{"id":12385,"date":"2018-03-27T00:26:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T08:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=12385"},"modified":"2022-02-04T08:33:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T16:33:08","slug":"12385","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=12385","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"330\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/so--q9hgXpc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>IT DOESN&#8217;T MATTER <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Stills and Manassas were a short-lived super group in the early 1970s. They made some great music together. Here&#8217;s proof. <\/p>\n<p>Big Gretsch guitars, big hair, big mutton chops&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Moment by moment. One day at a time. It doesn&#8217;t matter. It&#8217;s nothing but dreaming anyhow.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Stills, vocals, guitar<br \/>\n(CSNY, ex-Buffalo Springfield)<\/p>\n<p>Chris Hillman, vocals, guitar<br \/>\n(ex-Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers)<\/p>\n<p>Al Perkins, steel guitar, backing vocals<br \/>\n(ex-Gram Parsons and Flying Burrito Brothers)<\/p>\n<p>Calvin &#8220;Fuzzy&#8221; Samuels, bass<br \/>\n(ex-CSNY and John Sebastian)<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Taylor, drums &#8211; Deceased<br \/>\n(ex-Clear Light, CSNY and John Sebastian)<\/p>\n<p>Joe Lala, percussion, backing vocals &#8211; Deceased<br \/>\n(ex-Blues Image and Pacific Gas &#038; Electric)<\/p>\n<p>Paul Harris, keyboards, backing vocals &#8211; Manassas and session player <\/p>\n<p><em>Buffalo Springfield Again<\/em> with Stephen Stills was released just over 50 years ago. Find the mono version, if just for <em>Mr. Soul<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Lyrics to &#8220;It Doesn&#8217;t Matter&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>Falling and spinning losing and winning keeping my head<br \/>\nWatching for signals wearisome vigil was I mislead<br \/>\nI remember you said<br \/>\nThat you don&#8217;t want to forget me<br \/>\nIt doesn&#8217;t matter which of our fantasy&#8217;s fail<br \/>\nEvery tomorrow looking tomorrow a piece of today<br \/>\nRun a bit faster here comes the catcher making his play<br \/>\nYou had better not stay<br \/>\nYou will soon be surrounded<br \/>\nIt doesn&#8217;t matter which of our fantasy&#8217;s stay<\/p>\n<p>Lonely and winsome calling for someone living right now<br \/>\nSomething is shallow ugly and hollow<br \/>\nDoesn&#8217;t even allow you to want to know how<br \/>\nYou might live for the living<br \/>\nGive for the giving moment by moment<br \/>\nOne day at a time<br \/>\nIt doesn&#8217;t matter it&#8217;s nothing but dreaming anyhow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT DOESN&#8217;T MATTER Stephen Stills and Manassas were a short-lived super group in the early 1970s. They made some great music together. Here&#8217;s proof. Big Gretsch guitars, big hair, big mutton chops&#8230; &#8220;Moment by moment. One day at a time. It doesn&#8217;t matter. It&#8217;s nothing but dreaming anyhow.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12385"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24708,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12385\/revisions\/24708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}