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Visiting musicians always knew where to find him. Such rock luminaries as Eric Clapton (late of Cream), Stephen Stills (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) and John McLaughlin (soon to found the Mahavishnu Orchestra) would drop by. Hendrix would unwind, stretch and bend the notes as he never could onstage. He would make his guitar wail like a lost soul on the Delta. Sometimes it sounded like a horn, sometimes like a violin. Suddenly it would laugh its way to a final cadence. An old bottle-neck blues number might go on for a half-hour...
...Ogden Nash...
...Baker-played enormous arenas and made megabucks, and sometimes megamusic. Their performances were fueled by dueling egos. Musical infighting built up the excitement they generated, but it also made breakups inevitable. Now, with half a decade gone, perhaps the mightiest U.S. supergroup of all is back together: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, whose pungent lyrics and soft-edged counterpoint to acid rock made them a primal force in popular music...
What ever prompted C. S. N. & Y. to abandon such a lucrative musical trust? "We could have made a lot of money in the past four years, but the feeling between us wasn't there," admits Graham Nash, 32. According to Stephen Stills, 29, tumescent egos were responsible. "None of us were willing to give up our identities," he says. "We could have called ourselves the Eternal Spinach, but we used our names instead -it made us the Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith of rock." Crosby once belonged to the Byrds, Nash was a member of the Hollies...
...just a bit suburban. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young are themselves all prosperous adults, owners of mansions and 800-acre ranches. The rhythm of their lives, private and professional, has settled down to moderato. Loud fracases and nocturnal revelries no longer conclude their day's work. Groupies, once omnipresent, are rare. After a recent Oakland concert, Stills, on his way to an informal jam with some members of the Grateful Dead, was accosted by one persistent young lady. To turn her off, he launched into a monologue on the virtues of family living. "Can I stay with you tonight...