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Just Roll Tape: April 26th, 1968 | 
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| Artist: Stephen Stills
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 2637
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 215676
UPC: 081227997915
EAN: 0081227997915
ASIN: B000R7I3KA
Release Date: July 10, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | All I Know is What You Tell Me | | • | So Begins the Task | | • | Change Partners | | • | Know You Got To Run | | • | The Doctor Will See You Now | | • | Black Queen | | • | Bumblebee (Do You Need A Place to Hide?) | | • | Judy | | • | Dreaming of Snakes | | • | Suite: Judy Blue Eyes | | • | Helplessly Hoping | | • | Wooden Ships | | • | Treetop Flyer |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
The title and cover art effectively tell the story of this dusty gem. Captured fly-on-the-wall style in an impromptu live-in-the-studio burst after a Judy Collins session on which the 23-year-old Stephen Stills played, the soon-to-be ex-leader of Buffalo Springfield (and Collins's ex-boyfriend) unleashes unplugged, occasionally incomplete versions of songs he had recently written and wanted to get on tape. Discovered in 1978 and nearly discarded, the reels found their way to Graham Nash in 2003, who encouraged Stills to release them. He finally did so in 2007, nearly 40 years after the original session, and the result is the most revelatory album in Stills's bulging catalog. Even with remastering, the sound is on the crude side. Nevertheless, early takes of "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," "Helplessly Hoping," and "Wooden Ships," all of which would appear in far more polished versions on Crosby, Stills & Nash's self-titled debut, are sung with a passion and honesty seldom exposed by the singer/songwriter. Stills's voice sometimes cracks, his guitar work intermittently sounds muddy, and these are definitely works in progress, some of which never appeared on an official release. Yet the artist is caught arguably at the peak of his substantial talents, laying down soon-to-be-classic melodies while they were fresh in his head. Folk/rock historians and Stills fans will surely be thrilled with this nascent, unvarnished set. Though Just Roll Tape may be too raw for some, it finds Stills at the crucial stage right before superstardom changed his--and popular music's--future forever. --Hal Horowitz
Album Description
Stephen Stills found himself in a New York recording studio, laid down a few hundred dollars, told the engineer to roll tape, and this collection of songs is what came about. Finally remastered and released to the public, this album shows the beginnings of Crosby, Still, and Nash.
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| Customer Reviews:
 highly accessible October 28, 2008
Patricia Centofanti (Bridgewater, NJ USA)
A simple review here:
I am a 'weak' CSNY fan. (caught them live, respect them as artists, but only own a few cd's). I so admire Stephen Stills' talent, but i'm definitely not a close follower of his career. Many of his great songs were recorded years before i was born!
That being said, i do love demo recordings and try to collect them. There's a natural feel, something more intimate and definitely less refined, but you get a look at the basic feel of the melodies as they existed in the artist's mind at that time.
These recordings ARE demos--nothing to rave about in mad artistry, of course. But from the first listen I was hooked. I played it for 2 of my friends the day i downloaded it and they both loved it instantly as well.
I totally recommend this cd. Probably devoted Stills fans and newbies would like it best (IMHO).
That's it from me. Thought an unsophisticated review may be useful to some....since there are others out there who may be interested music lovers but not knowledgeable followers of Stills/CSNY.
Enjoy!!
 seriously, it's not THAT great August 27, 2008
Passionate About Music
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Look at all the other reviews of this disc. They either say "I love Crosby, Stills, and Nash's music, so I love this" or they say "I love Stephen Stills' music, so I love this." But what would you say if you didn't already know this music from its later, more polished versions? You'd hear a good but occasionally sloppy guitarist singing folky, country-tinged songs, about half of them of very good quality. Some of these songs didn't show up in his later records for a good reason: they're dull. These demo versions of "Suite Judy Blue Eyes" and "Helplessly Hoping" are well worth a listen, but "Wooden Ships" has often been performed better.
The Intense Mr Stills August 5, 2008
Steve Wurster
I have been listening to Stephen Stills for 40 years, and I am always ready to hear any of his works. I once read that he is so intent on giving a great performance that he "hurls" before his performances. Whether it was Buffalo Springfield, CSN, CSN&Y, Manassas or any number of collaborations. This disc is the glue that held and holds all of them together. There are very few that deserve the title of musical genius, and Mr. Stephen Stills is one of those.
Problem with the recording date? July 15, 2008
Don Giller (New York, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A couple of anomalies I hope others might be able to clear up:
1) Amazon "Product Description" has this session taking place in a New York recording studio, and the "Editorial Review" describes the recording after a Judy Collins session. This must have been for her LP "Who Knows Where the Time Goes." But -- the liner notes to this LP (CD) says that the sessions were recorded at Elektra Sound Recorders in Los Angeles.
2) The Buffalo Springfield Box Set's booklet includes a list of concert dates, and it has the band performing April 26, 1968, at Exhibition Hall, Arizona State Fairgrounds, in Phoenix, Arizona.
So something isn't quite right.
Stripped-Down Acoustic Stills March 26, 2008
Steven Donoso (Camden, Maine United States)
JUST ROLL TAPE is like finding a missing musical link, in this case one that was lost for almost 40 years. On April 26, 1968 --- 9 days before Buffalo Springfield's farewell concert and six months before recording the first CSN album --- Steve Still's stayed in the studio after a Judy Collins Session to put down on tape some new songs he was working on. Some would end up on CSN's first record, some on his solo and Manassas recordings, some never to be heard again. We hear Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, Helplessly Hoping, and Wooden Ships as they were being birthed (or close to), Change Partners and Now Begins the Task, Black Queen, and others. The "unreleased songs" are not throw-aways, just lost. The stand-out from these is The Doctor Will See You Now -- who knows why this never made it on to a commercial recording. Just Roll Tape is worth a listen , and then another, and another.
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