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01/31/01
CHRIS STILLS
Thursday, February 1st at:
The Viper Room
8852 Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA
310-358-1880
Corner of Larrabee and Sunset
Doors at 9:00, show at 10:30
01/30/01
Paul Kantner relaunched his website yesterday
Check it out below
New York dates have been added!
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY
*MARTY BALIN*
Quicksilver and Jefferson Starship @ Westbury Music Fair Summer
2000
© RA
From this week's issue of POLLSTAR
Dated 01/29/01
(see Neil Young on the bottom far right)
excerpt from full page article
"The festival drew an estimated 1.5 million fans plus an estimated
1 billion
viewers on pay-per-view television and the Internet. Organizer
Roberto Medina
told The New York Times the event pumped $180 million to $300
million into
local economy and generated $40 million in media coverage.
More than 150 acts played Rock in Rio, including R.E.M., James
Taylor, Neil
Young, Sheryl Crow, Beck, Foo Fighters, and Oasis. The average
attendance
per night was 150,000 with an estimated 250,000 for the closing.
Medina said he
is planning another festival for 2003 and hopes to get Rush, Pink
Floyd, and Carlos Santana.
Despite the good vibes, the festival was criticized in the Times
as
'music-booking triumph and a musical insult; a social-improvement
project and a
giant corporate advertisement.'"
"Freddy Fender, who was recently diagnosed with Hepatitis C, has
been notified
that his body will not accept the immunal suppressants needed
for kidney for
liver transplantation. Due to four- hour dialysis treatments every
other day.
Fender's kidneys have begun functioning at a higher percentile.
However, the
prognosis is conditional. The musician's health depends upon continued
dialysis
and avoiding any illness that could deplete his immune system,
a spokesperson
told POLLSTAR. Fender has no plans to stop performing."
*Stay strong Freddy*
01/26/01
How Ya Doin'?
JOE WALSH news...
Not only is the James Gang reuniting for some gigs,
including a webcast from the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame
FEBRUARY 22nd, 2001
There is a TV series in the works for JOE WALSH
The casting call for it came across my desk on Wednesday.
Warner Brothers half hour sitcom pilot for NBC
One of the executive producers is Drew Carey.
Joe will play himself!
This show will be performed in a combined multi-camera
scripted situation comedy, partly improvised format.
Having trouble finding
The Jannuary 2001 issue
EQ Magazine with GRAHAM NASH on the cover?
call EQ magazine @ 212-378-0400
GREGORY CORSO
Ginsberg and Corso in 1973
Photo by Elsa Dorfman©
Beat poet Gregory Corso passed away January 18th, 2001
Fare thee well.
I Held a Shelley Manuscript
by Gregory Corso
My hands did numb to beauty
as they reached into Death and tightened!
O sovereign was my touch
upon the tan-inks's fragile page!
Quickly, my eyes moved quickly,
sought for smell for dust for lace
for dry hair!
I would have taken the page
breathing in the crime!
For no evidence have I wrung from dreams--
yet what triumph is there in private credence?
Often, in some steep ancestral book,
when I find myself entangled with leopard-apples
and torched-skin mushrooms
my cypressean skein outreaches the recorded age
and I, as though tipping a pitcher of milk,
pour secrecy upon the dying page.
photo by Gregory Bladecki©
01/24/01
CSNY 2000 Opening Night Remembered...
Where does the time go?
(IT FADES AWAY...)
It was just a flash ago that I was on the road to the show...
gene simmons ... long lost band member!
Today and Yesterday...
ad submitted by Sheila "Lookout Mama"
New York Times ad taken out by CSNY in 1974
The final area performance never did surface.
Rumor has it that after Wembley in September '74 CSNY were
to come back to the Garden...
Well it took them till spring 2000 .. but we were there in style!
01/21/00
FEBRUARY 9th&10th, 2001
GRAHAM NASH
graces the cover of
EQ Magazine
(Professional Project Recording & Sound)
January 2001
COVER STORY
Studio Paradise
The legendary musician builds a hawaiian recording haven.
A nice spread depicting Graham's new, CAMP NASH recording studio.
Some key information enclosed regarding his latest recording project:
Song for Stephen Stills
by Steven Fromholz © 1969
As it appears on the FRUMMOX record
The crystal gay softness unbroken by sunlight,
And rainbows have died for the day.
A pine needle pillow of dreamed-upon memories,
Walked over winds blown away.
Time doesn't enter my singular solitude,
Mysteries of night thoughts come begging to me,
Where lonely well-meaning is only allowable,
Thoughts of my past bring my present to me.
I laugh at my lyrics while singing to nightbirds,
The words only mess up the tune.
And count all the stars 'til I run out of numbers,
And find that I'm sleeping too soon.
Night is for laughing or walking a quiet path,
Lying in clover on top of a hill.
I lay here dreaming of sailing on silver wings
Morning comes dancing and I'm dreaming still.
(Chorus #1)
And I'm off on a high country caravan, gone again,
Following the ones who went before;
Don't think that I'm going back again,
I couldn't stand the games of man,
I just won't play at all no more.
I sit in the sunrise and search for the morningstar,
Fighting the sun to be seen.
Standing in springtime and watching the trees working,
Changing the dead leaves to green.
(Chorus#1)
Daylight it decorates all that it falls upon,
Everything 'round me it feels like my own.
Walking a straight path from here over yonder way.
Me feeling happy, for once all alone.
(Chorus#2)
And I'm off on a high country caravan,
Where I've been is all a sin I'd just as soon forget;
Can't see no reason to look behind,
I might find some of the kind I've seen before,
We've already met.
Out across the valley on through the creek bed.
My footprints are seen by the dove.
And he flies on by me and calls his love mate,
The smile fits my face like a glove.
Down in the gulleys the going get rougher now,
Turn loose my footsteps I go where they will.
If you pass this way you might possibly find me here,
Staring at God from the top of a hill.
In 1976 Michael Murphey
aka Michael Martin Murphey covered the song on his
"Flowing Free Forever" lp
His lyrics are nearly identical, but Michael
called the song "High Country Caravan
(aka Song for Stephen Stills)
From the year end issue of RELIX...
Croz and Peev
Hookahville Fall 2000
photo's by Jenn Mahoney/Jamography ©
01/16/01
Buddy will be making his debut appearance @
BB King Blues Club-NYC
February 18th&19th, 2001
Buddy Guy and Junior Wells in 1968 ©
"Buddy Guy is the greatest living guitar player"
Stephen Stills quote from his "Later" interview with Bob Costas
- 1991
01/15/01
Joan Baez and her sister Mimi Farina 1965©
Sending good thoughts and wishes to Mimi.
* * *
This message is on Joan's official site:
"Due to a family health crisis, I am reluctantly forced to cancel
all of my touring plans for the immediate
future. My sister, Mimi, is in a battle with cancer, and as she
continues to fight her illness, I feel an
increasing need to be by her side. I will very much miss seeing
all of you and look forward to doing so as soon as my situation
allows."
Joan Baez
Today we celebrate
Dr Martin Luther King Jr Day
This quote from his 1963 "I HAD A DREAM" speech, still rings true...
"Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands
of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood."
photo by Bob Fitch ©
Dr King and Joan Baez
Grenada Mississippi, 1966.
BAEZ: "You can't go no futhuh than this point ..."
the cop said to us. King went all the way.
01/14/01
1970-1971 Stills Articles Archives
Some insight into the early years...
Guitar Player cover story 1970
Rolling Stone interview 1971
01/13/01
Jan 2001 Mad Magazine cover story...
The 20 Dumbest People, Events, and Things of 2000!
cover art by James Bennett ©
Art by Hermann Mejia ©
01/10/01
THIS JUST IN...
12pm pacific @ ticketmaster
NEIL YOUNG and CRAZY HORSE
A couple of warmups before South America
(2 ticket limit)
NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSE
Wed 01/10/01 9:00PM
WARFIELD
SAN FRANCISCO CA
NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSE
Thu 01/11/01 9:00PM
WARFIELD
SAN FRANCISCO CA
"Yeah, 2001… Who would have thought it. It seems almost like yesterday
my ex-wife, Margareta,
and Ginger Baker and myself were sitting in a theater on Hollywood
Blvd. Watching that very
movie, 2001. There we were then and here I am now."
In this week's issue of POLLSTAR...
CPR is going out on the road.
February 24th, 2001
Spirit of the West Celebration
Odgen, Utah
February 25th, 2001
The Charlie Danials Band will perform.
01/08/01
Wednesday January 10, 2001
The second season of the WB network series
"Jack and Jill" will premier with
a new theme song performed by
143 Records recording artist
Beth Hart & David Crosby.
01/07/01
Photo by Greg Bladecki ©
STILLS - OAKLAND UNIV. DETROIT 1979
(photo art and layout by Ramiro)
visit this link for more Greg Bladecki photo's ©
01/03/01
photo & animation by Ramiro Agredo ©
BIG Birthday
Shout-out to our
"Bluesman"
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
STEPHEN
!REMINDER!
Celebrate Stephen's Birthday
TODAY
January 3rd, 2001
on the USA network
@ 8pm
Catch the syndicated episode entitled
Jackpot 2
(the 2nd part of a 2 part episode)
of the Don Johnson / Cheech Marin series
NASH BRIDGES
(Don drives a '71 Cuda in the series)
to hear a Stephen Stills & Don Johnson collaboration.
At the end of the show when Nash goes into Cassidy's room,
the music playing is an original piece written by Stephen Stills & Don Johnson.
Stephen sings the song while Don is playing the guitar and singing
harmony.
This episode originally aired last May 2000
as the 5th season finale.
Stephen Stills classic solo 1975 release
"Stills"
is currently available in a new format
DTS 5.1
What is DTS? - Digital Theatre Systems
"DTS - Digital Surround...transforms existing "home theater"
systems into six discrete channels of exceptionally clear, better-than-compact
disc, digital audio performance.
In1993, Steven Spielberg's movie JURASSIC PARK introduced the
crisp, clear sound of DTS.
Groundbreaking in its flexibility, reliability and total sonic
realism,
DTS has rapidly become the digital sound format preferred worldwide.
DTS Digital Surround is the only 5.1 surround sound format
that can deliver this 3-dimensional experience through new music
recordings on compact discs,
original 5.1 soundtracks on motion picture laserdiscs and a wide
variety of products on DVD.
DTS encoded compact discs and motion picture laserdiscs are available
and can be heard on any player
with a built-in digital output connector."
This record is one of my all-time favorites.
I look forward to getting this DTS version and hearing it in a
different way.
After I give it a good listen I will report back here with my
thoughts.
I am curious to know why this record was chosen to be released
in such a format. Perhaps Stephen had a hand in having this done?
-Lorraine-
This month at
AUDIOREVOLUTION.COM
They review "STILLS" DTS 5.1... and also spell Stephen's name wrong (PH please - not V).
Here is an excerpt from that review:
"On the technical front, this album dates from 1975, though some
tracks go back to 1971.
Thus we are most likely dealing at least with 16-track masters
and possibly some early 24s.
This appears to be another Van Velsen/Margouleff/Miller surround
remix, but as always,
you can’t tell this from the (non-existent) liner notes. The original
tapes have cleaned up nicely,
although there is some overcompression on drums that may or may
not be deliberate.
Some tracks that are very near the edge as far as distortion goes
surround shows up virtually everything.
But any faults here are from the original masters, not from the
entirely competent surround presentation.
As usual with this team, each track has a different surround layout
in some respect,
keeping the presentation interesting and involving to the ear.
The overall surround treatment is sensitive and appropriate for
the material."
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