I was just thinking that her voice sounds similar to an interviewer from a 1987 interview with George Harrison who I was always curious about, see if you agree...ua-cam.com/video/z71gVzVEn5E/v-deo.html
@@Fordham1969 thanks for the hint. So I think the interviewer is Laura Gross. You can learn more about her here: Once upon a time”…oh, wait, my story? The nickel version, I guess. I love rock and roll, and I love creative writing, so after college, I put the two together and started writing articles about rock and roll, then began a radio show called Backbeat on college station KCSN, graduated to the then powerhouse LA radio giant KRLA, where I did interviews, marketing, promotions, and ultimately became on-air talent. After 4 1/2 whirlwind years interviewing everybody from Muhammed Ali to Smokey Robinson to Bob Hope and beyond, management changed, I (and everyone else at the station) got fired, and I started freelancing for radio syndicates like Dick Clark Productions, The Wolfman Jack Show, Drake Chenault’s The History of Rock and Roll, Casey Kasem’s famed Top 40. It was both challenging, trying to build enough of a client base to actually make a living, and thrilling. Interviewing top stars for the top shows. But I wanted to move on to television, and after 4 1/2 years of a very slow but continuous effort to get MTV, then in its infancy, to hire me, they finally did.
Anyone who are around the same age as Neil And Stephen and grew up during the Vietnam War era, understand friendship. Many young people and families were divided on issues confronting them in a daily basis. Not unlike today but for different reasons. Neil understands Stephen better than Stephen knows himself. Their music together and separately grows from the roots they established way back in the 60's. Helplessly Hoping
I think you've been reading too many fan magazines. How in the world can you assume that Neil Young "understands Stephen better than Stephen knows himself"? I am slightly younger than these two and grew up in the Vietnam War era. One of the first albums I bought was a Buffalo Springfield album and the "Super Session" album with Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills. I'm a big fan of these guys and so many of the late 60s and early 70s artists, but I couldn't tell you which artist knows another artist so deeply. As for friendships during this era being any different than any other era -- these people went through their formative years with each other and shared many special experiences that forged friendships. Millions of young people experience this kind of bonding no matter what the era. The Vietnam years were very fraught but so were many, many other years in history.
Stephen Stills is one of the ALL-TIME greats in the history of American Popular Music. I taught MUS 236: Survey of American Popular Music Traditions at Indiana State University last semester. It easily could have been two semesters, but it was only one. I only had time to get from the inception of the USA, the sources of American Popular Music from circa 1775-1825 through about 1970. I needed another semester to get into any depth, but I made sure (even though the author of the textbook didn't) to give Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young some time and love in my last lecture or two. The songs they wrote and performed (along with Dylan, Hendrix, James Brown, & Aretha) really encapsulated the mood of the Vietnam and Civil Rights era. Find the Cost of Freedom, Wooden Ships, Ohio, Almost Cut My Hair, Long Time Gone, Teach Your Children, etc. - and Stephen was the man at the mixing board for most of that... oh, not to mention For What It's Worth. Stephen's contribution to Rock n Roll is indelible. Period.
This is such a thoughtful, informed post. CSNY have left an indelible mark on music. For all time. One of the greatest bands ever. Outstanding songwriters and musicians one and all.
You can't be serious - I should teach this class - Question - Did you teach those Sycamores anything about Jimmy Rodgers , Django Rinehart , or Buddy Guy? I certainly hope so - Did you teach them that a large percentage came from upper class households ? Particularly the "Laurel Canyon " folks ? Did you teach them that despite his intentional distancing from this fact , Eric Clapton practically invented Heavy Metal - ( Cream 1966 - before Black Sabbath even thought about a getting signed ) there are so many stories out there which aren't true - The influence Peter Grant had + the fact Mick Jagger is a musician who happens to sing - and the virtuosity of Christopher Cross-
I think this is quite revealing. I completely agree with his take on CSN and CSNY being totally different entities. The albums have a very different quality to each other that make the two of the greatest albums of the early '70's. I don't think that the perfection of those two albums has ever been captures since. They had a massive impact on me. I remain eternally grateful.
I’ve always got it.. they’re both extremely talented and their guitar back and forth are unrivaled, true chemistry and they are personal lifelong friends
Because NY has let SS down in huge ways, publicly on so many occasions. Look up the B.S. Johnny Carson Show appearance. Or Monterey. Or the Eat A Peach tour. Or him FIRING Stephen from CSN&Y backstage in Denver on the 1969 tour. Firing Stills. From CSN after Y had been with them for three months. All of this public. Maybe that's why people ask what the hell is going on? The real question is why Stills is so gracious when asked about it and says, "Neil never played a team sport in his life so it's just not in his universe." (From the Bob Costas interview on UA-cam.) Yes, they are brothers, but...
Manassas would've been Huge if Stills would've stuck with it. A much better group of Musicians in that band than in CSN. Hillman a much better Foil or Partner for Stills, than say Crosby or Nash. Some of Stills' best music on that first Manassas album.
Yes, 100%. So much talent packed into Manassas. (It also highlights Neil's ability to move on to a very productive and sustained solo career vs. his former bandmates.)
This is just one year before he had his post 80s amazing comeback and had a string of awewome records. Freedom 89, Ragged Glory 90, Harvest Moon 92, Sleeps with Angels 94, Mirror Ball 95, Broken Arrow 96, Silver and Gold 2000. If you play elec guitar, Ragged Glory is a great play along record. Well most of them are.
Neil is right, Stills should have leaned a lot more on the blues. When he has he just sounds so more complete. I was at the 76 concert in Boston, it was great to watch them duel on guitars.
Who is Neil Young giving advice to Stills. Stills is ten times the musician you are, Young. If it wasn't for Stills, you and Crosby and Nash would be working at a car wash. And don't be blowing that stupid harmonica around my kids. I don't want them picking up bad habits.
@@RawOlympia Was he not speaking to Crosby when Crosby died do you happen to know? I saw an interview with Nash that wasn’t very old and he said he wasn’t speaking to Crosby at that time. I hope they reconciled before his death.
@@gerry1620 I have no idea but I think they may not have - only knew one person in that group, Anya, a hippie I interned under and Nash came by to pick up kids to sing about nuclear war and my cynical friends said it was so he didn't have to pay. Joni said David was the love of her life if you google and that may have hurt Nash. They are amazing to listen to! It has been too long and have indulged a little after years of abstinence. Deja Vu!
One of the immortal moments in recorded R&R history is when a teen groupie tries to tempt one of the members of The Mothers of Invention into her Gremlin by offering him "b-jobs, knotted nylons, bamboo canes, and three unreleased recordings of Crosby, Stills Nash, and Young fighting in the dressing room at the Fillmore East." Frank Zappa and the girl & boys were really on that night.
Lol. If Neil has a hard time getting along with many people why then did all these professional multi millionaire musicians play with Neil. McCartney, Springsteen, Dylan, Petty, Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Eddie Van Halen, Jennings, Cash, Nelson, Mumford, Stills, Gilmore, Parton, Booker T, Pearl Jam, Ronstat, the list goes on and on and on and on. you're wrong.
Steven Still's would walk into a room, with a FAT cigar in his mouth, with arms open as if saying, "Here i am, people." Graham Nash enters a room: He's quiet, humble, polite and shakes hands.
Jerry Garcia ? there is nothing wrong with wanting to impress your Father - Sam Elliott would give anything if his Dad lived long enough to see him succeed - Jerry should have skipped a few meals and concentrated on teaching those Deadheads the virtues of taking a bath
Nash wrote in his book that SS had "an absolutely horrific childhood." The VERY few quotes from SS are indicative of something going on, but says, "I wasn't beaten." Used words like 'chaos'. BOTH parents were alcoholics. His father's tone of voice 'terrified' him. His mother was 'harsh with him.' His two sisters were 'loud.' In a way I almost wonder if the congenital hearing problem made it all worse. He really did used to run away to the bayou in rural Louisiana when he was very little and they sent him to a military boarding academy when he was TEN YEARS OLD. His father had a prison record in Texas and SS went to four high schools and graduated from one in Costa Rica. So... yeah, Jerry... things don't sound all that great for the kid, especially one who might have been sensitive and obviously small for his age. My husband is a pediatrician and has an additional theory, but I'm not going to speculate other than to say there's something obvious that once it is pointed out is hard to 'unsee.'
I always thought Stills and Young's guitar playing was better when they played together. Neil would clean his playing up a little and Stephen would play a little raunchier.
As a disgruntled fan who had tickets to the '76 show and lost my money when they cancelled, I feel qualified to say: Tickets to any combination of these four guys BUY AT YOUR OWN RISK. Having said that I reiterate NEIL YOUNG IS A PROPHET.
@@Jamie-1985In the mid 70's neither Ticketmaster nor Beaver Productions refunded ticket prices when purchased in advance at Hirsch Memorial Coliseum in Shreveport. I should add this is likely due to the behavior of concert-goers whom had been bringing fireworks into the building for years. Officials had been threatening to cancel concerts since the late 60's because of the bottle rockets and fire crackers. I have the mc's opening words permanently burned in my brain: "The fire marshall has asked me to announce that the use of fireworks inside the building is prohibited by federal law. If the use of fireworks continues the concert will be cancelled!" I attended more than a dozen shows in the mid to late 70's and this announcement was made at every single one. After I moved away in the early 80's they finally did cancel a show and the ensuing stampede resulted in the deaths of two and the hospitalization of many more. It wasn't all about peace and love the way we like to romaticize about it. (I still remember those announcements and the booing and hissing of 12,000 to 15,000 anxious fans that immediately followed after every one. Pretty sure I paid $15 a ticket for general admission. A lot of money for a high school kid in 1976.)✌❤ and R&R.
@@melissa9375 Neil, David, Stephen, and Graham had a lot of artistic differences which fanned the flames of anger between them. Of the four it was really only Neil and Stephen who really got along well together. Their arguing and fighting was so legendary that it inspired Frank Zappa to write the line; "four unreleased recordings of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young fighting in the dressing room at the Fillmore East." A line which appeared on the album FZ and The Mothers of Invention Live at the Fillmore East 1971.
A very reliable source (who's been friends with Stills for years) said Stills was/is a prodigious cocaine user; even more than most. Always seems to be the story.
Off topic a bit but I never heard much mention of The Rides, the group with Stills, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Barry Goldberg on keyboards. Only 2 CD's but they seemed good to me.
Neil wearing the Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel shirt here as he did for a few concerts including his SNL performance. Unfortunately he never played at Lupo's.
@@RustedTelevisione @RustedTelevisione They were at The Strand in the final years. I think the pandemic finished it, though the Strand itself still operates. Last show I saw at Lupo's was The White Stripes in November of 2003 at the Westminster Street location. Neil's shirt from the 80s would have been from their first location also on Westminster near Empire. Currently the site of a coal fired pizza place. Rory Gallagher played there in 1985, among others.
@@rare_medium I only saw a few shows at Lupo’s, most notable one being Counting Crows. Stevie Ray Vaughan played there. And Roomful of Blues was a regular show. Neil wore this shirt during his Weld Tour, 1991 & a few other times. Great shirt. I have one!
I was at a show in 76 Stills/Young Band. The songs were good but you could just tell the vibe wasn’t there…. Some people were yelling for Neil when Stephen was playing…. Just not cool. You could sort of understand how it soured
I paid to see Stephen Stills at Austin City Coliseum in the late ‘80s. His amp crackled once a few songs in, and he pulled his plug and walked off. Techs came out and messed with the amp, wires, etc., so that he came back out about 20 minutes later and played a few more songs. The amp crackled again. He pulled the plug, lifted his guitar over his head and cleared the strap, and slammed it down on the ground, walked off, and didn’t return. Tortured artist maybe, but it’s hard to forget that.
sort of his career low point. supposedly the drinking and drugs were pretty intense. he and crosby had about a decades of not the best output like 78-86. im a fan of the stills alone album and he seemed to bounce back in the mid to late 90s (sry after the storm and their other 80s/90/ abums not great but he killed it from like 66-77 with some missteps. when i saw him in the 00s he was awesome on many occasions.
@@professormacdeezy That’s good to hear. I’ve always liked him and admired his guitar playing, and he’s the only Texan in the band. It was disappointing, but we’re all human, not perfect, and there are times in my past I’d like everyone to forget.
@@subg8858 Never known one single person who was better for it. Not.One. Not a lawyer, investor, politician, professor, writer, artist, neighbor, cousin, city worker, athlete, musician... no one.
@@clontstable1 the Elvis shirt happens to be a Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel T-shirt. Lupo’s was a very popular Providence R.I. music club formed in the mid 1970s. No, Neil never played there.
Great UA-cam, from the heart, with one of the two main Dead drummers, Bill Kreutzmann, stating very clearly THAT was the root of their issues. What it does to the ego. What it did to them. This one; ua-cam.com/video/MEdhlX-hdNk/v-deo.html
I wish Neil Young was as humble today as he was - or appears to be back then - I must point out the most disappointed I've ever been as far as concerts are concerned was Neil Young's performance errr lack of one in Louisville KY around 1983 or so - I don't know what happened but dude came out and played like 2 songs and Put his shit down and left - I thought I was gonna be killed by a flying metal chair - people rioted over this - but if I had known he was indeed the Grinch I wouldn't have been so pissed off after all these yrs -
I saw him in 97 & he looked kinda fat & old but he during needle & the damage done he went nuts & smashed a nice white Gibson es & he looked really pissed he was yelling 'oh Bruce' while he smashed it
Steven Stills has written and performed some of the greatest songs of our time. Neil and Steven go back to the early 60's I believe. They met before CSN even existed.
From all I've gathered Crosby & nash were where most of the problems in the group came from but everyone seems to have a different version of how it really was
Nah, she tried at first but backed off when Neil set her straight. She was just repeating what everyone thought which is understandable. She actually did a good job getting Neil to explain it - how Steven was so sensitive to what others said and that made him react negatively which in turn spurred Neil to leave because he was already itching to go solo. People assumed that Neil and Steven must have had personal differences but that really wasn't why Neil left.
Crosby, Still and Nash was better without Neil Young. They never needed him. He doesn't contribute to those beautiful harmonies and Stills is a much better guitar player.
To the best of my knowledge, Graham Nash HAS NOT at any time relished having Neil Young in the band, period. Quite the opposite. Nash was very relieved when Neil walked away from the band to continue his solo career, as Graham felt that Neil's voice and his musical vision did not meld well with the band's sound and style. It's a FACT that Nash loathes Neil Young's singing.
I suppose it wasn't Neil's place to expose them. From what I've read he was still having problems with cocaine and alcohol at the time Neil did this interview. It's sad really
When they got together last few times they wwimped out...too bad many top 40 garbage listeners and youtube requesters just want the awful stuff like wasted on the way
Sort of odd that artists do interviews. I like that Neil is telling the truth, but what does he gain from this? It just intrudes on this time. So, unless you're pitching, or the interviewer is a particularly enlightened or interesting person, why talk?
Seriously, he walked away from Buffalo Springfield, CSNY, other scheduled events, didn’t want to be filmed at Woodstock. Not a team player. I love his talent he is iconic, but he is a dick non the less.
@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN naw,just felt like wearing them. why don't you like Neil's acoustic music. some people say it's simple to play but the thing is, they can't play it like Neil. I do agree with you, his electric guitar Rocks.
Nope, Neil did benefit concerts for disabled children ,farmers,environmental issues, humanitarian issues etc....................making millions of $$$$$$$$$$$ for these organizations. ALL iN THE U S A .
Yeah tormented by Neil lol. Artists are not easy people to live with because they’re always a bit detached in any relationship because of their nature. Driven by their perception’s with instinct to express freely. Typically artists are not present enough in the lives of those they love most when dramas unfold nearby. Resentments are characteristic in the outer circle
The woman conducting the interview is a clueless dolt out of her depth. Here she is interviewing an extremely talented Rock Star who is patiently answering her questions.
People change with age. And not necessarily for the better. You can check posts by Stephen King for starters. But at least all what he writes is horror.
I think it was because rogan was making people eat bugs and worms and abusing steroids while Neil was doing benefit concerts for disabled children, farmers, environmental issues, humanitarian issues etc.............. making millions of $$$$$$$$$$ for these organizations, during the same time period.
NEIL WANTS TO DO RIGHT BY HIMSELF, NEVER COMPLETELY IMMERSES IN A UNIT ... he brings his talent - not as good as STILLS - but, good skills and NOT HIS ALLIANCE, COMMITMENT as he will wander off to do what moves Neil at the moment !
I confess that most of you know more about csny that I, but my basic impression is that Stills and Nash are empathetic, good souls, and Crosby and young are narcissistic, toxic men who have emotionally damaged a lot of good people, and more times than not, have exploited the people who love them much more than reciprocating that love...and saying you love someone means very little when the evidence shows they are liars.
lest you forget, Neil has done benefit concerts for disabled children, farmers, environmental issues, humanitarian issues etc............making millions of $$$$$$$$$ for these organizations All in the U S A. how dare he do these things that actually help people.
Not sure why people are saying Neil was actually being nice here. I have a feeling Stills wouldn’t appreciate being called a fragile lil light bulb filament. Especially if he really is such a tortured artist. Young is just being a manipulative prick again.
Thank god for Rick Beato. He asks artists technical questions about their music and the artists love to talk to him. None of this personal conflict bullshit.
Ask MR Young what compelled him to move from Toronto Can to Laurel Canyon in the 60s. Youll never get a straight definitive answer other than a so called mysterious pull or attraction...
Does anyone know who the woman is that is conducting the interview? This interview was originally featured in Vox circa 1988. Anyone know?
That's what we pay you the big bucks to figure out.
Yes - the same reporter who thinks man made climate change is a result of cows farting and lawn mowers
I was just thinking that her voice sounds similar to an interviewer from a 1987 interview with George Harrison who I was always curious about, see if you agree...ua-cam.com/video/z71gVzVEn5E/v-deo.html
@@Fordham1969 thanks for the hint. So I think the interviewer is Laura Gross. You can learn more about her here: Once upon a time”…oh, wait, my story? The nickel version, I guess. I love rock and roll, and I love creative writing, so after college, I put the two together and started writing articles about rock and roll, then began a radio show called Backbeat on college station KCSN, graduated to the then powerhouse LA radio giant KRLA, where I did interviews, marketing, promotions, and ultimately became on-air talent. After 4 1/2 whirlwind years interviewing everybody from Muhammed Ali to Smokey Robinson to Bob Hope and beyond, management changed, I (and everyone else at the station) got fired, and I started freelancing for radio syndicates like Dick Clark Productions, The Wolfman Jack Show, Drake Chenault’s The History of Rock and Roll, Casey Kasem’s famed Top 40. It was both challenging, trying to build enough of a client base to actually make a living, and thrilling. Interviewing top stars for the top shows. But I wanted to move on to television, and after 4 1/2 years of a very slow but continuous effort to get MTV, then in its infancy, to hire me, they finally did.
@@RustedTelevisione Wow, nice detective work, how did you find her? Are there other interviews that she's done out there on UA-cam?
I saw Steven Stills in Berkeley, summer, 1975. He did three sets. Great concert. Neil came out for two songs during the 3rd set. The crowd went nuts.
I saw him at "The Old Lady on Brady" in Tulsa Ok in '81. I was "high" on him for 3 days!! FANTASTIC!!
Anyone who are around the same age as Neil And Stephen and grew up during the Vietnam War era, understand friendship. Many young people and families were divided on issues confronting them in a daily basis. Not unlike today but for different reasons. Neil understands Stephen better than Stephen knows himself. Their music together and separately grows from the roots they established way back in the 60's. Helplessly Hoping
I think you've been reading too many fan magazines. How in the world can you assume that Neil Young "understands Stephen better than Stephen knows himself"? I am slightly younger than these two and grew up in the Vietnam War era. One of the first albums I bought was a Buffalo Springfield album and the "Super Session" album with Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills. I'm a big fan of these guys and so many of the late 60s and early 70s artists, but I couldn't tell you which artist knows another artist so deeply.
As for friendships during this era being any different than any other era -- these people went through their formative years with each other and shared many special experiences that forged friendships. Millions of young people experience this kind of bonding no matter what the era. The Vietnam years were very fraught but so were many, many other years in history.
Stephen Stills is one of the ALL-TIME greats in the history of American Popular Music.
I taught MUS 236: Survey of American Popular Music Traditions at Indiana State University last semester. It easily could have been two semesters, but it was only one. I only had time to get from the inception of the USA, the sources of American Popular Music from circa 1775-1825 through about 1970. I needed another semester to get into any depth, but I made sure (even though the author of the textbook didn't) to give Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young some time and love in my last lecture or two. The songs they wrote and performed (along with Dylan, Hendrix, James Brown, & Aretha) really encapsulated the mood of the Vietnam and Civil Rights era.
Find the Cost of Freedom, Wooden Ships, Ohio, Almost Cut My Hair, Long Time Gone, Teach Your Children, etc. - and Stephen was the man at the mixing board for most of that... oh, not to mention For What It's Worth. Stephen's contribution to Rock n Roll is indelible. Period.
This is such a thoughtful, informed post. CSNY have left an indelible mark on music. For all time. One of the greatest bands ever. Outstanding songwriters and musicians one and all.
What a great class. I hope you recorded it and will share it widely.
@@MellowWindSign me up, too!
Sounds like an easy A…,
You can't be serious - I should teach this class - Question - Did you teach those Sycamores anything about Jimmy Rodgers , Django Rinehart , or Buddy Guy? I certainly hope so - Did you teach them that a large percentage came from upper class households ? Particularly the "Laurel Canyon " folks ?
Did you teach them that despite his intentional distancing from this fact , Eric Clapton practically invented Heavy Metal - ( Cream 1966 - before Black Sabbath even thought about a getting signed ) there are so many stories out there which aren't true - The influence Peter Grant had + the fact Mick Jagger is a musician who happens to sing - and the virtuosity of Christopher Cross-
I think this is quite revealing. I completely agree with his take on CSN and CSNY being totally different entities. The albums have a very different quality to each other that make the two of the greatest albums of the early '70's. I don't think that the perfection of those two albums has ever been captures since. They had a massive impact on me. I remain eternally grateful.
What is it people don't get about Stephen Stills and Neil Young! They are true friends and play such classic music together.
Because they never read quotes, and instead rely on 3rd hand information.
I’ve always got it.. they’re both extremely talented and their guitar back and forth are unrivaled, true chemistry and they are personal lifelong friends
True friends? I guess if a true friend like Neil can tear each Steve up in public. Seems like he is indifferent to embarrassing Steve.
Because NY has let SS down in huge ways, publicly on so many occasions. Look up the B.S. Johnny Carson Show appearance. Or Monterey. Or the Eat A Peach tour. Or him FIRING Stephen from CSN&Y backstage in Denver on the 1969 tour. Firing Stills. From CSN after Y had been with them for three months. All of this public. Maybe that's why people ask what the hell is going on? The real question is why Stills is so gracious when asked about it and says, "Neil never played a team sport in his life so it's just not in his universe." (From the Bob Costas interview on UA-cam.) Yes, they are brothers, but...
@@LoyalOpposition Not third hand. Public. See examples above. The quote from the Costas interview should get you started.
Neil and Stephen are basically brothers. Their bond goes way back to the folk Canada days. Lots of folks have bad mouthed Stills, but Neil never has.
Overlooking the White Falcon Gretsch
Neil's not that dude
Apart from the time that neil accuses him of stealing his song for his ( still s ) second solo record that is.
When you get four genius alpha creatives in an enclosed space - magic happens and then the lid blows off
@@nickb9162 What song was that?
Everyone needs friends like Neil that really get you.
Not me. Thanks.
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Neil Young Born To Rock
Yeah he got Stephen, he also left him to complete the whole tour on his own 🤣
@@sharpenflat6002 You most of all.
"He's filament." How raw and beautiful.
What does "He is filament" mean?
@@sharpenflat6002 I love so much that you asked this.
It means there's no bulb to protect him from the kind of force s that shut the light off.
@@Hojiii Far out, man. Really groovy.
@@sharpenflat6002 ĹoL. Indeed.
That's the Canadian in him🇨🇦
Whatever….the music you guys make is brilliant and soulful and that’s all that matters to me. Thank you for enriching my life.
I always wished Stephen Stills would have kept Manassas together longer, they had such a great sound.
Agreed. Passionately agreed.
Manassas would've been Huge if Stills would've stuck with it. A much better group of Musicians in that band than in CSN. Hillman a much better Foil or Partner for Stills, than say Crosby or Nash. Some of Stills' best music on that first Manassas album.
Yes, 100%. So much talent packed into Manassas. (It also highlights Neil's ability to move on to a very productive and sustained solo career vs. his former bandmates.)
Agreed.
Agreed
I’m glad I saw all four in San Francisco at the Bill Graham memorial concert. They are a powerful band when they are in the groove.
I love that Stills, Young album it's excellent.
Neil always telling it like it really is
No, old Neil tells it like he is.
Neil Young Born To Rock
❤this, thanks for posting
Hallelujah & Cheers Winter 2023 from the Colorado Rocky Mountains ~
great interview
Btw, the thumbnail is awesome!
He said what i think of him. I understand him through his music.
Neil is talking very kindly about stephen here just great
Neil Young does a fantastic Jack Nicholson impression
I could care less.
Feels more like Dan Ackroyd's Elwood Blues.
Lol
@@sharpenflat6002 You're sad.
Elwood
Damn...wish someone took the time to understand me like Neil has pondered the 'whys' around Steven Stills.
You're simplistic.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver you're right. I'm just a stupid simplistic pos. I pray to die.
Even god's done with me.
This is just one year before he had his post 80s amazing comeback and had a string of awewome records. Freedom 89, Ragged Glory 90, Harvest Moon 92, Sleeps with Angels 94, Mirror Ball 95, Broken Arrow 96, Silver and Gold 2000. If you play elec guitar, Ragged Glory is a great play along record. Well most of them are.
Neil Young calling someone tortured, irony is too small of a word
It takes one to know one.
The tortured artist effect
He's not saying that it's a bad thing and he never said he wasn't one either.
The Rock Star effect.
LOL! Spot on.
Stephen would fight to be first in line to forgive Neil for everything.
Funny,,, batshit crazy calling out batshit crazy. That's GOLD.
Neil is right, Stills should have leaned a lot more on the blues. When he has he just sounds so more complete. I was at the 76 concert in Boston, it was great to watch them duel on guitars.
'Black Queen' is up there as a great blues song.
Who is Neil Young giving advice to Stills. Stills is ten times the musician you are, Young. If it wasn't for Stills, you and Crosby and Nash would be working at a car wash. And don't be blowing that stupid harmonica around my kids. I don't want them picking up bad habits.
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Neil Young way more talented and successful than all 3 of them combined.
- Thanks for the few friends who are still kicking and all the ones who had to go.
The arguing between the band members in CSNY was legendary.
Graham Nash was a drama queen!
The arguments must have been 12 hours long lol
@@RawOlympia Was he not speaking to Crosby when Crosby died do you happen to know? I saw an interview with Nash that wasn’t very old and he said he wasn’t speaking to Crosby at that time. I hope they reconciled before his death.
@@gerry1620 I have no idea but I think they may not have - only knew one person in that group, Anya, a hippie I interned under and Nash came by to pick up kids to sing about nuclear war and my cynical friends said it was so he didn't have to pay. Joni said David was the love of her life if you google and that may have hurt Nash. They are amazing to listen to! It has been too long and have indulged a little after years of abstinence. Deja Vu!
One of the immortal moments in recorded R&R history is when a teen groupie tries to tempt one of the members of The Mothers of Invention into her Gremlin by offering him "b-jobs, knotted nylons, bamboo canes, and three unreleased recordings of Crosby, Stills Nash, and Young fighting in the dressing room at the Fillmore East." Frank Zappa and the girl & boys were really on that night.
“Stills is like a lightbulb with the filament exposed and no glass around it.”👍
If anyone is "tormented" it's Young. Neil has a hard time getting along with many, many people!
Lol. If Neil has a hard time getting along with many people why then did all these professional multi millionaire musicians play with Neil. McCartney, Springsteen, Dylan, Petty, Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Eddie Van Halen, Jennings, Cash, Nelson, Mumford, Stills, Gilmore, Parton, Booker T, Pearl Jam, Ronstat, the list goes on and on and on and on. you're wrong.
@@artvallejos1460 And a lot of oil and water performances in there. No, Neil makes a point of being Neil.
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No, alot of great performances there, good thing we got em on record. That's Neil, playing music with all time greats.
None of us know Neil your perspective is your own unfounded opinion which means nothing!
Stills is famous , but still underrated ..
Steven Still's would walk into a room, with a FAT cigar in his mouth, with arms open as if saying, "Here i am, people."
Graham Nash enters a room: He's quiet, humble, polite and shakes hands.
Man, you are right on there.
Neil would walk into a room and people would say, there's the man right there.
Everything is underrated to the modern drone, discovering everything for the first time. Hell, they think Starbucks invented coffee.
I like my artists to be tormented.
My wife's sister is an artist. She likes to torment us.
Sounds like the "76 Stills-Young Band tour ending was about Stephen's cocaine usage, if I were to read between the lines of what Neil is saying here.
Where are you Neil . I miss you so much . Do you still Love Me ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Jerry Garcia also mentioned in an interview that he thought Stephen had some need-to-prove-things-to-his-father complex.
Jerry Garcia ? there is nothing wrong with wanting to impress your Father - Sam Elliott would give anything if his Dad lived long enough to see him succeed -
Jerry should have skipped a few meals and concentrated on teaching those Deadheads the virtues of taking a bath
@@davidrice3337 I am just relating what I read in an interview. I have no idea about the nature of Steven Stills' relationship with his dad.
@@davidrice3337 now that was entirely unnecessary
Nash wrote in his book that SS had "an absolutely horrific childhood." The VERY few quotes from SS are indicative of something going on, but says, "I wasn't beaten." Used words like 'chaos'. BOTH parents were alcoholics. His father's tone of voice 'terrified' him. His mother was 'harsh with him.' His two sisters were 'loud.' In a way I almost wonder if the congenital hearing problem made it all worse. He really did used to run away to the bayou in rural Louisiana when he was very little and they sent him to a military boarding academy when he was TEN YEARS OLD. His father had a prison record in Texas and SS went to four high schools and graduated from one in Costa Rica. So... yeah, Jerry... things don't sound all that great for the kid, especially one who might have been sensitive and obviously small for his age. My husband is a pediatrician and has an additional theory, but I'm not going to speculate other than to say there's something obvious that once it is pointed out is hard to 'unsee.'
@@melissa9375 Please point it out. I'm curious.
I'm getting a real Elwood Blues vibe from Young here, what with the hat and glasses. He even looks a little like Dan Aykroyd.
Neil came first. Then Akroyd.
Like to hear more bout Stephen
I'm a professional horseman here in Louisville KY - Stephen Stills is a World Class Horseman - dude knows thoroughbred race horses - He's an athlete
@@davidrice3337 interesting
I always thought Stills and Young's guitar playing was better when they played together. Neil would clean his playing up a little and Stephen would play a little raunchier.
The way they bounced off each other was really nice.
Neil doesn't play clean. He can't even tune his guitar.
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If you have just 1 song could you put it on UA-cam so we can see how clean you play. Thanks 😂
@@sharpenflat6002 You can't even play guitar.
Steve Stills 11 such a wonderfull album
When it's there, Its what we keep
Aren't you a philosopher. What does that mean?
@@sharpenflat6002 its the last thing he said in the interview.
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@@sharpenflat6002 Aren't you a dolt.
As a disgruntled fan who had tickets to the '76 show and lost my money when they cancelled, I feel qualified to say: Tickets to any combination of these four guys BUY AT YOUR OWN RISK. Having said that I reiterate NEIL YOUNG IS A PROPHET.
No refund?!
@@Jamie-1985In the mid 70's neither Ticketmaster nor Beaver Productions refunded ticket prices when purchased in advance at Hirsch Memorial Coliseum in Shreveport. I should add this is likely due to the behavior of concert-goers whom had been bringing fireworks into the building for years. Officials had been threatening to cancel concerts since the late 60's because of the bottle rockets and fire crackers. I have the mc's opening words permanently burned in my brain: "The fire marshall has asked me to announce that the use of fireworks inside the building is prohibited by federal law. If the use of fireworks continues the concert will be cancelled!" I attended more than a dozen shows in the mid to late 70's and this announcement was made at every single one. After I moved away in the early 80's they finally did cancel a show and the ensuing stampede resulted in the deaths of two and the hospitalization of many more. It wasn't all about peace and love the way we like to romaticize about it. (I still remember those announcements and the booing and hissing of 12,000 to 15,000 anxious fans that immediately followed after every one. Pretty sure I paid $15 a ticket for general admission. A lot of money for a high school kid in 1976.)✌❤ and R&R.
A egotistical prototype
He is a selfish prophet, then. Look up how he let the Springfield down - repeatedly.
@@melissa9375 Neil, David, Stephen, and Graham had a lot of artistic differences which fanned the flames of anger between them. Of the four it was really only Neil and Stephen who really got along well together. Their arguing and fighting was so legendary that it inspired Frank Zappa to write the line; "four unreleased recordings of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young fighting in the dressing room at the Fillmore East." A line which appeared on the album FZ and The Mothers of Invention Live at the Fillmore East 1971.
A very reliable source (who's been friends with Stills for years) said Stills was/is a prodigious cocaine user; even more than most. Always seems to be the story.
Where can I find part one of this interview?
Off topic a bit but I never heard much mention of The Rides, the group with Stills, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Barry Goldberg on keyboards. Only 2 CD's but they seemed good to me.
Had a top blues album. #1 or #2. Nominated for Grammy.
Neil wearing the Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel shirt here as he did for a few concerts including his SNL performance. Unfortunately he never played at Lupo's.
Good point! And I believe Lupo’s finally closed its doors just a few years ago. Legendary venue in Rhode Island.
@@RustedTelevisione @RustedTelevisione They were at The Strand in the final years. I think the pandemic finished it, though the Strand itself still operates. Last show I saw at Lupo's was The White Stripes in November of 2003 at the Westminster Street location. Neil's shirt from the 80s would have been from their first location also on Westminster near Empire. Currently the site of a coal fired pizza place. Rory Gallagher played there in 1985, among others.
@@rare_medium I only saw a few shows at Lupo’s, most notable one being Counting Crows. Stevie Ray Vaughan played there. And Roomful of Blues was a regular show. Neil wore this shirt during his Weld Tour, 1991 & a few other times. Great shirt. I have one!
@@RustedTelevisione We were at the Counting Crows show together. 93 - 96 were my primary concert going years at Lupo's.
Neil would've been great in The Blues Brothers movie.
Who is the interviewer? She sounds a bit like Katy Tur.
I was at a show in 76 Stills/Young Band. The songs were good but you could just tell the vibe wasn’t there…. Some people were yelling for Neil when Stephen was playing…. Just not cool. You could sort of understand how it soured
I paid to see Stephen Stills at Austin City Coliseum in the late ‘80s. His amp crackled once a few songs in, and he pulled his plug and walked off. Techs came out and messed with the amp, wires, etc., so that he came back out about 20 minutes later and played a few more songs. The amp crackled again. He pulled the plug, lifted his guitar over his head and cleared the strap, and slammed it down on the ground, walked off, and didn’t return. Tortured artist maybe, but it’s hard to forget that.
sort of his career low point. supposedly the drinking and drugs were pretty intense. he and crosby had about a decades of not the best output like 78-86. im a fan of the stills alone album and he seemed to bounce back in the mid to late 90s (sry after the storm and their other 80s/90/ abums not great but he killed it from like 66-77 with some missteps. when i saw him in the 00s he was awesome on many occasions.
@@professormacdeezy That’s good to hear. I’ve always liked him and admired his guitar playing, and he’s the only Texan in the band. It was disappointing, but we’re all human, not perfect, and there are times in my past I’d like everyone to forget.
Cocaine’s a helluva drug
And LOTS of BOOZE to boot for ole Stephen@@subg8858
@@subg8858 Never known one single person who was better for it. Not.One. Not a lawyer, investor, politician, professor, writer, artist, neighbor, cousin, city worker, athlete, musician... no one.
Welcome to the USA Neil Young you're a kick @$$ addition to the SOUP 🍲🇺🇲💘🇨🇦
Funny, I always saw Neil as the tormented one.
Dude is really lookin like Elwood Blues
No, Elwood looks like Neil! LOL
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Good one.
Is this a Scott Pilgrim reference?
"Twisted" - coming from Neil?
That's my Uncle
Neil is everyone's uncle.
Why does Crazy Horse look like the 3rd Blues Brother in this?.....
He had the fedora, the shades & the Elvis shirt!
@@clontstable1 the Elvis shirt happens to be a Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel T-shirt. Lupo’s was a very popular Providence R.I. music club formed in the mid 1970s. No, Neil never played there.
One word sums up everything he's actually talking about: cocaine
Great UA-cam, from the heart, with one of the two main Dead drummers, Bill Kreutzmann, stating very clearly THAT was the root of their issues. What it does to the ego. What it did to them. This one; ua-cam.com/video/MEdhlX-hdNk/v-deo.html
Cocaine makes people emotionally vulnerable?
I wish Neil Young was as humble today as he was - or appears to be back then - I must point out the most disappointed I've ever been as far as concerts are concerned was Neil Young's performance errr lack of one in Louisville KY around 1983 or so - I don't know what happened but dude came out and played like 2 songs and
Put his shit down and left - I thought I was gonna be killed by a flying metal chair - people rioted over this - but if I had known he was indeed the Grinch I wouldn't have been so pissed off after all these yrs -
I saw him in 97 & he looked kinda fat & old but he during needle & the damage done he went nuts & smashed a nice white Gibson es & he looked really pissed he was yelling 'oh Bruce' while he smashed it
Aw Deb,1973 was a looooog time ago.
CSNY: American Dream "It's there and it's not there."
you're all washed up
@@artvallejos1460 Too bad that song was so thin.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver
still better than than any of your songs.
oh wait, you don't have any.
@@artvallejos1460 CSN didn't play any song on that album. Crosby said the entire suite of songs is weak. The single didn't even chart.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver
who cares if it didn't chart. some of the best songs Never charted. but still better than yours.
I hope Young has purchased a new pair of shades since this interview that he doesn't have to adjust nonstop.
Steven Stills has written and performed some of the greatest songs of our time. Neil and Steven go back to the early 60's I believe. They met before CSN even existed.
Have you not heard of a little group called Buffalo Springfield???????
@@melissa9375 I know, right
Have you not googled them at all? Have you never heard of Buffalo Springfield? You'll love the background!
Neil Young should be allowed to live forever.
Frank Zappa, too.
@@JamminClemmons Yup .. In fact I posted that same thing on one of Frank's sites ... also Miles Davis!
@@thewoodys_surf_instrumental - Good man!
@@thewoodys_surf_instrumental I'll definitely sign that petition. For all three of them!!! Heh
@@normsaunders4980 Great that makes 3 of us, stay tuned, more to follow!
From all I've gathered Crosby & nash were where most of the problems in the group came from but everyone seems to have a different version of how it really was
Bloody hell, who is this bird. She trying so hard to get a "confession". Just awful to listen to her trying to put words in his mouth.
Great interview she pulled something from behind the dark glasses
Nah, she tried at first but backed off when Neil set her straight. She was just repeating what everyone thought which is understandable. She actually did a good job getting Neil to explain it - how Steven was so sensitive to what others said and that made him react negatively which in turn spurred Neil to leave because he was already itching to go solo. People assumed that Neil and Steven must have had personal differences but that really wasn't why Neil left.
Rock music proved that you don't have to be good looking to be a star.
Crosby, Still and Nash was better without Neil Young. They never needed him. He doesn't contribute to those beautiful harmonies and Stills is a much better guitar player.
Yes but when Stephen and Neil play together it's extraordinary
Aren't we all!
Neil Dung - getcha boosta !!!
between the 4 of these talented guys, the greatest problem they ever had went up their noses....
Neil went on to bigger and better things
"I searched out my companions who were lost in crystal canyons"
Why do you care?
Interviewer is trying like hell to create some controversy where none exists.
Nice hat
Jack Nicholson vibes
Sounds like he’s a downers! Does anybody remember downers?
@@Cream1968 Booze.
To the best of my knowledge, Graham Nash HAS NOT at any time relished having Neil Young in the band, period. Quite the opposite. Nash was very relieved when Neil walked away from the band to continue his solo career, as Graham felt that Neil's voice and his musical vision did not meld well with the band's sound and style. It's a FACT that Nash loathes Neil Young's singing.
It's a fact Neil went on to bigger and better things. Left Nash in the dust.
I doubt it, Nash is often carping about Neil or Crosby, like siblings or spoiled artists
@@artvallejos1460 Nash composed all of CSNY's hits.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver
Nash was just a cheerleader.
He sounds exactly like Bill Belichick.
Not exactly but very much like Bill. You're the first person I have ever come across that has thought what I have been thinking for many years now.
The big unspoken in this talk about Stills is his addictions. Seems like almost a taboo subject.
I suppose it wasn't Neil's place to expose them. From what I've read he was still having problems with cocaine and alcohol at the time Neil did this interview. It's sad really
SS has been open about his addictions.
Young's voice is half Stanley Kubrick and half Billy Gibbons.
When they got together last few times they wwimped out...too bad many top 40 garbage listeners and youtube requesters just want the awful stuff like wasted on the way
Cinnamon Girl on acoustic guitar
ROCKS
Ah. If it's a popular hit, it's bad.
Sort of odd that artists do interviews. I like that Neil is telling the truth, but what does he gain from this? It just intrudes on this time. So, unless you're pitching, or the interviewer is a particularly enlightened or interesting person, why talk?
NY is iconic however he is a true narcissist and wants shit done his way it is what it is.
That really is it in a nutshell. Many artists 🎨 are that way. I guess that's the price we pay to get great art. ?
And that is how it needs to be
And why is this narcissism?
I don’t see how he is a narcissist.
Seriously, he walked away from Buffalo Springfield, CSNY, other scheduled events, didn’t want to be filmed at Woodstock. Not a team player. I love his talent he is iconic, but he is a dick non the less.
Darklord speaking
How about gifted and sometimes troubled and troubling?
Rev - don't mistake being spoiled , entitled and self grandiosity for 'troubled"
@@davidrice3337 Hardly.
Must have bought those sunglasses in a hurry 😂
I bet with some coaching, he could do an effective Macho Man Randy Savage.
Interviewers ….
A Treetop Flyer
When I close my eyes he sounds like Jack Nicholson...lol
I always ask myself: are sunglasses in an interview a sign of uncertainty or a feeling of inferiority? 🤔
Neither, just felt like wearing them.
@@artvallejos1460 so both reasons
A lot of people wear sunglasses because they are stoned and are just hiding their eyes. Don’t look too much into it
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naw,just felt like wearing them.
why don't you like Neil's acoustic music.
some people say it's simple to play but the thing is, they can't play it like Neil.
I do agree with you, his electric guitar
Rocks.
Maybe he knows some c... is gonna be shining super bright lights right in his f....... face.
Just trying to dig up trash.
Nope Neil did some things as a disservice
Nope, Neil did benefit concerts for disabled children ,farmers,environmental issues, humanitarian issues etc....................making millions of $$$$$$$$$$$ for these organizations.
ALL iN THE U S A .
Yeah tormented by Neil lol.
Artists are not easy people to live with because they’re always a bit detached in any relationship because of their nature. Driven by their perception’s with instinct to express freely. Typically artists are not present enough in the lives of those they love most when dramas unfold nearby. Resentments are characteristic in the outer circle
The woman conducting the interview is a clueless dolt out of her depth. Here she is interviewing an extremely talented Rock Star who is patiently answering her questions.
How could a guy like Neil here, so grounded and down to earth, be so wrong about Joe Rogan's show and Spotify?
Doesn't seem like the same dude.
People change with age. And not necessarily for the better. You can check posts by Stephen King for starters. But at least all what he writes is horror.
Boomer.
I think it was because rogan was making people eat bugs and worms and abusing steroids while Neil was doing benefit concerts for disabled children, farmers, environmental issues, humanitarian issues etc..............
making millions of $$$$$$$$$$
for these organizations, during the same time period.
NEIL WANTS TO DO RIGHT BY HIMSELF, NEVER COMPLETELY IMMERSES IN A UNIT ... he brings his talent - not as good as STILLS - but, good skills and NOT HIS ALLIANCE, COMMITMENT as he will wander off to do what moves Neil at the moment !
" they were just dead weight to me"
I'd never listen to Neil Young if a Stephen Stills record was at hand.
I confess that most of you know more about csny that I, but my basic impression is that Stills and Nash are empathetic, good souls, and Crosby and young are narcissistic, toxic men who have emotionally damaged a lot of good people, and more times than not, have exploited the people who love them much more than reciprocating that love...and saying you love someone means very little when the evidence shows they are liars.
lest you forget, Neil has done benefit concerts for disabled children, farmers, environmental issues, humanitarian issues etc............making millions of $$$$$$$$$ for these organizations
All in the U S A.
how dare he do these things that actually help people.
Not sure why people are saying Neil was actually being nice here. I have a feeling Stills wouldn’t appreciate being called a fragile lil light bulb filament. Especially if he really is such a tortured artist. Young is just being a manipulative prick again.
Thank god for Rick Beato. He asks artists technical questions about their music and the artists love to talk to him. None of this personal conflict bullshit.
Ask MR Young what compelled him to move from Toronto Can to Laurel Canyon in the 60s. Youll never get a straight definitive answer other than a so called mysterious pull or attraction...