{"id":8147,"date":"2019-08-22T06:56:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T10:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=8147"},"modified":"2019-10-21T08:02:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T12:02:40","slug":"david-crosby-remember-my-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=8147","title":{"rendered":"David Crosby: Remember My Name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This A J Eaton documentary (trailer<\/a>), released so\nclose in time to Echo in the Canyon<\/em><\/a>, covers some of the same ground and\npersonalities, but in a totally different way. Echo<\/em> is about the musician-heavy Laurel Canyon area in a brief\nperiod of the mid-sixties. This film, by contrast, examines one man\u2019s career\nand his musical and cultural influence over a lifetime, and it shares a fair\namount of that music with you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As to cultural influences, in a poignant coincidence, the\nfilm tells how Dennis Hopper modeled the character of Billy in the film Easy Rider<\/em> on Crosby. It was bittersweet\nseeing clips from the film so soon after its star Peter Fonda died (a young\nJack Nicholson too).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the documentary, David Crosby says he\u2019s 76 years old, has\neight stents in his heart, diabetes, a liver transplant\u2014in short, a load of\nhealth problems. \u201cHow is it you\u2019re still alive?\u201d he\u2019s asked, when so many\nothers are not. There\u2019s no answer to that, and he doesn\u2019t attempt one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet he\u2019s still making music, still releasing albums as\nrecently as last year. He\u2019s touring. His life is <\/em>music. It\u2019s too bad he shot himself in the foot so many times\nwith his band mates in the Byrds, and Crosby Stills Nash, with and without\nYoung. His behavior was terrible, but it was in Echo<\/em> that he said point-blank that Stills, Nash, and Young dumped\nhim \u201cbecause I was an a——.\u201d Subsequently, acrimony has repeatedly thwarted the\ngroup\u2019s attempts to reassemble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He doesn\u2019t spare himself or make excuses. What emerges from the\nmany hours of interviews with Cameron Crowe, who\u2019s known the musician for 45\nyears, is compelling viewing. Jon\nBream<\/a> in the Minneapolis Star Tribune<\/em>\nsays, \u201cRarely have we seen such an unvarnished, unflattering and revealingly\nreal portrait of a music star.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Echo<\/em> was dinged\nfor not including Joni Mitchell (she came later, the filmmakers said), but you\nsee plenty of her here. Crosby saw her perform in Florida and brought her to\nLos Angeles, but as with most of his relationships with women, theirs was\nfraught. He blames himself. In 1969, his girlfriend Christine Hinton was killed\nin an auto accident, and Graham Nash (if I remember correctly) said that after\nCrosby identified her body, he was never the same. Since 1987, he\u2019s been\nmarried to Jan Dance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked whether he has regrets, he admitted to big ones, mainly\nthe wasted decade as a junkie, which led to lost music and lost potential.\nTime, he says, is the ultimate currency. \u201cBe careful how you spend it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rotten\nTomatoes<\/a> critics\u2019 rating: 91%; audiences: 92%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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