| Product Summary | | Label: Atlantic/q Records | | UPC: 00093624983910 | | Release Date: 7/22/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 208272474 | | Item#: M47J7Y | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25050 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. What Are Their Names? ~ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young |  | | 2. Living With War - Theme ~ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | | | 3. After the Garden ~ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | | | 4. Military Madness ~ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | | | 5. Let's Impeach the President ~ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | | | 6. Deja Vu ~ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | | | 7. Shock and Awe ~ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | | | 8. Families ~ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | | | 9. Wooden Ships ~ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | | | 10. Looking For a Leader ~ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | | | 11. For What It's Worth ~ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | | | 12. Living With War ~ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | | | 13. Roger and Out ~ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | | | 14. Find the Cost of Freedom ~ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | | | 15. Teach Your Children ~ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | | | 16. Living With War - Theme ~ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Neil Young (vocals, guitar, piano, synthesizer); Graham Nash (vocals, guitar, piano); Stephen Stills (vocals, guitar, keyboards); David Crosby (vocals, guitar). | | Personnel: Crosby, David & Graham Nash (vocals, guitar); Ben Keith (pedal steel guitar); Tommy Bray (trumpet); Spooner Oldham (keyboards); Rick Rosas (bass guitar); Chad Cromwell (drums). | | Audio Mixers: Dave Lohr; Tim Mulligan. | | Recording information: Audio Resource, Honolulu, HI (2006); Capitol Records, Hollywood, CA (2006); Freedom Of Speech Tour (2006). | | Director: Elliot Roberts. | | Photographer: Larry Cragg. | | Arranger: Neil Young. | | Despite the somewhat misleading title, DJA VU LIVE is not a live version of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 1970 classic. In 2006, following the release of Neil Young's unapologetically political protest album, LIVING WITH WAR, a Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young reunion called the Freedom Of Speech Tour featured a set list comprising both Young's new album (including plainspoken tracks such as "Let's Impeach the President") and politically minded material from their heyday, including Graham Nash's "Military Madness" and the Buffalo Springfield protest anthem, "For What It's Worth." DJA VU LIVE is the soundtrack to a similarly named documentary about that tour. | | Based on the title, it's hard not to think that D?j? Vu Live finds Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young reaching back into their past, perhaps even performing their classic 1970 album in its entirety. That's not true, although there is an album that comes close to being performed in its entirety here, and that's Neil Young's 2006 political manifesto Living with War, a controversial record that Young supported by re-teaming with CSN for a tour -- a tour that was documented in the Young-directed feature documentary D?j? Vu Live. Got that? It's a series of circumstances a bit too confusing for music that's so straightforward, as the Living with War tour was as direct as the album itself. Direct, yes, but it also was a bit softer than the record, as it was bathed in the warm glow of the reunion of Young with CSN, whose presence helps Young's songs seem elegiac instead of bitter. There's no disguising what this is: this is a set of aging hippies lamenting the way things are now by connecting to who they were back then, reuniting for the new songs and mixing up relevant older ones -- including, yes, the warhorses "For What It's Worth" and "Teach Your Children" -- to provide a bridge to the past. CSNY don't run from their age, as they can't escape it: some voices have grown gravelly, the harmonies are shakier, there isn't quite as much muscle to the guitar. But by not running from these signs of age, CSNY wind up with a live album that has a bit of resonance, as when it's contrasted with the rangy, restless 4 Way Street, it's hard not to be a little moved and marvel that the bandmembers feel so comfortable here, especially considering their tortured history. This winds up being the overarching impression left by D?j? Vu Live, as despite the topicality of the set list, D?j? Vu Live feels curiously isolated; there may have been controversy on the tour, all chronicled on Young's film, but it doesn't feel engaged with the culture at large, which could be a side effect of the digital dislocation of the 21st century, or it could be a sign that CSNY are growing older and simply don't stir things up the way they did back then. But for those who are listening, their message has resonance -- and so does the music, as this live record winds up being a nice understated grace note to their tumultuous career. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine |
Producer: L.A. Johnson; Neil Young; Niko Bolas |
Engineer: Rob Clark; Tony Hugar; Jimmy Hoyson; Steve Genewick |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 07/22/2008 | | Original Release Date : 2008 | | Catalog ID : 512606 | | Label : Reprise | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Live | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00093624983910 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.84)
- "Young's songs are the true rocket-launchers on DEJA VU LIVE. His squiggly guitar blasts also act as the gunpowder that fires older tunes like Graham Nash's 'Military Madness'..."Mojo (Publisher)
(p.112)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "The utilitarian heft of Young's new material is lent added sophistication by the still-sainted harmonies of Nash and Crosby..." Record Collector (magazine)
(p.86)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "The album includes numerous full-length soundboard takes of songs that are only heard as excerpts in the documentary....The message still rings through loud and clear..." |
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