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Crosby Stills & Nash scrap album and leave label
Posted by uncletupelo on 12 January 2011 - 9:13pm.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jan/12/crosby-stills-nash I thought Rubin had more musical sense than to work with the likes of Kid Rock especially to the detriment of CSN. An opportunity missed.
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A chance missed indeed
I would have liked to hear what Rick Rubin could have done with CSN, given his track record. Too bad he wasn't around to produce the Moon Sausage sessions.
Allegedly
Rubin liked the moon sausage album ...
A Shame
I've been waiting for this for this album for a while, saw a really nice set from them at Glastonbury 2009 where they mentioned it and did a harmony-laden cover of Ruby Tuesday.
lady of the north country?
guess she's all grown up now
Perhaps
they could do that one as a medley with Lay Girl Lay?
Rick Rubin isn't a wizard...
He's only as good as the material he's got to work with, and I'm not convinced that CSN are still capable of writing songs that rise above the risible. Their last few efforts have most definitely been of the "pants" variety.
It was going to be a covers album
So that's not really an issue. But two years to bang out a dozen acoustic versions of other people's songs? That's going it some even by their work rate.
Ahhh, I didn't realize it was going to be all covers...
Yes... two years does seem rather excessive. Whatever happened to bands recording an album in just over a day's studio time, as was the case with the first Led Zeppelin album?
Rick Rubin, a legend in his own lunchtime?
He's made some admittedly fine albums with Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys, Black Crowes, RATM, AC/DC and Slayer.
But there is an awful lot of generic thrash and mediocre rock offerings elsewhere in his canon.
And let's not forget those career-terminating albums by Mick Jagger and Donovan.
And does the world really need that many Johnny Cash records?
Isn't part of the problem
Isn't part of the problem the fact that Stephen Stills is stone deaf these days?
Stills certainly sounded
like he was singing from a different hymn sheet to the other two when CSN played Australia last year.
Sad
I saw him on Later a couple of years ago. Voice, quite simply, shot to fuck. He sounded pretty shaky when speaking too. The kindest thing would be not to let him near a microphone now.
CSN Unplugged?