Crosby, Casady & Faryar - Guinnevere (1968) [demo]
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- čas přidán 19. 11. 2021
- From the Atlantic Records Box Set "CSN" (7 82319-2)
Acoustic Guitar/Vocals/Songwriter: David Crosby
Bass Guitar : Jack Casady
Bouzouki: Cyrus Faryar
Engineer: Bill Halverson
Mixed by: Stephen Barncard
Recorded at United Studio B, Hollywood, June 26th, 1968
"Guinnevere" painting by: Shannon Lee
David Crosby: When all my friends were listening to Elvis and 1950s rock 'n' roll, I was listening to Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan and West Coast jazz. Later I got involved with the folk music scene. After getting kicked out of the Byrds I didn't have a plan, but I went back to my roots, and "Guinnevere" is a combination of these two influences. This was a demo I cut on borrowed studio time, hoping to land another record contract. Cyrus Faryar from the Modern Folk Quartet played bouzouki; Jack Casady's bass still gives me chills, it's like another voice. People ask, 'Who was Guinnevere?' Songs are seldom about one person. It's a love song, an answer to some other love songs, and part of a conversation.
I love this version of "Guinnevere" because of the beauty that Jack Casady and Cyrus Faryar brought to it. That was delicious. I thought I was making a record at the time, but I didn't know for whom. I just got in the studio. I would have put the track on the first CSN album just as it is, but Stephen and Graham wanted me to try the song over again so they could add their own things to it. But Jack was such a brilliant and adventuresome player - he had incredible tone and sound, and played like no one else. A towering monster of a musician. - Hudba
Jack Casady!
This is my favorite David Crosby song. Very nice early version.
Rest in peace, Croz.
my favorite song , as well
just perfect
RIP BROTHER
Whoa! That is some bass, alright. Casady is amazing. I like the spare simplicity of this take, too - not overproduced.
I love the description of Jacks playing by David. I know he will be missed by many. I’m already missing him. Rest easy David. ✌🏼♥️🎼
yay! thats my brother Cyrus on the Bouzouki and Lady Renais, his beautiful wife, playing tabla...Beautiful song; thanks to all for creating this..and posting it now. Aloha and Mahalo!
Awesome! Thanks, I hope y’all are doing well down there in Hawaii. I tried to find a picture of him playing the bouzouki, but couldn’t…. glad I found the one of him and his wife.
@@zem1272 Aloha Zach, Yes we are all doing well thank you. I just sent him the song, first time Ive heard it. Please post anything else you may find with him in it. Always wonderful to hear. Thanksgiving Blessings ongoing, Maile
Wow. Just wow. Love this 🎉
I'm blown away.
Crosby is my favorite from CSN, his vocals are so amazing. Really i think he is right now next to my uncle on the heaven.
Rockin' 1968.
Simply beautiful. We shall be free…
I love this even more than the CS&N album version 💗
David s songs give me peace 🕊️❤
Wonderful version of this outstanding song. Thanks, Croz. R.I.P.
Wow. Gorgeous version. I love it.
Best bass line ever written, or bestest bass line ever written?
Great version
wow !!!!!!
Beautiful song!💞
Wow, that was absolutely stunning.
Agreed. This is an absolute gem. Maybe as good as the CSN version.
Incredible❣️❣️❣️
Absolutely beautiful ❤️
2:28 This moment
Does anyone know if Jack Wilce played on this version but is uncredited? I listened to intv in which he claimed to have been on this specific version, having previously taught Croz the chords to this mesmerizing song.
I read that this is the version that David wanted to include on the first CSN album but Graham and Stills wanted to contribute their parts. Back then there were no ego conflicts or overuse of coke, so it was rarely a problem for them to come to an agreement on things like collaboration. Most of the added instrumentals and arrangements on the first album's songs were done by Stills and again, there were no conflicts with that. Things changed considerably when they set out to record their second album. The band’s cocaine use didn’t begin to interfere with the music until CSNY’s Déjà Vu. Their drug intake would eventually coarsen their vocal cords and distort the texture of their harmonies. As Nash said. “By the time we got to Déjà Vu and we’d snorted eighty pounds of cocaine, things were a little different.”
great input thank you. But it should be noted that they were still doing a lot of coke prior to the first albums release. Before Nash even entered the fold, a Crosby Stills number was playing on the radio and they were referred to by the DJ as “The Frozen Noses” also, when the trio were trying to find a management home, they went and auditioned for Apple Records, of Beatles fame, and George Harrison and another exec auditioned them and declined them and the rumor is that Paul McCartney had stopped by and was a little off-put by their amount of cocaine use, as it wasn’t anywhere near as prevalent yet in the UK. Just some anecdotes for ya ✌🏼