tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13255441.post5316020159206549495..comments2023-05-16T11:58:35.572+01:00Comments on Sid Smith's Postcards From The Yellow Room: Stephen Stills Just Roll TapeSid Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902574081691402376noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13255441.post-37204659846198165862007-08-16T16:28:00.000+01:002007-08-16T16:28:00.000+01:00I've long been a great admirer of Steve Stills and...I've long been a great admirer of Steve Stills and will certainly go searching for this album. I'm not so sure whether it was his interpretation of Donovan's 'Season Of the Witch' ('Supersession' album) or the gorgeous beauty (and timelessness!)of 'Suite: Judy Blues Eyes', that hooked me. Recently I've found the CDs 'Stephen Stills' and 'Stephen Stills 2' and reminded of his skills as a song writer, although admittedly some of those lyrics are stuck in the summer of love. Didn't the media in the early 70's laud Stills as one of the rock guitar masters? Only yesterday I was marvelling at his acoustic work when interpreting Robert Johnson's (composer according to Clapton, arranger according to the Roots'N'blues Robert Johnson compilation???) 'Crossroads', avoiding by a mile the Clapton arrangement that every other rock musicians seemed to base their versions on. Then because of the superstardom and the excesses that seem to come to most West Coast bands, those musical skills were quickly forgotten. That wasn't helped by a love/hate relationship between Stills and Young, which paralleled that between Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce.<BR/><BR/>I must comment about your recent reviews appearing to have some loose connectivity - deliberate or accidental? Here you mention 'Wooden Ships' - perhaps a song more associated with Dave Crosby and Jefferson Airplane - a tune again reflecting a hippy ethos, but seemingly pessimism in its words about a post-apocalyptic world. The live album by Jefferson Airplane (so the reference to 'Volunteers' which of course had 'Wooden Ships').The earlier review of the the EMI psychedelic sampler, which provoked my response which included brief reference to the Hollies 'Evolution' LP, the album with which Graham Nash apparently try to direct fellow Mancunians in a particular area of music. De Ja Vu of sorts?<BR/><BR/>Finally: of course everybody knows that Steve Stills auditioned for a part in the Monkees, and I can only presume because of a missing tooth, Mike Nesmith got it instead.djaitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15869668467457001425noreply@blogger.com