Interview: Neil Young at the Berlin Film Festival - 2008

 
Graham Nash, Neil Young, David Crosby and Stephen Stills 

Premiere of 'CSNY Deja Vu' at 2008 Sundance Film Festival 

Eccles Theatre,Park City, Utah - January 25, 2008

 

 

Here is a short 2008 interview with Neil Young at the Berlin Film Festival 2008 about the film CSNY - Deja Vu. Still pertinent, still relevant after all these years, sadly.

 

Neil Young interview at the Berlin Film Festival 2008 about his film CSNY - Deja Vu

 

 "CSNY DEJA VU" Film Poster - 2008

More on We're Still Living With War... and It's Deja Vu Yet Again and "Families" by Neil Young: The Story Behind The Song.

Also, see  TWR 2.0 Podcast - Episode #14 | Still Living With War + Deja Vu Again

 

No War

Greendale Film still

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INTERVIEW: Stephen Stills on CSNY - "We were all quite full of ourselves" | Uncut + Deja Vu 50th Anniversary Streaming Now | NYA

Stephen StillsPhoto by Michael Putland/Getty Images

 

In a recent interview, Graham Nash discussed the Deja Vu re-issue boxset and what it was like working with Neil Young. 

Today, another  interview on the Deja Vu re-issue boxset and working with Neil Young, this time with Stephen Stills. Also, the full Deja Vu 50th Anniversary edition is now streaming on NYA (more below).

From Stephen Stills on CSNY: "We were all quite full of ourselves"  | Uncut by Peter Watts:

Uncut: How did Neil change the dynamic?

Stephen Stills: Neil was one of those who wanted us to sing it and play it at the same time and be done, and the first time you get it right – that’s the take. I like a bit more polish so I’m not actually that fond of these extra tracks in the reissue. I was thinking about this last night and for me it’s like seeing the mannequins undressed in the shop window. Why do you want to put these out there even though they sound great?

Isn’t there a raw honesty to them?   

Yeah, if you say so. 

For me it sounds like we’d just got the words correctly in the right order. Some of it is good. It was odd. I had a knee replacement last year so I was flat on my back while these were being collected and a bit distracted. They sent me MP3 files that sounded like rancid shit, the worst car radio on an AM setting. That was very hard for me to listen so I didn’t realise they had taken such a deep dive into my vault. They went on this excursion, it was like this archaeological dig, so when the final set finally turned up I was, “Wait, what’s all this?” 

Neil has always been the smartest one of us, he gave us three songs and kept the rest. 

He’s now put together his own archive over the years, and I found that quite clever actually. It’s what I was supposed to be doing but with one thing or another it went out the way. So I have mixed feelings. I’ve often got my foot stuck in my mouth so I don’t want to make too much of it. 

But it’s nice to remember that time and this is very reflective of it.

Fans seem to always want more. 

Well, they think they do.

Neil seems to release everything. 

He releases everything in huge batches. I always thought it was excessive but he seems to do it very well. I’m happy for him and look forward to be playing with him now I am free to mix and mingle.

Full interview at  Stephen Stills on CSNY: "We were all quite full of ourselves"  | Uncut by Peter Watts.

Also, see INTERVIEW: Graham Nash On Deja Vu Re-Issue, Neil Young & More.

For more, see REVIEW: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s Déjà Vu Debut Celebrates 50 Years With An Expansive 4-CD/1-LP Collection Featuring The Original Album Remastered on May 14th | Harvey Kubernik.

Deja Vu - 50th Anniversary (Deluxe Edition)

(1 LP/4 CD boxed set @ $99.98)

(Please shop locally & independently. But if you can't, we appreciate your supporting Thrasher's Wheat by clicking this link .Thank you!!) 

 

Deja Vu 50th Anniversary - Outtakes Disc #3 | NYA

 

Also, the full 4 disc Deja Vu 50th Anniversary edition is now streaming on NYA (more below).

Also, see ESSAY: 50th Anniversary of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's "Deja Vu" by Harvey Kubernik.

Deja Vu Photo Composites
via Susan Miller 

 

See 50th Anniversary of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's "Deja Vu" by Harvey Kubernik

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INTERVIEW: Graham Nash On Deja Vu Re-Issue, Neil Young & more

Graham Nash  

In a recent interview, Graham Nash discusses the Deja Vu re-issue boxset, Neil Young, and more in a BBC radio broadcast on May 09, 2021.

  

 

Graham Nash  also discusses Joni Mitchell,  Jerry Garcia and The Byrds.

Regarding Neil Young, Graham Nash says (thanks Rusted Moon !):

"Neil brought a darker facet to our music - not darker in a negative sense, but you know what I mean: it's Neil Young, everything is a little bit darker than ordinary sunshine."

For more, see REVIEW: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s Déjà Vu Debut Celebrates 50 Years With An Expansive 4-CD/1-LP Collection Featuring The Original Album Remastered on May 14th | Harvey Kubernik.

Deja Vu - 50th Anniversary (Deluxe Edition)

(1 LP/4 CD boxed set @ $99.98)

(Please shop locally & independently. But if you can't, we appreciate your supporting Thrasher's Wheat by clicking this link .Thank you!!) 

 

Also, see ESSAY: 50th Anniversary of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's "Deja Vu" by Harvey Kubernik.

Deja Vu Photo Composites
via Susan Miller 

See 50th Anniversary of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's "Deja Vu" by Harvey Kubernik

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REVIEW: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s Déjà Vu Debut Celebrates 50 Years With An Expansive 4-CD/1-LP Collection Featuring The Original Album Remastered on May 14th | Harvey Kubernik

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Youngw/ Dallas Taylor & Greg Reeves - Aug. 1969photo by Henry Diltz - Courtesy of Rhino Records(See  'Deja Vu' 50th Anniversary Reissue w/ 38 Bonus Tracks - Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young )

 

Here is a  review of the upcoming 'Deja Vu' 50th Anniversary Reissue by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. 

 

With permission from author Harvey Kubernik. Also, excerpted with permission from the May/June issue of "Record Collector News" magazine.

 

Outtake from the #DejaVu album cover photo shoot by Tom O'Neal via Stephen Stills OfficialCourtesy of Rhino Records

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s Déjà Vu Debut Celebrates 50 Years With An Expansive 4-CD/1-LP Collection Featuring The Original Album Remastered on May 14^th

By Harvey Kubernik - Copyright 2021

 

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s Déjà Vu was the most-anticipated new album in America in 1970. More than 50 years later, it’s one of the most famous albums in rock history with legendary songs, including “Carry On” and “Teach Your Children,” that still resonate today.

Rhino will honor the intense creative journey that led to this milestone album with an expansive 4-CD/1-LP collection that includes a pristine version of the original album on both 180-gram vinyl and CD, plus hours of rare and unreleased studio recordings that provide incredible insight into the making of the record.

DÉJÀ VU: 50TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION will be available from Rhino on May 14 for $99.98. Presented in a 12 x 12 hardcover book, the collection comes illustrated with rarely seen photos from the era and annotated by writer/filmmaker Cameron Crowe, whose revealing liner notes recount the making of the album through stories told by the people who were there, including David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young.

In the new anniversary edition, the album’s original 10 tracks are joined by 38 more to add nearly two-and-a-half hours of music that includes demos, outtakes, and alternate takes – most of which are previously unreleased. Among them is “Know You Got To Run,” the first song the quartet recorded during its first session on July 15 at the house Stills was renting from Peter Tork in Studio City.

Other unreleased highlights include the demo for Crosby’s “Almost Cut My Hair”; Stills’ outtake for “Bluebird Revisited”; and Young’s alternate version of “Helpless” featuring harmonica. Also making its debut on the set is a version of “Our House” that features Nash singing with the song’s inspiration, Joni Mitchell.

In April 2021 Gram Nash spoke to me about the 50th anniversary edition of Déjà Vu. “The technology is much better now and you can hear the impact of it on this. You can hear the magic. It’s a great piece of music.”
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