![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It offers sweetly harmonized instruction on how to embrace domesticity (Our House), raise kids (Teach Your. “This band is not uptight behind that song at all, having been through similar experiences.” - S.V.L. David Crosby 's 'Almost Cut My Hair' was a piece of high-energy hippie-era paranoia not too far removed in subject from the Byrds ' 'Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man,' only angrier in mood and texture (especially amid the pumping organ and slashing guitars) the title track, also by Crosby, took 100 hours to work out and was a better-received succes. A milestone record of the folk-rock movement, CSN’s second album together (and their first with Y) was a virtual how-to for flower children entering adulthood in the ‘70s. (Jefferson Airplane, always game for a provocative gesture, went on to cover it the Byrds’ original studio recording of “Triad” wouldn’t be released til years later as a bonus track.) “At least one group of people was very uptight by that song,” Crosby told Rolling Stone’s Ben Fong-Torres in 1970, after he’d landed happily in CSN. “I love you too, and I don’t really see,” he crooned over the band’s smoky slow-burn, “why can’t we go on as three?” Those words were risqué enough to get him axed from the band in the fall of 1968, after Croz fought unsuccessfully for the song’s inclusion on The Notorious Byrd Brothers amid growing conflicts with bandmates Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman. Crosby’s relentless drive to push the Byrds into new realms - so effective when he turned his bandmates on to Coltrane and raga for “Eight Miles High” in 1966 - met its limit two years later with this frank threesome proposition. ![]()
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