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Crosby Stills Nash And Young make their UK debut at The Royal Albert Hall, London, England, UK, Europe, in front of an audience that includes Paul McCartney of The Beatles, Donovan, Marsha Hunt and Julie Felix.Full article:
Stephen Stills : We felt somehow as if we were on trial, as if they’d come to judge us rather than our music.
We got criticised for spending a long time tuning up, which is partly justified because I like to tune up while I’m playing a little bit of music, so that it doesn’t sound unpleasant. But when Neil gets nervous, he plays very hard and puts his guitar out of tune and then has to tune it back again.
Richard Green (reviewer, NME) : The stage looked like a junior Cape Kennedy with all sorts of projections, booms and 1,250 watts worth of equipment. The packed hall was crowded with many celebrities present, and backstage everyone was playing it easy.
Ian Middleton (reviewer, Record Mirror) : The evening started acoustically with David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash on What Have You Got To Lose, with Stills taking the lead vocal. What a pleasant change not to be deafened.
Neil Young joined them on the third number, Can You Feel It Now, on which he took lead.
Derek Jewell (reviewer, Sunday Times) : For one and a quarter hours they played what Dave Crosby called 'wooden acoustic music' - compositions exquisite in their easy bluesy rhythms, redolent of folk music's nostalgia, but intricately melodic and subtly constructed. Each player is a master of the acoustic guitar, and the group's light-toned close-harmony singing is beautiful to hear. It has all the control and skills of traditional close-harmony groups from way back, while sounding totally modern.
Later in the evening, CSNAndY changed to electric guitars, switching style from what it's convenient to call country rock to the tough acid rock whose blow-torch player is the conventional idea of late-sixties pop. In this last hour, with the aid of a drummer (Dallas Taylor) and bass guitarist (Greg Reeves), they sacrificed the blessed individuality which their other style bestows. They played, though, with marvellous skill and an infectious enjoyment which seemed to hint at a send-up.
Ian Middleton (reviewer, Record Mirror) : Outstanding was a new song by Neil Young with Nash at the organ, titled The Loner. The last number, Down By The River, was the heaviest. Lasting over twenty minutes, it built to a frenzy, dropped down and built again.
The only thing to mar the event was the time they take to tune their guitars, yet that’s only a minor quibble about a great evening.
Richard Green (reviewer, NME) : At the end, almost half the audience was on its feet yelling for more and they got an acoustic encore – Find The Cost Of Freedom – which went down a storm. An outstanding concert by an extremely talented group.
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We got criticised for spending a long time tuning up, which is partly justified because I like to tune up while I’m playing a little bit of music, so that it doesn’t sound unpleasant. But when Neil gets nervous, he plays very hard and puts his guitar out of tune and then has to tune it back again.
Richard Green (reviewer, NME) : The stage looked like a junior Cape Kennedy with all sorts of projections, booms and 1,250 watts worth of equipment. The packed hall was crowded with many celebrities present, and backstage everyone was playing it easy.
Ian Middleton (reviewer, Record Mirror) : The evening started acoustically with David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash on What Have You Got To Lose, with Stills taking the lead vocal. What a pleasant change not to be deafened.
Neil Young joined them on the third number, Can You Feel It Now, on which he took lead.
Derek Jewell (reviewer, Sunday Times) : For one and a quarter hours they played what Dave Crosby called 'wooden acoustic music' - compositions exquisite in their easy bluesy rhythms, redolent of folk music's nostalgia, but intricately melodic and subtly constructed. Each player is a master of the acoustic guitar, and the group's light-toned close-harmony singing is beautiful to hear. It has all the control and skills of traditional close-harmony groups from way back, while sounding totally modern.
Later in the evening, CSNAndY changed to electric guitars, switching style from what it's convenient to call country rock to the tough acid rock whose blow-torch player is the conventional idea of late-sixties pop. In this last hour, with the aid of a drummer (Dallas Taylor) and bass guitarist (Greg Reeves), they sacrificed the blessed individuality which their other style bestows. They played, though, with marvellous skill and an infectious enjoyment which seemed to hint at a send-up.
Ian Middleton (reviewer, Record Mirror) : Outstanding was a new song by Neil Young with Nash at the organ, titled The Loner. The last number, Down By The River, was the heaviest. Lasting over twenty minutes, it built to a frenzy, dropped down and built again.
The only thing to mar the event was the time they take to tune their guitars, yet that’s only a minor quibble about a great evening.
Richard Green (reviewer, NME) : At the end, almost half the audience was on its feet yelling for more and they got an acoustic encore – Find The Cost Of Freedom – which went down a storm. An outstanding concert by an extremely talented group.