HenryG wrote:
Check out the cds he put out with his son that he didn't know he had (good storythere also) the band was called CPR (the initials of the members) my favorite song by them is Little Blind Fish! Dave Crosby fans will love there tunes they also covered a lot of songs from the Byrds a must listen👍🙂👍
Right you are, Henry. I am fortunate enough to know the "P" of the CPR Band, Jeff Pevar. About 15-20 years ago, a close friend, playing lead guitar in a local band called the Rogue Suspects, called to invite me to come to hear the band on a particular night, saying..."we have a guy joining us for the evening, that will blow you away with his guitar playing, don't miss it".
Having known Dirk for many years, and knowing that he had acquired HIS guitar excellence from the tutelage of none other than the late great Stevie Ray Vaughn, as a youth growing up in Texas, I took him at his word when he said the guy was "extraordinary"......and then he threw in..."and he plays with DAVID CROSBY !!"
Thus that night, meeting Jeff Pevar, who would go on to fall in love with another friend, the lovely Inger, and move here to Ashland, Oregon, and connect us all with CPR and Crosby and James Raymond (Crosby's long lost son).
I do believe that Crosby and his music and musical path, have truly helped shape not only our musical tastes, but some of our collective morality of our generation. The man was quite outspoken politically (much to the chagrin of some of his earlier band mates) and most definitely made us become aware that strife can be tempered with kindness and communication.
I have always loved his tenor voice and close harmonies, have been listening to "Four-way Street" since hearing of his passing. He certainly left a mark on me, as well as millions of others.
R.I.P. David Crosby....you, as a living person, will be sorely missed, but your music legacy and moral philosophy has certainly given you life everlasting, IMHO....thanks.