David Crosby: Don't Call It a Comeback

the twentieth century. His composition, harmonizing and non traditional guitar tunings helped create the sound of the sixties and seventies. It's a sound he honed with his first big act, The Birds, turning counterculture anthems like Dylan's Tambourine Man into mainstream hits. David Crosby is famous too for his addiction to cocaine and heroin in the nineteen eighties. It almost killed him, but even in his darkest moments, Crosby always had people pulling him up, even some of the biggest

stars of the era. All Right, I am in the middle of my lowest point of being a complete wasteerl on hard drugs. Right, it's a bit of my phone rings. Yeah, who's this. It's Townsend? I said, bullshit. He says, no, it's Townsend. Listen, get off that stuff. Get the off that stuff after watch the four letter words right now you can let it rip. He really your podcasting, and so he says, you know, fucking get your ship, you gotta. You're fucking up, glad, quit that ship in my face.

Really seriously, I was like, who the fun my number? I still haven't deciphered how this all happened. Well, it made him think it would work working everybody else had failed. Somebody put him up to it. I'm not sure work. No, No, what worked was they sent me to prison in Texas for a year. That worked. So that's what That was a turning point for you. Yeah, it got me sober, and you were largely or you were completely sober since then. I was completely sober for fourteen and a half years.

Uh what happened with the prison? What year you were? How old? I was born in forty and I was deeply addicted and the only had already tried uh in you know rehab places moment I think four or five times failed. Ah, so the prison did it? You know? Junk and free base, that's that's a prison you carry around with you. You don't get to get out prison. You get to get out, and I don't regret it a bit. How were you treated by the inmate population when you're imprisoned with a kind to you? Did they

dig you and admire you? A full range went all the way from uh, I like your music man to uh hey, rock star? How are you doing now? I bet you wish you had some drugs, don't you? Hey? Ron? Look over here, rock Star throwing up again? Some bit was Texas and they didn't give me an aspect. They didn't even have a meetings in the prison. And not that you had no help at always crawled out of there was bitter. It was bitter. But I woke up. When you get out of prison, what do you do well? Like?

Like who comes around you? People come to you and say let's get back to work? Or what's that like? As soon as I woke up, I started writing again. I'm a hugely lucky human being. Now I have a reason. Here's a fact about writing and creating and drugs. The more drugs I did, the less I wrote. And you can plot the two curves and they crossed at a certain point, you know, and I just kept the more

drugs identically stopped writing. And then about two years went by, and then I woke up in prison remember who I was, and started writing again. And since then it's been a steady increase in a steady increase in quality. So I can only draw one conclusion. Now this is gonna sound strange, but you come from a nice family, were comfy, and I got to go to good schools. I had a rich uncle. My dad was a cinematographer and a very good one. Not a warm and fuzzy guy, but technically excellent.

So yeah, I thought I wanted to be an actor. You know what's really funny, man, most of the actors I don't want to be musicians, And all the musicians I know, because no matter what you're doing, you can be doing anything, and music can be in your left and therefore music will always have a more powerful place in the lives of people than any film or TV. Any debatable, but I think you got a lot of

evidence on your side there. Music. The way I look at it, music all art can be and usually is a lifting force, just as war drags humanity down and makes brings out the very worst in US. So music and art lift they're lifting force. They make things better, and so I I kind of think, I kind of think I'm probably the luckiest guy in the world. I think I've got probably one of the best jobs. I tried to acting. I'm not really good at it. You know,

I don't know why you'd want to act. If I could do what you do, you could never You couldn't get me off stage with a gun. I just would play music if I could do what you do. It's when I went to go see The Beatles Love. I go to Vegas to go to see the Circus. So the The Beatles Love, and what kits you in the beginning, other than the really kind of groovy meshing of the songs and the kind of overdubbing they did, was the idea of that all of them were born during the war.

They were all war babies in London. They were and you talk and talk, and the opening of the show kind of tips how that affected them and how they affected their lives and now they viewed their country and so forth. You're a war baby, you were born during the war. What was life like when you were a kid? I remember my dad, I remember watching my dad at a distance at you know where Burbank Airport is used

to be Douglas Field. I remember my dad climbing into the belly of a B twenty four and flying away to the war. I remember watching he was. They commissioned directly into what was then the Army Air Corps because he had this he was already an Academy award running, you know, autographers. They put him right in the Air Corps and put him in this twenty four that didn't that was a camera plane, that's all it was. And he went all over the world. He went every he

had every theater reddened there was. It was gone for how long? Five years? Well, because he wasn't a bombing thing. You know, he had to follow up bombers, but he wasn't bombing, so he didn't get thirty five and out. He he kept calling five years every major theater of the war. And when he came back, what was he like? You wouldn't ever talk about it. So life at home when you were a child is with your mother. Yeah at first, yeah, and then both of them. But my

dad just wasn't a real home body family guy. He was off working. Yeah, and you go to boarding school I did. Yeah, Kate, what was that black? What were you like? Were you always mischievous? Always? And it got me in a shipload of trouble. Why do you think, I don't know, but it's definitely true. I got thrown out of almost every school I was ever in, including Kate. What was music in your life? Then? Music came early? And well, uh, my mom sang in choirs. My dad

liked music. He could play a mantle in. My brother played guitar. We used to There's an interesting thing when when we were growing up in the fifties, when TV started to really happen, we didn't have a TV, so we sang folks songs out of the Fireside Book of Folk Songs, and that was where it started. Did anybody tell you then you could sing that? They say you're a good singer. They did notice that I was singing harmony when I was six, and huh, what's the first

instrument you played? Good to are my brother turned me on to guitar when you were how old? I guess maybe can what's the best time you think that. My son is two and a half years so it's gonna be three in June. He's obsessed with simulating playing the guitar. He actually has a band with my wife. He calls her Trista, and he's Mr Pants. Mr Pants. He'll turn to my wife a little, I've got it on video. He'll turn to my wife and Trista, what are we gonna play now? He's two and a half. Don't let

him be a musician we wanted to be. It's terrible idea. He'll never have a job. Actually let him. Do you think that if you didn't? But when you say that, do you think if you hadn't made it as big as you made it, you wouldn't have stuck with it, or you would have stayed with it just because you loved it. I would because I love it. I love it so much. Like I can't tell you I love singing it. I'm good at it, but that's not really it. It's there's a joy to singing in and of itself,

and it's it's an elevating thing. It's totally freaking wonderful. It's very tough for me now, man, because really old and getting on the road exhausting. Yeah, well, I beat the crap out of me. Yeah, because you'd never get more than four hours sleep in a row and then in the middle of that you had an expansion joint and blinking your way again, and you know, and you're eating terrible food and restaurants. When when did you when

you left home? You didn't go to college. No, I went one year and you went to UH City College in Santa Barbara, which is now, oddly enough, the highest rated city college in the country. It was interesting and good, and I had one really good teacher hooked me up about some really interesting things about semantics and the language. And no, you weren't sending music then, No, no, not yet.

I was. I was bussing tables at the local coffeehouse because as a bus boy they would let me sing harmony with the guy who was being paid to sing. And what was the first band you were in? Less Baxter's Balladeers. Let's Baxter band leader. He had seen the Christie Mittrels, which that guy who sparks we had. I think he had three of them out their bands like that, your all name the same, you know. Just it was a commercial operation and was really onla but we was

put food on the table. My brother and I were in that. And then I ran into Roger mcgwinn and Gean Clark and where a tutor a bar at the tributary and they were singing and it was good and the songs were you know, James pretty good writer. And so when those two have they had an act called they have an act. We're just playing. They were just

in the bar. You know. Roger has been a musician for a while and successful and played with other bands, Lime Letters, Jad Mitchell Three, a bunch of different people, so he knew what he was doing, and he knew that Jean was chalented and that this stuff had value because it sounded a lot like Beatles songs. And so I started singing harmony to him. They said, what's your name? And uh, that worked out really well. It was a good band, simple good. Roger's extremely good, had taken Bob

Dylan songs and turning them into pop records. And you covered Tambourine Man. Yeah, that was our first hit. Well, what did you learn about bands in your first band? What that experience thought? I learned that that I had a lot to learn. I was just a young punk and I really had no idea how to actually work with the people and accomplished the aim that I wanted to. I had an experience early on when I was young.

My mom took me to see a symphony orchestra in a park free show there in that way, and they tuned up and they got ready, and then he started the piece and it was this huge, beautiful wave that hit me. I didn't know anything was like that, you know, symphony orchestra, hugely powerful thing, and it freaked me out. And the thing I've realized, even as a kid, the power came from they were roll doing me together. I can't believe you just said that. It's the truth, and

it really and it penetrated. So I've always wanted to be in a band always. I love cooperative effort. Competitive effort winds up at war, cooperative effort winds up. I'm watching Tom Petty's band playing a benefit and offriend was with me. I turned him and I said, do you see what I'm seeing? My friend said what? And I said, they're all doing the same thing. At the same time,

I said, they're all in service to and feeding. You know, in my business, not everybody's doing the same thing that they're kind of doing their own thing, kind of jerking off in the corner there. You know Patty's band was doing the same thing. Yeah, it was really really, very very cool. Do you find in a band does somebody always need to be in charge? Does somebody need to be the boss? It can go both ways. And the Birds, Roger was definitely the leader of the band, and that

worked well. Yeah, he knew a lot more than we did, and he's also an extremely talented guy and a good singer, and so it wouldn't you know, I challenged it at every turn, but he was the leader of the band uh c s And why none of us was willing to admit anybody else was the leader were it was and probably still is one of the most competitive situations in the history uh and not. He goes really just

that simple. And in spite of all the incredible success you've had, I mean, who's when you think of people, when you think of men harmonizing in a group, the first people that come to mind of the three of you, Why do you think that that didn't bring them any comforts? I don't think that's what they went in for, and I don't think they realized exactly how good it was. We did really like each other when we started, and

we were thrilled, you know, by each other's songs. So you leave the Birds and and and and Stills leaves Buffalo Springfield and they bring you with them Springfield throw fell apart left, which is kind of his m o uh. Stephen was very appealing guitar player and singer. I mean, it's really good. Remember how well he played acoustic guitar back down beautiful, pretty stunning, And so I started hanging out with him, and then Cass introduced me to the ground.

But when Nash leaves the Hollies, the Hollies are doing very well, aren't they very successful? Why does he leave the Hollies? I told him you did? I went to work, I went to London. I told me she quit? And how did you do that? We could quit? Why? Because he could join us. He was at a very crux point with the Hollies. They wanted to do an album of Dylan covers. Now, there are bands that should do Dylan covers and there are bands that should not do Dyl covers. That was one of the bands that should

not do Dealing covers. And they were ignoring his songs. He had already written A Lady at the Island, and they didn't get it beautiful song. He had already been right between the eyes. They didn't get it. He he was already outgrowing them. So I walked in and said, hmmm, this is pretty ordinary. And I was funnier than they were, and I knew more than they did, and I did

it on purpose, and they'll probably never forgive me. But it made a great sound, we the three of us, when we heard each other saying it was, it was spectacular. But bands get together and you're in love with each other and fall wonderful and exciting, and then it devolves, and forty years later it's turned on. A small machine will play your heads and you don't even like each other. You don't ride the same bus, you do not hang out,

and you are competing with the other guys. So it's easier to do the touring and get on stage and get that on and get that of it than it is to be. You don't go into a studio anymore because that's more intimate that died quicker. Yeah, the money is still good on the road in a band like that, you know uh that you you want to stay there. It means big crowds, big places, big deal. You can continue, But it got to pomer is no fun? Is it about when it starts to crack, when it starts to ship?

Is it because of songwriting? No one's getting that too. Wants to see my songs. I want my songs on that album. Who's the decider? Did you guys acquiesced to producers? No? We Uh, we always produced our records and uh and are we had what we call the reality rule. You come into the room, you know, just us, nobody else and seeing each other's song, and they either liked it they didn't and uh, if they liked it, you know, then we start figured out how to sing it. And

these are hugely talented guys. Man, they came with a lot of stuff. So before it was the four of you, the three of you was basically pretty good. Yeah, it was okay. You know. Uh. Neil's nickname is sometimes it's CSN sometimes why you know, uh, and when it would be c S and why it was a lot bigger that. You've got to know that that's the reason to see us and has always Neil's decision. Because if there's twenty thousand people in the stadium, Neill put ten of them there.

That's the truth. And so he's he's the one that's that's said, that's it's done. He doesn't want to do that anymore. And I don't think he needs to to see so I don't think you'll ever see it again when you say he's sometimes and he comes and goes. Is that his nature in all things? He just has to tough time committing to anything. No, he's on his own path and he does not relinquish that ever under

any circumstances. And uh, he does not want to be dependent on anybody else and probably doesn't want to explain the money. I don't know. I've never asked him, but I know he I think you know I had to come to this decision. It's a very hard decision, man, This is a very hard time for us. I don't know if you know this, but streaming pretty much destroyed our earning power. It took half, at least half of our earning power away from us because they folks, they

don't pay us for records anymore. And that's really sad. Huh. They got that deal passes and they it's sort of as if you worked your job and they paid you a nickel for every two weeks. It's the proportion is drastically tiny. So with Neil gone and CSN still earning, but really frozen in place and really unpleasant I mean incidents that I will not tell you about, but violently bad, carefully chosen more h David Crosby is having a renaissance,

three solo albums over the past four years. We hear about his new burst of creativity and why he thinks Stills and Nash are still out there playing the hits when we come back. I'm Alec Baldwin and you're listening to Here's the Thing such a time before. That's Crosby with Stills A Nash. We've heard about the band's disintegration, but not what made it great? What was the best time? Every time? Every time? For years at the beginning, every time we'd go on stage, we would just kill it.

We could sing together. Nash is a fantastic HERMONI singer. He absolutely hates my guts. That's not fun to work. But why do you think that's that's the case. I could tell you, but it would be personal. Stuff would be better. It would be better if he told you, yeah, because you know, uh he said, he said, he said some unfortunate stuff happened in his life someone which is his fault, some of which isn't uh and and he

blames me for it. And he mostly blames me because I shot my mouth off about Neil's girlfriend and piste off Neil, which ended to us, and that's my fault, and it's it was so innocent, you know, I've finished an interview like this and we shut the tape off and I was walking down and he said, what do you think it's needle few girlfriend? Man I said, oh, I think she's a predator bamn on the net immediately. Wow. And Niel says, okay, that's it, no more and uh, I went on stern and he said, wow, do you

feel man? I said, I. I didn't have any right to do that. It was I shot my mouth off, and he's pissed at me, and so I want to apologize to him and to morrow. I want to apologize, sir. I'm not really in a position to judge other people. I'm the one who wound up in prison. Yeah, but you know, mist these days, everybody's just waiting to pound you never you never, you never, uh you know, there's

no forgetting. I mean, everybody knows the story I guess I was fighting for custody of my daughter and I have to go to court and spend dollars just to get my kid on the phone. You know, they're going to coach the child how to answer the phone. She was like eleven, and so I leave this message on my order his voicemails screaming at my daughter on the phone. I go go nuts because I've gone through all these stages of that. Now what I did. I had this

great therapist say this to me. Once he goes, you realize that none of what you suffered, no matter what you felt was unfair, he said, you realize that none of that would have happened if you hadn't left the message. If you hadn't left the message, none of this would have happened, regardless of what you think about them leaking

it to the press. But the point once that gets out there on the internet, if you go online and you read my Twitter feed or you go see any of my social media, there's not a day goes by, not one that someone doesn't throw that in my face. They send me a message with that, they'll show me a YouTube tape with a LinkedIn, so there's no forgetting anymore. No, And it's the people that were up against your are are very very good at at assaulting any vulnerability they

see in the people who criticize them. And we do criticize them, both you and I do, because they are doing a rotten job with this country. Uh. But his supporters, um the level of vitriol against people like you that that have a conscience and that loved this country, and that really loved the constitution and really loved the idea of a democracy which we no longer have. Uh, they're

very very hot to assault you. They want that. The level of vitriol is indicative it's gone up, and I think they're getting uncomfortable because he flux up every day every day. But you've been political for a long time, having always I mean I read online where you were doing riffs on stage. I don't know if it was Monterey or where were you. Risks about JFK's assassination. I said it was an assassination. I said, the warring reports

a lot, and it is. It's absolutely not true. Uh. But being an activist is kind of like you know, I had heroes Man Seeker as a hero of mine, Joan bys the hero of mine. These are people who actually put their lives on the line. You know, Harry Belafani, he walked from someone in Montgomery, arm in arm. It was rifles and the bushes. Plenty of people wanted to go. I did a documentary about music and activism, and he's one of my heroes because he was very brave. I

wrote a book about it. That's why we made the documentary. Working on a new book now and get him. Jeff Benedict started out about politics, but I think it's going to be about the whole United States of America and democracy and what happened. What do you think it's gonna happen? It's fascinating, man. I don't think we know. Okay, okay, we didn't protect our democracy well enough. What's gonna happen? I really don't know. I'm very encouraged by these kids.

I was very hugely encouraged. Got to keep them active, don't let that fire die out. It's not gonna and we don't. We're not in charge of them. They are gonna do that, and they are pissed. Understand they're being handed a world that's in deep danger ecologically and a broken democracy. I don't think they don't know it. They're pissed. My son is Piste. He's getting handed the short end of the stick, and he knows that he's too smart not to know it. They're not going to go away.

These kids are going to see some change. And all the politicians things always been this way, and it's all he canna be this way. Were close to the nozzle, we can get the goodies. We're gonna run things. Uh. The Women's March, the women of the United States of America may save the United States of America. We need more of them in Congress. Maybe Stormy Daniels is going

to save the country. Yeah. I thought it was interesting that you saw everybody attack David Kid, that was the leader of the Florida movement, becomes this lightning rod for all these right wingers, especially Hannity, who I've always been, you know, just just throttled Hannity whenever I can, because he just because he drives me insane, because because first

of all, he has no talent none. I mean, as much as I detest o'riley's positions and as much as I'm sickened by the things that O'Riley did, at least O'Riley, as a broadcaster had some talent I had. I had a showdown with the with the o'relly. He was using my song long time Going, and I found out, what do you doing? He came out to a show CSN show at out on Long Island, What's your name? And at that place was Beachy Jones Beach. He came out there and he was very you know how he is peacock.

You know, he's like very full of himself. H O'Riley, Nice to meet you. And I said, Mr O'Riley, stop using my song. And he said what I said, I didn't give you permission. If you use my song anymore, I'm going to see you. He said, why don't you come on my show and talk about it. I said, my son talking about I said, you bully. You just interrupted me three words in I'm not gonna come. You discussed me and he stopped. But I don't like him at all. I don't like any of them because they're

they don't really even believe what they're ranting about. They're ranting because it makes them money. That's how they pay out. But you know, multimillion dollar settlements. But but but handed the attacks this guy and a lot of people. He's a good kid. That's why they attacked me. Because he's effective, because it's working. He's believable. These people have they they

assassinate characters of leadership. They have a leadership assassination program. Yeah, anybody on the other side is gonna was gonna get an attraction and get anything done. They try to kill him, They try to kill him. They don't like it. And now I'm I'm tiny, I'm not really worth coming after, but they do come after me. I'll give you a birdec example, I shot my mouth off yesterday whenever was his hotel? I said, burn, baby, burn, stupid and then

a guy dies. Fifty emails you are heartless, worthless son of a bit. Somebody died and you loved it. I don't love. Yeah, I don't want to be sometimes I don't want any fifty like raging. I'm gonna kill you, you low cheesy motherfucker. You can't communicate in the media at all the way you thought you could have wanted to carefully. Yeah, Because the place I go where I can speak as long as I want to, and I'm completely uncensored, and I'm welcome and nobody's is Howard Stern.

I Whenever I want to talk about something, I want to talk about an issue, and something's bothering me, I go on, Howard. It's the best. These are the nighttime shows. Some of them are my friends. I like them. They have their purpose promotionally, six minutes on the couch and out. They have their function in the in the promotional world. But Howard, it's a completely different thing. I have a good conversation, and he's a kind guy. He's a really

interesting thing. You know what happened with Howard. He grew up. He ard it be out being you know, hey, I'm gonna have strippers on my radio shop, all right? Not so shit. And then he kept encountering stuff and learning stuff, and you watch him he matured. Eventually they realize Letterman and Howard in their own way, they realized they're enough them just sitting there talking to is enough. You don't

need any more of this crap looking. Howard learned a lot and became smarter and became much He's a serious, a serious guy to talk to. Now. I I feel the same way you do. I felt completely free to say pretty much anything. I honestly felt you say the thing about the fire at Trump's building. But but don't we all get pushed to the point where I mean, there's things I almost hit send on Twitter that you wouldn't believe, right right in line with what you said

about burdens. We get pushed to that point. Yeah, well they make us mad exactly. You love this place. You believed in this democracy all your life. You think it's a great idea. We got taught it. We're going to ruin everything, and well they're ruining it, you know, And that's really bad. Uh, And yes, I get pissed and everyone swhile I want to make a mistake. I'm made a mistake that maybe there was one in one too. You're supposed to smile. It was a joke. But why

why was it a joke? Because I made mistakes every day. I'm sorry? Okay, can I get him now? I'm just so earnest right now? Ye are I'm a little too earnest. I want to ask you about your son. His name is Raymond, James, Raymond James Raymond, and you were um separated. You didn't see him for while he got reunited. Yeah, his mom put him up for adoption, and when he was just about to have his first child. His parents said, well, you know, I shouldn't know what the genetic Sorry, should

find out who your dad is. So he tracked and he found it and he said, no, no way. Oh he didn't know how old was he at that point. Uh, probably almost thirty, So he didn't know you were his father. No, No, he did a one full thing, Alecky. Normally those meetups go very badly. You know that somebody brings too much baggage. How come you left me and mom? We weren't good enough for you? Uh, it's usually bitter. It's usually a better pill. Well, he came and he gave me a

clean slate. He gave me a chance to earn my way into his life, which was one of the kindest things anybody's ever done to me. And he and I became very close and we write extremely well. Because he's a better musician than I am. Anybody tells you it's not genetic, haven't come talk. That's interesting, Yeah, that's interesting. He's a wonderful musician, much better musician than I am.

In a really good writer. You still have your band together, CPR, Well, that's that band has evolved now into the sky Trail space. I am in two bands, The Lighthouse Band this when I'm working with down John right now. It's an acoustic band, mostly vocalst You here recording, Yeah, we're here recording right now. We're making our second record. My other band, sky Trails Band, that's CPO are me and Jeff pe Bar and my son James Raymond and this jazz bass player from Estonia

named my Agen Young, really nice brilliant bass player. And then Michelle Willis again because she's a stunning singer. She's an amazing singer. But yeah, these two bands are the results of being getting out of CSM and uh. And it was a very tough decision because the streaming was taken away half our money. The other half was live performance with CSN and I couldn't do it anymore. And so I quit. And are you just as happy or

do you miss? I'm so happy man? And n at all? Really, these people are much better writers and much better singers than those guys are. Now. These people still love it, they love making music. They're not doing it for a paycheck, They're doing it because they do. You think the other two are really just doing it for a paycheck at this point. Yeah, yeah, I think that's the only thing

they're doing. Are they gonna do? Do Do you think they're gonna follow you and form another band and keep going there? You know they're working. Stills was working with Judy Collins has been a friend forever, and uh and Nash had been not working. Were there people that you wanted to play with? Like, was there a dream of somebody you wanted to play with? You and get to play with? Who'd you want to play with? Rony? Really? And why didn't you? She was my old lady. I produced her

first record. She's arguably the finest singer songwriter of our times. I think probably pretty definitely the best writer, even better than Paul or either one of the Paul's or Randy, or even better than than James Taylor, who was one of my real heroes in life and and most people will come down to it's her, Bob, and she's so much better musician than Bob's was a great poet. She's a great poet and a great musician. Stunning singer, which is all over now because she got, she got had

a really bad thing happened to her. Um Dylan, But I worked with him. What was that like? Was it everything you hope they would be? Bob is such a piece of work man. I went in and he says, Hi, how you doing? And uh? And he kissed my wife's hand. She's never washed it since um. And he says, come on, let's go do it. And I said, Bobby, I haven't heard the song yet. Oh come on. Because he loves to get you out on the edge. He wants that edge stuff. He wants it. So I said, Bob, you

got to sing me this song. So he says, okay, He sings me this song. See okay, Now let's go to it. So we go in the other room and he does it completely different. He's such, he's really he's a piece of work, trust me. And and I love him and I'm I I get along great with him because I don't butter his toast. You know. I think that's that's comfortable for him people I'd love to work with. Its still a bunch, man, but I think the younger people still have a lot of joy in it. You know,

it's still really exciting for him. That produces a different quality of music. Unquestionably, we had Beard back hold to All God here in the night. That's a signal from young good. That's answering something here exactly when we returned some of the truly great questions you all submitted for this legend of rock and roll and a few of the less than great ones. I'm Alec Baldwin and you're listening to Here's the thing, she shall be free. She

turns bo gates down this slope to the heart. We have some questions that were posed by people on our hears I think Twitter side. Yeah, we we you know, we went on on our Twitter page and we asked people and it really worked like a charm. We were kind of amazed how many people are. We're gonna bring me the questions, bring those in here. But uh is that you, Adam? I want to pick us a couple

of these that I really really liked. One of them is from a woman named Barbara Fisher, and she says one of my all time favorite albums of yours is Thousand Roads. Did you have any thoughts of what inspired you to write these songs, especially Hero? Was this a generalization? Was it a commendation on someone specific that inspired you? I wish it were actually Hero. I'm not really sure

what I was talking about. What happened is I was working on that set of words and Phil Collins heard him, and uh, and he wrote the music and we as the closest I came to you ever having a hit? Really, uh uh? I never have hits because I write the weird Ship. I'm not really sure what I was talking about. I wish I could give you a clear and concise answer what I was trying to say, but I'm not sure. Bill Vora Nikos, and Bill, if I mangled your name, I apologize, Bill Vora Nikos. I think this is a

funny question. Who was a rival artist or band during the sixties or seventies that you couldn't stand or thoughts sucked other than Jim Morrison? Do you think Jim Morrison sucked? Yeah? Absolutely? Really poser? Really you thought he was not a good singer, not a good singer? No? What? No? Why do you? Oh my god, I don't think he's a good singer. And when you say that, who is a good singer? Do you? Yeah? I mean other than the three of you?

Who's a good singer? James Taylor? Wow, brilliant singer. He's just more honest, more straightforward. What what what? What? What much more talented. Wow, you know Morrison was a poser. Anybody that wants up having a waiver their dick in the audience, you know, it's like they're pretty desperate. He was opposer. Trust me, I that band was no good. They never swung ever, they didn't have a bass player. He played terrible bass on a keyboard, really badly, and it was awful.

I don't like him. I never there were bands earlier than that that I didn't like. Paul over here and the readers, I mean, come on, I set the bar pretty high. The people that I liked were Jimmy Hendrix and Janis Joplin and Cass Elliott and Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan. That's those are your basic box set of the greatest. Those are all my friends, and they are all people that I think are really talented. No, I didn't like the Doors worse at all. Well, we have

a woman here the question. I'm I'm motivated by you because it was so blunt about Morrison. I'm so blunt about this question. Her name is Renee Champagne. Now that's that's a that's a cool name, Renee Champagne. But the question is a terrible question. She says, what is the most memorable moment of your we are so far and why that's a terrible question question. And you get those two your favorite and we try to explain to him. And when you get into the good stuff, it's all

apples and orange its. There isn't a best. Clapton wasn't better than Hendrix. Hendrick wasn't better than Clapton. I got another one here that I really really liked. John Packer is his name, our our contributor here from Twitter, John Packers said. Hugh Masskela described how you helped him move out of addiction and how that transformed his life. How did he find you? Cass Elliott, the same person introduced me to to Graham and one of my best friends

in the world, A truly wonderful woman. Yeah, she introduced me to Hugh and he and I and she used to hang out to get her a lot. Hughie was very talented guy. He played on Rock and Roll Star. That's his trumpet on Rock and Roll Star. I don't want you to answer these questions, but I just want to read them to you because they're so interesting to me. Jeffrey Paris says, if you had six fingers instead of four, what will be here from your guitar? Jeffrey Parrish used

to be the captain on my boat? Is somebody you know? You know he's one of my best friends. If you have six fingers on your hand rather than four, what will be here from your guitar? Clapped it? Is he somebody you admire? Hell? Yes, But more than his musicianship, I admire his courage. What happened to him would have put me back on top, and he didn't go. He stayed sober in the face of that. My god, man,

that's courage. He's a very brave guy. And you know, most people just have never really looked at it and thought about what it must have taken from him. But I admire his courage as much as I admire his guitar playing. And I think he's an even better singer than he's a guitar player. Three last questions. Gloria Bernstein, who's a friend of mine? Gloria Bernstein wants to know what's your favorite movie of your dad's. But the one they got the Academy Award for is also a stunner.

It's called Tab and it was a black and White Silent Movie. It's that far back. You ever visited him on the set? Oh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I wanted to do your job. Man's I'm So Glass worked out well from all of us society. It's not easy, man, for every part in in film and TV, there's a thousand people trying. One last question from me, what are five albums you could never do without? Jonny's Blue Asia, Steely Dan,

my favorite band, Uh sad that he died. No, I'm friends with Donald and Though and I gotta give two to Steely Dan, Gaucho, Uh Peppers, Starry Pepper loved it. A classical piece called Theme from Thomas Talas. Pretty fun. Williams, you know about I'm the I'm the announcer for the New York Philharmonic here on public radio. I love that. How is your health and what recommendations do you have to people, especially people in your business, to take better

care of their health. I think a lot about that now what I might have done, I think you don't. My health has always been a very serious issue. I had hepatitis. See, I had to have a liver transplant. I spent seventy two days in the hospital at U C. L a before they saved my life. Oh is it really pretty pretty terrible? I've been a diabetic for thirty years. At least my doctor, who is a crusty old guy at u c l A named Gary get Nick, you got to do better with his diabetes. Okay, Gary, thank you?

How do I do that? He said? Eat less food? I said, oh, Gary, you thinks it's so simple. Oh wow, you cleared it right up for me. You were so kind you ask eat less food. I mean it, you're eating too much? Turns up. He is right. There's a delay period between when you're actually full and when you feel full. It's about twenty minutes, and you keep eating because it tastes good. So what I do is I order a bigler meal. I don't order sugar, but I order a pretty regular meal, and then I eat half

of it. And I went from forty one seventy seven, and I've been here for two years. Do you campaign for people for candidates ever anymore? I'm very reticent about it because they turn on you. I've been campaigning for a friend of mine named Dana Steele down in Texas. She's running from home for you. Now you live where

sent by Santa Barbara. I've been campaigning for Dana because she's a friend and I know she's an honorable person and she wants She's running for Congress in the thirty six district in Texas, and I think she might win, even though she's an uphill battle. Yeah, I do. Sometimes if I know the character of the person, I'd love it to man. You know I love this country. Man, I'm not giving up. I'm not going to roll around and put my pause in here. I Am going to

keep fighting until I am dead. The inexhaustible creative engine that is David Crosby. He actually worked in film. Recently, he and his son James wrote a song for the documentary Little Pink House, about the human story behind the Supreme Court's Keylo decision, where a town bulldozed a woman's little pink house to make room for commercial development. They put in a movie and they're trying to see if they can qualify as for an Academy Award. Were trying

to course. I'm putting next to my dad, David Crosby. He chose the music for today's program and there's both joy and pain in it. This is Alec Baldwin and you're listening to. Here's the thing. Seven weeks now sick we shifts all the water. Very free, easy easy, you know the way it's supposed to be. Simper on the shoreline as be talking about, very free and easy