「もう、タマランチ！」 これぞ、「音楽、これぞ、ロックバンド！」

「もう、タマランチ！」

これぞ、「音楽、これぞ、ロックバンド！」

Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay Buffalo Springfield Rehearsal 1986

Mindstash

In the summer of 1986, the original members of the Buffalo Springfield met at Stephen Stills’ home to rehearse new material that Stephen and Neil Young were working on and to make tentative plans to reunite for a 20th anniversary reunion tour. The 2 day practice session marked the first time that the five founding members had played together since their break-up in 1967. The rehearsals were kept a secret and my understanding was that management was not keen on having the sessions videotaped. However, after some deliberation, the band over ruled management and decided that they wanted to document the get together. I’d just finished wrapping a shoot when I received a call with an anxious Bruce Palmer on the other end filling me in- Neil and Richie (Furay) were in town, the Buffalo Springfield were going to be rehearsing, could I make it over to Stephen’s with a camera and lights and be set up in an hour and a half? LMAO! (Nothing like having plenty of advance notice, guys.) As fate would have it, I was on the freeway on my way home from work, I had a camera package in the car and was only 15 minutes away from Stephen’s place. I just happened to be the right person, with the right camera, with the right contacts at the right position in spacetime to record the practice, otherwise we wouldn’t have anything to look at right now. From what I can remember and from the comments that can be heard on the tapes, at the end of the rehearsal the band was planning on more rehearsals and moving forward w/ the reunion tour. However, the paradigm was about to shift and I saw it happen in front of my eyes. A couple of weeks later, in wee hours of the morning, I was listening to Stephen laying down some bass tracks in his studio when David Crosby, (who had just gotten out of a Texas jail the day before) made a surprise visit and came through the door with guitar case in hand. I remember the moment as if were yesterday: David: “Hey, Stephen. Do you want to hear some open chords that I’ve been working on in my cell?” Stephen: Uhh…well, hell yeah!” They played together for about an hour and a day or two later Graham Nash showed up. Stephen’s priorities shifted to reuniting with CS&N, in large part, to help out an old friend who was down and out at the time. A few months later, the Crosby, Still & Nash reunion tour was in full swing, Bruce Palmer and Dewey Martin were having a successful run with the Buffalo Springfield Revisited, Neil Young was on the road with the Live In A Rusted Out Garage with Crazy Horse tour, Richie Furay was back in Boulder doing his thing and I wrapped up the rehearsal tapes and put them into a box where they were to remain for the next 30 years. For what it’s worth, from what I’ve been able to dig up, this is likely the only rehearsal footage of the original Buffalo Springfield that has ever been recorded. The practice session began with a “theme" that was in Neil’s head and moved onto Stephen shredding the guitar on a new blues tune that he was in the early stage of conceptualizing. In this clip, the band is working out the nuts and bolts on a new tune of Neil’s that he would later develop into “Road of Plenty” which made its performance debut during the Crazy Horse tour in November of 1986. The song would, subsequently, evolve into its studio version, “Eldorado”, which was recorded 2 years later and released in the states on Neil's Freedom album. The song's progression~ Road of Plenty ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By6_o... Eldorado (live) ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OI7h... If you like this, stay tuned- there will be more to come. (PS I own the rights.)Show less

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Exclusive, never before released- Buffalo Springfield 1986 Rehearsal Part 2

art 2 of the 1986 Buffalo Springfield rehearsal catches the band winding down from Neil’s new song which was later to become Road of Plenty (live Crazy Horse version) before morphing into the better known studio version, Eldorado which you can see the band rehearsing in Part 1. Stephen’s new song follows this break in the action and will soon be released as (you guessed it) Part 3. This is my favorite sequence because it gives a rare look of a band at work and shooting the shit w/ no one being overly self-conscious about a camera being in the room recording them. In other words, it’s real…. and, it is the founding members of the Buffalo Springfield chatting it up together for the last time. It was edited down to condense it w/o losing the vibe. Enjoy my friends and fellow rock ’n rollers.

Mindstash

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スティーヴン・スティルスと、

リッチー・フューレイ（のちの、”ポコ”、そして牧師になる）

ほか、

7名でやっていた、

The Au Go Go Singers

（オウ・ゴーゴー・シンガーズ）

が、コンサートのため、カナダに訪れていたとき、

二―ル・ヤング（当時、”マイナ・バーズ”）

に会い、その後の、

伝説的バンド、”バッファロー・スプリング”を、

生み出し、

のちの、

クロスビー・スティルス・ナッシュ＆ヤングという、

「ローリング・ストーンズ誌」で、

”アメリカのビートルズ”とも、

（彼らは、商業的には、メディア的には、イメージ的には、

絶対に、”媚びない”ので、

（この下のようなヴィデオなどを見れば、わかります）

（メディア的、商業的には、ビートルズやローリング・ストーンズなどとは、

大きく違い、その当時では、大きくなりませんでしたがーーーー）

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（もしかしたら、そう呼ばれていた）

「称されるに値する、超・スーパー・グループ」

と言われる、－－－－ＣＳＮ＆Ｙ

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の誕生に向かうわけです。

アクティヴさ、頻繁さや、数の度合いでは、

今だに、グループの構成は違えど、

ストーンズよりも、活動は超・頻繁ですし、

現役の世界一長（そうな）いグループです。

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（少し飛びまして）

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ニール・ヤングと・、ブルース・パルマーは

（初恋の恋人を探すかのようにーーーー）

スティルスとの再会を望み、カナダから、

ロサンジェルスに向かうことを決め、

約1週間後、スティルスの居場所を見つけられない、

ヤングとパーマーは、

サンフランシスコ、

への移動を考えていたわけですが、

ある日2人はサンセット大通りで大渋滞にはまり立ち往生し、

そこに、対向車線から

偶然スティルス、フューレイ、バリー・フリードマンが乗った車が通りかかり

スティルス、フューレイとヤング、パーマーは再会を果たす。

という、奇跡的な偶然と再開です。

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こんな音楽の大・巨人

二―ル・ヤングと、

スティーヴン・スティルス

の、二人の、５７年以上にわたる、「永遠の攻防」が、はじまります。

そうです、小競り合いみたいな、戦い（謙信と信玄みたい）と、

愛情、友情、強調（ハーモニー）です。

１）　作曲家であり、

２）　名うてのギターリストであり、

３）　平等に、アコースティックと、エレキの両方という、

　個性のある名手であり、

４）　しかも、アドリブができるという、

５）　超・素晴らしい、ソロシンガーであり、

６）　ハーモニーは、ロック界の横綱ですし、

７）　アクティヴさは、もう、５８年以上という、

世界一くらい長いグループです（構成は違えどーーーー）

スティーヴンは、ジミヘンやエリック・クラプトンとも、

アルバムを出しているくらいの仲です。