David Crosby

At 82 years old, David Crosby has this physical status:

David Van Cortlandt Crosby (born August 14, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

He was a founding member of both the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash, and Nash as a whole. In 1964, Crosby joined the Byrds.

Bob Dylan's first number one hit in April 1965 with "Mr."

"Boat Woman" is a term that refers to Tambourine Man. Crosby appeared on the Byrds' first five albums and produced the original lineup's 1973 reunion album.

He appeared on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, which was instrumental in his expulsion from the Byrds.

He later joined Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1968 with Stephen Stills (of Buffalo Springfield) and Graham Nash of the Hollies.

CSN received the Grammy Award for Best New Artist of 1969 following the release of their debut album.

Neil Young joined the band for live appearances, Woodstock's second appearance, before releasing their second album Déjà Vu.

Crosby and Nash released three gold albums in the 1970s, in the intent of collaborating freely, although CSN's core trio stayed active from 1976 to 2016.

Every decade from the 1970s to the 2000s, CSNY reunions took place in every decade. "Lady Friend," "Why," and "Eight Miles High" with the Byrds and "Guinnevere", "Shadow Captain," "In My Dreams" with Crosby, Stills & Nash are among Crosby's songs that Crosby wrote or co-wrote for the Byrds.

For Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 1970 album "Almost Cut My Hair" and the title track "Déjà Vu" have been written.

He is best known for his use of alternate guitar tunings and jazz influences.

He has recorded six solo albums, five of which have charted.

In addition, he formed a jazz influenced trio with his son James Raymond and guitarist Jeff Pevar in CPR.

Crosby's career with the Byrds and CSN(Y) has sold more than 35 million albums: once for his Byrds service and another for CSN.

Five albums he contributed to are included in Rolling Stone's Best Albums of All Time, three with the Byrds and two with CSN (Y).

Cameron Crowe's documentary "Remember My Name" in 2019 depicts him as politically active and has been portrayed as representative of the 1960s' counterculture.

Early years

David Van Cortlandt Crosby was born in Los Angeles, California, second son of Academy Award-winning cinematographer Floyd Crosby, who previously worked on Wall Street, and Aliph Van Cortlandt Whitehead, a salesperson for Macy's department store. His father, a distant relative of the Van Rensselaer family, and his mother, Granddaughter of Bishop of Pittsburgh Cortlandt Whitehead, descended from the prominent Van Cortlandt family; they "regularly inhabited the New York society pages prior to their wedding."

Crosby is the younger brother of singer Ethan Crosby. He attended many schools in Los Angeles, including the University Elementary School in Los Angeles, the Crane Country Day School in Montecito, and Laguna Blanca School in Santa Barbara for the remainder of his elementary school and junior high. He appeared in HMS Pinafore and other musicals at Crane, but he was refused to return due to his academic woes. Crosby did not graduate from Carpinteria's Cate School. His parents divorced in 1960, and his father married Betty Cormack Andrews.

Crosby attended drama at Santa Barbara City College for a brief time before deciding to pursue a career in music. Terry Callier, a Chicago and Greenwich Village musician, appeared on television and Greenwich Village, but the pair were unable to sign a recording contract. He appeared with Les Baxter's Balladeers in 1962, which was also on display. Crosby's first solo session in 1963 was produced with the help of producer Jim Dickson.

Personal life

In 1962, Crosby's son, Celia Crawford Ferguson, James Raymond, was born in 1962 and returned to Crosby as an adult. Raymond has performed on stage and in the studio with Crosby since 1997, both as a member of CPR and as part of the touring bands for Crosby & Nash and Stills & Nash. In addition, Crosby's three children, Erika Guthrie, Donovan Crosby's daughter, Debbie Donovan Crosby, and Django Crosby, a boy born with wife Jan Dance after extensive fertility treatments when Crosby's liver was failing.

In May 1987, Crosby, then 45, married Jan Dance, then 35, at the Hollywood Church of Religious Science in Los Angeles. Stephen Stills, his bandmate, gave the bride away.

Ethan, Ethan's brother, who taught him to play guitar and started his musical career with him, died in late 1997 or early 1998 because Ethan left a note not to search for his body but to allow him to return to the earth. His body was discovered months later in May 1998.

Melissa Etheridge revealed in January 2000 that Crosby had been the sperm donor of two children with her then partner Julie Cypher by means of artificial insemination. Etheridge, a 21-year-old woman, died of heroin use at the age of 21 on May 13, 2020.

Crosby, a longtime friend and entrepreneur Steven Sponder, has created "MIGHTY CROZ" a craft cannabis brand. "All the hit songs, every one of them, I wrote them all on cannabis," Crosby, a 50-year cannabis advocate and connoisseur, says of cannabis's contribution to his songwriting process. Crosby also credits cannabis and Cannabidiol (CBD) for relieving his chronic shoulder pain, allowing him to tour and performing new music well into his seventies. Crosby and Sponder intend to work with licensed cultivators around the country and elsewhere, and the brand will also be expanded to include CBD and hemp products. Crosby was invited to join the NORML National Advisory Board in 2018.

Crosby purchased a 59-foot, John Alden-designed schooner named Mayan with his Byrds settlement, following up on a transformative sailing experience when he was 11 years old. On Twitter in 2019, Crosby said that Monkeel late Peter Tork loaned him the money to buy the Mayan. Thousands of miles ago in the Pacific and Caribbean, centuries before he sold the boat in 2014. He has credited the Mayan with writing muse; he wrote some of his best-known songs on board, including "Wooden Ships," "The Lee Shore," "Page 43," and "Carry Me."

Crosby has been politically active throughout his career. During John F. Kennedy's appearance at the Monterey Festival in 1967, he questioned the Warren Commission's report covering the assassination of him onstage. He identifies himself as a pacifist and a vocal critic of the US's involvement in the Vietnam War, but he has also defended the right to bear arms.

Crosby has sluggishly sluggish Trump's presidency, naming him as "a risky guy with a big ego." In an interview, Mayor Pete Buttigieg said he was his favorite presidential nominee and that he is more educated than any other contenders combined; nevertheless, he eventually voted for Bernie Sanders.

Despite being against Joe Biden's candidacy in the 2020 presidential primaries, Crosby delivered a more optimistic verdict following Biden's general election win in November. Crosby described him as a "decent guy" after his wife and daughter's deaths in 1972 and his oldest son Beau's in 2015, made him a better human being. "He has compassion for other human beings because he's seen a lot of rough stuff himself." I don't generally trust most politicians, but I do believe [Biden] will be who he is and I think he will do a good job." "All Unions are worthless and completely dishonest," Crosby wrote in reaction to Joe Biden's pro-union tweet in May 2022.

Crosby appeared in several episodes of The John Larroquette Exhibition in which he appeared as a guest star in several episodes of Larroquette's AA sponsorship in the early 1990s. He appeared on an episode of Roseanne as the co-worker of one of Roseanne's co-workers, played by Bonnie Bramlett. On the episode, Danny Sheridan's "Roll On Down" was performed. He appeared on Ellen's "Ellen Unplugged," in which he was assisting at the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp. In 1991's film Backdraft as a 1970s hippie and as a bartender in the 1992 film Thunderheart, he appeared as a pirate in the 1991 film Hook as a gangster and as a bartender.

Crosby has appeared on two episodes of The Simpsons, "Marge in Chains," and "Homer's Barbershop Quartet," among other things.

Crosby spent nine months in a Texas state jail in 1985 after being found guilty of multiple opioid and weapons offenses. The drug charges were linked to the purchase of heroin and cocaine.

Crosby was arrested in 1985 for inebriation, a hit-and-run car crash, and the unlawful carrying of a concealed weapon and drug paraphernalia. In a Marin County suburb, Crosby was arrested after driving into a fence, where officers discovered a.45-caliber rifle and cocaine in his car.

Crosby was charged with unlawful possession of a weapon in the third degree, unlawful carrying of weapons, unlawful possession of firearms, and unlawful possession of approximately one ounce of marijuana. In his New York City hotel room, Crosby left forgotten the following items. Authorities said a "hotel employee searched the suitcase for identification and found about an ounce of marijuana, rolling papers, two knives, and a.45-caliber pistol. Mr. Crosby was arrested after returning to the hotel to pick up his luggage." He was released on $3,500 bail after 12 hours in prison. He pleaded guilty in New York State Supreme Court to unlawful carry of a weapon, was fined $5,000 and no prison time and received no jail time in return. The firearms conviction was not brought forward in California, and the pistol was found safely in his luggage when it was discovered. A charge of unlawful possession of marijuana was dismissed. Crosby was released by the court on the condition that he pay his fine and not be arrested again.

In 1994, Crosby underwent a well-publicized liver transplant, which was paid for by Phil Collins. Given his celebrity and his drug use in the past, his transplant caused some controversies. Crosby's liver disease problems stemmed from a long history of hepatitis C.

Crosby is diabetic and insulin-controlled insulin is used to treat the disorder. Crosby, who was much thinner than in recent years, revealed to the audience that he had recently shed 55 pounds as a result of his fight with the disease.

Based on the findings of a simple cardiac stress test, Crosby postponed the final dates of his solo tour in February 2014 in order to perform a cardiac catheterization and angiogram.

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Musical career

Crosby, who hails from New York City, was back in Chicago to hang out with Terry Callier. Miriam Makeba and her band, who knew multi-instrumentalist Jim McGuinn, were on tour and in Chicago at the time. McGuinn was the first caller to Crosby, and he welcomed him. Crosby joined Jim McGuinn (who later changed his name to Roger) and Gene Clark, who were then referred to as the Jet Set. They were augmented by drummer Michael Clarke, who was unable to play bass until Crosby attempted, unsuccessfully, to play bass. Chris Hillman joined as bassist in 1964, and Crosby took over Gene Clark's of rhythm guitar duties. The band obtained a demo acetate disc of Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" from Jim Dickson (the Byrds' manager) and released a version of the song that featured McGuinn's 12-string guitar as well as McGuinn, Crosby, and Clark's vocal harmonizing. During 1965, the song became a big hit in the United States and the United Kingdom, peaking at number one in the charts in the United States and the United Kingdom. McGuinn created the Byrds' legendary 12-string guitar sound, but Crosby was responsible for the band's soaring harmonies and often odd phrasing of their songs, but in their second album "All I Really Want to Do", he sang lead vocals.

Gene Clark, then the band's primary songwriter, left the group due to exhaustion, and the group's songwriting team was left in the care of McGuinn, Crosby, and Hillman. Crosby used the opportunity to refine his craft and soon became a prolific writer, collaborating with McGuinn on the upbeat "I See You" (covered by Yes on their 1969 debut) and penning the tumultuous "What's Happening" series. The early Byrds' "Eight Miles High" (to which he wrote one line, while Clark and McGuinn wrote the remainder), as well as its flip side "Why," co-written with McGuinn.

Crosby, who was credited with the success of his song "Hey Joe," he persuaded the other Byrds members to record it on the Fifth Dimension. Crosby's debut on "Renaissance Fair" (co-written with McGuinn), "Mind Gardens" and "It Happens Every Day) was released on the final album but later returned as a bonus track on the 1996 remastered version. The album also featured a rerecorded of "Why" and "Everybody's Been Burned," a jazzy torch song from Crosby's pre-Byrds repertoire that was originally demoed in 1963.

In mid-1967, the friction between Crosby and the other Byrds came to a halt. After the Montel Pop Festival in June, when Crosby's onstage political diatribes and support for various John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories between songs prompted a lot of remark from McGuinn and Hillman, tensions were high. He enraged his colleagues when he substituted for an ineffective Neil Young during Buffalo Springfield's set the following night at Stephen Stills' invitation. The internal controversies emerged during the first recording session for the Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968), which culminated in intra-band discussions. Despite the recent commercial disappointment of "Lady Friend," a Crosby-penned single that stalled at No. 1, Crosby was adamant that the band should stick to original material. Following its introduction in July, the 82nd on the American charts has risen to 82nd position. In October, McGuinn and Hillman dismissed Crosby after he refused to acknowledge the presence of a Goffin and King's "Goin' Back" on a cover. Crosby performed on three compositions and five recordings on the final album, but the Byrds' version on King of Creation (1968) was omitted; Jefferson Airplane issued a Grace Slick-sung cover on Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young's double live album 4 Way Street (1971); three years later, Crosby released a tutti ode "Triad" on the 1988 Never Before release and later on the CD re

Crosby reunited with the original Byrds for the album Byrds in 1973, with Crosby playing as the album's producer. The album debuted well (at number 20; their best album showing since their second album), but it was not widely considered a critical success. It was the last artistic collaboration of the original band's members.

Stephen Stills, a young Stephen Stills of the Mamas and Papas) in California, began meeting informally and jamming together at the time of Crosby's dismissal from the Byrds in March 1968. Graham Nash, who would leave his commercially successful team the Hollies to play with Crosby and Stills, was soon joined by them. Their appearance at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in August 1969 was their second live performance.

Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969), their first album, was a big hit, spawning two Top 40 hit singles and receiving significant airplay on the new FM radio format in its early days populated by unfettered disc jockeys who then had the option of playing whole albums at once.

"Guinnevere", "Almost Cut My Hair," "Long Time Gone," and "Delta" are among the songs Crosby wrote while on CSN. He co-wrote "Wooden Ships" with Jefferson Airplane and Stephen Stills, as well as James Coffin.

Neil Young joined the band in 1969, and with him they released the album Déjà Vu, which peaked at number 1 on the Billboard 200 and the ARIA Charts. Christine Hinton, Crosby's longtime girlfriend, was killed in a car crash on September 30, 1969, just days after Hinton, Crosby, and Debbie Donovan moved from Los Angeles to the Bay Area. Crosby was devastated, and he began using heroin more often than he had before. Nevertheless, he continued to make "Almost Cut My Hair" and the title track, "Déjà Vu," among other things. The group went on a temporary hiatus to concentrate on their respective solo careers following the release of the double live album 4 Way Street.

Crosby appeared at the Altamont Free Concert in December 1969, his name in the region has increased since he had appeared at Monterey Pop and Woodstock. He appeared alongside Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, and Mickey Hart from Grateful Dead for a brief period of 1970, and he performed a live recording at the Matrix on December 15, 1970.

In the summer of 1973, CSNY returned to Maui and Los Angeles for failed recording sessions. Despite the lingering wound of bloodshed, they revived at a Stills concert at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco in October. This served as a preview of their highly acclaimed stadium tour in 1974. Following the tour, the foursome attempted to record a new album, this time titled Human Highway. The recording sessions, which took place at The Record Plant in Sausalito, were very uncomfortable, and were marred by constant bickering. The bickering became too much, and the album was canceled.

CSNY's "Little Blind Fish," a then-unknown Crosby song, was recorded in rehearsals for the 1974 tour. More than two decades later, a new interpretation of the song would appear on the second CPR album. Bickering also affected the 1974 tour, but they were able to complete it without interruption. So Far, a greatest hits compilation, was released in 1974 to capitalize on the foursome's reunion tour.

Crosby & Nash and Stills & Young, two siblings, were both recording on their respective albums and considering retooling their production to produce a CSNY album in 1976. This attempt came to an end when Stills and Young deleted Crosby and Nash's vocals from their album Long May You Run.

CSNY did not perform as a quartet until Live Aid in Philadelphia in 1985, and then only sporadically in the 1980s and 1990s (mainly at the annual Bridge School Benefit, which was organized by Young's wife Pegi). Crosby, Stills & Nash has been much more consistent since its inception in 1977, but without Young. The trio appeared onstage in support of their 1977 and 1982 albums CSN and Daylight Again, then and then, starting in the late 1980s, the trio has toured year after year. The band performed live, and there have been four albums of new material published since 1982: American Dream (1988, with Young); After The Storm (1994), and Looking Forward (1999, with Young). In addition, Crosby & Nash released the self-titled album Crosby & Nash in 2004.

In 2000, 2002, and 2006, full-scale CSNY tours took place.

On a 2008 episode of The Colbert Report, Crosby, Stills, and Nash performed together, and "Neil Young" joined them during the musical performance at the end of the episode. However, later, it became clear that it was just Stephen Colbert impersonating Young as the group sang "Toeach Your Children."

Following a November 2015 interview in which he expressed his doubts that the band had a future, Nash announced on March 6, 2016 that Crosby, Stills & Nash would not perform again due to his poor relations with Crosby.

Crosby's first solo album, If I Could Only Remember My Name, was released in 1971, starring Nash, Young, Joni Mitchell, and members of Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, and Santana. It has been praised with the emergence of the freak folk and New Weird America movements, as well as the pages that have been reprinted. If I Could Only Remember My Name, You'll Be a Winner in the Vatican City newspaper's 2010 list of the Top Albums appeared, L'Osservatore Romano, If I Could Only Remember My Name came in second place to the Beatles' Revolver.

Crosby & Nash (C&N) have released four studio albums and two live albums, including Another Stoney Evening, which features the duo in 1971 with no supporting band. "Whole Cloth" and "Where Will I Be" were two Crosby songs on C&N in the 1970s. "Page 43," "Games," "Playing," "The Wall Song") "Bittersweet" "Knowledge," "Bittersweet," "Look at Me," "Naked in the Rain," "Time After Time," "About Time," "Taken at All" (also co-written with Nash) and "Foolish Man" are among "Page 43", "Games," "Bittersweet," "Bittersweet") "Se Crosby and Nash enjoyed lucrative careers as session musicians, with both musicians (as a team and individually) contributing harmonies and background vocals to albums by Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne (most notably "Mexico") and "Mexico" in the mid-1970s. Carole King, Elton John, and Gary Wright appeared on Souther, Carole King, and Gary Wright.

Crosby sang backup vocals on several Paul Kantner and Grace Slick albums from 1971 to 1974, as well as the Hot Tuna album Burgers in 1972, reaffiring his links to the San Francisco scene that had thrived so well on his solo album. He and fellow members of the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Starship also took part in composer Ned Lagin's proto-ambient project Seastones.

Crosby worked with Phil Collins from the late 1980s to early 1990s occasionally. In "That's Just the Way It Is" and "Another Day in Paradise," Collins sang backup, and he performed "Hero," his own 1993 album Thousand Roads, on his own. On the album Rites of Passage with the Indigo Girls in 1992, Crosby sang backup on tracks 2 and 12. He appeared on Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons in 1999, singing a duet to Lucinda Williams on the title track.

On an Island, Crosby and Nash collaborated with David Gilmour as back vocalists on the latter's third solo album, On an Island. The album debuted in March 2006 and debuted at number one on the UK charts. Gilmour's concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London in May 2006 was also on display in the United States, as can be seen on Gilmour's 2007 DVD Remember This Night. They also performed backup on John Mayer's 2012 album Born And Raised's title track.

Crosby's first solo album in 20 years, Crozby, was released in close partnership with his son James Raymond (of CPR), in January 2014 at the latter's home studio.

Crosby also launched Lighthouse, a new solo album that was released on October 21, 2016, and revealed a new track from it titled "Things We Do For Love." Michael League of the big band Snarky Puppy, who he met on Twitter, edited the album, as well as future collaborators Becca Stevens and Michelle Willis. Crosby announced a U.S. tour, an 18-date trek, on November 18, 2016, Atlanta, Georgia, and Ithaca, New York, December 16, 2016. During his campaign, he also spoke out against Donald Trump.

On September 29, 2017, Crosby announced Sky Trails, his third piece of original content in four years and his sixth in total).

Crosby appeared on NPR's Live from Here in April 2018, where they took the spotlight with host Chris Thile in a duet.

Here if You Listen on BMG, Michael League's first collaborative album with Michael League, Becca Stevens, and Michelle Willis, all members of the Lighthouse Band, was released on October 26, 2018. From November to December of the same year, the band performed from November to December.

Crosby was the subject of the documentary film David Crosby: Remember My Name, which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Cameron Crowe, who directed the film, knew "where the bones are buried," Crosby said. Crosby toured from May to September 2019 as David Crosby & Friends, following the premiere of the film.

Crosby's first solo album since Sky Trails was released in July 2021. On October 15, the 50th anniversary edition of If I Could Only Remember My Name was followed by the release of a new version of If I Could Only Remember My Name. It features remastered songs as well as live recordings from the initial recording sessions. Crosby revealed that his second collaborative album with League, Stevens, & Willis is in the works, as revealed during product.

Crosby, Pevar & Raymond, session guitarist Jeff Pevar, and pianist James Raymond, Crosby's son, began CPR or Crosby, Pevar & Raymond in 1996. Until disbanding in 2004, the group released two studio albums and two live albums.

"Morrison," Crosby and Raymond's first script, was performed live for the first time in January 1997. The song recalled Crosby's reservations about Jim Morrison's portrayal in the film The Doors. Live at Cuesta College, which was founded in 1997, spawned a new initiative. Just Like Gravity, the second CPR studio recording, as well as Live at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, which also stars Phil Collins and Graham Nash.

Raymond has performed with Crosby as part of C&N and CSN's touring bands, as well as solo Crosby projects, including 2014's Croz and the subsequent tour for which he served as musical director. Jeff Pevar has performed with many artists over his career, including CSN, Ray Charles, Joe Cocker, Marc Cohn, Phil Lesh & Friends, Jazz Is Dead, Rickie Lee Jones, Jefferson Starship, and Bette Midler. Pevar's solo record, From the Core, was improvised and recorded in the Oregon Caves and features the vocalist from Yes, Jon Anderson.

In 2018, Crosby & Friends reunited with the other two CPR members, opening a series of shows in support of Crosby's latest album, Skytrails. Crosby produced a podcast for the Osiris music network during the global pandemic.

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