From: "bruce" <bruce@mail.americanmetaltreating.com>
Subject: HH: RE: CSNY & Storytellers
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:24:46 -0500
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I was very impressed by the Storytellers performance. The two new songs they played sounded much better live. And the harmonies were fantastic. It was cool seeing Neil being part of the sound on Dream for Him and Seen Enough. Some of that guitar work almost sounded like the Bluenotes era stuff. OLCBYH sounded great. After this song, my Neil hating wife said "he writes love songs?....go figure". LMYR was improved with the CSN vocals. The moody ATGR on the pump organ was inspiring, although the CN vocals caught me by surprise at first. The only songs I didn't care for were Our House and TYC. These songs are worn out for me. My wife said during Our House, "He (meaning Nash) wrote this...I always thought it was a jingle or something". I told her that that's about all Nash can write is jingles. I thought the stage banter and performance was genuine. I didn't sense any commercialization or pre-packaging of the show. In fact, Neil at one point said something like "hey, were not going by the script we rehearsed before the show" and Crosby mocked him by going "yeah right (imitating Neil) 'I'll talk about trains...here's a story about my dog'". I thought that bit was hilarious. Someone wrote that they thought Neil was kind of spoofing the Storytellers format. I agree. After OLCBYH, he and Stills went into a goofy sing along that I can't remember. Then Neil said that's what OLCBYH is about folks. Later before ATGR he did his "I wrote this song in the morning...I think it was morning...I'm not joking here..." routine. During a break between commercials, Crosby said something about Neil saying about doing this special "but don't the songs tell the story". It looked to me like the usual subtle Neil humor about the format. Anyone else notice how the teaser before the commercial break showed a Neil song every time? Bruce Devney gotta keep the machinery goin'
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