Graham Nash has just released a memoir, Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life. I'm quite a fan of Crosby, Stills and Nash (and sometimes Young). Their heyday was a bit before my time but Neil Young was the first musician to make me think that perhaps I could do that, as opposed to just think it sounded great. (As it turned out I couldn't, but I'm still trying.) Of course once I cottoned onto Young it was only a matter of time until I followed the trail that led to his most famous collaborators. I've seen CSN live twice in recent years - a good but not great show at Brisbane's River Stage in late 2007, and an electrifying set at the Byron Bay Bluesfest in 2012. Sadly, one of the reasons the Brisbane show was a bit flatter was that they attempted to play some newer material. Fair to say the audience didn't enjoy it much. The Bluesfest set didn't include anything recorded after 1978. Still, it's pretty impressive that they can still hit those beaut
'Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp.' - Rachel Carson