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Date: January 19, 2023 at 15:29:25
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Iconoclastic Rocker David Crosby passes at 81 |
URL: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/david-crosby-dead-obituary-1234664235/ |
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All CSN/CSNY music lives permanently in my cells... RIP
David...
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DAVID CROSBY, THE singer, songwriter and guitarist who
helped shape the sound of Sixties rock and beyond, died
on Thursday at the age of 81. A source close to Crosby
confirmed the musician’s death to Rolling Stone, but did
not disclose a cause.
Crosby was a founding member of the Byrds, playing guitar
and contributing harmony vocals to many of their most
enduring songs, including “Eight Miles High,” “So You
Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star” and “Turn! Turn! Turn!”
Shortly after being forced out of the group due to
personality conflicts with frontman Roger McGuinn, he
formed the supergroup Crosby, Stills, and Nash with
Buffalo Springfield’s Stephen Stills and Graham Nash of
the Hollies. The trio – which became a quartet in 1969
when Neil Young joined their ranks – played a major role
in the development of folk-rock, country-rock and the
emergent “California sound” that dominated rock radio
throughout the mid-Seventies. Croz wrote many of their
most beloved tunes, including “Almost Cut My Hair,” “Long
Time Gone” and “Deja Vu.”
“It is with a deep and profound sadness that I learned
that my friend David Crosby has passed,” Crosby’s former
bandmate Graham Nash wrote in a statement. “I know people
tend to focus on how volatile our relationship has been
at times, but what has always mattered to David and me
more than anything was the pure joy of the music we
created together, the sound we discovered with one
another, and the deep friendship we shared over all these
many long years.
“David was fearless in life and in music,” he added.” He
leaves behind a tremendous void as far as sheer
personality and talent in this world. He spoke his mind,
his heart, and his passion through his beautiful music
and leaves an incredible legacy. These are the things
that matter most. My heart is truly with his wife, Jan,
his son, Django, and all of the people he has touched in
this world.”
“I’m heartbroken to hear about David Crosby,” Brian
Wilson wrote. “David was an unbelievable talent – such a
great singer and songwriter. And a wonderful person. I
just am at a loss for words.”
While his success continued in the 1970s and into the
Eighties, Crosby’s personal life was marred by heavy drug
use, which wreaked havoc on his career and led to a short
jail sentence in 1985. Yet he recovered and continued
making music and touring for another three decades. “I
have no idea how I’m alive and Jimi [Hendrix] isn’t and
Janis [Joplin] isn’t and all my other friends,” he told
Rolling Stone in 2014, years after he’d cleaned up. “I
have no idea why me, but I got lucky.”
David Crosby was born in Los Angeles in 1941. His father
Floyd Crosby was an Academy Award-winning
cinematographer. He briefly attended Santa Barbara City
College but dropped out to pursue music. In 1964, he
joined a band called the Jet Set, consisting of Roger
McGuinn and Gene Clark. They changed their name to the
Beefeaters, and then the Byrds. Crosby’s gorgeous
harmonizing, heard on hits like the Bob Dylan cover “Mr.
Tambourine Man” and “Turn! Turn! Turn!,” was an essential
component in the Byrds’ folk-rock sound.
By 1967, tensions within the band reached a breaking
point, culminating with Crosby’s departure from the
group. Crosby and Stephen Stills, who had recently
disbanded Buffalo Springfield, began writing songs
together in 1968. They were soon joined by Nash, who had
just quit the Hollies, and the trio performed together
for the first time at the L.A. home of Cass Elliot of the
Mamas and the Papas. Their self-titled 1969 debut was a
hit, producing the classic single “Suite: Judy Blues
Eyes,” about Judy Collins.
Adding Neil Young later that year, the quartet played
their second gig at Woodstock, in front of nearly 500,000
people, announcing the arrival of one of rock’s first —
and greatest — supergroups. CSN&Y’s debut album, Déjà Vu,
sold 7 million copies and produced the hit singles
“Woodstock,” “Teach Your Children” and “Our House.”
Crosby later said, “I think when the Beatles bomb blew
apart, we were the best band in the world.”
CSN&Y released a live double-album, Four Way Street,
before splitting up. Crosby recorded his solo debut, If I
Could Only Remember My Name, in 1971, backed by Nash,
members of the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane and
Joni Mitchell (who he was romantically involved with for
a time and who famously compared Crosby’s walrus-mustache
look to Yosemite Sam). Though critically savaged at the
time, the languid, meditative album later gained a cult
following, with its influence heard in the contemporary
neo-folk of Fleet Foxes and Grizzly Bear. In 1977,
Crosby, Stills & Nash re-grouped for the quadruple-
platinum CSN. In 1979, they performed at the antinuclear
benefit concerts sponsored by Musicians United for Safe
Energy (MUSE).
1982’s Daylight Again was another success, producing the
hits “Wasted On the Way” and “Southern Cross.” During
these years, Crosby was a frequent voice on records by
Grace Slick and Paul Kantner of Jefferson Starship, Hot
Tuna and Phil Collins (including the hit “Another Day In
Paradise”).
By the early Eighties, though, his drug abuse was having
a ruinous impact. In 1985, he was sentenced to prison for
nine months after leaving the drug rehabilitation program
he was allowed to enter instead of serving a five-year
prison sentence for possessing cocaine and carrying a
gun. He appeared with Stills, Nash and Young at Live Aid
while out on appeal bond. Crosby emerged from prison in
1986, newly clean, and married his longtime girlfriend
Jan Dance in 1987. In 1990, he published a revealing,
widely praised memoir Long Time Gone.
He received a liver transplant in 1994 and recorded
another album with CSN, the commercially unsuccessful
After the Storm. During the Nineties, Crosby gained more
attention for a unique act of celebrity generosity when
he became the sperm donor for Melissa Etheridge and Julie
Cypher. In 1995, he reunited with his son Raymond, who
he’d given up for the adoption in the Sixties, and they
recorded three albums together as CPR. (Crosby’s
survivors include three other children, two daughters
(Erika and Donovan) and a son Django, the only child of
his marriage with Dance.)
Crosby maintained a sense of humor about his troubled
past. When he angered the recovery community by admitting
he smoked pot, he joked, “Our big crime is that we eat
ice cream, let’s face the truth.” He also embraced his
rep as the archetypal “Wasted Sixties Guy,” especially in
his emerging acting career. He was a hippie in 1991’s
Backdraft, a bartender in 1992’s Thunderheart and an AA
sponsor in an episode of The John Larroquette Show. (He
also occasionally appeared as himself on the Simpsons.)
Though much more toned down by the 2000s, Crosby remained
unapologetic in his pro-gun views. In 2004, he pleaded
guilty to criminal possession of a weapon when police
found a gun and a small quantity of marijuana in his
hotel room the night after a concert in New York. He
served no jail time.
Towards the end of his life, Crosby recorded the 2014
solo album, Croz, his first record in 20 years, featuring
Raymond among the guest musicians and a cover photo taken
by Django. “Most guys my age would have done a covers
record or duets on old material,” he told Rolling Stone
at the time. “This won’t be a huge hit. It’ll probably
sell 19 copies. I don’t think kids are gonna dig it, but
I’m not making it for them. I’m making it for me. I have
this stuff that I need to get off my chest.”
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Date: January 20, 2023 at 10:27:06
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Iconoclastic Rocker David Crosby passes at 81 |
URL: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/20/roaming-charges-78/ |
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+ Dylan on David Crosby: “Crosby was a colorful and unpredictable character, wore a Mandrake the Magician cape, didn’t get along with too many people and had a beautiful voice — an architect of harmony. He could freak out a whole city block all by himself. I liked him a lot.”
+ You told Crosby he didn’t know the proper way to roll at a joint at your risk…
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Date: January 20, 2023 at 10:42:23
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Neil Young pens tribute to David Crosby: His Music Lives On |
URL: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/neil-young-pens-tribute-david-154113471.html |
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The post, Neil Young Pens Tribute to David Crosby: “His
Music Lives On” appeared first on Consequence.
Neil Young has penned a tribute to David Crosby in light
of his passing on Thursday at the age of 81. The two
performed together as part of the supergroup quartet,
Crosby Stills Nash and Young.
“David is gone, but his music lives on,” Young wrote on
his website Neil Young Archives. “The soul of CSNY,
David’s voice and energy were at the heart of our band.
His great songs stood for what we believed in and it was
always fun and exciting when we got to play together.
‘Almost Cut My Hair’ and ‘Deja Vu,’ and so many other
great songs he wrote were wonderful to jam on and
[Stephen] Stills and I had a blast as he kept going on
and on. His singing with Graham [Nash] was memorable,
their duo spot a highlight of so many of our shows.
“We had so many great times, especially in the early
years,” Young continued. “Crosby was a very supportive
friend in my early life, as we bit off big pieces of our
experience together. David was the catalyst of many
things. My heart goes out to Jan and Django, his wife and
son. Lots of love to you. Thanks David for your spirit
and songs, Love you man. I remember the best times!
Young joined Crosby’s already successful folk supergroup
trio with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash in 1969. The
CSNY lineup performed at Woodstock and released the
classic 1970 LP Déjà Vu, which went septuple-platinum
behind singles like “Helpless,” “Teach Your Children,”
and “Our House.” The quartet dissolved later that year,
but eventually reformed for a world tour in 1974, and
again for 1988’s American Dream and 1999’s Looking
Forward.
In the early aughts, CSNY embarked on joint ventures like
2000’s “CSNY2K Tour” and 2006’s “Freedom of Speech Tour,”
the latter marking their last extended outing together.
The quartet briefly reunited again in 2013 for the annual
Bridge School Benefit concert, which now serves as their
official final performance.
Young and Crosby had been estranged for the better part
of the last decade, with Crosby sharing in November 2022
via Songfacts that he and Young “don’t have a
relationship” and hadn’t spoken “in two years.” According
to Crosby, the rift stemmed from comments made by the
late musician in 2014 about Young’s now-wife, Daryl
Hannah. He later apologized, but subsequent updates on
the two’s status were not encouraging.
There appeared to be some solidarity between bandmates in
early 2022 as CSN followed Young in removing their
catalogs from Spotify. In a joint statement, the trio
affirmed that “we support Neil.” Meanwhile, Crosby
separately agreed with Young’s stance against the
streamer’s partnership with Joe Rogan, tweeting, “I’d
rather I wasn’t in the same market place.”
Both Crosby and Young maintained for years that the group
would not tour again, with Crosby telling Kyle Meredith
in 2018 that he wouldn’t revisit CSNY without Young’s
involvement.
Along with Young, Crosby’s CSNY members Nash and Stills
also penned tributes to their late bandmate.
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Date: January 20, 2023 at 10:00:53
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Iconoclastic Rocker David Crosby passes at 81 |
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBegJVgfFhk |
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Date: January 24, 2023 at 06:02:09
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Very Nice '08 David Crosby interview w/Rita Braver, CBS Sunday AM |
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIP_mABlsOQ |
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"I can't even spell humble"...lol... ;D
Beautiful sharings...
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Date: January 20, 2023 at 09:09:33
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Crosby Stills & Nash/Crosby Stills & Nash c. 1972 |
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm0sishe02U |
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Has anyone who loved these albums forgotten, even now, even
one of the many harmony lines in all these songs? ;) Would
love nothing more than gathering with a crowd in a big room
and singing them all together, a capella... ;D
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Date: January 20, 2023 at 09:12:53
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Crosby Stills Nash & Young/Deja Vu c. 1970 |
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mup1xIAwyKo&t=33s |
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Date: January 20, 2023 at 15:58:28
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Crosby Stills Nash & Young/Deja Vu c. 1970/Carry On |
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One morning I woke up and I knew
You were really gone
A new day, a new way
And new eyes to see the dawn
Go your way, I'll go mine
And carry on
The sky is clearing and the night
Has gone out
The sun, he come, the world
Is all full of love
Rejoice, rejoice, we have no choice
But to carry on
The fortunes of fables are able
To sing the song
Now witness the quickness with which
We get along
To sing the blues you've got to live the dues
And carry on
Carry on
Love is coming
Love is coming to us all
Where are you going now, my love?
Where will you be tomorrow?
Will you bring me happiness?
Will you bring me sorrow?
Oh, the questions of a thousand dreams
What you do with what you see
Lover, can you talk to me?
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Date: January 19, 2023 at 17:59:51
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Iconoclastic Rocker David Crosby passes at 81 |
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I got to meet him once..it was years ago in the early
90s.
I was working for a computer company and was called out
to the front desk for a customer who wanted to pick up
a custom-configured computer and pay for it. The front
girl was at lunch, and I was the Accounts manager.
I get out there, ask for the name: "David Crosby," the
smiling man said.
Crosby is not an unusual name, nor is David..didn't
think anything about it, but the guy did look vaguely
familiar. Happy man...curly blondish hair.
I got his computer and asked how he'd like to pay. He
smiled and said, "Check".
He wrote it out and handed it to me: "ID please?"
(customer with personal checks).
At that point he looked at me kind of strangely--then
broke out in a giggle and big smile, "Sure!" he said
and gave me his driver's license.
It was all in order..I smiled back (he was still
giggling--wasn't sure why), wished him a pleasant day
and circled the number on his receipt to call if he had
any questions or concerns. And..with that, he picked up
his new computer and left.
At that point the lead salesperson came flying out of
the back where, apparently, a gaggle of sales personel
had gathered to watch.
"I can't believe you just carded David Crosby!" he said
loudly.
"Well, of course..we always ask for ID with a check.
Why is that weird, Rich?"
"Because..that's DAVID CROSBY!" he waited while I gave
him a puzzled look.
He tried again, "Crosby, Stills and Nash ring a bell??"
and the light came on "OH!! THAT David Crosby??"
Oh geez, THAT'S why he looked familiar!
And he let out such a gut busting laugh, "YES!"
I got teased quite a bit over that one.
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Date: January 21, 2023 at 11:11:57
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Iconoclastic Rocker David Crosby passes at 81 |
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"he was still giggling"...
shrooms...
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Date: January 21, 2023 at 14:58:04
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Iconoclastic Rocker David Crosby passes at 81 |
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lol ..coulda been~ We'll never know now.
RIP David
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Date: January 21, 2023 at 05:37:11
From: Dan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Iconoclastic Rocker David Crosby passes at 81 |
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"OH!! THAT David Crosby??"
That's really funny!! LOL LOL
I'm glad Neil said something. They had been on the outs
after David made a comment about Daryl Hannah.
It seems David had a habit of straining relationships.
He reminds me of Ginger Baker in that respect
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Date: January 20, 2023 at 09:06:06
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Iconoclastic Rocker David Crosby passes at 81 |
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Great story Red, thanks... ;D
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