{"id":10211,"date":"2023-01-24T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=10211"},"modified":"2023-05-10T08:11:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T12:11:21","slug":"david-crosby-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=10211","title":{"rendered":"David Crosby, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Truthfully, though I loved the CSN and CSNY music, I never paid too much attention to the personalities behind it, I never traced their peregrinations from one band to another, their spouses and romantic partners, their breakups and reunions, their drug busts and recoveries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This state of unknowingness lasted until a spate of movies came out in the last decade or so about these personalities. Yes, I\u2019d seen the concert film where Neil Young talks about his near-death experience with a cerebral aneurysm. (I think that was the film Heart of Gold<\/em>), but in general, I didn\u2019t know about Big Pink, the Laurel Canyon scene\u2014you name it. These were documentaries that benefited from compelling on-screen interviews of interesting subjects and extensive archival footage. And, by resurrecting the music, they drew on their audience members\u2019 deep well of musical nostalgia.That I certainly do have, in abundance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two of the CSNY documentaries were especially memorable. David Crosby: Remember My Name<\/a><\/em> by AJ Eaton focuses on the eponymous musician. In the film, Crosby said he was 76 years old, had eight stents in his heart, and numerous other serious medical problems. As to the repeated breakups and reunions of the group, in interviews by Cameron Crowe, he didn\u2019t spare himself or hide his regrets, especially the time he wasted as a junkie. Time, he said, is the ultimate currency: \u201cBe careful how you spend it.\u201d If you want to see Joni Mitchell and her contribution to the group, this is the documentary to see. Available for streaming on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Echo in the Canyon<\/a><\/em> is Andrew Slater\u2019s documentary about the brief years in the mid-1960s when Laurel Canyon was home to an astonishing number of California-based rockers. Jakob Dylan is the interviewer. Again, David Crosby fesses up. The Byrds booted him not for \u201ccreative differences,\u201d the euphemism of the time, but \u201cI was kicked out because I was a \u2018glass-bowl.\u2019\u201dHaving seen these two films, I\u2019d agree with that, at least in those years. Still, there’s the music . . . Available for streaming on YouTube<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a heartfelt tribute to Crosby, Washington Post<\/em> staff writer Pamela Constable explores her unexpected sadness at his death last week. She says, it \u201cfeels to me like the death of harmony in a new age of rage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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