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Stephen Arthur Stills (born January 3, 1945) is an American musician and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. He performed on a professional level in several other bands as well as maintaining a solo career at the same time. Stills was ranked #28 in ''Rolling Stone Magazine's'' 2003 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"〔''Rolling Stone Magazine'' ( The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time ) 2003-08-27.〕 and #47 in the 2011 list.〔''Rolling Stone Magazine'' ( 100 Greatest Guitarists ) 2011-11-23.〕 Stills became the first person to be inducted twice on the same night into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with CSN and Buffalo Springfield. ==Early years== Stills was raised in a military family. Moving around as a child, he developed an interest in blues and folk music. He was also influenced by Latin music after spending his youth in Gainesville and Tampa, Florida, Covington, Louisiana, Costa Rica, Panama Canal Zone and El Salvador, where he graduated from high school, and is an avid sailor. He also attended Admiral Farragut Academy in St. Petersburg, Florida and Saint Leo College Preparatory School in Saint Leo, Florida.〔Zimmer, Dave. ''Crosby, Stills & Nash: The Biography'', Philadelphia: Da Capo Press, 2008, p. 8.〕 Stills dropped out of University of Florida to pursue a music career in the early 1960s. He played in a series of bands including The Continentals, which featured future Eagles guitarist Don Felder. Stills could also be heard singing solo at Gerde's Folk City, a well-known coffee house in Greenwich Village. Stills eventually ended up in a nine-member vocal harmony group, the house act at the famous Cafe Au Go Go in NYC, called the Au Go Go Singers, which included future Buffalo Springfield bandmate Richie Furay. This group did some touring in the Catskills and in the South, released one album in 1964, then broke up in 1965. Afterwards, Stills, along with four other former members of the Au Go Go Singers formed The Company, a folk-rock group. The Company embarked on a six-week tour of Canada where Stills met a young guitarist named Neil Young. On the VH1 ''CSNY Legends'' special, Stills said that Young was doing what he always wanted to do, "play folk music in a rock band." The Company broke up in New York within four months; Stills did session work and went to various auditions. In 1966 he convinced a reluctant Richie Furay, then living in Massachusetts, to move with him to California. Stills made an unsuccessful attempt to become one of The Monkees. He was turned down, not due to any lack of ability, but because of a conflict with his existing music publishing contract. So instead, he recommended his friend, multi-instrumentalist Peter Tork.〔Zimmer, Dave. "Crosby, Stills & Nash: The Biography", Phildaelphia: Da Capo Press, 2008, p. 31.〕 In a later interview, Stills clarified by saying, "I never tried out for them! I have said this a million times! I went in there to sell my songs. Do you think in my wildest dreams I wanted to be a damn fake Beatle on television (laughs)? I was already writing songs, and I figured — I was young and dumb — that the only way I could get to them was a (casting) cattle call. I got in there and said, 'I’ve got all these songs.' And they said, 'That’s already been fixed.' I said, 'What, you’ve got some Tin Pan Alley (character) writing all the songs?' and they said, 'Yeah.' I said, 'I don’t want this job, but I know a guy you might like,' and that turned out to be Peter Tork."〔Davis, John T., () Austin American Statesman, 2015.〕 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「Stephen Stills」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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