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

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Sorry, no, I've tried several times and I just can't see what all the fuss is about.

Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 19 January 2004 10:26 (twenty years ago) link

Is it as half as amazing as Gene Clark's No Other as far as lost solo / vanity classics go? Cuz thats one of my all time favorites.

Absolutely nothing like "No Other", I love it personally, in fact i prefer to "No Other" ... today

Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 19 January 2004 13:09 (twenty years ago) link

jwd - sorry, don't know if there are more than one, but I don't think so. This is the one I'm talking about:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000C3G6/qid=1074537265/sr=1-8/ref=sr_1_11_8/026-4549943-0217242

Keith Watson (kmw), Monday, 19 January 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago) link

Should, if you follow all the rules, be terrible.
Is, in fact, truly exhilerating.
Classic. Oh yes.

harveyw (harveyw), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 12:10 (twenty years ago) link

eight months pass...
thank you for these recommendations.

how's the John Phillips - John, the Wolf King of LA? i've heard that album is supposed to tread the same terrain?

anything else like this?

JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 15 October 2004 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Regarding great lost solo classics, Dennis Wilson deserves a mention.

Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 16 October 2004 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...
This album is incredible. I love hippies.

mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link

If only I could forget his name.

Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 22:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Classic... if just for the guitar tunings.

Dud - that David Crosby songbook with the dodgy binding that falls to bits in your hands. Anyone else got one of those?

avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 23:52 (eighteen years ago) link

The John Phillips album is so excellent.

Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 20 October 2005 00:41 (eighteen years ago) link

i still haven't fallen in love with the John Phillips album :(

Burger abortion i don't ask it i demand it!!!! (jaxon), Thursday, 20 October 2005 02:20 (eighteen years ago) link

eight months pass...
"You know that Indian Girl? She was no Indian, she was the LAW"
Man that line just too freakin' heav-eeeee dude.

dr lulu (dr lulu), Friday, 7 July 2006 02:29 (seventeen years ago) link

One of my favourite album covers as well (and gatefold sleeve), these things are important

¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:15 (seventeen years ago) link

After my accident, when I was back at home and still wracked with pain - couldn't sleep, couldn't stay awake - listening to this album was an especially hallucinatory experience, but a nice one. In its own bone-headed 1970 way it had a healing quality about it. It drifted in and out of focus in the same way I was. It was comforting.

Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:24 (seventeen years ago) link

three months pass...
yeahhh, so i bought this last night and listened to it twice. it's great. anyone know where i can score those outtakes?

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Friday, 3 November 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyone thinking of getting the 3 CD Crosby box set that's coming out later this month?

treefell (treefell), Friday, 3 November 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Yup, totally classic status. It's also one of those rare psych-folk LPs that is relatively easy to find and only a few bucks, which is kind of endearing.

mcd (mcd), Friday, 3 November 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

yourfullname, that your real email?

jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

If Only I Could Remember My Email

Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

whatevs - http://www.sendspace.com/file/tl27jc

jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link

OH OH THANX!

shit, i missed when this thread got bumped. thank you SO much, jaxon.

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 09:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, thanx Jax, you're a star!

Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 10:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Nice outtakes, thank you.

I have never heard the intakes though.

Re: the box set (which I would like, yes, but it is quite expensive), can you spot the odd one out here:

Customers who bought this item also bought
If I Could Only Remember My Name: Remastered & Expanded/+Dvda ~ David Crosby
There Is a Season: +DVD ~ Byrds
The Complete Reprise Sessions ~ Gram Parsons
Orphans [3CD Set] ~ Tom Waits
The Slade Box [Box Set] ~ Slade
Perception: 40th Anniversary (6 CD's and 6 DVD-A's) ~ Doors

PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, what is that clown Tom Waits doing in there

Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link

anyone know what's on that dvd that comes w/the remastered version?

jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I think it's just a surround sound mix rather than any visuals, but I'm not sure.

PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, the cover is classic so-bad-its-good.

deekew (deekew), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Everybody's saying that music's for free.

Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, the cover is classic so-bad-its-good.

i don't get this at all. i guess it's a little dated, but i'd never think it was terrible.

jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

UNDOUBTED CLASSIQUE

calvin johnson has ruined rock for an entire generation (orion), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link

If Only I Could Dismember My Liver

(i need to get this record at long last)

timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 9 November 2006 00:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I like this album. Matter of fact, I like most of what this bunch of people did during this period. "If I Could Only Remember My Name" is still rather different from typical CSN-material though, more dreamy and slightly more experimental. Still good.

Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 9 November 2006 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Those outtakes are very Cleo Laine.

PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 9 November 2006 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link

The album has yet to be remastered. Maybe Rhino will include some of the outtakes if they remaster it.

Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 9 November 2006 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link

it looks like there might be an alt. version of "cowboy movie" on the crosby box set.

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Thursday, 9 November 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

The album has yet to be remastered. Maybe Rhino will include some of the outtakes if they remaster it.

geir, good job reading AGAIN. there are two mentions only a couple of posts above yours that mention the remastered & expanded version

jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, the cover is classic so-bad-its-good.

Madness, it's so-good-its-good!

Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Friday, 10 November 2006 10:41 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, there's nothing wrong with the cover for this LP! MUCH better in fact than yer average CSN(Y) cover.

calvin johnson has ruined rock for an entire generation (orion), Friday, 10 November 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

the design suffers in translation to cd, true, but the original vinyl ... the texture, the gatefold "facebook" ... class all the way.

Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Friday, 10 November 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...
I watched Crosby and Nash on the televison and they sang some songs and it was good. I did not know Crosby was such a wag. I would like this box set, or indeed this album, but they are both at the premium end of the market. Perhaps I will SAVE UP.

PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 12 January 2007 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Can anyone repost those outtakes?

def zep (calstars), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

This album is at the premium end of the market?? It should be $1-$5 in yer local vinyl emporium, duder.

be home by 11 (orion), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

the old "not remastered" cd sounds fine too.
God don't make junk.

Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

has been on my "to get" list buried in the back of my head for some time now.

tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, I meant the new version, half of which is no use to non-surround sound me.

PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I still find it difficult to get into this album, although I kind of like the sound, the songs don't seem too memorable.

o. nate (onate), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

three years pass...

so I'm looking to get a copy of this on vinyl - should I get the 180g reissue from a few years back (~$28 plus shipping online) or the original (~$15 plus shipping)?

/no cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link

just wait until you find an original in a store for $5-10?? it's not that expensive a record tbh and paying $20+ for it seems silly. cobo, where do you live? next time i see a copy I can mail it to for less than $15 ppd.

Joint Custody (ian), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link

Saw this newish track mentioned in STErlewine's newsletter, never heard of it before. It's a co-write with Donald Fagen, and very nice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s4g9PhYthU

Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 20 January 2023 21:11 (one year ago) link

so weird. “J Bickerton” is one of those names that just sounds fake.

Karl Malone, Friday, 20 January 2023 21:40 (one year ago) link

Sounds perfectly cromulent to me.

birdistheword, Friday, 20 January 2023 21:54 (one year ago) link

i think i'm just immediately thinking J Peterman

Karl Malone, Friday, 20 January 2023 22:01 (one year ago) link

From Mark Wakefield on Facebook:

So sad to read of David Crosby's death. We lived in Summit, New Jersey in the 80's. One day I was driving down the main street in town and saw Crosby standing on the sidewalk. I pulled over to go back and tell him I was a huge fan, only to see him jump in a car and drive off. Turns out he was in Summit on a court-mandated stay at the drug treatment hospital in town. The next day it was reported he had escaped from the treatment center the day before. I figure I was the last one in town to see him before he went on the lam. My near brush with greatness!

birdistheword, Friday, 20 January 2023 22:40 (one year ago) link

hmm if that link doesn't work try this one:

https://waynerobins49.substack.com/p/watching-david-crosby-relapse

Thus Sang Freud, Friday, 20 January 2023 22:58 (one year ago) link

It worked for me. Great read, and yes he made the right call. Crosby paid it forward - he helped others clean up including Grace Slick in the late '90s (which may or may not be news, but it was in her statement after Crosby died).

birdistheword, Friday, 20 January 2023 23:24 (one year ago) link

^pvmic
(xpost)

The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 January 2023 23:25 (one year ago) link

wow that link is heartbreaking, speaking as a recovering addict I have had exactly that same embarrassed, confused, tearful breakdown after using and trying to go right back to normal life

I would love to read more about the paying it forward part if anyone's got other links, that he did that also shows a good grasp of recovery

sleeve, Friday, 20 January 2023 23:40 (one year ago) link

At their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, he let Byrd Michael Clarke know that he would support his rehab if he wanted to go, but Clarke demurred.

Halfway there but for you, Friday, 20 January 2023 23:58 (one year ago) link

Ugh

The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 21 January 2023 00:00 (one year ago) link

FWIW, this is Grace Slick's post:

"25 years ago, David took me to rehab and saved my life - I wish I could have saved his this time. I will miss his humor, his intelligence, and his deep body of work." -Grace Slick

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnngRlqI1kn/?hl=en

birdistheword, Saturday, 21 January 2023 00:25 (one year ago) link

FWIW, the Washington Post published a story on the confusion over whether he died:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/01/20/david-crosby-obituaries-variety-confusion🕸/


So … alive?

Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 21 January 2023 01:26 (one year ago) link

It's all so weird, why did Yahoo Finance or whoever run the story in the first place, and how did the story even get to them, well before all the usual suspects?

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 21 January 2023 01:37 (one year ago) link

BTW Josh, you’re right, that “Long Time Gone” with Tom Jones and Stills wailing and banging the fuck out of an organ is completely wild.

Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 21 January 2023 01:53 (one year ago) link

Totally wild. Maybe even totally wired.

The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 21 January 2023 02:03 (one year ago) link

xxp I asked my buddy who works at Yahoo!; he agreed it was super weird.

Vexatious litigant (morrisp), Saturday, 21 January 2023 04:11 (one year ago) link

it's the wild west over at !Finance though

Karl Malone, Saturday, 21 January 2023 04:28 (one year ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpkELuj6kn4
is the same set that was p0layed on BBC4 last night so may be up in pristine form on i-player.
Crosby's sense of humour appears to be an acquired taste

Stevolende, Saturday, 21 January 2023 12:09 (one year ago) link

it's the wild west over at !Finance though

Almost a "Cowboy Movie"

Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 22 January 2023 19:01 (one year ago) link

croz marathon this morning. started off with if i could only remember and continuing with the nash collaboration albums. if one wanted to compile a "second" croz solo lp from the early 70s, you probably could with his cuts from various places from 72-76. it wouldn't be anywhere near as sprawling and airy as name, but certainly would scratch that itch. "where will i be?"—>"page 43" is about as alltime as it gets. also: songs about whales. nice. i may make a playlist.

"i'm grateful." (Austin), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 17:00 (one year ago) link

Some of his 2010s work is pretty good too

INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 17:03 (one year ago) link

I am now regretting not checking out those Crosby-Nash records when they were like $2

sleeve, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link

they're okay. first one's the best and it's on streaming. you're not missing much, but the live ones are fun (+both have "lee shore" in vastly different versions; cool croz nerdery).

sry to butt in. i don't remember if i kept mine. i mean, they're okay and there's tons of copies out there. i hope people aren't gouging, yeesh.

"i'm grateful." (Austin), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 18:21 (one year ago) link

well to be fair, they were $2 like 15 years ago, no gouging sighted as of yet

sleeve, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 18:45 (one year ago) link

It's all so weird, why did Yahoo Finance or whoever run the story in the first place, and how did the story even get to them, well before all the usual suspects?


Yahoo Finance ran it (automatically?) from a press release that his wife put out via a press release site: https://newsdirect.com/news/legendary-musician-husband-father-and-friend-david-crosby-passes-away-475391322

Alba, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 21:07 (one year ago) link

Usual suspects then scrambled to confirm the provenance of the press release as no one trusted that newsdirect.com was a site that had guards against being spoofed.

Alba, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 21:10 (one year ago) link

Sorry - didn't realise much of that was in the Post article already linked. But yeah, Yahoo Finance is used to churning out press releases from sites like newsdirect, which are usually things like company finance announcements.

Alba, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 21:21 (one year ago) link

I am now regretting not checking out those Crosby-Nash records when they were like $2

I get a sharp stabbing pain every time my thoughts turn in this direction.

clemenza, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 22:09 (one year ago) link

It seems Crosby was working on a new record and was actually rehearsing the material the week before he died: https://www.nme.com/news/music/david-crosby-was-working-on-a-new-album-when-he-died-3385083

Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 13:29 (one year ago) link

I try not to think about how much records used to cost--that's a whole thread topic in itself

a (waterface), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 13:32 (one year ago) link

for clemenza - the definition of a schooner is a sailboat with two masts, where the one in the back is taller than the one in the front.

Distinct from a ketch or yawl (other two-masted sailboats, distinguished from one another by the relative size and position of the masts).

is it milli vanilli or just a facsimile (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 14:16 (one year ago) link

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nGIDa0Axz_cKWr05Ev-9X7VG_xqk49EDA&feature=share

I feel a contemporary vibe here

| (Latham Green), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 03:07 (one year ago) link

five months pass...

Trane’s relentless pursuit of musical transcendence was legendary and inspirational.

Don’t be satisfied with where you are at now and keep pushing for that next level!

lol okay!

Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 15:22 (nine months ago) link

https://www.instagram.com/p/CtCAa4CAdsX🕸/


I saw that in the documentary, so great. A worthy rental for anyone who is interested.

Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 16:13 (nine months ago) link

Thanks for the rec!

The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Elektra) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 16:16 (nine months ago) link

seven months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yer5Zoax-7g

Great sounding Perro sesh

calstars, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 06:26 (two months ago) link


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