I'm not necessarily encouraging people to buy from Amazon, but after reading reviews of this album, you may want to buy it, wherever you buy your CDs.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002I6T/ref=cm_cr_dp_2_1/102-7525052-5484967?v=glance&s=music&vi=customer-reviews
There can be no doubt that Joni influenced David's guitar playing tremendously. I'd never really thought about Crosby's seminal work on the CSN(Y) albums: "Guinnevere", "Wooden Ships", "Deja Vu", as using alternate tunings. Of course everyone recalls in his extensive appearance in WOHM (and the out-takes), he eloquently describes how blown away he was when he first heard/saw Joni, and of course, he went on to produce STASG.
At 08:36 PM 4/19/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Did Joel show David open tunings?
On the sleeve notes of a 1993 re-release of "Crosby, Stills and Nash", Raymond Foye wrote:
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>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
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