[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We watched and listened as CPR did their sound checks. Crosby definitely had
> an attitude with the band during practice. I was so surpassed when he > treated the guitar player (Jeff Pevar) like crap. He was yelling at him that > he wasn't singing loud enough over and over. He told him he might as well > not sing at all. (Mingus has this verbal abuse recorded). Crosby soon > returned to the bus out back, A few things come to mind. 1) While a soundcheck was a thrill for you, Crosby was at work. He has probably learned not to mince words, and when someone sounds to your ears like crap, it's best to tell them and deal with it for the sake of the music. Plus maybe Pevar is someone you need to be forceful with. I don't know. 2) Crosby has had very serious health problems, a liver transplant, has to take handfuls of medications etc. That can make a person cranky. 3) He is one of the most recognizable musicians in the world If he gave attention to everyone who wanted it, it would go on 24 hrs a day. Maybe as a defense mechanism he does his best to minimize and not encourage face time too much. or 4) he was having a bad day 5) he's an asshole I dunno. I saw him backstage at a festival I played at a few years ago. (he was the headliner). He was just kind of hanging out watching Vince Welnick's Missing Man Formation, and his son Django (who, due to his curly locks, I mistook for a girl) and a very burley bodyguard were there, too. I didn't feel like I wanted to bother him before a show- and I guess no one else did, either, because there were lots of people back stage, but no one approached him. Later he put on a wonderful show, as he has on every occasion I have seen him. Even in his drug-addled days, he was captivating. RR, looking forward to seeing CSN at Clear Lake, CA end of March-just got tickets. Had to mortgage the house.
