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Doerge quotes Basie: “They don’t pay me for playing,” the implication being that they pay him for traveling.

Crosby did well not to write songs about the 2nd Amendment. His “facts” have grown less persuasive with each unprovoked shooting.

The co-screenwriter of Jaws gets nautical about Croz (202-203).

The deal that put CSN together (140-143).

Crosby‘s father worked with many of the greats Flaherty (5), Murnau (6), Zinnemann (13), Rossen, and Welles (14). Floyd Crosby was blacklisted. Through his union Floyd filed an affidavit, revealing he had been on secret orders during World War II and was allowed to return to work without naming names (13).

From Cosby‘s mother, he learned the “cooperative effort” of harmony singing (11).

The type of specificity about harmony Graham Nash neglects in Wild Tales, Crosby delivers in Long Time Gone: “What we did which made me extremely proud, was to sing a lot of nonparallel stuff. I did some of my very best work being subtle, moving the middle part around in internal shifts that kept it happening.” (155).

Jerry Garcia says Croz got “better out of me than I get out of myself “ (197)).