read an interview once with Crosby where he says that Peter Asher and George Harrison came to look and hear CSN play. They were apparently wanting acts for Apple. CSN played the whole of the first album live for them and then got told they were not what they were looking for.

Does that rate as bad a decision as the Decca guy who turned the Beatles down?

I wouldn't have thought so, Neil Young was always a big deal, the other three without him weren't really up to much, and haven't been exactly a musical force this last quarter of a century.

Apple was like that though, they put out the first James Taylor album, but forgot sign a contract with him, allowing Peter Asher to walk off with Taylor and made both their fortunes.

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Originally posted by ewemon:
I almost forgot I read an interview once with Crosby where he says that Peter Asher and George Harrison came to look and hear CSN play. They were apparently wanting acts for Apple. CSN played the whole of the first album live for them and then got told they were not what they were looking for.

Does that rate as bad a decision as the Decca guy who turned the Beatles down?

I'd have done the same though I quite like some of Graham Nash's stuff even if he doesn't quite reach the heights he reached with the Hollies.

It was probably a bad decision commercially, as was not keeping James Taylor, because lots of people bought the albums even if I didn't. They could have used the money to fund other projects - maybe set up a computer company.

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Originally posted by ROTF:

I'd have done the same though I quite like some of Graham Nash's stuff even if he doesn't quite reach the heights he reached with the Hollies.
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Graham Nash's first solo album was exceptional, he was able to draw on some superb accompanists, including the magnificent Terry Reid.

I don't think signing CSN would have made the slightest difference to Apple commercially. After all they had the biggest band in the world on the books, and they still hit the skids. What difference would another few acts have made.

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Originally posted by Diode100:

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Originally posted by ROTF:

I'd have done the same though I quite like some of Graham Nash's stuff even if he doesn't quite reach the heights he reached with the Hollies.

Graham Nash's first solo album was exceptional, he was able to draw on some superb accompanists, including the magnificent Terry Reid.

I don't think signing CSN would have made the slightest difference to Apple commercially. After all they had the biggest band in the world on the books, and they still hit the skids. What difference would another few acts have made.[/QUOTE]

It's funny though they would have proably picked up Neil Young and comercially it would have proved more successful than Mary Hopkins, Trash Can (think thats what they were called. Did a version of Carry the Weight) and Jackie Lomax amongst others. Badfinger were only so so successful.

Agree with you about the skids but I also think the Beatles were starting to go that way as well but we will never know for sure.

I thought the first Crosby was the best solo of the CSN group leaving aside Neil Young. Remember CSN launched their careers bigtime in the States, Woodstock etc era and and all that. They were the biggest draw bandwise at the time.

Totally and utterly agree with you about Terry Reid a totally underrated talent. I have followed him since my youth in the 60's.