CHAPTER 1: EARLY YEARS–DECEMBER 1968
Crammed next to each other: Richard Drew, “Hollies Turn on ‘Names’ of Pop Music,” Independent Star News (Pasadena, CA), February 17, 1968. Young’s appearance is noted in Sandy Gardiner, “Off the Record,” Ottawa Journal, March 8, 1968.
Asked if nuclear bombs: “A-Arms Not Needed Now: Wheeler,” New York Daily News, February 15, 1968.
An eighteen-year-old living: “Say Killing in Defense of Mother,” Independent (Long Beach, CA), February 14, 1968.
“I don’t know, though”: Mike Ferguson, “Buffalo Bustup,” Courier-Post (Camden, NJ), June 29, 1968.
“Maybe we can steal him”: David Fricke interview with Stephen Stills (SS), 1997.
“We came offstage”: Author interview with Allan Clarke.
Adolf Hitler had spared Blackpool: Mark Tran, “Hitler’s Plans to Turn Blackpool into Nazi Resort Come to Light,” Guardian, February 23, 2009.
“I definitely wasn’t cool”: Author interview with Graham Nash (GN).
Once their schooldays had ended: These and other details on Stills’ childhood from Dave Zimmer, Crosby, Stills & Nash: The Biography (Da Capo, 2008).
“We’re the Hollies”: Author interview with Clarke.
“We went along with the flower-power”: Ibid.
“I had better pot”: Author interview with David Crosby (DC).
“The producer told us”: Author interview with Clarke.
“A lot of it was my own natural”: Author interview with DC.
“I had never heard an orchestra”: Ibid.
His father, Floyd, came from: These and other family details from David Crosby and Carl Gottlieb, Long Time Gone: The Autobiography of David Crosby (Doubleday, 1988).
“a really good parent”: Author interview with DC.
“I knew my father”: Ibid.
“dubious moral character”: Ben Fong-Torres, “David Crosby: The Rolling Stone Interview,” Rolling Stone, July 23, 1970.
“I’m really horrible”: Crosby and Gottlieb, Long Time Gone.
“He was a little bit unruly”: Author interview with Roger McGuinn.
Unable to handle the news: This and other early chronology from Zimmer, Crosby, Stills & Nash.
“He wanted to be in the band”: Author interview with McGuinn.
“Change is where it’s at”: Author interview with Mark Naftalin.
“Rev it up loud”: Sylvie Reice, “Byrds Fly High in World of Teens,” Los Angeles Times, May 24, 1966.
“literally made the chapel doors”: David F. Wagner, “Byrd Singing Debate at Lawrence University Show,” Post-Crescent (Appleton, WI), March 8, 1966.
“I was into Eastern religion”: Author interview with McGuinn.
“Can you do that?”: Ibid.
Williams Stills, his father: Zimmer, Crosby, Stills & Nash.
“an entrepreneurial kind of guy”: Fricke interview with SS, 1998.
“had to change countries”: David Cavanagh, “Fame Is a Subtle, Dangerous, Seductive Thing…,” Uncut, July 2009.
After Illinois: Zimmer, Crosby, Stills & Nash.
“I loved the drill”: Fricke interview with SS, 1998.
falsely accused: Zimmer, Crosby, Stills & Nash.
construction of storage tanks: Fricke interview with SS, 1997.
“Stephen was head and shoulders”: Author interview with John Sebastian.
westward migration: Tom Gray and Robert Scardamalia, “The Great California Exodus: A Closer Look,” Civic Report, Center for State and Local Leadership at the Manhattan Institute, September 2012, https://www.manhattan-institute.org/pdf/cr_71.pdf.
“Stephen and Neil both respected”: Author interview with Nurit Wilde, 2010.
“We just couldn’t hack him”: Mike Gormley, “Neil Young: On His Own in His Own Special Way,” Detroit Free Press, February 28, 1969.
“It was all about the fact that”: Author interview with Lou Adler, 2013.
“They were at a point”: Ibid.
“so grumpy at us”: Author interview with McGuinn.
“He was going beyond the scope”: Ibid.
“Ah, they suck—I don’t like them”: John Einarson and Richie Furay, For What It’s Worth: The Story of Buffalo Springfield (Cooper Square, 2004).
“I liked the Springfield right away”: Author interview with DC.
“My lick”: Ibid.
“Stephen asked me”: Ibid.
“One just didn’t do that then”: Zimmer, Crosby, Stills & Nash.
“stunk to high heaven”: Einarson and Furay, For What It’s Worth.
“He sat in with us”: Ferguson, “Buffalo Bustup.”
“We may be breaking some rules”: Tom Paegel, “Pop Jam Session Held at Hullabaloo Club,” Los Angeles Times, July 6, 1967.
“I want to retire in five years”: Reice, “Byrds Fly High.”
“We thought, ‘Oh, really?’”: Author interview with McGuinn.
“It wasn’t my plan”: Author interview with DC.
“complying with a request”: Diane Morgan, “The Disc Seen,” Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA), November 20, 1967.
“They asked me to resign”: Peter Tork interview with Brian Hiatt, 2007.
“It was a bad marriage”: Author interview with McGuinn.
“There was regret”: Author interview with DC.
“just another blonde”: Estrella Berosini to Sheila Weller, Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon—And the Journey of a Generation (Atria, 2008).
“You walk into a club”: Author interview with DC.
“I discovered sensimilla”: Ibid.
“This is nuts”: Author interview with Bill Halverson.
“like a brotherhood or a marriage”: Author interview with DC.
“The Byrds could swing”: Ibid.
“It wasn’t just about Bobby”: Ibid.
“We could’ve done without that”: Ibid.
“[Cocaine] started happening”: Andy Greene, “The Oral History of CSNY’s Infamous ‘Doom Tour,’” Rolling Stone, June 19, 2014.
an estimated $5 million on cocaine: Martin Waldron, “Drug Use in America,” New York Times, January 12, 1968.
“I probably wasn’t the only one”: Author interview with Sebastian.
“I was pretty down”: Author interview with GN.
“Which one of us is gonna steal him?”: Zimmer, Crosby, Stills & Nash.
“I thought everyone”: Author interview with Clarke.
“David sent me”: Ibid.
“He is aware and alert”: “The Hollies a ‘Group’s Group,’” Ottawa Journal, March 1, 1968.
Christine Gail Hinton: Crosby and Gottlieb, Long Time Gone.
“Joni found out about that” and “it was a very ‘goodbye David’ song”: Author interview with DC.
two recognizable figures: Author interview with Waddy Wachtel.
“I didn’t think much of the Hollies”: Author interview with DC.
“Do it—that’s all I’m going to tell you”: Fricke interview with SS, 1997.
“Who will steal him?”: Jim Ladd interview with SS, Rockline, 1982.
“They called out”: Author interview with Sebastian.
“We took it ‘on the road’”: Author interview with GN.
“I’m going to ask you something”: Author interview with Waddy Wachtel.
Clarke was therefore stunned: Author interview with Clarke.
“on the grounds of her misconduct”: “Graham Nash Wins Divorce,” Associated Press, January 28, 1971.
“He said, ‘I want to leave’”: Author interview with Clarke.
“I was thinking, ‘Oh my God’”: Author interview with Chris O’Dell. Also cited in her Miss O’Dell: Hard Days and Long Nights with The Beatles, The Stones, Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton (Touchstone, 2009).
“He wasn’t in my dressing room”: Author interview with Clarke.
“Crosby, Stills and Nash were already established”: Author interview with O’Dell.
“They didn’t get it”: Author interview with DC.
Acerbic and enamored: Details of Roberts and Geffen, including the Laura Nyro story, draw from Thomas L. King, The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys and Sells the New Hollywood (Random House, 2000).
“Elliot we knew”: Author interview with DC.
“animals”: King, Operator.
“Capitol wouldn’t touch it”: Author interview with Leslie Morris.
called Furay: Michael Wale interview with SS, 1972.
“Sort of like a baseball deal”: Ibid.
“Ah, man, the trouble”: Ibid.
“Geffen manipulated the outcome”: Author interview with Ron Stone.
In the last month of 1968: Author interview with Jerry Pompili.
“David Crosby of the Byrds”: Ralph J. Gleason, syndicated column, December 29, 1968.
CHAPTER 2: JANUARY 1969–DECEMBER 1969
“That’s the sound”: Author interview with Halverson.
“We worked with Rothchild”: Author interview with DC.
“He was very bitter about that”: Author interview with Dave Rao.
“Stephen was pushing them”: The quotation and the other information in this paragraph from author interview with Dallas Taylor, 2009.
“At the time we were very rebellious”: Author interview with DC.
Nash would pen: Author interview with GN.
“Once you realize”: Author interview with Sebastian.
“I got a little brushes thing”: Ibid.
“That was normally what happened”: Author interview with GN.
“It was a lot better”: Author interview with DC.
“It was amazing to watch”: Author interview with Sebastian.
“Cut his [Taylor’s] hands off”: Author interview with Taylor.
“Graham and David would come”: Author interview with Halverson.
“Stills… had his eyes down”: Ellen Sander, Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties (Scribner’s, 1973).
“Yes, that’s absolutely true”: Author interview with GN.
“bugged Anderle”: Author interview with Judy Collins.
Collins recalls bringing along a copy: Ibid.
“A huge influence on me”: Author interview with DC.
“Stephen didn’t like therapy”: Author interview with Collins.
“It was just thrilling”: Ibid.
“It was a struggle”: Ibid.
“He must have been reading”: Ibid.
“If you have a band name”: Author interview with DC.
“the latest trend in groups”: Dennis Douvanis, “Country Joins Rock for ‘Now Sound,’” Morning Call (Allentown, PA), March 8, 1969.
referred to the trio as “Stills-Crosby-Nash”: “Atlantic Plans Disk Action for New Coast Acts,” Billboard, February 22, 1969.
“Try saying it any other way”: Author interview with DC.
“Stephen was pissed”: Author interview with GN.
“At the time”: Author interview with DC.
“We were panicked”: Author interview with Stone.
“It was the first album”: Author interview with Henry Diltz, 2010.
“Needless to say”: Author interview with Binky Philips.
At the all-black Dudley: James T. Wooten, “Troops Disperse Carolina Snipers,” New York Times, May 24, 1969.
“Ahmet signs our paycheck”: Author interview with Halverson.
“structural triumph”: Robert Christgau, “The Byrds Have Flown—But Not Far,” New York Times, June 8, 1969.
“It was that intimacy”: Author interview with GN.
“as perfect”: Christgau, “Byrds Have Flown.”
“nothing short of a treasure”: Ellen Sander, “Crosby, Stills and Nash: Renaissance Fare,” Saturday Review, May 31, 1969.
“Do you want to pack it in, luv?”: This and other quotes in this passage from Susan Gordon Lydon, “In Her House, Love,” New York Times, April 20, 1969.
As Crosby recalls it, Young asked: Author interview with DC.
“a newly formed combination”: “Tom Jones to Open Greek Theater Year,” Los Angeles Times, May 8, 1969.
Stills and Taylor ran into George Harrison: Author interview with Taylor.
“Winwood was scared to death”: Ibid.
Naftalin later had no memory: Author interview with Naftalin.
During a dinner with Stills and Geffen: Zimmer, Crosby, Stills & Nash.
as Crosby would recall in his first memoir: Crosby and Gottlieb, Long Time Gone.
“There’s something about Neil Young”: Zimmer, Crosby, Stills & Nash.
Born in Toronto on November 12, 1945: Details of Young’s childhood from John Einarson, Neil Young: The Canadian Years; Don’t Be Denied (Quarry, 1992); Neil Young, Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream (Blue Rider, 2012); and Jimmy McDonough, Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography (Random House, 2002).
During a group interview in Connecticut: Margaret Rhodes, “Buffalo Springfield: Eastward Stomp,” Hartford Courant, November 25, 1967.
“I went, ‘Why would we do that?’”: Author interview with SS, 2010.
“kind of silly”: Dave Zimmer, “Stephen Stills Carries On,” BAM, April 6, 1979.
“I knew this was going to be a monster”: Fricke interview with SS, 1997.
“sounded like a new car”: Young, Waging Heavy Peace.
“overplay”: Thomas L. King, The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys and Sells the New Hollywood (Random House, 2000).
“I thought, ‘That’s an odd pairing’”: Author interview with Sebastian.
“Neil wasn’t a superstar then”: Author interview with GN.
“I said, ‘Oh, shit!’”: Author interview with DC.
“We said, ‘Wow, that was great’”: Author interview with Taylor.
“Nothing Neil does is an accident”: Author interview with DC.
“They had the tiger by the tail”: Author interview with Stone.
“If the heavens ever descend”: Detroit Free Press, June 20, 1969.
“There was nude swimming”: Author interview with Salli Sachse.
James himself would recall: Rick James with David Ritz, Glow: The Autobiography of Rick James (Atria, 2014).
“We always wondered”: Author interview with Taylor.
James knew his protégé: James with Ritz, Glow.
“It was some silly thing”: Author interview with Bobby Hammer.
“You walked out”: Footage from Crosby, Stills & Nash: Long Time Comin’ (Rhino, 2005).
“It wasn’t shocking”: Author interview with Sachse.
“Geffen knew what he had”: Lang quotations and details on the planning of Woodstock from author interview with Michael Lang; Michael Lang with Holly George-Warren, The Road to Woodstock (Ecco, 2009).
Stills would later tell: Alan di Perna, “Turn Back the Pages,” Guitar World, May 2013.
“Golly, we needed that”: “Relaxing with Crosby, Stills…,” Lew Harris, Chicago Tribune, August 18, 1969.
“They’re looking around”: Author interview with Sebastian.
“I thought, ‘Okay’”: Author interview with DC.
“smug, English face”: Dallas Taylor, Prisoner of Woodstock (Thunder’s Mouth, 1994).
“He was quiet”: Author interview with Greil Marcus.
“That was remarkable”: Author interview with Lang.
“Neil would threaten”: Author interview with GN.
“a huge mistake”: Author interview with DC.
“a bullshit gig”: McDonough, Shakey.
Young had recorded a few tracks: Neil Young Archives website, https://www.neilyoungarchives.com.
“The sales pitch”: Author interview with Stone.
“a triumph”: Robert Hilburn, “Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young at Greek,” Los Angeles Times, August 27, 1969.
“features Crosby, Stills and Nash”: “Bayou West: A Different Store,” Chula Vista Star News, November 9, 1969.
“Wasn’t that great?”: Author interview with DC.
“I did give him a knee”: Ernest Leogrande, “Stephen Stills Still Temperamental,” Asbury Park Press (Asbury Park, NJ), March, 8, 1974.
“Stills was ministered to”: Robert W. Neubert, “A Year of Woodstocks,” Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate, November 8, 1969.
“She rolled the best joints”: Author interview with Hammer.
On the way, Crosby saw: Crosby and Gottlieb, Long Time Gone.
“like the Mummy” and “It brought everybody down”: Author interview with Mickey Hart.
“Things like that”: Author interview with Sachse.
“His entire world had been yanked”: Author interview with GN.
“It was frightening”: Author interview with Stephen Barncard.
“Usually one or two reels”: Ibid.
“Mind-boggling”: Author interview with Lang.
“There was steam”: Author interview with Barncard.
“It’s as if I had done it before”: Author interview with DC.
“Until you forgive your mother”: David Yaffe, Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell (Sarah Crichton Books, 2017).
“He was madly in love with her”: Author interview with Hammer.
“crazy, love-filled”: Author interview with Collins.
“David thought it was perfect”: Author interview with Barncard.
“I didn’t want anyone”: Author interview with DC.
“It’s like, ‘What was wrong’”: Author interview with SS, 2010.
“Mistakes—lots of mistakes”: Author interview with DC.
“Neil was all business”: Author interview with Barncard.
“It was bedlam, man”: Author interview with SS, 2010.
“Graham was easygoing”: Author interview with Sachse.
“Stephen and Neil were back at each other”: Author interview with Taylor.
“By the time we got to Déjà vu”: Author interview with GN, 2010.
“From day one”: Author interview with Stone.
“The door flies open”: Author interview with Nils Lofgren, 2009.
“When the managers would come in”: Author interview with Halverson.
“Crosby’s face was so sad”: Author interview with Robert Greenfield.
“almost to a man bell-bottomed”: Lynn Van Matre, “Crosby, Stills (etc.) ‘Right On,’” Chicago Tribune, December 15, 1969.
Young showed up late: Wayne Harada, “A Mystic Movement at CSNY Concert,” Honolulu Advertiser, November 24, 1969.
“Politics is bullshit”: Ben Fong-Torres, “Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Taylor and Reeves,” Rolling Stone, December 27, 1969.
“Leo worked his ass off”: Author interview with Hammer.
“Streams of blood streaked”: Joel Selvin, Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day (Dey Street, 2016).
“just wide-eyed”: Author interview with Hart.
“It went really fast”: Author interview with Sachse.
“I could feel the music dying”: Young, Waging Heavy Peace.
CHAPTER 3: JANUARY 1970–JANUARY 1971
“Henry Diltz Fan Club” and ham-radio calls: Author interview with Henry Diltz, 2010.
“Ahmet would whine”: Author interview with SS, 2010.
“joined the Junior NRA”: Crosby and Gottlieb, Long Time Gone.
sales of fretted: George Knemeyer, “Country Sound in Rock Boosts Sale of Guitars,” Billboard, July 3, 1971.
“I hear a group like CSN”: “Rock Groups Translate Emotion into Music, Words,” Poughkeepsie Journal (Poughkeepsie, NY), February 22, 1970.
“It was perfect”: Author interview with Lang.
Two Guys: Advertisement, San Bernardino County Sun, March 15, 1970.
“That was tragic”: Author interview with SS, 2010.
“I’d committed the sin”: Author interview with GN.
someone to lease Brookfield: Details of the estate from author interview with Ritchie Yorke, 2009; Ritchie Yorke, “Stephen Stills Cuts His ‘Super’ Album in England Without Crosby, Nash, Young,” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 7, 1970.
“Stephen came to me full of praise”: Peter Tork interview with Brian Hiatt, 2007.
“a clear, direct sound”: Author interview with Lofgren.
“CSNY was this storm”: Ibid.
“It was just unpleasant”: Author interview with GN.
“Elliot was freaked”: Author interview with DC.
“Crosby and I were watching”: Author interview with GN.
Richard Nixon’s approval rating: “Nixon Popularity Increases in Poll,” New York Times, June 7, 1970.
“too perfect to be true”: Langdon Winner, Déjà vu review, Rolling Stone, April 30, 1970.
“He was a bit eccentric”: Author interview with Hammer.
“He did something that”: Author interview with SS, 2010.
“Being a medicine man”: Dolf van Stijgeren, “4 Way Site Catches Up with Greg Reeves,” 4WaySite.com, 2014.
sneaked aboard a flight: Author interviews with Calvin “Fuzzy” Samuel, 2010, and Stone.
“Remember all those stories”: Barbara Charone, “Stephen Stills: A Sympathetic Self-Portrait,” Crawdaddy, October 1975.
“If the music’s not there”: Author interview with GN.
Taylor pledged his allegiance: Author interview with Taylor.
“the sore throats”: Billboard, May 30, 1970.
As dance students: “SSC Group Plans Peace Benefit,” Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA), May 20, 1970.
a survey of Indiana: “‘Teach Children’ Takes Top 10 Spot,” Indianapolis News, July 17, 1970.
Atlantic rushed out a statement: “Crosby, Stills Not Breaking Up,” Billboard, June 6, 1970.
“We told Elliot”: Author interview with GN.
“The deal had already happened”: Author interview with Taylor.
“Dallas was canned”: Author interview with DC.
Taylor also claimed: Dallas Taylor, Prisoner of Woodstock (Thunder’s Mouth, 1994).
“They were a bit in disarray”: Author interview with Johny Barbata, 2009.
“Like a dummy, I did it”: Author interview with Taylor.
“I went to the end of it”: Author interview with DC.
“It was like the four of them”: Author interview with Halverson.
“It was entertaining”: Author interview with SS, 2010.
“It was destructive”: Ibid.
“needlessly bitter barbs”: Jack Lloyd, “CSN&Y Appears at Last: Near the End as Team?,” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 11, 1970.
“No one can afford”: Mike Steele, “What Price a Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young Concert,” Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 10, 1970.
“Crosby writes about”: Ibid.
“Well, that takes care of the sound check”: Author interview with Charles John Quarto, 2010.
“Well, my heart”: David Yaffe, Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell (Sarah Crichton Books, 2017).
“I said okay”: Author interview with Rita Coolidge, 2010.
“brooding”: Lew Harris, “Like Old Times Again,” Chicago Tribune, July 6, 1970.
A writer for Hundred Flowers: Hundred Flowers, no. 11, June 10, 1970.
“We got through it okay”: Author interview with SS, 2010.
“They didn’t do a lot of rehearsing”: Author interview with Halverson.
“various energies”: Author interview with Diltz, 2010.
Standing in the back: Author interview with James Mazzeo.
“He told me he really didn’t like”: Ibid.
made as much as $7 million: Caroline Boucher, “The Pop Aristocrats,” Disc and Music Echo, March 20, 1971.
“In the spring of 1967”: Liner notes, Buffalo Springfield (box set) (Rhino, 2001).
$340,103 in cash: Jimmy McDonough, Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography (Random House, 2002).
“When I saw that, I went”: Author interview with GN.
“He looked like a wreck”: Author interview with Felix Giachetti.
“Crazy thing to do”: Ibid.
the Mayan, now docked: Crosby and Gottlieb, Long Time Gone.
“I was stoned and happy”: Author interview with DC.
“The floor was all water”: Author interview with Ron Albert.
“sixties radicals found it easier”: Bruce J. Schulman, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society and Politics (Da Capo, 2002).
“in the same general area”: Author interview with Stone.
“Stephen was adorable”: Author interview with Coolidge, 2010.
“Mr. Sex of the Hollies”: David F. Wagner, “They Couldn’t Just Go Home Again,” Green Bay Press Gazette, September 7, 1969.
“It’s a terrible thing”: Author interview with Diltz.
“It didn’t help”: Author interview with DC.
“she didn’t break us up”: Author interview with SS, 2010.
“crawling along the floor”: “Rock Singer, Woman Booked in Drug Case,” Los Angeles Times, August 20, 1970. Report of fine: “Rock Guitarist Stills Fined for Drugs,” UPI, April 28, 1971.
“When Stephen was in the studio”: Author interview with Halverson.
“He was more and more obsessed”: Ibid.
“Neil was very focused”: Author interview with Lofgren, 2009.
drove his Mercedes: Details of Stills driving trips from Diltz journals.
“It was so much fun”: Author interview with SS, 2010.
To his shock: Graham Nash, Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life (Crown, 2013).
“It was wild times”: Author interview with SS, 2010.
admitted to a Los Angeles hospital: Ritchie Yorke, “Neil Plans Solo Tour Then Year Off,” Ottawa Journal, January 15, 1971.
“We were like a couple of groupies”: Author interview with Giachetti.
“As good as Neil was”: Author interview with DC.
Young was busy planning: Yorke, “Neil Plans Solo Tour.”
“Neil likes to play in groups”: Ibid.
Young was searched: Alex Cramer, “Neil Young in Concert: A Triumphant Return,” Ottawa Journal, April 17, 1971.
“They’d had their big moment”: Author interview with Morris.
Nash recalls “Southern Man”: Author interview with GN.
“We made the mistake”: Author interview with SS, 2010.
CHAPTER 4: FEBRUARY 1971–MARCH 1973
“I’d heard of CSNY”: Author interview with Ben Keith, 2010.
“Whoever showed up”: Author interview with DC.
“snorting up a long line”: Steve Parish, Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead (St. Martin’s Press, 2003).
During one jam: Author interview with Hart.
“It was about CSNY”: Author interview with DC.
“We all knew what it was”: Author interview with GN.
“stupefying vagueness”: Bud Scoppa, dual review of Graham Nash/David Crosby and Manassas, Rolling Stone, May 25, 1972.
“If you accept Graham Nash”: Lenny Kaye, Songs for Beginners review, Rolling Stone, July 22, 1971.
even the 1971 Ice Capades: Joe Baltake, “Ice Capades Dilemma,” Philadelphia Daily News, February 12, 1971.
“Stephen felt they needed someone”: John Robertson, Neil Young: The Visual Documentary (Omnibus, 1995).
“At present several thousand”: “End of the ‘Youth Revolt’?” U.S. News & World Report, August 9, 1971.
“I am suggesting that the best way”: Werner Erhard, www.wernererhard.net.
“Please don’t split up”: Vicki Wickham, “Graham Nash: ‘We May Fight, But the Music Wins,’” Melody Maker, June 1970. Reprinted in 4 Way Street: The Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Reader, edited by Dave Zimmer (Da Capo, 2004).
“300 houses in Laurel Canyon”: Tom Newton, “Rapping,” The Signal (Santa Clarita, CA), July 17, 1970.
“My definition is that blowing it up”: Ritchie Yorke, “Stephen Stills Cuts His ‘Super’ Album in England Without Crosby, Nash, Young,” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 7, 1970.
“The first part of the song”: Mike Gormley, “Meet the Man Behind the Movie ‘Woodstock,’” Detroit Free Press, April 26, 1970.
“You guys are too wired”: Author interview with Barbata, 2009.
“So just how true”: Mike Gormley, “2 Happenings Make Exciting Weekend,” Detroit Free Press, June 16, 1970.
“one case in many”: Jonathan Takiff, “So They Took 25Gs, Played a Little—and Then They Split,” Philadelphia Daily News, June 25, 1970.
wondered how dated: Robert Hilburn, “Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young at the Forum,” Los Angeles Times, June 29, 1970.
“It demonstrates a great deal”: Mike Davenport, “The Jazz Scene,” Valley News (Los Angeles), May 14, 1971.
“little short of a disaster”: Robert Hilburn, “One Delight and a Near Disaster,” Los Angeles Times, May 2, 1971.
“Stills has always come on”: Robert Christgau, Stephen Stills 2 review, Village Voice, October 14, 1971.
“a marathon”: Linda Winer, “A Marathon with Stills,” Chicago Tribune, July 19, 1971.
Adhering to his socially conscious: James D. Dilts, “Stills, Memphis Horns Provide New Sound,” Baltimore Sun, August 2, 1971.
one night, it took him a full five minutes: Ernest Leogrande, “Stephen Stills Still Temperamental,” Asbury Park Press (Asbury Park, NJ), March 8, 1974.
“He was a nervous host”: Author interview with Bruce Hensal.
“in ’71 and ’72, I found”: Dennis Hunt, “Stills: Back on the Strip Again,” Los Angeles Times, January 21, 1979.
“The only trouble”: “Rock Singer Nabbed on Drug Count,” UPI, June 11, 1971.
which culminated with Crosby clashing: Crosby and Gottlieb, Long Time Gone.
“Graham and I found out”: Author interview with DC.
“We have fights”: Bob Talbert, “Record Notes,” Detroit Free Press, December 19, 1970.
“They had girlfriends”: Author interview with Hammer.
“Where Neil goes, Carrie goes”: Red O’Donnell, “Nashville Sound… and Others,” Indianapolis Star, November 7, 1971.
“It’s just a little thing”: Todd Van Luling, “Neil Young Finally Confirms the Most Popular Legend About Him,” Huffington Post, June 21, 2016.
“She was just a friend”: Author interview with GN.
“It was 24/7”: Author interview with Howard Albert.
“a big callous”: Lowell Cauffiel, “Stephen Stills,” Guitar Player, January 1976.
“Like, ‘I’m being used’”: Bill DeYoung, liner notes for Manassas Pieces, 2009.
“I was half asleep”: Author interview with Al Perkins.
“A band is a democracy”: Peter Potterfield, “Manassas Is Like a Ball Team, and Stills Calls All the Plays,” Atlanta Constitution, May 20, 1972.
“the edge”: This and subsequent quotes from author interview with Hart.
“But when the Stones visited”: Bill Wyman, Rolling with the Stones (DK, 2002) and Robert Greenfield, Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones (Da Capo, 2006).
“I don’t know if Stephen realized”: Author interview with Perkins.
“Of course… They made more money”: Author interview with DC.
“personal affront”: Tony Tyler, “Stephen Stills,” Hit Parader, October 1972.
“I was thrilled beyond belief”: Author interview with Danny Kortchmar for Rolling Stone, 2013.
“David was in good spirits”: Author interview with Halverson.
“poetic license”: Author interview with DC.
“a certain indication”: Roy Carr, “Will CSNY Ever Re-Unite and Find True Happiness?,” New Musical Express, July 29, 1972.
“There was a lot of cocaine”: Author interview with GN.
At Nash’s urging: Author interview with Halverson.
“When I see Stephen doing things”: Carr, “Will CSNY Ever Re-Unite.”
Crosby called Geffen and demanded: “Inventing David Geffen,” American Masters, Season 26, episode 6, December 20, 2012.
“Geffen was furious”: Author interview with GN.
Geffen was nonetheless a presence: Details of Ertegun’s visit to Crosby and Nash session from George W.S. Trow Jr., “Eclectic, Reminiscent, Amused, Fickle, Perverse (I and II),” New Yorker, May 29 and June 7, 1978.
“It was magical”: Author interview with Giachetti.
“I was twenty”: Ibid.
“I’m like, ‘I don’t know’”: Ibid.
“small woodsman’s knife”: Trow, “Eclectic, Reminiscent.”
“like army barracks”: Author interview with Perkins.
“They picked him up”: Author interview with Hensal.
“I had that feeling”: Author interview with Perkins.
“Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young ought to get back together”: Henry Mendoza, “Soundings,” San Bernardino County Sun, April 27, 1972.
“chances are absolutely 100 percent”: Tyler, “Stephen Stills.”
One showed that 62 percent: Jack Rosenthal, “New Survey Finds Nixon Is Leading McGovern 62–23%,” New York Times, September 25, 1972.
As teenage female fans: Beverly Creamer, “Stills Fights Loneliness with Music,” Honolulu Star Bulletin, April 17, 1972.
“it has become thoroughly evident”: Mike Davenport, “The Jazz Scene,” Van Nuys News, May 5, 1972.
“Neil would tell me his dream”: Author interview with Mazzeo.
John Hartmann of the Geffen-Roberts Company: Robert Hilburn, “Neil Young Schedules Concert Tour,” Los Angeles Times, December 30, 1972.
As stragglers at the Baltimore show: Steven R. Henderson, “Neil Young Offers Good, Solid Music,” Baltimore Sun, January 22, 1973.
“I didn’t know Danny had died”: Author interview with Barbata, 2009.
“He said, ‘I need friends’”: Author interview with GN.
“I don’t know why success”: Ibid.
CHAPTER 5: APRIL 1973–DECEMBER 1974
“That’s just the way he is”: Author interview with Barbata, 2010.
Taylor was shooting up: Dallas Taylor, Prisoner of Woodstock (Thunder’s Mouth, 1994).
Without any explanation: Author interview with Barbata; Johny Barbata, The Legendary Life of a Rock Star Drummer (DJ Blues Publishing, 2005).
“Some of this stuff”: Author interview with McGuinn.
“David was the boss”: Ibid.
“I had a wonderful time”: Judith Sims, “Reunion of Old Byrds: A Time for Peace,” Rolling Stone, January 4, 1973.
“the most disappointing”: Jon Landau, Byrds review, Rolling Stone, April 12, 1973.
“People liked their snow and drink”: Author interview with Perkins.
“We said, ‘This isn’t happening’”: Author interview with Howard Albert.
“Helping Stephen in the studio”: Author interview with Giachetti.
“We were trying to get something”: Author interview with Halverson.
“But then… I’d gone to visit Ringo”: Author interview with SS, 2010.
“the self-pitying cry”: Loraine Alterman, “Steve Stills—a Male Chauvinist?,” New York Times, September 10, 1972.
“It’s difficult to name”: Judith Sims, “Stephen Stills: The Reformation of a ‘Jive’ Artist,” Rolling Stone, September 27, 1973.
“CSNY was pretty much a constant fight”: Author interview with Morris.
“Crosby, Stills and Nash is a myth”: Jim Girard, “The Myth of Crosby, Stills & Nash,” Hit Parader, January 1978.
In late 1972, music journalist: Ritchie Yorke, “Crosby, Stills & Nash Are Back Together,” Boston Globe, December 16, 1972.
“my guiding light”: Neil Young, Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream (Blue Rider, 2012).
Tom Moffatt, a local DJ: Eddie Sherman, “Typewriter Ribbons,” Honolulu Advertiser, April 24, 1973.
“Why did they get married?”: Author interview with Giachetti.
According to Young biographer: Jimmy McDonough, Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography (Random House, 2002).
“It was Neil”: Author interview with DC.
“drug-induced confusion”: Bill DeYoung, “Stephen Stills,” Goldmine, October 5, 2001.
“Neil didn’t want us learning”: David Browne, “Nils Lofgren Recalls Touring with Bruce, Writing with Lou Reed,” Rolling Stone, April 3, 2014.
“very flirtatious”: Author interview with Calli Cerami.
“We pretty much put Geffen in business”: Author interview with DC.
“Graham and David were really pissed”: Author interview with Cerami.
Weiss couldn’t hear: Author interview with Ken Weiss.
“The year before hadn’t been so good”: Author interview with Cerami.
Barbata heard that: Barbata, Legendary Life.
“One time in the ’80s”: Author interview with Mazzeo.
As his friend Kevin Ryan recounted: Crosby and Gottlieb, Long Time Gone.
In Rochester, New York, Nash asked the crowd: Tom Teuber, “Supergroup Relives the ‘Old Days,’” Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY), October 30, 1973.
“the most deadly-dull big-name”: Lynn Van Matre, “Crosby & Nash: A Dullsville Duo,” Chicago Tribune, November 13, 1973.
“I think that some of my records have suffered”: Barbara Charone, “CSNY Reunion: July 4th,” Zoo World, April 25, 1974.
“Graham Nash doesn’t like the style”: Bruce Meyer, “Stereo Scene: A Tour and Album,” Daily Independent Journal, May 31, 1974.
“I heard Graham say”: Andy Greene interview with Tim Drummond, 2014.
“I kind of forced that down”: Andy Greene interview with SS, 2014.
“It was like going on a camping trip”: Author interview with Glenn Goodwin.
“It was a total mish-mash”: Ibid.
“That was my first realization of”: Author interview with O’Dell.
“We have a lot of past together”: Radio interview, unknown outlet, bootleg.
“It was all this military shit”: Author interview with Mazzeo.
As Stills, Young, and a teenage journalist: Cameron Crowe, “Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Carry On,” Crawdaddy, October 1974.
“I go, ‘You gotta be kidding me’”: Author interview with Goodwin.
The next day, in Vancouver: Crowe, “Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Carry On.”
“What it meant was”: Author interview with Stone.
“We were dealing with the elements”: Author interview with Goodwin.
“I was in my room in Vancouver”: Author interview with O’Dell.
cost of sugar: “Soaring Sugar Prices Spur Record Profits,” New York Times, November 3, 1974.
overzealous security guard: Michael Pousner, “The Man Who Makes It Go—Bill Graham,” New York Daily News, August 15, 1974.
“too Mansonesque”: Author interview with DC.
“Neil would just pull one out of his ass”: Greene interview with Drummond.
“We’re mature cats now”: Michael Pousner, “From Sparks and Fumes, the Music Zooms,” New York Daily News, August 13, 1974.
“amazingly relaxed”: “Return of a Supergroup,” Time, August 5, 1974.
“Neil said, ‘Look, we’re not going’”: Author interview with Mazzeo.
“It was easier”: Author interview with O’Dell.
“Neil traveled separately”: Author interview with DC.
“Neil Young doesn’t talk to anybody”: Mary Campbell, UPI, August 23, 1974.
“You know, I’m not real good”: Ben Fong-Torres, “The Reunion of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: The Ego Meets the Dove,” Rolling Stone, August 29, 1974.
“They were very explosive”: Author interview with Giachetti.
“I wanted to be the center of attention”: Crosby and Gottlieb, Long Time Gone.
“I lived vicariously”: Author interview with Stone.
“backfists and knuckle punches”: DeYoung, “Stephen Stills.”
“It was the only tour”: Author interview with O’Dell.
“Who knew he needed cross-ventilation?”: Ibid.
“And Dylan, being the arrogant man”: Greene interview with Drummond.
“All my aware life”: Fong-Torres, “Reunion of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.”
“He came into the house”: Author interview with Clarke.
“Bill let us go right to the stairs”: The quotations and other details from the canceled concert and lawsuit from author interview with Jim Koplik.
“As we got more successful”: Author interview with DC.
“They wanted us to go all over Europe”: Greene interview with Drummond.
“one bucket of water”: Roy Carr, “The Coming of Archie, Betty, Jughead and Veronica,” New Musical Express, September 17, 1974.
“thousands of the whitest”: Author interview with Mazzeo.
“Oh, God, it was like being in a hurricane”: Author interview with Russ Kunkel, 2012.
“We were just too wrecked”: Author interview with DC.
“We seem to have a two-month half-life”: John Rockwell, “80,177 Jam Roosevelt Track for Summer Rock Finale,” New York Times, September 9, 1974.
estimated $10 million profit shrank: Nash and Stone comments about finances from author interviews.
“We were not sufficiently aware”: Author interview with DC.
“Stephen wanted me to sing”: Author interview with GN.
“There was some yelling”: Author interview with Goodwin.
“I was actually a little disappointed”: Author interview with Cerami.
“The Albert brothers were listening”: Author interview with GN. (Ron and Howard Albert have no memory of this moment.)
“not the most comfortable atmosphere”: Author interview with Leland Sklar.
Over the course of two days: Studio logs courtesy Joel Bernstein.
“Neil could say, ‘They drove me crazy’”: Author interview with DC.
“I don’t blame Neil”: Author interview with Cerami.
“It was too much, too much”: Author interview with Mazzeo.
CHAPTER 6: FEBRUARY 1975–AUGUST 1978
stored under his house: Author interview with Greg Fischbach.
“We would play in odd time signatures”: Author interview with Hart.
“Listen, if they’d had new songs”: Nick Kent, “Neil Young at 50,” Mojo, December 1995.
“I remember how kids waiting”: Nat Freeland, “Rock Fans Picky, Says Graham,” Billboard, February 22, 1975.
“the most fashionable drug”: Nicholas Gage, “Latins Now Leaders of Hard Drug Trade,” New York Times, April 21, 1975.
“a seriously deteriorating”: Bernard Gwertzman, “Last Americans Leave Cambodia; Embassy Closed,” New York Times, April 12, 1975.
a lawyer who had prepared Nixon’s tax returns: Eileen Shanahan, “Two Men Indicted over Nixon Taxes,” New York Times, February 20, 1975.
“I kinda felt like”: Barbara Charone, “Stephen Stills: A Sympathetic Self-Portrait,” Crawdaddy, October 1975.
Tannen was alarmed: Author interview with Michael Tannen.
“Eventually they just said”: Ibid.
delusional female fan: Author interview with Joel Bernstein.
“When I first joined this group”: Author interview with Cerami.
Amy Gossage, Nash’s partner: “SF Heiress Slain—Brother Booked,” UPI, February 14, 1975.
“sophisticated waif”: Victoria Graham, “Amy Gossage Lived, Died Dramatically,” Associated Press, March 23, 1975.
“overreacted” in order to disarm: “California Youth Guilty in Killing,” Associated Press, May 2, 1975.
“It really affected him”: Author interview with Cerami.
“Graham was the hardest working”: Author interview with Morris.
“We felt”: Author interview with DC.
When Crosby and Nash’s lawyer, Greg Fischbach: Author interview with Fischbach.
“You’re not tired of Neil”: Author interview with GN.
“David had spent a few years”: Ibid.
“Nash and I were watching Stills”: Author interview with DC.
“It was night and day”: Author interview with Goodwin.
“That’s not like spending”: Cameron Crowe, “Crosby & Nash: ‘More Kick-Ass Than Anyone Expects,’” Rolling Stone, October 23 1975.
“at the height”: Stephen Holden, Wind on the Water review, Rolling Stone, December 4, 1975.
“George and Ringo”: Cameron Crowe, “One Half of a Supergroup No More,” Rolling Stone, January 1, 1976.
“Let’s make history”: Author interview with Kortchmar for Rolling Stone, 2013.
“I can always remember Crosby”: Ibid.
“While they are not as spectacular”: Robert Palmer, “Crosby and Nash Catch On,” New York Times, September 11, 1976.
“What do you think of the girl”: Miles Hurwitz and Mark Schroeder, “Nice Guys Finish First,” BAM, September 1976.
“I ain’t the asshole”: Charone, “Stephen Stills: A Sympathetic Self-Portrait.”
“I’m not going to be a hypocrite”: Lowell Cauffiel, “Stephen Stills Grows Up,” Creem, November 1975.
“While smoking grass”: “The Artist and the Audience: No Excuse for Poor Manners,” Cashbox, August 9, 1975.
“Stephen, why are you such an asshole?”: Charone, “Stephen Stills: A Sympathetic Self-Portrait.”
“heathen defense league”: Cauffiel, “Stephen Stills Grows Up.”
“I just wanted to get the fuck out of there”: Author interview with Mazzeo.
“There is no real financial incentive”: Dennis Hunt, “CSNY: To Tour or Not to Tour,” Los Angeles Times, August 3, 1975.
“I was pretty out there”: Jimmy McDonough, Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography (Random House, 2002).
“Neil was exactly like Stephen”: Author interview with George Perry.
“How cool was that?”: Author interview with Giachetti.
“You didn’t see too much of them”: Author interview with Perry.
“I think we needed that”: Author interview with Cerami.
“You’re standing in my studio”: Author interview with GN.
“Neil may have thought two things”: Ibid.
“We still might make another album”: Crowe, “Crosby & Nash: ‘More Kick-Ass.’”
“They were telling us”: Author interview with Greenfield.
“We absolutely thought about that”: Author interview with GN.
Joe Vitale couldn’t quite grasp: Author interview with Joe Vitale.
“Stephen was like a battery”: Author interview with Perry.
Stills’ guitar was so loud: Bob Spitz, Dylan: A Biography (McGraw-Hill, 1989).
“I watched them do that song”: Author interview with Vitale.
“Neil came in with steam”: William Ruhlmann, “Crosby, Stills and Nash: The Story So Far,” Goldmine, January 24, 1992.
Crosby and Nash would finish their record: Chris Charlesworth interview with SS, Just Backdated blog, http://justbackdated.blogspot.com.
“I’d go home and come back”: Author interview with Perry.
“[Crosby and Nash] sang ‘Midnight on the Bay’”: Bill Flanagan, “The Real Neil Young Stands Up,” Musician, November 1985.
“How many times can you keep going”: Ted Joseph, “Nasty Nash: Pre-Road Downers, Post-Album Dumping,” Crawdaddy, September 1976.
“Nash has a temper”: Author interview with DC.
“I thought, ‘This is not good’”: Author interview with Weiss.
“Stephen had trouble writing”: Author interview with Tannen.
“[Young] got me in the dressing room”: Charlesworth interview with SS.
Stills berated Young’s sound man: McDonough, Shakey.
“When he forgot a line”: Author interview with Perry.
“history-making tour”: Billboard, July 17, 1976, advertisement.
“I had never been on a tour”: Author interview with Perry.
“Stephen was heartbroken”: Author interview with Vitale.
“I have no answers for you”: Cameron Crowe, “The Actual, Honest-to-God Reunion of Crosby, Stills and Nash,” Rolling Stone, June 2, 1977.
“disappointing substitute”: Steve Pond, “Stills Static Without Young,” Los Angeles Times, August 26, 1976.
“You can’t manage David”: Author interview with Morris.
“We thought, ‘Someone will see’”: Author interview with David Rensin.
“They kicked our ass”: This and other information about the softball game from author interviews with GN and Goodwin.
“I suspect it was Stephen”: Author interview with DC.
“It’s a question of finances”: “Steve Stills Solo, for What It’s Worth,” BAM, November 9, 1976.
“What were we going to do”: Author interview with GN.
“All I’d heard was what a monster”: Zimmer, Crosby, Stills & Nash.
“There was a different vibe”: Author interview with Vitale.
“The main requirement”: Author interview with Giachetti.
“Everyone came in every day”: Author interview with Howard Albert.
“Graham and David let Stephen do his thing”: Ibid.
“I didn’t see any arguments”: Author interview with Perry.
Although Crosby remained with Debbie Donovan: Crosby and Gottlieb, Long Time Gone.
“We didn’t have any instruction”: Author interview with DC.
Stills actually challenged Crosby: Peter Knobler, “Dark Star: Working the Vampire Shift with Stephen Stills,” Crawdaddy, December 1977.
“There was a lot of wretched excess”: Author interview with DC.
“with the understanding”: Trowe, “Eclectic, Reminiscent, Amused, Fickle, Perverse (I and II),” New Yorker, May 29 and June 7, 1978.
Then, at Hartmann’s invitation: Author interview with John Hartmann.
“Obviously they must have had a good time”: Author interview with Giachetti.
“some guy not exactly dressed for a prom”: Author interview with Ron Albert.
“It was ‘I hope you like this’”: Author interview with Vitale.
“We tried to learn it”: Flanagan, “The Real Neil Young.”
“He chose the colors carefully”: Author interview with Hartmann.
“I guess maybe I don’t like myself”: Knobler, “Dark Star.”
“Do I know that song?”: Author interview with Joan Baez.
“As Graham said to me once”: Author interview with Bill Siddons.
“Crosby, Stills and Nash Recapture Magic”: Jack Williams, Copley News Service, November 7, 1977.
“Ultimately, one senses a defeatism”: John Rockwell, “Neil Young—As Good as Dylan?,” New York Times, June 19, 1977.
“Anything more than four weeks”: Author interview with John Vanderslice.
The rider in the trio’s backstage contract: This and other Pittsburgh show information from Deborah Deasy, “Back Stage: Many Pitch in to Let Show Go On,” Pittsburgh Press, June 26, 1977.
“The dynamics were different”: Author interview with Goodwin.
“There were still a lot of Carrie vibes”: Author interview with Mazzeo.
“I said, ‘Buck has a band together’”: Ibid.
“the worst-kept secret in town”: Greg Beebe, “Ducks Band Plays Two Solid Sets,” Santa Cruz Sentinel, August 1, 1977.
“They were fine”: Author interview with Bob Mosley.
“I’m starting to get back”: Geoffrey Dunn, “The Story of Neil Young’s Short-Lived Santa Cruz Band the Ducks,” Good Times, August 15, 2017.
“Neil loved that”: Author interview with Mazzeo.
“After the Stills-Young thing”: Ibid.
“new songs for Young’s upcoming record albums”: “Police Nearly Nab Robbery Suspect,” Santa Cruz Sentinel, August 22, 1977.
“It was the end of the summer”: Author interview with Mosley.
“Whereas Crosby and Nash, who have toured”: Robert Hilburn, “Crosby, Stills & Nash Reunion,” Los Angeles Times, June 30, 1977.
both men glaring: Zimmer, Crosby, Stills & Nash.
“Sometimes there would be amazing harmony”: Author interview with Giachetti.
“Nash would always say”: Author interview with Vanderslice.
“There was this feeling”: DeYoung, “Stephen Stills.”
“I didn’t appreciate that at all”: Author interview with Perry.
“He played his parts!”: Ibid.
Hartmann witnessed Stills having: Michael Walker, Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll’s Legendary Neighborhood (Faber and Faber, 2006).
“Now let’s hope it’s not an accident”: Jack Garner, “Finally, Back on Record,” Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY), July 24, 1977.
“That was insane”: Author interview with Kortchmar.
“Everybody had their own set of guys”: Author interview with Vitale.
“He was kind of feeling it out”: Author interview with McGuinn.
“He said, ‘Don’t come’”: Author interview with Collins.
“honest and surprisingly humble”: Peter Herbst, CSN review, Rolling Stone, June 17, 1977.
“Audience and band went home happy”: Michael Aaron, “Easy the Way It’s Supposed to Be: CS&N Piece It Together Again,” Rolling Stone, August 11, 1977.
“Well, at that point, I felt like”: Flanagan, “The Real Neil Young.”
CHAPTER 7: JANUARY 1979–NOVEMBER 1982
“the most far-out disco sound”: Anthony Fawcett and Henry Diltz, California Rock California Sound (Reed, 1978).
“a Tequila Sunrise”: Rob Sanford, “Straight Talk from Stephen Stills,” Songwriter, August 1979.
“I know I’m good for him”: Bill Royce, “Peopletalk,” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 2, 1979.
“Ask Graham”: Sanford, “Straight Talk.”
“Why all the boring CSN questions?”: Ibid.
“I haven’t seen ’em”: Dave Zimmer, “Stephen Stills Carries On,” BAM, April 6, 1979.
“There was no communication”: Author interview with Giachetti.
He and his new girlfriend: Details about DC and Jan Dance based on Crosby and Gottlieb, Long Time Gone.
Working at Britannia Studio: Information about Crosby and Nash sessions from author interview with GN; Crosby and Gottlieb, Long Time Gone.
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission: “2300 Reported at Nuclear Plants in 1979,” New York Times, July 14, 1980.
“First of all, I think anyone”: Young interview, YouTube, “Neil Young—Interview,” YouTube, posted March 29, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frSgDeNjfgo.
“We were like, ‘Oh, my God’”: Author interview with Danny Goldberg.
“wild look”: Ibid.
“I walked in and said”: Author interview with Hartmann.
Michael Stergis, a trumpet player: Author interview with Michael Stergis.
“the new David Crosby”: Ibid.
“Can someone tune?” and “Nobody sang”: Robert Ely, “Show Termed Excellent, But Nash ‘Misunderstood,’” Tampa Bay Times (St. Petersburg, FL), May 9, 1980.
“The man was totally overwhelmed”: Author interview with Rao.
“bum band”: Crosby and Gottlieb, Long Time Gone.
“What’s a ‘Stills-Nash’ record?”: Author interview with Siddons.
“Personality wise”: Author interview with Susan Rogers.
“Graham will make anybody”: Author interview with Stergis.
“Stephen came alive”: Author interview with GN.
“The name ‘Daylight Again’ was a joke”: Author interview with John Partipilo.
“It’s about all four of us”: Fricke interview with GN, 2005.
BAM’s Dave Zimmer was at home: Author interview with Dave Zimmer.
“We were always expecting that call”: Author interview with Rao.
“About five years or so”: Johnny Rogan, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: The Visual Documentary (Omnibus, 1996).
Crosby seemed to take it all in: Crosby and Gottlieb, Long Time Gone.
called Push Play: Ibid.
FZ Tango: Script courtesy Robert Greenfield.
“He was locked in the vocal booth”: Author interview with Waddy Wachtel.
“smelled like a cat box”: Author interview with Leland Sklar.
“It wasn’t a normal record”: Author interview with DC.
“The record company won’t accept”: Joni Norris, “David Crosby Moving on with His Music,” Daily Press (Newport News, VA), May 10, 1981.
“David was being a little difficult”: Christopher Connelly, “Random Notes,” Rolling Stone, reprinted in Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel, August 21, 1981.
In a phone call with label executives: Author interview with Weiss.
“I thought, ‘Is this the end?’”: Author interview with Vitale.
“Ahmet said, ‘You can’t do it’”: Author interview with DC.
Nash recruited Susan Rogers: Author interview with Rogers.
On the designated day: Author interview with Zimmer.
“All I knew was that I was there”: Author interview with Stergis.
“He was real humble”: Author interview with Vitale.
“It was a place where I could get high”: Author interview with DC.
“I said, ‘Why wouldn’t I like him?’”: Author interview with Rogers.
After the song was finished: Author interviews with GN and Rogers.
A musicologist hired: Author interview with Fischbach.
“It sounds like I was evading”: Author interview with GN.
“high-melodrama day”: Author interview with Siddons.
“It’s hard to approach him”: Dennis Hunt, “Crosby, Stills and Nash Bury the Hatchet Again,” Los Angeles Times, November 27, 1982.
“Those were the years”: Author interview with Vanderslice.
“lived a tough life”: Norris, “David Crosby Moving on with His Music.”
“A lot of that”: Patrick Doyle interview with Young, 2016.
“The excitement in LA”: Author interview with Rogers.
“They just seem in some way”: Greil Marcus, “Elvis Costello Repents,” Rolling Stone, September 2 1982.
“The more of the past you have”: This and subsequent quotes from David Gans, “Neil Young: A New Phase,” Record, October 1982.
“I remember reading that”: Author interview with Rao.
“I said, ‘What’s that?’”: Author interview with Jimmy Wachtel.
On March 28, he was driving: “Singer Crosby Arrested on Drug, Weapon Charges,” UPI, March 30, 1982.
About two weeks later, on April 12: Details of the arrest at Cardi’s from Texas Court of Appeals, “David Van Cortlandt Crosby, Appellant, v. The State of Texas, Appellee,” 750 S.W.2d 768 (1987); Crosby and Gottlieb, Long Time Gone.
“David was like a bad penny”: Author interview with Rao.
“When we put all the songs together”: Hunt, “Crosby, Stills and Nash Bury the Hatchet Again.”
“Stephen and Graham had a mask on”: Author interview with Vitale.
“I remember thinking”: Author interview with Rogers.
“I didn’t know David that well”: Author interview with Siddons.
“Great reference”: Author interview with Dave Rao.
“Really? I didn’t know”: Dave Zimmer, “Crosby Stills & Nash Together Again,” BAM, July 30, 1982.
“There were some big arguments”: Author interview with Vitale.
“immobile, untalkative presence”: Geoffrey Himes, “CS&N Is No Fine Wine,” Baltimore Evening Sun, August 6, 1982.
“David was up there like a prop”: Author interview with Vitale.
“Nobody knew if he was coming back”: Author interview with Mason Wilkinson.
“David and I used to lock on stage”: Author interview with Perry.
“You can tell by the way Neil is looking”: Author interview with Zimmer.
“One day Neil says”: Browne, “Nils Lofgren Recalls Touring with Bruce, Writing with Lou Reed.”
“I thought ‘What the hell’”: Author interview with Vitale.
“It was a mess to deal with”: Author interview with GN.
CHAPTER 8: MARCH 1983–DECEMBER 1985
“If I happen to walk offstage”: Details of Young Louisville concert from Cheryl Devall, “Crowd Goes into Frenzy When Illness Forces Singer to Leave Stage,” Louisville Courier-Journal, March 5, 1983.
five minutes in the Oval Office: Files of “Jimmy Carter Presidential Daily Diary,” Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum collection, Atlanta, Georgia.
Nuclear power plants were historically unpopular: Doug McInnis, “Nuclear Utilities Plagued by Costly Equipment Breakdowns,” New York Times, October 10, 1982.
“I went through a period”: Malcolm MacKinnon, “Graham Nash Rockin’ for the Planet,” Hemp Times, February/March 1998.
“The sooner the compact disc replaces”: Mike Hennessey, “Compact Disc Launches in U.K.,” Billboard, March 5, 1983.
“We could get blasé”: This and other quotes in this passage from Steven Dupler, “Crosby, Stills & Nash: A Look at the Legend,” International Musician and Recording World, March 1983.
“Neil tried one time”: Author interview with DC.
“a husky, extroverted Californian”: “Rock Star Crosby Is Guilty on Cocaine and Pistol Raps,” UPI, June 5, 1983.
“I was sitting in front of my TV”: Author interview with GN.
“We had to put the wheels down”: Ibid.
“It was bolted together”: Author interview with Siddons.
“in the fall”: Atlantic Records, Allies press kit, 1983.
Extraordinary precautions: Details on drug arrangements for 1983 tour from Crosby and Gottlieb, Long Time Gone, and author interview with anonymous source.
According to Wald: Jeff Wald as told to Kim Masters, “A Gritty Account of Life as a Famous Hollywood Drug Addict,” Hollywood Reporter, May 30, 2011.
“I wasn’t about to go to Europe”: Author interview with Vitale.
“We were nervous”: Author interview with Perry.
“I never drank until later”: John Seabrook, “Judy Collins and Stephen Stills’ Old Romance,” New Yorker, September 25, 2017.
“We did what we had to”: Author interview with Siddons.
“I truly believe that what David needs”: “David Crosby Free on Bail, Will Appeal Convictions,” Dallas Morning News, August 7, 1983.
In a biting response: “Singer David Crosby Sentenced,” Associated Press, August 7, 1983.
“His torso is bloated and heavy”: Peter Carlson, “Cocaine Casualty,” People, August 29, 1983.
By decree of the Los Angeles Superior Court: William Plummer, “‘Mad Housewife’ Carrie Snodgress Sues Rocker Neil Young for Support of Their Handicapped Son,” People, September 26, 1983.
“One day, I show up”: Browne, “Nils Lofgren Recalls Touring with Bruce, Writing with Lou Reed.”
“To live with that and deal with it”: Author interview with Jessi Colter.
“Reagan—so what”: “Neil Young Is Backing Reagan,” Newhouse News Service, October 12, 1984.
That November, while his case: This account and excerpts from this and subsequent medical reports are based on Crosby and Gottlieb, Long Time Gone.
“I always thought that because”: Author interview with Siddons.
“They tried to keep me from coming”: Andy Smith, “Crosby, Solo Now, Hasn’t Forsaken His Musical Roots,” Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY), March 9, 1984.
“You’ve made a lot of money off me”: Author interview with DC.
“Atlantic wanted an album”: Author interview with GN.
“There was nothing anybody could do”: Author interview with Debbie Meister.
“What can I say?”: Andy Smith, “Crosby, Stills & Nash: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do for This Band,” Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY), October 22, 1984.
Nash swore off cocaine: Author interview with GN.
“Envision this”: Zach Dunkin, “CSN&Y: Could It Happen?,” Indianapolis News, September 14, 1984.
After putting off his admission: Crosby and Gottlieb, Long Time Gone.
“Being addicted takes over”: Author interview with DC.
“I was just about to turn”: Cope Moyers, “David Crosby Feels Music, Daylight During Stay in Jail,” Los Angeles Times Service, March 13, 1985.
“Graham was beside himself”: Author interview with Tim Foster.
“They said, ‘We have to be as good’”: Author interview with Siddons.
“Neil cautiously came back”: Author interview with GN.
“It was one of the few times”: Author interview with Siddons.
“Once Neil heard it”: Author interview with GN.
“Damn, you’d have thought”: Kent, “Neil Young at 50.”
“We’re trying to get as much touring”: Justin Mitchell, “Crosby, Stills & Nash Still Rockin’ Despite Personal Problems,” Pittsburgh Press, July 28, 1985.
“The drama might have”: Author interview with Rao.
In Philadelphia, Crosby disappeared: Ann Kolson, “A Life of Song and Trouble,” Philadelphia Inquirer, August 9, 1985.
“It was pretty shocking”: Author interview with Partipilo.
“I was a massive disappointment”: Author interview with DC.
“Their harmonizing was remarkably”: Stephen Holden, “Folk-Rock: Crosby, Stills and Nash Sing,” New York Times, August 16, 1984.
“Our minds were blown”: Author interview with Meister.
“I remember feeling so weird”: Author interview with Siddons.
“With the Eagles, every note”: Author interview with Vanderslice.
“I’d be in jail”: Miles Hurwitz and Mark Schroeder, “Nice Guys Finish First,” BAM, September 1976.
“like the worst nightmare”: Barr Nobles, “A ‘Fat and Sassy’ Comeback,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 1, 1986.
“I hope it doesn’t end tragically”: “Lawyer Is Fearful for David Crosby,” Associated Press, November 29, 1985.
“underdogs and outlaws”: Crosby and Gottlieb, Long Time Gone.
“Everybody was hiding him out”: Author interview with Hart.
“Jan and I were so happy”: Crosby and Gottlieb, Long Time Gone.
“the end of my line”: Author interview with DC.
“Wish me luck”: “Rock Singer David Crosby Surrenders to FBI,” Associated Press, December 13, 1985.
CHAPTER 9: JANUARY 1986–DECEMBER 1988
“Who the fuck is that?”: Author interview with Siddons.
“This hippie came walking in”: Author interview with Niko Bolas.
“It hurt people”: Ibid.
“I never thought David would die”: Author interview with GN.
“It doesn’t have David or Stephen on it”: Lynn Van Matre, “Graham Nash Tries a True Solo Album Without Hint of Crosby, Stills or Young,” Chicago Tribune, July 27, 1986.
During a break, Wachtel: Author interview with Waddy Wachtel.
“I’m in a room about the size”: David O’Brian, “Straight Time,” San Jose Mercury News, March 6, 1986.
“I would very much like to be”: Ibid.
whose previous few years had been as grim: Crosby and Gottlieb, Long Time Gone:; Tom Leyde, “End of Cocaine Habit Is Addict’s Beginning,” Gannett News Service, May 14, 1986.
“She has to clean up, too”: Author interview with Meister.
The Dead’s Mickey Hart: Author interview with Hart.
“It rolled off his back”: Author interview with McGuinn.
“That’s the first thing I wrote”: Author interview with DC.
“We set it up showbiz-wise”: Author interview with GN.
A worried Siddons offered to pay: Author interview with Siddons.
“fat and sassy”: Barr Nobles, “A ‘Fat and Sassy’ Comeback,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 1, 1986.
“I’m a bit of a klutz”: Author interview with Pegi Young.
“They surprised me”: Ibid.
“They seemed really happy”: Ibid.
“Everybody’s concerned”: Tape of Rockline interview, 1983.
“If I manage to stay off drugs”: O’Brian, “Straight Time.”
“big plans”: Thom Duffy, “No Nukes This Time Around in Nash’s Solo Traveling Show,” Orlando Sentinel, August 24, 1986.
“all over the map”: Author interview with Bill Szymczyk.
“None of us were walking around”: Author interview with Vitale.
“I’d seen so many fights”: Author interview with Perry.
“It turned into seven days”: Author interview with Szymczyk.
“I did a double take”: Author interview with Meister.
“They were happy”: Author interview with DC.
“That was the turning point”: This and other quotes in the paragraph from author interview with John Ferrugia.
“I loved their music”: Ibid.
“The end of my enjoyment”: Dan Rather interview with SS, The Big Interview, March 10, 2014.
“I think I had a good time”: Author interview with SS, 2010.
“You could see where”: Author interview with Ferrugia.
“He wasn’t good with time”: Author interview with Vitale.
“Every tour that CSN”: James Henke, “Neil Young,” Rolling Stone, June 2, 1988.
“When there’s a TV crew from CBS”: Author interview with GN.
“Graham wasn’t a milquetoast”: Author interview with Siddons.
“I said, ‘Shoot this!’”: Author interview with Vicki Samuels.
“It was bad timing”: Author interview with Vanderslice.
“now that Crosby is awake”: Cathy Beckham, “Switching Strings for Suits,” Statesman Journal (Salem, OR), July 31, 1987.
“You would never think”: Author interview with Meister.
“He said, ‘I said things’”: Author interview with Ferrugia.
“The thing that surprised me”: Henke, “Neil Young.”
“Crosby, Stills and Nash are old, fat farts!”: Fredric Dannen, Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business (Crown, 1990).
“The next thing I know”: Author interview with Bolas.
“It was really unpredictable”: Author interview with Chad Cromwell.
“The relationship between them”: Author interview with GN.
“Crosby would do whatever”: Author interview with Siddons.
“if this thing can fly”: Author interview with Vitale.
“Can it happen again?”: Abbie Hoffman, The Best of Abbie Hoffman (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1989).
“It was, ‘This is what I’ve got’”: Author interview with Bolas.
“It was like putting on”: Author interview with DC.
“It’s very productive”: This and other quotes from Dave Zimmer, “Neil Young: Blue Notes from a Restless Loner,” BAM, April 22, 1988.
“Neil has some difficulty”: Author interview with Pegi Young.
“When they walked in the door”: Author interview with Bolas.
“When it was happening”: Author interview with Cromwell.
“You’re not going to produce them”: Author interview with Bolas.
“toasted”: David Crosby and Carl Gottlieb, Since Then: How I Survived Everything and Lived to Tell About It (G. P. Putnam’s, 2006).
“I don’t remember”: VH1 Legends, VH1, 2000.
Geriatrics’ Revenge: Tom Hibbert, “Shakey’s Last Stand,” Q, June 1988.
“You spend too much time in a jail”: Author interview with Vanderslice.
“When he did that”: Author interview with GN.
“Neil was doing everything possible”: Author interview with Bernstein.
“Neil and Stephen abused the privilege”: Author interview with DC.
“It ain’t there”: David Fricke interview with SS, 1998.
“We were on pins and needles”: Author interview with Siddons.
he was told upfront: Author interview with Aaron Rapoport.
“What’s missing beyond the failings”: John Rockwell, “Old Timers Out for a Spin Cut a Couple of Disks,” New York Times, November 13, 1988.
“If the quartet had made”: Michael Anft, “From Here to Bulgaria, It’s Been a Good Year for the Voice,” Baltimore Evening Sun, December 8, 1988.
“Everybody was hoping”: Author interview with Bolas.
“Well, some of us have”: Author interview with DC, 1988.
“Stephen could use some help”: Gary Graff, “It’s Deja Vu as Strife Makes More Fine Music for Crosby and Crew,” Detroit Free Press, December 25, 1988.
“It wouldn’t be a consistently great thing”: Zimmer, “Neil Young: Blue Notes.”
“If we go out there”: Henke, “Neil Young.”
“Neil recognized the album”: Author interview with anonymous source.
“It could’ve been great”: Jimmy McDonough, “Fuckin’ Up with Neil Young: Too Far0z Gone,” Village Voice Rock & Roll Quarterly, Winter 1989.
“I think his actions were indicative”: Author interview with Pegi Young.
“It would have helped sell”: Author interview with Vitale.
“earth shattering”: Author interview with GN.
“I don’t know”: Steve Pond, “Nash & Friends Raise Money for Hungry Kids,” Los Angeles Times, November 14, 1988.
“I saw him driving”: Andy Greene, “Graham Nash’s Photographs,” Rolling Stone, April 11, 2013.
CHAPTER 10: DECEMBER 1988–NOVEMBER 1994
“We were in Manhattan recording”: Author interview with Cromwell.
“I’m thinking”: Ibid.
“It only lasted a while”: Interview cited in Nick Kent, “This Young Will Run and Run,” Vox, November 1990.
“I knew they weren’t getting along”: Author interview with McGuinn.
“Stills and I butt heads”: Wayne Bledsoe, “Music in the Pink with David Crosby,” News Journal (Wilmington, DE), June 20, 1990.
“Graham really liked it”: Author interview with Vitale.
“We were trying to do the best”: Author interview with GN.
“You should have seen what”: Ibid.
“We’re not handsome”: Ruhlmann, “Crosby, Stills and Nash: The Story So Far.”
“fucking weird image”: Author interview with GN.
“Those sticks are very fragile”: Ibid.
“I said, ‘Fine’”: Ibid.
“That was the only time”: Author interview with Siddons.
“Blame Nash”: Author interview with DC.
“That song was from the heart”: Author interview with Siddons.
“uncharacteristically subdued”: Michael Dunn, “Records,” Tampa Tribune, July 20, 1990.
“We thought this year”: Kathy Haight, “Crosby, Stills, Nash Still Having Fun,” Pittsburgh Press, July 5, 1990.
“I wanted to up the game”: Author interview with Siddons.
“million-dollar mistake”: Ibid.
“It’s CSN, not Pink Floyd”: Author interview with Vitale.
“There was nothing different”: Author interview with Alex Coletti.
Taylor sued Stills: Dallas Taylor, Prisoner of Woodstock (Thunder’s Mouth, 1994).
living with two prostitutes: Cynthia Sanz, “Finally Drug-Free, Drummer Dallas Taylor Hopes for One More Miracle: A New Liver,” People, April 2, 1990.
“physically incapacitated”: Author interview with Sebastian.
“watching from behind the curtain”: Taylor, Prisoner of Woodstock.
“I just can’t listen to it”: Author interview with Steve Silberman.
“Neil said, ‘You can use’”: Author interview with GN.
“a shit deal”: Jimmy McDonough, Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography (Random House, 2002).
“I had a lot of very angry women”: Author interview with Meister.
“It’s just that his songs”: Ruhlmann, “Crosby, Stills and Nash: The Story So Far.”
“I can see it, in her dining room”: Larry McShane, “Crosby, Stills & Nash Remain Friends After 22 Years of Volatile Partnership,” Associated Press, November 1, 1991.
“When we say, ‘What about’”: Ibid.
“Don’t do it”: Author interview with Chris Hillman for Rolling Stone, 2009.
“It was very awkward”: David Browne, “Back to the Garden,” Rolling Stone, September 17, 2009.
“I thought it was dumb”: Author interview with DC.
“I guess Neil Young is the king”: Kurt Loder, Ragged Glory review, Rolling Stone, September 20, 1990.
“CSN had fallen into”: Author interview with Siddons.
“What’s going on?”: Author interview with DC.
“It was freeing and cathartic”: Ibid.
“It was very successful”: Author interview with GN.
“a remote, sullen figure”: Stephen Holden, “Three Music Specials with Images of Middle Age,” New York Times, March 7, 1992.
“We thought, ‘Let’s make a record’”: Author interview with Ron Albert.
“What was frustrating was how”: Author interview with Meister.
“We knew we’d get something”: Author interview with Siddons.
Stills could even be found: Author interview with Zimmer.
“Glyn Johns is fearless”: Author interview with DC.
“We all knew what we could be doing”: Author interview with GN.
“Wow—when these classic acts”: Author interview with Siddons.
“We sound like church geeks”: This and other details in this passage from Chuck Crisafulli, “Déjà vu All Over Again,” Los Angeles Times, July 24, 1994.
“Woodstock was an idea”: Author interview with Lang.
“I was definitely into it”: Ibid.
“It had to be”: Ibid.
“We were not aware of that”: Author interview with GN.
“They were so heavily”: Author interview with Lang.
“Neil knew as I did”: Author interview with DC.
“Who gives a shit?”: “Woodstock ’94: The Best and Worst,” Associated Press, August 22, 1994.
“three sexy girls”: Author interview with Vanderslice.
“It was awful”: Author interview with DC.
$1 million for back taxes: David Crosby, “Second Chance,” People, February 20, 1995.
“I felt like someone hit me”: Author interview with DC.
“You leave me”: Author interview with GN.
CHAPTER 11: APRIL 1995–APRIL 2000
“It was a little bit of a surprise”: Author interview with Meister.
“a wonderful, happy afternoon”: Zimmer, Crosby, Stills & Nash:.
He was criticized by some: Bill Laitner, “Crosby Transplant Stirs Debate,” Knight-Ridder Newspapers, December 3, 1994.
“If I was going to play with CSN”: Eric Weisbard, “Not Fade Away,” Spin, September 1995.
“Maybe it was a harbinger”: Author interview with Meister.
“I realized that everything”: Author interview with Siddons.
“a CSNY moment”: Author interview with Joel Gallen.
“I think we’re more compassionate”: Gary Graff, “Crosby, Stills & Nash Carry On,” Reuters, May 22, 1997.
“Sometimes you don’t like”: Rex Rutkoski, “Crosby, Stills and Nash Endure with the Times,” Gannett News Service, June 25, 1996.
“I like him—no, I love him”: Steve Silberman, “An Egg Thief in Cyberspace: A Conversation with David Crosby,” Goldmine, July 7, 1995.
“It was our choice”: Author interview with DC.
“It paid a year’s taxes”: Fricke interview with SS, 1998.
“There’s a wealth of opportunities”: “CSN to Carry on Without Atlantic,” Hollywood Reporter, March 12, 1997.
“After the Bowie deal”: Author interview with David Pullman.
“It was uncomfortable for them”: Ibid.
“We didn’t think it was a great idea”: Author interview with GN.
“It was like, ‘Well, we’re never’”: Author interview with Pullman.
played a week of non-corporate shows: Details of Fillmore show from notes courtesy David Fricke.
“this big roar”: Fricke interview with Nash, 1998.
“All bands start out really excited”: Author interview with DC.
“This is not going to be easy”: Author interview with Jeff Pevar.
In the summer of 1997: Notes courtesy David Fricke.
Among them was a letter: This and details in the next two paragraphs from author interviews with DC and Stacia Raymond; Crosby and Gottlieb, Since Then.
“What could have been”: Author interview with Leland Sklar.
“I think David sought refuge”: Author interview with Pevar.
“You guys are sounding pretty good”: Author interview with Halverson.
“There was always a competitiveness”: Author interview with Pegi Young.
During the Springfield archive-digging: Notes courtesy David Fricke.
“American Dream was an attempt”: Kent, “Neil Young at 50.”
“He admires it when people”: Author interview with Pegi Young.
“I don’t know why I felt”: Robert Hilburn, “CSNY: More Than Deja Vu,” Los Angeles Times, February 12, 2000.
“I have no idea why”: Author interview with DC.
“Why aren’t they singing together?”: This and following paragraphs from author interview with Halverson.
“He came to me and said”: Author interview with Howie Klein.
“a little weird”: Author interview with GN.
“They couldn’t generate the magic”: Author interview with Halverson.
“If you hadn’t made me sound so good”: Ibid.
“You replace it”: Ibid.
“Neil wasn’t hearing”: Author interview with GN.
“It was out of our hands”: Ibid.
a guarantee of $500,355: Steve Hochman, “Promoter Floats CSNY Tour,” Los Angeles Times, January 31, 1999.
“When it’s CSNY”: Author interview with Bill Bentley.
“It changes the money”: Author interview with DC.
But nothing compared to: Author interview with GN; Tim Ryan, “Nash Suppressed Pain by Envisioning a Sunset,” Honolulu Star Bulletin, September 20, 1999.
“We had to test the sound system”: Author interview with Bentley.
“I love how you dress”: Edna Gundersen, “CSNY Rediscovering a Four-Part Harmony,” USA Today, October 25, 1999.
“See how much we like you?”: Joel Selvin, “Déjà vu All Over Again,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 9, 1999.
“I mean, God only knows why”: European press conference, October 1999.
“It was like Ford and GM”: Author interview with Wilkinson.
“It’s not that Neil didn’t think”: Author interview with Vanderslice.
“We knew Neil didn’t want”: Author interview with GN.
“We were like, ‘Uh, what?’”: Author interview with Wilkinson.
“That was a pretty low blow”: Author interview with Vitale.
“It was a mess”: Author interview with DC.
“From the CSN side”: Author interview with Vanderslice.
“It may seem to be a little harsh”: David Fricke interview with Neil Young, 2000.
“Neil will always sing in tune”: Author interview with Jim Keltner.
“It wasn’t a bad fight”: Ibid.
“If Stephen saw Neil was upset”: Ibid.
Starting in late January 2000: This paragraph and the two paragraphs that follow from notes courtesy David Fricke.
“Stephen used to bug”: Author interview with Keltner.
“Neil really loves Stephen”: Author interview with GN.
“No matter what else”: Author interview with Arthur Fogel.
“It’s not goodbye”: Author interview with Halverson.
CHAPTER 12: MAY 2001–SEPTEMBER 2006
“It didn’t hit me the whole time”: Author interview with Steve “Smokey” Potts.
“Neil has always called the shots”: Author interview with DC.
“I guess you don’t understand how”: Jim DeRogatis, “Carry On for Love and Money,” Chicago Sun-Times, April 25, 2002.
“When you play together for 30-odd years”: Robert Hilburn, “CSNY: More Than Deja Vu,” Los Angeles Times, February 12, 2000.
“because I’ve been around for a long time”: Jeff Waful, “Neil Young into the Source,” Relix, August–September 2003.
“It meant everything”: Author interview with DC.
“Whenever Stephen hears a Crosby song”: Author interview with GN.
“I likened it”: Author interview with Pevar.
“I think Stephen saw Jeff”: Author interview with GN.
“There are just so many notes”: Zimmer, Crosby, Stills & Nash.
“It’s a very unique situation”: Author interview with Pevar.
“I go, ‘What?’”: Ibid.
“David was being stupid”: Author interview with GN.
“completely stupid”: Crosby and Gottlieb, Since Then:.
“We said, ‘Sorry’”: Author interview with DC.
“electronic games, toys”: Author interview with Dave Zimmer.
“He took care of Stephen”: Author interview with GN.
“Gerry kept the energy going”: Author interview with Vitale.
“a piece of broken glass”: Josh Tyrangiel, “The Resurrection of Neil Young,” Time, September 26, 2005.
“All I know is”: Ibid.
Copies of USA Today were distributed: Gregg Zoroya, “Lifesaving Knowledge, Innovation Emerge in War Clinic,” USA Today, March 27, 2006.
“the intelligence community was dead wrong”: Report of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, March 31, 2005, archived at White House: President George W. Bush, https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/wmd.
“Man, how come no one’s”: Author interview with Bolas.
“He’d go back home”: Author interview with Cromwell.
“He was sick of the war”: Author interview with Bentley.
“I don’t know if Stephen”: Author interview with GN.
“a regular tour”: Author interview with Mike Cerre.
As a forward air observer: John Hickey, “An Interview with ’69 Domer Mike Cerre,” University of Notre Dame blog, http://notredameclassof1969blog.blogspot.com/2017/07/an-interview-with-69-domer-mike-cerre.html.
“They were very concerned”: Author interview with Cerre.
“He realized he has a certain audience”: Author interview with GN.
“When there’s a vast”: Ibid.
“He wanted us for legitimacy”: Author interview with DC.
“I said, ‘Tell me about the band’”: Author interview with Cromwell.
“It was fair to assume”: Ibid.
“They kept trying to break the mold”: Martyn Palmer, “I Want Out,” Mojo, May 2008.
“‘Wind on the Water’—why not?”: Author interview with GN.
“misgivings and ambivalence”: Palmer, “I Want Out.”
“I wasn’t at the meeting”: Jon Bream, “Four Strong Winds,” Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 1, 2006.
“When he has a head of steam”: Author interview with GN.
“What I clearly saw”: Author interview with Cromwell.
“I really respected Neil for that”: Author interview with Cerre.
“It took those guys time”: Author interview with Cromwell.
“When we do it right”: This and details of Young-Crosby exchange from notes courtesy of Andy Greene.
“I saw the rest of them teasing”: Author interview with Cromwell.
“He told Crosby”: Author interview with Cerre.
“Maybe I don’t agree”: Palmer, “I Want Out.”
“There were a lot of rules”: Author interview with DC.
“We had some shows”: CSNY/Déjà vu (Lions Gate, 2008).
“I even made Crosby look good”: Alistair McKay, “The Never-Ending War,” Uncut, July 2008.
“They’ve been singing about things”: Wes Orshoski, “Neil Young: The Billboard Q&A,” Billboard, June 24, 2008.
“It was very emotional”: Author interview with Cerre.
“It was almost like a Star of David tour”: Author interview with GN.
“We knew there were bound”: Ibid.
“We knew in Atlanta”: Author interview with DC.
“Probably because of the previous two”: Author interview with Fogel.
“No fucking encore!”: Author interview with Mike Cerre.
“They were really shaken”: Ibid.
In 1972, according to an American National Election Study: Karlyn Bowman and Andrew Rugg, “As the Boomers Turn,” Los Angeles Times, September 12, 2011.
“We thought, ‘Let’s just keep going’”: Author interview with Pegi Young.
“The first time I saw the bomb squads”: Author interview with Cromwell.
“No amount of protection”: Andy Greene, “Neil Young’s Rough Ride: A Look Back at the Freedom of Speech Tour,” Rolling Stone, January 29, 2008.
CHAPTER 13: JANUARY 2008–SEPTEMBER 2018
“It was wrong”: Author interview with GN.
“Don’t you think it’d be a good idea”: This and subsequent quotes from “Young Keeps Rockin’ in New Documentary,” Associated Press, February 26, 2008.
“After an album like that”: Edna Gundersen, “Young Doesn’t Scrap His Old Songs,” USA Today, November 14, 2007.
“Jay, you’ve come up with”: Author interview with Jay Landers.
“Lots of opportunities for us”: Author reporting from Rock & Roll Hall of Fame rehearsals, 2009.
“Of course, the festival had to promote”: Andy Greene interview with SS, 2009.
“I didn’t think there were tremendous odds”: Author interview with Gallen.
They finally assembled: Quotations in this section from author reporting, 2009.
“He went, ‘It was a struggle’”: Author interview with Landers.
“It’s fun singing this stuff”: Author interview with DC, 2009.
“I tried to reason with them”: Author interview with Vitale.
“Some of the songs Rick”: Author interview with GN.
“Without being unkind”: Author interview with DC.
“I was relieved”: Ibid.
“We cut five things”: Ibid.
“Without asking our permission”: Author interview with GN.
“Who knew that Neil”: David Cavanagh, “Fame Is a Subtle, Dangerous, Seductive Thing…,” Uncut, July 2009.
“disappointed with their playing”: Patrick Doyle, “Inside Neil Young’s Nature-Themed Opus,” Rolling Stone, July 5, 2016.
“Neil’s doing what will take”: Author interview with DC.
“playing to the kids”: Author interview with Pegi Young.
“it was a little nerve-wracking”: Author interview with GN.
“You are welcome to it”: Andy Greene, “Track by Track: Crosby, Stills & Nash on Their Self-Titled Debut,” Rolling Stone, August 18, 2008.
“completely freaked out”: Author interview with Stacia Raymond.
“a wonderful man”: Kevin Murphy, “Life, Death and the Universe,” Classic Rock, May 2007.
“I copped to all the drugs”: Author interview with GN.
“We were having a rough patch”: David Browne, “Pegi Young on Life After Neil, Heartbreak-Inspired New LP,” Rolling Stone, November 17, 2016.
“I happen to know that he’s hanging out”: Michael Deeds, “Crosby Says He’s Still Got It, and It Makes No Sense to Me at All,” Idaho Statesman, September 7, 2014.
“God, I wish it were [true]”: Greene interview with DC, 2010.
“less than enthused”: Author interview with Bolas.
“Big-time pissed”: Author interview with Mazzeo.
“Nothing affects Neil”: Author interview with Bolas.
“Neil was fearless”: Ibid.
“I’m not in a position to criticize”: Author interview with DC.
“It was only after it came out”: Author interview with GN.
“I was getting older”: Ibid.
“It was actually getting to be typical”: Ibid.
“I asked him”: Ibid.
“It was horrifying”: Author interview with DC.
“When you let hurtful things”: Author interview with Stacia Raymond.
Nearby but with his back to them: Author interview with GN.
“I just don’t know, man”: Greene interview with Crosby, Stills and Nash, 2009.
“He’s very relieved”: Author interview with Collins.
“With Neil, you usually get”: Author interview with Keltner.
“You’re playing different” and “Everything’s different now”: Ibid.
“Normally, with this”: Author interview with GN.
“Very hard decision this time”: Author interview with DC.
“If CSN and CSNY”: Author interview with GN.
“a lot of things have to be settled”: David Fricke, “The Situation Begins to Be Described,” Mojo, January 2017.
“I don’t plan things like that”: Lauren Moraski, “Neil Young Chimes in on a Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Reunion,” Huffington Post, April 3, 2018.