one word that sums up David Crosby’s state at the very end of

to friends who’d been collaborating with him up until the week — and even

not only working on a new album but had assembled and rehearsed a new band

a tour were being made, too, with the intention of being out on the road

think he was gonna last for years, which he joked about all the time

was no sense that we weren’t gonna be able to do this show and

talking tour buses, and what kind of venues, and the whole team was all back

not even a remote sense that we weren’t about ready to hit the world

as close to the original thing” — specifically, the original sound of Crosby, Stills and Nash — “

showing us new songs, like, ‘What do you think of these lyrics?’ He hadn’t