It still seems the pinnacle of their collective career, the only real instance wherein the deceitful artifice of any group collective manages fully to convince, melding individual directions with a combined corporacy. Certified gold within a fortnight, partly on the back of $2 million presales, it spent nearly two years in the Billboard chart, despite largely grudging and lackluster reviews. Somehow Deja Vu holds together cohesively, in no small part down to the rhythm section, the excellent Dallas Taylor and Greg Reeves. Completion took hours, days and weeks.īut it was all worth it. Young did everything on the half of the album he appears on all by himself, then took away the contributions of the others to mix as he saw fit. All the vocals save “Woodstock” were recorded separately and then spliced together, amid much argument and revision. Maybe he did however much I loved the trio, they were always in a different league with Young’s fiery presence on board.ĭeja Vu came out in 1970, after being put together in different studios and at different times, with only selections of the four featuring at any one time. Old compadre and sparring partner of Stephen Stills in Buffalo Springfield, there was always the fear he could engineer the gig to being as big a draw in his own right as the trio he joined. To me he always seemed their secret weapon. His second gig, he appeared for the electric second part of the set. Of course, Neil Young had already joined the band by the time they got there, if mysteriously missing from the film in its initial iteration. Crosby, Stills and Nash had already staked their claim as a bona fide supergroup courtesy their first release, cemented by their appearance in the Woodstock documentary.
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