Stephen Stills Live

Taken from live recordings in 1974, it was issued by Atlantic Records after Stills had left the label for Columbia Records. It peaked at #42 on the Billboard 200, and is currently out of print. It was recorded during his first solo tour in three years after the break up of Manassas. Atlantic recorded both nights of Stills' concerts at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, for a potential live album. Tom Dowd mixed the album in November 1975 at Caribou Ranch.{{Cite book|last=Roberts|first=David|title=Stephen Stills: Change Partners|year=2017}} The first side of the album is Stills with an electric band, and the second side of the album is Stills on his own playing acoustically. "Four Days Gone" and "Special Care" are songs written by Stills and recorded by Buffalo Springfield. He combined the Manassas song "Jet Set (Sigh)" with Joe Walsh's similarly sounding hit "Rocky Mountain Way" on the electric side. On the acoustic side he did a cover of Robert Johnson's "Crossroads" segueing into Chuck Berry's "You Can't Catch Me". Also included is the first release of Stills' cover of Fred Neil's "Everybody's Talkin' at Me" which had been recorded, but not released for the debut Crosby Stills & Nash album.

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| all_writing = Stephen Stills, except where noted

| headline = Side one: Electric side

| title1 = Wooden Ships

| writer1 = David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Paul Kantner

| length1 = 6:32

| title2 = Four Days Gone

| length2 = 3:55

| title3 = Jet Set (Sigh) /Rocky Mountain Way/Jet Set (Sigh)

| writer3 = Stills/Rocke Grace, Joe Walsh, Joe Vitale, Kenny Passarelli/Stills

| length3 = 5:26

| title4 = Special Care

| length4 = 3:35

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| headline = Side two: Acoustic side

| title1 = Change Partners

| length1 = 2:53

| title2 = Crossroads/You Can't Catch Me

| writer2 = Robert Johnson/Chuck Berry

| length2 = 4:41

| title3 = Everybody's Talkin' at Me

| writer3 = Fred Neil

| length3 = 2:42

| title4 = 4 + 20

| length4 = 2:27

| title5 = Word Game

| length5 = 4:07

| total_length = 34:55

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Side One: Electric Side

• Stephen Stills - vocals, guitar, piano
• Donnie Dacus - guitar, backing vocals
• Jerry Aiello - keyboards
• Kenny Passarelli - bass, backing vocals
• Russ Kunkel - drums
• Joe Lala - percussion

Side Two: Acoustic Side

• Stephen Stills - vocals & acoustic guitar

Technical personnel

• Tom Dowd, Don Gehmen, & Michael John Bowen - Mixed and edited Oct 1975 at Caribou Ranch, Nederland, Colorado
• Recorded live by Bill Halverson
• Photography - Stephen Sanders
• Management, Cover Concept and Design - Michael John Bowen

{{Infobox concert|artist=Stephen Stills|concert_tour_name=1974 Theater Tour|last_tour=Manassas North American Tour 1973|next_tour=Stephen Stills 1975 Tour|start_date=February 6, 1974|end_date=March 9, 1974|number_of_shows=23|number_of_legs=1}}The Stephen Stills 1974 Theater Tour was a concert tour by American musician Stephen Stills. It was his first solo tour since 1971, and the first since the demise of his band Manassas. He played well respected theaters across the Mid West and the East Coast of the United States. This was Stills' first solo tour in three years, a low-key affair that started with an electric set, then an acoustic set and finishing with another electric set. The setlist contained a range of material from his Buffalo Springfield days, his first two solo albums and the CSN/Y songs. It was during this tour that Stills announced the CSNY 1974 reunion tour. A live album Stephen Stills Live was recorded during the Chicago Auditorium dates and released in December 1975. On the 22 February date in Washington, Neil Young joined Stills on stage.{{Cite book|last=Roberts|first=David|title=Stephen Stills: Change Partners|year=2016}}{{cite book|last=Zimmer|first=Dave|url=https://archive.org/details/crosbystillsnash00zimm|title=Crosby Stills and Nash: The Biography|publisher=Da Capo Press|year=2000|isbn=978-0306809743|url-access=registration}}{{Cite book|last=Doggett|first=Peter|title=Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: The Biography|year=2019}}

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