Exclusive, never before released- Buffalo Springfield 1986 Rehearsal Part 2 

number 1306 here ;) Hey Neil... let us know your number! lol

Wow. I dropped in for 5 min last night... maybe the night before.right loolo puff, puff....when it hit 1000. I refreshed and it was still 1000! I was so excited! :D :D :D good to cu wannabee average person.

No cutting in line, Neil.

thanks for posting this I think people can learn from watching this how they create the art of music

@@LetArtsLive I'm not a musician and having the opportunity of seeing various musicians working in the creative process that is specific to musicians collaborating was my biggest takeaway from my days as a cameraman filming and hanging out w/ musicians

Thanks for droppin by the hangout to watch them having fun, hangin' out together playing music. I will attest to the fact that 'fun' was the spirit in the air in the room along w/ an undercurrent of hope and expectations.

Incense, Peppermints, For What It's Worth, gets round, round get around, it gets around and I'm stoned.

So?

Nice....so you're kinda old.

@@Vcubed1 so your pants

@@waynelatham4281 and you're kinda Sherlock?

Well, they formed in spring '66 and played a final show in Long Beach in May '68, so I'd say that's more than "less than a year."

A living room with platinum and gold records! And most likely a plate with a PILE of cocaine..

@@BIZARBIES SSssssshhhh!!1!! ;-)

I can totally relate. There was a joyous energy in the room- the band was having fun getting back together in the present, circa 1986, but through the window of time, we know that the potential wasn't realized which brings melancholy. There is a pathos in the passage of time- we have our memories but there is no going back. The present is fleeting and we don't know how the future will play out, including the time that we will cash in our bodies in the physical world, after which we don't know what future there may or may not be. For me, that is a motivator to live a full life and understand as much as I can about living the process in the 'now'.

Beyond the existential malaise, I'm particularly saddened that this reunion didn't result in a recording and a tour. In the 80s I'd have traveled anywhere to see these guys. I wish I'd had the chance.

They sold out.

@@Datanditto not all of em. Sold out. That's something people said decades ago. What does that even mean? We work, pay taxes had kids like most people. What did u expect? For us to panhandle and say peace and love and nothing more? Hippie was/is a way of thinking and living

Still around

They're left wingnuts ruining the country in congress now.

That's as simple and true as it gets.

you are welcome, yet, again. LOL ;)

Yes please!!1!! :-)

Scary part: I think I'm about 15 years older now than they were back then :-/

Is it really? Seems like a couple hate the others.

Which one was Rich Furay?

@@howie9751 dark hair, glasses

Amen!

That's a great compliment because that was what I was going for. I didn't interact w/ the band while taping, kept as a low of a profile as I could- didn't move around a lot, let it come to the camera. I was trained in doc to be a fly on the wall, but, back then, it was instinctual as well. Cameramen get lost inside the lens. There are moments when they all acknowledge a camera in the space, can't get around that, but there wer surprises on their faces, too, which happens to me when I'm focused on something and somebody comes up next to me from out of the blue. That's a good indicator that they were doing their thing for the most part.. I was already friends w/ Dewey and Bruce, up in Topanga, had struck up a friendship w/ Stephen, so they were used to me- Neil and Richie I had met in the rehearsal space from behind the camera. lolol Anyways, I don't want to overanalyze it to death, (he says after the fact) ;)

@@mindstash704 Well in that case, it worked perfectly! :-) Thankyou!

LOL The comment I posted about Joe Vitale was in response to another comment. Thanks, Diane. I've got a thing for these guys, too. :) :) :)

When they grab their nose to stop the drip and their eyes light up....Yeah, I know:)

Neil relaxed? LOL Werner Herzog once told me to relax because I was too intense. There are degrees of being relaxed. LMAO

.....and not being a douche.

Felt like he was giving Richie a rib with the religious show comment.

C'est rien. Merci!

I don't think the neighbors knew wtf was happening over there.

I doubt it’s an apartment, though…

That’s his house 😊

That's most likely his music room in a very big house. A lot of music awards on the wall.

Where was that? Was that w/ Frank and Stanley, too?

at least, you've got a music room. I have nothing, but then, I'm not a musician so that makes sense. I just used to make money off of them. LOLOL ;) But this one is for fun.

...this was so enjoyable Mindstash...as a Springfield fan since FWIW was released, and most subsequent band spin-offs...to see the boys in a home-setting is priceless...Neil does seem a little revved-up,lol...and still the question remains, why was there never, to the best of my knowledge, a subsequent project with Richie and SS or NY ?

Around 4:17 you can hear Stills say 1986

Crosby was such a waste.

They had been on camera before and knew better.

LOL It's funny seeing my head w/ a bald spot now, too. It depends upon where you are at in line and what your relationship w/ your hair is. I think watching my body deteriorate over time is funnier then it is sad.

Oh...and remember that you are seeing an edited version of the rehearsal

You're right.

Who will fix your mind?

Lot him from being one of the Monkees but glad for that.

I hadn't noticed. I'll check it out.

He didn’t need fixing’….you risk messing with ur voice too when u do that

From my experience, there isn't a much of a talent gap between bands that have become famous and bands that are working the backwater circuits or experienced weekenders jamming at the pub other than how good and prolific the songwriting is and an established band has more time and resources available to refine their work once they get into the game. But at the heart of it, musicians jamming are musicians jamming.

Oppothumbs M Yes

LMAO!!!

Thanks, ZT. Next up from the '86 rehearsal will be a look at the band working on the material that Stills brought to the party. It's blues based and was a good platform to show off Stephen's guitar playing skills although, it was so new that he didn't have the lyrics down and had to fill in the word and phrasing blanks w/ sounds... I have more interviews to draw from, as well, and am weaving them together into a mini-doc w/ some voiceover, by yours truly. In terms of original, footage I produced and directed the promotional video that Doug Collins and Stu Cooke used to show promoters after they had their 50th birthdays, (on the same day, no less) and decided to reform and tour as Creedence Clearwater Revisited w/ Elliot Easton who was formerly w/ the Cars and a couple of other crack musicians. They have some of their performances on youtube and I have been taken aback by some of the negative comments. ie w/o Fogerty, they are nothing. WTF?? These guys are all top notch musicians. I've got a few other sticks in the fire as well. I'll be at a Stephen Stills Judy Collins concert locally and am going to see if I can pull off my old friendship w/ Stephen to get some exclusive access. Would love to tape them singing Suite Judy Blue Eyes together.

Agreed. Was singing along. The origins of El Dorado came from “Road of Plenty”.

Cool . . . Did he have all those gold records on the wall too? 😋

It was on Gloria between Ventura Blvd and the 101. Right in the middle of things but hidden in plain sight. It's a dead-end w/ low traffic and houses on large lots ser-off from the street.

Lol

Stephen's long time guitar tech Doug Briedenbach-

I’m to BIG to change a string

At least he took the broken one off. Come on -- you gonna change a string if there's someone around to change it for you? Not me, brother or sister.

LOL yep. He had to concentrate on other shit, I guess. LMAO!

He doesn't even have to tune them anymore.

If you remembered it you weren't there. It sounds to me like you were there. lol ;)

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Hey my brotha. There's been a great crowd hangin out, comin and goin and u fit right in. I didn't know what to expect a year ago, but the right bees have been comin to the honey- the music that we love or grew up with and these guys are interesting in their own right, to say the least...LMAO... Fuck them guys.... nooooo... just kiddin...puff....pufff.... old enuff 2 get away w/ it w/o giving a fuck.;) Thanks brother.

Richie Furay was really into it, so if you like him, you're in good company.

Lol!! Ha ha that’s ancient!!!

@@RjBenjamin353 and so am I not to mention the musicians in the room who are all older than me. I might be off here, you tell me, but the impression I got from Richie Furay while he was tuning his guitar, eschewing the help of the guitar tuner in the room, was that it was a cool, new thing. I'll check but I think he told Bruce, something to that effect. IDK, was it new, at the time?

As far as the, now, vintage equipment is concerned, I do know that Neil was getting off on some new software for the keyboard that Joe Vitale had gotten ahold of and was working with.

Neil still uses those tuners in 2020. He has 5 of them up on stage.