Comments on: David Crosby :: 1970 Outtakes (aka Perro Tapes)

By: Aquarium Drunkard: Music Blog » Crobsy, Stills & Nash :: Demos (Official Release)

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:49:10 +0000

[...] while at it, how about a cleaned up audio release of the David Crosby 1970 session outtakes, aka The Perro Tapes? All nitpicking aside, if you’re a fan of the principal members of CSN&Y at their late [...]

By: gianni

gianni — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:12:37 +0000

dear drunkard, be well thanked for uploading these recordings
crosbys music is getting into me, it’s so much fresher and directer. i wish i had been sitting right in fornt of him those days and i wish i could make a guitar sound like that and have that voice.
well, what i actually wantd to say is, that i am too late to download thse songs and i would really like to be able to carry them with me. where do i find these recordings again? you’d do me a good favour
and, are their concers still worth visiting? or isn’t it four way street standards anymore?
from belgium

By: William W

William W — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:18:22 +0000

Fantastic stuff with beautifal sound quality. How about posting some FLACS or virgin WAVS of the original recordings for the audiophiles? The mp3s sound great…but…are…lossy…..

By: Steve Silberman

Steve Silberman — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:33:16 +0000

The track called “Tamalpais High” above is actually “Kids and Dogs,” a duet between Crosby abd Jerry Garcia. “Tam High” is another tune that appeared on “If I Could Only Remember My Name.”

> The funny thing about “If I Could Only Remember My Name” is that relative to who David Crosby was at the time– ex-Byrd, one-third or one fourth of the first American supergroup– it is a pretty slight piece of work. The songwriting is minimal, a lot of mhmmhmmhm over acoustic guitar.

I couldn’t disagree more. You may as well say that Ella Fitzgerald’s scat-singing was “a lot of la la laing over a bunch of guys blowing their horns.” The songwriting and performances on “If I Couldn’t Only Remember My Name” represented a quantum leap over most of the material that Crosby wrote for the Byrds.

Steve

By: adam

adam — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:13:23 +0000

Funky Rutabaga, you are in for a massive treat!

By: Funky Rutabaga

Funky Rutabaga — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:01:50 +0000

I have not listened to “If Only I Could Remember My Name?” yet (I’m getting it soon). But I was mesmerized by these outtakes. I also believe this set of outtakes is an underrated gem (still waiting for reposts of Pink Floyd’s Zabriskie Point Sessions and the Freewheelin’ Outtakes by Bob Dylan).

The only reason (I speculate) that David Crosby’s albums (and Stills’s and Nash’s for the record) is that Neil Young stole all the glory. While I believe Young is a phenomenal musician who released a multitude of outstanding oeuvre (On The Beach, Chrome Dreams, etc.), his work consistently seems to cause the other CSNY members solo recordings (which are just as phenomenal) to be overlooked (especially Crosby and Nash). This should not be so, as each member’s work is worth a look.

By: SteveR

SteveR — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:08:26 +0000

How good is Phil Lesh’s playing on these tracks? Too bad he didn’t record more with Cros – they certainly seemed on the same page.

By: Dineen

Dineen — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:08:06 +0000

it is a pretty slight piece of work. The songwriting is minimal, a lot of mhmmhmmhm over acoustic guitar From here The songs on If I Could Only Remember My Name were a combination of personal tunes Crosby had written during the years and numbers that developed during jams in the studio. “Laughing” dates back at least to early 1968: Crosby cut an acoustic guitar and voice demo version at Hollywood Sound Recorders in March of that year for Elektra producer Paul Rothchild. In September 1969, when he was still shopping for a solo deal, Crosby cut a second solo version at Heider's studio in Hollywood. Later, he tried unsuccessfully to entice his CSNY partners to record the song on Déjà Vu. Perhaps the song was waiting for the right musicians and the perfect setting to come along.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:11:58 +0000

I’ll date myself here, but who cares. I bought this album as soon as it came out and proceeded to play it for everyone I knew, who all then went out and bought it too. Apparently the buck stopped there, because the album soon sank from the charts.
A shame, cause it’s another true gem from that period. Also great around that time,were Stephen Stills solo album, Graham Nash’s Songs for Beginners. Bob Weir had a great solo album around then, too. Also Blows Against the Empire and Sunfighter from the Paul Kantner/Grace Slick combine.
Gratifying to see I was right about Crosby’s album.

By: New Rap Songs

New Rap Songs — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:54:23 +0000

Wow … some old good stuff

By: 23/7

23/7 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:05:40 +0000

great stuff, thanks.

By: Dan M

Dan M — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:07:08 +0000

Crosby’s “If I Could Only Remember My Name,” is a beautiful document of self reflection in the lines of Skip Spences “Oar”, Also pleased to know Crosby also sings non-senseable melodic sounds when doesn’t have lyrics yet. Thanks for posting, as this website always seems to tap into what I am interested in.

By: Bill Altreuter

Bill Altreuter — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:29:53 +0000

I agree that the sound here is impressive– even assuming that an album like this could get made now, it would be too compressed to sound like this. The funny thing about “If I Could Only Remember My Name” is that relative to who David Crosby was at the time– ex-Byrd, one-third or one fourth of the first American supergroup– it is a pretty slight piece of work. The songwriting is minimal, a lot of mhmmhmmhm over acoustic guitar. The musicianship is as strong as you would expect from the cream of the Marin County scene, but the whole thing has the feel of a stoned weekend jam in someone’s living room. I think everyone expected that Crosby would produce something else at some point, and that this was a tossed off bit of work intended to cash in on CSNY’s popularity. Actually, with the exception of “After the Goldrush” each of the CSNY solo projects released at that time had that feel. Graham Nash’s “Songs for Beginners”at least had songs. “Stephen Stills” had a hit single, and was what we used to call “a good guitar record”– but, weirdly, the Clapton and Hendrix guitar work was buried in the mix. It is funny to think that these recordings represented an artistic peak, but that is what they turned out to be.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:04:54 +0000

amazing that you posted this because a friend was telling me how great this is a couple days ago. thanks!