Announcing their return into the rock arena, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (CSN&Y) held a press conference detailing the band's upcoming CSN&Y 2K tour to commence on January 24th in Detroit and making its way into the New York area on April 3rd of the year 2000. With spirits flying high CSN&Y took on the local and national media in an Internet broadcast and brief press conference explaining the how's and why's of their upcoming tour. Relaxed, joking and at ease with each other, band members seemed to be reveling in their new found unity after years of in-fighting and storied pasts going back to the mid-sixties.

According to Neil Young the band will be performing a mix of old and new tunes as well as songs from each member's past group efforts including the Byrds, Hollies and Buffalo Springfield. To quote Graham Nash, the most sincere of the bunch, "The band's objective will be to put on the best show possible and have everyone leaving with a big smile." Throughout the press conference the look of brotherly love beamed from David Crosby's face. When asked why this time around is any different from the band's last outing 25 years ago, Crosby replied with a grin, "This time I'll remember it."

Once on sale, tickets for the tour sold out in New York and Boston within 35 minutes, with a second show added in New York. In addition to the tour announcement at the press conference, CSN&Y also announced the release of their new album Looking Forward (Reprise Records) due in the stores on October 26th, the band's first record since 1988 and their third since 1969.

And Now for the Bad News:

It's Better To Fade Away Than To Burn Out...
Looking Forward: Mini CD Review by Otto Luck

Is this what happens to burnt-out hippies 30 years after Woodstock I? This is your mind on drugs, I guess. I heard CSN&Y swore off the stuff – by the sound of the music, that may have been a big mistake. This CD is quite possibly the embarrassment of the millennium. If I didn't know better, I would think the 14-year old in the apartment upstairs finally got a record deal. But he plays guitar a whole lot better than the fumbling jumble that mars this CD. Aside from the occasional gem from Neil Young, the release is a wash. The songwriting is mediocre. The production sounds like demo-takes freshly extracted from the reject pile. Looking forward? Forget it. Stick to the past. There's nothing wrong with a few fond memories.

October 1999