Crusty-fart folk-rock documentary “CSNY: Deja Vu” is coming to U.S. theaters proper this summer thanks to Lionsgate and Roadside Attraction who have picked up the flick for North American distribution.
The Crobsy Stills Nash & Young live concert documentary, aimed at creating political irritable bowel syndrome for Bush, his cronies and his supporters will hit 15 major cities in July and for that aggressively passive audience who doesn’t like vote – you can also get it at the same time on Netflix and Video on Demand (why don’t you just write-in for Ross Perot while you’re at it too?).
The film premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah and was directed by Bernard Shakey (Young’s filmmaking nom de plume) and chronicled the super-old group’s 2006 “Freedom of Speech” tour in support of Young’s Living in War album (you know the one you were totally apathetic about? Remember? You ordered in Dominoes that night). The band had hoped to release it before the November election in order to “encourage debate” and surely enough, you’re going to be sitting on your couch in August and asking yourself that important question, “Honey, should we turn this shit off or watch that ‘My Two Dads’ re-run again?”
Living In War, tested the limits of even the most ardent Neil Young fans and the featured cut, “Let’s Impeach The President,” definitely confused audiences who never had a clue what the fuck he was singing about all these years aside from rockin’ out in the free world.
People would literally wish Young and co. ass cancer from the stands when the band would play politically-charged material from the album and that made the tour experience quite harrowin. “It was intense in Georgia. I was a nervous wreck by the end of that tour,” Young told Rolling Stone in January. “I never want to do another tour like that in my life. I mean, that was so different from every other tour I’ve done.”
What exactly made him nervous? Oh, you know, casual shit like death threats, fans glaring at you with dagger eyes and bomb-sniffing dogs, you know, your regular kind of tour.
“Just getting up in front of a lot of people giving you the finger makes you [edgy]…when you know that some of them are really going to be angry at you…it’s a volatile situation, people have been drinking, whatever — you know, it makes you nervous.” And how.
Sounds like the tour of a lifetime.
Watch: ‘CSNY: Deja Vu’ On Sundance Channel (“Our audience are republicans, we spurred the debate, we made them react.”)
