CSNY Previews Highly Anticipated Fillmore East 1969 Live Album With Electric & Acoustic Tracks

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young shared two more previews of the highly anticipated Live At The Fillmore East, 1969 album, due out on October 25 via Rhino. Arriving today are an acoustic “Our House” and electric “Long Time Gone.”

Officially announced in September, Live At The Fillmore East, 1969 was captured just a month after CSNY’s performance at Woodstock, perhaps the most famous second gig ever. Stephen Stills recalled CSNY still dialing in the electric portion of the show at Fillmore East.

“[T]he acoustic part of the show took care of itself,” he said, “but now that we had equipment and Dallas [Taylor, drums] and Greg [Reeves, bass] and sizable shows to do, we just went for it. What we lacked in finesse, we made up for in enthusiasm…A band on the run. Expecting to fly.”

Stills and his old friend Neil Young compiled and mixed the original eight-track recordings with John Hanlon at Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles. Young recently commented on the recordings.

“[We] have the tapes, and they sound so real,” he said. “We mixed at Sunset Sound – the analog echo chamber, no digital echo. We’re staying all analog throughout the production…Pure. Analog. No digital – an Analog Original.”

Both Young and Graham Nash looked back fondly on the incredible era for the legendary singer-songwriters.

“For me, CSNY was a chance to reunite with Steve Stills and carry on the Buffalo Springfield vibe,” Young stated. “Crosby’s great energy was always our catalyst. Graham and Stephen’s vocals, along with David’s and mine, were uplifting every night. Great moments I will never forget.”

“Hearing the music again after all these years, I can tell how much we loved each other and loved the music that we were creating,” Nash added. “We were four people reveling in the different sounds we were producing, quietly singing together on the one hand, then rocking like f**k for the rest of the concert.”

Graham Nash’s “Our House” was written whn he was living with Joni Mitchell in Laurel Canyon. Joni was in attendence at the Fillmore East on September 20. “Long Time Gone” was penned by the late great David Crosby the night Robert Kennedy was assassinated. Crosby commented on the song in the liner notes for the 1991 CSN box set.

“[‘Long Time Gone’] was written the night Bobby Kennedy was killed. I believed in him because he said he wanted to make some positive changes in America, and he hadn’t been bought and sold like Johnson and Nixon—cats who made their deals years ago with the special interests in this country in order to gain power. I thought Bobby, like his brother, was a leader who had not made those deals. I was already angry about Jack Kennedy getting killed and it boiled over into this song when they got his brother, too.”

Listen to “Long Time Gone” [Electric Set] and “Our House” [Acoustic Set] below: