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| captain america and billy |
Posted - 23/07/2013 : 19:27:35
I was just recently scanning the Rolling Stone list of greatest stoner albums.What can anyone tell me about David Crosby's "If I Could Only Remember My Name"? |
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| captain america and billy |
Posted - 24/07/2013 : 16:54:50
I'm hugely impressed with albums artist roster.From what I've learned here,this one's DEFINITELY atop my next buy list!Thanks for the info! |
| John9 |
Posted - 24/07/2013 : 00:19:30
I endorse LK's observations 100%, Captain. What I especially love about the album are the wordless harmonies at which Crosby excelled...there are three such tracks. But a true gem is Orleans....based on an old French children's song that recounts the names of several medieval cathedrals:
Orleans, Beaugency, Notre Dame du Cléry, Vendôme, Vendôme.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1jo1gI0kJI |
| lemonade kid |
Posted - 23/07/2013 : 19:56:17
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Old hippies never die, they just ramble on.
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| lemonade kid |
Posted - 23/07/2013 : 19:52:17
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Originally posted by captain america and billy
I was just recently scanning the Rolling Stone list of greatest stoner albums.What can anyone tell me about David Crosby's "If I Could Only Remember My Name"?
One of my all time favorites and it is considered an audiophile treat though it predates true "audiophile" releases.
For me it stands as one of the greatest from the CSNY crew.
Laughing/What Are Their Names
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP59EzEhYMY&feature=player_embedded
Cowboy Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUxr4JJKDrM
If I Could Only Remember My Name is the debut solo album by David Crosby, released in February 1971 on Atlantic Records. One of four high-profile albums released by each member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their chart-topping Déjà Vu album, it peaked at #12 on the Billboard 200. It has been in print continuously since its initial release. The album gained new recognition in 2010 when it was listed second on the Vatican's "Top 10 Pop Albums of All Time" as published in the official newspaper of the Holy See, L'Osservatore Romano.
A large grouping of prominent musicians from the era appear on the record, including Nash, Young, Joni Mitchell, members of the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Santana. This ad-hoc ensemble was given the moniker of "The Great Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra" by longtime Crosby associate Paul Kantner; many of the same musicians appeared on the latter's Blows Against The Empire, recorded concurrently with Crosby's album. The album also features the only recorded appearance of David Crosby's reclusive brother, Ethan Crosby.
Although the album garnered its share of detractors, including Crosby's then-manager David Geffen and influential Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau and only a lukewarm review from Lester Bangs in Rolling Stone, it was a modest commercial success, peaking at #12 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart.Two singles were taken from the album, "Music Is Love", which was released in April 1971 and peaked at #95 on the Billboard Hot 100,[7] and "Orleans" which was released in July 1971. The album has gained in critical appreciation since its release.
The album was released on compact disc on October 25, 1990, having been digitally remastered from the original master tapes, using the equipment and techniques of the day, by original engineer Stephen Barncard. A double-disc reissue appeared on November 6, 2006, with an audio disc remastered in HDCD, including a bonus track "Kids and Dogs," and a second DVD Audio disc of the original album remixed for 5.1 digital Surround Sound. Reviews of the most recent reissue place the album in the same influential company as the more baroque works of Nick Drake and Fairport Convention.
Personnel is a who's who of period greats
David Crosby – guitars, vocals
Laura Allan - autoharp, vocal
Jack Casady - bass
David Freiberg - vocal
Jerry Garcia – guitars, pedal steel guitar, vocal
Mickey Hart – drums
Paul Kantner - vocal
Jorma Kaukonen - guitar
Bill Kreutzmann – drums, tambourine
Phil Lesh – bass, vocal
Joni Mitchell - vocals
Graham Nash – guitar, vocals
Gregg Rolie - piano
Michael Shrieve - drums
Grace Slick - vocal
Neil Young – guitars, bass, vibraphone, congas, vocals
Music is Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ5mgAqq8BM
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