Style, Musicianship, and Sound
Stills' sound as a guitarist playing displays sources in rock and roll, blues, country music and folk music. Latin music played a key role in both his approach to percussion and guitar, and as did many contemporaries during the late 1960s, Stills' playing showed the influence of his friend Jimi Hendrix.
Stills experimented with the guitar itself, including soaking strings in barbecue sauce or flipping pickups to mimic Hendrix playing a right-handed guitar left-handed. He is also known for using unconventional guitar tunings, particularly when performing acoustically. Often a long acoustic solo section of the show would showcase agile fingerstyle playing in standard and altered tunings.
He is also adept at piano, organ, congas and bass, and can play some trap drums and banjo. For the CSN debut album in 1969, Graham Nash commented that "Stephen had a vision, and David and I let him run with it." Stills played every instrumental part on Crosby, Stills and Nash with exception of some guitar by Crosby and Nash, and drums by Dallas Taylor
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