Bio
Greg Reeves (born c. 1956) is an American musician. He is best known for playing bass on Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s Déjà Vu album in 1969. Reeves began as a session bass player with Motown records as a child protégé when he was 12. He is noted as the bassist on The Temptations’ “Cloud Nine.” He was mentored on the bass by noted musician James Jameson. Reeves worked and was friends with future disco superstar Rick James. In 1969, James and Reeves traveled to Los Angeles to look up Neil Young, a former band mate of James.
Rolling Stone Magazine’s
500 Greatest Albums of All Time
71. After the Gold Rush, Neil Young
This is listed as number 71 of the greatest albums of all time. Greg was the bass player and listed
148. Deja Vu, Crosby Stills Nash and Young
This is listed as number 148 of the greatest albums of all time. Greg was the bass player and listed
Partial list of Music Credits
1970
Déjà Vu
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Percussion, Bass
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1970
After the Gold Rush
Neil Young
Performer, Bass
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1972
Graham Nash/David Crosby
Graham Nash
Bass
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1972
Graham Nash/David Crosby
Graham Nash
Bass
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1973
It’s Like You Never Left
Dave Mason
Bass
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1991
CSN [Box Set]
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Bass
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1998
Carry On
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Bass
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2000
It’s Like You Never Left/Dave Mason
Dave Mason
Bass
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2001
Faithful Virtue: The Reprise Recordings
John Sebastian
Bass
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2004
Greatest Hits
Neil Young
Bass
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2004
Greatest Hits [Bonus DVD]
Neil Young
Bass
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2005
Greatest Hits
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Bass
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2005
Greatest Hits
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Guitar (Bass)
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2006
Soul Parade
Jesse Denatale
Bass
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2006
Voyage [Box Set]
David Crosby
Bass
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2009
Reflections [Box Set]
Graham Nash
Bass
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2009
Neil Young Archives, Vol. I (1963-1972)
Neil Young
Bass
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2009
Neil Young Archives, Vol. I (1963-1972)
Neil Young
Bass
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2009
Neil Young Archives, Vol. I (1963-1972)
Neil Young
Guitar (Bass)
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2009
Woodstock: 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur’s Farm [Box Set]
Various Artists
Bass
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19
I Got Your Number
Bristol, Reeves
3:25 tom jones
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He is noted as the bassist on The Temptations’ “Cloud Nine.”[3]
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Richie Unterberger
CrCrosby, Stills, Nash & Young Enchant London Audience in 1970
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Read more: Here, Stills, Nash & Young Enchant London Audience in 1970
Read an exclusive excerpt from David Browne’s new book ‘Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY and the Lost Story of 1970’
By DAVID BROWNE
June 1, 2011 5:40 PM ET
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In this exclusive excerpt from his new book Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY and the Lost Story of 1970, Rolling Stone contributing editor David Browne details the much-anticipated U.K. debut of the band dubbed “the American Beatles.”
On the night of January 6th, Paul McCartney settled into his seat at the Royal Albert Hall. Along with five thousand others in the elegantly domed theater with boxed seats, he was about to witness the London debut of the band everyone was calling the “American Beatles.” (One of them was actually English, but a catchy press moniker couldn’t be denied.) Thirteen months earlier, George Harrison had passed on signing them to Apple, but now they were stars on a headlining tour of Europe. In one sign of their stature, their massive sound system, complete with a lighting rig specially designed for them, had arrived in London from the States by boat. They were put up in the city’s five-star Dorchester Hotel—where the grand reception party for the Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night had taken place in now far-off 1964—and the Rolling Stones lent their managers an office in town. Whatever David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young wanted, they received.
They were a little nervous, with ample reason. All the major newspaper critics and a host of celebrities—not merely McCartney but Donovan and Ahmet Ertegun, the worldly, Turkish-born head of their label, Atlantic—had assembled to scrutinize them in person. Nash, who’d grown up in Manchester, knew some of his fellow countrymen were skeptical because he’d left the beloved Hollies and his native country to join this new band in Los Angeles. Before they began the show, they calmed their nerves by indulging in one of their pre-show rituals, a shared joint. By the time Crosby, Stills & Nash took the stage—with Young to follow later—Crosby was either so high, nervous, or energized (or some combination of the three) that he didn’t notice a stagehand slapping an “L” sign—the British learners permit for driving lessons—on the back of his brown fringe jacket as he walked out.
The audience guffawed as one; everyone knew Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were hardly newcomers. The public had first become aware of them eight months earlier with the release of Crosby, Stills & Nash, made before Young joined up with them. The bands they’d once been members of—the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and the Hollies—had made some of the most dynamic, sparkling music of the ’60s. Yet the public embraced the new configuration in ways it had only occasionally taken the other bands to its bosom. The California-sun-drenched embrace of their labored-over, multitracked harmonies, the three distinctive-looking men reclining on an outdoor couch on the album cover, the variety of music from the dramatic, postapocalyptic soar of “Wooden Ships” to the turbulent churn of “Long Time Gone”: Whatever it was, Crosby, Stills & Nash quickly went gold, selling a half-million copies. As 1970 began, it remained firmly lodged in the top 10 in the States.
Starting with their name, which read more like a law firm than a rock band, they wanted everyone to know they were a paradigm for a new, more liberating era in rock and roll. The group format, they insisted, had become too restrictive, too limited, too Establishment. (To hammer that point home and tweak his former life, Crosby would sometimes play a few seconds of the chimey twelve-string lick of the Byrds’ “Mr. Tambourine Man” onstage, which always drew a laugh: The Byrds? A pop group? How quaint!) As the Royal Albert Hall crowd witnessed, they didn’t even resemble a traditionally cohesive band. Crosby, at twenty-eight the veteran, had the bushy hair, serpentine walrus mustache, and stoner-bliss smile of the hippie commune leader next door. Nash, who’d be turning twenty-eight the following month, had a head engulfed in sculpted brown hair and a wardrobe of vests and floral-print shirts that embodied modish counterculture. Stills was younger than both—he’d turned twenty-five three days earlier—yet more conservative in attire (white-button shirts, dark suit jackets) and hairstyle (sideburns and prematurely thinning dark-blond hair framing chiseled cheekbones). Young, the relative baby at twenty-four, opted for patched denim and white-lace shirts. His furrowed brow and shoulder-length locks set him apart from the others as did the way he’d lurk behind them, near the guitar amps, during their shows.
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