OLDIE BUT GOODIE CSN TURNS HEADS (Shut Up and Play Your Damn Guitar)

New York Post ^ | 8 August 2005 | DAN AQUILANTE

[StuLongIsland]

OLDIE BUT GOODIE CSN TURNS HEADS By DAN AQUILANTE CROSBY, STILLS & NASH LOOKS are deceiving, espe cially when it comes to hip pie icons Crosby, Stills & Nash. Who would guess these old gray studs could come close to what they used to be? Yet at the Beacon Theatre Monday, at the first of their two-show engagement, the guys who sang the soundtrack to the turbulent '60s were made young again in a 2 1/2-hour set that showcased the best of their long career — from protest songs such as "For What It's Worth" to their close-harmony devotionals, including "Guinevere." The pre-intermission set was clearly the more difficult for the trio. In the song "Long Time Gone," there were more than a few off-kilter harmonies and the band had some difficulty connecting to the sedate, elderly audience. David Crosby, who is the walrus, thought he'd ingratiate himself to the fans with a few minutes of Bush-whacking, but instead he was heckled, and one patron even yelled, "Viva Bush!" The rattled singer reminded the politically offended that he had the microphone, telling them, "I can stand up here all night and say things about our s - - - - y president." Fortunately he didn't, finally letting go and getting on with the show. Crosby again slowed the early set with a snoozer song titled "Delta." He introduced the tune with a story of when he was wallowing in drugs and how Jackson Browne took him to the late Warren Zevon's house and forced Crosby to finish writing the tune.

[StuLongIsland]

Typical liberal entertainer attitude, wonder how much people paid to hear some loud mouth lecture them? Crosby can talk all he wants when it is a free concert for a cause, but the audience hired him. Should just sing and shut the heck up. Glad there were people in the audience who booed and hissed him. Freepers there?

[Izzy Dunne]

[texianyankee]

I like their music...but they arent anything without Neil.

Give me Neil.....

[ladiesview61]

Oh yeah, he's worth listening to. Isn't he the guy who donated his gross sperm to a dikey singer and her lover..only to have them separate after the poor child was born. Does anyone really care what he thinks about the president. These people are giant losers.

[InvisibleChurch]

The rattled singer reminded the politically offended that he had the microphone,

just cuz he has the right to speak don't mean has the right to be heard

[Berlin_Freeper]

David Crosby, who is the walrus, thought he'd ingratiate himself to the fans with a few minutes of Bush-whacking, but instead he was heckled, and one patron even yelled, "Viva Bush!" The rattled singer reminded the politically offended that he had the microphone, telling them, "I can stand up here all night and say things about our s - - - - y president."


David Crosby is a deranged from years of drug abuse so who cares what he thinks about President Bush?

Crosby talks a bunch of crap about world peace but he is the one who was arrested for carrying a loaded pistol in the airport not too long ago.

[caver]

I hope Crosby did get "rattled". These stupid musicians think they can lecture the paying public for some reason.

[texianyankee]

Isn't he the guy who donated his gross sperm to a dikey singer and her lover..only to have them separate after the poor child was born. You arent tawkin' 'bout the same guy who spent time in the Texas prison system, er ya?

[joesnuffy]

Given Crosby penchant for food (and lots of it), drugs, underage girls,and an aversion to excercise.....

And his buddy Stevie Stills fondness for things Castro....

I wouldn't pay a nickel to hear this stupid a h--e play his
gutiar...let alone tolerate his yapping commie manifesto.

[tx_eggman]

Oh yeah, he's worth listening to. Isn't he the guy who donated his gross sperm to a dikey singer and her lover

A bit off topic here but this factoid is one of the great mysteries of all time ... WTF was Melisa thinking when she made this decision?

Let's see, I think I'll use a sperm donor to have a kid ... who should it be ... oh, I know, I'll find an obese, drugged addicted ex-con

[NRA1995]

Didn't like them in the 60's and I like 'em less after this concert review.....

[NRA1995]

Studs? Ohhhhhhhh, puhleeeeeeeze.......

[Emmett McCarthy]

I read that even as far back as when Crosby was with The Byrds, the other guys in the band would get annoyed with his political diatribes during the shows. They called it "The David Crosby Show".

[small voice in the wilderness]

Deja Peeeyewwww. Why must the masses pay for his karma problems??

[Inwoodian]

"For What It's Worth" was sung by Buffalo Springefield. CSN, I guess, co-opted it because one of them (Graham Nash, I think) was a member of BS.

[Range Rover]

It was Stills in Buffalo Springfield along with Neil Young. Graham Nash was in The Hollies and Crosby the Acid Casuality was in The Byrds.

I did attend an acoustic CSN show in 1991. There was absolutely NO political pontificating onstage insofar as criticism of Clinton goes...just some pleas that people support some sort of food charity. Then again, I may have missed some of what was said...the music was putting me under.

[1Old Pro]

Yep, they gave anti-Bush speaches at their recent Saratoga concert, I didn't go but heard about it in print and radio.

[kx9088]

Neil sucks.

[subterfuge]

"Neil sucks"

How deeply intelectual of you. None of those guys come close to NY as a solo artist.