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Post by billhammond on Jan 3, 2007 11:00:45 GMT -5
He is 62 today. Here he is with one of his beater guitars, but he has an Olson, you know. 
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Post by Cornflake on Jan 3, 2007 12:55:22 GMT -5
He looks different. I wonder if he feels different.
Yesterday was my brother's 61st birthday. I called to wish him well. We were discussing the fact that we both feel the same as we did thirty years ago. I'd like to ask Steve if his view is any different.
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Post by millring on Jan 3, 2007 12:56:43 GMT -5
"...he has an Olson, you know. "
I wonder if it's the one Mr Olson wouldn't show me?
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Post by billhammond on Jan 3, 2007 12:58:55 GMT -5
"...he has an Olson, you know. "I wonder if it's the one Mr Olson wouldn't show me? Mr. Bauman will never forgive Mr. Olson for not welcoming him to his shop. I wish I could turn back the hands of time and somehow prevent that wound. |
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Post by millring on Jan 3, 2007 13:07:43 GMT -5
It's a deep, deep wound.
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Post by davidhanners on Jan 3, 2007 17:55:00 GMT -5
Stephen Stills is the reason I picked up guitar in the first place, when I was 15. I've lots of different playing and songwriting influences over the years -- Bill Morrissey, John Prine, Steve Earle, John Stewart et al -- but Stephen Stills is the guy who got the ball rolling for me.
I want to get around to covering "Do For the Others." I can play the first couple of bars of "Black Queen," but since I don't drink hard liquor (in particular, Jose Cuervo) I'll never be able to play it quite like he does....
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Post by Aesthetic_Ascetic on Jan 3, 2007 17:56:35 GMT -5
Don't feel bad, they give me the cold shoulder at Guitar Center...
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Post by Marshall on Jan 3, 2007 18:05:14 GMT -5
It was Paul Simon that got me rolling. But Steven Stills took me to a higher plane.
A married couple I used to know, Chuck and Holly ,had deal with each other. If Steven Stills rang the doorbell, Holly was gone. No questions asked.
On teh other hand, if Tina Turner rang the bell, Chuck was gone.
Pretty enlightened marriage, don't ya think ?
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Jan 3, 2007 21:39:59 GMT -5
Don't feel bad, John. Jimmy Goodall was my roommate a zillion years back but he didn't exactly welcome me with open arms when I went to Kona. He did offer to let me come on the regular Friday afternoon tour. I passed, 'cause I really wanted to say hi to him. Maybe I caught him at a bad time. Maybe you caught Mr. Olson at a bad time. It did kind of piss me off, though. Mike PS Have I mentioned how much more I like Collings than Goodalls? |
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Post by Supertramp78 on Jan 3, 2007 21:48:12 GMT -5
"If Steven Stills rang the doorbell, Holly was gone. No questions asked."
I wonder if that offer still stands.
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Post by andrewg on Jan 4, 2007 4:43:41 GMT -5
62? It's always good to know there is someone older than me...
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Post by millring on Jan 4, 2007 5:13:12 GMT -5
Mike,
It's obvious that Jimmys Gooodall and Olson don't understand who's who in the guitar world.
I don't know how they live with themselves.
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Post by timfarney on Jan 4, 2007 7:44:35 GMT -5
Stephen Stills is the reason I picked up guitar in the first place, when I was 15. The Beatles got me started, but Still showed me what an acoustic guitar was for. I still think the Buffalo Springfield and early CSN,Y records have some of the best acoustic picking I've ever heard. I liked Crosby's writing better. Neil Young was certainly more prolific, Richie Furay sang like an angel...but from the opening notes of "Bluebird" it was Stills who was going to teach me how to play an acoustic. Tim |
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Post by Marshall on Jan 4, 2007 8:17:02 GMT -5
Haven't seen Holly in about 15 years. They moved away (together). She's 58 now, so 62 ain't all that much different. But Steven looks like he's added another person to his girth. Holly and Chuck were into fitness back when I last saw them.
I think Tina has aged more gracefully than Steven.
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Post by davidhanners on Jan 4, 2007 8:30:00 GMT -5
The thing I liked about Stills was that he showed you didn't have to be perfect to be great at what you did. While his guitar playing was amazing, that voice.... Well, let's just say if there was a flat note to be found, Stills found it, no problem. But his stuff sounded human to me.
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Post by guitone on Jan 4, 2007 8:34:03 GMT -5
Don't feel bad, John. Jimmy Goodall was my roommate a zillion years back but he didn't exactly welcome me with open arms when I went to Kona. He did offer to let me come on the regular Friday afternoon tour. I passed, 'cause I really wanted to say hi to him. Maybe I caught him at a bad time. Maybe you caught Mr. Olson at a bad time. It did kind of piss me off, though. Mike PS Have I mentioned how much more I like Collings than Goodalls? That would piss me off too...BTW, I like Collings, I just have no respect for Mr. Collings or his salesmanager, a very short story. |
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Post by guitone on Jan 4, 2007 8:38:38 GMT -5
Stephen Stills is the reason I picked up guitar in the first place, when I was 15. The Beatles got me started, but Still showed me what an acoustic guitar was for. I still think the Buffalo Springfield and early CSN,Y records have some of the best acoustic picking I've ever heard. I liked Crosby's writing better. Neil Young was certainly more prolific, Richie Furay sang like an angel...but from the opening notes of "Bluebird" it was Stills who was going to teach me how to play an acoustic. Tim Buffalo Springfield, I did a braodcasting report on them in College, had a friend read a script I wrote and had it intertwined with BS music, it was an A project and I got out of those oral reports that scared the daylights out of me then (and now I do presentations every day of my career, funny how that happens)..but BS was a cult favorite among my friends, and while I loved Steve and Richie when they want their separate ways it was Neil, from his frist solo album till Harvest or so that got most of my attention.. And I do not believe that Mr. Stills has an Olson, just Bill trying to justify that he cannot play a Martin.  |
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Post by timfarney on Jan 4, 2007 10:35:34 GMT -5
Hammond should be showing up here any minute. Yeah, I liked Neil too. Particularly the first few solo albums, but it all got my attention. The fallout from Buffalo Springfield was incredible...CSN, CSNY, Poco...ah, Poco...if I had to have just one "country rock" album and it couldn't be Buffalo Springfield Again, it'd probably be Deliverin'. One of the best live albums ever.  Tim |
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Post by billhammond on Jan 4, 2007 10:38:17 GMT -5
"Deliverin'," as I recall, was recorded in Boston. Wow, remember "Man Like You"? Who the hell was playing Dobro? Fantastic! I also loved this double album:  |
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Post by timfarney on Jan 4, 2007 11:25:01 GMT -5
"Deliverin'," as I recall, was recorded in Boston. Wow, remember "Man Like You"? Who the hell was playing Dobro? Fantastic! I also loved this double album: Yep, Boston. Rusty Young played dobro. He also played banjo, a bit of guitar, and absoluely amazing pedal steel. Hear those Hammond B3 parts? Not a Hammond B3. Rusty Young playing pedal steel.!? What a great band. I really like a lot of the later incarnation of Poco, with Paul Cotton (of Illinois Speed Press), but the first lineup - Richie Furay, Jim Messina, Rusty Young, Randy Meisner (then, very quickly, Tim Schmidt) will always be the definitive Poco in my mind. If you don't have the first 3 albums - Pickin' Up The Pieces, Poco and Deliverin' you need them. No anthology is a reasonable substitute to hearing them as the albums they were intended to be. Amazing stuff. Tim |
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