The news comes unexpectedly - and has something of a drumbeat: At the beginning of March Graham Nash announces the end of his friendship with David Crosby and the end of Crosby, Stills & Nash (and sometimes Young). After forty-eight years, fourteen albums and seventy million sold records, the great old men of folk rock have finally quarreled. What Nash, whom eclipsed meets shortly afterwards in Berlin, does not actually want to discuss, but does. His first solo album in fourteen years finally dealt with a further separation. He can hardly avoid the subject.
eclipsed: "This Path Tonight" is about your divorce from Susan Sennett. Since you have written ten pieces about it, it seems to take you quite a bit..
Mulholland Drive, Los Angeles. Mr. Stills lives in a stately estate in the mountains of the metropolis of millions. The folk rock star receives eclipsed in his home studio, where a lot of antiquated technical equipment is piled up. Most of it in better condition than himself: The 71-year-old is hard of hearing, suffers from a facial muscle paralysis that makes him almost incomprehensible, and prefers to talk about topics on which he was not asked at all. Here the compressed version of a memorable two and a half hour interview.
eclipsed: How are you, man?
Stephen Stills: So lala. My knees are over, and I can write better than I can talk. I also have all kinds of arthritis and the pneumatic thumb is not what it used to be.
eclipsed: That doesn't sound good!
