![]() ![]() The group was alway better on records than live, but the song below, “ Wasted on the Way“-written by Graham Nash-is as good as the recorded version. That’s how long it took us to harmonize.” He continued, “Whatever sound Crosby, Stills, and Nash has was born in 30 seconds. The Byrds, the Buffalo Springfield, and the Hollies had been harmony bands, with Nash later saying in a 2014 interview, “We knew what we were doing,” referring to the success of each of the individual bands. ![]() While singing the third time, they broke out in laughter. The vocals gelled, and the three realized that they had a very good vocal chemistry. ![]() They did so twice, after which Nash had learned the lyrics and improvised a new harmony part on a third rendition. In July 1968, over dinner at a party at another Laurel Canyon house (the home of either Joni Mitchell or Cass Elliot, accounts by the three members differ), Nash invited Stills and Crosby to perform a Stills composition, “You Don’t Have to Cry”. The version given by Wikipedia, below, differs only in the location of the party: The way I heard the tale was that C,S, and N sang together extemporaneously at a party at Joni Mitchell’s house, and the harmony was instant and mesmerizing. People who followed them know the story-the group formed from the leftovers of other bands: Buffalo Springfield, the Hollies, and the Byrds. Crosby, Stills & Nash, one of the great bands of the late Sixties through the early Eighties (joined sporadically by Neil Young), got together by accident. ![]()
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