Thursday, August 22, 1974 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five CSNY Biggest show of summer EDITOR'S NOTE: Tickets are still available for the CSNY Cleveland Stadium concert, August 31. They are appearing with Santana and The Band. Further information and tickets are available from Grinnell's on Main Street and at Briarwood. By MARY CAMPBELL AP Music Writer NEW YORK (M-The biggest traveling rock show of Summer- time 1974 is a reunited super- group called Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. They're in the middle of play- ing 33 concerts in big auditor- iums and outdoor stadiums in a national tour which should gross $1 million. So far the response has been enthusiastic. The critics like the new songs. The audiences like the new and the old - and there's plenty of both, C, S, N and Y play on electronic instru- ments, an hour on acoustic ones and switch back to the elec- tronics for a final hour. Most groups only play for 50 to 70 minutes. The atmosphere on the stage is a combination happy reunion- second honeymoon and the mood carries over backstage. After a show at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, Da- vid Crosby's 33rd birthday was celebrated with a cake. Ahmet Ertegun, chairman of the board of the group's record company, tells Nash: "Neil Young is a poet and a powerhouse." Crosby, called paranoid by Graham Nash and Stephen Stills, says: "It's seems like it's a little too good to be true." Later he says, "It's the most fun I've ever had on a stage in my whole life." Nash talks about his hobby of collecting art and rare books, in a hotel room before one con- cert, thrilled because he has bought a Durer print for $75 which turns out to be a splendid forgery from the 19th century. But he says the only good forg- ers were in Durer's time. He feels he is on the brink of dis- covery of a good, unknown ar- tist. Somebody in the room offers drinks, and Crosby asks for a soft drink, saying: "I'm a pam- pered rock star." Stills rushes in excited, to tell Nash: "You got me into so much trouble." Hooked by Nash on prints, he has just bought three by Lau- trec and one by Escher. They talk politics a little, Crosby saying: "Politics is so close to what happens to you every day nowadays. You bet- ter follow it. If you don't keep yourself involved in the demo- I: c ti D 4 al a t w GRAHAM NASH, seated left, Stephen Stills, standing, and David Crosby, three of the four members of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, discuss their music at New York's Plaza Hotel. The reunited supergroup's traveling rock show of Summertime 1974 con- sists of 33 concerts in a tour that should gross $10 million. ratic process, they're going to Nash: "We try to talk to re- corners off of you. On this tour, Crosby agreed: "That isa ake it away from you fast." porters about the music and there are less stands taken, less fact." Stills cautions: "Calm down, it's a heartbreak when all they ultimatums given. We're less After the new album is cut )avid," and Crosby insists, write about is how much money rigid than we used to be." Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young It's the truth. I'm planning on we're making and how we're During the four years since will go their separate ways, un aliming down when I get in my pampered rock stars. Neil the supergroup - so called be- til, Nash says: "There i Os." Young doesn't talk to anybody; cause each came to it from a enough music to be made tc Then they talk to a reporter he has been burned. Us fools, previous group where he had come back together." bout being back together again on the other hand, will try to starred - broke up, each had It might be just in time for nd getting along with each communicate what it is we're stayed in music. another tour next summer, bu ther. really trying to do." "It developed during the Nash won't commit himself. "The ego that drives us on Stills: "It's really groovy go- years I really began to miss "There are no rules with this he stage in the first place can ing on the road now. "I've been their energy," said Nash. "I band. We just know we don' ause terrific problems," Stills trying to explain that to Ringo think the four of us were much want to outgrow being wit ays. We were younger when Starr of the disbanded Beatles. more important than any other each other. We don't want tc 'e were together before in 1969 I don't know if he believed me; combination of us." overdo it and shy away again.' id '7n a d w fn'did a - z , i _ -_z - _ is :o wr it is It :l r0 ana°u ana we aintLunaer- stand that our egos could lead to the kind of fusses we had then. I don't think we've raised our voices since we've been back together." Crosby: "But the only im- portant thing is'that we're mak- ing people happy through play- ing music; that is the only magical thing. Music is mak- ing more people happy on this planet than anything except sex." he's been through a lot of years when it was very kooky." A recording of old Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young mater- ial, called "So Far," will be released soon and after the tour and a couple of weeks of relaxation, they'll cut an album of new songs they've been per- forming. "Everybody is trying a lot harder to have a sense of ev- erybody else's worth," Crosby says. "Time will knock the a .. _ l _ .. .._." Michigan Daily Arts Exiled Blues and Jazz Festival lineup announced Rainbow Multi-Media Creative Direc- tor John Sinclair announced the follow- ing schedule of artists for the Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival in Exile: 9 Friday night: The James Brown Revue, Sun Ra & His Arkestra, The Per- suasians, and -the John Nicholas Blues All-Stars featuring Hubert Sumlin, Mack Thompson, and S. P. Leary. * Saturday afternoon: "New Jazz of Detroit" (in association with Strata Re- cords) -- Charles Moore's Shattering Ef- fect, the Lyman Woodard Organization featuring Ron English and Leonard King, Mixed Bag, and the Eddie Nuccilli Big Band. " Saturday night: Luther Allison and his band. The Cecil Taylor Unit; Jimmy "Fast Fingers" Dawkins and his band (winner of the Grand Prix du Disques, Paris, for 1972), Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers, and introducing Detroit vocalist Ursula Walker with Kenn Cox and the Guerrilla Jam Band. . Sundayafternoon: u"Detroit Blues' with John Lee Hooker and his band, Jun- ior Walker and the All Stars, Johnnie Mae Matthews and her band, Black Nas- ty, Boogie Woogie Red with the John Nicholas Blues All-Stars, One String Sam, and Little Junior Cannady and his band. 0 Sunday night: B. B. King, The Gil Evans Orchestra, Albert Collins and his band, Sunnyland Slim Blues Band, and Robert Junior Lockwood. The Festival in Exile will be held at Griffin Hollow Amphitheatre at St. Clair College, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Fri- day, Saturday and Sunday, September 6- 7-8 and is produced by Rainbow Multi- Media of Ann Arbor in association with CKLW Radio and St. Clair College, both of Windsor, Ontario. The Griffin Hollow Amphitheatre has a capacity of 12,000 persons seated on the grassy slopes of the concert bowl, located six miles from the Detroit-Windsor border. Showtimes are Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights: 7:00 to 12:00 p.m., Sat- urday and Sunday afternoon: 12:00 noon to S:30 p.m. Tickets for all five shows over the three-day Festival weekend are $22, which includes $2 Canadian tax. Communal living LaMonde (Larry Coven) addresses his mistress, Simone (Linda Feinberg) in "People are Better Off in Zoos," a drama of the Paris Commune of 1871. Performances are August 22, 23, and 24 at the Arena Stage in the Frieze Bldg. Admission is free and children under 12 will not be admitted.