CSNY are rallying around a Neil Young cause this week, continuing a half-century-plus trend. Is this just their latest “reunion,” or the very last?
when the group collapsed and returned homeThe four went off into different corners as their managers and record company tried to pick up the pieces. During that downtime, Young famously saw an issue ofmagazine detailing the Kent State shootings and dashed off “Ohio” as Crosby watched. Very soon after, the reunited group was rehearsing for resumed shows, but they also found the time to rush into a nearby studio to record Young’s anti-Nixon takedown.
Pre-Spotify, Young’s most flagrant use of a CSNY reunion to buttress one of his missions came in 2006. Young had releasedan album of anti–Iraq War, anti–George W. Bush diatribes. Realizing that those types of political songs were in CSNY’s wheelhouse, and also realizing that an arena reunion tour would bring greater attention to the material, Young pulled together a CSNY tour. In the red states, the new songs unleashed occasional boos, walkouts, and even a bomb threat.
But as this week’s news has proven, all they need is a common enemy — Richard Nixon, Dubya — or an amenable cause for them to find common ground. Rogan and Spotify have reminded everyone, maybe even themselves, that their bond, however fragile and easily breakable, remains. The only question about this semi-convening is: Will this be the latest — or the absolute very last?
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