From: owner-50s60s70s-digest@smoe.org (50s60s70s-digest) To: 50s60s70s-digest@smoe.org Subject: 50s60s70s-digest V1 #4 Reply-To: 50s60s70s@smoe.org Sender: owner-50s60s70s-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-50s60s70s-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk 50s60s70s-digest Saturday, January 19 2002 Volume 01 : Number 004 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe from this digest, send an email to * 50s60s70s-digest-request@smoe.org with ONLY the word * unsubscribe in the BODY of the email * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: 50s60s70s-digest V1 #xxx or the like gives fellow list readers * no clue as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- R&R: Crosby, Still, Nash and Young!! ["Pablo" ] Re: R&R: Crosby, Still, Nash and Young!! [Honoku@aol.com] R&R: Re: List configuration. [Rongrittz@aol.com] Re: R&R: Crosby, Still, Nash and Young!! [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: R&R: Hey Hey We're The Monkees [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: R&R: Crosby, Still, Nash and Young!! [CaptainZen@aol.com] Re: R&R: Hey Hey We're The Monkees ["Paul Castle" ] R&R: Boyce & Hart [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re:R&R: Desperately Seeking Martin [ABershaw@aol.com] Re: R&R: Desperately Seeking Martin [Honoku@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:18:16 -0500 From: "Pablo" Subject: R&R: Crosby, Still, Nash and Young!! I probably changing the main subject.. but I'll go ahead anyway... I'm listening a live album of David Crosby... and I was wondering if someone could tell me if he or the whole gang have recorded again together... or if some of them have recorded solo again... I know Neil Young is still kicking around... but I guess the others have been out of the spotlight a long time ago... I ask because I here in southamerica I don't get too much news about old timers like them. I'd appreciate some feedback.. thanx.. Pablo a fan of folk, blues and rock&roll from Ecuador ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 07:20:57 EST From: Honoku@aol.com Subject: Re: R&R: Crosby, Still, Nash and Young!! In a message dated 1/18/2002 2:14:49 AM Eastern Standard Time, ecuatraveler@hotmail.com writes: > I'm listening a live album of David Crosby... and I was wondering if someone > could tell me if he or the whole gang have recorded again together... crosby made a couple of albums with his son and another guy under the name "CPR" i have a live one and a studio one. i guess i bought the second one, the live one, hoping it would be better then the first. i don't enjoy either of them. i loved crosby's first solo album "if only i could remember my name" as well or better as anything else he did, in any of his groups, this made "CPR" all the more disappointing both albums are kind of flat. there was a crosby/nash live album a few years back called "another stoney evening", and it was/is really very enjoyable. the last great thing i heard from stills was a solo live album, called "stills alone" kind of a rare cd, but very good. stills has a son who made a promising album about 7/8 years or so ago, but i haven't heard anything new from chris stills in a while either. and Neil is Neil, not showing much rust. steve ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 08:02:42 EST From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: R&R: Re: List configuration. << I am not sure how the other smoe.org lists you are on are configured, but this list is configured so that if you are on what we call "loose mail", when you hit "reply" your reply will be sent to the author of the post you are replying to, NOT the list. To reply to the list you either have to hit "reply-all" or type in 50s60s70s@smoe.org in the To: thing-a-ma-bob. >> Mike . . . I know it's your list and you can set it up any way you want, but it sure seems backwards to me. As a "discussion list," it's MORE likely that something someone writes will be of interest to the general list, rather than just the person who sent the original post. If it was me (which it ain't, but I do co-manage a smoe list myself), I'd set the default so that replies (whether to loose mail or digest) go to the list, but with a very public requirement that mail which SHOULD be private should be re-addressed to the author, NOT the whole list. To me, bigger concerns are when people don't change the SUBJECT line when responding to a Digest, or when people quote entire previous posts in their one-line replies, which I know has been a big problem on the Mad-Mission List. Hopefully that won't become a problem here. But until rampant "public posts which should really be private" becomes a problem, I'd change it back and see what happens. Just my opinion . . . now back to your regularly scheduled programming. RG, never a big Elvis fan . . . but when we start talking about the Monkees, I'll be all over it . . . ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 08:17:01 EST From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: R&R: Crosby, Still, Nash and Young!! <> Hi Pablo, and nice to meet you! CSNY put out a CD about 2 years or so ago called "Looking Forward". It was simply awful. There is one good tune on there called "Stand & Be Counted". Unfortunately, that's the one I heard on the radio and thought the whole record would be as good. Boy was I wrong, it's a real stinker, especially when you hear Deja Vu or CSN and know what these guys are/were capable of. Stills voice is shot, he now has about a 3-note range. Nash never was much of a writer, and his songs here are so banal even Celine Dion wouldn't want them. Crosby's songs are uneven, and Neil, who remains at the top of his game in my opinion, gives the project a couple of his discards. He originally delayed the release of the record, and you can see why. Seems to me that they wanted a new piece of product on the streets when they started their 2000 tour. They should have called it "Looking Forward (to positive cash flow)" :~) Anyway, enough negative. Crosby's OTHER band, CPR, is smokin'. You should check it out. Also his solo record "If Only I Could Remember My Name" is incredible and features a who's who of LA talent circa the early 70's. Not to be missed. Bob, who's "looking forward" to Bob Dylan and John Hiatt shows in the next couple weeks! NP: Ani DiFranco, "Anticipate" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 08:51:54 EST From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: R&R: Hey Hey We're The Monkees <> When I upgraded to a couple of the Rhino re-releases of those first couple of Monkees records, it really validated that I had pretty good taste even way back when! Simply state-of-the-art pop music...of course, most of the best songs were Boyce & Hart, Diamond and Carole King songs, but some of the Monkees own compositions could hold their ground as well. Was delighted to see "I'm A Believer" used so prominently in Shrek. Anyway, Monkees rule! I still have to upgrade Headquarters & Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, and I don't think I'll check out any of their later stuff. Bob, who even remembered to change the subject header! ;~) NP: Ani DiFranco, "When Doves Cry" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:44:55 EST From: CaptainZen@aol.com Subject: Re: R&R: Crosby, Still, Nash and Young!! I don't have any of CPR's records, but I saw them live last summer, and it was a WONDERFUL experience. They even did a song or two from David's first solo album (specifically, I recall a stunning performance of "Tamalpais High"). Yes, the "Looking Forward" album was basically a stinker, but I hear that the live shows on the CSNY2K tour were awesome! The good news is that CSNY are going out on tour again this year. I definitely plan on catching a show or two this time around. - -Scott ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 19:54:44 -0000 From: "Paul Castle" Subject: Re: R&R: Hey Hey We're The Monkees Bob wrote: >most of the best songs were Boyce & Hart, Diamond and Carole King songs And John Stewart (who I saw a few years ago as guest of Nanci Griffith here in London) wrote 'Daydream Believer'. Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart (Last Train to Clarksville) apparently wrote more than 300 songs and sold more than 42 million records. I found a book about Tommy Boyce in the Westminster Music Library in London a while back. The story I remember the most was about the first song he wrote ('Be My Guest' - at 15, I think) - and pitching it to Fats Domino - Fats wanted to cover the song, his management told the youngster, but they wanted 50% of the publishing rights with Fats' name as co-writer on the label. Tommy didn't know what to do, so he asked his father for some advice - who, as it turned out, sagely advised that "50% of something is better than 100% of nothing" - so Antione Domino and John Marascalco also appear on the writing credits along with Tommy Boyce. Looks like he topped himself back in 1994 - sad! All the best Paul ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:01:02 EST From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: R&R: Boyce & Hart <> Remember their hit "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight"? Gawd, what a great pop song! Were Boyce & Hart part of the Brill Building writers? I can't recall as I've read that about them, but they certainly fit the pattern. Bob ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 16:58:16 EST From: ABershaw@aol.com Subject: Re:R&R: Desperately Seeking Martin Rockin Ron D said: << Arthur Wood over in our Mother Country was kind enough to send me the Electra re-release of the Fred Neil and Vince Martin recording, "Tear Down The Walls." >> I love this LP and my vinyl copy is plum worn out. I was curious where I can pick up a CD copy of this reissue. I did a search on Amazon & CDNOW but came up empty. Is it only available in the UK? Any advice? Alan NP: Fairport Convention: What We Did On Our Holidays ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 23:04:38 EST From: Honoku@aol.com Subject: Re: R&R: Desperately Seeking Martin In a message dated 1/18/2002 4:59:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, ABershaw@aol.com writes: > I love this LP and my vinyl copy is plum worn out. I was curious where I can > > pick up a CD copy of this reissue. I did a search on Amazon & CDNOW but > came > up empty. Is it only available in the UK? Any advice? > > $ 12.95 @ www.collectorschoicemusic.com steve ------------------------------ End of 50s60s70s-digest V1 #4 *****************************