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NEW YORK (AP) — Crosby, Stills and Nash's mangling of the hymn "Silent Night" at the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony last month is being blamed on producers who gave them color-coded microphones at sound check that were not used during the show.
Graham Nash says, "They gave us the wrong microphones, and so everyone was trying to figure out where the voices were."
He says, "We couldn't hear each other and we were awful."
Nash says the producers apologized, but he admits that Crosby, Stills and Nash weren't at their best that night either.
Nash says, "If we did one lousy show in our lives, so be it."
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281-a-17-(Singer Graham Nash, in AP interview)-"we were awful"-Singer Graham Nash says Crosby, Stills and Nash's terrible performance at the National Christmas Tree lighting in December was a result of using color-coded microphones at sound check that were not used during the show. ((note length of cut)) (13 Jan 2016)
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282-a-10-(Singer Graham Nash, in AP interview)-"so be it"-Singer Graham Nash says the producers of the show realized it was their mistake at the National Christmas Tree lighting in December. (13 Jan 2016)
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283-r-44-(Crosby, Stills and Nash, singing "Silent Night" at last month's National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony)--Sound of Crosby, Stills and Nash singing "Silent Night" at last month's National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony. (13 Jan 2016)
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