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keefriffhard4life
crosby has been on a roll the last few years with great albums
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noughties
The song from 1982 that Jackson Browne persuaded him to finish because it was so good, was really so-so, and could stand as the evening`s least common denominator.
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keefriffhard4life
crosby has been on a roll the last few years with great albums
Yes, he certainly seems to be outdoing many of his contempories in terms of output and quality.His albums aren't huge sellers of course...but does that really matter?
He doesn't need the others (SNY).
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keefriffhard4life
crosby has been on a roll the last few years with great albums
Yes, he certainly seems to be outdoing many of his contempories in terms of output and quality.His albums aren't huge sellers of course...but does that really matter?
He doesn't need the others (SNY).
What's interesting about this is that during the years when he was writing his best songs, roughly 1968 to 1975, he wasn't particularly prolific, but he sure is cranking them out now. It's the opposite of what usually takes place. You'd think that as people see the end nearing, they'd want to get as much of their stuff down on tape as possible, but this is rarely the case. If anything, artists in their 60s and 70s have longer and longer periods of inactivity between albums. I guess there's many factors at play here, among them the issue of Why bother writing and recording new music when no one is going to buy it or want to hear it played live?
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Hairball
I recommend his book from 1988 Long Time Gone: The Autobiography of David Crosby - haven't read it since then, but it left an impression.
From his lifelong love of sailing, growing up in L.A. and Santa Barbara, hitting the bottom of the barrel of heavy drug addiction, to his recovery (and lots of rock and roll)...somehow he survived.
Long Time Gone: The Autobiography of David Crosby
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tatters
Croz has always been a jazzer. You can hear it as far back as this 1964 demo of "Everybody's Been Burned."
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When I first got into CSNY, sometime in the late 1970s, Neil was my favorite and David was my least favorite. I think I can now say that the exact opposite is true. Not sure why that is. Maybe Neil spoke to me as an angry, young, girlfriend-less "loner" while David's is the music of a somewhat wistful, but more or less contented and domesticated middle age. I'm seeing him in November, my first time seeing him play a solo concert since 1981 and the first time seeing him in any capacity at all since 2004. I'm a little disappointed by his current setlist, about two-thirds of which consists of songs taken from the C & N, CSN, and CSNY catalog. I was hoping he'd dig a little deeper into his solo material, but I guess he knows what works and what people want to hear. The fact that he's even still alive, much less performing, at the age of 77 is remarkable, and I feel very fortunate that I'll be getting the chance to see him and say "thank you" one last time.
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noughties
The song from 1982 that Jackson Browne persuaded him to finish because it was so good, was really so-so, and could stand as the evening`s least common denominator.
Sounds like you're talking about "Delta" from the CSN album Daylight Again. This was written during the depths of Crosby's days on the crack pipe, and was the first song he'd completed in several years. He played it at the 1981 solo club gig I attended, more than a year before it was released.
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tatters
Croz has always been a jazzer. You can hear it as far back as this 1964 demo of "Everybody's Been Burned."
[www.youtube.com]
When I first got into CSNY, sometime in the late 1970s, Neil was my favorite and David was my least favorite. I think I can now say that the exact opposite is true. Not sure why that is. Maybe Neil spoke to me as an angry, young, girlfriend-less "loner" while David's is the music of a somewhat wistful, but more or less contented and domesticated middle age. I'm seeing him in November, my first time seeing him play a solo concert since 1981 and the first time seeing him in any capacity at all since 2004. I'm a little disappointed by his current setlist, about two-thirds of which consists of songs taken from the C & N, CSN, and CSNY catalog. I was hoping he'd dig a little deeper into his solo material, but I guess he knows what works and what people want to hear. The fact that he's even still alive, much less performing, at the age of 77 is remarkable, and I feel very fortunate that I'll be getting the chance to see him and say "thank you" one last time.