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So Far #3: 1973-1974 (Patreon)

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2020-05-10 04:01:00
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2023-04-30 18:21:53
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Welcome to SO FAR, a Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young podcast hosted by Tom Scharpling, AP Mike Lisk, Pat Byrne and Jason Gore! 

SO FAR is limited podcast in which we'll take a year by year look at all of the works of CSNY, together and apart.

In this episode, SLBG gives you a breakdown of the years 1973 and 1974.

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Thomas Minarchick Jr

The writer John Einerson posted this today. On this date, March 28, 1973, on his massive arena solo tour, Neil Young performed a recent composition entitled "Don't Be Denied" at the Coliseum in Phoenix, Arizona. The autobiographical song describes his move to Winnipeg in 1960, going to Earl Grey School, forming The Squires, and going to California and forming the Buffalo Springfield. The chorus "Don't be denied" is in reference to following your dreams. In October 1973 a recording of that performance appeared on Young's live album Time Fades Away that featured all new material recorded live throughout the tour. That tour was fraught with problems for Young. His voice gave out on him part way through and he resorted to calling on Graham Nash and David Crosby to provide additional vocal assistance. His backing band composed of The Stray Gators who had backed him on Harvest, mutinied, demanding a bigger slice of the take given how much money the arena tour was raking in. Drummer Kenny Buttrey, a longtime Nashville session player, demanded an astronomical salary of $100,000 to compensate for lost session work. Young freaked out. Although Young reluctantly acquiesced, Gator keyboard player Jack Nitzsche would later reflect that "Neil got so pissed off ... I don't think things ever recovered after that." Young also replaced drummer Buttrey because he came to believe that Buttrey was the wrong style for his needs. He was replaced by ex-Turtle and CSNY member Johnny Barbata. Also, Young came to loathe the distance the arena gigs created between himself and his audience. Audiences, too, were perplexed at so many new unheard songs in Young's live set as well as the loud and raucous sound Young presented on the tour, expecting more of the laidback folk/country stylings of his Harvest album. Longtime collaborator and former Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten had been set to join the Gators as a second guitarist. He arrived at Young's ranch for rehearsals however it became evident that he was in no condition to embark on the rigorous tour due to his heroin addiction. Young gave him an airplane ticket back to LA and $50. Whitten succumbed to a fatal combination of Valium and alcohol on the night following his dismissal casting a pall over the impending tour. In the midst of the tour, Young switched to a Gibson Flying V guitar. According to Young, the guitar "wouldn't stay in tune" and had other problems. Biographer Jimmy McDonough has characterized Young's performances on the instrument as "the worst guitar playing of his career." Neil Young commented on Time Fades Away in the original, unreleased liner notes for his 1977 triple-album compilation Decade: "Time Fades Away. No songs from this album are included here. It was recorded on my biggest tour ever, 65 [sic] shows in 90 days. Money hassles among everyone concerned ruined this tour and record for me but I released it anyway so you folks could see what could happen if you lose it for a while. I was becoming more interested in an audio verite approach than satisfying the public demands for a repetition of Harvest." In 1987, Young told an interviewer that Time Fades Away was "the worst record I ever made – but as a documentary of what was happening to me, it was a great record. I was onstage and I was playing all these songs that nobody had heard before, recording them, and I didn't have the right band. It was just an uncomfortable tour. I felt like a product, and I had this band of all-star musicians that couldn't even look at each other." Recorded 14th September 1974 at Wembley Stadium, London. Neil's contributions to the CSN&Y show that day were the only saving graces of a pretty awful set. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWUZm5_MsQI...

Thomas Minarchick Jr

This one is for Pat. I’m just sorry it’s a short 75 minute set and not a 3 1/2 hour set. https://youtu.be/u5Kdvi8rt8s