Several musicians that banded together in opposition to reliance on nuclear plants to address energy needs in 1979 are coming together again for the same cause.  The series of concerts 32 years ago at Madison Square Garden took place as energy shortages gave Nuke proponents a platform for promoting the expansion of nuclear power generation in the US as a clean alternative to continued reliance on foreign oil and energy derived from domestic fossil fuel sources.
Taking a cue from alarms raised by the failure the earthquake and tsunami triggered in major reactors in Japan, a number of the participants in the 1979 concerts have decided the time is right stage another concert to draw attention to the fact that even without the kind of catastrophic failure the double whammy of natural disasters in Japan caused, the un-addressed risks of a highly radioactive energy source add up to good reasons to avoid building more nuke plants as a solution to the nation's energy needs.
Crosby, Stills & Nash, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt and Orleans and US Congressional veteran John Hall will appear at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountainview, California on August 7.  Bruce Springsteen, who appeared at the '79 concerts but has been dealing with the sudden passing of E Street Band sax player Clarence Clemons (story), and Tom Petty are presumably in the category of previous participants of big names Graham Nash hopes will agree to perform at this year's concert.
Nash, who is no fan of the pollution coal-fired plants introduce to air, water and soil, maintains that the age-old energy source is still better than one than generates waste that remains deadly for more than 100,00 years.
RollingStone.com