Mostly the night celebrated Collins’ still-impressive voice and Stills’ still-exciting guitar playing, with hot solos deployed during near every song and especially on the Buffalo Springfield pairing of ‘For What It’s Worth’ and ‘Bluebird’ that closed the main body of the show. Though career wear and tear was evident to varying degrees for each of them, the pair still presented a likeable and at times revelatory 17-song set spiced with insightful storytelling - none moreso than when Stills and Collins recounted how they met during 1968, at a Cream concert in Los Angeles, before playing ‘Who Knows Where The Time Goes?,’ the Sandy Denny song which Stills said he ‘begged’ his way into play for Collins’ album of the same name. Related: Stephen Stills and Judy Collins celebrate 50-year friendship togetherĭespite that, there were surely worse ‘things to do,’ even on a rainy evening, than spend 100 minutes listening to Stills and Collins. That chased any of the criminally small crowd of less than 2,000 who chose to remain on the lawn into the pavilion - or out of the venue altogether– and even then wet mists managed to infiltrate even the center portion of the covered seats throughout the night. The show, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the two artists’ meeting - and a subsequent romantic relationship that inspired Crosby, Stills & Nash’s indelible ‘Suite: Judy Blue Eyes’ - was dampened, and then some, by constant rain, including a deluge that hit early in the show. ROCHESTER HILLS - The lyric of the Stills Young Band’s ‘Long May You Run’ - ‘we find things to do in stormy weather’ - was seldom more appropriate than during Stephen Stills and Judy Collins’s concert on Saturday night, June 9, at the Meadow Brook Amphitheatre.

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