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| | Live at Shepherd's Bush (CD/DVD) | | | Music Artist : | | Stephen Stills | | Music Style : | | Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | | Record Label : | | Rhino Records | | Release Date : | | 2009-10-27 | | Discs : | | 2 | | Store Price : | | $24.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $19.49 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Treetop Flyer
2. 4+20
3. Johnny's Garden
4. Change Partners
5. Girl From The North Country
6. Blind Fiddler
7. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
8. Isn't It About Time
9. Rock & Roll Woman
10. The Wrong Thing To Do
11. Wounded World
12. Bluebird
13. For What It's Worth
14. Love The One You're With
Disc 21. Treetop Flyer (DVD)
2. 4+20 (DVD)
3. Johnny's Garden (DVD)
4. Change Partners (DVD)
5. Girl From The North Country (DVD)
6. Blind Fiddler (DVD)
7. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (DVD)
8. Isn't It About Time (DVD)
9. Rock & Roll Woman (DVD)
10. The Wrong Thing To Do (DVD)
11. Wounded World (DVD)
12. Bluebird (DVD)
13. For What It's Worth (DVD)
14. Love The One You're With (DVD)
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Tired
Submitted on: 2009-11-10 |
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| I've been a fan of Stills from way back, 1974, Traveled around the states to see CSN&Y at numerous concerts from than on. This performance is without inspiration, He seems to be bring out older tunes. Compare Rocky Mountain way off his first Live album with this performance, I can hardly listen to it. If you want live, purchase "LIVE" Stephen Still from 1978 or so . |
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 A VERY Simple Take....
Submitted on: 2009-11-08 |
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A pairing of Stephen Stills with Barnstorm (Joe Walsh's dynamic rhythm section during the early 70's)Joe Vitale - Drums & Kenny Pasarelli - Bass.....ain't that bad.
As a matter of fact, it's all good. EXTREMELY Good! |
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 Nice to see you again Stephen (Isn't it About Time?)....
Submitted on: 2009-11-08 |
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* For those of you who have put Stills down for many years and are now listening to this, it will not be what you remember from years past. Stephen has some obvious vocal impairment now - caused by illness or whatever. However, for those of us who have steadily followed him for all these years, this show is a very solid performance, especially compared with a few years earlier on the CSNY Déjà vu tour, where he was having substantial enunciation difficulties. You have to give him a lot of credit for continuing to go it alone and delivering.
* This show is quite similar (about 75% the same) to shows I saw live at the House of Blues and at the RnR Hall of Fame (both in Cleveland, OH) in 2007 and 2008. I was really happy to see this rendition of `Isn't it About Time' recorded as I love the powerful opening bass and guitar run. For me, this alone was worth the price of the disk.
* The acoustic set is quite good, Stephen surprisingly hitting notes one thought not possible at this point. Others have mentioned this. Acoustic guitar is stellar as usual. The rendition of Johnny's Garden was on key and sung at higher tone than I can remember recently. Another stunning version of `Treetop Flyer' which I never get tired of hearing. Some (including him?) will say things got too personal and self-absorbed for Stephen as a young man, but `4+20' is one of his defining songs for the startling admission, beuatiful singing and lovely acoustic guitar. Stephen gets a little winded in the electric set during `Wounded World' and `Rock'n'Roll Woman' but finishes VERY strong with `For What It's Worth' and `Love the One You're With'. At 63, we might get winded too.
* Some years from now, it would be interesting to see Chris Stills put a show together singing only the music of his father. Chris has an incredible voice, maybe not with the power, edge, and range of the young Stephen Stills at the top of his game, but certainly close and with the flavor and tint of his old man that you readily recognize. Chris does some Manassas songs now in his shows. Maybe this is heresy but I wonder if others have thought this.
Seen you in the city, seen you on the road......(and hope to again)
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Man Alive!
Submitted on: 2009-11-02 |
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If you've read Crosby's second installment of his autobiography, you know that he and Nash get off a couple of very pointed barbs aimed at Stills. Presumably, they were good natured. With his very first remarks on this set, Stills slaps the puck back into their net and scores magnificently, and then gets on with the business at hand, beginning with Tree Top Flyer and roaring right on through seamlessly to the closer, Love The One....
Stills looks healthier, and by his own admission, feels so. His voice is coming back, much as Levon Helm's has, and that's just amazingly great news. While there is no new material here, the renditions, now from a 63 year old campaigner and defender of democracy, a cancer survivor, and a man who has lived his life with eyes open and his mind on, all sound brand spanking new and infused with an insight that comes from the road thus travelled. It ain't the years, it's the mileage, and Stills delivers a triumphant survey of his work. He has found different registers in which to cast his voice and the songs he has written. For my money, I think his take on Suite: Judy Blue Eyes and Rock and Roll Woman eclipse the CSN and Buffalo Springfield versions. The loss in both songs is more palpable, the tragedy accepted with a wisdom that knows one's life runs against time. His sense of humour is spot on throughout and there is even a sense of self deprecation, first evident in his tumble during the Deja Vu film and now in his wry asides about his own youthful perceptions found in Four and Twenty.
There is a clarity of tone to his guitar playing that I haven't heard in ages and his command of his instrument and the Latin and American blues that are the bedrock of his influences ring with an authenticity that has been enhanced by age, by life. There isn't a lick throughout that is there as showmanship. Every harmonic, every chord and key sequence, every pluck and plectrum strike rings with authority. He takes on Dylan's "Girl From The North Country" and makes it his own - absolutely an astounding delivery. And the man looks like he's having fun.
Stills has questioned whether he still has it, whether the Muse is still speaking to him, or if he can, through his tinnitus, still hear her. Based solely on this performance, I'd encourage him to keep at it. He has very clearly prepared himself in such a way that the Music is as much playing him as he the music. In short, in the words of another English guitarist, he has prepared himself so that Music can lean over and take him into its confidence. To that end, I would hope he will continue to sing, play, compose. He has something worthwhile to say, and I very mcuh want to listen to him. For all his afflictions from a life such as his, he is a man alive with his muse and that's cause for celebration. Isn't it about time? |
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5 Stars For Heart, Soul, Sincerity, Wisdom, and Fun
Submitted on: 2009-11-01 |
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I'm not an avid Stills or CSN follower, but a couple CSN albums are classics and I always loved the Tree Top Flyer cut from Stills Alone and never managed to get that album into my collection.
The first 6 cuts from this album were worth more than the purchase price for me, so I have to give it 5 stars. Still's voice does not have the range it once had, but with heart and soul he pulls it off with flying colors. This live album is not like some of the recent ones that sound like they have been recorded in a studio, but the sound quality is very good and the mix well balanced creating a live atmosphere with superior sound. The album is straight ahead not pretending to be anything its not, just a great story, great music, and a testament to its longevity.
I've recently increased my other Stills recordings, but I have not had a chance to absorb them yet; I think I'm going to be very happy.
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