Crosby, Stills & Nash authorise signature guitar

David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash have introduced a signature guitar to honor their late manager Gerry Tolman, who died in a car accident on New Year's Eve 2005. They teamed up with the C.F. Martin guitar company to make the acoustic instrument, which features the interlocking CSN logo on the headstock. The guitar was designed with personalized logos -- Crosby's schooner, Stills's "Southern Cross" constellation, and Nash's winged heart -- used as position markers on the neck, and the finished version also has Neil Young's broken arrow symbol. Tolman wasn't Young's manager, and Young rarely endorses commercial products, but he joined in because he wanted to support his friends, and also because a portion of the proceeds from the guitar will go to a college fund for Tolman's two children. The Crosby, Stills & Nash Martin guitar is available for orders now, and the retail price is $4,999.

Crosby, Stills & Nash will play in Australia and New Zealand next month, after which Crosby and Nash will do North American shows in the spring.
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