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Post by dirtyfaz on Oct 26, 2013 4:37:04 GMT
Hope this is ok Simon. Congratulations on the birth of yours and Vanessa's son yesterday afternoon.
Chris
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Post by roots66 on Oct 26, 2013 21:13:15 GMT
Wow, wonderful news!!! Mazel tov you two!
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Post by scousette on Oct 28, 2013 1:01:30 GMT
Wonderful news! Congratulations!
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Post by knut on Nov 3, 2013 15:39:14 GMT
Congrats, Simon! Best wishes from Norway.
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Post by Gralto on Dec 1, 2013 14:13:02 GMT
Thanks everyone - the last month has flown since the birth of my first child (Mitchell) - at the age of 42. I now comprehend the reality of what everyone who has had a child says about how your spare time just disappears, well certainly in the early days. And sleep..! Meaning...there's been little time for The Hollies and visits to this board, until now. Thanks to everyone for keeping the traffic ticking over here.
About the only thing that I have been able to do this past month is start reading Graham Nash's autobiography, which has been somewhat ghost written by Bob Spitz. I will get around to writing a more comprehensive review once I've finished but initial thoughts are it's a light read, it's very entertaining and to me, it's as much about David Crosby as it is Nash. Graham is a very smart, interesting, complex man like all successful artists and given what he could have said in his own printed soapbox, I'm quite disappointed by the lack of depth in many of the passages. But I am a detail guy and maybe I'm expecting too much of an autobiog from a man who has always prided himself on his courtesy and diplomacy. CSN only survived post 1970 thanks to Graham - without him Crosby would literally be dead most likely without Nash being a devoted friend.
I have probably read about 2/3 of the book at this stage and there are lots of tales of sex and drugs but not much about the music. But what can you do - you have been involved in music for over 50 years and there are SO many stories attached to his incredible life, that important tales are going to get left out. But...other stories that you have heard many time before have been given another airing here. The stories about Neil Young walking out of the window one story up and asking for more barn when adjusting his speakers (these will take too long to explain if you don't know them) Nash was telling David Letterman in 1983. To me, the book is very tightly controlled in that while he will tell all the sex and drugs stories about Crosby and Stills (because he knows they can handle them and those three have an unbreakable Beatles-like bond), there are questions I have about his history that are totally ignored. If anything, this book clearly suggests to me Graham has never had therapy (!) because so many of his stories are very surface level in their telling. There is not a huge amount of detailed thought processing being aired or careful introspection on decisions/actions. It's not Ray Davies X Ray that's for sure.
That said, I've enjoyed reading his journey, and there are moments about his family that are quite revealing. I look forward to completing the rest of it in the coming days. I'd be very keen to hear what longtime CSN devoted fans make of this. Does this book pass or fail?
cheers Simon
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