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Taylor1
How many years was he in jail.
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northof49
The title track from his latest album, Joni Mitchell's "For Free" with Sarah Jarosz on harmony vocals, pretty nice effort. Has a great voice for an 80 yr old.
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daspyknows
Surprised he is still alive. He was touring because he needed the dough.
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Hairball
If it wasn't for the liver transplant he underwent, he would have been gone years ago:
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"In 1994, his doctor informed him that he had a fatal medical situation: At some point, Crosby had contracted Hepatitis C. As WebMD describes it, the virus is transmitted "through contact with the blood or body fluids of an infected person." Crosby's liver was nearly done. He needed a transplant. There's some controversy out there — transplant candidates often wait inordinate periods before an organ that's a match becomes available. Did he go to the top of the list because he's, well, David Crosby? What about his significant history of substance abuse? That usually kicks ordinary mortals down a few rungs. It's one of those mysteries, but what isn't a mystery is who paid for it: Phil Collins of Genesis. Crosby's take is fairly simple: Collins "loves me. That's the only way you can read it. And I think it was incredibly kind of him to do it."'
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24FPS
Doesn't he come from money? He started life on third base, and somehow he screwed it up. I just hope he has enough dough to not suffer his last years.
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Javadave
As far as his liver transplant, he describes how he intentionally moved to a state with no helmet law for motorcyclists, in his case, Montana. Apparently the death rates from accidents are significantly higher in states with no helmet laws, and your chances of getting an organ donor are much more likely.
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timmyj3
Talented but very troubled person. Chris Hillman's books shed a bit of light on him. How he described young David in the Byrds era sounded like undiagnosed mental illness, which back then wasn't even remotely considered a big deal.
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TheGreek
To draw an analogy , if a tree falls in the woods will anyone hear it ?
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GasLightStreet
If David Crosby is smart he'll make the $100-200 million work. Even after taxes it's a lot of money.
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GasLightStreet
If David Crosby is smart he'll make the $100-200 million work. Even after taxes it's a lot of money.
From what? He didn't write the famous Byrds or CSNY songs? What? Almost Cut My Hair? Guinevere? Deja Vu? He has a third of the Byrds Eight Miles High. His CSNY songs were not hits. He must get an inordinate amount of songwriting royalties from the albums because they were such big sellers from the other's songs. (Thanks Stephen, Graham, Neil and Joni!) Except for Eight Miles High I don't think he was ever a songwriter of any hit singles.
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GasLightStreet
If David Crosby is smart he'll make the $100-200 million work. Even after taxes it's a lot of money.
From what? He didn't write the famous Byrds or CSNY songs? What? Almost Cut My Hair? Guinevere? Deja Vu? He has a third of the Byrds Eight Miles High. His CSNY songs were not hits. He must get an inordinate amount of songwriting royalties from the albums because they were such big sellers from the other's songs. (Thanks Stephen, Graham, Neil and Joni!) Except for Eight Miles High I don't think he was ever a songwriter of any hit singles.
True. He's never written a hit song. The closest he's ever come to the Billboard Top 40 was "Carry Me," a song from a 1975 Crosby-Nash album that peaked at #52. "Hero," a song he co-wrote with Phil Collins in the early 90s, was actually a very big hit in Canada, but only reached #44 on the US chart.