Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young To Release ‘Live At The Fillmore East, 1969’
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young have announced the release of Live At The Fillmore East, 1969, a previously unheard concert from the band’s first tour. Live At The Fillmore East, 1969 will be available on vinyl (2LP) and CD on 25 October via Rhino and is available to pre-order now.
The first taste of the album, a live version of the band’s classic Helplessly Hoping is available digitally now and can be heard below.
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After famously playing their second show at Woodstock in August 1969, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young spent the rest of the year touring and writing songs for what would become CSNY’s 1970 debut, Déjà Vu. A newly discovered multi-track recording of the band’s 20 September 1969 concert at the historic Fillmore East in New York City captures an early moment from that first tour
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young were heavily involved in the creation of this never-before-heard live show. Stills and Young compiled and mixed the original eight-track concert recordings with John Hanlon at Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles. The audio is AAA lacquer cut for the vinyl release to provide the highest audio fidelity.
Young recently said: “[We] have the tapes, and they sound so real. We mixed at Sunset Sound – the analog echo chamber, no digital echo. We’re staying all analog throughout the production…Pure. Analog. No digital – an Analog Original.”
Recorded only a month after Woodstock, the concert was the band’s fourth show in two days at the Fillmore East and featured both acoustic and electric sets. Stills shares they were still figuring things out, “the acoustic part of the show took care of itself, but now that we had equipment and Dallas [Taylor, drums] and Greg [Reeves, bass] and sizable shows to do, we just went for it. What we lacked in finesse, we made up for in enthusiasm… A band on the run. Expecting to fly.”
“Hearing the music again after all these years, I can tell how much we loved each other and loved the music that we were creating,” Nash says. “We were four people reveling in the different sounds we were producing, quietly singing together on the one hand, then rocking like f**k for the rest of the concert.”
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Live At The Fillmore East, 1969 – LP tracklisting
Acoustic Set – Side One
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Blackbird
Helplessly Hoping
Guinnevere
Lady Of The Island
Side Two
Go Back Home
On The Way Home
4 + 20”
Our House
I’ve Loved Her So Long
You Don’t Have To Cry
Electric Set Side One
Long Time Gone
Wooden Ships
Bluebird Revisited
Sea Of Madness”
Side Two
Down By The River
Find The Cost Of Freedom
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