DAVID CROSBY, DEAD AT 81

TMZ.com ^ | 1/19/2022 | TMZ

[11th_VA]

Well I hope Neil Young will remember

Post of the day !!!

[proust]

What should be done about those day jobbers who lack the talent of a David Van Cortland Crosby?

[daler]

My favorite as well.

[Celtic Conservative]

While I respected his talent, it's also inportant to remember he's one of the few 60's musicians to get kicked out of a band for doing too much drugs.

CC

[Celtic Conservative]

Not true. If you have the $$$, the Canadian healthcare system is just peachy. It’s the proles who have the problems.

CC

[boxlunch]

Lol awesome post

[MV=PY]

Agreed. I looked up the songs he wrote trying to figure out why everyone thought he was so great.

[SaveFerris]

Thank you!

😂

[SaveFerris]

Thank you!

[Rummyfan]

He didn’t have a title for it but he handed it to his producer and said, “here’s a song for what it’s worth.” The rest is R&R history.

True? LOL! Quite an anecdote.

[knarf]

Please enlighten me . . . .

What is this filth thou speakest ?

[glennaro]

Many thanks for posting the link, a truly fine live performance of an incredible song. Cheers!

[wardaddy]

Without a doubt the crown prince of the whole Woodstock era

He loved it and wrote lyrics describing that

Long Time Gone was quite the anthem describing the whole counter culture I grew up with and we all knew he was speaking to us

A difficult fellow to begin with like so many creative folks are but even worse

His life always seemed to me to have spiraled after his longtime paramour Christine Hinton was killed in 1969 shortly after Woodstock

Talented but very flawed RIP

I related to him once no question of that but I grew beyond that yet he struggled with the passing of his era

An era he figured in as I said arguably the crown prince of buckskin fringe and long hair with his unusual voice

His solo album if only I could remember my name is worthy

[HandyDandy]

Picked that up in “Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon” by David McGowan.

[Mr. Mojo]

Agree that Long Time Gone defined the era as well or better as any other number. Crosby seemed stuck there like so many others, and as time marched on he increasingly had trouble dealing with reality. Tortured soul.

I can’t recall hearing his solo album. Will check it out.

[Pelham]

Crosby said that this is the first good song that he ever wrote, back when he was in the Byrds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7Uh8933Jvs

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

My immediate thought. I just watched a biography on Stills and he literally wrote all the good stuff. The other guys just came along for the ride.