Young & Stills Say Buffalo Springfield 'Box Set' Brought Them Back Together

Detroit (AP) - Neil Young and Stephen Stills have had their disagreements over the years, whether it's been in Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, or the short-lived Stills-Young Band. However, the two are in total agreement about the effect putting together the new Buffalo Springfield Box Set had on them. In fact, both men say that the project--which Young helmed, but also involved the other members of the band--helped enhance their nearly 40-year relationship, and both have particularly warm memories of when Young played the set for Stills in 1999 at his ranch in Northern California.
Young recalls, "He came up to the ranch and we played it. We had to stop after the first half and take a little while off, a couple of days or something, and then come back and listen to the rest of it, 'cause it was four CDs and it was a real experience for us listening to ourselves grow and reach a certain point and then listening to the group kind of disintegrate and fall away from itself, so it was a learning experience."

Stills concurs, adding that Box Set opened the door for Young to rejoin Stills, David Crosby, and Graham Nash for the Looking Forward album and CSNY's 2000 reunion tour. "He said, 'OK, I need you now,' and we sat up there and listened to...We couldn't listen to the whole thing at once. It was, like, too emotionally overwhelming 'cause it's sort of like revisiting your childhood, only a smellaphonic dream, you know? And, and we just...we laughed and cried and it brought us back together spiritually. It was really, really quite something".

Stills is currently preparing for a CSN tour that kicks off August 13 at the DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan. He has told that he expects another CSNY tour to take place in the next couple of years as well.