I had breakfast on Bleecker Street with Neil Young. “I knew he was a great writer,” Nash later recalls of Young at first. Stills at least had a history with Young, but not Nash, and thus he was initially concerned about having Young in the group. Are you sure?’ He said, ‘Yeah, you gotta get Neil.’” He's in the band, he's out of the band, we're doing The Ed Sullivan Show, we're not doing The Ed Sullivan Show. And Steven looked at him and he said, ‘Who?’ And Ahmet said, ‘You gotta get Neil back.’ Steven said, ‘Are you kidding? I just did two years of craziness with this guy. And during the dinner, Ahmet looked at Stephen and said, I know who you should get, man. “David and Stephen were having dinner with Ahmet Ertegun in Manhattan. So what do you do? We knew we had to get somebody. And we realized that one of the members played most of the instruments.

We realized that we would probably have to go on the road. Nash says: “On the first Crosby, Stills and Nash album, Stephen Stills played most of the instruments, of David and I played rhythm guitar on our stuff: “Guinnevere,” “Long Time Gone” and “Marrakesh Express,” et cetera. Prior to Young's crucial arrival, musicians such as John Sebastian, Steve Winwood and Paul Butterfield Blues Band keyboardist Mark Naftalin were being considered for the fourth spot in the band. Déjà Vu was the first album to feature Young collaborating with Crosby, Stills and Nash, and accompanied by drummer Dallas Taylor and bassist Greg Reeves.

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