![]() The new album was just the beginning of a legacy of powerful and risky songs David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash raised into the world we were living in, orchestrating lyrics, instruments and tonalities to paint our picture. I rode it out, with the windows down and the volume turned up to eleven until the last chord and the last hard ending…“di da dit.” More than satisfied, I jumped out of the car and ran the few blocks to the office, barely making it on time, a little sweaty but I was jazzed. ![]() Then the song hit the part where it jumps back up in speed as the voices joined in singing “Di dit dit dit dit dit da dit” over and over and over again while Stephen Stills’ lead voice sang over the top…words I couldn’t understand. I parked, shut the engine off and keyed it to ACC to keep the music going.Įven though I was on the cusp of being on time or late for work, I just could not get out of the car as long while the song was playing. It was still running as I pulled into the Nello Teer Company personnel parking lot off of Magnum Street a few blocks from the office. ![]() I was on my way to work and driving to “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.” The drive was short and the song was long. I was 16 and I still remember popping the new release from Crosby, Stills and Nash into the 8-track one summer morning in 1969.
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