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BonosSaint said:
Re: Crosby. By the end of the night, I was tired, hostile, cramped in, too drunk. The ticket prices weren't too bad, so I did feel like a part of a spectacle. Kind of like audience participation performance art and it was a show for the annals of freebasing history.
I felt really sorry for the opening act, who had to play off and on for a couple of hours when he had about half an hour of material. PS, Did not buy opening act's CD. Never wanted to hear him again! Ever.
My friend and I have pretty good senses of humor which remained intact throughout, so I'm sure that helped. It helped that the show was only fifteen minutes from my house.
That's not the first time he's berated an audience . Sometimes I've felt like a misbehaving child even when I was just standing there. Luckily, the shows would end with a great deal of energy that would make me forget that I was part of a "bad" collective audience. I so love being scolded.
I do like a lot of his music, but I don't own much of his solo stuff or his Crosby-Nash stuff. And none of his CPR stuff.
I've seen him play since then, both with CSN and his other band (which I don't really like) He is better behaved off drugs, somewhat Buddha serene and playful, but I don't know how much of that is choreographed.
From what I understand, CSN once said they would never play on the same stage again since they don't always get along so well. So to get around that little lapse, since touring is a pretty good source of their revenue, they each stand on a different type of flooring when they perform. Sure enough, when I went to see them a couple of weeks ago, each of them had their own separate squares of flooring.
A couple of years ago, I intereracted with Crosby on the internet. because he used to participate on a forum. Hard to gauge him because almost everybody on the board was such a freaking synchopant. Oh, isn't David wonderful, this. Oh, isn't David wonderful that. I can't stand that for anybody. So I got into a theoretical discussion with him about Menage a Trois's (because of his song Triad) and argued on a few other issues. But my computer crashed a short while later and it took me years to get another one. By the time I got a new one, he was no longer on board.
I still go to see CSN often enough, but mostly for S. I've met Stephen Stills a few times and he's never been nasty, and oftentimes really nice. Bright man. (not that he hasn't had his drug moments.) And to give Nash credit, he has always been friendly.
OMG! That sounds wonderfully like the concert from Hell! Good shows are a dime a dozen, but the truly wretched ones are the ones that etch themselves into your brain.
About Crosby on the forum... several years ago SK posted on the Church forum and he still sometimes comes into the Church chatroom. It is truly amazing how goofy people can get tripping all over themselves trying to get his attention. I'm kind of embarrassed for them. What I noticed is that although he certainly enjoyed the ego stroking to a certain extent, there were times he just seemed bored and lonely and wanted to talk to someone.
Talking to SK in the chatroom (and now through email, etc.) I got a much clearer impression of him as a person, not just as a musician. Kind of nice listening to the music of someone I genuinely like.
BonosSaint said:
Well...a girl needs goals in life....
BonosSaint said:
RE: Box of Birds interview. Pretty funny stuff. They sound a little surreal. You got to love self deprecating humor. Laughed out loud when I got to the part about only one chord. "Why bother to learn one with lots of chords?"
Almost spit out my coffee. OK, it's a given. I'll like their music.
They captured my imagination.
Surreal is the perfect word -- SK and PK (at least) are both quite enamoured with the surrealist movement.
I did love that bit about doing the song because they only had to learn one chord. Reminds me of when SK was asked why he decided to play the bass and he said he figured it would be the easiest instrument to learn to be able to get into a band.
In their earlier interviews they showed that humour sometimes, but mostly came across as fairly serious and sometimes quite arrogant. Now...well they've pretty much been there, done that and seem to see the absurdity in it all. They know they are never going to be big stars and it doesn't really faze them. I've heard some pretty wild interviews with them where the poor interviewer was totally lost and they were just talking about whatever they wanted to.
. I'm not a big fan or anything, but I can hear a song of theirs on the radio every so often without harboring some of the feelings Steve does, LOL 
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