“I played bass in the guitar war between Hendrix and Johnny Winter. It was so loud!”: Stephen Stills’ wild stories of Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page and Public Enemy

Stephen Stills posing for a photograph in 2011.

Stephen Stills has been a prominent fixture on the American rock landscape since the 1960s. His long and eventful career has included auditioning for The Monkees, emerging alongside Neil Young in Buffalo Springfield, gaining worldwide success with Crosby, Stills & Nash, playing at Woodstock and forming Manassas with The Byrds’ Chris Hillman. As Classic Rock found out when we sat down with him in 2007, the illustrious list of names he has played with reads like a Who’s Who of rock’n’roll. Not only does he answer yes to “Ever meet Hendrix?’’, he and Jimi were also best friends and recorded together. Here Stills talks about some of the people he’s met and made music with.