Has Stephen Stills had a stroke?

Gill Smith

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Nov 16, 2008, 6:39:04 PM11/16/08

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He

Talks.

With lotsa

Breaks.

And em_PH_asis

In all the wrong places.

And staring

And laughing

When there's no joke

In all the wrong places.

G*ddam hippoes.

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Theo

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Nov 16, 2008, 8:14:57 PM11/16/08

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Talks with lots of breaks and laughs at nothing funny..hmmmmmm...did'nt
he use to hang out with David Crosby.....

Uni

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Nov 16, 2008, 10:39:04 PM11/16/08

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It wasn't Stephen Stills that had The Stroke, it was Billy Squier! :-)

Uni

Gill Smith

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Nov 17, 2008, 4:54:59 AM11/17/08

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"Theo" <the...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Talks with lots of breaks and laughs at nothing funny..hmmmmmm...did'nt
> he use to hang out with David Crosby.....

Bing Crosby as Stephen tells it now.

Debbie

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Nov 23, 2008, 1:15:57 AM11/23/08

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On Nov 16, 3:39�pm, "Gill Smith" <gill.smith....@googlemail.com>
wrote:

Whether or not Stephen Stills had a stroke is anybody's guess.
However, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer earlier this year (on
his birthday, which also was around the same time Dan Fogelberg passed
away from prostate cancer). I hope he's doing OK.

-Debbie

Gill.Sm...@googlemail.com

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Nov 23, 2008, 7:20:13 PM11/23/08

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Hey, you sound like a nice person.

Hope you're all OK too.

dance...@gmail.com

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Oct 18, 2013, 4:14:42 PM10/18/13

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Had he had a stroke news media would have had a hay day. Besides I missed it on tv

Michael Black

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Oct 18, 2013, 7:55:52 PM10/18/13

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On Fri, 18 Oct 2013, dance...@gmail.com wrote:

> Had he had a stroke news media would have had a hay day. Besides I
> missed it on tv
>

SOmeone I knew back then saw them together about 1979, and she commented
that he looked old, then. I haven't heard of a stroke, but maybe he's too
far out of the mainstream to get the press. But he may simply look old.

Michael

curtjester1

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Oct 18, 2013, 8:34:20 PM10/18/13

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Doesn't seem to have one foot in the grave yet.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-kcsn-benefit-stephen-stills-lucinda-williams-20131010,0,4456459.story

hislop

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Oct 19, 2013, 12:26:15 PM10/19/13

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On 19/10/2013 7:14 AM, dance...@gmail.com wrote:
> Had he had a stroke news media would have had a hay day. Besides I missed it on tv
>

Has Jeff Bridges had a stroke?
He's looked a bit odd for a while to me, at least since that horse
racing movie.

tr...@iwvisp.com

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Oct 20, 2013, 6:34:49 PM10/20/13

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Saw CS&N late last year. Stills looked, talked, and sang normally. While he's fatter with less hair and his beard is not complimentary. The one thing I noticed was, while his guitar work was still great, after about every third song he would dunk his hand in a bucket of ice. So he may have some serious arthritis problems he refuses to let get the best of him.

Ray Arthur

Nil

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Oct 20, 2013, 8:54:20 PM10/20/13

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On 20 Oct 2013, "tr...@iwvisp.com" <tr...@iwvisp.com> wrote in
rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1960s:

I've been told that Stills has had serious dental problems over the
past few years, plus he's gotten rather deaf. This all results in his
current slurred, mush-mouthed manner of speech. On a good night he can
still play seriously good guitar, but his singing is difficult.

rwalker

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Oct 21, 2013, 10:23:14 PM10/21/13

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Someone on line somewhere suggested he had a bad set of dentures. Have
no idea if it's true, but it does sound likely. Combine that with the
deafness, and you could have some speech problems.

rayjca...@gmail.com

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Mar 31, 2014, 8:13:15 AM3/31/14

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If you all knew the real (main)reason Stills has had such a bad time with his speech in recent years(the last 15 or so), you wouldn't believe the story. Also, he has been high, a couple times... But just listen to him speak at the 69' "Woodstock" appearance as he introduces CSN for the first time, and then listen to his most recent appearance on The Tavis Smiley show(3-15-14 or so?) and you will quickly see that he has had some serious "wear and tear" to his entire face, in fact he broke his jaw on a South Africa Tour back in the late 1990's and had to have it wired shut for three months. I mean, you can figure out the rest, including the fact that he was not sober for many, many years. I love the man's music, but I saw him recently playing with Kenny Wayne Sheppard and felt sorry for him. Sheppard put the man down, hard. I have seen Stills at his best, and he was every bit as good(a different style of course). Not anymore. But what an accomplished musician. Among the best.