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Post by Mel B on Jan 21, 2023 4:27:04 GMT
Backstage to stage footage0:01:14 Love the One You're With
0:07:30 Wooden Ships
0:15:25 Immigration Man
0:20:10 Helpless (with Joni Mitchell)
0:24:40 Military Madness
0:28:30 Johnny's Garden
0:33:15 Traces
0:36:15 Almost Cut My Hair
0:44:35 Teach Your Children
0:48:20 Only Love Can Break Your Heart (incomplete)
0:49:50 The Lee Shore
0:56:00 Time After Time
1:00:20 It's All Right
1:03:20 Another Sleep Song
1:09:25 Hawaiian Sunrise
1:13:15 Star of Bethlehem
1:17:10 Love Art Blues
1:21:30 Old Man (with Joni)
1:27:00 Change Partners
1:30:25 David mildly scolds crowd for shouting over the acoustic songs
1:31:00 Blackbird
1:34:20 Stephen is frustrated with the shouters
1:34:50 Myth of Sisyphus
1:39:00 Word Game
1:45:55 Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (with Joni)
1:56:40 Déjà Vu
2:03:55 First Things First
2:08:55 Don't Be Denied
2:26:40 Pre Road Downs
2:31:25 Carry On (extended jam)
2:45:50 Ohio (Encore)
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Post by Mel B on Jan 21, 2023 4:50:00 GMT
In the Summer of 1974, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, under the tour direction of rock impresario Bill Graham, played 24 shows in stadiums throughout the US and Canada, and a 25th concert at Wembley Stadium in London.
Though Wembley was the final show, and one might then expect the band to be road-tested and ready, this performance looks like a tour opener, or even an impromptu set. A self-indulgently long impromptu set. The band seems unrehearsed and disorganized, often trying the crowd's patience between songs with chatter amongst themselves and taking forever to tune, something name bands avoid today by traveling with multiple instruments and guitar techs. There are indications they didn't even bother to work out a song list. At one point, Nash apologized to the ever-more surly crowd by saying - and he actually thought it would help - Sorry, we're just trying to figure out what to play next.
Whether anyone raised the question of how well acoustic music might play in a stadium is uncertain, but the difficulty of singing the harmonies the band was known for in a noisy outdoor venue attended by tens of thousands often restless beer-fueled fans was apparently not considered, or if it had been it likely went no further than a vague idealized memory of Woodstock.
The electric sets in the movie, which bookend an acoustic middle section, sound more more sonically agreeable than the acoustically-accompanied and often off-key multi-part vocals. When Joni Mitchell joins the boys for "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," not only is she shrill, but it is apparent that she is unsure of the words.
Their earnestness couldn't always pull them through. It was both right and totally inappropriate that they should finish as an encore with "Ohio." "Tin soldiers and Nixon coming." Well, Nixon's gone now, in almost every sense. But that song was emphatically about a particular era - about McGovern, and student politicking, and fierce idealism - and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young are firmly of that era ... (Michael Watts and Steve Lake, "CSNY - Journey Through The Past" Melody Maker, September 21, 1974)
The earnestness is well-evident here, from Stills at times but from Nash especially, who often appears as if he is either working really hard or is deeply lost in the music. That he is obviously neither I found irritating, like a hard-seller who just won't turn it off.
Stephen Stills going Pete Townshend at Wembley
So, why post it? Why did I bother sitting through it and marking the time? Because it is CSNY, all four playing live and together, something they would not do again until 1991 after the sudden death of Bill Graham. Young, in his mutton chop sideburns and that look in his eyes that goes from vacant to threatening, performed his songs well enough for the circumstances. Stills' electric playing wakes things up when he plugs in, even if it becomes and alarm bell that won't turn off. These were important pop musicians at the time, influential, not untalented, and still promising. This is an interesting enough nostalgia piece to be worthwhile in 2023 even if, as Melody Maker hinted, not enough time had passed by 1974 to allow them to be much more than stale.
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Post by sepiatone on Jan 21, 2023 18:13:49 GMT
CS&N I'd have loved to have seen live. Never got the opportunity though. But with YOUNG? I'd have to pass. He only did one song on his own I could stomach. "Cinnamon Girl". And I never thought he was a good addition to the trio.
Sepiatone
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