Stephen Stills

Stephen Stills, 1970

1. Love The One You're With 3:03
2. Do For The Others 2:52
3. Church (Part Of Someone) 4:05
4. Old Times Good Times 3:38
5. Go Back Home 5:56
6. Sit Yourself Down 3:05
7. To A Flame 3:10
8. Black Queen 5:28
9. Cherokee 3:24
10. We Are Not Helpless 4:17

 

4, 5번곡 기타소리가 좋길래, 연주자를 보니 4번곡은 Jimi Hendrix, 5번곡은 Eric Clapton이 일렉기타를 쳤다고 한다. 그 두곡을 비롯해서 들을만한 곡이 조금 있다.

 

Stills' album is also the only album to which both Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix supplied guitar work. According to Stills, he "bumped into Eric one evening, and he came by and the night degenerated into an endless jam of The Champs’ Tequila. Then we did the album track (Go Back Home) in the studio. His solo was one take and he got a fabulous sound". Also, around this time Clapton recorded the solo for "Fishes and Scorpions" which appeared on Stills' follow-up, Stephen Stills 2. Hendrix added guitar to "Old Times, Good Times" at Island Studios on 15 March 1970. Stills recalled in 1991:

Hendrix and I cut a bunch of stuff together, this is one of the few things that surfaced. He was a very dear friend of mine, we were lonely in London together and hung out a lot. I left England suddenly, and years later I learned from Mitch Mitchell that Jimi had been looking for me everywhere – wanted me to join the Experience as the bass player, which would have been my greatest dream in life! It had something to do with a manager deciding it was a wrong career move and said, 'we don't know where he is.' I learned to play lead guitar from Jimi he showed me the scales and said things like, 'You begin by thinking about the chord position and base your improvisations on that.' Or he'd make some little remark like, 'F sharp is really cool,' and we'd develop a jam around that. We'd make up songs, play the blues. He'd improvise until the inspiration began to ebb, then he'd look at me and say, 'You drive.' You had to hear that cat play acoustic guitar! We once jammed for about five days, one long marathon session in my beach house in Malibu. The sheriff's deputy overheard our guitar playing. When he found out it was us he asked permission to park his police car directly outside the house so he could listen in while he fielded radio calls. Told us not to worry about a thing, he'd be looking out for us.

 

Stephen Stills 2, 1971

1. Change Partners 3:13
2. Nothin' To Do But Today 2:40
3. Fishes And Scorpions 3:13
4. Sugar Babe 4:04
5. Know You Got To Run 3:50
6. Open Secret 5:00
7. Relaxing Town 2:20
8. Singin' Call 3:01
9. Ecology Song 3:22
10. Word Game 4:13
11. Marianne 2:27
12. Bluebird Revisited 5:23

 

1번곡은 친숙한 팝송같고, 12번은 다이내믹함이 좋다. 전체적으로는 상당히 심심하다. 1번곡에서 Jerry Garsia가 Pedal steel guitar, 3번곡에서 Eric Clapton이 일렉기타를 쳤다.