David Crosby forced to sell his song catalog: ‘It’s my only option… streaming stole my record money.’

Music Business Worldwide ^ | Dec 07 2020 | Tim Ingham

[OrangeHoof]

"streaming stole my record money.”

Nah, couldn't be the drugs. No, of course not.

[Falconspeed]

“it’s my only option.” Proof that Crosby is not very bright. He had numerous options, such as Amazon who is offering a $3K signing bonus to work in a warehouse.

[SaxxonWoods]

“$20 a pop for a disk that cost them a few cents to make.”

Shocking ignorance.

[texas booster]

The drugs?

Already got a new liver for that - and paid for by another musician.

I wonder how many needy liver transplant patients he jumped over due to his celebrity.

[Terabitten]

These guys from the 60s, 70s, and 80s don’t understand that the idea of a ‘music star’ who could make millions and millions of dollars from their music is a historical aberration. There’s a reason the term is “starving artist.”

The days of musicians earning enough to be comfortable, much less becoming filthy rich, are over.

[Antoninus]

Has David Crosby done anything, and I mean anything for the last 20 years?

You mean aside from a lot of drugs?

[texas booster]

Something else that I didn't know:

David Van Cortlandt Crosby was born in Los Angeles, California, second son of Academy Award-winning cinematographer Floyd Crosby, who formerly worked on Wall Street, and Aliph Van Cortlandt Whitehead, a salesperson at Macy's department store. His father was a relative of the Van Rensselaer family, and his mother—granddaughter of Bishop of Pittsburgh Cortlandt Whitehead—descended from the prominent Van Cortlandt family; they "regularly inhabited the New York society pages before their wedding".

That's one way to join a band - pay for stuff so the talented members can't kick you out so easily.

[SaxxonWoods]

Claims and estimates of Crosby’s net worth on the net range from 100k to $40 million.

Most estimates are around $5-10 million.

Musicians are better than NFL players with their money, but that’s not saying much. Some do very well, some don’t.

One that I know said he made a lot of “good money” in music, hit records, publishing, etc., but made his “big money” in real estate.

[BlueMondaySkipper]

“ A mortgage, seriously?”

No kidding. The guy is like 100 and still owes money on his house? After all the cash he’s made over the years?

Sorry, but I don’t feel sorry for him one bit.

[Honest Nigerian]

Came here to see the nasty things people will say about this has-been klown.

[Betty Jane]

I know a man, a little older than Crosby who never made more than 35K a year at his job, who hit 3 million last year.

[webheart]

Actually it may have something to do with Joe Rogan and that is that they are jealous that Rogan gets a hundred million and these guys get bupkus. Personally I don’t care for spotify it is an irritant being installed on the school computers that the kids use. I just delete it every time I see it. It’s not on my phone or my computer. And I don’t have 3 hours a day to listen to boring Joe Rogan. And he is boring.

[bigbob]

I hope Stephen Stills has fared better, always thought he and Nash were the real talent of the group. Neil isn’t much of a player and sure can’t sing worth a damn, and I never quite figured out what Crosby did, except drugs.

[webheart]

I met him once. He seemed nice enough. His kid was playing with my kid at the 4th of July fireworks. They were about 3 or 4 years old. He autographed a piece of brown paper bag for me. My brother delivered a pizza to his house one time. Got invited in.

[Dave Wright]

The buried headline in the story is that hedge funds are buying the catalogs of soon to be departed old musicians because their old songs are way more popular with younger audiences than the auto-tuned, computer-generated clone music produced by current artists. Why do you think no one complained when they cancelled the Grammys?

[proust]

“That’s one way to join a band - pay for stuff so the talented members can’t kick you out so easily.”

When you go down the rabbit hole even further... Crosby was in the Byrds. Mr. Tambourine Man was their number one hit and they didn’t play the instruments on it. Phil Spector’s Wrecking Crew did. It was all a scam. By the time the Monkees were manufactured they didn’t even bother pretending any more.

[rdcbn1]

The truth of the matter is that Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young music has very little commercial value at this point. Perhaps there may be a market for 75 million listens at $300K, but that market drops off rapidly if you start charging anymore money. Sure, I'm willing to listen to Southern Cross if it's on a playlist for next to nothing, but I wouldn't go out of my way chase the song down and I certainly would not pay to hear it. These songs are 50 years old and they just are not that popular anymore, despite what the singers overblown egos think. .

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

David Crosby Calls Former Bandmate Neil Young ‘Probably the Most Selfish Person I Know’
By People Staff
September 03, 2021 12:18 AM
https://people.com/music/david-crosby-calls-former-bandmate-neil-young-the-most-selfish-person-i-know/

[flaglady47]

“The days of musicians earning enough to be comfortable, much less becoming filthy rich, are over.

Tell that to Garth Brooks, lol.