Wikipedia:CSN 1977 and 1978 Reunion Tours

These tours were the first tours as the trio of Crosby, Stills & Nash, without Neil Young. They were in support of the 1977 album CSN.

History
Stills reunited with Crosby & Nash, in late 1976, and after many attempts at reunions during the 70's they managed to record and release an album. The very highly anticipated 1977 album CSN, only their second as a trio after the 1969 debut Crosby, Stills & Nash. They then reunited for successful arena tours in the United States and Canada during 1977 and 1978, their first tour as a trio. During Critical Mass/Wind on The Water a movie backdrop was played showing whales and porpoises being hunted at sea.

Reviews
Reviews of the shows were positive with Dick Musser reviewing the 1977 Madison Square Garden gig in Billboard magazine "saying only three voices and guitars were needed to send chills up 18,000 spines”. In Cash Box magazine, Chuck Comstock called the 1977 Los Angeles Forum show “a joyous celebration of music and shared emotion with Stephen Stills the stellar standout”.

Tour dates
Box office information is provided below where available.

Personnel

 * David Crosby — vocals, guitars
 * Stephen Stills — vocals, guitars, keyboards
 * Graham Nash — vocals, guitars, organ
 * Craig Doerge — Keyboards 1977 tour and 1979 Muse Concert
 * George "Chocolate" Perry — Bass
 * Joe Vitale — Drums
 * Joe Lala — Percussion
 * Kim Bullard — Keyboards 1978 tour
 * Tim Drummond — Bass 1979 Muse Concert only
 * Russ Kunkel — Drums 1979 Muse Concert only

Setlist
A typical set list for the 1977 tour included the following, although there were substitutions, variations and order switches throughout the tour.


 * 1) "Pre-Road Dawns" (Nash)
 * 2) "Love The One You're With" (Stills)
 * 3) "The Lee Shore" (Crosby)
 * 4) "Just A Song Before I Go" (Nash)
 * 5) "Wild Tales" (Nash)
 * 6) "Shadow Captain"  (Crosby)
 * 7) "Turn Back The Pages" (Stills, Donnie Dacus)
 * 8) "Suite: Judy Blues Eyes " (Stills)
 * 9) "Guinevere" (Crosby)
 * 10) "Helplessly Hoping" (Stills)
 * 11) "Long Time Gone" (Crosby)
 * 12) "Our House" (Nash)
 * 13) "Cathedral" (Nash)
 * 14) "Crossroad Blues/ You Can't Catch Me"
 * 15) "Blackbird " (Lennon/McCartney)
 * 16) "To The Last Whale..." (Crosby, Nash)
 * 17) "Deja Vu"  (Crosby)
 * 18) "Fair Game" (Stills)
 * 19) Military Madness" (Nash)
 * 20) "Carry On" (Stills)
 * 21) "Wooden Ships" (Crosby, Stills , Kantner )
 * 22) "Teach Your Children" (Nash)