“I CAN TELL how much we loved each other, how much we loved the music and spontaneity,” Graham Nash says of the moment on the CSNY album, Live At Fillmore East, 1969, when he, David Crosby and Stephen Stills break into a fit of shouts and giggles amid their cut-glass madrigal harmonies in Helplessly Hoping. “We’re laughing because somebody hit a note that was fabulous and unexpected.”
Stills and Neil Young took the lead on producing those recordings from CSNY’s two early-prime-time nights at Bill Graham’s New York theatre in September, 1969. “They had the tapes, they were thousands of miles away from me,” Nash explains. “It was fine because what I was hearing back was great.” Historically, however, Nash has been the most active member in exploring and collating…
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