STEPHEN STILLS Black Queen REACTION- I will never look at this man the same again!First time hearing

[@timhalley6987]

Without question the most underrated and underappreciated guitarist in popular music. His work on a Stratocaster is other worldly.

[@dhopedruley2509]

I think it’s the vinyl album cover that says, “The performance of Black Queen" was recorded live & the performance is courtesy of Jose Cuervo Gold Label Tequila.😮

[@valentinat3250]

That’s how CSNY was such a super group🔥

[@michaelsimmons8052]

Stephen Stills is often overlooked and underrated. One of the best.

[@Blue-qr7qe]

I love this song. Once you've heard this, you'll always hear CSN differently. I've requested this often with different reactors. You're the only one i've ever seen post it. Go, Harri!

[@deniseg812]

When he says, get on me black queen.

[@Imadrummin]

Stephen Stills is bad indeed. What a groove and his voice is perfect for this style My hats off. Great pick Greybeard MM. I'm with ya Harri.👍👍

[@bobsteinzig]

Watching him live in an outdoor concert in Albuquerque some youngns were laughing. Steve stopped playing and looked at them saying "one thing the blues ain't is funny"

[@suesmith7968]

Stills was the favorite for me. Check out his work with Buffalo Springfield when he was just a pup…..☮️❤️

[@jeraldkimball494]

I've been a huge fan of his since his early days with such bands as Buffalo Springfield. He has been a big part of several bands throughout his career.

[@richeaton5752]

Listen to all of the "Manassas" record for MANY sides of Stephen...

[@paularietta6744]

Stephen Stills was always my favorite from the CSNY days. Just an amazing and uniquely recognizable voice and guitar tone. Please review "Sit yourself down" and "It Doesn't Matter" soon. Thank you Hari.😊

[@emilyflotilla931]

"Sit Yourself Down!" Yes, great suggestion!

[@mariaroncalli863]

If you watch any documentary on CSN, you will hear them all attest to the fact that, when they first formed the band, Stills played ALL the instruments for the records, would spend nights alone in the studio to do it all, and when they were faced with the dilemma of what to do live (since obviously Stills would not have been able to play everything) that's when they thought of including Neil Young.

[@ThePittsburghToddy]

Stephen Stills is an underrated guitarist. Please listen to Tree Top Flier.🖖🏼

[@martyjansing2675]

political activism... was not afraid to stick his neck out

[@annewilkinson8616]

Tree Top Flyer is a favorite for me. He said when he did Black Queen, he was stoned out of his mind. Which explains why Tree Top Flier is a bit more polished... LOL 😂

[@pattiaustin1808]

And, yes, Stephen Stills is a wicked guitar master.

[@udirtypuppy5174]

Stephen Stills 2x Rock and Roll inductee. one of the few. Only musician i have known who had Eric Clapton and JImi Hendrix as rhythm backup on an album.

[@danielvolk237]

Great pick GMM. One of Stephen Still best songs. He and Neil Young were always rival guitarists and always tried to outdo each other. Graham Nash said Stephen was one the best guitarist he ever heard and he heard them all. 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🤴👍🙃

[@Cynthia...]

I love Stephen Stills and this is such a great song. Thanks Greybeard and Harri.

[@melissa9375]

The album notes credit Jose Cuervo for this performance.

[@alpetrocelli4465]

Stills & Young are two guitar gods. Together they jam like Allman & Betts, or Garcia & Weir. On this LP Stephen collaborated with Hendrix & Clapton among others. It’s one of my favorites! ✌️❤️🎶

[@deniseg812]

Trucks

[@RogerWyatt365]

This is hands down my most favorite Stephen Stills song of all time! Thank you Harri for doing this.

[@lynlucas5573]

What a great guitarist he is...luved his voice in this tune

[@kraig7777]

I could listen to him just play guitar for hours.

[@The5thGen]

Stephen Stills has been one of my very favorite American musicians! He also plays keys too!

[@margietalk]

thanx for this great video. he said he learned music from black people in his baby days. since crosby died i have come full circle to studying this band instead of just enjoying their music. what a great late life story to hear. in the course of all this i have found that he was a gazillion times more talented than i already thought. your reaction was wonderful. i hope he sees this.

[@dantallman5345]

Stills is awesome. Thanks for reacting to this. Tree Top Flyer is another great Stills song. It is about guys who learned to fly low in Vietnam now being self-employed using those skills to make serious money. Stills uses creative guitar tuning schemes to enhance his free-wheeling style with full sound, great resonance and drone notes.

[@rodgantt3497]

Stills is genius. I love Black Queen. The first two solo albums and the Manassas album are exceptional. He has other greats such as Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix on the first two albums, which shows their respect for Stills. Thanks for your consistently good reviews!

[@marygriffiths2950]

First time hearing this song 🎼 🎼

[@douglasdegraff8335]

Jimi Hendrix said it would be his honor to play on the first solo album of Stephen Stills. Here you hear why.🎸

[@marybaillie8907]

From his self titled debut album, 1970, Stephen displays his expertise in having his guitar do the talking on this song.His raw vocals are so attention grabbing in this song. Lead guitarist for CSNY Stephen is so talented he played every instrument on CSNY debut album except the drums. Fell in love with him, while in Buffalo Springfield, singing " For What It's Worth". Great reaction Harri.💎💎💎 Thanks Harri and Greybearded Music Man.👏👏 Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦

[@garyarnett1220]

Great song. My fav Springfield song is rock n roll woman...wonderful guitar by Stills. And the harmonies !! (She's a joy to know oh oh)

[@marybaillie8907]

@@garyarnett1220 Yes. Beautiful song. The whole album is gold. 👍✌️🎶👏

[@asteverino8569]

Full of southern charm, this version is.

[@wilfbentley6738]

All of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young can play guitar, of course with different styles and at different levels.

[@billhipple6076]

Stephen Stills Live on Video ~ Crossroads / You Can't Catch Me - 1983

[@yankeeboyno7]

Check out Stills on the Super Session album with Mike Bloomfield. He was great even back in his Buffalo Springfield days - before CSN.

[@martyjansing2675]

So Harri finally gave himself a proper introduction to Stephen Stills. When he did Go Back Home you were only interested in 15 seconds of Clapton. Stills played everything up until that 15 seconds. When Clapton recorded his first solo album he decided he didn't like it. He took the tapes to Tom Dowd in Miami. Three days later Stills walks into the studio and rerecorded the bass for Let It Rain. A year earlier Stills was called into save Al Kooper, founding member of Blood, Sweat and Tears. Kooper had gotten a studio for two days so that he and Mike Bloomfield could record an album. Bloomfield split the scene the morning of the second day. Kooper calls Stills and he shows up later that afternoon. A song with Stills on electric guitar would be SEASON OF THE WITCH from Super Session.

[@ememnicholas565]

Stephen Stills is one of my favorite guitarist. I have always considered him the glue that held CSN(& sometimes Y) together. Love him! I wore out his early albums years ago.

[@rmac8008]

Stephen is the main guitar and keyboard player in CSNY Plenty of great solo albums and his work with his band Manassas Or check out side 2 of super session w/Al kooper

[@emilyflotilla931]

Super Session was and still is Epic!

[@coachhannah2403]

Young was acquired because Steve played/overdubbed all the main guitar on the CS&N album and they couldn't tour like that.

[@rastamon52]

I saw Stephen with Manassas in 1971(or72). My first big arena show. He never left the stage for over 2 hours. What a show.

[@lindahunter4545]

This is the first time I listened to this song since my grandson took his life at only 20yrs old. We always enjoyed listening to music together and this song, The Sound of Silence by Disturbia was our favorites. It was played at his wake. I couldn't bring myself to listen to it ever again because of the memories. It was the last song that we listened to together. But I gave in and listened and I'm still shedding tears.

[@dougww1ectebow]

I've seen him live twice with CSN and once with Y. He's a stellar guitarist.

[@rodneygriffin7666]

He wrote Suite:Judy Blue Eyes and For What It's Worth. Amazing Musician as well. Check out Manassas, His other band in the mid 70's. Stephen Stills.

[@ohfour-seven6228]

The Manassas two album set is amazing, I play it all the time.

[@martyjansing2675]

The Treasure from The Beat Club LIVE

[@tedcole9936]

Yeah, yeah, Harri… now you’re ON IT!!! Stills is a guitar master. A personal fave of mine is a lady named Rita Coolidge “2nd Story Window” -Stills plays the acoustic guitar on that track, and really makes the song great -just playing in the background. Check it out sometime !?! Also check out “Old Times, Good Times” which is from the same album as “Black Queen”. Jimi HENDRIX sits in with Stills, and the result is fantastic.

[@alphajava761]

The song Southern Man live on the 4 Way Street album, Stills and Young have a very long conversation with their guitars that's pretty amazing.

[@garyarnett1220]

Saw him live at Denver's Red Rocks amphitheater when this album came out. I believe Rita Coolidge opened the show.

[@kathyrams]

This was cut as a demo to develop with Clapton or Hendrix who both collaborated on his first album. Everyone told him it was finished.

[@atombomb31458]

Stills is a legend

[@donfaruolo1858]

I love your vids and your EXCELLENT taste in music. May I recommend, that if you enjoy Black Queen so much, earlier, in 1967, Stills' acoustic solo on Buffalo Springfield's Bluebird is one of the finest acoustic guitar solos that you will ever hear. You will find the roots of Black Queen in that solo. The mastery of Stills' playing is that he generally does not use a pick, so there is as much going on with his right hand as there is with his left. Carry on!

[@nathanielcampbell3488]

Stephen Stills is one of my favorite guitarists, singers, and songwriters right near the top of my list with Neil Young and I have enjoyed collecting albums on vinyl and cd over the years to hear all their music I could find. Together individually and with other collaborators. I’m enjoying it all over again watching others share in the enjoyment of their music. I’m sure Greybeard will keep you on track with excellent suggestions, I’d recommend something from Stephen’s Manassas album named after the excellent band he assembled of incredible musicians. “Johnny’s Garden” is one of my favorites off the album

[@foxandscout]

The last time I saw him was about 6 years ago in a small supper club in NYC ( City winery). He did not disappoint. His vocals were a little less than stellar but his guitar playing was store fire. I took a few phone videos but they are too long to email or message to friends so they are still sitting in my phone.

[@seanjockel43]

I saw Stills play an electric version on the. CSNY 74 tour. And as a surprise appearance with the Grateful Dead

[@Prone2Thrill]

I have loved CSNY all my life thanks to mom but it was only later in my fifties that I learned even more about Stills and imo he was the driving force in most of his bands or musical associations. A fabulous talent that is very underrated - I only discovered Tree Top Flyer in the last few years and it's on my playlist bigtime now. I looped it for weeks, heard the demo's too, it's interesting how he'll toss words around the song to see what fits where.

[@davidrauh8118]

He waited till he was good and drunk before he recorded this, to get that gravely edge to his voice. Didn't hurt his guitar playing any.

[@raycewilliams3300]

I had forgotten this song. I only heard it once or twice. What a fantastic piece of music. Thanks for reacting to it.

[@leonardoglesby1730]

Stephen Stills' guitar and vocal work extends way beyond CSN&Y. Start with his first collaboration with Neil Young, "Buffalo Springfield" to deliver songs such as "For What It's Worth". Then he joined with Mike Bloomfield, and Al Kooper to produce "Super Session". In among his CSN/CSN&Y work he collaborated with Chris Hillman of the Byrds to make the underrated "Manassas" and the first of many solo works where he had help from a shopping list of super stars, that includes his other work with Neil Young with The Stills-Young Band . His guitar work has always been praised by his peers, and admired by folks such as us.

[@waltw4537]

Yeah Man!. We were lucky enough to have The Rides play in our little town pre-covid. Stills, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Barry Goldberg. Stephen still has it! The only time ever seeing Stills. Lol! Yes, Harri! Stephen can blow yer mind!! Oh! Barry Goldberg above? He wrote or co-wrote "I've Got To Use My Imagination"! Hey. There's electric Stills on that tune, BTW! Great reaction! Hadn't heard the tune lately. Thanks.

[@joebloggs8636]

Off of his very first solo album..same album,he plays with Clapton AND Jimi .1970

[@Markrealguy51]

Off this album listen to going back home and love the one you’re with,my 2 other favorites here

[@pattiaustin1808]

Harri, you make me so happy! I loved Stephen Stills from CSN/CSNY, but I bought all of his solo albums back in the 70s, grew up on this stuff, love every sound and every song to this day.

[@markburnham7512]

Stills was, by far, the most talented of the CSNY gang. IMO of course.

[@forwardpeace]

I was drawn to Stills' guitar work going back to Buffalo Springfield, especially "Rock n Roll Woman" and "Bluebird." I also very much liked his tasty bass and guitar work on Judy Collins' album "Who Knows Where the Time Goes."

[@stephenmichael8837]

That is why he would be my choice if I had to code just one artist to listen to. The quality and breadth of what he has done and been a part of is staggering !!!!! Treetop flier is another gem.

[@kirkhall2099]

Had no idea about this either. That was very nice

[@carlos_herrera]

He wrote this song for the Grateful Dead, and played it onstage with them at least once in 1969 and again in 1983.

[@deniseg812]

Where did you hear that

[@riggermorpus]

To me Stephen Stills is the major cog in the CSNY group. If not for him that group would not have achieved greatness.

[@greggbarrett7117]

Gotta hear Crossroads/you can't catch me. Stills Live version.

[@tbu1mi]

This is great. Check out Treetop flyer, very bluesy as well.

[@davemulka18]

Check out his song called Church. Great for a self made man.

[@jennifergriswold6240]

Stephen is a god!!!

[@michaelearly8097]

Try Tree Top Flyer by Stills

[@stevenspringer1599]

I'm still waiting for the next Buffalo Springfield album...

[@cubfanmike]

I heard Steve, in an Interview, admit to being drunk on tequila, as he recorded this - whatever works

[@davemulka18]

Did you that Jimi only played on one other persons album? Steven Stills!!!

[@chitownlee]

I'm glad you're getting around to Stephen seems like you only talk about Crosby and Young you need to check out Graham Nash too.

[@asteverino8569]

A request: 'Everything she does is magic' The Police.

[@HenryInHawaii]

There was some doubts about adding Neil to CSN then someone said "have you seen Steven and Neil play together?"

[@liblit]

You already heard Stills electric on 'Wooden Ships.' He also plays the lead electric guitar on 'Ohio.' The other sloppy masterpiece is the live 'Southern Man' with Stills and Young dueling electric guitars on the CSNY album Four Way Street. And for a great rock n' roll acoustic guitar solo (not that many of those, are there?) you can't miss 'Bluebird' going back to the Buffalo Springfield days. Highly recommended.

[@maureenhorrigan7151]

Listen to 4 way street if you want to hear Stills play Electric Harry or Manassas

[@steveallenallen3725]

TREETOP FLYER IS ANOTHER GOOD ONE

[@howardhales6325]

I knew.

[@jwinn5525]

Blues Man Manassas

[@rogerfleming6354]

If you want to compare Neil Young lead guitar to Steven Stills, You are Like a Hurricane ( Young ) kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmbUdmefoNaBn9E compare to Jet Set ( ( Stills) kzbin.info/www/bejne/bn_bY5yAibd-qas

[@pattiaustin1808]

That Stills clip was great! Imagine how fun it would be to play with other musicians who are THAT GOOD. Stephen Stills can play anything!

[@jerrygramckow3584]

If you like this, I'll bet you'll also really like Treetop Flyer.

[@andrewmcbride8925]

Great reaction, Harri. As you requested some electric Stills, here he is doing the same song on electric guitar at a CSNY show at Wembley Stadium, London in 1974. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaHMqZygfbqEZ5I Neil Young plays some rhythm but its mostly Stills tearing it up on lead.

[@OddBall1958]

While Neil is a great guitar player My opinion is Stills is better. Listen to Ste Judy Blue Eyes, Written by Stills. Simply awesome guitar work

[@davidespinosa1910]

Drunk off his butt ! Read the comments...

[@maureenhorrigan7151]

Dude, Its Crosby Stills Nash and Young 😂

[@daboiderinhoDerekDamico]

treetop flyer is even better

[@heydayma10513]

Who is The Black Queen?

[@j.h.3777]

Latifah?

[@pattiaustin1808]

I think she’s just the Queen of Spades, this being a “card game” after all.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Why this is awful!!! Should have done Cherokee or something from Manassas...too many wimp boys

[@kerrywolfert5095]

This song was originally designed to be played electrically with Eric Clapton but, according to Mr. Stills, he and Clapton went out and got "knee walking drunk" and he had to put Clapton in a cab to his hotel. So Stills went into a studio and actually recorded this while he was completely drunk. If you read the notes on the album he dedicates the performance to Jose Cuervo Gold Label Taquila.

[@davidespinosa1910]

Fabulous ! I read the liner notes, but hadn't heard about Clapton.

[@riccardo6152]

Jimy Hendrix era un grande ammiratore degli assoli acustici di Stephen Stills.