Crosby, Stills and Nash at the Puyallup Fair
On Monday September 14th, Crosby, Stills and Nash took the stage for the first of 3 different Classic Rock shows scheduled to play in the Puyallup Fair concert series for 2009. When these three music icons walked on stage, a collective admiration was clearly exhibited by the almost capacity crowd. The catalog of music that David Crosby, Graham Nash and Stephen Stills are responsible for is astonishing.
The show started a bit quiet; and when I mean quiet, I mean the volume. “Helplessy Hoping” was helplessy drowned out a few times by the shrill screams of participants on “The Extreme Scream” carnival ride. This is one of the Puyallup Fair’s premier rides, which is unfortunately located right outside the gradstand entrance.
It seemed to take a couple of songs for their voices to “warm up” but once they did, there were several occasions during the concert that I experienced chills running down my back. If you closed your eyes, you’d swear that there was a whole choir onstage singing. When you opened your eyes, you remembered that it’s just these 3 guys, implementing the perfect 3 part harmony that defines Crosby, Stills and Nash.
The night picked up pace and volume with songs like “Love the One You’re With” and the offbeat “Deja Vu”. Stephen Stills was amazing on guitar as well, and all three musicians seemed to get better and better with every song that they performed. The group came back out for a gracious encore, which put the total time of the concert nearly 2 hours long, and the audience loved every minute of it!