Post by NilPost by t***@iwvisp.comSaw CS&N late last year. Stills looked, talked, and sang normally.
While he's fatter with less hair and his beard is not
complimentary. The one thing I noticed was, while his guitar work
was still great, after about every third song he would dunk his
hand in a bucket of ice. So he may have some serious arthritis
problems he refuses to let get the best of him.
I've been told that Stills has had serious dental problems over the
past few years, plus he's gotten rather deaf. This all results in his
current slurred, mush-mouthed manner of speech. On a good night he can
still play seriously good guitar, but his singing is difficult.
If you all knew the real (main)reason Stills has had such a bad time with his speech in recent years(the last 15 or so), you wouldn't believe the story. Also, he has been high, a couple times... But just listen to him speak at the 69' "Woodstock" appearance as he introduces CSN for the first time, and then listen to his most recent appearance on The Tavis Smiley show(3-15-14 or so?) and you will quickly see that he has had some serious "wear and tear" to his entire face, in fact he broke his jaw on a South Africa Tour back in the late 1990's and had to have it wired shut for three months. I mean, you can figure out the rest, including the fact that he was not sober for many, many years. I love the man's music, but I saw him recently playing with Kenny Wayne Sheppard and felt sorry for him. Sheppard put the man down, hard. I have seen Stills at his best, and he was every bit as good(a different style of course). Not anymore. But what an accomplished musician. Among the best.