David Crosby's If I Could Only Remember My Name - C or D?

I'm sure he would love to hear how I wrote a sort of snarky song about him

i mean croz is sort of a legendary asshole with regrettable facial hair and probably that liver could have gone to someone more virtuous but on the other side of the equation he is at least apparently dying more-or-less alone and unloved, which is a fate a lot of legendary assholes seem to avoid, and also he did write some fucking fantastic songs. there are people a lot more worth hating than croz, is what i'm saying, enough of them that i just don't have any hatred left over for him.

Def prefer the work of Crosby and Stills over Nash’s wubbly weak stuff

Nash’s Hollies songs > Crosby’s Byrds songs

yeah what a fine metric to judge them by

the best hollies song is “dragging my heels”

I think I just don’t like the sound of his voice and his treacly songwriting. I like the sample of “Chicago” in that beanie Siegel song... I like “teach your children” but mainly for jerry garcia

I believe Crosby is alone among his peers for writing a song Miles Davis covered. Unfortunately, it (“Guinnevere”) happens to be the only out-and-out dull recording of Miles’ electric period.

Nash’s Hollies songs > Crosby’s Byrds songs

I'll do this only with my favourite songs by each band--they wrote others.

Had to check the credits on my four favourite Hollies songs: "I Can't Let Go," "Carrie Anne," "On a Carousel," "Pay You Back with Interest." Nash co-wrote the last three.

So for me they'd be up against "Eight Miles High," "What's Happening?!?!," "Lady Friend," and "Draft Morning," all co-written by Crosby.

If I put the last three Crosby songs against Nash's three, pretty close--I could go either way. But "Eight Miles High" is decisive.

I don't know enough about electric Miles to call it the only truly dull recording of the period, but it's certainly far, far worse than electric Miles doing Guinnevere ought ever to be.

(xp) "What's Happening?!?!" and "Lady Friend" were 100% Crosby songs, not co-writes fwiw.

And Lady Friend is arguably a top 5 Byrds song.

Yeah, I goofed on those songwriting credits. "Lady Friend" is fantastic. I think my Top 5 would be "She Don't Care About Time," "Eight Miles High," "Wasn't Born to Follow," "Goin' Back," and either "You Showed Me" or "Here Without You" from Preflyte. "Lady Friend" would be one of the next five for sure.

You Showed Me is Clark/McGuinn! Crosby not credited on the Turtles version etc

And Eight Miles High, gimme a break - more Stan Lee syndrome ie puttin his name on shit that was almost entirely the work of others

More like the other way round on "The Notorious Byrd Brothers".

Not sure what you mean there.

Goin Back also not a Crosby song + he hated it

I was listing my five favourite Byrds songs period, whether Crosby wrote them or not--should have been clearer. Was just agreeing with NTI that "Lady Friend" was close to the top.

And Eight Miles High, gimme a break

Because you were there in the studio, right? Your dislike of Crosby seems a little intense.

McGuinn/Hillman finished off "Draft Morning" and put their names on it to Crosby's chagrin.

Crosby wanted "Triad" on the album instead of "Goin' Back".

(xxp) I mean McGuinn and Hillman attaching their names to songs that Crosby claims were almost entirely his work.

(xp)

XP By "finished off", I mean added a couple lines and brought in the Firesign Theatre to do sound effects.

On "Draft Morning".

With the usual caveats about Wikipedia, this presents Crosby's contributions to "Eight Miles High" as much more than just putting his name on something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Miles_High#Composition

He contributes what is, for me at least, the song's single most unforgettable line--"rain grey town"; I used that for a chapter title in a book--and he's the guy who plays Coltrane and Shankar for the rest of the band. If you accept McGuinn's version, Crosby contributes more than that to the lyrics.

It looks like the song is primarily Clark's, yes, but Crosby's contributions to the writing and the playing seem crucial to me.

caught the doc last night. A lot of entertaining bits, as one would expect from someone as alternately cantankerous and reflective as Croz. Didn't raise my estimation of his musical prowess any - he's still definitely the lesser light among his many contemporaries/collaborators imo (McGuinn, Neil, Joni, Nash, etc.) - but he is a compelling subject, and his humility and contrition about his many fuckups come off as genuine, admirable, and, ultimately, tragic. The end where he discusses how no one wants to talk to him or work with him and why is he alive when so many of his friends are dead is some for real, heavy shit.

As always, the omissions were also interesting: no discussion of his brother's suicide, and Gene Clark doesn't get even a mention (he's not even in any of the Byrds clips that flash by). And my wife wanted to know why they didn't mention the Melissa Etheridge sperm donation lol.

also lol I had never seen that Silent Night performance before, that shit was hilarious

Brought a ringer into the studio to sing pic.twitter.com/D9o9wkMXPh

— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) December 11, 2019

The guy's voice is still in amazing shape, which must be something of a small miracle. Still, betting Isbell is Twitter-blocking him by the weekend...

Good interview.

http://www.gq.com/story/david-crosby-coronavirus-touring-interview

https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/10/david-crosby-backlash-eddie-van-halen-tweet/?new=true

Cros gonna Cros.

great twitter personality

Would love to see Croz outlive all 70s/80s hard rockers

Cros gonna Cros.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, October 13, 2020 2:30 PM

*croz

Croz has always been a world class dik.

Honestly it was relatively restrained for Croz to keep it to a simple "meh".

amusing on twitter for sure, i ride for this album
but a world class asshole whose honestly kinda begging to be #metooed at this point by keeping such a high profile

It only got worse from there, when yet another Twitter follower wrote, “Yeah, the guy only CHANGED THE WORLD OF GUITAR. geeezzz dave.” To that one, Crosby wrote, “Hendrix changed the world of guitar. Nobody else really … look I get it … many of you loved Van Halen …. and the one time I met he was nice … and he was talented … meh to me means I don’t care that much … and I don’t … doesn’t mean he wasn’t good, he was but not for me.”

cros otm

^^^

yeah that doesnt really seem wrong lol ... love evh tho

evh changed the guitar, absolutely he did it's absurd to say otherwise

fucking die hippie

Before Eddie Van Halen a guitar was a bus

Croz has burner accounts to kiss his own ass

Hi David. I don’t get on Twitter much but just wanted to let you know I’m really digging your album Here If You Listen. A masterpiece!

— David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) November 26, 2020

lol that's awesome

Looks like he remembered his name!

LOL

What’s weird about it is that he clearly manages the vast majority of his own Twitter content.

and he's doing a great job

tbf, it doesn't say theREALdavidcrosby

Neil Young's secret Twitter account in the guise of David Crosby.

50 years old today apparently

David Crosby's debut solo album 'If I Only Could Only Remember My Name' is Crosby's most definitive work as a psychedelic rock pioneer

It turns 50 today; we looked back on it in a retrospective review: https://t.co/JQJYuuI2Tz pic.twitter.com/2fpFwdShvh

— BrooklynVegan (@brooklynvegan) February 22, 2021