The dark side of David Crosby: the Drug Years - Wooden Ships, 1983

[melbatunes]

Crosby's got the stare....

[Delta1]

Uuhhh, excuse me but if David Crosby is so out of it, why does this performance sound so amazing. I mean he is 1/3 of the group both on guitar and vocals and pardon me if I am mistaken, but his voice is in the mix and he is singing perfectly. His form of concentration has always been like this. I have seen him perform about 25 times since 1964 starting with The Byrds and he has always had that kind of intensity and always been 100% in the music. Speculation of this sort is very unattractive.

[cliffworks4321]

who's on B-3 who are the other players other than CSN? tks

[stevedrums]

@cliffworks4321 Mike Finnigan is playing the B-3. Funny, but as out of it as Crosby was, Still was in fantastic form.

[cliffworks4321]

@stevedrums tks, For all YT'ers it shouldn't matter if anyone is high, a poofter or whatever, leonard da vinci, freddy mercury, charlie parker, earliest man ate /drank hallucinogenic herbs, am sure Jesus did too and he came up with some cool ideas :-) maybe Pontius Pilate had some bad shit. I played with Art Pepper 2 years, an experience of a lifetime, but yours truly could play a note after one drink or puff, to each his own. focus on the art my friends, nothing else matters. 

[Andy34HN]

Singing, playing guitar, there, but....not there.

[nottwozero]

To be fair, even though these were certainly his "drug years", Crosby often did that intense eyes thing. He knows he has charisma and he digs the drama of performing.

[cooder7]

Stills drug of choice was not booze. Check any interview of him after the mid 90's compared to 70's &* early 80"s and when he speaks it sounds as if he has a cleft palate. His drug of choice was coke and it ate everything away.

Still a great talent/genius,just too many demons I guess.

[Anglynn74]

I know Stills' drug of choice was booze but at least he was able to keep it together on stage. This must have drove stephen & graham nuts, he looks totally & completely out of it, how in hell did he even remember the words???

[professormacdeezy]

Sorry... I'm a fan, but I've seen them do this about a million times better ... It's disappointing they haven't put out some better DVDS...... I'm not sure if they're just not good at judging the quality of their own work or what...but I've seen them like seven times... and just about every single time was WAY better than most of the music on their live documents (4 Way Street, this, the acoustic one, etc.).

[jeffkahl]

I will say this much: as out of it as Cros was he still could sing the hell out of this song! This is LONG before autotune and the tuning between the three vocals is impeccable!

[ejectorerector]

what is he on? crazy ass mothafucka

[turdhat]

@ejectorerector A LOT of cocaine. I mean a lot. Probably in to day two of a three day coke bender. Doesnt hurt his performance though does it ? It is amazing that he is still alive.

[BLUESMANRONCHICAGO]

@turdhat amazing Crosby made it thru those years, also amazing is that Keith Richards and Ozzy are still alive!!! Talk about two guys who partied!!! Hell, Richards used to have his blood cleansed so he could cross borders in Europe when they toured!!!

[ACSDSicily]

base head

[MrBadgerland]

can't believe this has been viewed only 216 times,love this version of wooden ships.stills is just crushing the guitar in this one