Ljudet som Jack Casady har här är det absolut bästa basljud jag vet. Jag antar att långt ifrån alla håller med, men jag får ståpäls av bara en ton. Sen spelar han alldeles fantatastiskt. Precis som Crosby själv säger så blir basen en andra röst som kompletterar Crosbys egen underbara stämma.
Tyvärr hittar jag inget klipp på tuben men den här inspelningen, men den finns på Spotify:
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Så här säger Crosby själv om den här inspelningen:
I love this version of "Guinnevere" because of the beauty that Jack Casady and Cyrus Faryar brought to it. That was delicious. I thought I was making a record at the time, but I didn't know for whom. I just got in the studio. I would have put the track on the first CSN album just as it is, but Stephen and Graham wanted me to try the song over again so they could add their own things to it. But Jack was such a brilliant and adventuresome player – he had incredible tone and sound, and played like no one else. A towering monster of a musician.
When all my friends were listening to Elvis and 1950s rock 'n' roll, I was listening to Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan and West Coast jazz. Later I got involved with the folk music scene. After getting kicked out of the Byrds I didn't have a plan, but I went back to my roots, and "Guinnevere" is a combination of these two influences. This was a demo I cut on borrowed studio time, hoping to land another record contract. Cyrus Faryar from the Modern Folk Quartet played bouzouki; Jack Casady's bass still gives me chills, it's like another voice.
People ask, 'Who was Guinnevere?' Songs are seldom about one person. It's a love song, an answer to some other love songs, and part of a conversation. It's a composite of three women. I can tell you two of them. One of them was Joni [Mitchell]; that's the third verse, golden hair riding down by the bay. And there was another girl, Christine, who was the middle one. The "green eyes" one, I can't tell you.
