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

So is the CSN (1977) worth resurrecting? It had "Wasted on the Way" but I didn't know it went 4x platinum; I guess it would've hit #1 if something called Rumours hadn't interfered. I know "Dark Star."

Yes it’s their best album

“Just a song before I go”, “shadow captain”, and yes “dark star”

“Cathedral” is something else too, re cros on that album

Oops, sorry -- I meant "Just a Song..."

xp sorry I’m stoned, “cathedral” is nash

lol Croz would approve, I think

R.I.P. He was absolutely right about Phoebe Bridgers.

"Dark Star" is among my top three CSN songs.

xp - absolutely not, his treatment of Bridgers was a good reminder that, nah, he really was still a huge fucking asshole and misogynist

FWIW, the Washington Post published a story on the confusion over whether he died:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/01/20/david-crosby-obituaries-variety-confusion/

An excerpt:

The first apparent news about Crosby came at 3:15 p.m. Eastern time. It was a one-paragraph statement attributed to Crosby’s wife, Jan Dance, disseminated via a news-release wire called NewsDirect. It carried the headline, “Legendary Musician, Husband, Father, and Friend David Crosby passes away.”

Reporters typically rely on close family members, associates of the deceased or law enforcement officials to corroborate a death. But it wasn’t clear who had written Dance’s statement; when reporters sought to verify its source, listed by NewsDirect as “J. Bickerton,” their emails bounced back. They were also unable to reach Dance.

Just before 5 p.m., Variety, the entertainment industry journal, confirmed Crosby’s death via two sources that it didn’t identify. It published a lengthy obituary that included Dance’s statement...About 90 minutes after Variety published its initial report, however, it added a seemingly ominous “clarification” to the bottom of its lengthy story: “An earlier version of this story included a statement attributed to Jan Crosby that Variety has not been able to independently confirm with others in Crosby’s camp.”

The clarification raised the possibility that Dance’s statement might be a fabrication, and news reports that relied on it might be wrong.

Unable to reach family members and lacking further confirmation, some news organizations, including The Washington Post, withheld their Crosby stories.

The New York Times finally published the news around 7 p.m., more than two hours after Variety’s story. The Times relied on an unusual source for confirmation — Patricia Dance, the sister of Crosby’s wife. The Times reported that Patricia Dance had said via text that Crosby had died “last night” but that she “provided no other details.”

Minutes later, the Associated Press, which provides news to thousands of other news organizations, conspicuously hedged. The wire service published an updated obituary that attributed the news — originally sourced to Crosby’s wife — to reporting by “several media outlets,” including the Times.

It added: “The Associated Press was not able to confirm Crosby’s death despite calls and messages to multiple representatives and Crosby’s widow.”

After the Times published its story Thursday night, a Post reporter reached Crosby’s sister-in-law. She declined to confirm the death.

The Post’s news story appeared online at 8:37 p.m., nearly four hours after Variety had reported the story. The newspaper’s obituary editor, Adam Bernstein, had finally reached a former publicist for Crosby, who cited family members in confirming the news.

The Wall Street Journal published its story more than three hours later. It cited “people close to Mr. Crosby,” and detailed the complications involved in pinning down corroboration.

As of Friday afternoon, it was still not clear that any news organization had reached Crosby’s wife to confirm his death.

Saw this newish track mentioned in STErlewine's newsletter, never heard of it before. It's a co-write with Donald Fagen, and very nice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s4g9PhYthU

so weird. “J Bickerton” is one of those names that just sounds fake.

Sounds perfectly cromulent to me.

i think i'm just immediately thinking J Peterman

From Mark Wakefield on Facebook:

So sad to read of David Crosby's death. We lived in Summit, New Jersey in the 80's. One day I was driving down the main street in town and saw Crosby standing on the sidewalk. I pulled over to go back and tell him I was a huge fan, only to see him jump in a car and drive off. Turns out he was in Summit on a court-mandated stay at the drug treatment hospital in town. The next day it was reported he had escaped from the treatment center the day before. I figure I was the last one in town to see him before he went on the lam. My near brush with greatness!

more on his leaving that nj treatment center:

https://waynerobins49.substack.com/p/watching-david-crosby-relapse?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=361300&post_id=97965673&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

hmm if that link doesn't work try this one:

https://waynerobins49.substack.com/p/watching-david-crosby-relapse

It worked for me. Great read, and yes he made the right call. Crosby paid it forward - he helped others clean up including Grace Slick in the late '90s (which may or may not be news, but it was in her statement after Crosby died).

^pvmic
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wow that link is heartbreaking, speaking as a recovering addict I have had exactly that same embarrassed, confused, tearful breakdown after using and trying to go right back to normal life

I would love to read more about the paying it forward part if anyone's got other links, that he did that also shows a good grasp of recovery

At their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, he let Byrd Michael Clarke know that he would support his rehab if he wanted to go, but Clarke demurred.

Ugh

FWIW, this is Grace Slick's post:

"25 years ago, David took me to rehab and saved my life - I wish I could have saved his this time. I will miss his humor, his intelligence, and his deep body of work." -Grace Slick

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnngRlqI1kn/?hl=en

FWIW, the Washington Post published a story on the confusion over whether he died:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/01/20/david-crosby-obituaries-variety-confusion🕸/

It's all so weird, why did Yahoo Finance or whoever run the story in the first place, and how did the story even get to them, well before all the usual suspects?

BTW Josh, you’re right, that “Long Time Gone” with Tom Jones and Stills wailing and banging the fuck out of an organ is completely wild.

Totally wild. Maybe even totally wired.

xxp I asked my buddy who works at Yahoo!; he agreed it was super weird.

it's the wild west over at !Finance though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpkELuj6kn4
is the same set that was p0layed on BBC4 last night so may be up in pristine form on i-player.
Crosby's sense of humour appears to be an acquired taste

it's the wild west over at !Finance though

Almost a "Cowboy Movie"

croz marathon this morning. started off with if i could only remember and continuing with the nash collaboration albums. if one wanted to compile a "second" croz solo lp from the early 70s, you probably could with his cuts from various places from 72-76. it wouldn't be anywhere near as sprawling and airy as name, but certainly would scratch that itch. "where will i be?"—>"page 43" is about as alltime as it gets. also: songs about whales. nice. i may make a playlist.

Some of his 2010s work is pretty good too

I am now regretting not checking out those Crosby-Nash records when they were like $2

they're okay. first one's the best and it's on streaming. you're not missing much, but the live ones are fun (+both have "lee shore" in vastly different versions; cool croz nerdery).

sry to butt in. i don't remember if i kept mine. i mean, they're okay and there's tons of copies out there. i hope people aren't gouging, yeesh.

well to be fair, they were $2 like 15 years ago, no gouging sighted as of yet

It's all so weird, why did Yahoo Finance or whoever run the story in the first place, and how did the story even get to them, well before all the usual suspects?

Usual suspects then scrambled to confirm the provenance of the press release as no one trusted that newsdirect.com was a site that had guards against being spoofed.

Sorry - didn't realise much of that was in the Post article already linked. But yeah, Yahoo Finance is used to churning out press releases from sites like newsdirect, which are usually things like company finance announcements.

I am now regretting not checking out those Crosby-Nash records when they were like $2

I get a sharp stabbing pain every time my thoughts turn in this direction.

It seems Crosby was working on a new record and was actually rehearsing the material the week before he died: https://www.nme.com/news/music/david-crosby-was-working-on-a-new-album-when-he-died-3385083

I try not to think about how much records used to cost--that's a whole thread topic in itself

for clemenza - the definition of a schooner is a sailboat with two masts, where the one in the back is taller than the one in the front.

Distinct from a ketch or yawl (other two-masted sailboats, distinguished from one another by the relative size and position of the masts).

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nGIDa0Axz_cKWr05Ev-9X7VG_xqk49EDA&feature=share

I feel a contemporary vibe here

https://www.instagram.com/p/CtCAa4CAdsX/

Trane’s relentless pursuit of musical transcendence was legendary and inspirational.

Don’t be satisfied with where you are at now and keep pushing for that next level!

lol okay!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CtCAa4CAdsX🕸/

Thanks for the rec!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yer5Zoax-7g

Great sounding Perro sesh