PAUL KRASSNER: Counter-culture Hall of Famer I’m friends out here with (Yippies co-founder) Paul Krassner… Ten years ago, we started to see each other a lot and talk about, why don’t we do something together? Then we started texting each other notes about what the songs could be and we got together for dinner at the Beverly Wilshire with my granddaughter and his wife and other friends, and they said, 'That’s a great idea!' But he says – and I agree – that we’ve remained friends because we were married to other people. I was leaving him – he was not leaving me – but, based on our original relationship, we continued to see one another, talk to each other, write each other letters, meet up once in a while in New York and California. A little later down the road, he wrote 'Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.” I always say the rumors lasted longer than the romance. We courted for a couple of weeks and (then) we were having an affair. Stephen started playing and I was totally smitten.

Then David said, “There’s someone I’d like you to meet.” And I didn’t remember meeting him at the Whiskey. It had James Burton and Van Dyke Parks and Chris Ethridge.

I was there with my producer, David Anderle, who produced “Who Knows Where the Time Goes.” Then I went into the studio with this new band that David had created for us. He says we met at the Whiskey A-Go-Go in Los Angeles. with “ Woodstock ”) “ Suite: Judy Blue Eyes ” (written about Judy Collins ) “ Teach Your Children ” (featuring Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead on pedal steel guitar the song actually made the country charts ) “ Helpless ” (one of Neil Young ’s loveliest songs) “ Southern Man ” (on Neil Young ’s excellent solo album, After the Gold Rush, with Lynyrd Skynyrd good-naturedly answering the song in their hit “ Sweet Home Alabama ”) “ Love the One You’re With ” (first released on Stephen Stills ’ debut solo album, Stephen Stills – live versions of “ Southern Man ” and “ Love the One You’re With ” appear on the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young double album 4 Way Street ) etc.I know you worked with Stephen on “Who Knows Where the Time Goes” (in 1968), but, how did you meet him? Crosby, Stills, Nash and/or Young have released any number of cultural and counter-cultural touchstones over the years: “ Ohio ” (about the Kent State University shootings) “ Woodstock ” (written by Joni Mitchell based on what Graham Nash told her about the festival – Matthews’ Southern Comfort had a Number 1 hit in the U.K.

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