♡David Crosby♡March 7, 1981♡Julia Morgan Theater, Berkeley, CA ♡Acoustic Concert🎶Soundboard

♡David Crosby♡March 7, 1981♡Julia Morgan Theater, Berkeley, CA ♡Acoustic Concert🎶♡i’m grateful to have attended this most beautiful concert by my favorite singer-songwriter, David Crosby. ♡Brilliant guitarist ♡ Beautiful tunings. ♡ Croz, child of God, sweet songbird + poet, you are forever in my heart. P.S. An old boyfriend and i sat in the front pew. ♡⛪️

♡Set list*
00:00 The Lee Shore
02:53 Page 43
06:25 Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves)
10:40 Deja Vu
15:15 Homeward Through The Haze 🎹
19:40 Delta 🎹
24:45 Samurai
27:07 Carry Me
32:40 Distances
36:28 Drive My Car
*Missing song - Guinnevere

*Missing songs (with guitarist Carl Schwindeman)
Low Down Payment
Triad
Wooden Ships
Long Time Gone {Encore}

✨💛Thank you Cousin Bobby for uploading this concert + selecting the photographs !
💛Thank you to a wonderful fan for sharing this audio file on Dec13,2022💛
📸The image provided with the audio file is "CSN, London, August 1983 - David Crosby”

🕊Viewer comment: Excellent but more playin', less talkin'. My Reply: Thank you for listening to the audio from this concert; i wish we had the video ! ⛵By his nature, Croz is a storyteller: with his music + as he introduces each song - while tuning his guitar. Each song is in a different beautiful tuning. We learn so much as he talks to us; and that's what makes this concert so special to me. i'm grateful to have attended this beautiful concert + that the audio was recorded. 💟 i miss Croz. Every word is precious to me.

🕊RIP ⛵️David Van Cortlandt Crosby (August 14, 1941 ♡January 18, 2023)
♡Thank you Croz. Your music is love ♡ healing, transcendent love.♡

P.S. 🎶⛵️🎶⛵️🎶⛵️🎶⛵️

♡Acoustic Setlist (First Set)
The Lee Shore
For Free (Joni)
Carry Me - a song of transcendence.**
Delta
Bittersweet
Samurai
Chats w audience - tuning. They’re going print my Songbook again !!
Guinnevere (…this girl isn’t around anymore and this is for her…)

** It’s for Nancy. She’s the girl i wrote the second verse about. She’s here someplace.

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[DustInTheWind]

Beautiful & Sublime. He poured his heart & soul into every note & every word & they flowed out from every fiber of his being. Thanks for sharing this.

[danmacdonald]

I taught myself how to play "Song with no words", or "Tree with no leaves". I think of David when I'm playing it, as I can make the piece sound great. I saw David before he died in Seattle. I was glad I was able to see him one more time before he passed away.

[arthurlockwood]

Great man the bryds great group. Thanks 🇬🇧👏👌👍🙏

[claudiocisco]

Da una vita ti seguo, fin da adolescente, ho sempre amato le tue canzoni ora a 62 anni, non mi resta che salutarti augurandoti ....un arrivederci e un grande R.I.P.

[LesLess]

Picking and singing solo. No place to hide performing like that. Massive talent.

[bcascadascrane]

😅😄😄😄❤‍🩹 yes my heart broke when you left us earlier this year beloved David Crosby. Love poured around the whole world at news of your passing in a bitter-sweet matter that only you will receive. Many people come and go but few and rare are those who only speak real messages through music nowadays.Thank

[michaeldonahue]

Troubled soul with the voice of an angel

[lisamoroney]

Can’t believe you are gone David ….going to take me a long time to get over this, if at all.

[willharris]

Wow! Nice find. Thank you very much for posting. I got tickets for both shows that night. Did they capture the other one? So many people thought David was out of it during his early eighties, but he was not. I went to all of his shows in the Bay Area thru this difficult but wonderful time. He took requests, and if he couldn't remember the words, he'd say, I'll work that up for you next time." The little concert in the Church...

[kerrylondon]

🇺🇸 VivA Liberty 🇺🇸 🗽 🎼 🌹
UnreaL Location And ⌚ 💡 👀
Beautiful Arrangements 🎸 🎤 💘

[laura.sefchik]

DAVID CROSBY HAS lived through some dark chapters throughout the course of his long life, but few compare to the period he spent grieving the sudden death of his girlfriend, 21-year-old Christine Hinton, in a 1969 car accident. “I didn’t have any way of dealing with it, ” he tells Rolling Stone. “It was too big for me. It crushed me like a bug. People tell me they’d find me on the floor of the recording studio, weeping uncontrollably.”

The huge success of CSNY’s Déjà Vu and the tour that followed gave him a temporary distraction from his sorrows, but the group imploded in July 1970, and Crosby spent the next few months living on his boat in Sausalito, California, where he did little but sleep, eat, and drown his sorrows with alcohol and drugs.

Eventually, his thoughts turned to crafting a solo LP, just like Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young were all doing at the time. His bandmates were making folk-rock albums that didn’t stray far from the CSNY sound, but Crosby was interested in doing something stranger and significantly less commercial. Some of his new songs didn’t even have lyrics, and he conveyed their meanings through lush, stacked, wordless harmonies.

Assisting Crosby in sorting through all this was Jerry Garcia, who took time out from the Grateful Dead’s tour schedule to join his friend at Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco. Together, they recruited a stunning assortment of musicians to work on the album, including Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Graham Nash, Phil Lesh, Grace Slick. Paul Kantner, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Gregg Rolie, Jack Casady, and Jorma Kaukonen. It was Garcia who made the whole thing sparkle to life. “He’s a decent human being with a nice heart, and he’s funny and stoned and good and can play like God on a good day, ” says Crosby. “Every time he sits down with a guitar and I sit down on a guitar with him, magic happens. Magic. Not bullshit. Magic.”

The created the album during a roughly three-month period in late 1970 and early 1971 with a routine that rarely changed. “I would get up on my boat around noon, walk into town for some breakfast, and just try to survive the day, ” says Crosby. “Usually sometime around dinnertime, I would arrive at the studio. Then I’d work most of the night.”

“It was a strange, very conflicting environment, ” he continues. “Here I am and I’ve been punched in the mouth, knocked my teeth out, and I’m on the ground, and then somebody ran over me with a tractor. In the same 24 hours, I’m in fuckin’ heaven. I’m making music that I fuckin’ love, and I believe in, that really moves me. I had the maximum amount of happiness and maximum amount of sadness at the same time.”

The end result was If I Could Only Remember My Name, which landed in stores on February 22nd, 1971... Crosby’s solo debut is now widely seen as a masterpiece... 50th anniversary, a super deluxe edition... packed with demos, alternate versions, and outtakes from the album sessions.

7. “Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves)”
This is another one of those songs without words. I had a melody in a tuning that I liked. I loved the set of changes. I thought it was pretty. I didn’t have words for it, so I decided I was just going to horn-stack it with my voice. When I listened to it afterwards, I felt it was complete. I didn’t feel like it lacked anything. I loved it.

9. “I’d Swear There Was Somebody Here”
I think this might be the best piece of music I ever thought up. I was in an extremely emotional state. It was probably the hardest night I had. I was just crying my eyes out. I was devastated. I was fucked up, and I was crying out that pain into an echo chamber. And all of a sudden, it started being coherent. I knew I had to do another vocal. I took maybe 15 minutes to do that song, and it might be the best piece of work I ever did. It’s six vocals, one right after another, I didn’t even listen to them back. I just did them one after another. And then we played them back and this is what it was.



[georgemeacham]

this is pretty amazing given how messed up he was through this whole period...I guess he was just stumbling homeward through the haze ❤

[Piggy-Oink-Oink]

Samurai is one of the most incredible songs...impossible to cover.

[jameskennedy]

His voice was better in 1971 ... but this show is okay . This guy was a huge talent .

[beers]

Excellent but more playin', less talkin'.