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.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 25 October 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
also lol I had never seen that Silent Night performance before, that shit was hilarious
― Οὖτις, Friday, 25 October 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
Brought a ringer into the studio to sing pic.twitter.com/D9o9wkMXPh— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) December 11, 2019
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 22:00 (four years ago) link
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...
― henry s, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
Good interview.
http://www.gq.com/story/david-crosby-coronavirus-touring-interview
― clemenza, Sunday, 15 March 2020 15:58 (four years ago) link
https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/10/david-crosby-backlash-eddie-van-halen-tweet/?new=true
― Garu’s Got a Rona (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 21:29 (three years ago) link
Cros gonna Cros.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 21:30 (three years ago) link
great twitter personality
― here comes the hotstamper (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 21:32 (three years ago) link
Would love to see Croz outlive all 70s/80s hard rockers
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 21:40 (three years ago) link
Cros gonna Cros.― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, October 13, 2020 2:30 PM
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, October 13, 2020 2:30 PM
*croz
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 22:01 (three years ago) link
Croz has always been a world class dik.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 22:03 (three years ago) link
Honestly it was relatively restrained for Croz to keep it to a simple "meh".
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link
amusing on twitter for sure, i ride for this albumbut a world class asshole whose honestly kinda begging to be #metooed at this point by keeping such a high profile
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 22:11 (three years ago) link
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
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:18 (three years ago) link
^^^
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
yeah that doesnt really seem wrong lol ... love evh tho
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:43 (three years ago) link
evh changed the guitar, absolutely he did it's absurd to say otherwisefucking die hippie
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:48 (three years ago) link
Before Eddie Van Halen a guitar was a bus
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 26 November 2020 22:37 (three years ago) link
lol that's awesome
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 26 November 2020 23:16 (three years ago) link
Looks like he remembered his name!
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 26 November 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
LOL What’s weird about it is that he clearly manages the vast majority of his own Twitter content.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 26 November 2020 23:49 (three years ago) link
and he's doing a great job
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 26 November 2020 23:49 (three years ago) link
tbf, it doesn't say theREALdavidcrosby
― nickn, Friday, 27 November 2020 00:28 (three years ago) link
Neil Young's secret Twitter account in the guise of David Crosby.
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 27 November 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
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 pioneerIt 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
― groovypanda, Monday, 22 February 2021 13:39 (three years ago) link
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!
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 13:41 (three years ago) link
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.
― blatherskite, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 14:01 (three years ago) link
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.
― blatherskite, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 14:04 (three years ago) link
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 ...
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 15:10 (three years ago) link
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?
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 6 June 2021 15:40 (two years ago) link
Hate to break it to you but everybody's sayin' that.
― Noel Emits, Sunday, 6 June 2021 15:48 (two years ago) link
Yes, he predicted the internet!
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 6 June 2021 15:59 (two years ago) link
We used to listen to a kids song called “I Love Everything,” and one verse was “I love music, I love music…”
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Sunday, 6 June 2021 16:42 (two years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 6 June 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link
that song should be called I Want to Love Everything, but I have Already Heard About What Is Happening
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 6 June 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
It was used in a music class for babies and young toddlers; each verse deals with something very basic they know and (presumably) love.
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Sunday, 6 June 2021 17:06 (two years ago) link
but they could maybe throw in a verse about how sometimes the diapers get dirty, and that's normal
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 6 June 2021 17:34 (two years ago) link
not just innocence and perfection but forced jubilation
― brimstead, Sunday, 6 June 2021 17:36 (two years ago) link
babies
― brimstead, Sunday, 6 June 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
babies should be made to sing songs about the other sperms that didn't make it
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 6 June 2021 17:43 (two years ago) link
"He Would Have Been My Brother Archibald"
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Sunday, 6 June 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
advanced infant songs, vol 2.
one in a hundred million / I said one in a hundred million! and i won't forget what my father's done...
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 6 June 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
So I was listening to the latest episode of the Deadcast and they were interviewing Steve Silberman, the writer who has been a good friend of Croz for many years, and he dropped that this is getting reissued in the fall with "extra material".
Maybe this was already announced somewhere, but it was news to me. Anxious to learn what the extra material ends up being.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
That David & the Dorks stuff teh live set and teh rehearsal covers some of teh sam ematerial with a smaller bunch of players. Crpz himself and 3 or 4 of the Dead. Has teh ever been officlly released yet. though I would assume most people who wanted a copy had it in some form by now.Delicious version of The Wall in it anyway.
Also PERRO directly interrelated and featured several of the same players as on the lp and on Baron Von tollbooth & The Chrome Nun among a few other things. Not sure what of that stuff has officially been released.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 20:23 (two years ago) link
I don't think any of that David & The Dorks stuff has been officially released, I wouldn't mind seeing a 3xCD thing with the original album, a Dorks live set and PERRO style outtakes. Seems like Croz is still friendly with the Dead crew and if Rhino reissues it they should be able to clear the rights, but who knows.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 22:16 (two years ago) link
I was asking about legitimately because i have come across cds of the live set and rehearsal coupled being advertised. But I wasn't sure how legit they were.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 11 August 2021 07:54 (two years ago) link
I don't think they've ever seen legit releases, but I wouldn't doubt there are some of those gray area releases.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 August 2021 15:59 (two years ago) link
In the doc he says a friend of his who shall remain nameless offered him a hit of heroin. Bets on who? My moneys on Neil. The doc also says that Niel offered Crosby time at his ranch to get straight…guilty conscience?
― calstars, Saturday, 14 August 2021 01:38 (two years ago) link
Pretty sure Neil has always disdained heroin.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 14 August 2021 02:18 (two years ago) link