User talk:PJtP/Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 1974 Reunion (draft)
Why an article on this topic? In terms of the band's history, it's a pivot point where the group starts realizing that the quartet configuration is untenable. Young's goals and directions would be very different from Crosby, Stills and Nash, seen later in the decade with their reformation on a relatively permanent basis for the 1977 polished and professional California-rock CSN album against Young's Rust Never Sleeps. In terms of rock history, it's one of the exemplary excessive tours of the 1970s, and significantly the tour that moves the rock music promotion business for single groups beyond the previous indoor arenas and toward outdoor stadiums and much larger profit margins. CSNY are planning to release a CD/DVD live document of the tour (possibly the closing Wembley show) to coincide with its 40th anniversary, so it would be good to have an article explaining why this concert tour is relevant to rock history and the band's history beyond the two paragraphs that appear in the main CSNY article. The aborted attempt at a new CSNY album after the tour's end is part of the story as well. All this information should be fleshed out, with appropriate citations, over the course of the next 10-12 months. PJtP (talk) 21:33, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
Contested deletion
[edit]This article should not be speedy deleted as being recently created, having no relevant page history and duplicating an existing English Wikipedia topic, for the reasons I have already outlined in the talk page, which I have duplicated below. This tour was a landmark in the business of the promotion of rock music and in concert tours - it was this CSNY tour that ushered in the era of giant stadium touring, with the attached profit margins, that continue to this day. It was also a pivotal event in the history of the band itself, and deserves to have a more detailed article. I will continue to update and revise it as I have the time to do so over the course of the next months. PJtP (talk) 19:06, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
- Why an article on this topic? In terms of the band's history, it's a pivot point where the group starts realizing that the quartet configuration is untenable. Young's goals and directions would be very different from Crosby, Stills and Nash, seen later in the decade with their reformation on a relatively permanent basis for the 1977 polished and professional California-rock CSN album against Young's Rust Never Sleeps. In terms of rock history, it's one of the exemplary excessive tours of the 1970s, and significantly the tour that moves the rock music promotion business for single groups beyond the previous indoor arenas and toward outdoor stadiums and much larger profit margins. CSNY are planning to release a CD/DVD live document of the tour (possibly the closing Wembley show) to coincide with its 40th anniversary, so it would be good to have an article explaining why this concert tour is relevant to rock history and the band's history beyond the two paragraphs that appear in the main CSNY article. The aborted attempt at a new CSNY album after the tour's end is part of the story as well. All this information should be fleshed out, with appropriate citations, over the course of the next 10-12 months. PJtP (talk) 21:33, 18 August 2013 (UTC)