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Location: Michigan | Can anyone tell me who put out the first version of the song Wooden Ships ?
Both Crosby/Stills/Nash & Jefferson Airplane seemed to have recorded it at the same time.
I personally like the version by Jefferson Airplane alot better. GWB |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Written by David Crosby, Paul Kantner & Stephen Stills. |
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Location: Houston, Texas | Great song! ...and fun to play. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Here's the scenario... They were all in a circle, and there was vegetable matter... |
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Location: SoCal | Didn't each group receive credit for original versions simultaneously released in '69.
Here is one synopsis of their creation process. |
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Location: NJ | love the airplane's version |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Noah, thanks for the link, very interesting! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | very interesting. |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Original quote by Joyful Noise
Great song! ...and fun to play. ....especially those Crosby 2 and 3 note fragments way up the neck. Play it on a 12-string and it makes you sound like a genius! |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | CSN doing Wooden Ships with Crosby playing a Hurricane. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Thanks for the link Cholloway.
What did we ever do without You Tube??
How cool it it to start with a link to an obsure live version of Wooden Ships then just look over to the list on the right and watch Down By The River and others? |
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Location: NJ | I saw that same tour in '77. Stills used a wireless on his FireBird, and that was the first time I ever saw one. This was right after the the black "CSN" album came out, and they were DEFinitely at the top of their respective games.
I don't think that's a Hurricane on Crosby.
Maybe a Guild??
From the booklet inside of Crosby's "Voyage" box set:
Kantner originally didn't get writing credits, because he was being sued by his managers at the time.
"If you smile at me, I will understand, so on & so forth . . . . . ." came off of a sign in front of a Baptist church in Florida near where Cros had the "Mayan" docked.
"Silver People on the shoreline . . ." are people in radiation suits (in keeping with the whole Nuclear Annihilation/ScienceFiction-thing). |
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Location: south east Michigan | people in radiation suits (in keeping with the whole Nuclear Annihilation/ScienceFiction-thing).
I always imagined that song taking place sometime in the past rather than the future.
Guess I won't be doing that anymore. |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | That there dang song is plum weird! |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | weird? I'd say it's more grim. |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | It's ALL of those things. It's also a masterpiece! |
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The Song Wooden Ships
