![]() There’s good art on Déjà Vu, but you can’t put it on and feel like it’s a sunny afternoon the way you can with Crosby Stills & Nash.” “Atmosphere and feeling – now, they count for much more than the actual technical quality of the music. I would walk into the sessions and break down crying.” Crosby told Crawdaddy in 1974. “I was at the worst place I’d been in my whole life. Crosby’s girlfriend Christine Hinton had recently died in a car accident. Stills had split with singer Judy Collins Nash broke up with Joni Mitchell. The turmoil in the band's personal lives carried over to the sessions. In the summer of 1969, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young performed together at the Woodstock festival and began recording Déjà Vu in Los Angeles with bassist Greg Reeves and drummer Dallas Taylor. Listen to Crosby Stills Nash and Young Perform 'Déjà Vu' He was funny, he was dry, he was dedicated and he was a special man. So I had breakfast with Neil on Bleecker Street, and after that I would have made him king of the world. "I knew him as a songwriter, but I didn't know if I'd like him, if I could hang with him - all of that stuff. "I didn't think we needed anybody else, but I said, 'Okay, if you're so adamant, I have to meet this guy,'" he recalled. Nash was underwhelmed with the idea but agreed to meet with Young in New York's Greenwich Village. Atlantic Records’ head Ahmet Ertegun then suggested Young, Stills’ former bandmate in Buffalo Springfield. Jimi Hendrix and Steve Winwood were asked to join CSN but refused. He played bass, he played organ, he played lead guitar, he played rhythm guitar, he played everything. “Stephen played every instrument on that record except for the drums and the acoustic guitars that David and I played on our songs. "When we finished the first record, we realized two things: One, that we had a big hit on our hands, because everybody was just wiped on the floor with it, and two, that we would have to go on the road,” Nash told Music Radar.
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