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

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

babies

babies should be made to sing songs about the other sperms that didn't make it

"He Would Have Been My Brother Archibald"

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't think they've ever seen legit releases, but I wouldn't doubt there are some of those gray area releases.

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?

Pretty sure Neil has always disdained heroin.

Dallas Taylor maybe?

...or Bruce Berry.

Pretty sure Neil has always disdained heroin.

So …I am a fan of Elon’s …I think his efforts at getting the humans out into space are exemplary
But
We ordered our Tesla 7 months ago
They have lied to us 4 times about when we would get it
Lied
We are seriously looking at canceling the order and looking at a Porsche

— David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) August 18, 2021

Your old friend Neil has a Lincoln he'd like to sell you...

Lies! Lies!

A typically forthright interview with Crosby in The Guardian today:

“Neil has got a genuine beef,” he admits. “I did say something bad about his girlfriend [the actor Daryl Hannah, now Young’s wife]. I said I thought she was a predator. OK, he can be mad at me. That’s all right. Graham just changed from the guy I thought was my best friend to being a guy that is definitely my enemy, so I don’t see any future there at all.”

Crosby is not known for holding back. Having said he is partly to blame for Young’s alienation, I expect him to say something conciliatory. But he’s on a roll now. At least, he, Stills and Nash were roughly in agreement politically, he says. “I’m a very liberal guy and a modern thinker in terms of politics. Neil doesn’t really do politics. He does Neil.” What does that mean? “Well he’s probably the most self-centred, self-obsessed, selfish person I know. He only thinks about Neil, period. That’s the only person he’ll consider. Ever!” Would Young agree with that? “Probably. He knows himself pretty well.”

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/sep/02/david-crosby-on-love-music-and-rancour-neil-young-is-probably-the-most-selfish-person-i-know

Nope https://t.co/ATDjjD2KmL

— David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) February 10, 2022

I think that was a follow up on this one:

No offense but …not a chance https://t.co/Le2u6fOYKB

— David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) February 9, 2022

Holding out hope that it's incorrect while waiting for additional info, but Yahoo is reporting that Croz passed away.

oh shit.