David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember These Sessions
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
- If I Could Only Remember These Sessions (1-19)
PERRO Tapes - Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra (8)
CN&Y Waterbrothers 1972 (20)
CSN 67-71 Rarities (21)
00:00 1. Walking In The Mountains 1
01:43 2. Walking In The Mountains 2
07:08 3. The Wall Song 2
13:26 4. Loser 3 & 4
18:51 5. Tamalpais High (At About 3) Full Blown
27:53 6. Cowboy Movie (Rough)
36:02 7. Wild Turkey (Leather Winged Bat)
40:30 8. Anesthesia (false start)
41:28 9. Anesthesia
46:34 10. Slide Jam
54:05 11. Is It Really Monday
59:15 12. Over Jordan (Wayfaring Stranger)
1:02:47 13. Walking In The Mountains 3
1:06:28 14. Jorma & Jerry's Jam 1
1:20:49 15. Loser 1 & 2
1:24:07 16. The Wall Song 1
1:28:32 17. Rounds (EPP Hour)
1:33:22 18. Walking In The Mountains 4
1:41:40 19. Wooden Ships (Demo)
1:43:34 20. Page 43 (CN&Y Live '72)
1:47:52 21. Laughing (Demo)
David Crosby - guitar, vocals
Graham Nash - guitar, vocals
Neil Young - vocals, guitar
Paul Kantner - guitar, banjo, vocals
Grace Slick - piano, vocals
Joni Mitchell - vocals
Jorma Kaukonen - lead guitar
Jack Casady - bass
Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
Phil Lesh - bass
Bill Kreutzmann - drums
Mickey Hart - percussion
David Freiberg - viola, vocals
Laura Allan - autoharp
Greg Rollie - keyboards
Michael Shrieve - drums
Stephen Barncard - producer, engineer, archivist
The roots of PERRO go back a lot further than 1971. It had its inception in the early years of the '60s when Kantner, Crosby and Freiberg used to hang out, play music, get high and rap together around Venice Beach. That was the initial bond, the start of it all.
Later, when they were in bands of their own, there were occasional points of interaction - like Garcia sitting in on the 'Surrealistic Pillow' sessions, like Crosby giving "Triad" to the Airplane, like Kantner, Crosby and Stills writing "Wooden Ships".
As the '60s drew to a close, two sets of circumstances combined to bring the Planet Earth Rock And Roll Dream a whole lot nearer. One was the opening of Wally Heider's studio in San Francisco - because now the local SF musicians (Airplane, Quicksilver, Dead) had a place on their doorstep where they could record. This gave them freedom from the corporate studios to record and produce as they saw fit, to come and go more as they pleased and to invite the musical neighborhood in if they chose. The other catalyst was the state of flux that a lot of bands were falling into by 1969/1970, for Crosby had left the Byrds, the Airplane was a less cohesive force with Dryden out and Hot Tuna splitting off, and Dino Valenti's arrival had unsettled QMS.
Things had come pretty much full circle by the end of the decade. Kantner was again hanging out with Crosby (quite often on the latter's yacht) and with David Freiberg - and, when Paul came to assemble musicians to record 'Blows Against The Empire', it wasn't just to his Airplane cohorts that he turned but also to Crosby and Garcia and even Graham Nash - who'd just bought a house in Frisco and ended up producing the whole second side of the 'Blows...' album at Heider's studio. 'Blows..." was the first album by that collection of musicians whom Paul liked to term the Planet Earth Rock And Roll Orchestra.
As Grace recalls, "These sessions were like 'Uh, do you wanna play guitar on this one?' 'No, man, I have to go to the bathroom.' 'Okay, David, you wanna play?' 'Sure'. Whoever felt like doing something did it. Parts interchanged, people interchanged."
Graham Nash says "They asked me my opinion and I just jumped right in. Grace, Paul, David - they let me do whatever I heard. I was searching for this kind of environment when I came to America and when I was mixing in the studio our imaginations were running rampant. We were creating virtual kingdoms with music."
The second such PERRO project was David Crosby's debut solo album, 'If I Could Only Remember My Name', which features all of the above-mentioned Planet Earthers plus the likes of Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Gregg Rolie and Mike Shrieve.
On to the tapes in question. They come from sessions at Wally Heider's San Francisco studios in 1971. Crosby had sailed his boat up to Sausalito Harbor. Nash was resident in the Haight. Kantner and Slick had moved out to Bolinas and the Dead were in Mill Valley but they would all head for Wally's of an evening to work on PERRO songs. Some of these things ended up on Crosby's solo, a couple on Garcia's solo, one on Paul's 1983 'Planet Earth' album... and some have never seen the light of day.
Speaking of never seeing the light of day, this rare PERRO track was shared with me by a kind viewer to post here! Many thanks. "Coast Road" was released not long ago, but in an edited version (as in half the song is missing.) Here is the breathtakingly beautiful full length version with David Crosby, Graham Nash and Laura Allan. • David Crosby - Coast R...
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I met David once in the mid 80's in a market in Mill Valley. He was asking people who were standing in line for change. He needed change. He said he had money he just needed some change.
As I recall this was a bad time drug wise for him.
A few months later I saw him in a one man show in a small after hours bar in San Francisco, near that famous strip club.
He was really overweight and his breathing was labored. But his voice was pure as silk.
When he started to play Wooden Ships, Paul Kantner came out of the audience and got on the stage and played along with David.
Rock n Roll history and me without my camera.
David was a genius, he will be missed.
Incredible story, you're really lucky!
@@TheBundleofkent He`s no lucky at all, he missed the camera.
the hungry i used to be the birthplace of modern stand-up comedy - Mort Sahl, with the great impressario restauranteur, Enrico Banducci
A genius? Please. If so, what was Mozart? Crosby was talented and was lucky enough to be born into a good family. He was fortunate to be in the right place at the right time, but he was lazy and refused to develop ideas past the stage of marijuana inspiration. "You have been walking...You have always been walking..." WTF? He likely couldn't stay focused and productive because he was too easily distracted by sex and drugs. Without Graham Nash, he was a freeloader. IICORMY sucked. Self indulgent hippie tripe.
There are no geniuses on planet earth.... never have been.... only people that take themselves or others too seriously
This compilation is for all of us "If I Could Only Remember Time" lovers who always think "oh, why is it already over?". Exceptionally. 🥰
I love this set!!
This is really the only album from CSNY works that I consider "desert island albums'. Learning these songs (tunings!) was a giant step for me.
Being a newbie here there's so much involved between the music and lyrics it just overcomes me. Really love this. And I really love reading these comments thanks.
Tamalpais high is an absolute masterpiece
If we could ALL remember the heart, the virgin energy of the 60's and 70's perhaps we really would see Peace on Earth. The freedom of dancing on the Earth embracing her goodness again. If only .......
I as a young kid was fortunate to have been ah well exposed to these absolutely gifted musicians and I can only thank the ones responsible for these presents !
Well said “the virgin energy of the 60’s & 70’s” the optimism was the true high, so happy to think about what it all felt like & thank you
I was born in late ‘67 caught just enough of it as a child to know that I was born too late and missed it then the ‘80s oh nooooi.
I was 13 when I was turned onto CSNY four way street. I was blown away by the performance. We were traveling from Cape Cod to New Jersey, and I insisted that we stop in town, as I wanted to stop at a record store. I went in and was immediately drawn to David Crosby, If I could only remember my name. I was quite young and never heard of any of these performers before, but wanted to learn about the music. I still have the LP, even though the record isn't in the best shape. That was in 1973.
I met David in prison when he got busted in Texas. I'm a guitar player, so we was in the band together at Wynne Unit I still have a prison newspaper where he signed it for me before he got out , learn a lot about David in them times !
Crosby was my bunk mate .He cried alot after sex
I recall an interview where he said that he wrote some of his best music during that time.
Then, can I assume you knew Billy Jones, the same convict who Croz raves about in his autobiography as being a phenomenal guitar player ... the same convict who met Croz with a guitar upon entering the TDCJ system?? Billy and I became close friends a few years later on Ramsey.
So talented. The day I witnessed him and Jerry on stage together will be in my heart forever.
You can feel someone's soul in the music they make and you feel it right here.
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The golden age of true music ... Thanks for the upload !
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Club of uncensored poets... that very cool... hello from North Carolina USA
Such great music in those days. RIP Croz
Unbelievable just how much talent is squeezed into this recording. There's nothing remotely comparable today.
Should check out Strangefolk, Wide Spread Panic from the 90's til now. And newer bands include Circles Around the Sun, Toubab Krewe, The Fritz and The Mantras. Everybody's underground now, in the festival circuit.
Back in my day sonny🙄
Sure there is. All over UA-cam.
You're kidding.@@michaelducote2509
Too young? Not enough music knowledge? Both?@@JimboJazz
It's so good to hear all of those familiar voices harmonizing together.
Look at the credit personalities. Almost all my heroes are on this record.
This was soon after the love of his life was tragically killed in a car accident. He was suffering paralyzing depression. Couldn't get out of bed. Reportedly, Jerry would come to his house and literally drag him to Wally Heider's and make him work on this, which became what some critics have called the best record ever made. I can't say that I disagree.
It pays to have people that care in your lives
Using cocaine and heroin in tandem to focus and then to lose himself, he was still convinced he was in control. Not so.
The final straw came in 1985 when he was arrested for the possession of drugs and a weapon.
he would spend nearly a year behind bars. I find it amazing no matter where or how you post Christine Hinton.. Crosbys girlfriend.. it all comes back to him.. She is the topic but again He shrouds all
@@micktheMaagwhat's your point? she died tragically and it affected him deeply. He WAS a drug addict. I don't really see the point you're making
(in relation to Croz over shadowing her death)
Mine was killed that way too
The vast chasms of void cannot be completely described 🤕😵💫😶
@@joshmichaels1435He turned to drugs to try to hide the pain and ended up close to death and in prison and he didn't confront the loss until he saw The Fisher King and the Robin Williams character woke up out of the coma missing his late wife.
Aaaand.... I am crying my face off again. I miss this soul, very much.
Used to see David, Graham ,Jackson, Bonnie, play free outdoor shows, supporting the no nukes movement in the very early 1980's. Everyone was accessible, but David particularly was always happy to chat it up. He was just as beautiful as you'd expect, even on a bad day, he soared above this world.
"You were playing like a Devil wearing wings" - Joni Mitchell, "That Sing About The Midway".
And Jerry.... Spent many years with that traveling gypsy show. Words would never do those days justice.
Thank you for this unexpected, emotional, Sunday morning, musical rollercoaster ride.
My pleasure... don't miss the encore: ua-cam.com/video/hVzfCFclvAk/v-deo.htmlsi=0ql6pe3z_GI5XONo
Thank you for this. "If I Could Only Remember My Name" is one of my favorite, and most obscure albums.
I still have the LP. I've always felt as though I was blessed to have been able sit in on an incredible star- studded, free flowing jam session.
Now you know why Crosby got top billing! What a Giant! 😢
Nah - euphonious meter . Said so themselves . Try saying their names in some other order ...
I was lucky enough to see CSN in Cardiff UK in October 2015 (one of their last concerts I think), and was just mesmerized by their music. I always loved David Crosby in particular and this recording is just brilliant - Please someone, put it out on CD , I just love it.
It's from a CD. See picture at top.
My mistake, thank you !@@ragpicker006
I was lucky to see them in Seattle in 1974: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
These gents were so gifted with love,grooves,vibes to last for generation's what a ride man smooth mix of a lifetime,,,r.i.p our friend david
WOW what a piece of rock archeology...thank you for sharing this. It's a veritable audio time machine.
Audio quality is pretty amazing.
Thank Steven Barncard for that!
I love Stephen Barncard's production, he manages to let everything breathe naturally without over-processing. The beautiful sound of the acoustics on 'If I Could Only Remember My Name' ... so many fabulous musicians, Garcia's lap steel playing on 'Laughing' sends chills up my spine.@@mlbloverock
@@mlbloverockSo a lot of this stuff was never released commercially? It's really beautiful.
Yeah, the masters got out as a gift to the world
No way where did this come from? Guys how did I miss this? Man I, ve gotten old , but I wish that I could have put my hands on this gem,I was boppn around hollywood in 72, may be haven too much fun, this is Superb....................Got to have it...................if I could remember my?
Hey Bob. Did you miss the PERRO recordings here, or Crosby's If I Could Only Remember My Name LP? Or both? A new 50th Anniversary version of IICORMN was released with extra tracks, it's the one to get. For these recordings, all you have to do is ask!
@@mlbloverock Hey man, I got if I could remember my name, i was cool, then I went into the Marines, man I was hang,n out do,n my thing, see on the east coast, I had a gold ticket, my sister was a playwright, So Dylan, Havens, Joan Biez, and so many more, the dudes the kingston singer,, the letterman I mean they were everywhere, but you see we just started smoken weed., so I jumped in my car and headed west,17, sounds like you right? No anger, no hate, no guns or knives, or you know harmful stuff, just eat, sleep, where we going later? Remember Jackson Brown said (such a fine line , I hate to see it go), I say what a fine life ,I hate to see it go.
Humans are very unpredictable
There are many small but precious treasures inside there! Superb!!!
I love his musical instincts. I'll follow him anywhere musically. There's not many I say that of.
Did you like him in the Byrds? I sure did!
David's music resonates so deeply for me. Growing up listening to the Airplane the Dead and so many others, but it was David's voice that carried the sound.
These Sessions by far surpass the actual album which is great! Was happy to find a copy on vinyl a few years ago. Miss ya Croz and Jer
Очень долго искал сольники Дэвида еще с 70х знал что сольники у него шедевры светлая память ему Гусляру❤😮🎉
It's amazing that Jorma could play like Jerry to a tee as if he played on dead live or us it the other way around lol!
What a gem - I like this more than the final album
I was recently gifted a another unreleased gem from these sessions! ua-cam.com/video/hVzfCFclvAk/v-deo.html
@@mlbloverock Nice!
one of the best albums to trip to back in the day....
Listening to this was wonderful
Geez I know I was only around 10 years old but where the heck was this hiding??? Genius Croz❤
What a great gift that the sound quality is that good, too! A most wonderful recording. Makes me really happy 🎠🎠
there are no words for this! just my soul left bare. i love you david crosby!
One more song... ua-cam.com/video/hVzfCFclvAk/v-deo.html
Thanks if not for you and UA-cam id never hear these recordings here in Cambodia.
You are very welcome! Don't miss the "missing" track: ua-cam.com/video/hVzfCFclvAk/v-deo.html
Are you an American expat?? Amazing if so...
This is so precious.
Raw material with some good bits. Love to watch pics and album covers.
Man these guys sure were great together
En Casa con Dios ❤️ David Crosby ❤🙌🏼🤲🏼✌🏼
May 29th, 2023 ... Oh My ... good good shit ...
Wow
Wall Song - I had the good fortune to have recorded a Grateful Dead hour back in late 80s/early 90s that included a version of Wall Song I have yet to find anywhere else. It sounds like the lp version but with a longer jam (and you know how quickly those jams can get going) . I have the cassette but cannot get it to upload!!
❤ outstanding music, first time I ever listened and no doubt one of the best I ever had. R.I.P. Croz.
True music !!! Golden age!!
What a hidden gem IMO
Such beautiful rarities. Thank you for posting.
Wow, this takes me way back
One of the things I liked about the album is the incredible sound. Very airy and uncompressed.
He was a good songwriter with a nasty drug habit. When Donovan writes a song about it...
I wish there was a larger library of his Solo work.
Im surprised that nothing from IICORMN never got air play.
The album is good overall with some absolute gems, Cowboy Movie, Laughing, and Traction in the Rain are among my favorite songs ever.
Thanks for posting this.
How could you fail to mention " Song with no words "
@@johnmcdermott326 How could you fail to mention "Tree with No Leaves"? 😉
How could you not mention “Space with no planets”?
Tamalpais might be the best of all of them…also not mentioned. What’s up wit dat?
Wow wow wow. This is simply incredible 🎉😮❤ some of the best music I have ever heard. Real living spirits , souls speaking to souls at a a level far above the mundane. Finding a sphere of immanence above but the fingers feets and voices are all there present with every beat and breath
Hell yeah!
This is the bees knees. Cheerss
Excellent
Man I love this so much .croz you are so missed
Not heard before. Cheers. 👍
If he's more focus and sober, he'd have made this song into a folk rock gemstone, a big nugget
I like the vibe of it... The easy stone(y) feel of the whole thing...
The "If I could only remember" prepositional phase was also used in 'I won't stay for long' written by Crosby's son...
The pitures are steller.... and so is the music.
pitures....
@@namcat53 Captivating photography
Thanks for posting this stuff. I love to hear the behind the stage things these guys did in those days! Masters I think!
Free flowing melodic jam
✌❤N' Rock&Roll,,,ReallyDigsMySoul😎
🍀Cheers 🍻🍺 I'll Drink2That🍀
imagina esse povo todo junto 😅🙃🙃🙃a doideira🤪 amarei até o fim dos meus dias 🥰🥰🥰
very good..........................
Sweet, sweet memories❤
Verdad que es un placer escuchar al señor David Crosby
13:08 13:11 13:11
Brilliant
David’s heavenly voice plus the pure vibe coming off those other musicians reminds of how far gone those days are…replaced by times of doom and despair
True and if a certain person has his way further we fall away from what is right
@@michaellelle4447 Amen
What a gift. TY!
You are welcome. Good music is for sharing!
Crosby at his best with the Dead, far better than he was with all his other bands.
Tha you for sharing this pure diamond!!!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely gorgeous, thanks so much for sharing these songs. I wish I could upload a 10min version of Coast Road from these PERRO sessions that Laura Allan gave me before she passed in 2008, but since a shorter version was added to the 50th anniversary reissue of IICORMN I doubt that it would stay up for very long
Thanks again for posting, cheers
Please do it anyway! It may still be allowed, just as my post was. They blocked the first one, and I had to edit the six songs from IICORMN, but I tried again. The blocked attempt did not affect my channel or cause a copyright strike against me. So give it a try...
@@mlbloverock Hmm, thanks for the encouragement, although I've not yet posted up anything here so I'd have to learn how. Or, I'd be happy to pass it to you so that you could give it a go. Please let me know if you'd like for me to do that. Seems to me that you should have it to add to your marvelous setlist if you don't already
@@mlbloverock Wonderful, I'll email it to you. Thank you!
@@Peacebirdie Coast Road is up! Not only was it not blocked, it was not even recognized. That may change, but signs are good it will stay up. Thank you for sharing!
@@mlbloverock Un million merci mon frère 💙
Four very good songwriters who really had a knack for writing songs that were meaningful, much the same as the BEATLES. These guys put on great shows with and without Neil Young.
Thx, Mlbloverock for putting this together
Play it often. And don't miss the beautiful "Coast Road" that is from these sessions! The link to it is in the video description, at the very bottom after all that backstory.
Absolutely wonderful,
Hey may have went ahead of us, but he left a treasure beyond the imagination and priceless. Better than Gold Platinum or Silver. A living legacy of music, and love. I know I'll see him again when my number is called and I step beyond the veil.
@mlbloverock
Thanks for the work put into bringing this absolute masterpiece to UA-cam. The photo montage is a nice touch.
Thank you.
And the brilliant missing unreleased (until I posted it) song from these PERRO sessions, that was shared with me by a listener after they saw this vid:
ua-cam.com/video/hVzfCFclvAk/v-deo.htmlsi=3UK1vap2Exm2YQfx
Thanks. Great music.
Splendido
Interesting that they committed all this to tape.
Why? I guess they didn’t want to miss any serendipitous magic. Anyway, for us it’s such a wonderful peek into the process that resulted in this beautiful dreamy album- still so good so many years later
Beautiful stuff. One thing I never understood with early acoustic CSN , or just Crosby in this case, is why their guitars always sound slightly out of tune.
Maybe using different tunnings?, just asking, don't know. Also, in these particular rare sessions could be just that guitars untune and depending on how much beer and weed and whatever no one payed that much attention to that and just went on with the jam. Gives a weird mysterious touch to it anyway
Yeah man this took me on such a beautiful musical triiip
Same here
Grace's voice...
👏👏👏👏👏
What a masterpiece.Thank you.
Outstanding thank you 🙏
This is Absolutely Fantastic. Thank you. ✌️
Thank you ❤️🕉️✨🕉️❤️
Incredible find! I wish my friend who turned me on to the original album were around to hear this. 👋🤠
What a gem! Thank you!
pretty much same lineup as blows against the empire, grew up in college with this…… also stills had a good single album at the same time
Amazing videos and music!!!!
That Make the Mountain song Furthur used to play
Nice. Thanks.
these sessions/album release were part of the PERRO canon, right along with Baron Von Tollbooth album in 1973.
August 14th 2023🎉Happy Birthday David Van Cortlandt Crosby (August 14, 1941 - January 18, 2023🎀🕯🎀❤🌹🙏❤⚡💙
Killer
" Right On "
Such clean clear sound, and the first time I have seen the whole 2CD set up here (I believe that there are up to six CDs of material) I notice that the track order is different to some versions I have seen. Was there ever a definitive order?
Yes, but many tracks were blocked by youtube the first time around, mainly ones from Crosby's LP. This was my 2nd upload, with everything else plus a couple of bonus tracks.
@@mlbloverock Thanks for persevering!
I was recently gifted a another unreleased gem from these sessions! ua-cam.com/video/hVzfCFclvAk/v-deo.html
Yes, a two-cd set was released from this Wally Heider Studio material. I'm not sure if you'd call its sequence a definitive order or not. More material, yes, that would be sooo nice!
@@lightlyone
More material! ua-cam.com/video/hVzfCFclvAk/v-deo.html
Jack Casady - ba(da)ss
Grew up on this man and his friends
.Indescribable and Indisputable and Indispensable
got that circus magazine if i could just remember where it is seriously
That is a rare item!
Assume it's Grace singing Is It really Monday?
You can hear Grace as well in the several takes of "Walking In The Mountains".