David Crosby - Delta - Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, CA - Nov 28, 1982
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- Here's David Crosby, singing one of the few great songs he wrote during his drug abyss: Delta. Recorded during Crosby, Stills & Nash's Daylight Again tour in 1982.
Crosby: "It's possible that this is the last song I wrote. I was in a pretty terrible state at the time (1982), which you can tell from the song; it sounds lost. Jackson Browne came by the house where I was; I didn't have a piano so I just sang him what I had and he said, "Jesus, that's a really good one David, you need to finish that". I was in the middle of a downhill slide involving freebase cocaine. I didn't especially want to go outside because I didn't want to bother with anything except taking more drugs. But Jackson really insisted and brought me to Warren Zevon's house where there was a piano. He sat me down at that piano and pulled this song out of me. Whenever I wanted to get up to go to the bathroom and take some more dope, he would say "No, no, finish the song" and he kept me there until I did it. Now when we sing it I thank Jackson for helping me get it out."
Delta
Waking
Stream of consciousness
On a sleeping
Street of dreams
Thoughts
Like scattered leaves
Slowed in midfall
Into the streams
Of fast running rivers
Of choice and chance
And time stops here on the delta
While they dance, while they dance
Instrumental (Pedal Steel Guitar)
I love the child
Who steers this riverboat
Lately he's crazy
For the deep
And the river seems dreamlike
In the daytime
And someone keeps thinking
In my sleep
About fast running rivers
Of choice and chance
And time stops here on the delta
While they dance, while they dance
While they dance Aaahh ...
While they dance da, da, da ...
While they dance da, da, da ...
While they dance da, da, da ...
While they dance, dance river dance
While they dance da, da, da ...
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RIP to a legend. This is one of my favorite songs / performances of all time.
Same!!
One of my favs too. I get chills because it is so heartfelt.
I keep coming back to this, when I’m weak and need to hear something of triumph. I keep coming back to this when I’m strong and need to to hear something beautiful. I keep coming back to this when I just need to feel alive and feel something good. And here I am again.
Once i was A and E. I had a phone held to my ear with Van Morrison singing. It was what got .e through a very difficult time. Minute by minute. I know exactly what you mean. This song now i listen to minute by minute. It never fails.
My favorite Crosby song. Rest in Peace, Croz. Hearts are breaking all over.
One of the greatest songs ever written and recorded by anyone, including David. He seems so fragile and at the same time proud to have written and performed the song. Had CSN not had the turmoil we have all heard about, they may have emerged as one of the ultra-greatest groups in rock history. Their song Wasted on the Way seems to be a direct admittance that, had the drugs and other bullshit interfered with their musical growth, they would be playing today in packed arenas and concert halls. So, so very much wasted on the way. I love them. If Graham and Stills helped him through the drug-infested period of David's life, which was a mirror image of my life too, they would be on stage today and have bank accounts in the hundreds of millions. How tragic and a loss this is for all of us. There was no group with such perfect harmony as CSN.
YES i remember getting RECORD ONE thinking what great harmonies this is amazing i was ten .
These are holy words. ..they Wasted years in struggling each other ..what a pity
Agree, one of the greatest songs ever! First song I played after his death!!
@@stephengiffith1010 same, I was ten in 1970
Oh Graham and Stephen tried to help him get through and overcome the drug addiction. Ya gotta remember, Crosby was a cocaine user for 20 years but had always managed it somehow, probably thanks to his ever flowing revenue stream. But when he started doing base those last couple years, a decision he made because he could no longer snort(deviated septum), he quickly went downhill. Using was so engrained in Crosby it was near impossible for his loved ones to get him clean, but they sure as hell tried and spent a ton of money doing it
David’s a fine pianist. Even under such influence here. Pity he didn’t do more with it. A natural talent. You can see Graham pulling him through with such love. This is touching on so many levels.
Indeed!
I think he has done a beautiful job creating his imperfect life. He died today at age 81. Survived his drug wracked years (as so many of our so talented artists have not) to continue to create music. This song was our wedding dance 36 years ago. Will never forget him. R.I.P.
@@marthemurphy6811 Yeah I didn't get the whole "Pity he didn't do more with it" like become a huge success in the music world for decades. More success than I am sure @bradduetzmusic2429 has enjoyed
Yea Croz had said that this is right around the time he was getting really bad. "Daylight Again" wasn't even supposed to be a CSN record....it was supposed a Stills/Nash record because Croz was in such bad shape and when they submitted it, the label rejected it and said they had to get Crosby back, so they did...they helped him through it, but he did contribute to as Stills said and I'm paraphrasing "he changed some things I liked and some things I wish he didn't but we got through it and it's a great record" RIP Croz, we miss you already.
@@redgrimgrumbult3823 if you didn't understand the "Pity he didn't do more with it"...then listen to "Wasted on the Way" off of the same album. Drugs, petty squabbling, egos and pure bullshit admittedly kept all three from being musically productive, especially the Croz.
When I got the news, this song popped into my head. That's maybe the way it should be.
For me the greatest song he had written, can play this song over and over.... thanks David for giving music a meaning to me.......
Reminds me of my beautiful mother, who flew to heaven in 2012.... Saw CSN in 2013,,, this was played...Dance mama... I love you!!!!!!
May your beautiful mamma rest in peace, up there with mine. ❤
@@BobMazzo thank you 🙏
And May your mother rest well too. Tough isn’t it? ❤️
You were so lost back then but I’m happy your back with us my friend ✌️❤️
Really Heaven on earth. Rest in peace, Dave, my dear friend. Roberto 🇺🇲🇮🇹🙏
Crosby's "Delta" and "Might as Well Have a Good Time" were, for me, the highlights of CSNs final listenable album together: Daylight Again. Just as George was my favorite Beatle, Crosby was my favorite in CSNY.
If this isn't one of the most absolutely beautiful songs ever- I don't know what is. My life in so many songs, this is one of them.
RIP, David Crosby. What a fantastic, beautiful, and lovely song this one is, by the way.
Interesting, I've been listening to this album and this song ever since it came out. Never knew what the meaning was of the song Delta makes a lot of sense now with David Crosby singing and he wrote the song so God bless him Happy Trails everybody
One of the most beautiful songs written.
First song I played after his passing!
I had this album in 1983 and Delta always stuck with me. It means something more to me now with the passing of 40 years. To me it's about a man's life which has becomes a "fast running river of choice and chance" and in the moment we have, the here and now on the delta, with the vast ocean before us, we dance. He "loves the child that steers this riverboat" which is his childhood dreams dictating his adult path. But "lately he's crazy for the deep". He's yearning for the ultimate answer, but knows it perhaps cannot be known. Time stops here on the delta while they dance. Sounds like a couple dancing, but may be his youth and older self in the most amazing solitude appearing together at the crossroads of life.
I can almost get through these profound lyrics without losing it. Almost. And now? It's almost impossible to know this profound person named David Crosby, but through his music we can come close. I loved the man.
@@JamesCormier We all are moving in the fast rivers of choice and chance; We all 🕺🏼 💃🏼 DANCE!
@@daviddefigueiredo6018 me, too.
Still watching this. Still cheering for Crosby every time.
Crosby's finest. However he got there. This is the pinnacle.
I was fortunate enough to see them on this Daylight Again tour in October of '82 in Charlotte, NC. I remember crying through this song. Still does it to me 40 years later.
That must have no one huge privilege. I would have loved to see them Live.
Even if you are totally toasted ... you can sing this song! IT'S FROM THE HEART
Man... he's got those zombie eyes... and even so, he can totally comunicate his deepest feelings with his voice. Here's one of the greatest artists from that era.
Now we know “the rest of the story” that David lived and thrived. I’d like to hope that in the darkest of days and those of his supporters remembered this captured moment and how that the music could still win out over the drugs and the addiction and the effects, and that making soulful, touching music that could effects tens of thousands in the amphitheater that night and millions via studio record was still a resounding and reachable reason to keep living and get clean. I’d like to think David recognized the ability to move and reach people INCLUDING HIMSELF through music was a reason to get clean. This was perhaps his most animated and most lucid moment for him of the whole show, and I hope he recognized why, when he needed to make the tough choices.
David Crosby🕊Sweet songbird💟child of God
Amazing Artist🕊God's grace is AMAZING
Music is Love #MusicSavesSouls
Fantastic, so beautiful.
Amazing song. Amazing musicians. An amazing show! Rest in peace David.
I had a dream about David the other night. He wanted to sing with me, and all I could do was croak. Anxiety dream.
Crosby had great chord progressions and you can always identify one of his songs.
Is this CSN, or just Crosby and Nash? No Stills in the clip.
David Crosby🕊Sweet songbird💟child of God
Amazing Artist🕊God's grace is AMAZING
Saw you at the Julia Morgan Theater, Berkeley + at a club, SF ~around this time.
You have been in my prayers, ever since🕊🙏🏻🕊LOVE YOU💕
You are such a dedicated Crosby fan!! 🙌🏻
Thanks darlin for this exquisite piece...i played it over and over as i was fleeing from my addiction to cocaine....so soothing. Today, just burst into tears. David...i believe you can still feel us. Jackson...we all grew up toghther. you are still my family. I have met you both backstage at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium...all i could do was grin. love you, Meg
Rest in Peace David Crosby
One of my favorite CSN songs! The Cros really sings this wonderfully!!
A masterpiece
Man I love this song so much but there are times watching this that those dead blank eyes give me the absolute chills down in my soul and it is a well known fact that the Croz usually has the twinkliest peepers in the known multiverse. Still a beautiful rendition, maybe even because he was so far gone at this time, the song sounds like it's being pulled in from some far away stranger shore. Spooky.
My new favorite song
So so beautiful. How wonderful they are.
I was here!! David Crosby has the voixe of an angel. One of his best!
man this was Crosby near his lowest, or atleast right in the middle of his depth. Freebasing all day every day. he sounded rough at first but somehow he pulled it together in this song. RIP to a renegade outlaw rock star. never to be duplicated
Ahhh croz. What a living legend you are, chief.
RIP David Crosby
Rest in Peace David
R.I.P. David.
RIP Croz ♡▶ ua-cam.com/video/N1DdXKho_vw/v-deo.html ♡David Crosby ♡ March 7, 1981♡Julia Morgan Theater, Berkeley, CA ♡Acoustic Concert🎶Soundboard ♡i’m grateful to have attended this most beautiful concert by my favorite singer-songwriter, David Crosby. ♡Brilliant guitarist♡Beautiful tunings. Croz, child of God; sweet poet, sweet songbird, you are forever in our heart. ♡⛪ ♡Set list: The Lee Shore, Page 43, Song With No Words, Déjà Vu, Homeward Through The Haze 🎹, Delta 🎹, Samurai, Carry Me, Distances, Drive My Car 🕊RIP David Van Cortlandt Crosby (August 14, 1941 ♡January 18, 2023) 🕊Your music is love ♡healing, transcendent love.
Effin beautiful song!!!!! David, I wonder if you ever thought people with broken hearts would be listening to you with chills all through and through?!? Why is a song like this so impacting AFTER we lose a cherished artist?
♡⛵♡Delta (David Crosby)🎹
Waking - Stream of consciousness
On a sleeping - Street of dreams
Thoughts - Like scattered leaves
Slowed in mid-fall - Into the streams
Of fast running rivers
Of choice and chance
And time stops here on the delta
While they dance, while they dance
I love the child - Who steers this riverboat
But lately he's crazy - For the deep
The river seems dreamlike - In the daytime
Someone keeps thinking - In my sleep
Of fast running rivers - Of choice and chance
It seems as if time stops here on the delta
While they dance, while they dance, while they dance, da, da, da
While they dance - while they dance - while they dance
While they dance --dance-- dance -- while they dance --mmm
RIP David Crosby. Thank you.☘
Beautiful melody❤
Waking, stream of consciousness
On a sleeping street of dreams
Thoughts like scattered leaves
Slowed in midfall into the streams
Of fast running rivers of choice and chance
And time stops here, on the delta
While they dance
While they dance
I love the child who steers this riverboat
But lately he's crazy for the deep
The river seems dreamlike in the daytime
Someone keeps thinking in my sleep
Of fast running rivers of choice and chance
And time stops here (And it seems as if time stops here)
On the delta
While they dance
While they dance
My favorite version of this song is done by CPR on the 'Live at Wiltern' album.
I never even knew he played the piano at all. Bravo; great performance.
Anyone who has problems with his habits, shame on you, remember this man was in your time.
Absolutely love this song.
🥺 So sad to learn today of the Passing of David, , This is one of my most favorite songs by him, And this performance “Blows Away” the studio version on “Daylight Again”. Oh how I Love ❣ the BYRDS, CSNY, , and those Crosby/Nash Albums. Such a rich wonderful voice that David knew how to “STICK” right there in the middle harmony of whoever he sang with, , We are losing Greats of the best era of music now, , 😣 Fly High and Happy into the Eternal Cros. , , thank you for leaving us so much amazing music 🙏
Hair raising every time.Absolutely " real good ".🇮🇪☘
R.I.P.David Crosby.We lost a giant in music and great man today!
Thank you, David. Rest well… 🙏
I would sing backup anytime for him. Love CSN.
RIP DAVID Thank You for all your great music we will miss you.
Rest in in peace CROZ..
I remember when he got popped in Dallas I was in trouble Also we were in the same rehab program he was there about 20 minutes then went off to prison!! Could not stay clean......
Was able to meet up with him again in downtown Fort Worth years ago in a club called caravana dreams when he was touring with CPR after the show was able to reminisce about those days when he was in trouble.... he explained... ( I can still see his eyes) why he had the 45 because of when his old friend John got shot in the chest... he said he was just trying to go home.. Sad sad day
Che meraviglia.
Miss this genius. Did he leave a wonderful legacy? Oh yes absolutely so.☘🇮🇪☘
RIP David. You will be missed.
Every time I see performances from this tour I'm amazed at how David could be so drugged out and still be so impeccable! Only those who are intimately acquainted with his musical soul will notice that there is just a spark missing.
🎉😢😢❤
Love you, thank you so much for the beautiful flowers (music) 💚💖❤️🎶
His voice is an instrument looking for a great song. Delta is one of the many.
RIP Mr. Crosby
Never having heard such beautiful vocals amazing
Una delle più belle canzoni di Crosby
A great hero is gone. R.i.P.
Sublime ! ❤
AMAZING! 🫶
R.I.P. Croz ❤️
love this song,organ sounds like shit though
Must be the poor quality if this upload. It sounded great when I heard it on cable TV back in the day.
What a way to break up a great band
Croz has at least been a consistent big mouth! 😁
Nash is a Narcissist whose voice is gone and Young on numerous times abandoned his friends and finally abandoned his wife. Crosby simply told them how he felt.
this is a terrible song...yuk
Your loss.
Some people don't like licorice. You're a fool though.
All a matter of taste, or lack there of - the latter being pertinent to you.
go🖕 one