I don't say this often, but this would be better than an orgasm.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... t-20140626

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young May Release 'Deja Vu' Box Set

"I might talk to the boys about doing the entire album where we don't fade out the songs," says Graham Nash

By Andy Greene
June 26, 2014 10:00 AM ET

Graham Nash spent the last few years working tirelessly on the upcoming CSNY 1974 box set, and now that it's finally done, he's starting to think about his next archival project. "I'm toying with the idea of redoing the Deja Vu album," he says. "When we made the album we were restricted by the technicalities of how many minutes you can get onto a side of vinyl without having to compress everything. It meant we had to fade everything out."

The digital age, obviously, means that such considerations are now moot. "We recently did a mix of one of David's songs that went all the way through from beginning to end," he says. "I thought to myself, 'I'd like to hear 'Carry On' without it fading.' I want it to go all the way to the end when Dallas [Taylor] put his drumsticks down. I want to hear the jam we did at the end of 'Everybody I Love You.' I might talk to the boys about doing the entire Deja Vu without fading any of the songs."

A few months after the release of Deja Vu in March of 1970, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young did a series of shows at New York's Fillmore East that were professionally filmed, yet only bits and pieces of that footage has surfaced over the years. "That's an entire other project," says Nash. "Those shows we did at the Fillmore East were absolutely the best shows we ever did in our lives and that's all been filmed. It's just a question of whether we have the time and desire to put them out."

As the co-producer of CSNY 1974 as well as recent career-spanning box sets focusing on David Crosby and Stephen Stills, it's clear that Nash has taken on the role of group curator. "I've always been interested in the music," he says. "I was the one who kept all those tapes alive. I was the one who paid for storage in temperature-controlled vaults. I bore those expenses and I didn't give a shit if I didn't get paid back. About a year ago, everybody realized that I'd spent a fortune protecting our tapes and they gave me their share. Yes, you could definitely say I'm the curator of the band."

I've heard there is an unreleased 5.1 surround mix of "Deja Vu" lying around in the vaults somewhere, so if that's true, then they should include that in any upcoming reissues of the album.

Graham, somebody, please talk Neil into letting this happen. Extended versions, outtakes, rehearsals. BluRay audio, 5.1 surround, I want it all.

Neil will only allow this to happen if everything is filtered through Jack White's recording booth directly onto vinyl and then mastered from those discs being played on a battery-powered portable record player. The fidelity should be stunning.

Will that be for the Pono or non-Pono version?

I'm 99% sure the Fillmore run is 4 Way Street. I have release quality audio versions of 3 of the nights. Hi-res & video would be to die for. If they re-do Deja-Vu; I'd love to see a Steven Wilson style Blu-ray: All hi-res; original album & alternate album.

Hey, maybe Nash could get Wilson to do it!

I'd rather see a Couch Album box set. Neil's input/ok wouldn't be needed.

With NY promoting Pono, I would expect the CSNY vaults to swing wide open in hi res.

I'd be thrilled with that as well.

the japanese HDCD version of "deja vu" sounds really nice (hiss and all), it was very hard find a few years ago, probably just about impossible now.

My indie had it on hold for me a few years back and a new employee did not check with him and put it out back out on the floor. Sold later that day.
Glad that girl doesn't work there anymore.

Rick A.

I have an SHM of DV. I don't remember mine being HDCD, that would make a difference.

Fade outs have ALWAYS been my pet peeve.

the long, non-fade out version of "almost cut my hair" is on the CSN box set......wonderful guitar exchanges between stills and young.

They would be smart to put it ALL out in the next year or two because I'm not sure the people who really care to spend money on it will still care to in a few years much less be around to buy it or be able to hear it!

Graham first mentioned this back in '91 or '92 when the CSN box came out. His comment then was that it's up to Neil, and I imagine that's the same today.

It's better to burn out...

Sadly I resemble that point!

Not me. I plan on centering my dementia entirely around reacquiring albums and versions of albums I already own.

Why wait?

Lack of $'s????

I guess if I'm drooling over releases like these and others, then I'm already on that path, aren't I? And who are these people calling me "Dad"? Do I know you? Do you have my Honky Chateau Super Deluxe Edition?