Significant turmoil had occurred in the band’s personal lives however and it carried into the studio. In the summer of 1969, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young delivered a blistering performance at Woodstock where they played one of the first versions of 4+20, before diving into the studio to record Déjà Vu.Īt Wally Heider’s Studio in Los Angeles, the group was further strengthened by the addition of bassist Greg Reeves and drummer Dallas Taylor. He was funny, he was dry, he was dedicated and he was a special man. So I had breakfast with Neil on Bleecker Street, and after that I would have made him king of the world. “I knew him as a songwriter, but I didn’t know if I’d like him, if I could hang with him - all of that stuff. “I didn’t think we needed anybody else, but I said, ‘Okay, if you’re so adamant, I have to meet this guy,'” Nash recalled. Nash was less than enthused by the idea but agreed to meet with Young in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Atlantic Records’ had made a definitive shift from jazz by 1970 thanks to spearhead Ahmet Ertegun, who suggested stills former Buffalo Springfield bandmate Neil Young. Jimi Hendrix and Steve Winwood were asked to join CSN but they unsurprisingly declined. He played bass, he played organ, he played lead guitar, he played rhythm guitar, he played everything. “Stephen played every instrument on that record except for the drums and the acoustic guitars that David and I played on our songs. “When we finished the first record, we realized two things: One, that we had a big hit on our hands because everybody was just wiped on the floor with it, and two, that we would have to go on the road,” Nash told Music Radar. As Nash recalls, the addition of a fourth member became a necessary evil. Multi-instrumentalist Stephen Stills had recorded almost everything on the album. Their eponymous debut album was a major hit though it also illuminated a single glaring problem within the outfit.
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