SecondMany rock musicians were surprised that they could survive the 1960s, especially the 1970s. This is especially true for David Crosby. Even more amazing is that it survived in the 1980s. Around 1985, Crosby was at the bottom. Wanted for drug crimes in several states in the United States, he surrendered to the authorities in Florida. Like his girlfriend Jan Daze, he is also physically disabled: as recorded in a clinic report at the beginning of his autobiography.
When other rock stars were briefly imprisoned once, Crosby spent more than a year in it. This also helps to detoxify: hard withdrawal in barren single cells. According to his report, in 1987, he was invited to talk with privileged students at Beverly Hills High School. There is a warning: He also had a privileged background, but he still crashed. One of the students asked Crosby if he had ever been on stage due to drug use. “The musician’s answer was probably a little dazed: “I did everything. “
The transition from folk to rock
There is still some childish pride among the rebels, although it may be life-threatening, but still in this sentence. This is reflected in songs such as “Eight Miles High” (1966), which Crosby co-wrote with his first band, The Byrds, and in 1970 he wrote for his band Crosby The provocative “Almost Cut My Hair”, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY) and it first became a hymn of counterculture, and later sealed its museumization.
In groups and solo performances, David Crosby helped shape the transition from folk music to rock and maintained the fluidity of the borders. Tipping moment (“traction in the rain”).
The 80s are not for you in music either: their idea of ”modern” studio sound and the use of synthesizers is a disaster for groups like CSNY. On the other hand, you must be grateful for improved amplification and recording techniques, for example, to finally play and capture the live recording of “Wooden Boat”, the band will never succeed in playing the same power at Woodstock 20 years later. Therefore, if you are looking for the epitome of Crosby’s rock art, listen to the pirated recording of “King Biscuit Flower Hour” in 1989: Wooden boats have never sounded so beautiful.
No one lives long enough
Since then, Crosby has regained his footing on the slippery road of life and career, but has repeatedly faltered, especially because of liver transplants.With old partners Stephen Steels, Graham Nash and Neil Young It belongs to it like every big band-although unfortunately, this musical style will never last from the important era of the early seventies. David Crosby also tried to revive her craftsmanship through the CPR project, collaborating with guitarist Jeff Pevar and his own son James Raymond. Between avant-garde rock and jazz, the trio recorded albums such as “Just like Gravity” (2001), and the result sometimes sounded like some soulless show music.
