many do, and that's OK....i think it is my own fault for how i feel, like i said, i doubt anything would have met my expectations.
i mean i agree is not earth shattering or even close to the level of either of their best material. i was just happy they played together and released it
Surely he receives royalty payments from the many classic albums he was involved in? Byrds, CS&N etc etc...
Byrds have a very bad deal, McGuinn probably gets smaller royalty checks than Crosby. Crosby doesn't have the evergreen CSN/Y publishing, or non royalty/touring income like the others. Liver upkeep is thousands per month, like dialysis. Phil Collins(!!) paid for the transplant because he was a fan. Crosby's boat probably has upkeep as well, and I'm not sure he ever sold that.
Don't forget the alternate version of "Carry On" from Replay, with a guitar solo and a cappella coda instead of the segue into "Questions." I cut the two versions together, splicing the last "love is coming to us all" from the Replay version with the one just before "Questions" comes in on the album version.
Wow. First time hearing this and I absolutely love it. Prefer it to the album version. That lead guitar is smoking and the vocal ending is a more natural and powerful conclusion to the song than segueing into Questions, IMHO. I hope this rare version is included in the Deja Vu 50th.
One more important lesson: own your masters! As a DIY artist, I own my own publishing, masters and performance rights. My royalties from streaming services are not much, but they're constant: if I earn x as a songwriter, I earn 7x as a label (the owner of masters). Now, multiply that with CSN, CSNY, Byrds classic records...
In the unlikely event that this reissue ever happens adding in full versions of a 4 Way Street concert or two would give it some extra substance. Neil had an expanded version of these shows on his ready to go Archives poll at the start of the year.
'replay' also has a version of 'i give, you give blind' without the strings. not nearly as strikingly different as the version of 'carry on'. i have only seen the austrailian CD of 'replay' (as far as i know the only CD that was ever released of this) once and i bought it. i have never even seen it again.
I thought about that but I wanted to remain true to the original album. I remember hearing that for the first time. It was so jarring and sounded like a bad edit. It took a few years to ascertain both codas were tacked on. Questions is the better choice by far. I AM going to assemble a version with your splice. Can’t have too much of a good thing.
I agree that version of the Lee Shore is fantastic! If you love that version, I don't see what the complaint is about when the vocals were recorded? Without the recording info from the booklet, it would never even have occurred to me that the vocals weren't laid down during the original session - they sound spot on to me.
Yes - love that take of Lee Shore, one of my all-time favorite CSNY tracks - a beautiful Crosby song so wonderfully executed, and a real “lost” gem! Stills’ moody understated lead work really makes it for me. Stills’ guitar overdubs are differently mixed on the “Studio Archives” mentioned above, for an equally tasty mux. Oh, and isn’t this the take where Neil picks up Stills’ brand new D-45 and “assumes full responsibility” for any scratches? (Altho I’m not sure what “full responsibility” would actually mean.)
There are beautiful sounding gold CDs of the 1969 and 1977 CSN albums. All of Neil’s early albums have been released in great sounding CDs as part of his Archives series. Déjà Vu is the key album from CSNY’s peak that has never had a proper CD reissue, although I’d love to see someone take a shot at Stephen Stills, Stephen Stills 2, and Manassas. I would be all over a nice reissue of Déjà Vu, preferably with an extra CD or two of outtakes from the sessions.