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CLIVE<\/strong><\/p>\n

We used to own the rock stars.\u00c2\u00a0 But we never owned the executives.<\/p>\n

But once upon a time, the executives were fans.\u00c2\u00a0 But when they started believing they were more important than the acts, the business went downhill, rock died.\u00c2\u00a0 It was only about the money, the soul was gone.<\/p>\n

We were a necessary part of the rock equation.\u00c2\u00a0 We built the stars, not MTV, not even radio.\u00c2\u00a0 We were respected as opposed to ripped-off.\u00c2\u00a0 We had soul.\u00c2\u00a0 And part of our essence was our irreverence, our ability to question authority, to cry foul.<\/p>\n

Read this reminiscence by "Creem"’s Bill Holdship.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s priceless.<\/p>\n

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A Creem editor remembers \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 or Clive and Kordosh<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

CARIBOU RANCH<\/strong><\/p>\n

Colorado used to be a fascination.\u00c2\u00a0 Just read "Atlas Shrugged".\u00c2\u00a0 And in the early seventies, rock stars embraced it too.\u00c2\u00a0 Remember the cover of Stephen Stills’ solo debut?\u00c2\u00a0 With him in his hiking boots, in the snow?<\/p>\n

That was the early seventies, the back to the land movement.<\/p>\n

And the musicians went back to the land too.\u00c2\u00a0 To a Rocky Mountain high.\u00c2\u00a0 At 8,600 feet above Boulder, near Nederland.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s where they came to record at Caribou Ranch.<\/p>\n

We knew about it from the credits.\u00c2\u00a0 This place in the middle of nowhere that these cosmopolitan rockers went to lay down tracks.<\/p>\n

It was owned by James William Guercio, of Chicago fame.\u00c2\u00a0 But Chicago wasn’t the first act to record there.\u00c2\u00a0 That was Joe Walsh.\u00c2\u00a0 When he left the James Gang and recorded "Barnstorm".<\/p>\n

He recorded "The Smoker You Drink…" there too.<\/p>\n

The albums recorded at Caribou seemed to live in their own special place, their own unique world.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe that’s why we loved them so much.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t only Stephen Stills and Joe Walsh and Dan Fogelberg, but Elton too.<\/p>\n

The sun went down on the Caribou recording studio back in ’85, but Mark Brown of the "Rocky Mountain News" recently got a peek.\u00c2\u00a0 With stories that will bring you right back to that era.<\/p>\n

Read the words, watch the videos and listen to the audio.<\/p>\n

But look at the picture of Stephen Stills in front of his guitars.\u00c2\u00a0 Back before you went on "Cribs" and showed your home, first and foremost you were a musician.\u00c2\u00a0 The tools of your trade were most important.\u00c2\u00a0 We lived to hear the products of this woodshedding, this creativity.\u00c2\u00a0 We’re still listening and learning today.<\/p>\n

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Special Report: The Legend of Caribou<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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