This is a curious story from undercover.com. Apparently, Stephen Stills has been looking through his archives.
Stephen Stills says that he has found an album he recorded with Jimi Hendrix more than 30 years ago.
Stills band mate Graham Nash has told the Las Vegas Sun that he discovered the unreleased album in a stack of material at his house.
Nash says Stills recorded everything back then and just forgot about this one. It was made in 1970, not long before Hendrix died.
Nash is cleaning up for the tapes and preparing the album for an official release.
No telling what this “album” is, a tape of Hendrix and Stills jamming together or something they worked on a little further. Either way, Stills forgot!? C’mon Steve, I know it was 1970 and, we’ve all had a lost weekend from time to time but, it’s Jimi Hendrix! Seems like you would remember something like that.
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Sans Direction wrote,
There may be over 45 minutes of music, and it may be really really interesting, but I sincerely doubt it’s an album.
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Link | July 8th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Pribek wrote,
You know Sans, I would surely listen to it out of curiosity. I get what you are saying about it probably not being an album but, you know that’s Graham Nash talking too. Even if it’s just the two of them sitting around playing some songs it will be interesting maybe, even real good.
But…I forgot??? that’s just got to make you wonder.
Link | July 8th, 2008 at 11:32 am
axe victim wrote,
Look chaps. Graham Nash is not a fibber. He doens’t need to be. I think that GN seemingly has integrity. Picture the scene. 1970. You - famous stoned rock star. Other rock stars are your peers and pals. You hang together. Play music together. Jimi comes to stay at your pad in Laurel Canyon or wherever. He overstays his welcome by a week or two because the drugs were good, the chicks were pretty that week - and you and your new best mate Jim were down in your basement studio pissing around for a long weekend making up some songs and you were recording everything just as Jimi always did too. It was your normal routine. So the songs are cooking and you invite Jimi to stay a while longer, just to eek out the vibes a little longer. You start to build the songs - Jimi likes to work long hours - a little further. It’s all sounding good but there’s no real meat to anything in particular. Jimi has to go because he has to play the Isle of Wight in two days. You both vow to get together in late september to complete the songs that you were messing with. You - famous stoned rock star continue to do premium quality drugs. 2008 - you - burnt out old famous rock star still doing premium quality drugs find a box of old tapes rotting in your basement in an old trunk that you haven’t opened in years etc. You check them out before throwing them away because you record everything and maybe you could salvage something here in the transfer to digital of this old material, thus saving you creating anything new if it was any good. Bugger me if it isn’t old long dead Jimi playing those old songs that we hasstily wrote. A quick clean up. Put Mitch Mitchell in on the drums to give it a bit of ‘Experience’ vibes and Bob’s your uncle. The whole world will be waiting to check that sucka out! Even more than that awful Beatles mash up. Just my two cents here Jack.
Link | July 8th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Pribek wrote,
Hey Axe, your two cents is always welcomed. I wasn’t trying to question the veracity of the venerated Mr. Nash, I’m just saying that what he calls an “album” may be biased.
“Bob’s your uncle?” hehheh…that’s funny-never heard that one before.
Link | July 8th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Pat Darnell And Friends wrote,
good thing those tapes weren’t in New Orleans during Katrina also… it’s just like being there, Mr Axe V. thanks for that day… er, fortnight… at the shack. I am dutifully informed from your post and comments, gentlemen. G Naxh and Company were my teen idols, thank you very much.
Pd-in-ful
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Link | July 8th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Sans Direction wrote,
Of all the members of CSN, I think I like Graham Nash the best. He never hit Judy Collins. He never got jail time. He was in the Hollies, who did “Long Cool Woman”. I certainly wouldn’t impugn his honor.
But a few weeks hanging with Stills in Laurel Canyon isn’t months with Kramer in Electric Lady, which is how his albums got built. (OK, Band of Gypsies and Experienced to the contrary. Work with me, OK?) I’m just saying that I don’t consider New Rising Sun a full Hendrix album because he died before he could say “I’m finished, it can go”, and this one is probably the same way, or less.
Sans Direction’s last blog post..I Think I Got A Bootleg
Link | July 9th, 2008 at 4:53 am
Gary wrote,
The full phrase is “Bob’s your uncle, Fanny’s your aunt”.
They do say, too, that if you can remember the ’60s, you weren’t really there. Man.
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Link | July 9th, 2008 at 5:16 am
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
In my time, sirs, Oscar is my uncle; Olive is my aunt… because Bob is my Dad; and Franny is my mother’s sister.
Mr Gary — I have been crazy to know what the whole epithet is since BBCA/TLC aired an Aussie dude carpenter, James Lunday, on In a Fix who kept saying “Bob’s your uncle.. Bob’s your uncle…” never telling the whole story. and “Fanny is your aunt.” that is rich!!
Without internet, I might have gone to Chopin Heaven never finding that out!!! Scary thought.
So it’s — BYU:FYA for quote of the month,
Very much obliged,
Pat aka MooPig
Pat Darnell and Friends’s last blog post..MooPig’s Obscurity in Mind Mapping Department
Link | July 9th, 2008 at 7:33 am
Pribek wrote,
“He never hit Judy Collins.” There you have it. Bob’s your uncle, Fanny’s your aunt.
Link | July 9th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Gary wrote,
the wicked pedia file says: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob’s_your_uncle
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Link | July 10th, 2008 at 6:25 am
Pribek wrote,
http://www.auntiefannys.com/
Canadian furniture store.
Link | July 10th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Mzars wrote,
You know there is a bootleg called Jimi Hendrix With Stephen Stills At Still’s Basement May 21st 1968 - is this the same recording I wonder? Jimi does some excellent playing on this jam - wonderful use of octaves. The man was heading towards Jazz. I only wished (not only there, eh?) he had lived to pursue it.
Link | November 4th, 2008 at 6:35 pm