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David Crosby, the singer, songwriter and guitarist who helped shape the sound of Sixties rock and beyond, died on Thursday at the age of 81.
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The RS obit seems to be behind a paywall. This one from Variety is pretty comprehensive.
A true giant of the era, it is remarkable that he made it to this age. -
One of the great harmonizers...if not the greatest.
Wind on the Water.Comment
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OMG!!!!
So sad to hear!
Saw him many many MANY times at Hollywood's Whiskey a Go Go from '64 to'mid-67, as one of the Byrds, as they became sort of the Whiskey's house band!
Wore a green velvet cape that became his trademark, as was his extra loud guitar playing.
As said above, his harmony singing was beautiful.
Saw CSN just once or twice, but in San Francisco!
Last saw him in the great Netflix doc "Echo in the Canyon", where he spoke with Dylan's son Jakob about the 60's!
Not on Netflix anymore,so I bought it for my Amazon video library!!
A true icon of rock and roll, will be greatly missed!
As for his making it to 81, same will be said about Keith Richards----both true survivors!!
R.I.P.Last edited by aaronk; 01-20-2023, 03:23 AM.Comment
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Keith Richards, the well known ex-boy sopranoOriginally posted by aaronk View Post
, and his primary school classmate and neighbour Mick Jagger, both turn 80 this year. Jagger in the middle of the year and Richards in December.
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I read the G. Nash book a while back. His favorite group member was Crosby and also the one he is angriest at if that makes sense. There was a lot of creative and personal tension within this foursome (including Young). That said I'm sure Nash is in mourning today.Comment
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George Santos just revealed Crosby is his biological father....
Crosby once referred to himself as the "sperm whale". Amazing voice, larger than life personality. Rest in PeaceComment
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The first of Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young) to go.
RIP
Wasn't he the sperm donor for Jodie Foster's baby?Comment
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I think he was the sperm donor for Melissa Etheridge. I have not heard any connection to Foster.Originally posted by Trickstat View Post
Saw him in concert back in 1977 with the rest of CSN. Good show, as I recall.Comment
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Crosby and Nash put out some great music as a duo including the Wind on the Water album.Originally posted by Adam$ View PostComment
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The group’s overnight renown and skyrocketing income — each man took home as much as $7 million in 1971 alone — helped cement rock as an industry, said David Browne, author of “Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock’s Greatest Supergroup.”
“For all the imitators who came in their wake, no one ever sounded quite like them, and on a good night, the combination of their voices remained peerless,” he wrote. “And just when you were ready to count them out, they somehow managed to unleash a song or performance that gave new meaning to the phrase ‘keep hope alive’ well into the current century.”
But, while they were known for their exquisite harmonies, CSNY was regularly torn apart by internal clashes.
“There was a lot of competition,” said Guillermo Giachetti, a longtime crew member. “There are many ways to light a stage, and they would disagree about that. They would get angry and start fighting if a song ended in a black-out or a white-out or a spotlight. If one had sex with twins, the other guy had to have sex with twins.”
An ever-present cornucopia of drugs didn’t help.
“I chased perpetual pleasure and got a full measure of pain as a payback,” Crosby wrote. “And always there was dope — the best grass, pharmaceutical cocaine in factory-sealed brown glass bottles, and psychedelics cooked in the lab of Owsley Stanley, the Master Chef himself, the man whose very name was synonymous with quality LSD.”
By 1982, Crosby’s addiction was in full flower. He was freebasing — smoking — cocaine, because snorting it had burned holes in his nasal septum. For years, he had been shooting heroin, partly to obliterate the painful memories of his girlfriend Christine Hinton dying in a 1969 car crash. Makeup artists plastered over the sores on his face, but his eyes were glazed and his performances muted.
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Should open a new topic, but yesterday I saw a tweet lamenting the loss of TWO rock icons in recent days---Crosby AND Jeff Beck, master rock & blues guitarist!
He died on January 10th!
Beck began with the Yardbirds, then had a small group and did solo stuff also!
Rated very close to Hendrix, Clapton et al
Two personal connections to Jeff!
He and I have the EXACT same birthdate--June 24, 1944--the only person I've ever known who matched my exact birthdate!!
Also, I saw the Yardbirds at Hollywood's Hullabaloo club on January 6, 1966.
I remember that date for two reasons--it was my last date with my first steady girlfriend--(She hated the music!)
Also, Beck did a wild thing with his guitar!
He strummed it, laid it on the stage, face up, then walked to his amps and twisted some dials, and the guitar went psychedelic!!
Really!!!
This was about a year and a half before Hendrix came out with his first album!!
Will miss this guy!
In honor of his death, I played my Best of Yardbirds album again---my fave song from them is Happenings Ten Years Time Ago!!Last edited by aaronk; 01-20-2023, 06:39 PM.Comment
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The Byrds played at my high school in 1965. Why did I not go??? Duh!Comment
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