Word: nash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ogden Nash...
...Baker-played enormous arenas and made megabucks, and sometimes megamusic. Their performances were fueled by dueling egos. Musical infighting built up the excitement they generated, but it also made breakups inevitable. Now, with half a decade gone, perhaps the mightiest U.S. supergroup of all is back together: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, whose pungent lyrics and soft-edged counterpoint to acid rock made them a primal force in popular music...
What ever prompted C. S. N. & Y. to abandon such a lucrative musical trust? "We could have made a lot of money in the past four years, but the feeling between us wasn't there," admits Graham Nash, 32. According to Stephen Stills, 29, tumescent egos were responsible. "None of us were willing to give up our identities," he says. "We could have called ourselves the Eternal Spinach, but we used our names instead -it made us the Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith of rock." Crosby once belonged to the Byrds, Nash was a member of the Hollies...
...just a bit suburban. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young are themselves all prosperous adults, owners of mansions and 800-acre ranches. The rhythm of their lives, private and professional, has settled down to moderato. Loud fracases and nocturnal revelries no longer conclude their day's work. Groupies, once omnipresent, are rare. After a recent Oakland concert, Stills, on his way to an informal jam with some members of the Grateful Dead, was accosted by one persistent young lady. To turn her off, he launched into a monologue on the virtues of family living. "Can I stay with you tonight...
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, who are apparently trying to get back together for a while, are playing a big concert Monday night at the Garden. This looks like one of the summer's few big-deal rock events. You know the scene--waiting in line for hours to get ridiculously expensive tickets, then being part of a huge, half-crazed crowd. Word is that the Monday concert may be already sold out, but that Don Law, the Bill Graham of Boston, is trying to schedule a second one for Tuesday. The problem with CSNY is not that they aren...