RIP David Crosby

David Crosby has passed away at 81.

I'm astonished he made it so long, given all the drugs he did for so many years.

I think he even had a liver transplant.

Probably what gave him that last 20 years or so.

RIP C of CSNY.

His late 60's/early 70's song Guinnevere was one of the songs that made me want to take up the guitar.

I envy people with really good singing voices.

I think the first CSN song I ever heard was Suite Judy Blue Eyes.

Don't remember where I was or what I was doing, though.

Probably in my bedroom listening to the King Biscuit Flour Hour on my Toshiba transistor radio (which I still have) possibly actually IN bed after lights out, which is something I used to do a lot.

Anyway, I know I liked them better when they became CSN&Y.

The album Four Way Street and songs like Ohio and Chicago were a bit of a departure for them and seemed to mark the point where they started becoming political.

I think that was when I really started getting interested in them.

Thor wrote: Jimbo wrote: The album Four Way Street and songs like Ohio and Chicago were a bit of a departure for them and seemed to mark the point where they started becoming political. Then there was his collaborstion with Nash, which produced Immigration Man. Lotsa artists put out at least some political stuff back then. Even the Beach Boys had their own "Ohio" song, Student Demonstration Time. In case you never heard it, it was done to the tune of Riot in Cell Block #9.

Yes, I was going to mention Immigration Man but since it wasn't on Four Way Street I didn't. But I've always loved that song.

As far as the story behind the writing of Ohio is concerned, Young and Crosby were living in a house together when news of the Kent State shootings broke. Reportedly, Young was so livid over it, he picked up his guitar, went out into some woods behind the house, and within under an hour, had the entire song written.

And the rest, as they say, is history.



Became the anthem of a generation.

When I was 15 or 16, I stole a bunch of albums from a department store named Bradlees. Among the albums was the first Crosby-Nash album, with Immigration Man. Other freebies included an Eric Clapton album, a live Mothers of Invention album, and I forget what else. I think maybe Hot Tuna and T Rex.

The decoy album that I actually paid for was Neon by The Cyrkle. I paid 69 cents for it.

That was it for me as far as stealing stuff. I guess I got it out of my system. 😐

Oh, another political song by Crosby et al was Wooden Ships. I prefer the Airplane version, though.

Young's dust-up with Joe Rogan last year made him seem so old.