When David Crosby Heard John Coltrane Play Saxophone in a Bathroom | SPIN
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In a clip provided exclusively to SPIN, singer/songwriter David Crosby recounts the time he heard jazz legend John Coltrane play in a bathroom. 'David Crosby: Remember My Name' will be released on October 22nd from Sony Pictures Classics.
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Crosby's impersonation of Trane soloing is priceless. The best video on UA-cam Ive seen in ages.
Jason Brayshaw
You were at 30 likes. I hit thumbs up and then it said 40
lmfao
i wasn't ready for that
@@FornusSomeFornit None of us were
Love this story! Being too high and then having to listen to Coltrane blasting on his horn in a confined space 😂
Crosby looks good for a 160-yr-old guy.
😆
I was thinking he should do a cameo or two in some Lord of the Rings type movies.
@@BobMeyers He should do the 1000 year old man routine with Alan Greenspan.
@@BobMeyers Perhaps "The Walking Dead."
He doesn’t look a day over a hundred. Colorful story teller tho-
The imitation at Coltrane’s soloing
was great
You will be missed, David.
Absolutely incredible story. Had me in stiches. Also ending on such a true and heartfelt observation. “I’ve never heard anyone be that intense in their music”. Trane was really one of the greatest musical minds of the past few centuries. His dedication to furthering himself and his musical boundaries were absolute, and with the utmost intent of any human being to exist.
Will someone make a ringtone of David Crosby's Coltrane impression and upload it to Zedge? Thanks in advance.
I couldn't get it to Zedge...but I did convert his 5 second little ditty to a sound file. How do I get it to you?
Sent!
Frank Green yo I need it also
@@frankgreen8137 Hey I'd love it too haha
I need your emails to send it
RIP David Crosby.
The Trane’ interpretation is indeed priceless…. @ .5 speed it is absolutely phenomenal.
It’s even better at .25 speed 💀
It's AWFUL slower. Ugh.
probably the best story ever told lol
“Very high” my ass, this man was tripping SACK when Elvin and Trane dropped those bombs on him
And Trane probably gently opened the door and played a c major triad
Hahaha I can totally see that
@@sinane.y 😂😂
@@sinane.y I was thinking something along those lines too LMAO
Hilarious rendition of Coltrane!! Made me laugh!!
"and I was very high" oh really...
Heard this in a Grateful Dead hour episode many years ago. Honestly I was thinking about it today listening to the Africa Brass Sessions. Elvin Jones man
That was really unexpected and made me laugh out loud (also passages from My Favorite Things live at Newport '63 really do sound uncannily like that).
Rest in piece David.
David has looked older for some time, but out of all the pictures and books and video footage, and being a fan for decades, this is the first time he looks positively and undeniably... elderly, and sad to say it... but... I’m glad he’s still around. Sure beats the alternative.
Yep 1st thing I thought when I saw this is how he looks much older here than Ive seen as late
He's currently 78, and considering his previous lifestyle, very lucky to have lived this long.
@@lancejohnson127 2nd? 2nd liver?
HAHAHA such a great story teller!!
You see the thumbnail....you wonder if it's Crosby.....you see the video....you start to worry about his health....and then 0:50 happens. Yeah ok, he's fine....LOL.
So glad UA-cam protected us from the "bad" word.
Well this single video was more than I can handle in one day
rest in peace the real biggest byrd
I watched this video 100000 times
RIP Legend 💔
RIP! I had to come back to this funny ahh video
Crosby: great taste!!!
Should be titled "When John Coltrane FLAME-BROILED Davis Crosby's Brain"
Yet another reason to love Elvin Jones
Bang!
Damn he hit a C6 at the beginning of his impression.
😂
This is so hilarious
Imagine ur favorite artist just kicks the bathroom or somewhere and plays
Crosby reminds me of Sid Fields in the Seinfeld episode "The Old Man".
that is being hit by a trane! Crosby, man...you're blessed!
What a beautiful anecdote about Trane
This Mofo Said "Oh Golly" Im Dead Lmao 💀
Old hippie in him..
I'm surprised he didn't say far out
Thats what 74 year old mfs say
Rest In Peace Mr. Crosby
Someone should provide this story with a nice animation!
yeah dude
❤
0:58 ........just keep hitting it.....hahaha!
Wow
Haha cool old dude
Eight Miles High was inspired by Coltrane (grand aunt Doris gave him his first horn (his mother was her maid, etc.)!).
Go see the New David Crosby Movie . . . it was fantastic . . . " You're Welcome "
I'll have what he's having.
RIP Cros
This story must've inspired The Anchorman.
This was so fucking funny
Crosby is so funny! What was he high on?!!!😵😂
Coltrane.
@@rayjr62 Baaam!!!
Most likely acid from the way he described the experience😂😂
0:59
Almost cut my hair
B A M
Crosby has to be atleast 38 in this video
Was Coltrane actually in the bathroom, or is Crosby just speaking metaphorically?
Neil G. To my knowledge, he was actually in the bathroom.
Neil G. A lot of sax players warm up in toilets before punters come into gigs
Not sure yet. I’m gonna listen one more time.
Yes all of us sax players prefer practicing in toilets for the acoustics . You can hear so much better , even over tones the sax is creating
@@znmaf They do it that way when warming up so they can hear all the overtones and harmonics clearly.
Did you ever wonder why David wasn't on "The Office" playing the part of Creed Breton ??? That would have been a shoe in for him.
Oh wow man. If ONLY!
They are always fascinated with our musicians
That was an accurate Coltrane Impression
In the immortal words of Rick James "Cocaine's a helluva a drug"!
Funny.
Crosby sounds fried. Even the Archies or 1910 Fruitgum Company is 'intense' if your all phucked up on what ever.
Riduculous
Also, he is almost certainly talking about a performance from Coltrane's late period, when his playing sounded a lot like Crosby's vocal imitation. Coltrane's music, in the two or three years before his passing, was very harsh and corrosive, and generally not what jazz fans think of when they think of Coltrane. I made the mistake of buying a 1965 live Coltrane album, when I was in college and just getting interested in jazz, and I was completely appalled and dumbfounded at what I was hearing. It was insane music, and I do not mean that as praise. And yes, I am sure it was "intense" to a stoned hippie hearing it live and in person.
Crosby looks soooo old here. But then he is sooo old
If your lucky you’ll get so old too.
@ Iam old. Only good thing about it is I didnt die young
0:57 You're welcome
RIP David Crosby
I’m sure that acid Crosby was frying on at the time had nothing to do with the “intensity” of the situation he described. ☝️🥴
Enlightened Rogue listen to interstellar Coltrane . No room for squares , no one plays sax like trane .
@@Cespinozas Well put, Carlos.
lol i loved that story but i only half believe it, crosby's been known to exaggerate a little bit now and again
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Still laughed my nutsack off.
Everything he said correlates too many stories that have been told. John Coltrane was known for kicking in the bathroom door and playing well McCoy Tyner or Elvin Jones or Jimmy Garrison took a solo
Never thought this Byrd was into progressive jazz.
Arthur F. Scaltrito also around that time check Miles Davis’s version of Crosby’s “Guinevere”...there were other moments of those two worlds coming together that aren’t often talked abt but there was mutual inspiration for sure 🎶 💨
@@usernolongervisible9334 OK.
I will
Not surprised at all
What?
What if he just hallucinated the whole thing...lol
Maybe you don't really exist...You just think you do.
@@jcarc5701 I wish your comment didn't exist ...lol
And to think people had the same reaction then and do to this day without acid.
Crosby's meat suit is showing wear
Crosby doesn't look one day over dead-years-old.
This guy is so self important.
Check back with us when you've attained his level of accomplishment - we'll see how you compare. I'm a little biased - I interviewed him once for our local paper, knowing full well his reputation for being an egomaniac asshole, and found him to be open, humble and gracious. He comped me the best seats in the house for his gig, and the guy who has sold millions of albums and performed for millions more with some of the greatest musicians in the world thanked ME for doing the interview. I'll use that as a measuring stick when we next hear from you...
And a political idiot!
@@roberteckert - Thanks for your admission that YOU are a political idiot. Crosby has consistently been on the right side of history - and you, evidently, relish being on the wrong side...
@Jim McCracken - I'm not as dim as you seem to think I am; the interview was not a puff piece, but I was prepared and had my facts straight. He was self-effacing and acknowledged his shortcomings as a human and a bandmate - and frankly a star of his stature has little to gain kissing up to a reporter for a relatively small-town paper on the eve of a one night solo gig. I have a fuller knowledge of the entertainment business and entertainers than you obviously imagine; my best friend is a very well-known writer-director in Hollywood, my former sister-in-law was a HUGE tv star, and I've been around gigging musicians for many years (that's why I got the interview gig) - I know fakes and phonies abound. Crosby may be difficult, he may be an asshole to some - but he'll be the first to admit it; THAT'S almost unheard of in the entertainment industry...
@Jim McCracken - Jim, you're just looking to land some kind of blow because I torched you. You have nothing of consequence to say, otherwise you'd have said it by now. You've made it clear you think I'm dumb, or star-struck, but frankly, your posts only make YOU look dumb. I'm not in the entertainment industry, but I've had front row seats to it for years and years - I've met more heavies, been on more movie sets, and backstage at more clubs, concerts, and events than you can imagine - not to mention my nephew, who was a NHL hockey player. MANY people of extremely high achievement are not exactly the warm and fuzzy type - entertainer, athlete, politician, soldier, or executive. I know what I'm talking about - and trust me, whatever you have to say isn't gonna change that or keep me up at night...
Sounds like duck tales to me.
This story just doesn’t add up. Sorry. Nothing to do with jealousy. Just Crosby trying to act like he is still hop mentioning black jazz musicians
@@greenwoodmills1381 Totally agree with you. It also kind of comes off as a backhanded way of complimenting Trane while making him look like a violent jerk at the same time.
@josef mengele says the great david crosby defender
josef mengele it wouldn’t take much to make up a better story than this pile of duck tales.
@josef mengele You actually chose the name Josef Mengele? Care to explain?
kinda makes me wish i'd done more drugs in my youth oh well
It's not too late to make up for lost time.
@@traildoggy mm i think for most as you get older you have less interest in doing illegal things? perhaps not for crosby tho lol
Wtf is Crosby high on during this video?
Trane.
@@jakebrandt5882 You win
Probably some potent medical stuff 😁
@josef mengele go perform some more surgery without anesthesia
Most likely
Special needs
Just saw his doc "Remember my Name". Total disappointment! He is STILL a prick after all these years!
This story stinks;)
come back and watch in about 10 years kid when you mature a little more and you'll understand it..
@@truckerkevthepaidtourist i'm 74 , and remember "then" , good drugs , mind blown , etc. the story stinks , because only a fanboy gives a shit about a 60 yr. old trip......unless you're STILL needing confirmation , like peddling hemp as a cure for the planet , when pot's legal now move on
Lots of trash talk. He shouldnt still even be alive. Drug addiction's, yes more than one, liver transplant, Diabetes, several heart attacks. He's said he's lucky to even be here. I was listening this morning to CSN in the car I have recorded.
Maybe keep off the drugs dave?
I think Dave has been off the drugs for quite some time.
This is bullshit. David Crosby high? Yeah, sure.
Oh, Coltrane was good at saxophone? Cool story, man.
He should be dead. How does a drug addict get a liver transplant over someone who isn't. I wonder who the poor soul was this drug addict passed over to get his transplant.
OK BOOMER
Here's a good example of what has gone wrong with the world--this entire story is so far removed from our reality today that it might as well be a story written in ancient hieroglyphs. Coltrane is long gone. Jazz is gone. Drugs are destructive, no fun, and brought to you by giant corporations in pill form. Everyone has their dead eyes glued to a little screen they're holding. Cros is still with us at least but hardly someone you're going to run into on the bus and his time is short in any case. Anyway, great story.
Trane is gone? lmao
Jazz is gone, son? Someone forgot to tell me and millions of others around the world. 🌎 🎷🔊🎶🎵☝️🥴
Enlightened Rogue It’s gone in the sense that classical music is gone, yes. Of course-of course-we can all enjoy the artifacts of the form but that’s all it is now, artifact. Disagree if you want, that’s how it seems to me
Jazz gone?? You need to rethink that.
@@andrews127 It's a relic now, that's what I mean. It is no longer a viable cultural force. In 1967 Coltrane recorded Interstellar Space and in 70 Miles released Bitches Brew--both these were way, way, beyond Giants Steps or Kind of Blue. Jazz doesn't facilitate this kind of journey as a cultural force anymore. What we have now are the Marsalis brothers in really nice suits, very talented and easy on the ears, but it's hard to argue it matters culturally. I don't think there are any teenagers out there sitting in their bedroom with a pair of headphones on being transported by listening to the music of Wynton Marsalis. What I'm saying is everyone is just sitting around staring at their phone--that's the cultural relevance of the world nowadays. That's it
Oh well, it's only two minutes of my life wasted on this bs.
@vicberger
trane knew, the legend just sounds better if he didn't.
0:59
My exact post. Lol