OT: RIP David Crosby

Good grief, 2023 has started with a lot of celebrity deaths.

Awesome vocalist.  Among his many achievements, he taught the Grateful Dead how to harmonize.

Dude had nine lives and then some. What a voice. 

Growing up in the I was influenced by Sabbath, Zeppelin, and the Beatles. I was born in '92, and my dad made sure to keep me hip to the classics. I grew to enjoy music enough to pick up a guitar and through a series of God-wink moments I befriended a bass player who used to play semi-frequently at the Grande Ballroom in the late '60's with his high school band. He became, and still is, my music mentor who tells me all sorts of stories of the past. It's incredible to listen to what the music scene was like in his teen and young adult years.

In what has become an almost routine circle of conversation when asked about his influences and yesteryear, we humbly land on The Byrds.

We will talk tonight. I'll grab a guitar and pluck away quietly while getting lost in his stories that he's going to tell me. That's music, man. That's what it's all about. It's the catalyst for our souls to communicate to eachother.

Rock and Roll never dies.

It ate Stills and Nash before they could shout. 
And then it chewed on David Crosby but it spit him out!

Maybe we should celebrate these guys more when they're alive?

He lived nearly 30 years status post liver transplantation, amazing unto itself. RIP

RIP to a legend

As I mentioned in the Jeff Beck post, go see these guys while you still can...

With that in mind, just picked up tix today to see Ringo and his All Starrs again... while I still can...

RIP David - your music has and will continue to fill a lot of souls...

Damn. Amazing he lived that long. 

Very, very, sad

He had a couple years on Keith Richards, so we'll have to wait to see who ends up cheating death longer.

Suite Judy Blue eyes….Dad introduced me to CSN&Y.  Will miss his artistry. 

I saw CSN twice once with CSNY

Honestly, probably the best concerts I've been to

When I left the Army I splurged and bought tickets for my brothers, father and uncle to see CSNY in Chicago.  Neil Young broke every guitar string on the last song.

They were amazing live, much better than the album.  Saw them in Colorado at a small venue, which made even more special.

this sucks

Just A Song Before I Go

A Lesson to be Learned 

Traveling Twice the Speed of Sound

It’s Easy to Get Burned

—RIP David Crosby 

Who could ever forget CSN at Woodstock in the summer of 1969.

Almost Cut My Hair

Guinnevere

All Along the Lee Shore

Wooden Ships (link - playing live with Jason Isbell)

RIP....

It's been a long time comin'

It's going to be a long time gone

But his mustache will live forever

Shame on me for my first thought being about him and Melissa Etheridge and not about his music

RIP David

Ugh. So many will start to fall now that they're in their late 70's and early 80's. It was tough when David Bowie died, and it's going to be tough when Mick and Keith and Pete and Roger die. And Paul and Ringo. RIP. 

True story… a buddy of mine met David Crosby and, for lack of a better thing to say (anything), told him “I’m glad you got a new liver”.  Crosby just laughed and said me too

I thought he died years ago

I don't know who wrote it, but Sound of Silence is a hauntingly beautiful song, sung to perfection.  And when Disturbed covered it with a heavy metal beat, Crosby (and one other, I think Nash) reached out to them and congratulated them on a fantastic cover.  And it was - I might like it better than the original...

RIP, Dave...

EDIT:  GAH!!!  I'm an idiot.  Sound of Silence was Simon and Garfunkel, not CSN&Y.  I had just heard the song on the James Corden Show and had it on the mind.  My bad...

Pure legend.  Used up every single second of his life.

70’s rock was the best. What happened?

Still not cutting my hair…..