We went in another direction they didn’t understand.” That’s what they were promoting, the guitar player world. “The critics didn’t get it,” Crosby says. The playing is sloppy as hell…Crosby’s singing here is even blander and more monotonously one-dimensional than Stills’ on his solo album.” “It would make a perfect aural aid to digestion when you’re having guests over for dinner, provided they’re brothers and sisters enough to get behind it, of course. “Not likely to go down in history, but it is not a bad album,” Lester Bangs wrote in Rolling Stone. The end result was If I Could Only Remember My Name, which landed in stores on February 22nd, 1971 and was greeted with, at best, very mixed reviews. I had the maximum amount of happiness and maximum amount of sadness at the same time.” I’m making music that I fuckin’ love, and I believe in, that really moves me. In the same 24 hours, I’m in fuckin’ heaven. “Here I am and I’ve been punched in the mouth, knocked my teeth out, and I’m on the ground, and then somebody ran over me with a tractor. “It was a strange, very conflicting environment,” he continues. “Usually sometime around dinnertime, I would arrive at the studio. “I would get up on my boat around noon, walk into town for some breakfast, and just try to survive the day,” says Crosby. The created the album during a roughly three-month period in late 1970 and early 1971 with a routine that rarely changed. “Every time he sits down with a guitar and I sit down on a guitar with him, magic happens. “He’s a decent human being with a nice heart, and he’s funny and stoned and good and can play like God on a good day,” says Crosby. It was Garcia who made the whole thing sparkle to life. Paul Kantner, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Gregg Rolie, Jack Casady, and Jorma Kaukonen. Together, they recruited a stunning assortment of musicians to work on the album, including Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Graham Nash, Phil Lesh, Grace Slick. Assisting Crosby in sorting through all this was Jerry Garcia, who took time out from the Grateful Dead’s tour schedule to join his friend at Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco.