WATCHING DAVID CROSBY RELAPSE

Should I Have Written About It? A Journalist's Choice

I am still recovering from a series of ailments that derailed me for a few weeks. New material coming soonest. There will be changes in the subscription structure, and stories such as this one, which went viral somehow last fall, will be paywalled along with the nearly half million words I’ve posted during the first four years of Critical Conditions. I thank you for reading. There are more than 450 “likes” received by this article, which shocked me, because it’s more than ten times as many as anything I’ve posted here. Those new to Substack as a social media app, please be aware that likes are nice, but subscriptions are what those of us who write (or wrote) for a living find most rewarding. Thank you.

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August, 1985. I met David Crosby for an interview in the restaurant of his Manhattan hotel. It may have been the nadir of a life of self-destruction. The interview was to promote a Crosby, Stills, and Nash performance at the Jones Beach Theater on Long Island the night t…