Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Quotes

“With its reference to those who were coddled and dead weight from the past, “Thrasher” was a clear shot at life with Crosby, Stills and Nash. “Well, at that point, I felt like it was kind of dead weight for me,” he told writer Bill Flanagan in 1985.”
― David Browne, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup

“John Rockwell of the New York Times noted, “Ultimately, one senses a defeatism here.… This sounds like a tired last recourse—an attempt at commercial success by three men whose egos make it hard for them to collaborate, but whose relative lack of popular success by themselves makes it difficult not to do so.” The general public just seemed glad to have them back. “Just a Song Before I Go” went Top 10, and the album peaked at no. 2, held out of the top slot by Fleetwood Mac’s ubiquitous Rumours.”
― David Browne, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup

“told Crosby, Stills and Nash biographer Dave Zimmer.”
― David Browne, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup

“Only in the fading moments of the last song, the jazzy “Guardian Angel,” did Stills and Young trade guitar parts—a thrilling moment that lasted all of twenty seconds.”
― David Browne, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup

“Long May You Run, finally arrived. Disappointingly, it didn’t recapture the feel of Buffalo Springfield as much as Stills had hoped it would. As in the recording sessions, the two men alternated songs and lead vocals on the album, but it still felt strangely lopsided. Most of Young’s contributions—the trifling “Ocean Girl,” the lulling “Midnight on the Bay,” the quasi-country shuffle “Let It Shine”—were as casual as beachwear and about as weighty. (Stills’ squawking lead guitar on “Ocean Girl” was lively, though.) Stills’ songs, such as the underwater-dive tale “Black Coral” and the pained “12/8 Blues (All the Same),” with his grunting, sputtering solo, had a toughened intensity. “Fontainebleau,” Young’s swipe at that upscale Miami hotel, spewed vitriol and included some of his most furious guitar parts, and the title song, a tribute to Young’s legendary hearse, featured Stills’ sandpaper harmony and Aiello’s calming organ.”
― David Browne, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup

“Manassas band featuring a young, Texas-based guitarist named Donnie Dacus.”
― David Browne, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup

“new friend Joe Walsh playing greasy-spoon slide guitar, Stills wrote and sang “Down the Road,”
― David Browne, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup

“Stills was now calling Colorado his home—he had bought a house in Rollinsville,”
― David Browne, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup

“Stills’ double album was now named Manassas,”
― David Browne, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup

“Don’t Look at My Shadow,”
― David Browne, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup

“Blues Man,” a brooding solo march underscored by darkly brittle guitar, was a warning shot of its own.”
― David Browne, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup

“Both the new ones and the old ones left over from his previous two albums tried to grapple with the toll that success was taking on him. “Rock & Roll Crazies” was”
― David Browne, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup

“Celebration at Big Sur, the movie of the 1969 all-star California concert”
― David Browne, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup

“3615 Shady Oak Road on the north side of Laurel Canyon. Formerly”
― David Browne, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup

“Young told Mazzeo he didn’t want to be alone on his ranch. “There were still a lot of Carrie vibes there,” says Mazzeo. Mazzeo invited him over, and Young made himself at home on the farm. Blackburn had been playing local clubs with his eponymous band, and Young was fascinated. “I said, ‘Buck has”
― David Browne, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup

“AT LEAST FOR the immediate future, there would be no arenas in Young’s life—just the opposite, in fact. Returning to California, he reached out to Mazzeo, who had moved onto a communal farm in Santa Cruz with his guitarist friend Jeff Blackburn. A beach town roughly seventy miles south of San Francisco, Santa Cruz had a population of just over thirty thousand—a size that would have fit into one of the venues on Crosby, Stills and Nash’s reunion tour.”
― David Browne, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup

“AT LEAST FOR the immediate future, there would be no arenas in Young’s life—just the opposite, in fact. Returning to California, he reached out to Mazzeo, who had moved onto a communal farm in Santa Cruz with his guitarist friend Jeff Blackburn. A beach town roughly seventy miles south of San Francisco, Santa Cruz had a population of just over thirty thousand—a size that would have fit into one of the venues on Crosby, Stills and Nash’s reunion tour. Young told Mazzeo he didn’t want to be alone on his ranch. “There were still a lot of Carrie vibes there,” says Mazzeo. Mazzeo invited him over, and Young made himself at home on the farm. Blackburn had been playing local clubs with his eponymous band, and Young was fascinated. “I said, ‘Buck has”
― David Browne, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup

“Normally, an album with Crazy Horse would have meant a tour with them, but much to the surprise of Jeff Blackburn and his band members (former Moby Grape bassist Bob Mosley and drummer Johnny Craviotto), Young began rehearsing with them instead. In early July, the newly renamed Ducks, after a duck’s landing they saw in town, played its first shows—in local bars in Santa Cruz. In what the Santa Cruz Sentinel called “the worst-kept secret in town,” the Ducks would drive to a club and ask the opening act for their slot (“They were fine—they knew they couldn’t draw what we could,” says Mosley). Charging only a few dollars for admission, they would tear through sets of songs by Young and by Blackburn. Young debuted new material like “Sail Away” and “Comes a Time” in more electrified versions than were later heard on record. “It was unfathomable,” recalls Mosley. “Some of the guitar solos took me into outer space. It was incredible shit.” Starting in mid-July and ending around Labor Day, the Ducks would play more than twenty”
― David Browne, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup