Following up on Lama's post: I have listened to CSN (the CD) a few times since Christmas, after not having listened in almost 30 years (I had the album, and played it to death for a couple of years after it came out in 1969). During that time, Guinnevere was not one of my favorites on the record, to say the least (but remeber, I quit on Joni's new work for a long, long time when I could not "get" THOSL or Hejira - 'ugh' for the umpteenth time).
Anyway, I have now decided that I like this song the best on the record (with Wooden Ships a close second - and I have always loved the record). I think this is again because my ears have gotten better, finally. It occurs to me that this is a song that could hold its own in a collection of Joni's best work - high praise to David. And it makes me wonder if maybe David did have an influence on Joni's music. Can any of you guitar tab masters tell me what the tuning is for Guinnevere ? I will try fiddling with it in EBDGAD, on the off chance that that works. It does not sound like standard tuning to my ears, but I could easily be wrong. Bobsart Lama wrote > Did Joel show David open tunings? > > On the sleeve notes of a 1993 re-release of "Crosby, Stills and Nash", > Raymond Foye wrote: > > >>>>>>>> > From its hypnotic opening notes, David Crosby's "Guinnevere" creates a > space unlike any other in rock music. "When all my friends > were listening to Elvis Presley, I was listening to 1950s West Coast jazz," > Crosby notes. Later, Crosby's divergent musical > sensibility was further inspired by a close association with Joni Mitchell, > whose unusual repertoire of guitar tunings heightened > his increasingly oblique musical sense, taking him another step away from > standard rock formulas. > > > Fellow musician Joel Bernstein recalls that for Crosby, "the discovery of > non-standard tunings was the opening the little door in > 'Alice in Wonderland'." By literally rearranging the tones on his guitar > (the tuning is EBDGAD), Crosby tapped into a creative > well-spring that produced "Deja Vu" and "Song With No Words," within a very > short space of time.>>>>>>>> > > checking in from the NJC digest, > Lama
