As for the rest of the band, they found it too much of a bummer. Thought Squeaky Fromme might come after him. If they change it, then I can consider going.On 1974’s Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (a band that was hoovering so much coke at the time they became known as “The Frozen Noses”) cash cow reunion tour, Neil Young fought to include a frenetic tune he’d written about the Manson Family, “Revolution Blues.” Unfortunately, the song’s incendiary lyrics (“I got the revolution blues/I see bloody fountains/And ten million dune buggies/Comin’ down the mountains/Well, I hear that Laurel Canyon is full of famous stars/But I hate them worse than lepers/And I’ll kill them in their cars”) so unnerved counterculture scaredy-cat David “Almost Cut My Nose Hair” Crosby that he was afraid to play it. I know what's going on in the planet, what caused it, what we're continuing to do, and I cannot support buildings, organizations and companies that will not change that. I believe in what I believe, and it's grounded in science. 'I've seen too much,' the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer declared. Now, almost a year later, it appears his concerns over factory farming may continue to keep Young from touring. “Things have to be under control and going in one direction for a while before I'm going to go out and play,' he explained in December 2021.

The rocker previously said he was avoiding a return to the road out of caution surrounding the COVID pandemic. Young’s last public live concert took place in September 2019, though he has played a spattering of private performances since then. 'Unless the venues are clean, and that they work that way, I won't be there,' the singer declared. 'I can't support it,' Young continued, admitting he’d want 'good food that has to be clean food, sustainably grown, and presented in a sustainable way.' But the food - all those places are fed by factory farms,' the rocker noted. clean, the lights clean, the electricity in the building clean. 'I can deal with the power for the venue, I can make it clean. Though Young - a staunch environmentalist and supporter of sustainable family farming - can take measures to make his tour as green as possible, there’s little he can do about a venue’s catering contracts.

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