David Crosby of CS&N Died Today (1 Viewer)

[Saintman2884]

Wooden Ships
Deja Vu
Long Time Gone
Eight Miles High
Guinnevere
Almost Cut My Hair

Great songwriter and his vocals were perfect.

You do know Wooden Ships was originally written and recorded by the Jefferson Airplane on their 1969 album, Volunteers?

 

[Saintman2884]

Dude smoked cocaine before smoking cocaine was cool.

Well, it almost got him killed. It hurt and damaged his musical and professional relationships with Stills, Nash, and even Young, who at times, threatened Crosby physically in the studio due to him deliberately stopping live, in-studio recordings of songs to pick up his cocaine pipe, or snort cocaine. It got him into legal trouble in the 1980's when he was arrested multiple times for DUI's, drunken and disorderly behavior, along with a girlfriend.

If you've read some of the same stories I have about how scary and intimidating, and frankly more of an butt crevasse Crosby could ever be, of a person Neil Young could be to fellow bandmates in Crazy Horse and in CSNY, I wouldn't want him pissed at me because I get the impression he could be a very dangerous, unpleasant person to be around. Very nasty type of person, too, Ive heard and not afraid of what most people think of his past actions.

 

[longtime lurker]

So sad….gonna listen to a few Crosby tunes tonight in his honor.

 

[superchuck500]

You do know Wooden Ships was originally written and recorded by the Jefferson Airplane on their 1969 album, Volunteers?

I don’t know that because it isn’t accurate. Crosby wrote the music and Stills and Paul Kanter (J. Airplane) wrote the lyrics. CSN recorded it first, two months before Airplane did.

The CSN eponymous album it was on was released six months before Volunteers.

 

[ChrisinNOLA]

R.I.P.

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[Saintman2884]

I don’t know that because it isn’t accurate. Crosby wrote the music and Stills and Paul Kanter (J. Airplane) wrote the lyrics. CSN recorded it first, two months before Airplane did.

The CSN eponymous album it was on was released six months before Volunteers.

Funny, it seems strange how more people tend to like Airplane's version then CSN original. Then again, its not uncommon for artists, bands, musicians recording cover versions of songs that ultimately become well-known, popular then the originals. Good examples are Whitney Houston's cover of Dolly Parton's, "I Will Always Love You", Johnny Cash's cover of NIN's " Hurt", Joe Cocker pumping up the steroids, speed and adrenaline for Beatles "With a little Help From my Friends".

I know the main three-power-chord guitar riff that starts the song, " Black Sabbath", was outlawed and banned in the Middle Ages by the Church because it was heretical and deemed to be a melody that could summoned Satan at witches' sabbaths, it was nicknamed, "The Devil's Third".

 

[sfidc3]

Stephen Stills grew up in a military family, and one of the places they lived while Stephen was growing up was Covington, La.. true story.. He then later attended LSU, though did not graduate .

Yup, I had a friend in college that was neighbors with Stills, didn't know him that well, but was always friendly....

DC was one of the all time greats for sure. When I was a FR at LSU, my friend and I were coming back from playing pickup football on one of the fields by the Assembly Center....I think CSN were playing there that night but regardless, we walked past this big tour bus, all but one window had drapes, we peeked in....Crosby and a few others were sitting in the bus with huge lines of blow and porn on the TV.....I'll never forget that.....

 

[saintmdterps]

Damn. Southern Cross was one of my breakup/rally songs back in the day. Wasted on the Way was another great one. Simple lyrics.

“Time we have wasted on the way”

Indeed, my friends

 

[superchuck500]

Damn. Southern Cross was one of my breakup/rally songs back in the day. Wasted on the Way was another great one. Simple lyrics.

“Time we have wasted on the way”

Indeed, my friends

Wasted on the Way is one that I actually remember from the radio as a kid. Graham Nash wrote that one and it features harmonies from Timothy B Schmit (late Eagles, “I Can’t Tell You Why” fame).

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Wasted on the Way is one that I actually remember from the radio as a kid. Graham Nash wrote that one and it features harmonies from Timothy B Schmit (late Eagles, “I Can’t Tell You Why” fame).

Yeah Wasted on the Way and Southern Cross were both released in 1982 and i remember both getting lots of radio play, before i was old enough to understand the lyrics.. and those songs (and that timing) is probably why i first knew them as Crosby Stills & Nash, and only years later was surprised to learn they had once been Crosby Stills Nash and Young, and that Neil Young had been a part of the group .

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

As with all things in life- it all comes back to the words of Kenny Loggins .


And fwiw, i agree with him- the 60s officially died this week with the passing of David Crosby .




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[Eeyore]

 

[Saintman2884]

As with all things in life- it all comes back to the words of Kenny Loggins .


And fwiw, i agree with him- the 60s officially died this week with the passing of David Crosby .




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If David Crosby really was the embodiement of Billy of Easy Rider, then lets also ask the uncomfortable, uneasy rhetorical question Peter Fonda's character told Hopper's after their nice, trippy Mardi Gras inspired-graveyard LSD excursion, they were on the road again after leaving New Orleans and Fonda tells Hopper: "We blew it". If there is a more poignant, definitive, honest cinematic assessment of the late 60's counterculture, doing a critical analysis of their own successes, failures and shortcomings and its ambitions, that statement kind of sums it up and Peter Fonda never backed down from his character's assessment of his generation's coming up short, he stayed resilient to the day he died.

I think the true first figurative nails in the coffin of the spirit of the 60's died, if not most of them, occured when John Lennon was shot and killed outside the Dakota apartment building in December 1980 by a deranged, paranoid schizophrenic who believed he was a hypocrite, fueled by an extreme obsessive, narrow-minded interpretation of A Catcher in the Rye.