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

"...You know that indian girl?/She wasn't no indian/she was tha law..."

― Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, September 14, 2011 9:48 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what the f does that line mean?

Hot chick was actually a narc.

Song was apparently a dig at Rita Coolidge who had at some time dated both Graham Nash and Steven Stills. Not sure which of the 2 by the time of the song and she was more famously involved with Kris Kristofferson apart from being famous in her own right.
But Dave just felt like being snide at the time or something.

how is the new Crosby record? anybody heard?

I like it

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I found this quite surprising when I saw it in a page long review for a number of reissues of Francoise Hardy lps in Uncut about a year ago. Can't be a coincidence can it?
Has Crosby ever said anything about it anywhere?

Ask him on Twitter!

I always associate IICORMN with the solo Jefferson Airplane stuff taht was coming out on Grunt at about the same time with some of the same musicians involved.
Things like Starfighter, Manhole, Baron Von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun and Blows Against the Empire.

I picked up a vinyl copy of IICORMN in the late 80s possibly intrigued by the cover, though I did know who Crosby was as an ex-Byrd.
Didn't get into CSN(Y) until much much later, thoug I did like Marrakesh Express as an oldie I was hearing on the radio as a preteen.

I used to play laughing a lot on the early days of my radio show.

such a classic, does anything else in his solo catalog come close?

also, "Cowboy Movie" is more or less the blueprint for Down By the River?

Down By The River precedes it by ca. 2 years.

oh... lol!

I like his last couple solo albums

I liked the one from last year as well

yesterday I listened to Thousand Roads, liked that one as well

I guess maybe I really like the Croz and I should start digging

i find the croz less objectionable now that everybody else in the world is a fucking lunatic wingnut as well

i haven't delved too deep into his solo shit but that "another stoney evening" live thing with graham nash is some good shit, there's also a really nice video of the two of them on the bbc from around this time.

A major dickbrain https://t.co/dZHmbN9Fy9

— David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) August 9, 2018

If I Could Only Remember My Dickbrain...

The Dickbrain forgets what the Dickheart remembers

Calls to mind his great one-line cameo in Dylan's Chronicles vol 1: "Bunch of dickheads on autostroke."

Worth noting the surround sound DVD of this is p. amazing.

i've got friends who are super into 5.1 and i can't be bothered to set up that many speakers. i wish there were more downmixes of 5.1 records circulating, particularly if the talking heads 5.1 mixes are ordinary and standard for 5.1 mixes as has been claimed.

I should note that I only got into 5.1 when I bought a house that had surround installed. All I did was buy a receiver and a center channel and some CDs.

Regardless, this is a cool experience in surround.

I was mistaken

His new album is sounding really good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEulHicim5w

Yeah he's been doing some good work in recent years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln9dtQ8tuKk

Nice!

member of both crosby stills and nash _and_ crosby stills nash and young! how many people can say that, really?

I can only think of two, maybe three.

Dallas Taylor, but I can't think of anyone else.

i bought a slightly overpriced copy of this yesterday and only later realized that i already owned a much nicer copy. i guess it's kind of fitting to make that kind of derp with this album

You were mistaken

I thought he was one of the best interview subjects in Echo in Canyon; looking forward to his own documentary, which opens here in a couple of weeks.

...the Canyon, the Canyon.

that echo in the canyon movie was pretty bad

speaking of Crosby interviews

I cannot recommend the last five minutes of this interview with David Crosby from the THR podcast more highly. https://t.co/jo1RNUKCBJ pic.twitter.com/4Ry4Dnx5ji

— Charles Bramesco (@intothecrevasse) July 20, 2019

that was nuts.

it was, to be fair, not a very good interview

like i would never listen to anything that guy has done based on what i heard. but the fact that his monotonous, 9th grade book report style inspired such heights of egomaniacal fury in crosby is p amazing

whenever i think of crosby i think of the part from shakey, the neil young biography, where he's being interviewed by a magazine over the phone while he's being...attended to....by a groupie

Checked out the podcast — the interviewer gets fair warning at 28:00, but has no clue or interest in how to pivot (or really conduct an interview, I guess); and he eventually gets what’s coming to him.

“Well, this is the format of the podcast... I’ve got lots of other questions like this...” — c’mon, man, for real?

yeah there was also an exchange along the lines of:

crosby: c’mon man, what’s with these questions ? everybody already knows this shit it’s been written about ad nauseam

interviewer: well, there are a lot of listeners in their 20s and 30s who probably haven’t heard of you

lol not really the best defense of your lame questions

also when he interrupts crosby and says something to the effect of:

sorry, for the sake of our musically illiterate listeners, can you explain what harmony is ?

?????

I like when the guy asks, “If you had come along a few years before you did, before the Beatles and the singer-songwriter era, what would you have ended up doing? Just singing? Just writing songs? Nothing at all?”

And Crosby’s like: “Uh, I would have gotten into the same thing, I’d just be a few years older.”

oh man this is a super uncomfortable listen

I'm surprised Crosby kept it together for so long tbh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOnZXeHRl40&feature=youtu.be

haha this host is fucking - quote - annoying as shit - close quote

huh so far they are really getting along