Best CSN (no Y) gig I've ever attended 6/6/09 setlist

[TimmyB]

This was by far the best CSN (with no Y) gig I've ever seen.

Here's the setlist:

CSN

Meadow Brook Music Fest

SAT JUN 6 2009

Set 1: Start time: 8:06PM

1. Helplessly Hoping

2. You Don't Have to Cry (just CSN from 2-6) 1x

3. Ruby Tuesday (The Rolling Stones- Nash lead vocal) 1x

4. You Can Close Your Eyes (James Taylor- Crosby lead vocal) 1x

5. Reason to Believe (Tim Hardin- all three lead) 1x

6. Girl From the North Country (Bob Dylan- Stills lead vocal) 1x

7. Guinnevere

8. Dream for Him (Stills on bass)

9. In Your Name 1x

10. Lives in the Balance (Jackson Browne- Crosby lead vocal) 1x

11. Our House

12. Uncle John's Band (the Grateful Dead- all three lead) 1x

13. Chicago

14. Southern Cross

End time 9:09PM (Set 1 time: 1 hour and 03 minutes)

Set II: Start time 9:32PM

15. Rock & Roll Woman (Buffalo Springfield!) 1x

16. Marrakesh Express

17. Military Madness

18. Long Time Gone

19. Deja Vu

20. Bluebird (Buffalo Springfield Again!) 1x

21. Cathedral

22. Wounded World>

23. Rocky Mountain Way (Joe Walsh- Stills lead vocal) 1x

24. Almost Cut My Hair

25. For What it's Worth

26. Wooden Ships

Encore: 27. Teach Your Children

End time 10:49PM (Set II time: 1 hour and 17 minutes)

(Total time 2 hours and 20 minutes)

Seeing CSN in 94, 96 & 03 the sets were no more than 1 hour and 40 minutes and 17 songs and the gigs were always one set. The only time I have seen CSNY play longer or more songs is with Neil Young with them where they play around three hour gigs where they play 29 to 31 song setlists.

To not only get seven covers heard for the first time from CSN but also 4 originals, including two from Buffalo Springfield was phenomenal. Also their drummer was Joe Vitale, who I have never seen drum before! And it made sense for CSN to cover Walsh's "Rocky Mountain Way" again since Joe Vitale was a co-writer on the Walsh classic. The band was rounded out with Todd Caldwell on B3, Bob Clark on bass and Croz's son James Raymond on keyboards. And they were all in good vocal form, even Stills for being Stills.

I can not wait for the CSN Rick Rubin produced covers album to come out to hear these songs again and I hope they come back around in 2010.

Peace,

Tim

[zero]

Timmy your musical knowledge stupefies me.

[MoMack]

how was the UJB? They tape?

[Swifty]

I really wish I had known about this one. Meadowbrook is an ideal spot for them, and a great venue too.

[Kanada Kev]

That setlist looks like a lot of fun. Thanks for posting TimmyB. I never would have thought they were mixing it up so much now (compared to previous years) and doing longer/double sets.

I'm listening to this right now and really digging these takes:

Edited June 11, 2009 by Guest

[NewRider]

WOW! Amazing setlist!