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

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.

Literally only Yahoo Finance reporting it so far, so maybe a hoax. But I'm cautious after the whole Jeff Beck "it's a hoax", "nope it's real" thing.

that's odd, I follow him on Twitter and I noticed he was pretty active yesterday. so whatever it is would be pretty sudden!

Wikipedia already shows it. RIP? kind of a miracle he made it this long.

xp - what gives me pause is that the Yahoo thing says "after a long illness", but, who knows, maybe it was kept quiet.

when was the last time a celebrity death actually was a hoax? Steve from Blue's Clues? it sucks but this is something that's almost never misreported

It is odd. The Yahoo finance article is just a supposed message from his wife, but no mention of where the message came from.

Didn't Jeff Beck get reported as a hoax for a day, before it was actually confirmed?

Also, the "article" is aggregated from some place called "NewsDirect" which looks like some kind of self-publishing news service.

I tried searching mediacontact-J✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ (cited in the report) but I didn't come up with anything that looked credible...it's really strange, does Yahoo just regurgitate stuff like that without doing at least a little reporting?

But yeah, it kind of looks dubious...we'll see. As Josh mentioned, he tweeted a lot yesterday, albeit not today, so it would seem kind of sudden.

yeah, the contact for the source article is named J Bickerton. i imagine a lot of media outlets have been unsuccessfully emailing j bickerton over the last hour

xp

or I should say frogs, not Josh

Nash probably killed him.

Surprised it's still listed on wikipedia.

if i could only remember to vet my sources?

Yeah, maybe not dead. Or maybe dead! Crosby's Cat.

The confirmation will be an absolutely cranky as fuck tweet coming through later to blast everyone for believing bullshit rumors.

Variety is now reporting it.

Singer-songwriter-guitarist David Crosby, a founding member of two popular and enormously influential ’60s rock units, the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash (later Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), has died. He was 81 years old. https://t.co/s7sNXpN4Jn pic.twitter.com/y3tdH8Gkv8

— Variety (@Variety) January 19, 2023

J Bickerton at News Direct, all is forgiven?

tbf a lot of these celebrity death rumors do initially come from weird sources only to be confirmed by everyone else a few hours later

Probably because the AI behind NewsDirect or whatever has a lot less to lose by failing to vet.

RIP David Crosby

Wiki saying he isn't, the NME saying he is.

man rip. this album is really one of the more unique masterpieces out there

his wife released a statement to variety, feels like pretty rock solid confirmation

ahh man, i know my other post kinda flippant but i literally opened this up saying aloud, "NO NO NO NO NO"

Going by the documentary from two or three years ago, sad that he and Neil weren't able to patch things up (unless they did after the film came out).

shoot. one hell of a weirdo. rest well, croz.☮️

Oh, fuck me.

RIP. I loved lots of his work (thread subject especially) plus what an odd character to be pretty famous for my entire life

RIP. Not really a fan of much of anything I know post-Byrds but I love much of his material with the band (esp Mind Gardens can't lie)

RIP. Miraculous he made it this far tbh.

I discovered this LP through the "Can we talk about early-mid70s West Coast post-psych/pop/rock/folk-rock/country-rock?" thread eight years ago (geez, how could it be so long ago...), and it became one of those records I've recommended to anyone who mentions having an interest in '70s California vibes. "Laughing" is one of the most beautiful songs I've heard--that slide guitar! Bummed I never got to see him live.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D57SvLGXkAI4LTT?format=jpg&name=small

That was weird. Yahoo Finance pulled that story, but if Variety had direct contact with his wife, that's it then.

A shame. Love, LOVE the Byrds, and even though I remained skeptical of his later work, I saw his free show at Lincoln Center a few years ago and it far exceeded expectations. The highlight was when he got people to stand up and sing along to "Ohio," which he re-cast as a protest for the current times.

I had a bit of weird relationship with this guy. Growing up I always associated him with the absolute worst of boomer-era folk rock, just the epitome of what I hated in music from that era. In fact, I still don't connect with the pre-Y, CSN albums, and only backdoored my way into his work through the CSNY albums and, eventually getting deeper into The Byrds.

Eventually, by getting deeper into the Dead and Garcia's work, I discovered the album this thread is about and fell head over heels for it. Still my very favorite thing he's ever done. I did check out and like a few of his more recent albums too.

Of the three songs he wrote or co-wrote on the first CSN album, never liked "Guinnevere," but I think "Wooden Ships" and "Long Time Gone" are good; his two on Deja Vu, pretty good too, even if "Almost Cut My Hair" might be a little confusing today.

His final review:

I’d say that’s beautiful…..really fine https://t.co/eFZi2tFFMJ

— David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) January 16, 2023

Perfect!

rip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSDrYvbT9wc

Listening to this for the first time, finally. RIP

sweet little garcia / croz jam from the If I Could Only sessions ...

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

thanks for posting, love that one, a real revelation from the reissue that was new to me