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October 28, 2024

Graham Nash on why Stills, Nash & Younger won’t ever play collectively once more after David Crosby’s loss of life Guitar Contact

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It’s a tragic day for followers of Stills, Nash & Younger, as Graham Nash reveals that the trio will probably “by no means” carry out collectively once more after the loss of life of David Crosby.

With the band’s Dwell at Fillmore East, 1969 album lastly hitting cabinets final Friday, the clamour is on as soon as once more for extra CSNY music or, on the very least, a reunion of the three surviving members.

However a current dialog between Nash and Rolling Stone means that this dream could by no means come into fruition in spite of everything.

“I don’t assume that me and Stephen and Neil will ever play collectively once more,” says the 82-year-old in a brand new interview.

“There’s no coronary heart there. David was the centre of all of it, as loopy as he was. And my God, he was loopy. However he was the center of this band. And that’s why I feel that if Stephen and Neil and I ever performed collectively, individuals could be lacking Crosby.”

“We might be lacking Crosby,” he provides. “It simply could be a a lot colder scene.”

Requested why the Fillmore album had taken so lengthy to come back out, Nash explains: “We’ve all carried out lots of recording. There are lots of tapes nonetheless current of us which have by no means been seen the sunshine of day. And when David handed, we devoted your complete album to him, as a result of he actually was the heartbeat of this band, and his passing introduced a halt to us all making music collectively.”

Trying again on his relationship with the late singer, Nash says he has little question the band would have reconciled if Crosby hadn’t handed away.

“We had been emailing, and he voicemailed me, after which I arrange a FaceTime assembly with him as a result of I wished us to have the ability to take a look at one another once we had been speaking. After which he acquired Covid. I wasn’t feeling very properly, and we missed that date. And a few days later he handed.”

He continues: “I actually miss him. I miss him extra each day as a result of life is decisions, and I solely select to recollect the great instances that David and I had, the great music that we made collectively. After I attempt to take into consideration the unhealthy issues that occurred, I don’t need to do this. I made the selection to solely keep in mind the good things.”

Crosby handed away on 19 January 2023 on the age of 81. The final time Crosby, Stills, Nash & Younger carried out collectively as a full band was in December 2015.




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