Posted in Dumbarton, Shipping at 12:00 on 2 July 2023
A surprising exhibit at the Dumbarton arm of the Scottish Maritime Museum was a model of a prototype helicopter:-
The blurb below explains:-
There were also some models of wooden ships (that could be a cue for a Crosby, Stills and Nash song):-
Plus another ship model, this one of HMS Dumbarton Castle:-
Posted in 1960s, Events dear boy. Events, Friday On My Mind, Music at 12:00 on 27 January 2023
Last week, David Crosby of The Byrds, Crosby Stills and Nash, and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young plus various solo offerings died.
Another to add to the long list of 60s and 70s rock greats who have left us recently.
Crosby first came to attention in the UK as a member of US group The Byrds, pioneers of folk rock and a distinctive jangly guitar style
This video features a US TV appearance with a song which is a contender for the first psychedelic recording.
The Byrds: Eight Miles High
In 1968 he teamed up with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash to form one of the best close harmony groups of their time. One of my favourites of theirs is Suite: Judy Blue Eyes which I posted here.
That group became even more potent with the addition of Neil Young a year later. I featured CSNY’s great protest song Ohio in 2010.
This though is from that first eponymous CSN album; a slower, acoustic piece which Crosby wrote.
Crosby, Stills and Nash: Guinnevere
David Van Cortlandt Crosby: 14/8/1941 – 18/1/2023. So it goes.
Posted in 1970s, Music, Reelin' In The Years at 12:00 on 3 June 2016
Released in the interregnum between Stills’s time in Crosby, Stills and Nash and Manassas before he took up with C, N (and Y) again, my elder brother took exception to the apparent incitement to free love in this song’s lyric and title. Myself I took it to mean be nice to the people you encounter.
I note Love the One You’re With‘s abrupt ending echoes that of Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.
Posted in 1960s, Events dear boy. Events, Friday On My Mind, Music at 12:00 on 5 February 2016
This song is more associated with Crosby, Stills and Nash but was co-written by Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship and Starship, who died earlier this week. Apparently his name could not be put on the CSN release of the song for legal reasons but Kantner contributed to the lyrics. Both CSN and Jefferson Airplane performed the song at Woodstock but Airplane’s (very long) version did not appear in the film.
Jefferson Airplane: Wooden Ships
Paul Lorin Kantner: 17/3/1941–28/1/2016. So it goes.
Posted in 1960s, Lyrics, Music, Nostalgia at 22:21 on 15 February 2010
My correspondent Campbell Yule eulogised CSNY in a recent comment.
Well; this is only CSN but it is still an anthem for old hippies. One of the sounds of the Sixties.
Stephen Stills breaks into Spanish (cod Spanish, even) during the last section – apparently to be obscure just for the sake of it.
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
