“We would be missing [David] Crosby. It just would be a much colder scene,” he shared of the trio’s late bandmate
is making it known: the days of Stills, Nash & Young playing together are long gone.
In an expansive new interview, the legendary artist, 82, touched on the reasoning why he doesn’t “think that me and Stephen Stills and will ever play together again,” which he attributes to .
“There’s no heart there,” Nash told the magazine. “David was the center of it all, as crazy as he was. And my God, he was crazy. But he was the heart of this band. And that’s why I think that if Stephen and Neil and I ever played together, people would be missing Crosby. We would be missing Crosby. It just would be a much colder scene.”
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Despite their at-times tumultuous personal relationship, Nash and Crosby remained in contact up until the latter died on Jan. 18, 2023, after a “long illness,” his wife, Jan, at the time.
“I really miss him,” Nash told Rolling Stone. “I miss him more every day because life is choices, and I only choose to remember the good times that David and I had, the good music that we made together. When I try and think about the bad things that happened, I don’t want to do that. I made the choice to only remember the good stuff.”
When asked if he believes had Crosby not died in 2023, the group would have reconciled, Nash shared, “Yes, there’s no doubt about it. We were emailing, and he voicemailed me, and then I set up a FaceTime meeting with him because I wanted us to be able to look at each other when we were talking. And then he got Covid. I wasn’t feeling very well, and we missed that date. And a couple of days later he passed.”
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The last time Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young took the stage together as a complete band was in December 2015, but Stills and Young have performed together as a duo much more recently.
On Oct. 5, both legendary artists took to the stage in Lake Hughes, Calif., for a concert dubbed “Harvest Moon” in support of The Painted Turtle Camp and The Bridge School. also performed at the event.
Despite that, Nash remains the only living member of the group consistently touring and performing the tracks he composed as a part of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, along with his solo discography.
“I want my audience to know two things. One, that I want to be there making music for them. I’m not going to phone it in,” he said of the decision to do so. “I’m not going to do it half-assed. Secondly, I’m going to sing the same songs that I’ve done a million times with the same passion I had when I wrote them. And I believe that I owe that to my audience.”
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