Wild tales graham nash autobiography book review

Hits town for book signing, concert

By John Beifuss

Posted: Aug. 15, 20140

“Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life” justifies its subtitle by reminding us that Graham Nash is not entirely a bard of cozy hippie domesticity, despite his famous affection for the “very very very fine house” he shared with Joni Mitchell and “two cats in the yard.”

Nor was Nash always the environmental and social justice activist who, late in his new book, is able to note his commitment to a shopping list of noble if sometimes vague causes that includes “the homeless, drug education, victims of earthquakes, the needy, Greenpeace, the antinuke movement, Farm Aid, the Bridge School, the California Environmental Protection Initiative, UNICEF, everything important.”

No, the surprise of Nash’s memoir is that it is as devoted to sex and drugs and the glory of what might now be called “old