What Are Their Names

"I was ending my tour in Uncle's Army when the massacre at Kent and Jackson State happened. While in Uncle's army I had become radicalized and more anti-war, anti-military and anti-government each day, but this numbed me. Now the government was not only sending American youth to kill Asian youth but it was killing its' own children on college campuses...what's next?"

This was when the music and the message became louder and bolder. David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young released a solo LP later in 1970, If I Could Only Remember My Name, that would address issues such as drugs, love and war. In the song What Are Their Names Crosby wondered who the old men were who could send children off to war and perhaps we should pay them a visit. Backed by a who's/who of San Francisco musicians, this LP is perhaps the most creative music Crosby was ever to release as a solo venture.
Rock Garden

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(autori: David Crosby, Neil Young, Phil Lesh, Michael Shrieve, Jerry Garcia) (esecutori: David Crosby: chitarra elettrica e voce, Jerry Garcia chitarra solista, Neil Young chitarra solista, Phil Lesh Basso, Bill Kreutzmann batteria The PERRO chorus: David Crosby, Paul Kantner, Joni Mitchell, Grace Slick, Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, David Freiberg, Graham Nash)

Parole composte da Crosby per il coro di amici (chiamato per l'occasione Perro, come cane in spagnolo) che hanno cantato su una base registrata il giorno prima; ancora una volta una registrazione sostanzialmente "live", con un numero di microfoni inferiore al numero degli amici coristi.

(Da "Musica e Memoria")