“It’s like, that’s the real (stuff).”GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. And maybe he’d make a joke. “That’s what really got him.”Yet there’s joy, too — in the way Crosby’s eyes sparkle as he talks about the happiness he’s always felt in making music. Even when everybody said he was dying, I knew Crosby was going to live.” And then ask him, “How’s that make you feel?’Crowe says he turned up for the “Remember My Name” interviews with hundreds of pages of questions, quotes by and about Crosby, and photographs to ask him about, pushing him to talk about everything from the great success and joy he’s found in songwriting and singing over his life to the heartbreaks of lost loves and lost friendships and regrets about the reasons why.Get Morning Report and other email newsletters“David Crosby: Remember My Name,” currently playing at Embarcadero Cinemas in San Francisco and Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley among other Bay Area theaters, is directed by A.J.
Crosby’s extraordinary 55-year career has seen him rise to the heights of stadium stardom and fall to the lows of being a disgraced, jailed junkie. He was there.”Crosby says he has no hard feelings for his former friends either, though he doesn’t plan to be the one to pick up the phone or knock on the door to seek rapprochement.The fact that Crosby and Crowe have known each other for 45 years surely plays a big part in the natural realism Eaton captures as Crosby talks and Crowe listens.He said he might read him a quote from Neil Young, such as the time he said, “Crosby is the soul of the band. You still have Neil Young saying, ‘No, that’s not cool what you said, and there’s no future for us.’”David Crosby is used to the question by now: How on earth, after so many years of hard living and bad decisions, are you still alive? “But you do have to look at it long enough to learn from it.”At 77, the singer-songwriter who with the Byrds and then Crosby, Stills and Nash is a two-time inductee in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, is calling to talk about the new documentary on his life and career that offers a sense of honesty and self-scrutiny that few other famous people would dare.“Well, none of us have the answer to that — it doesn’t make any sense at all,” he says, laughing on the phone from his home in Santa Ynez. David Crosby from the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash is the subject of the new documentary "Remember My Name," out in theaters on Friday. And then we’d keep the camera on him and then he’d answer. “I’m trying to get the music out of my head first.”Mr. David Crosby, who at 77 is beset with health and financial problems, appears in a scene from the new documentary “David Crosby: Remember My Name.” By Peter Larsen | … They’re, ‘Didn’t you think I was cute?’”Some of what the film covers: Years of cocaine and heroin abuse and addiction; countless broken love affairs from which Crosby is clearly pained to recognize he hurt many women who loved him; arrests and imprisonment for drug and gun charges; and the breakdown, seemingly final at this point, of his friendships with band mates who once were like brothers — Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Neil Young.“It’s really useful to not sit there and kind of spend a great deal of time looking at your past,” he says. David Van Cortlandt Crosby is an American singer-songwriter and musician. David Crosby Net Worth, Salary, Cars & Houses David Crosby has a net worth of $40 million. Documentaries are usually — I don’t mean to insult anybody — but they’re usually shine jobs. I so wish I had avoided that, but there’s no point in being dishonest about having made a terrible mistake.”By Alan Paul, Wall Street Journal-Aging rock legends don’t generally record a lot of new music. “After 40 years, it devolves into, ‘Turn on the smoke machine, play your hits,’” Mr. Crosby says. You have no control.
I can’t make sense out of that for you, but it’s true.He is frank about his struggles with drugs. So I’m doing that to the best of my ability as much as I possibly can.”“You know Cameron and I have a history, right?” says Crosby, who lived in Mill Valley for many years.