birds, crosby, stills and nash, and crosby, still, nash & young. a legendary songwriter that managed all at once to be of his era and for the ages. helplessly hoping heart again hovers nearby, awaiting a word gasping at glimpses of gentle truth s spirit, he runs, wishing he could fly that is david crosby with steven stills and graham nash at woodstock. only their second concert as a trio, still famously telling the crowd there how scared they were. for most of his 81 years, his music career seemed fearless in a life that was at times as turbulent as his music was at times soothing and brilliant. our randi kaye has more. reporter: he helped shape the sound of 1960s folk recognize as a founding member of the birds. but david crosby will always be best known as a founding member of crosby, stills and nash. the wildly popular group was made up of crosby, steven stills and graham nash. their sound distinctive for its melody and harm days. i am yours, you are mine,
well, you know, these were years of big personality. and, you know, bands are hard. as everybody explains to me. cameron crowe and others could explain more than. crosby was kind of i wouldn t say a solitary soul, but somebody who really knew what he wanted and didn t always get along well with others. he himself said he was all ego back then. yeah, right. the birds literally fired him. roger and gene clark and the other members pushed him out of the band. he had already taken one step out of the band because in 1967, at the monterey pop festival, he had performed with buffalo springfield, which was going through its own kind of breakup spasm. and that s where he and steven stills got together. and the two of them got together. and then graham nash was dating joni mitchell, and he shows up at her house one days and stills and crosby are there. they start singing together, and he said he realized at that