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The Oral History of CSNY’s Infamous ‘Doom Tour’

By Andy Greene

Andy Greene

In the summer of 1974, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young reunited after a four-year break to launch one of the biggest rock tours ever attempted at that point in time. “There was just so much money on the table,” says David Crosby , “and there were sharks all around.” There were also drug dealers, groupies willing to do anything to get close to the band and wounds from CSNY’s first go-round that hadn’t quite healed. 

Neil Young , who was coming off the back-to-back commercial failure of his albums Journey Through the Past and Time Fades Away , opted to steer clear of the madness and travel on a converted bus with his young son, Zeke. The other three lived like kings on the road, staying in the finest hotels, dining at the fanciest restaurants and snorting small mountains of cocaine backstage, completely oblivious to the fact they were getting robbed blind by assorted managers and promoters.

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Despite all the tension and debauchery, the quartet managed to take the stage every night and deliver marathon concerts that mixed classics like “Our House” and “Ohio” with newer cuts like “Don’t Be Denied,” “Revolution Blues” and “Hawaiian Sunrise.” On July 8th, nearly 40 years to the day from the tour’s kickoff, the band is finally releasing CSNY 1974 , a 40-track box set taken from nine shows they professionally recorded. 

To commemorate the release, we spoke to every surviving performer from the tour besides a certain shaggy Canadian who’s never been one to dwell on the past. We also talked to road manager Chris O’Dell and Joel Bernstein, a photographer on the tour and co-producer of CSNY 1974 . This is their story:

THE DRUGS  

Chris O’Dell (Road manager): “When I got to San Francisco before the tour a bunch of people were sitting around a table. They were opening Marlboro packs, taking out all the tobacco, filling them up with pot and putting them back into the packets. We’re talking about very detailed work because we had to get them through customs and have them look like they were never opened. Then they took Vitamin C capsules, filled them up with cocaine and we put them in a bottle. We carried around these things in a trunk and the band took stuff whenever they needed it. It was just a really druggy tour. I remember Stephen came in once and he was holding the biggest ball of cocaine I’d ever seen in my life. I just couldn’t believe it.”

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Graham Nash : “We actually had a guy that was employed just to provide us with cocaine. We needed an incredible amount of energy to pull off that tour and I’m sure it helped in a way, but it is a very subtly destructive drug and there was a lot of it around. We were rock and roll stars at the height of our power and the height of our commerciality and the height of our ability to put asses on seats. We had it all. And sometimes you need to break that tension. Drugs and women were a part of that entire process.”

Tim Drummond (Bassist): “The promoters supplied us with cocaine if we wanted it. I was like, ‘I’m not putting this shit up my nose.’ I was into cocaine back then, but I got my own. Then they all came to me wanting some of mine! I had to send somebody out to help these guys out. There was an ample amount. You could find it anywhere. I did my share, and I’m still here. It’s all a matter of how smart you were. There wasn’t any heroin, though. That took you the other way.”

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On November 9, 1969 CSN did not play in Anaheim as stated on the list of concerts... I know this since my band played with them as the opening act with Sweetwater and CSN at University of California at Santa Barbara stadium Yes-outdoors) on November 9, 1969. Stevie Miller was supposed to be the 2nd billing band, but he did not show up. We opened the show,Sweetwater played after us and then, CSN. See the Link below for the pics and the poster with the date and time- 1 PM, November 9 (1969). Now, CSN could have driven to Anaheim and played there that night. Packing up all the equipment and re-setting up 4 hours south in Anaheim would have been hard...or impossible. We also opened for them in 1971, also, which is not listed here.

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Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young 1974 Live Set Receives a Release Date

For Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young fans the wait for the group's long-gesticulating 1974 live album appears to be over. The much-discussed box set, which chronicles the group’s fabled outdoor tour, has finally received a release date and will be available for purchase on July 8. The set has already received a listing on Amazon’s U.K. site .

'CSNY 1974' contains three discs of audio with 40 different tracks along with a fourth DVD/Blu-ray disc of eight performances and a 188-page book. Rolling Stone says that there will also be a one-CD, 16-song distillation of the box, and a 12-song version sold exclusively at Starbucks.

Word of the live collection first came out three years ago when it was discussed by Graham Nash and David Crosby . “We recorded nine of the 35 stadium shows we did,” remarked Nash . “We have about 42 songs and we’re busy mixing them. We have about 12 to 15 mixes under our belt. We’re talking to Neil [Young] about the resolution he wants everything at. Because of the world Neil is in, he wants it at the highest possible.”

Ultimately, the whole thing was pushed back due to the expansive nature of the project as well as some conflicting plans. “Next year is the 40th anniversary of the tour, and so I’m gonna wait for spring of next year,” Nash said in 2013 .

The singer went on to discuss some his own curatorial approach in creating the set. “You gotta understand, our shows were three or four hours long, and there are four of us and we were all writing like crazy,” he pointed out. “I just found a one-minute, 10-second song of Neil Young's about Richard Nixon that I can’t leave off. It’s brilliant…So, my point is, I’m still forming and shaping the album.”

'CSNY 1974' Track Listing 

1. 'Love the One You're With' 2. 'Wooden Ships' 3. 'Immigration Man' 4. 'Helpless' 5. 'Carry Me' 6. 'Johnny's Garden' 7. 'Traces' 8. 'Grave Concern' 9. 'On the Beach' 10. 'Black Queen' 11. 'Almost Cut My Hair'

1. 'Change Partners' 2. 'The Lee Shore' 3. 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart' 4. 'Our House' 5. 'Fieldworker' 6. 'Guinnevere' 7. 'Time After Time' 8. 'Prison Song' 9. 'Long May You Run' 10. 'Goodbye Dick' 11. 'Mellow My Mind' 12. 'Old Man' 13. 'Word Game' 14. 'Myth Of Sisyphus' 15. 'Blackbird' 16. 'Love Art Blues' 17. 'Hawaiian Sunrise' 18. 'Teach Your Children' 19. 'Suite: Judy Blue Eyes'

1. 'Deja Vu' 2. 'My Angel' 3. 'Pre-Road Downs' 4. 'Don't Be Denied' 5. 'Revolution Blues' 6. 'Military Madness' 7. 'Long Time Gone' 8. 'Pushed It Over The End' 9. 'Chicago' 10. 'Ohio'

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1. 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart' 2. 'Almost Cut My Hair' 3. 'Grave Concern' 4. 'Old Man' 5. 'Johnny's Garden' 6. 'Our House' 7. 'Deja Vu' 8. 'Pushed It Over The End'

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• Ambulance Blues by Neil Young
• Black Queen by Stephen Stills
• Change Partners by Stephen Stills
• Don't Be Denied by Neil Young
• For Free by Joni Mitchell
• Immigration Man by Crosby & Nash
• It's All Right by Graham Nash
• Johnny's Garden by Manassas
• Love the One You're With by Stephen Stills
• Military Madness by Graham Nash
• Old Man by Neil Young
• Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Neil Young
• Pre-Road Downs by Crosby, Stills & Nash
• Sugar Mountain by Neil Young
• Wooden Ships by Crosby, Stills & Nash
• Word Game by Stephen Stills
• You Can't Catch Me by Chuck Berry
• Almost Cut My Hair
• Teach Your Children
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Folk-rock supergroup Crosby Stills Nash & Young held a press conference in New York on Tuesday to announce their upcoming reunion tour, the foursome's first outing in a quarter of a century.

All four members of the group were present to discuss the tour, dubbed CSNY2K, which kicks off January 24 in Detroit, Michigan; they also plugged their upcoming album, "Looking Forward," which is due in stores on October 26.

invited Young to play on the upcoming CSN record. That led to Young contributing songs of his own to the album and, eventually, rejoining the band.

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