“I love the guy. He was a big force in my life and a towering musician.”
“When you’re young, if you’re not fighting, someone doesn’t care enough about the music,” Stills tells. “When you get middle-aged, you should be able to do it without fighting. Later on, you turn into a curmudgeon, especially if you’re as clever as David was. But it’s a cyclical thing, these relationships. And this was a lifetime relationship. That’s hard to let anybody else inside of.”
They last came face-to-face at the funeral of CSN keyboardist Mike Finnigan in August 2021. “It was time to reconnect with the old Croz,” says Stills. “Then he just went out the back door.” “I’m shocked [that David died] but not surprised,” he continued. “I love the guy. He was a big force in my life and a towering musician. He was all excited about his new band. [My son] Christopher was in his band, and they were going to get back on the road a little. He just went to take a nap and didn’t come back. When you think about it, it beats the hell out of being in a hospital with people beating on your chest or something.
Stills hasn’t played music on the road since the end of his co-headlining tour with Judy Collins in 2018, but he occasionally gets together with Indianapolis Colts owner/rock aficionado Jim Isray for special performances alongside REM’s Mike Mills, drummer Kenny Aronoff, and guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd. “It’s the best pickup band in the world,” says Stills. “All these great musicians fly in, and we make up a show.
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