Review with Videos: Crosby Stills and Nash 2010 Summer Tour

I had the enormous pleasure of seeing Crosby Stills and Nash perform sunday night, August 29th, in Atlantic City, NJ.

It's hard to imagine a better, more enjoyable concert. Over the past few years, I"ve been to a lot of reunion concerts or just concerts by groups from the sixties and seventies-- Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood, Genesis, Cher, Phil Collins, Canned Heat, Mountain, Three Dog Night, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Neil Young, Bonnie Raitt, Savoy Brown, Foghat, Leon Russel, BB King.

Maybe, just maybe, the Rolling Stones, Clapton and Winwood and Phil Collins were in the same league. They were all in bigger venues too.

But I'm not sure. I was in such a state of pure pleasure, smiling my ass off throughout almost the entire concert.

A few songs into the concert, Graham Nash noted that they were having a particularly good night that night.

The set list is not up yet, but here's a link to one on setlist.fm that's fairly close from the night before. They did two songs from Buffalo Springfield, Rolling Stones cover song Ruby Tuesday...

In many reunion concerts, the "band" consists of one or two original members and then a younger crew of musicians and singers. Not here. All three were the real deal, plus the drummer of 35 years, Dallas Taylor was with them. The thing is, their voices were wonderful, better than the old album's from the sixties. Stills' voice is deeper and that changes the harmonies, but seriously, a lot of the reunion bands struggle to just hit the notes. This show was extraordinary. David Crosby was amazing and when Stills and Nash harmonized, it gave me chills up the back of my neck.

It was hard to find "young people" under 50 and there were hardly any under 40, let alone 30. I tried to explain it to my 20 something kids that what made this show so magical was I knew ALL the songs, knew most of the words and had played most of them on my guitar. I struggled with cutting my hair, back when it was written, and sang Marrakech Express while I was riding the Marrakech local from Casablanca to Marrakech in 1973, when I made the trip on my one month visit to Morocco, where I traveled wearing the local Galibaya outfit.

I literally thought to myself as I moved my body to the music, smiling from ear to ear, the old Native American saying, "Today's a good day to die."

Here's a link to the remaining concert schedule and a great sampling of some free sounds.

And here are some Video snippets I shot on my iPhone at the concert, of peak moments in songs.