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CNSY are true legends
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UMB Bank Pavilion (Maryland Heights, MO)
Concert Date: September 7th, 2006
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CSNY
By Barry Gilbert
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
09/11/2006
"Speak out, you got to speak out against/The madness, you got to speak
your mind,/If you dare."
Almost 40 years have passed since David Crosby first sang those lines in
"Long Time Gone," written after the Robert F. Kennedy assassination. Alas,
they still resonate in this era of "swift boating," as Crosby changed "the
madness" to "this madness" during Crosby Stills, Nash and Young's
three-hour concert at UMB Bank Pavilion on Thursday night.
Fighting wars may be a young man's game, but this veteran band has taken
up the protest banner - again - and it is Neil Young's recent "Living With
War" CD that makes CSNY's Freedom of Speech 2006 tour more than a
nostalgia trip by some well-heeled and well-meaning old hippies.
The new songs - six appeared during a 14-song first set, eight in all -
are unsparing in their criticism of President George W. Bush and the Iraq
war, and concern for the environment and the economy.
"Thank God there's no draft," Young said at one point. But there were no
long political speeches from the musicians, who let the music, changing
backdrops and occasional videos styled like a cable news channel speak for
them.
CSNY and their band kicked off with Young's new "Flags of Freedom," with
its images of small towns and young men marching off to war.
Young, dressed in an Army fatigue shirt and perpetually bobbing and
weaving under a battered cowboy hat, seemed to be trying to will some
energy into the early part of the show, marred by muddy vocals and rusty
voices on a string of classics including "Carry On," "Wooden Ships" and
"Military Madness."
By midset and four more new Young tunes, the group's trademark harmonies
began to lock in, and Graham Nash's new "Wounded World" and Crosby's
chestnut "Almost Cut My Hair" proved that those two have lost little of
their vocal power and finesse.
Stephen Stills and Young, as they did throughout the night, delighted on
guitar, with the fluid Stills and the grungy Young trading licks
face-to-face over the solid rhythm of drummer Chad Cromwell and bassist
Rick Rosas (a St.
Louisan).
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