“Hey, now’s the time for me to become Woody Guthrie.”Īn itinerant rocker, Crosby played clubs and slept on couches across the country.
Playing folk songs at coffeehouses in Santa Barbara and then Los Angeles, he hurriedly left town after his girlfriend became pregnant. At Santa Barbara City College, he was suspended after his arrest for several house break-ins. At the exclusive Cate School in Carpinteria, he was thrown out for disabling the campus bell system. He’s diabetic.Īfter his family moved to the Santa Barbara area, the teenage Crosby was in frequent trouble. Movies The cantankerous glory of David Crosby, who hates Spotify, wants to reunite CSNY and saved at least $25,000 growing potĭavid Crosby knows he’s going to die soon. “Music kind of snuck up and kissed me on the ear,” he said. She took the boys to symphony performances and organized family singalongs that profoundly influenced her younger son. Floyd, a cinematographer, received a 1931 Oscar for his work on “Tabu: A Story of the South Seas.” Aliph, a poet and a singer, stayed home to raise young David and his older brother, Ethan. Crosby’s paternal grandfather was treasurer of the Union Pacific railroad.īreaking with family traditions, Crosby’s father, Floyd, and mother, Aliph, headed for Hollywood. An early Van Cortlandt was the city’s first native-born mayor, from 1710 to 1719. 14, 1941, David Van Cortlandt Crosby came from parents with old-money New York City roots in the Van Cortlandt and Van Rensselaer families. Graham Nash and Stephen Stills were among those in the music world paying tribute to David Crosby after news of the singer’s death.īorn in Los Angeles on Aug.
Music Graham Nash and Stephen Stills pay tribute to David Crosby: ‘Nothing short of genius’ He was addicted to alcohol, heroin and cocaine, and got clean only after spending 11 months behind bars in Texas for drug and weapon offenses. When hepatitis C destroyed his liver in 1994, doctors saved his life with a transplant. He suffered from diabetes and arterial disease, was implanted with eight cardiac stents, and survived heart attacks, blackouts, seizures and a motorcycle wreck. The bigger surprise, though, was that he had any later years at all. He piloted his own plane, lived on a ranch in the wine country north of Santa Barbara, and in his later years experienced a surprising burst of creativity that produced four albums along with concert dates across the country. He was twice inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame - once for his years with the groundbreaking folk rock group the Byrds and then for his on-and-off decades with Crosby, Stills & Nash, a group described by the Hall of Fame as “America’s longest-running experiment in vocal harmony and social relevance.”Ĭrosby sailed the world in a 59-foot Honduran mahogany schooner called the Mayan. He and his band mates sold 35 million records. Over the years, David Crosby achieved more than many an old hippie musician could even hallucinate.
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