PrataBas

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.

Mungi skrev:Apropå Crosby och Casady - i det här klippet kan man se och höra (en uppenbart rejält pårökt) Crosby tillsammans med Paul Kantner, Grace Slick och Jack Casady jamma på låten Wooden Ships i Jefferson Airplanes replokal nere i källaren på 2400 Fulton Street i San Francisco där alla medlemmarna bodde tillsammans. (Hoppa fram till 1:53 om ni inte vill se hela klippet)

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