NEWS

OCTOBER

25th October 1999.  I have it! Looking Forward is out today in the UK read my review in the discography section!

Sorry for not updating lately, I had to go to Switzerland on business and didn't have the facility to update this site.  Of course whilst I was away the whole world went CSNY crazy and I'm afraid my poor web site got left behind in the confusion!  I have now added a section dedicated to the CSNY2K tour click here.

This news is a bit late in coming but I thought you might like it anyway.  And next time I go away I promise I'll remember to take my lap-top!

10/10/99 - Sonicnet News
CSNY To Open Tour In Detroit In January
Richard B. Simon
SAN FRANCISCO-- Looking Forward isn't just the name of the new Crosby,
Stills, Nash and Young album due Oct. 26. It also describes the attitude
the folk-rock veterans displayed in a jovial conversation at the St.
Francis hotel Friday.
"All the questions about the past ... are huge distractions to us," Neil
Young, 53, said. "We don't spend any time thinking about our past at all,"
David Crosby, 58, concurred. "We don't care. We care about what we're doing
now."
They are doing plenty now. Along with their new album, only their third
studio effort after 1970's DejaVu and 1988's American Dream, CSNY embark on
their first tour in 30 years Jan. 25 in Detroit.
The tour, dubbed CSNY2K, will find the foursome playing songs it hasn't
even written yet, according to Crosby (born David Van Cortland). But a
hoped-for preview -- a CSNY performance at Young's Bridge School concerts
Oct. 30 and 31-- most likely won't happen, because Graham Nash's bandmates
want him fully healed for the tour; the former member of the Hollies broke
both of his legs in a boating accident in September.
"Above the waist, my spirits are fine," Nash, 57, said. Sitting in a
wheelchair, both legs in casts extending above his knees, Nash said it was
worth "the excruciating pain" to attend the interview session with his
friends.
All four were dressed casually. Young wore a gray fedora, his familiar
mutton chop sideburns, a blue blazer, a black T-shirt with Mexican Day of
the Dead imagery, khaki shorts and hiking boots. The mustached Crosby wore
a gray baseball cap and purple and indigo tie-dyed T-shirt. Steven Stills,
54, the only one of the four not showing any gray hair, wore his hair long
in the back and sported a goatee and Hawaiian shirt. Nash also wore a
Hawaiian shirt.
The bandmembers-- including Stills and Young, who have had a volatile
relationship over the years since they formed Buffalo Springfield in 1966--
appeared relaxed, friendly and jokey. At one point, Young grabbed an
ottoman and solicitously slid it beneath Nash's feet. Every time Stills
said something Nash found clever or important, such as when Stills
responded to a question about the foursome's history -- "We're not looking
backward, we're looking forward"-- Nash would give his bandmate a high
five.
The group balked at any characterization of its recording or touring again
as a reunion. "I really think we've been together since we [first] got
together," Young said.
The band's decision to record and tour again had its seeds in a visit Young
made to a studio where CSN were recording, because he said he felt like
seeing his friends. Impressed that the trio-- whose first, eponymous 1969
album contained the hit "Marrakesh Express"-- were funding their album
themselves because they were between record deals, he signed on. Meanwhile,
he and Stills had been working on putting together a Buffalo Springfield
retrospective and it seemed as if the time to work together again was
right.
"What CSNY is all about is, we seize the moment. Our moment is now," Young
said. "God only knows why," he added, tongue in cheek. More seriously, he
said, "I want my children to see me playing with these guys."
To select the songs that would make it onto the 12-track album, Nash said
they'd put song titles on a board and each member would put a check next to
a song he thought had to be on the album. "When a song had four check marks
... then we had a record," Young said.
Bob Dylan has a co-writing credit on one Stills song on the album, "Seen
Enough." But Stills said he and the folk-rock legend didn't actually write
the song together. While writing the song-- which touches on the Littleton,
Colo., shootings, Internet addiction and TV news-- Stills said he realized
he'd given it Dylan's melody for "Subterranean Homesick Blues." So he
called Dylan and sent him the song. "Fortunately, he liked it," Stills
said, and he gave him a credit.
The foursome clearly appeared to relish collaborating again and seemed
eager to extend it. "This isn't all you're going to get," Crosby promised.
"We got a good start on our next record. I don't know if you've seen our
best work yet. I love what we did, but there's better things to come."


10/6/99 - Sonicnet News
CSNY Reunion LP Looking Forward Gets Back To Spirit Of '60s
Senior Writer Gil Kaufman reports
Almost 30 years after their debut, the members of early-'70s folk-rock
supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young don't appear to have mellowed or
given up their dreams of finding a perfect love.
The 12-track Looking Forward (Oct. 26), the quartet's first studio effort
in more than a decade, is closer in temperament to the band's acclaimed
1970 debut album, Dwja Vu, than its poorly received 1988 follow-up,
American Dream. The diverse folk-rock album swings from Stephen Stills'
calypsolike opening track, "Faith in Me," to Neil Young's melancholy
acoustic ballad "Slowpoke."
Social commentary and mature observations are sprinkled in along the way.
"From speaking with Neil [Young], I get the distinct impression that this
was 100 percent a labor of love," Reprise Records President Howie Klein
said. "There was no motive to do this other than the joy of artistic
expression. I know from Neil's point of view that this is just something
that he felt very, very inspired about."
Throughout the album, the members work together while spotlighting their
individual strengths.
Stills, who authored the 1967 protest song "For What It's Worth" as a
member of Buffalo Springfield, a band that also included Young, checks in
with a pair of stinging, political songs. One of them, the folk-rap "Seen
Enough," was co-written with Bob Dylan.
In a deadpan voice, Stills comments on his era ("The next generation/ The
Woodstock nation/ A little bit flaky/ But no hesitation") as well as a new
generation ("We got dead-eyed/ Dead drunk/ Dead stupid/ Cyberpunks/ Fed-up
killer geeks/ Gigabyte meth freaks") over Young's bluesy electric guitar
and co-producer Joe Vitale's metronomic drum beats.
The four contributions from Young hew to the wistful acoustic folk of
Harvest, his beloved 1972 solo album, and Harvest Moon, its 1992 sequel.
The album's title track (BETTY-- PLEASE PUT A SOUNDCLIP OF "LOOKING
FORWARD"HERE) is a reflective song about maturity and love that features
the lines "Writing a song, won't take very long/ Trying not to use the word
'old'/ Thinkin' about takin' chances and doubts/ That still linger in the
cold."
Young's other songs include "Slowpoke" (which he has performed live for
several years), the fragile, falsetto love song "Out of Control" and the
playful, midtempo folk rock of "Queen of Them All," whose chorus features
the line "She's got all the moves/ She's the queen of the mall."
David Crosby, formerly of '60s psychedelic folk-pop band the Byrds, and
Graham Nash, who launched his career more than three decades ago with
Brit-pop act the Hollies, each penned two of the album's songs; Stills is
credited with three compositions. Songwriter Denny Sarokin, a friend of the
quartet, wrote the album's closing track, "Sanibel," which dates from 1990.
Young plays guitar on 11 of the album's tracks, adding melodic but intense
electric solos to, among others, Crosby's soulful protest song "Stand and
Be Counted" ("Stand and be counted, stand on the truth/ Stand on your
honor") and Nash's swaying, sing-along folk song "Heartland."
The album also features Stills' driving rock anthem "No Tears Left," Nash's
hopeful acoustic ballad "Someday Soon" and Crosby's "Dream for Him," a
sung-spoken, Joni-Mitchell-like jazz tune about a parent struggling with
telling a child the truth about the world. "I am uncomfortable lying to a
child," Crosby sings, backed by his cohorts. "Feels like building a trap
for something wild/ Feels like building your house on sand/ And expecting
the ocean to let it stand."
The collaboration coincides with the 30th anniversary of CSNY's 1970 smash
Deja Vu, which featured such folk-rock classics as "Teach Your Children,"
"Carry On" and "Helpless." The band is expected to mount its first tour as
a quartet in more than 30 years in early 2000.
The group first got together as a trio of Stills, Crosby and Nash. Blending
their distinctive voices to create a folk supergroup, Crosby, Stills and
Nash released their self-titled debut in 1969.
Their subsequent debut tour with Young included their second-ever live
appearance--at 1969's Woodstock festival.
The band split acrimoniously after a tour in support of Deja Vu. A
best-selling live double-album, Four Way Street, was released in 1971
following the split. A compilation, So Far, was issued to coincide with a
1974 reunion stadium tour.
But the group didn't record together again until 1988's American Dream,
which featured the single "Got It Made."

Good news for those of you who live in Dallas! (Lucky Sods!!) This has appeared on the Ticketmaster web site.

The first sound clips from the new album are on the WEA site in Germany (??!) I couldn't find them anywhere else anyway.

http://www.wea.de/media/lookingforward16.ram

http://www.wea.de/media/standandbecounted16.ram

SEPTEMBER

OK, will someone PLEASE let someone know what is going on!  The Shoreline Amphitheatre site now lists CSNY as playing on Sunday...is Graham going to be on stage in a wheelchair or on crutches?!?!

This is the biggest music "will they, won't they" since someone started spreading a rumour that the Spice Girls were splitting up!  More news on the Bridge School Benefit CSNY performance....this time from The Launch.

Crosby, Stills & Nash CSN&Y: Still Hope For The Bridge? (9/23/99, 1 a.m. PDT) - Following Graham Nash's boating accident last week (LAUNCH, 9/13), which left him with two broken legs, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were taken off the bill for Neil Young's annual Bridge School Benefit (LAUNCH, 9/20). However, a message posted on the Young HyperRust fan website, allegedly sent by Nash himself, said that he has every intention of being at the concerts. Nash's spokesman Michael Jensen tells LAUNCH that it wouldn't surprise him if Nash were wheeled out onstage at some point during the shows, although he stopped short of saying that Nash would perform with Young, David Crosby and Stephen Stills. -- Gary Graff and Bruce Simon

This bad news from the Reprise Records site.  I hope Graham gets better.  Good job I hadn't booked my air tickets to San Francisco for the Bridge School Benefit!

9/14/99

GRAHAM NASH INJURED IN BOAT ACCIDENT

Los Angeles, CA-Rock 'N Roll Hall of Fame musician Graham Nash, of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, was injured in a freak boating
accident in Hawaii yesterday that caused him to break both his legs, it was announced by his manager, Gerry Tolman.

"Graham was on a power-boat when it hit a large wave causing him to be thrown upwards," Tolman said. "As he was coming down,
another wave hit the boat and he landed very hard on the inside of the boat." Nash underwent surgery for two broken legs throughout
the night. He is resting comfortably in an undisclosed hospital.

The accident unfortunately comes prior to next month's long awaited Warner Bros.-Reprise release of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's
new CD entitled, "Looking Forward."

8/30/99 - SonicNet News
New CSNY Song Co-Written By Dylan
The upcoming Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young reunion album, Looking Forward
(Oct. 26), will include a bluesy rock song co-written by bandmember Stephen
Stills and folk-rock legend Bob Dylan entitled "Seen Enough," according to
a source familiar with the project. The group will perform at the Neil
Young-organized 12th annual Bridge School Benefit concert at Shoreline
Amphitheater in Mountain View, Calif., on Oct. 30-31. The 12-track album
will feature three songs written by Young--"Queen of the Mall," "Slowpoke"
and "Out of Control"-- as well as the tracks "Looking Forward," "Someday
Soon," "Stand and Be Counted," "Heartland," "Dream for Him," "No Tears
Left," "Faith in Me" and "Sanibel."

AUGUST

This news is from the USA Today web site.  Will these rumours ever be confirmed by the fab four?

CSN&Y re-unites for tour
The long-awaited Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young reunion album, tentatively
titled Looking Forward, will arrive Oct. 24 on Reprise Records, with a tour
in 2000. Neil Young, in the group from 1969 to 1974, orchestrated the
project after hearing initial tracks of a self-financed CSN record. The
foursome will perform at Young's Bridge School Benefit concerts Oct. 30-31
in Mountain View, Calif., on a bill that includes Pearl Jam, Sheryl Crow
and Billy Corgan.

More news from the Reprise Records site is that the new CSNY album "Heartland" is now due for release on 26th October.  Also, check out the news below regarding the title of the new album.

This news from the Rolling Stone web site regarding this years' Bridge concert.

Neil Young keeps racking up names for his annual Benefit for the Bridge School concert. In addition to Pearl Jam, Young has tapped his old friend Paul McCartney, Farm Aid pal Lucinda Williams, as well as his old cronies Crosby, Stills and Nash. In fact, Young and the guys will perform a full set at this year's Bridge show, scheduled to take place at Mountain View, California's Shore Line Amphitheater on October 30 and 31. Meanwhile, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's long-awaited "Heartland" collaboration will now see the light of day on Oct. 26 -- but it will bear a new name. According to a source, the reunited members decided at the eleventh hour that the title already had too many associations that had nothing to do with the band. No word yet on what they'll now dub the album ...

JULY

News from the Reprise Records site is that the new CSNY album "Heartland" is due for release on 5th October (with any luck!).

This comment from Neil's manager appeared on Sonic Net

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young last released an album, American Dream, in 1988. [ Thurs., July 8, 1999 10:21 PM EDT ] CSNY's U.S. Tour Pushed Back To Next Year Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Funkadelic, Parliament, Phish, Hole, Indigo Girls, Redman, Method Man... The much-anticipated reunion tour by early-'70s folk supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young likely will not launch until January, according to member Neil Young's manager, Elliot Roberts. "It could be January, it could be earlier," Roberts said. The tour originally was expected to be one of the summer's big draws, but it was pushed back to September and recently postponed further to allow the quartet to finish its first recorded collaboration in a decade, tentatively titled Heartland, according to Roberts. "They didn't want to [tour] until the record was finished and until they were sounding like they need to," Roberts said. "It takes time to get back to where they think the music is special, and they won't announce anything until they can live up to that expectation. Until they're ready to kick f---ing ass, there won't be a tour."

Yet more news on the longest awaited tour of the century, this time from Billboard.

JUNE

The rumours are abound!  This is the latest from Mr. Crosby in an article from Rolling Stone magazine.

David Crosby Says CSN&Y Tour Will "Absolutely" Happen

Something to believe in. CSN&Y reunion tour should roll out this year; Crosby readies music activist book, documentary The mercurial Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young reunion tour originally slated to roll out this summer will now happen some time later this year, provided an unknown personal problem is rectified, according to singer David Crosby. "There has been a delay and I'm not at liberty to say why," said Crosby, speaking backstage at Sunday's Tibetan Freedom Concert in E. Troy, Wisc. "It certainly is not because anybody is not happy with it. The music we've been making in the studio is unbelievably good. We all want to do it, but there's personal family reasons why one of us has got a problem and as soon as that can be worked out we'll go out." He then added the tour will "absolutely" happen. The fifty-seven-year-old singer-songwriter has other business to attend to in the interim. Currently, Crosby is finishing up work on a documentary and book (both titled Stand and Be Counted), which focus on musician activism dating back to the Forties. Crosby personally conducted dozens of interviews with prominent artists-activists such as Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Michael Stipe, Eddie Vedder, Jewel and Tracy Chapman, who've used their art form to exact political and social change. "Twice now we've come to these Tibetan Freedom Concerts because I want these people to understand that the young bands here are just as committed and just as much activists as we were," Crosby said, "and they didn't need us to tell them how. It's very natural for them to stand up for what they believe in." Specific demonstrations against the Vietnam War, civil rights marches and charity events like Live Aid, Farm Aid and the Tibetan Freedom Concerts will be detailed in the book and documentary, which will air this fall, according to Crosby. A one-hour and three-hour version of Stand and Be Counted will be created for primetime TV and PBS, respectively. The book, published by Harper Collins, is also expected this fall. BLAIR R. FISCHER (June 15, 1999)

MAY

David Crosby has posted this to the Lee Shore mailing list

OK ...as far as I know from Neil, Stephen, and Graham the tour is still very much on... ...it was delayed due to health issues with one of our kids and they come first ...when I can explain more about that I will... ...as soon as we know what's up with the tour timing we will tell you here I promise... ...I have a CD of 5 mixed songs with me and they are going to knock your socks off... ...no point in slagging Neil ...he is making Great music and this is definately not his fault... ...I am going to go mooch off Nash in Kauai for a couple of weeks and love to you all... ...croz

The possible bad news that we have all been dreading may well be here...check out this article from Rolling Stone magazine.

Is Neil Young Getting Cold Feet?

Pay-per-Neil? Grunge Godfather may want to scale back reunion plans Neil Young may be having second thoughts about touring with his old bandmates David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, according to a source close to Young. Originally, the foursome were going to set out late this summer in conjunction with the Aug. 17 release of Heartland, CSN&Y's first studio release in ten years. But it looks like Young is hoping to reduce the CSN&Y reunion tour (tentatively planned for fifteen dates) to a single pay-per-view show. Recent scuttlebutt is that the tour is being planned for September -- around the time that Young is planning to join Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp at Farm Aid, which takes place at Bristow, Va.'s Nissan Pavilion on Sept. 12. Given the talk of a pay-per-view special, the rumored prospect of a CSN&Y appearance at Farm Aid is unlikely, since that concert is traditionally aired for free on TNN, and the band wouldn't want to steal its own thunder. Young's case of cold feet may come as a surprise to some fans -- and his bandmates. Nash told CNN earlier this year that the reunion itself was Young's idea. JAAN UHELSZKI (May 12, 1999)

Looks like the CSNY tour may now be postponed until the autumn.

APRIL

CSNY to tour Summer 1999 (about bloody time as well!)

These are the preliminary tour dates.  Send an e-mail to be updated as soon as the final dates are announced.