crosby stills nash and young. and for his the ages. david crosby, with stephen sales and graham nash, i would stop, only the second concert as a trio, still famously telling the crowd there a scare they were for most of his 81 years, though, his musical partner crosby seemed fearless tireless as a life that was as turbulent as his music was shooting and quietly brilliant. our randi kaye has more. he helped shape the sound of 1960s folk rock 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, stephen steals and graham nash. their sound was distinctive for its melody and harmonies. in the midst of the late 60s, well, canyon california, their debut album went multi platinum. snaps lovejoy. it s what i was going to do. i love it. more than anything i family. it s the most fun you can have. and yes, i m including sex. it s really, really
in that time period. yeah, he was a founding father of folk rock in general and the l.a. sound in particular. one of the original members of the birds which, in many lays, with a fountainhead from so much was developed over the next decade. the mr. recording of bob dylan s mister tambourine man really set the template for so much of what came later, with those jangling guitars, the ethereum harmonies. and then you move forward a few years, to crosby, stills a national and crosby stills nash and young, they were, anderson, very conscious of being a voice of a generation, and very determined to be relevant. in his memoir, many years later, crosby wrote about writing songs that reacted when the slap in the face. the most famous example is ohio, their song about penn state. young and crosby are together in neil young sees the famous photo of the girl kneeling in