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

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

HOLY FUCK http://aquariumdrunk.blogspot.com/2006/07/david-crosby-1970-session-outtakes.html
― flëétwøöd måçk (jaxon), Thursday, July 6, 2006 10:23 PM (fourteen years ago)

A decade-and-a-half later, I finally pulled down these outtakes and ... I love them (so much so that I tweeted at Croz to see if there's any chance these would be released officially).

First off, this stuff **sounds** incredible -- pristine and crisp but also ... spacey, like the unresolved harmonies and languid rhythms of "Triad" and "Deja Vu" gently folded into a mixing bowl. In places, there's a bit of a Dream Letter-era Tim Buckley vibe to some of this -- the acoustic rounds of stuff like "Mountain Song" where these semi-improvised harmonies just coast over pristine guitar arpeggios, the lumbering floatiness of "Wall Song." In others (ie, "Wild Turkey - aka Leather Winged Bat") there's a sort of mellow acid rock jamminess that transcends a lot of the work of the dudes creating it. Hell, I even like the Jerry Garcia vocal on "Loser." The fact that half of it feels like it's being "written" on the spot without being aimless or half-assed kind of only adds to the magic.

Anything that conjures such a vibe almost demands a full release. Do it, Croz!

I’m disappointed that there wasn’t some 50th anniversary deluxe edition containing all the PERRO sessions and the David and the Dorks show. Croz may not be as big as some of the other 1971 releases getting that treatment, but he just had a documentary so you’d think there’d be some commercial potential. Maybe the rights issues were too much, considering all the famous names involved.

I’ll also say the surround sound mix of this album is pretty good—the “airiness” of it enhances the mood, whereas surround mixes can often make older LPs sound a bit too separated, like listening to the components of a song rather than the final product. It’s quite a thing to hear those harmonies wash over you from all directions.

I haven't heard the David and the Dorks show -- okay, gotta grab that now.

Yeah, I actually adore the surround mix of IICORMN -- it helps that it was done by Stephen Barncard, who engineered the original sessions. And they included a mix of "Kids and Dogs" from the PERRO sessions. But you're right -- this really would be the year to do it given everything. Who knows? Maybe Nash's involvement in the record is part of the problem with getting things done now. One can still hope ...

Did anyone else realize that if you remove one letter and shuffle the words of the title "Music Is Love"... Crosby was predicting the name of this very board, not to come into existence until thirty years after his album came out?

Hate to break it to you but everybody's sayin' that.

Yes, he predicted the internet!

We used to listen to a kids song called “I Love Everything,” and one verse was “I love music, I love music…”

man, songs like that are soooooo fucking weird

it's like a style of childrearing where you try to keep the innocence and perfection going as long as possible while ignoring everything else

that song should be called I Want to Love Everything, but I have Already Heard About What Is Happening

It was used in a music class for babies and young toddlers; each verse deals with something very basic they know and (presumably) love.

but they could maybe throw in a verse about how sometimes the diapers get dirty, and that's normal

not just innocence and perfection but forced jubilation