David Crosby, Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash Co-Founder, Dies at 81

[BLUE LOU BOYLE]

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 & Young), has died, his representative says. He was 81 years old. A cause of death has not been revealed.

The death came as a surprise to those who followed his very active Twitter account, which he’d kept tweeting on as recently as Wednesday. One of Crosby’s final tweets the day before he died was to make a typically jocular comment about heaven: “I heard the place is overrated… cloudy.”

Former CSNY partner Graham Nash, who had been estranged from Crosby in recent years as their group went its separate ways, paid tribute on his social media. “It is with a deep and profound sadness that I learned that my friend David Crosby has passed,” Nash wrote. “I know people tend to focus on how volatile our relationship has been at times, but what has always mattered to David and me more than anything was the pure joy of the music we created together, the sound we discovered with one another, and the deep friendship we shared over all these many long years.

“David was fearless in life and in music,” Nash continued. “He leaves behind a tremendous void as far as sheer personality and talent in this world. He spoke his mind, his heart, and his passion through his beautiful music and leaves an incredible legacy. These are the things that matter most. My heart is truly with his wife, Jan, his son, Django, and all of the people he has touched in this world.”

[sailfish]

Bad year . To Many Deaths. Loved there music. RIP

[BLUE LOU BOYLE]

Originally Posted by sailfish

Bad year . To Many Deaths. Loved there music. RIP

Way too many Sailfish! Seems like 1 every other day or two.

BLB

[BFDwager]

Damn we must be getting old... all of our music icons are fading.



RIP David Crosby
Dude was a true rebel.

[Keith]

Truth be told, the fact that he made it to 81 is genuinely impressive.

RIP David

[fat-freddie]

Back in my day he was a really old cool dude, you can't help but liked him and his music talent, one of the best back in the day !!!! David Crosby will be around for a very long time, take that sound up in the sky big boy !!! Sure smoked a lot of dope back then with that music of his !!!!!!!

[BFDwager]

Originally Posted by Keith

Truth be told, the fact that he made it to 81 is genuinely impressive.

RIP David

lol Here's a post from a (old) Showco roadie group that I follow...


Mick T***
I thought he did really well. I did a CSN tour in '81 and he was barely alive then. RIP Crosby.