Neil Young: Stephen Stills is a tormented artist (1988) 

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...ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z71gVzVEn5E.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 RU-vid?

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

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.

​@@mellow5123Sign 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-

Not me. Thanks.

​@@sharpenflat6002Ok

Neil Young Born To Rock

Yeah he got Stephen, he also left him to complete the whole tour on his own 🤣

I saw him at "The Old Lady on Brady" in Tulsa Ok in '81. I was "high" on him for 3 days!! FANTASTIC!!

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?

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🇨🇦

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

No, old Neil tells it like he is.

Neil Young Born To Rock

I could care less.

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.

​@@sgt.thundercok4704 No, alot of great performances there, good thing we got em on record. That's Neil, playing music with all time greats.

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.

'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.

​@@sharpenflat6002 Neil Young way more talented and successful than all 3 of them combined.

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.

My wife's sister is an artist. She likes to torment us.

Great RU-vid, 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; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MEdhlX-hdNk.html

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.

Aren't you a philosopher. What does that mean?

@@sharpenflat6002 its the last thing he said in the interview.

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

@@davidrice3337 I knew he loved them and had worked around them a little in Florida. Knew he liked to gamble. Didn't know he was an athlete in his day. Makes sense though... I'm from Colorado and he had a reputation as a fearless skier.

Neil came first. Then Akroyd.

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

@@Ralphieboy Won't reveal my sources to be fair to a good person involved, but SS's father was not a straight up military guy, his childhood was not moving from base to base like other Army brats although it was full of 'chaos' and multiple moves state to state, parents' separation, father the 'entrepreneurial type' (SS said once... another time 'psycho') and sketchy, down to Central America, FIVE different high schools, couch surfing at friends and teacher's homes during high school while holding a solid GPA, scoring an 800 on the English side of the SATs, getting into college, playing in band. Always sounded like he was raising himself. Much of what he said (when he had to for those obligatory bios for labels and interviews) was embellished at a minimum, invented to explain and just accepted. Obviously had an addiction gene. Reminded me later a little of Cobain's life.

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.

@@boldporcupine 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.

The way they bounced off each other was really nice.

Neil doesn't play clean. He can't even tune his guitar.

​@@sharpenflat6002 If you have just 1 song could you put it on RU-vid so we can see how clean you play. Thanks 😂

No, Elwood looks like Neil! LOL

@@sharonramone9178 Good one.

you're all washed up

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

Neil is everyone's uncle.

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

Great interview she pulled something from behind the dark glasses

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.

Sounds like he’s a downers! Does anybody remember downers?

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!

Neil went on to bigger and better things

"I searched out my companions who were lost in crystal canyons"

Have you not heard of a little group called Buffalo Springfield???????

Cinnamon Girl on acoustic guitar ROCKS

Rev - don't mistake being spoiled , entitled and self grandiosity for 'troubled"

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 .

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

@@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.

Maybe he knows some c... is gonna be shining super bright lights right in his f....... face.

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

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.

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.

" they were just dead weight to me"

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.

And see A Rock Star.

It's often that they want to keep some things private I think and not wash dirty linen in public.

You nailed it

It’s really no ones business. The media has conditioned us to obsess over the personal lives and relations of artists.

@@SnyderChips07 they are people - just like us + and most are nothing like they appear to be

He got Judy Collins

yeah, each person has its own path.

Lol. CSN couldn't handle the rigorous lifestyle of Rock N Roll Band so they asked Neil to teach them. They still couldn't handle it so Neil went on to bigger and better things. Also, Neil is more successful than all 3 of them combined.

Yup Stills and Graham said he would leave without notice and many reading got hurt financially

Neil Young has never faked it, if it wasn't working or he wasn't into it he walked, I personally admire that about him.

You know him personally?? If not then ........

@@redtobertshateshandles no I don't know him personally but I still think he is an asshole but he is a decent artist.

@@JIMIIXTLAN I think that is bullshit to leave someone hung out to dry, how would you like it if someone you were working with on a big project just said fuck it I'm not feeling it see you later! That's not what a solid man does, period.