# RIP David Crosby **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death, music\ **Created:** [January 19, 2023, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-crosby/978480 "2023-01-19T22:26:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![its\_the\_daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bb73d2/32.png) [@its\_the\_daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/its_the_daddy)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-crosby/978480/1 "2023-01-19T22:26:37Z")
OMG. Another man done gone. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-crosby/978480/2 "2023-01-19T22:35:20Z")
I saw him perform twice with Stills and Nash. He had talent. And he struggled to stay clean and sober, as I also did. He’s now forever sober. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-crosby/978480/3 "2023-01-19T22:36:11Z")
> **[David Crosby, Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash Co-Founder, Dies at 81](https://variety.com/2023/music/news/david-crosby-dead-dies-byrds-crosby-stills-nash-1235495467/)** > > Singer-songwriter-guitarist David Crosby, a founding member of two popular and enormously influential ’60s rock units, the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash (later Crosby, Stills, Nash &… ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-crosby/978480/4 "2023-01-19T22:51:11Z")
Another icon of the 60s gone. His harmony knocked me out back then, particularly as part of CSN (&Y), and it still plays well today. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-crosby/978480/5 "2023-01-19T22:53:01Z")
Wow, another one. His personality could really rub you the wrong way, but his music and voice were something special. RIP David Crosby, I’ve got my own warts too you know. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-crosby/978480/6 "2023-01-19T22:55:23Z")
I thought I heard just yesterday that he was planning on a gig or two in Santa Barbara later this year. That’s somewhat ironic timing if so. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-crosby/978480/7 "2023-01-19T22:59:17Z")
The last time I saw him (with S&N) was in Santa Barbara. They gave me as many goose bumps then as they did all through my youth. This death notice makes me very sad. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-crosby/978480/8 "2023-01-19T23:03:31Z")
Possibly the last intact band from the 60s finally undone. And by one of its exemplars. The era is over. Crosby was capable of great lyrics and great tunes. “In My Dreams” sums up the CSN experience better than any writing-about-ourselves song and it’s absolutely gorgeous. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/z5EvWBj5SAQ/maxresdefault.jpg "In My Dreams") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5EvWBj5SAQ) The love of his life, Christine Hinton, died in a car crash in 1970, causing Crosby to go from a drug user to death by drug. How he survived the next couple of decades is a medical mystery. Even though he lived, he’s still one of the biggest what-could-have-been’s in rock history. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-crosby/978480/9 "2023-01-19T23:05:48Z")
If there’s a Rock & Roll heaven … 💔 ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-crosby/978480/10 "2023-01-19T23:05:59Z")
He was almost as durable as Keith Richards. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-crosby/978480/11 "2023-01-19T23:11:59Z")
I liked him best as a Byrd (one of my favorite bands), but his voice was also incomparable in every combination of CSN&Y and solo. Who would have thought in the 70s (or the 80s) that he would live to 81? RIP. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-crosby/978480/12 "2023-01-19T23:14:21Z")
_It’s been a long time comin’_ _It’s goin’ to be a long time gone_ _But you know_ _The darkest hour_ _Is always, always just before the dawn_ RIP, David. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-crosby/978480/13 "2023-01-19T23:44:46Z")
It’s gonna keep happening I may as well get used to it, right? Sigh. . . RIP, David and thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2023, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-crosby/978480/14 "2023-01-20T00:09:23Z")
Man, what a talent. By most accounts - including his own - he could be very difficult to be around at times. I read his memoir, “Long Time Gone”, and found it pretty fascinating. About 50% I’m-the-greatest and 50% I’m-an-asshole. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2023, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-crosby/978480/15 "2023-01-20T00:40:55Z")
I’m the greatest asshole. And at 81, he’s the billboard for drugs aren’t _all_ that bad. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2023, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-crosby/978480/16 "2023-01-20T00:53:27Z")
My friend, the singer, posted this on Facebook: > I was sitting in my little house in Beverly Glen Canyon reading this man’s autobiography. A chill ran down my spine when I realized that his description of his first time shooting up heroin in a little house in Beverly Glen Canyon was referring to MY house - I had heard before my landlord had bought it that it was owned by some rich rockstar for many years. Turns out it was Crosby. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2023, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-crosby/978480/17 "2023-01-20T01:16:42Z")
He was the father to Melissa Etheridge’s kids. > **[Melissa Etheridge mourns loss of David Crosby, who fathered two of her kids](https://pagesix.com/2023/01/19/melissa-etheridge-mourns-loss-of-david-crosby-dad-to-two-of-her-kids/amp/)** > > “He gave me the gift of family. I will forever be grateful to him, Django, and Jan. His music and legacy will inspire many generations to come,” she wrote. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2023, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-crosby/978480/18 "2023-01-20T00:49:42Z")
Story [here](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/19/entertainment/david-crosby-death/index.html). He was 81. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2023, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-crosby/978480/19 "2023-01-20T00:53:06Z")
Jeez. He has a storied career and life, no doubt. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2023, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-crosby/978480/20 "2023-01-20T00:58:11Z")
Reported as duplicate > [@RIP David Crosby](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-crosby/978480): > > OMG. Another man done gone. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-david-crosby/978480.md?page=2)