#stephen stills

[its-the-mind]

Buffalo Springfield <3

[toxiclemonade]

Stephen Stills Pop 2 French interview, captioned fully in English! The music transitions and the performances are cut out.

Disclaimer: I don’t speak French, and I still wasn’t able to catch a few of the words/phrases Stephen says. If you can figure out some of what I missed… let me know.

Corrections: trout line, not traut. In the second section, he’s saying black men taught him “how to cork a boat and pull a pirogue.”

Below the cut are time stamps if you want to skip around the video.

0:52 -> starts talking about his relationship to black people

1:27 -> talks about CSN(Y)

1:48 -> talks about where he would like to tour with CSN(Y)

2:26 -> his relationship with Jimi Hendrix and other black musicians. I struggled the most with understanding what he was saying here.

3:51 -> why he likes to make music

You can watch the full interview on YouTube here:

[bonemachine1992]

Stephen Stills playing bass on 'A Song To A Seagull' at Sunset Sound (1967) by Sulfiati Magnuson

[madnessismydestiny]

Not gonna lie - I feel like rest of Sex Bob-omb in your coin killer au probably terrified.

Stephen already stressed enough in cannon but imagine pure stress, he goes through once he realised he was playing with a killer who could hurt him, Kim and Young Neil badly.

i always tought Stephen was more of an anxious person than stressed, but i guess those emotions can act a bit like the same. but yes, the band would definetly be absolutley terrefied knowing that there was someone that dangerous right in front of them this whole time, and it was someone they knew.

[laurelcanyonlady]

A smiley Stevie 😇

[rachaellikespink]

But Crosby was also in the middle of something else. Stephen Stills had been down in the Grove, stinging from the conflicts within his own band, Buffalo Springfield, which he'd leave behind within a year. Late nights on the boat, they'd write together. Crosby also knew that Graham Nash, the hippie-est of the post-Beatles bunch he'd met when the Byrds toured England, was leaning away from his pop group the Hollies and toward something new. Later, when Graham met Joni at Crosby's suggestion while both were on tour in Ottawa in 1968, Mitchell became another reason Nash needed to relocate to L.A. And Neil Young, Joni's old friend from the Canadian hootenanny scene, was hanging around, too. Though he and Stills had clashed in Springfield, Joni's familiar face might eventually have helped bring him back into the circle and expand the CS&N trio to a foursome--acronymically, CSNY, one of the most successful supergroups in rock.

Traveling on the Path of Joni Mitchell, Ann Powers (2024)

[julio-viernes]

Hablemos de "Stephen Stills 2", el segundo LP de estudio del fundador de Buffalo Springfield y Crosby, Stills & Nash, un estupendo disco de principio a fin. A veces parece que estemos perdidos en medio de un maremágnum de nombres raros, artistas de culto o ignotos, y no prestamos atención a discos más estándar, "normales" o regulares como éste. Craso error, la rareza puede ser algo o no ser absolutamente nada. Querer tener una colección de discos "raros" es una idea necia, un elitismo tonto, a no ser que sea con fines especulativos, como una inversión (una razón miserable, pero al menos una razón).

Me admira la variedad y riqueza contenidas en "SS2". Se van sucediendo las canciones y hay constantes contrastes. Todas ellas como mínimo están bien. En el saco hay un poco de todo, temas acústicos country- folk ("Know You Got to Run", "Singin´ Call"); otros más grandiosos y elaborados ("Open Secret"); rock and roll desenfadado ("Relaxing Town", "Marianne"); jazz rock ("Ecology Song") y el imprescindible toque latino que tanto gustaba a Stills, y sabe pasar con naturalidad y brillantez de una cosa a otra.

En el plantel de músicos que acompañaron a Stills en este LP, Nils Lofgren, Eric Clapton, Jerry Garcia, David Crosby, Billy Preston, Dr. John, Fred Neil, Calvin “Fuzzy” Samuels, Dallas Taylor y Rocky Dijon, además de The Memphis Horns.

Está muy bien recuperar nombres remotos, recónditos, pero, por favor, no se olviden de discos como este: bueno, bonito y barato.

[an-album-cover-a-day]

Stephen Stills, Manassas