{"id":5940,"date":"2023-01-20T10:16:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T10:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=5940"},"modified":"2023-01-20T10:16:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T10:16:30","slug":"david-crosby-2022-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=5940","title":{"rendered":"David Crosby 2022 interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

All at Shindig! <\/i>are very saddened by the death of DAVID CROSBY. Two our our writers were fortunate enough to interview him. In one of his final interviews our Los Angeles correspondent HARVEY KUBERNIK chatted with Crosby about jazz, The Byrds and CSN&Y<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nShindig!<\/em><\/strong>: <\/strong>You always had a relationship with jazz. You saw John Coltrane play live and spent a lot of time at Dick Bock\u2019s World Pacific studio. Bock issued many legendary jazz albums and titles from Ravi Shankar.<\/p>\n

David Crosby:<\/strong>\u00a0I was a young folkie musician. My brother played a lot of \u201950s jazz. I got turned on to jazz long before I got turned on to pop or rock \u2019n\u2019 roll. They played me Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Bill Evans, all of those guys in the late \u201950s. And more obscure stuff like Cal Tjader. J.J. Johnson. All jazz.<\/p>\n

I get to a point where my head starts to open up a bit and I started playing guitar and getting more interesting on it. I\u2019m starting to listen to pop music and I realised those chords that I really liked they were a little further along. And I started hearing some people using chords like that. And I wanted to go that direction.<\/p>\n

Later, the minute that I heard Steely Dan I felt that there was somebody else out there that hears the same shit that I do. The minute \u00a0I heard what Walter and Donald did. I was like their brother. I wanted to move next door and pitch a tent on their lawn, because that was very jazzy. Very strongly jazz influenced. And much more intense and sophisticated than the pop music I had grown up with.<\/p>\n

When we started The Byrds, man, there were other people around town. Paul Revere & The Raiders. We\u2019re tallkin\u2019 primitive shit, guys dancing on their amps in uniforms. I mean, come on. (Laughs). This is a different world. And I hear Steely Dan. Man, do I wish I was in that band. And other bands came along as well.<\/p>\n

And I gotta say that is really where it came from. I listened to a ton of classical music from my parents and folk music from my parents and jazz music from my brother. My parents played classical music every Sunday of my life. And that\u2019s what did it. I knew those chords were out there and I was lookin\u2019 for \u2019em. The Weavers and folk singers could really do it too, and really had something to say. Those people taught us a whole lot.<\/p>\n