Crosby Stills Nash & Young - CSNY/Deja Vu Live
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Free Music Review: To have something you have to give something up!
Hit: 1 Stars
It is very sad to witness some of the greatest artists of our generation forego (and therefor deprive us of) their art just to swim in the shallow pool of political ideology. It is hard enough to swallow when Nashville "entertainers" go this route for the other side of the aisle but when true artists like CSNY, Steve Earle and Bruce Springsteen do it all you can do is cry. Would you buy a CD with Bill Clinton on sax, Condi Rice on piano and Mike Huckabee on bass? I didn't think so!! Why would you want your geo-political philosophy to flow from the likes of the author of the book "Almost Gone"?!?! All rational people are "anti-war" but there are plenty of irrational dictators, theocrats, communists, totalitarianists, fascists etcetera in the world that make war very difficult to avoid from time to time. If free people did not fight people who would take their freedom from them then infantile expressions of political ideology like Neil Young makes on this record would cease to exist. If the U.S. armed forces vanished today it would take Vladimir Putin about a week to cross the Bering Straight and lay claim to every last drop of oil in Mr. Young's country. If he is too naive to see that why would we care what his political opinions are? It is not a strech to say that this CD would not exist if it were not for wars prosecuted in the defense of freedom by valiant and virtuous men and women throughout history. Great art can enrich 100% of our lives. Political ideology can only fuel the fire of the false self in a maximum of 50% of us. What would make any sane artist trade one for the other? Some of the music on this CD is very good but the experience is ruined by the persistent lyrical insults to common sense.Free Music Review: From this sample, these guys are all washed up...
Hit: 1 Stars
CSNY/Deja Vu Live caught me totally by surprise.
From this sample, CSN&Y are all washed up...
First, it seems like the guys can't sing anymore. Their voices crack and rattle and they can't carry a tune individually; much less as a quartet. Their attempts at harmony were agonizing. I don't think you could smoke enough rope to make their singing sound good.
There were some moments, when I thought their instrumentals would rise up and drown out their singing, but as their guitar work came to the forefront, I realized their instruments weren't in tune and they weren't playing together; much less in the same key.
The venue acoustics didn't help matters, either. It sounded like they were playing in the largest tin bucket in the world and at opposite ends of the bucket to boot.
If you were there at the live concert and/or you just want to relive the moment when CSN&Y once more celebrated their, "freedom of speech", buy this CD.
If you're interested in good music, go back to their catalog and find some of their re-mastered and enhanced studio albums from the days when CSN&Y really were a powerful musical force.
Free Music Review: Truly awful
Hit: 1 Stars
As a fan of C/S/N/Y, I own dozens of albums by the four guys in various combinations and solo. Again in different combinations, I've seen them in concert several times and enjoyed the shows each time. But this Deja Vu Live CD is excrutiatingly bad. It's a bad recording, something like a third-rate soundboard mix. Their harmonies, once a trademark and a major reason I've liked their music, are at different volume levels so they don't sound balanced. (Ex., on the sadly poor version of "Find the Cost of Freedom," C is at about volume 4 out of 10, N is at a 6, S is a 3, and Y is a 7. So the harmonies aren't right at all.) The vocals, guitars, etc. are often very sloppy, I think possibly from boredom at having to play these songs for the five thousandth time or whatever. Stills has a terribly muttered and slurred way of singing "For What It's Worth" that made me cringe. And on and on. There are just too many problems with this CD for me to list them all!Free Music Review: Left wing air heads!
Hit: 1 Stars
These guys are left wing scumbags. They should stick to playing music and keeping their political views to themselves. We don't need their B.S. Just because you are rich and famous does NOT give you the right to spew your venom all over our country. Free speech. We all have free speech because of the SOLDIER! Never forget that! Too bad we don't ALL have access to microphones and thousands of people in arenas. Then we could show the other side. The right side. If the country sucks so bad, get the hell out of here! We don't want you! You make a fortune here and buy mansions etc etc etc and all you do is complain! Wah Wah! Life is tough aint it! Crawl back into your limo a drive somewhere far, far away!Free Music Review: Yawn.....
Hit: 1 Stars
I borrowed this CD from a friend, and try as I might, I just couldn't get into it. The guitar work on the some of the tracks was classic Neil, but it seemed that overall, the music just didn't mesh too well, both on vocals and instruments. To each their own on the protest songs, but when I listen to music I want to be entertained and taken away for a while, not listen to a political agenda. Seems that CSNY is trying to find that magical portal back to the 60's when they were at the top of their game. Hang it up boys, it isn't happening.