{"id":31585,"date":"2025-03-05T12:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T12:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/stephen-stills-opens-up-about-sobriety-whether-hell-ever-tour-again-more\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T12:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T12:03:22","slug":"stephen-stills-opens-up-about-sobriety-whether-hell-ever-tour-again-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/stephen-stills-opens-up-about-sobriety-whether-hell-ever-tour-again-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Stills opens up about sobriety, whether he\u2019ll ever tour again &amp; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-03-04\/Getty_StephenStills_030425.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Scott Dudelson\/Getty Images for FIREAID<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer <strong>Stephen Stills<\/strong>\u00a0reveals in a new interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/stephen-stills-sober-three-years-1235281047\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/em><\/a> that he\u2019s been sober for three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really comfortable in sobriety,\u201d Stills\u00a0shares. \u201cIt gets me back to the kid I was before this madness started, pretty affable and friendly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He adds, &#8220;Things were so special at the beginning of my career before I sold a single record. But when you add poison into that mix &#8230; I\u2019m just glad I have my original personality back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stills retired from touring in 2018, but still performs now and again. He recently reunited onstage with his\u00a0<strong>Crosby, Stills &amp; Nash\u00a0<\/strong>bandmate\u00a0<strong>Graham Nash\u00a0<\/strong>for a performance at L.A. FireAid and tells the mag, \u201cIt felt like putting on an old shoe again &#8230; I don\u2019t see [Nash] a lot since he lives on the East Coast, but it was great to see my old pal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Stills will next\u00a0take the stage with his other former bandmate, <strong>Neil Young<\/strong>, as well as <strong>Billy Idol<\/strong> and others\u00a0at his Light Up The Blues benefit for Autism Speaks on April 26\u00a0at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>As for whether he plans to reconsider that retirement, he\u2019s not exactly saying no.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFireAid helped me check and see if my thrusting and coagulating still worked,\u201d he shares. \u201cI\u2019m getting a little more active now, so there\u2019s a possibility. It depends on the kind of venues I can attract.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He adds that getting back on a tour bus is a \u201cbig obstacle\u201d for him when it comes to touring, although, &#8220;I do still love to play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Dudelson\/Getty Images for FIREAID Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer Stephen Stills\u00a0reveals in a new interview with Rolling Stone that he\u2019s been sober for three years. \u201cI\u2019m really comfortable in sobriety,\u201d Stills\u00a0shares. \u201cIt gets me back to the kid I was before this madness started, pretty affable and friendly.&#8221;<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/stephen-stills-opens-up-about-sobriety-whether-hell-ever-tour-again-more\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}