Stephen Stills Talks Potential Reunion With Graham Nash & Neil Young

David Crosby's 2023 death removed the possibility of CSN or CSNY reuniting, but what are the chances of Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young performing together again? It depends on who you ask, as both Stills and Nash addressed the topic in recent interviews and provided different answers.

Stephen Stills and Graham Nash spoke with The Globe & Mail and Rolling Stone respectively to promote Live At The Fillmore East, 1969. The live album, which arrived this past Friday, features a newly discovered multi-track recording of CSNY’s September 20, 1969 concert at the famed Fillmore East in New York City. Recorded shortly after Young joined the band, the 17-song collection documents an early highlight from the supergroup’s first tour.

Graham Nash told Rolling Stone that Stills, Nash & Young “will never play again” as a band. The 84-year-old musician cited Crosby’s death as the reason.

“There’s no heart there,” Nash proclaimed. “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.”

“I really miss him,” Nash continued in discussing Crosby. “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.”

Stephen Stills not only recently performed with Neil Young last month at the Harvest Moon benefit concert, but is also open to playing with Nash. Stills was asked by The Globe & Mail to respond to Graham Nash’s comments.

”The heart of the band was the collective,” said regarding Nash’s position that Crosby was the heart of CSNY. “The glue that held the harmonies together was David. He really had a sense of where that perfect note was that set it apart from the standard three-part harmony.”

Stephen Stills shared his reaction to Nash saying SNY will never reunite. “I can’t be so absolute,” Stills told The Globe & Mail’s Brad Wheeler by phone from Los Angeles. “There might be a reason for us to sing together. Maybe the upcoming election. But, at this point, it’s not about would we get together. Should we, is the important question.”

Graham Nash is the lone surviving member of CSNY that currently has any tour dates on the books. Nash will kick off a spring tour on March 29, 2025 in Easton, Maryland. He goes coast-to-coast before ending the trek on April 22 in San Francisco. A swing across Germany follows next fall.