To CS&N;: Lose Young
Contrary to the review of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young by Randy Lewis (“Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in Peak Form,†April 1), my wife and I found the band worse with the addition of Neil Young, not better.
Where Lewis saw “ferocious guitar work,†we saw repetitious hard strumming. Where he saw a “firebrand stage manner,†we saw a pathetic, foot-stomping old rocker with wooden movements.
With Young, the group lost the elegance of its trademark harmonizing. They gave him far too much stage time and put too many of his stiff songs on the playlist. Graham Nash may as well have videotaped his contributions.
STEVE SMITH
Costa Mesa
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