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Henry Diltz (photographer) : After Deja Vu, Crosby, Stills and Nash went on a bit of a hiatus and Stephen invited me to join him in Colorado. Gold Hill was way up in the Colorado mountains. While we were there Stephen received word that Jimi Hendrix had passed away, so everybody was very sad. We sat up the whole night talking about it, telling stories and remembering him. When dawn came up the next morning it had snowed overnight and everything was blanketed in white. I grabbed my camera and Stephen grabbed his guitar. We ran outside and I started taking pictures of him sitting on a chair in the middle of the snow. Some time later this was chosen for his first album cover.
(Source : Mojo, 2008)
Stephen Stills (interview with Rolling Stone magazine) : I'm quite satisfied with it, probably more satisfied than with anything I've ever done. Love the One You're With came from a party with Billy Preston and I asked him if I could pinch this line he had written for a song, and he said, "Sure," so I pinched it and wrote a song. My favourite part is the steel drums. I'd played them before a little but I just kept diddling around till I found the right notes.
Do For the Others, well, I wanted a folk song for the album. Just a very simple song. Matter of fact, that's the original mix from England. After I had done the whole thing with over dubbing autoharps and stuff, we kept the original.
On Church, there's five voices including mine. As it originally came out, it was something I really believed in. That's what you sing about in church. I've certainly spent my time in church, but I'm not particularly religious. I believe in religion as an order form, but I don't think you could call me an agnostic. Mother nature plays the best music and makes the best paintings, it's certainly more powerful than anything we got yet. Could just be that the body is the Temple of the Lord.
Old Times Good Times, with Jimi Hendrix. Just play your axe.
Sit Yourself Down was the last song written. That was when I was working with Rita (Coolidge). I cut that at Wally Heider's. To A Flame was cut here in England.
Black Queen – I was drunk. I just walked into the studio and did it. I mean before that Eric and I have played Tequila for about an hour and a half, and then all of a sudden he was gone. He disappeared. Right? Because I realized that if he didn't go he was gonna pass out in the studio, so he got someone to drive him home while he was still able to reach the car. "Well I guesh I will go shing Black Queen", and I stumbled right into the studio and that's what came out. I had been out to Eric's house the night before listening to Blind Willie Johnson records, and so the vocal quality is like argggghhh. You know, it sounds like a saw. It hurts physically, it hurts my throat to sing like that, but it sure does sound neat.
Cherokee is in 7/4 and 4/4 and those horns are played by one guy, all played by Sidney George. All of those horns.
We Are Not Helpless is not an answer or put-down to Neil's Helpless. The line "We Are Not Helpless/We are Men" comes from Failsafe, the book.
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(Source : Mojo, 2008)
Stephen Stills (interview with Rolling Stone magazine) : I'm quite satisfied with it, probably more satisfied than with anything I've ever done. Love the One You're With came from a party with Billy Preston and I asked him if I could pinch this line he had written for a song, and he said, "Sure," so I pinched it and wrote a song. My favourite part is the steel drums. I'd played them before a little but I just kept diddling around till I found the right notes.
Do For the Others, well, I wanted a folk song for the album. Just a very simple song. Matter of fact, that's the original mix from England. After I had done the whole thing with over dubbing autoharps and stuff, we kept the original.
On Church, there's five voices including mine. As it originally came out, it was something I really believed in. That's what you sing about in church. I've certainly spent my time in church, but I'm not particularly religious. I believe in religion as an order form, but I don't think you could call me an agnostic. Mother nature plays the best music and makes the best paintings, it's certainly more powerful than anything we got yet. Could just be that the body is the Temple of the Lord.
Old Times Good Times, with Jimi Hendrix. Just play your axe.
Sit Yourself Down was the last song written. That was when I was working with Rita (Coolidge). I cut that at Wally Heider's. To A Flame was cut here in England.
Black Queen – I was drunk. I just walked into the studio and did it. I mean before that Eric and I have played Tequila for about an hour and a half, and then all of a sudden he was gone. He disappeared. Right? Because I realized that if he didn't go he was gonna pass out in the studio, so he got someone to drive him home while he was still able to reach the car. "Well I guesh I will go shing Black Queen", and I stumbled right into the studio and that's what came out. I had been out to Eric's house the night before listening to Blind Willie Johnson records, and so the vocal quality is like argggghhh. You know, it sounds like a saw. It hurts physically, it hurts my throat to sing like that, but it sure does sound neat.
Cherokee is in 7/4 and 4/4 and those horns are played by one guy, all played by Sidney George. All of those horns.
We Are Not Helpless is not an answer or put-down to Neil's Helpless. The line "We Are Not Helpless/We are Men" comes from Failsafe, the book.