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09/27/00
HOT OFF THE TRACTOR...
Follow me to FARM AID 2000....
Photo's and more...
New York Newsday September 26th, 2000
Los Padres to Expand
The White House yesterday announced an expansion of The Los Padres National Forest,
extending protection of the ruggedly picturesque Big Sur region
of the
central California coast.
The $4.55-million acquisition of a 784-acre parcel of former ranchland
protects
a habitat for endangered trout and butterflies at the southern
gateway to Big Sur,
where spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean ringed by towering
cliffs draw
millions of tourists every year. The new land is tiny by comparison
to the vast
acreage already under federal protection around Big Sur but carries
large
symbolic value.
It represents one of President Bill Clinton's last opportunities
to expand his
environmental legacy and an opportunity to confer further environmental
and
conservation bona fides to Vice President Al Gore.
The David Crosby is Everywhere report....
This guy sure likes to keep busy! More power to ya David...
Here are some upcoming shows
09/28/00 The Dream Foundation Benefit show
Honoring David and Jan Crosby
@ The Santa Monica Civic Center-CA
10/05/00 The Annual MAP Awards
(Musicians Assistance Program)
Honoring
David Crosby
David Adelson
Dr. John
Hugh Masekela
@ The Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel-CA
(There is a full page ad for this event in this week's 09/25/00
issue of POLLSTAR)
10/16/00 Honor the Earth
with the Indigo Girls @ Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis-MN
Honor the earth is a national Native grant-making and political
advocacy
organization sponsored by:
Indigenous Environmental Network and Indigenous Women's Network.
Honor the Earth uses music, the media and the arts to accomplish
this
mission. We ask people to recognize our joint dependency on the
Earth
and be a voice for those not heard
10/17/00 Honor the Earth
with the Indigo Girls and Jackson Browne @ Chicago Theatre
Chicago-IL
09/24/00
Shoreline Amphitheatre in MountainView, California
Once again hosts
The Bridge School Benefit Concerts
October 28th and 29th, 2000
Starring:
Neil Young
Tom Petty and the Heart Breakers
Dave Matthew Band
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Beck
Foo Fighters
Tegan and Sara
The highlights of the evening for me were the performances of
CSN, the Eagles and Paul Simon. Each artist/group did three songs.
CSN did Marrakesh Express, Helplessly Hoping and Love the One You're With. The finale with all performers was Teach Your Children with Nash featured on lead. This CSN version of Helplessly Hoping was exquisite. It was better than
during the CSNY show in DC and it was excellent then. I didn't
think they could do much better but they topped themselves. Stills voice was superb and when it meshed with the wonderful voices
of Nash and Crosby to produce the magic that is CSN. I am not one to toss around praise lightly so when it comes
from me it is sincere. They also did a rousing rendition of Love the One Your With
We are pleased to announce the release of
Music is Love
a 2 CD Tribute to CSNY by the Lee Shore List Members.
This is the latest in a series of 4 Tribute projects coordinated
by Leeshore members.
(Leeshore is the CSNY internet mailing list.)
Your webmasters' band, ENCHANTMENT, is on this effort. We performed our version of
"Southern Cross." Coming soon... an mp3 of the song....
In the meanwhile here is our song from the last CSNY tribute release....
entitled
"For the Harmony."
Enchantment covers Graham Nash's
"And So It Goes."
From POLLSTAR issue dated 09/18/00
The Box office reports are coming in very slow....
Neil has been on tour for over a month now...
and only 2 box office summaries have surfaced.
I wonder if SFX is holding back these numbers?
08/29/00
Blossom Music Center
Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Tickets sold: 5861
Capacity: 97%
Ticket price: $31.50-$81.50
GP: $313,941
September Issue of MOJO Magazine
Robert Plant has been giging with his first band,
PRIORY OF BRION
They recently played the
Cambridge Folk Festival
They do cover tunes.
Among the songs performed;
BLUEBIRD and SOUTHERN MAN
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09/21/00
STILLS LYRICS
In His Own Words
This just in from Mark White in the UK
from: The Guardian Newspaper
" [Film producer] Tony Taylor recently optioned a screenplay for
"a rock
n' roll story" by Jake Records head, John Hartmann. Graham Nash
has signed
on to do the music, and production starts next year. "
suitelorraine note: John Hartmann, former manager for Crosby-Nash,
and brother of deceased Comedian/Actor Phil Hartmann (who created
the CSN logo).
THANKS MARK for the NEWS.
09/16/00
Mr Natural R. Crumb ©
goes to FARM AID!
Along with your webmaster
Be back in a few days...
09/14/00
STEPHEN STILLS
Signature Series Gretsch
WHITE FALCON GUITAR
Photo by Ramiro Agredo ©
Photo by Ramiro Agredo ©
It's a beauty!!
09/13/00
When people think of the BIG festivals, the immediate ones that
come to mind are
Monterey Pop, Woodstock, Altamont, Watkins Glenn, etc...
But on this day we commemorate a very special festival to us CSNY
fans.
The 1969 Monterey Folk Festival.
It was held on September 13th and 14th, 1969, at
the Esalen Institute in Big Sur California.
It was captured on film and released to the public in a concert
film called
"Celebration at Big Sur."
This festival also spawned the first "official" bootleg CSNY record,
the infamous
"Wooden Nickel"
(Subsequently, years later, some fans in Italy decided to dedicate
their
time to putting out a CSNY fanzine and they called it
"Wooden Nickel.")
This film, which used to run frequently on american television
in the 70's, has
never been released officially for home video.
It is a classic period piece, from the ultimate CSNY footage of
"Sea of Madness" and "Down By the River",
as well as the Crosby, Stills, Nash, Joni Mitchell
and John Sebastian rendition of
Dino Valenti's aka Chet Powers
"Let's Get Together."
Movie still from the film "Celebration at Big Sur" ©
That particular performance is a cherished moment in time
that for me can always put a smile on my face, as the music makes
you feel as though you are part of the community.
These scenes define for me the epitomy of the CSNY sound.
Stephen Stills and John Sebastian
picking some acoustic blues with "Bullfrog Blues." Seeing Joni debut her "new"
song "Woodstock", about a festival that had happened in NY just a few short weeks
prior.
In the uncut version of the film, they depict the footage in the
baths, with
David Crosby, John Sebastian, Carl Gottlieb, among others; communing
with nature
and singing in the buff!
I love Dorothy Morrison and the Comb Sister's performances,
"All of God's Children Got Soul," and the group show closer
"Oh Happy Day." Their spirit transcends the moment and the viewer is uplifted.
Then their is the infamous heckler scene with Stephen, and the
other guys
"lovin him out of the confrontation," to be segued into the Stills
rap about
"pretty guitars and fancy guitars"...
Please read an account of the festival as it was reported in
ROLLING STONE - BIG SUR Article October 1969.
BIG SUR Photo gallery
Mr Natural says:
We must bring the message to the people.
Save the Family Farmers!!!
Support FARM AID 2000.
By no means the hippest bill in show business, this event acquires
a
Warren Haynes wrote the following poem and read it at Allen Woody's
funeral.
(Deepest condolences going out to Warren.)
* * *
SMILE AT HALF MAST
by Warren Haynes ©
It's raining and my smiles at half mast
So many people - What do I say?
No more lying - no more dwelling on the past
No more faking after today
For so long there were no answers but now
We all know what to do
Pouring rain - wash away my pain
Let the love come shining through
So many things left unresolved
but it's not about that now
Face the people with my smile at half mast
But I can't face myself today
Waves of emotion with my smile at half mast
But there are no words to say
The smoke will rise - The fog will lift
And we'll see clearer than before
As I sit crying with my smile at half mast
A window opens as I close the door
Trying to find the whole truth
With my smile at half mast
But the truth doesn't matter anymore
My spirit's bleeding - my soul is crying
No more dying after today
Maybe I'll believe again some day
Face the ghost of beauty past - the ghost of music past
With my smile at half mast
09/09/00
Bad news.. get well soon Jimmy.
I saw these guys last fall @ Roseland during their very 1st outting.
It was an amazing show! ! ! !
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FROM BILLBOARD 09/08/00
Page/Crowes Cancel All Remaining Tourdates
Jimmy Page's back injury has been
deemed serious enough to force the
cancellation of all remaining
Page/Black Crowes concerts in
North America, Europe, and Japan,
including four planned double bills
in October with the Who at New
York's Madison Square Garden. In a
statement released late Friday (Sept.
8), Page -- who has been ordered to
rest for six weeks and may eventually require surgery -- expressed
"great disappointment and distress" over the news.
The tour cancellation comes just two days after the supergroup
confirmed the itinerary for the Europe and Japanese dates, which
were
set to kick off Nov. 12 in London and wrap Dec. 13 in Tokyo. When
Page first injured his back in August, seven shows on the second
leg
of a North American tour were scrapped, but three shows were later
rescheduled and were set to resume Sept. 15 in Mountainview, Calif.
According to a spokesperson for the Who, the band still plans
to
perform at all four of the MSG shows on Oct. 3, 4, 6, and 7. If
Page
recovers in time, he and the Crowes will attempt to reschedule
the New
York and Japanese concerts sometime in December. Tickets for the
canceled shows will be refunded at their point of purchase.
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
Benefit show:
The Allman Brothers Band
The Black Crowes
Phil Lesh and Friends
Warren Haynes, Matt Abts and friends
and many other special guests
Thursday, September 21st, 2000
Roseland Ballroom, New York City
Tickets are on sale now
Irving Plaza box office and ticketmaster for
$75.
212-307-7171
09/08/00
Mr Natural says:
Dang! I can't just sit here...
hot damn ...I am gonna git myself
to Farm aid! That's it!! That's the ticket!!
My September 4th, 2000 issue of POLLSTAR
is chock full info! Here are some goodies.
This tidbit is for all the CSNY fans who convened in St Louis
for the Tour 2000 Finale.
They have changed the name of the venue from The Keil Center to
The Savvis Center...an Internet IP company.
It has a 20 year deal with the facility.
The First box office stats of the
"Music in Head" tour have been
released in POLLSTAR.
08/11/00
Hersheypark Stadium
Venue Capacity: 17,482
Tickets sold: 9,435 = 53%
Ticket price: $38.50-$49.75
Gross: $388,722
(The ticket prices are varying depending on the market region.
I know this was one of the "cheaper" shows.)
Lorraine
Bethel to Get Woodstock Venue
Photo by Ramiro © 1999 Melanie at "A Day in the Garden" last summer
The music will live on at the 1969 Woodstock concert site in the
form
of a $40 million dollar performing arts and music center to be
completed
by 2003, New York Gov George Pataki and developer Alan Gerry
announced August 29th, 2000 at the site.
The 4000 seat indoor theatre in Bethel, about 80 miles north of
NYC,
will open to accomodate another 15,000 spectators on the back
lawn,
where patrons can see dance, theatre, and music performances.
It will be the first permanent structure erected on Max Yasgur's
old hillside
farm since those memorable three days in August '69.
Gerry, who turned his TV antenna business into one of the
nation's largest cable television operations, bought the 37-acre
concert
site for about $1 million dollars in 1997. He later purchased
1,300
surrounding acres for an undisclosed price. He also created
the non-profit Gerry Foundation to develop the site and help the
area's
ailing economy.
The foundation will contribute $16 million and raise $9 million
through endorsements and private contributions while the state
will
add $15 million dollars.
Obituary
Rock composer Jack Nitzsche, 63 died August 25th in Hollywood
following
cardiac arrest brought on by a recurring bronchial infection.
Nitzsche's credits are vast, from arranging many songs produced
by Phil
Spector to playing keyboards on the Rolling Stones' "Let's Spend
the Night Together,"
and "Paint it Black." He co-wrote The Searchers' "Needles and
Pins" with
Sonny Bono and was Neil Young's session man and producer for several
decades.
His film music credits include "The Exorcist," the original score
to
"One Flew Over the Cucukoo's Nest," and he co-wrote the Academy
Award
winning theme to "An Officer, and a Gentleman."
A Michael "Kelly" Finnigan sighting!!!
by suitelorraine.com compadre and correspondant
our "exclusive" by Mr. Al Babcock.
Taj Mahal and the Phantom Blues Band
@ the Trump Marina Casino "The Shell" August 30th, 2000
"I had the opportunity to catch Taj Mahal at Trump Marina Casino
on 8/30/00 while staying in Atlantic City overnight.
The primary reason I went to the show was that Taj was playing
with a
backing band called The Phantom Blues Band which included none
other
then long time CSN keyboardist extraordinaire Michael Finnigan.
I was pleasantly surprised by the show.
Taj played a nice set of blues, rhythm & blues and reggae
flavored songs. A small, intimate audience responded enthusiastically
to the music.
Taj opened the show by commenting that it looked like all
"Mike Finnigan's relatives were in the
audience" (something about Atlantic City being Irish...
anyway, the audience got a kick out of it).
Finns played electric piano & organ. He got great crowd response
to several solos. The only regret was that he did not sing solo.
Stephen Stills would have been jealous of the yellow
Hawaiian shirt with tropical fish that Taj wore.
It was a beauty! Overall it was an excellent show."
09/03/00
R. Crumb ©
Mr Natural ponders... it's 2 weeks to FARM AID....what should
he do?...
This full page ad appeared in last week's August 28th, issue of
POLLSTAR
It was taken out by the talent agency CAA
Creative Artists Agency
It is dedicated to the agent
BOBBY BROOKS
Bobby Brooks was CSN's friend & agent. He passed away in 1990,
on the helicopter crash
that also took the life of STEVIE RAY VAUGHN.
I saw CSN that summer the same day as Brooks funeral in New Jersey.
They played a show at the Garden State Arts Center and Graham
dedicated the show to Brooks,
as well as a brand new song that he wrote for Bobby Brooks.
The ad reads as follows:
Bobby Brooks
October 28th, 1955 - August 28th, 1990
______
Ten years ago, we tragically lost an amazing agent, a great friend
and most importantly, a special human being.
His unbridled spirit and passion for the people, the business
and the music
were unique in our industry. His ability to make friends with
the biggest rock stars
and industry leaders was rivaled only by his joy of befriending
every secretary, assistant, and roadie.
He enjoyed every show, he listened to every CD, he returned every
phone
call. He could disarm difficult situations with his caustic sense
of humor,
and embrace the best of times with a childlike wonder.
Most importantly, he was always amazed at that he could get paid
to do what he
loved so much.
Help us honor his memory. Enjoy the music.....
CAA
There are many talented fans out here in cyberspace and in the
real world.
Marco Grompi is one of those people; dedicated to the music that
inspires him so much.
Marco has written a book on David Crosby, that was published 1998©
in Italy.
He also has a band called "Feel Hippy and Grumpy" and they have
released a cd of covers
by their favorite artists'.
Both of these are on sale here as an exclusive to
www.suitelorraine.com
Check the above links....and remember it's the music that matters!!
09/02/00
The abstract art of KARL KOCH ©
Neil Young at Camden NJ's E Center
Do you enjoy Karl's work?
Drop him a line and tell him so here
WRITE KARL KOCH
In the August issue of MOJO Magazine
They list the MOJO Greatest 100 Songs of All Time.
#58 Neil Young
"Only Love Can Break Your Heart"
Writer: Neil Young
Original version: Neil Young, After the Gold Rush
Definitive version: St Etienne 1993
Available on: Foxbase Alpha (Heavenly 1992)
Other versions: Psychic TV Covered it for The Bridge
A Neil Young tribute record. Everlast covered it
for the Big Daddy Soundtrack.
Reveling in the vibe of LA's Laurel Canyon community,
Young's first solo US top 40 hit was rumored to be about
sometime bandmate Stephen Stills; the theme of valued
friendship, nostalgic love and chronic hermit-hood
certainly seemed to fit. But at a CNY show in 1977, Young admitted
he'd really written it for Graham Nash. Thus reprieved
Stills would then cut his own version in 1984, on his record
"Right By You."
News blurb from MOJO - Courtesy of FJK
Italian Rock Magazine
BUSCADERO
July 2000 Issue
This issue features a long post-tour interview with Graham Nash.
Highlighted points:
1) CSNY are working on a live album and a DVD of the CSNY 2000
Tour.
They are projecting a pre-Christmas release.
2) CSNY is seriously thinking about another tour in 2001.
3) CSN uncovered 48 demo versions of previously released songs,
and they're thinking about releasing a
"demo album" to be marketed through the Internet.
4) There are 9 songs left from the "Looking Forward" sessions,
but there are no plans to release them now.
5) Graham thinks it's time for him to do a solo album because
he has a huge amount of new songs.
Previously unpublished photo of Nash,
circa '82-'83 by Italian photographer Guido Harari.
Translation and Magazine Courtesy of Marco Grompi
08/27/00
We pay tribute to a world class bass player and musician.
Allen Woody
Allen left us after such a short stay
Fare thee well....
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