David Crosby’s personal relationship with Neil Young appeared to fall apart late last year when Crosby commented on Young’s personal life. Now Crosby has taken to Twitter, over a period days, to both reach out to Young and to explain a complicated relationship that has been a cornerstone for the often-fractured Crosby Stills Nash and Young since the Woodstock era.
“He’s pretty mad at me,” Crosby admits, before revealing: “I apologized. We’ll see.”
Certainly, David Crosby still feels great affection for his former bandmate. Asked elsewhere to pick his favorite Neil Young song, Crosby says: “How can you pick just one?” He even put in a plug for Young’s new Pono music system, saying “I love it. Neil is right.”
Even in this period of reconciliation, however, David Crosby can’t hide his feelings on Neil Young’s lo-fi Letter from Home album, recorded in Jack White’s throwback phone booth. Crosby deftly avoided answering, thus making his real opinion clear. Asked whether Young can be difficult to work with, Crosby is more magnanimous. “Sometimes, yes; sometimes, no,” he says. “He’s very intelligent, can be funny.”
Crosby Still Nash and Young made a celebrated debut in 1970, with Deja Vu. It would be 1988, however, before the full quartet reunited for an album — and the mercurial Neil Young refused to tour behind the release. They last issued a new studio project in 1999. CNSY then mounted tours in 2000, 2002 and 2006, but have been without Young since.
