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''CSNY 1974'' is the nineteenth album by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, their seventh in the quartet configuration, and their fifth live album, the third as a foursome. Issued on Rhino Records in 2014, it consists of concert material recorded in 1974 on the band's tour during the summer of that year. It was issued in several formats: a standard compact disc box set consisting of three audio discs and a standard DVD; as one pure audio Blu-ray disc and a Blu-ray DVD; and a more expensively packaged limited deluxe edition consisting of the material on six vinyl records along with the Blu-ray discs and a coffee table book. Two single disc samplers were also issued, one of the acoustic material exclusively available at Starbucks in the United States and Canada, and another at normal retail outlets. Each of the non-sampler sets also contained a 188-page booklet, and all formats were released the same day. The three-disc and DVD package peaked at #17 on the Billboard 200, while the Starbucks sampler peaked at #37 and the selections sampler at #81.〔(CrosHal Entertainment Group website retrieved 19 July 2015 )〕 ==Background== After the split of CSNY in the summer of 1970, through 1971 David Crosby, Graham Nash, and Neil Young released solo albums, while Stephen Stills issued two. All were gold records, as were the three issued in early 1972 by the quartet: ''Harvest''; ''Graham Nash David Crosby''; and ''Manassas''; proving the group to be appealing commercially apart as well as together.〔(RIAA Gold and Platinum searchable database )〕 Indicative of this commercial clout, only the separated Beatles as a group also achieved gold records with regularity during the same time period, reinforcing the notion of CSNY as the American Beatles.〔Zimmer, Dave. ''Crosby, Stills & Nash The Biography''. Da Capo Press 2000, ISBN 0-306-80974-5, pp. 127-128.〕 The foursome showed little interest in regrouping given their individual success, but with the real Beatles defunct and Bob Dylan not touring, public enthusiasm remained unabated for CSNY as the new counterculture leaders to record and/or do concerts together, acknowledged by manager Elliot Roberts with his 'pissing in the wind' quote.〔''Four Way Street The Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Reader''. Da Capo Press 2004, ISBN 0-306-81277-0, p. 129. Article by Roy Carr, originally in ''New Musical Express'' August 31, 1974.〕 Young toured solo in late 1970 and early 1971, Stills undertook his first solo headlining tour with a new band in the summer of 1971, about the same time that Crosby and Nash toured 'unplugged', for the first time as a duo.〔(HyperRust website Chronology retrieved 22 August 2015 )〕 Crosby and Nash toured by themselves again in 1972, while Stills assembled his Manassas band to tour after their album.〔Zimmer, op. cit., pp. 154-157.〕 There had been sporadic reunions, with Young showing up to Crosby and Nash shows, Young recording a one-off single "War Song" with Nash, and CSN in three different pairs providing backing vocals on Young's ''Harvest'' album.〔(HyperRust website Chronology retrieved 22 August 2015 )〕〔Zimmer, Dave. op. cit., pp. 157-158.〕 In 1973, their individual fortunes began to falter. Stills toured again with Manassas, but their second album did not do as well in the marketplace. Young undertook two tours colored by the death of Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten; the album from the first with Crosby and Nash in tow ''Time Fades Away'' falling well short of the previous year's ''Harvest'' sales-wise. Crosby's reunion with the Byrds and Nash's second solo album also did not do very well critically or commercially.〔Zimmer, Dave. op. cit., pp. 161-163, p. 169.〕 An attempt to make the second CSNY studio album in the summer of 1973 after a reunion in Hawaii fell apart.〔Zimmer, Dave. op. cit., pp. 165-166.〕 Crosby and Nash put together their first electric band tour in late 1973, and Stills continued to tour with Manassas into 1974, but the seed had been planted.〔Zimmer, Dave. op. cit., pp. 167-168.〕 In January and February of 1974, impresario Bill Graham successfully directed the return of Bob Dylan to the concert stage with a winter tour of basketball and hockey arenas. Manager Roberts proposed to CSNY something more ambitious: a summer tour of baseball and football stadiums.〔''CSNY 1974'' Rhino R2-541729 liner notes, p. 14.〕〔(Rolling Stone The Oral History of the infamous 'Doom Tour' retrieved 22 August 2015 )〕 Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young agreed, Graham signed on as tour director, and the tour was set to begin in July. Rehearsals took place at Young's ranch in La Honda in May and June.〔Zimmer, Dave. op. cit., pp. 171-173.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「CSNY 1974」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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