Guennevere, David Crosby (RIP)

[Jean Pierre]

It is one of my favorite song of Crosby

It was not easy to cover because  a strange tuning (EBDGAD) and many change of metrique measure (4/4, 3/4, 7/4)

David Crosby said about this song:

"That is a very unusual song, it's in a very strange tuning with strange time signatures. It's about three women that I loved. One of whom was Christine Hinton, the girl who got killed who was my girlfriend, and one of whom was Joni Mitchell and the other one is somebody that I can't tell. It might be my best song."

This is a version without the last verse because too loud to enter in attachment...

thank you for listening

Ps harmonica diatonic in G ( minor relative Em..)

[Groundy]

Still in Wales, trouble getting it to play, will try tomorrow...

Alex

[Oldrottenhead]

i remember seeing David Crosby and Graham Nash doing this on a BBC in concert show, when i was a young un, and it blew my mind.

this is an absolutely fabulous version, be very very proud it is tres braw!

[Farrell Jackson]

This is a super, fantastic cover of Guenevere! I've listened (and still do) to this song many times and you have captured the very essence of it with the guitar tuning and vocals. It's not an easy song to cover but you've done it well. I always wondered what the tuning was.....now I know, thanks! 

Farrell

[Blooby]

Wow. Great version of one of my favorite tunes from this band. Really stellar.

Blooby

[Jean Pierre]

thank you the guys

James say:

i remember seeing David Crosby and Graham Nash doing this on a BBC in concert show

Yes, I have seen it on YT,... for my cover ,I was inspired by the version at San FRancisco in 1992, in this version Nash sing and play harmonica in the intro: the first difficulty for wwas to finf the tone of diatonic harmonica ??
FinallyI used Harmonica in G because the tonality of song is Em(minor relative of G)
...but I am not sure that is the good choice !

Farell say

I always wondered what the tuning was.....now I know, thanks! 

Yes it s a strange tuning EBDGAD !?!Open tuning in Em 11
Most great difficulty, which I had under estimated, was to play the chords picking ,not so much for the positions of chords left hand but because of the picking right hand of Crosby very very personal

I am not Crosby, I am not Nash, I am not a singer, just a little old oficionado  (and I am not a good speaker in english 

[Groundy]

Got it to play at last, and well worth the wait,well done JP,
Great cover....

Alex

[Johnny Robbo]

Not familiar with the original, but I love what you've created here, JP! Never come across that tuning before. Highly unorthodox, but it works brilliantly!

[hooper]

Great job with this hauntingly beautiful song... and with it's wacky alternate tuning!
Really nice guitar tones, vocal harmonies and love the harmonica. 

[steelguitar]

I don't know the original, but it's a very sensitive vocals and playing

Very beautyful

Jean-Sébastien