Produced by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. And you get the idea of things I'm going to do. I think it's a beautiful song, very fucking simple. That's become a part of how I write, and "Games" was the first time I did it. I think "Games" is where I started doing uneven lines – like when you do a section and it scans, and the rhyme hits right here, but there are two more words tagged on afterwards. Previously unreleased demo version.ĭC: I like what I'm saying in the song. Recorded by Bruce Botnick at Hollywood Recorders, March 28, 1968. The reason I got so excited about it was because of what Stephen and Neil did with it later. It's funny it's probably the song I'm most known for, but to me, it's probably my most juvenile, least impressive piece of work. I think I had started writing the song in my house in Beverly Glen, but I finished it in the upstairs of that house in Sag Harbor. We were living in Sag Harbor in an A-frame, which is also where Stephen and Judy Collins finally got together. Produced under license from Atlantic Recording Corporation.ĭC: I wrote "Almost Cut My Hair" when we were putting ourselves together as a group. Recorded at Wally Heider Recording, Studio C, San Francisco, September, 1969. But Jack was such a brilliant and adventuresome player – he had incredible tone and sound, and played like no one else. I would have put the track on the first CSN album just as it is, but Stephen and Graham wanted me to try the song over again so they could add their own things to it. I thought I was making a record at the time, but I didn't know for whom. (P) 2006 David CrosbyĭC: I love this version of "Guinnevere" because of the beauty that Jack Casady and Cyrus Faryar brought to it. Mixed by Henry Lewy at Wally Heider Recording, Studio 3, Hollywood, July 12, 1968. Recorded by Henry Lewy at United Recording, Hollywood, June 26, 1968. ![]() Interviewed by Dave Zimmer for Crosby, Stills & Nash: The Biography, Da Capo Press, 2000.ĭavid Crosby: acoustic and electric guitars, vocals very amiable, in complete harmony, working away, creating some miracles. What Crosby and Stills were doing was somehow sweeter. I'd been working with The Mamas & The Papas, so I knew good harmonies. I'd seen other multi-talented people before, but none as equally adept at every instrument. ![]() At one point, Stills was playing drums, then guitar, then organ. Henry Lewy: Right away they started doing everything themselves. Mixed by Henry Lewy at Wally Heider Recording, Studio 3, Hollywood, June 21, 1968 Recorded by Henry Lewy at Western Recorders, Hollywood, June 13, 1968. Produced by David Crosby & Stephen Stills.
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