CROSBY STILLS NASH NEWS FLASH WHAT WENT DOWN...  This site is best viewed with DSL + the most current browser available. Nov 2001 July 2001 Mar 2001 Nov 2000 July 2000 Oct 2001 June 2001 Feb 2001 Oct 2000 June 2000 Sept 2001 May 2001 Jan 2001 Sept 2000 May 2000 Aug 2001 April 2001 Dec 2000 Aug 2000 April 2000 Updated 12/31/01 THIS WEEK: *HAPPY NEW YEAR* QUOTE: "Love is a silence that sometimes becomes music." Annonymous Welcome to DECEMBER http://www.sonicfish.com/ Another confirmation via Graham Nash on his BBS That STEPHEN STILLS new solo album will be out in spring 2002! grahamnash.la From the December 21st, Issue of POLLSTAR The next 3 entries 1 AP photo © Another Croz photo from the the Children's Benefit Concert at Paul Tsongas Arena in Massachusetts December 5th, 2001. POLLSTAR Artist Power Index Out of 50 acts this week they are #2 Last Week: 1 This Week: 2 Power Index: .521 Artist: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Artists are ranked by the number of times their itinerary is requested by fans visiting the pollstar.com Web site on the Internet. This site receives more than 30 million hits per month. The Power index is determined by ranking the artists as a percentage of the chart leader. NEW TOUR Dates for CPR Thu 12/27/01 Wheeler Opera House Aspen, CO Fri 12/28/01 Wheeler Opera House Aspen, CO Sat 12/29/01 Boulder Theater Boulder, CO Mon 12/31/01 Sheridan Opera House Telluride, CO Contra Costa Times 12/18/01 Neil Young still letting his music do the talking As we posted last month - Now here's the cover * * * NEW Book just released in France last week on Veronique Sanson. Véronique Sanson : Doux dehors, fou dedans de Jean-François Brieu Lattès (Libel. Pas Inst) ; ISBN : 2709620960 Veronique Sanson: Soft Outside, Insane Inside by Jean-François Brieu Lattès CSNY 2002 Bandmates for TOUR OF AMERICA have been confirmed (thank you mr white!) Booker T Jones on keyboards   Donald 'Duck' Dunn on bass   and their drummer 'Smokey' Potts   Confirmation can be found in 2 places 1) via Graham Nash on his BBS grahamnash.la 2) Booker T's agent's website The Rosebud Agency As stated on their site:"Booker T. Jones will perform with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on tour in early 2002." Seems to make sense. Neil's next record due out, which has recently been delivered to his label; will be with Booker T . Anybody know who Smokey Potts is? Is it drummer STEVE POTTS? Drop me a line. *Check it out - cos time is running out* Let's Roll Lyrics LISTEN TO THE SONG HERE Neil Young was honored by the People for the American Way Foundation with the Spirit of Liberty Lifetime Achievement Award at their annual reception at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel, in Beverly Hills, CA Tuesday December 11th, 2001. (It was hosted by Comedienne Elayne Boosler who is the ex-wife of former Crosby and Nash manager BILL SIDDONS.) (Longtime manager, Siddons handled among others - The Doors) Among the attendees were David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Chris Stills. Chris Stills performed. See the rave on CHRIS below: Lorraine * * * Excerpt from December 12th, 2001 BILLBOARD Online by Todd Martens "Perhaps the evening's strongest performance (which drew a standing ovation from former Hole/Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur) was Rufus Wainwright and CHRIS STILLS' rendition of "Harvest," with the two trading off vocals and adding depth with some cleverly timed falsettos." * * * Way to go CHRIS! Just got this catalog in the mail this week. Bring back the CAPE! LOTS of content in the December 14th, 2001 Issue of POLLSTAR See the next bunch of entries: Artists are ranked by the number of times their itinerary is requested by fans visiting (the general) Pollstar Web site on the Internet. (Which is different than the industry edition) Artist Power Index NEW this week @#1 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 1.000 #1 out of 50 acts Artists are ranked by the number of times their itinerary is requested by fans visiting the pollstar.com Web site on the Internet. This site receives more than 30 million hits per month. The Power index is determined by ranking the artists as a percentage of the chart leader. The Farm Aid Stats just surfaced: 9/29/01 "Farm Aid" Verizon Wireless Music Center Noblesville,IN Clear Channel Entertainment Neil Young & Crazy Horse Willie Nelson John Mellencamp Dave Matthews Band Tickets sold: 23,824 100% Ticket price: 33.00 - 70.00 Gross: $924,559 5 more CSN 2001 Tour Stats are in this issue. Mouintain Winery Raleigh PNC Concord Austin Visit the Box Office 2001 section for the update HERE AP Photo © Don Henley shares a hug with David Crosby during the Children's Benefit Concert at Paul Tsongas Arena in Massachusetts December 5th. The benefit raised $300,000 for the children of 9/11 victims from the Merrimack Valley. George Harrison's death from cancer on November 29th in Los Angeles knocked war off the front pages for at least a day, as seen in a collection of British national newspapers. GEORGE HARRISON The death of George Harrison, 58, in Los Angeles November 29th sparked an outpouring of grief from fans and friends worldwide. It also sent media descending on India in hopes of catching a glimpse of the Hare Krishna devotee's purported last rites along the Ganges River. Harrison, who had been fighting cancer since 1998, reportedly died at the home of longtime friend Gavin de Becker after last-ditch attempts to treat a brain tumor at Staten Island University Hospital in New York City and UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. With wife Olivia and two spiritual advisers at his bedside, Harrison "left this world as he lived in it, conscious of God, fearless of death, and at peace ... " the family said in a statement announcing his death. "He often said, 'Everything else can wait but the search for God cannot wait, and love one another.'" There are two surviving members of the Fab Four, a fact not lost on a generation of baby boomers confronted with its own mortality. Harrison was barely 20 years old when The Beatles launched the "British Invasion"with an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964. A measure of the impact of Harrison's death was plain to anyone watching morning news shows December 1st, just hours after the family announced his passing. For the first time since September 11th, terrorism and the bombing in Afghanistan took a back seat to retrospectives and tributes to the highly spiritual "Quiet Beatle." Fans quickly gathered and shrines appeared at landmarks associated with The Beatles such as Abbey Road Studios in London, the site of the Cavern Club in Liverpool, the Strawberry Fields monument to John Lennon in New York City and The Beatles' sidewalk star on Hollywood Boulevard. Family friends reported that a private ceremony was held for Harrison shortly after his death, and within hours his body dressed in traditional Hindu robes was cremated at a nearby mortuary in a cardboard coffin in accordance with Krishna tradition. The family thanked fans for their affectionate tributes and asked that they join them in "a minute of meditation in honor of George's journey, wherever you are Monday (December 4th) at 1:30 p.m. PST," a minute that coincided with Harrison's reported time of death. The announcement touched off a torrent of rumor and media speculation that the family, with Harrison's ashes, was en route to India to perform last rites by immersing his remains in two of the country's holy rivers a traditional ritual among those of the Hindu faith. But at press time, no one was sure if it would actually happen or, for that matter, that it already had. Harrison, known for his wry sense of humor, may well have had the last laugh in death at the expense of the media he went to great lengths to elude in life. The Jennifer Stills Demo is here.... 01. Bend 02. Stronger 03. Lay You Down 04. Cry of Angels Jennifers' vocals are heartfelt throughout. Of the 4 songs showcased here, 2 are ballads. I still prefer the guitar rocker vehicle for her sound; which was more prevalent on her original cassette demo I received a few years back. It seems to fit her best. This can be found on the last cut, "Cry of Angels." A straight-ahead rocker. The best way for me to experience music is live. I would love to see Jennifer Stills live. I wish she could/would hit the east coast. The small club scene is thriving here in nyc. And the same goes for her brother Chris - come back out East sir! Please? LA TIMES ARTICLE ON NEW NEIL YOUNG SONG Passenger on Flight 93 Inspires Neil Young Song By STEVE HOCHMAN SPECIAL TO THE LA TIMES December 5, 2001 A new Neil Young song paying tribute to the passengers on the hijacked United Airlines flight that crashed in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11 has been arriving on desks of rock radio programmers around the country this week with no advance notice or promotional fanfare. "Let's Roll" was inspired by the words of passenger Todd Beamer, who called a GTE Airfone operator from the plane and told of the passengers' plan to storm the cockpit to overpower the terrorists. As he set the phone down, the 32-year-old Oracle Corp. accounts manager reportedly said, "Let's roll." Moments later, Flight 93 plummeted into the western Pennsylvania countryside, killing all 45 people aboard but foiling the hijackers' presumed plan to strike a target in Washington, D.C. Young wrote and recorded "Let's Roll" two weeks ago and it was rushed to radio by Reprise Records. "Neil saw an article on Todd Beamer and what happened," Young's manager, Elliot Roberts, said Monday. "He wrote the song on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving and recorded it the very next day with Booker T. & the MG's and Poncho [guitarist Frank Sampedro] of Crazy Horse. I went up there [to Young's Northern California ranch] that Sunday and came down with a copy of it on Monday." On the record, Young sings over an insistent, dramatic, funk-rock beat: I know I said I love you/I know you know it's true/I've got to put the phone down/And do what we've got to do/One standing in the aisle way/Two more at the door/We've got to get inside there/Before they kill some more/Time is running out/Let's roll The song premiered on radio the evening Roberts returned to L.A., with an airing by deejay Jim Ladd on KLOS-FM (95.5) before anyone from Reprise even knew the track existed. Two days later, Roberts took a copy to the company's Burbank headquarters to play for label executives. Phil Costello, senior vice president of promotion, was among the first to hear it there and says it was decided by Roberts and Warner Bros./Reprise Chairman Tom Whalley to get it to radio as quickly as possible. "Neil just wanted to get it out. We took the CD and started to burn copies here." A team of secretaries was enlisted to help make the more than 400 copies and print up address labels into the night last Thursday. The discs, with only the words "Neil Young Let's Roll" written by hand on the surface to identify them, were then packed into envelopes with no cover letter or press release. On Friday, the packages were put in the mail for Monday delivery. Costello says the record has had positive receptions at key classic-rock stations around the U.S. But Jeff Pollack, a programming consultant for more than 100 stations, says the success of the song will not be measured simply in airplay. "The song will have a sizable impact on rock stations," Pollack says. "But whether it becomes a hit or not is irrelevant. That's not [Young's] intention. It's simply a salute to heroism and, once again, something from Neil that says, 'Here's how I see it.' That's what makes it so authentic." Roberts says the song will be on Young's next album, due in February or March, but at this time there are no plans for a commercial release of the single. Young is also making a personal donation to a Beamer family fund. Check out ETS for CSNY Tour Packages or call (Event Transportation System) Right now they have 02/06 02/07 02/10 02/12 02/22 03/02 03/29 Ticket and hotel packages available Look for their other offers for airfare, bus travel and more. *FOR GEORGE* "George was a giant, a great, great soul with all of the humanity, all of the wit and humor, all the wisdom, the spirituality, the common-sense of a man and compassion for people. "He was like the sun, the flowers and the moon, and we will miss him enormously. The world is a profoundly emptier place without him.'' - Bob Dylan This is the transcript from last night 11/30/01. Graham Nash spoke with Aaron Brown on CNN about George Harrison * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CNN NEWSNIGHT AARON BROWN George Harrison Dies at the Age of 58 Aired November 30, 2001 - 22:00   ET This is a live TV program. Some of the phrases people used today to remember George Harrison: a lovely man, a gentlemen, a great guy, an incredible human being. That last one was from his friend Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills and Nash, who says the big regret for him is not knowing the other songs that were in George's mind that we'll never get to hear. Graham Nash joins us now from Encino, California. Wow. You've a tough act to follow now. Good evening. Glad to have you with us. You said at the beginning that you thought you had parallel lives. And tell me how you -- tell me what you meant. GRAHAM NASH, MUSICIAN: Well, we both came from very humble beginnings in the north of England. We both survived World War II. We both found that -- as did many rock 'n' rollers that came from England -- that music was our salvation. All we really had to do, you know, was to kick a ball around the street and play with your friends. And then all of sudden Lonnie Donegan (ph) comes along, who -- who is a master of skiffle -- and it was cheap guitar and everybody could do it and we could all learn three chords. And that's what I did and that's what George did. It's what John did and Paul and everybody else that you know that came out of what was called the British Invasion. Music saved our lives. It really did. BROWN: Is that why -- I mean, you think of it that way? It gave you -- it was the way out of whatever life would have otherwise been? NASH: The gold watch. BROWN: Yeah, yeah. NASH: Yeah. Because, you know, what you were supposed to do was do what your dad did and do what his dad did. And if it was good enough your your grandfather, my God it's good enough for you, son. But our parents did not allow us to do that. So music was our escape. When we went down to -- to London, my goodness, it was like visiting a completely foreign planet. Very few people had been out of Manchester at that point, of the kind of people that we were. BROWN: Yes. NASH: So music really saved our lives. BROWN: I read today where he said once -- not that long ago -- that he didn't much think of himself as a Beatle, that Beatle was a suit he wore. Talk about celebrity a little and how you think that might have affected him, how he handled it differently than the others. NASH: Well, like I said earlier, there were people that knew George much more intimately than I did. But in observing and -- and being with him on many, many occasions -- but mostly observing him, I was astounded at the grace and the dignity with which he handled what you just referred to as his Beatle suit. It was chaotic. It was madness. Everybody wanted to know what every Beatle wore, what they said, what they smoked, what they ate, who they slept with. They wanted to know every single thing. And George always was able to maintain this distance from it. His reality was not in how much money that he made or famous he was. His reality was that he was communicating with his music and that of his friends and his -- and his compadres. And it was not that important to him to be a Beatle. I think his internal process of what was happening to him was -- was played out as we all get this deck of cards to play in our lives. And George's deck was in terms of whether he was more famous or richer than anybody else, it never came into -- as far as I can see -- it never came into his being. BROWN: Did -- did all the other guys, the people who weren't Beatles but who were making music at the time, were they going "Boy, I'd like some of that. That looks like fun?" NASH: It -- it wasn't so much as that. When, you know, I've known them in my own way since -- let me see -- 1959 or 1960. And we were playing the talent show together in Manchester. It was kind of like the Ted Mack Amateur Hour where a promotor gets a bunch of local talent and when you win you go on to the next city. And they were doing a Buddy Holly song, strangely enough, called "Think It Over." That was the very first time that I ever saw them. They weren't even the Beatles then. But it was very obvious that they had something together where people would say, my God, you know? I mean, I used to work at a nightclub that they came and played once. And they walked through the door -- all four of them -- and I swear to God every girl wet her knickers. And they hadn't even played a note. There was something about them that was undeniable. BROWN: Graham Nash, it's delightful to talk to you. You did well following Lou Harrison, by the way. That wasn't an easy thing to do. Thanks for joining us. NASH: No, it's not. Very much my pleasure, Aaron. Thank you very much. BROWN: Thank you. Graham Nash in Encino, California. We'll be right back. We'll take you to break with George Harrison and the Traveling Wilburys. Be right back. Graham on the April 13th, 1974 Cover of Melody Maker photo by Barrie Wentzell © Announcing the 1974 CSNY Tour. He said it was going to be a monster and that they were going to add bass and drums and no european dates had been planned (although they DID play the UK @ Wembley as the tour closer in 1974) Some things never change! NEIL YOUNG - NEW SONG airs on KLOS & KFOG in California http://www.kfog.com/ Neil Young's tribute to the heroes of Flight 93 Bay Area legend records "Let's Roll"! On September 11th, United Flight 93 from Newark to San Francisco was hijacked. A few brave passengers attempted to overtake the hijackers and forced the plane to crash in rural Pennsylvania instead of it's intended target. These men and women were heroes. Be sure to be listening to KFOG all this weekend to hear the emotional new Neil Young song "Let's Roll", his tribute to those heroes. It's another KFOG exclusive. from the SPAC Playbill CSN 2001 ROLLING STONE Issue #883/884 Idol And Young Rock Bridge School Set list included "FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH" BS Box Advertisement in ICE Magazine BS BOX another Great Holiday Present for everyone on your list! November 30th, 2001 - Issue of Pollstar CSN Still in the Top 50 Tours Average Gross: $197,844 Tickets Sold: 5,160 Based on # of Shows: 17 Last Week: 26 This week: 26 Act: Crosby, Stills & Nash Agency: William Morris Agency Go here to listen to an anecdote about Ahmet Ertegun. Also view the other P/P clip where Ahmet chats with the boys. from the PBS American Masters Series - Good Rockin' Tonight The Sun Records Legacy Speaking of Ahmet - I was in the book store the other day, perusing the Ahmet Ertegun Encyclopedia aka "What'd I Say" The Atlantic Story 50 Years of Music" What a great book. Barnes and Noble is selling it for 75.00, but Amazon has it for 52.00 bucks. That is a bargain for this wonderful book. A great christmas present for music afficionado's. Oh Santa - are you listening??? There is plenty of CSN related content. Best mention, is where Ahmet discuss' Stephen saying that he is a unique and gifted musician, but *best part* is where Ahmet says SS should still be putting out solo records! Listen to THE MAN.... I hope 2002 sees the new release of the anticipated STEPHEN STILLS Solo record!!! (and I know there are MANY people who visit our site who would be ecstatic to hear NEW Stills) !!!! CSNY hit the road in 2002 Stephen Stills, explains the impetus behind the 2002 tour this way: "Neil called and said 'Come on, let's go. Let's go now.' You see we originally thought we were gonna go out in August. When Neil called I said, 'Yeah we're ready to go out and play. When do you want to do that?' He said 'Now.' I said, 'Now?' He said, 'Yeah, the time's right. The people need this. Let's go.'"