David Crosby & Dave Mason
"The Dave & Dave Show",
Tripping Fields,
New Paltz, NY
5/2/81 Incomplete sets of both artists



Source: SBD
Quality: A+ Excellent Sound.

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separate sets


David Crosby w/Carl Schwindeman (g) ---- incomplete set
1. Deja Vu
2. Guinnevere
3. Homeward Through The Haze
4. Bittersweet
5. Triad
6. Wooden Ships

Dave Mason ---- incomplete set
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16. All Along The watchtower (bob dylan)
17. Take It To The Limit (randy meisner)



During a tour in 1981, Crosby had his first drug-related grand mal seizure. While smoking with his girlfriend, Jan Dance, Crosby began flopping around like a beached flounder and eventually bit his tongue, the blood squirting out of his mouth. Fortunately Crosby’s friend Mac Holbert helped Crosby through this terrible episode. Then, the following night, Jan Dance had a seizure, while Crosby watched!

Nevertheless, Crosby didn’t stop his drugging.

Some friends, including Graham Nash who put down $3,500, finally got Crosby and Dance to enter Scripps Hospital in Carlsbad, California, hoping the staff could treat their drug addiction. They stayed one night and then left the following day. The hospital couldn’t keep them without their permission. (Incidentally, Nash lost his $3,500 deposit.)

Then, Crosby’s friends, thinking that it would be easier to treat Crosby or Dance if they kept them separated, tried to do this, but their attempts were unsuccessful. About that, Crosby wrote, “The truth is that I turned Jan on to base, not the other way around. It wasn’t her fault. We were coaddicted and we had no intention of being slit up.”

Now, once again, Crosby was arrested. Crosby, while driving his car on the freeway, had another seizure and collided with a center divider fence. The investigating officers found in his car a small quantity of drugs and paraphernalia and his loaded .45 and then arrested Crosby for those charges as well as driving under the influence of drugs.

Two weeks later, Crosby was nailed again, this time in a Dallas, Texas nightclub, where the arresting officer found Crosby with some cocaine and his .45 Colt automatic. This bust would eventually prove the costliest for Crosby.

Then, while appealing this charge, Crosby was busted in San Rafael, California for drug possession, possession of a handgun and driving with a revoked license.

Crosby’s musical career was going flat as well. While touring as a solo act, Crosby played at some college in the Boston area. Not taking care of themselves, Crosby and Jan Dance looked like a pair of hobos. To make matters worse, many students in the audience were getting loud after swilling beer. Not sensing the roughness of the crowd, Crosby played “Guinnevere,” but the crowd didn’t like this soft tune. So Crosby got mad and told them to quiet down. Well, the crowd didn’t quiet down and Crosby left the stage and the college as well, the crowd growing irate and booing and yelling “You’re washed up, Crosby! You’re a has-been!”

Crosby then entered the Fair Oaks Hospital in New Jersey, hoping to kick his addiction. He stayed there for about seven weeks and then suddenly left without permission, complaining that they wouldn’t let him play his music or records. Of course, as soon as he got out he went and got loaded. As it turned out, Crosby could have avoided jail if he had stayed there.

Over the months, Crosby went to several other hospitals or treatment centers, hoping to conquer his drug addiction, but it never seemed to work out.

As incredible as this may seem, Crosby was busted once more, this time in Mill Valley, California, for hit-and-run (he hit a fence and left the scene), as well as possession of freebase paraphernalia and that same .45-caliber pistol!

Since there was a warrant for his arrest in Texas, Crosby, rather than face going to jail, sold his last remaining possession, a baby grand piano for $5,000, and then he and Jan Dance fled to South Florida, hoping to eventually sail the Mayan to Costa Rica, which had no extradition laws, and there they would spend the rest of their lives.

But, like the poignant moment near the end of some cinematic tragedy, when they found the Mayan they saw to their chagrin that it was in a deplorable state of disrepair and definitely not seaworthy. During his years of drugging, Crosby had neglected his beloved schooner, leaving her to rot, much like what he had done to his own body. Finally, having smoked his last pipe, so to speak, Crosby turned himself into the FBI.

Rock star David Crosby, the fallen spiritual leader of the Hip Generation, now 44 years of age, entered the Texas penal system in time for Christmas in 1985. Judging from Crosby’s autobiography his stay in the joint was a constructive one. He didn’t use any drugs while locked up, even though the stuff was available – for a price. He also read lots of books and fan mail, wrote many letters, penned lots of songs and played guitar in the prison band. As a job, he made mattresses. However, after a few months, Crosby was still undergoing withdrawal from base. He thought about it all the time and dreamed about it every night.

Meanwhile on the outside, Crosby’s lover Jan Dance was going through drug rehabilitation at the Steinbeck Clinic in Salinas, California. Dance told Crosby she was confident that her quest for abstinence would be a successful one.

Because Crosby behaved himself in prison and because there was a problem with overcrowding, he was granted an early parole in August 1986. Crosby would soon marry Jan Dance, with whom he would eventually have a child, and continue his musical career with Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young. He also had the Mayan completely rebuilt. And, as far as anyone knows, he no longer gets loaded. Although as recently as March 2004, Crosby was arrested for possession of marijuana. Well, as long as he sticks with that stuff . . . .

The David Crosby story proves that anyone can give up drugs and once again live a normal life, as well as continue to explore the artistic world. Crosby would probably admit that if he had stuck with pot and psychedelics he probably wouldn’t have made such a mess of his life. He was also smart enough to know what hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin could do to a person. In a fashion, Crosby was a product of his time – the drugged-out generation, if you will. They had to find out, some way or another, they just had to.

Now we know better. There are no more excuses.