My copy won’t load in my machine. I have a Marantz which is a high dollar machine supposed to play anything under the sun, but I get an error and the disc won’t load. I thought I got a bad disc, but the replacement won’t load either. Any suggestions?
Hi Gang,
    Merry Christmas…
The first time I bought and listened to IICORMN I put on “WHAT ARE THEIR NAMES”. Being a scant 16 years old, I felt I learned more about American politics after listening to the song than sitting in a civics or pol.sci class. I made a black armband out of an old sock and wore it proudly knowing what it stood for.  Thanks David… I have played that song hundreds of times and everytime I play it or guitar or stereo, I re-commit to living in a free society with freedom of speech surrounded by the Bill of Rights.  Rock On… Joe Ray Skrha
It’s so satisfying to find that, through the years, many other folks have appreciated the importance of this wonderful recording. For me, the functional word is ’seminal.’ This album single-handedly shaped my musical, social and political thinking. As a 17 year old, I listened to the music and its message over and over again, learning the guitar parts and alternate tunings, absorbing the political content and gaining a love of the SF environs before I even had a chance to visit.
Decades have passed and the personal importance of this album has remained alive. Now, with this excellent reissue in surround sound, I can relive the initial experience by enjoying subtle musical nuances never before heard.
Thanks to all who made this happen and thanks to David Crosby for his enormous influence on my life.
I thought some site visitors might like to check this out - an “interactive” display of the studio setup and mic selection used on IICORMN. It would have been extremely inappropriate for me to whip out a camera during the recording itself, but afterwards was fair game….
mic setup for a typical IICORMN and PERRO session
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Pretty basic and funky eh? Well, to give you an idea of the anarchy, the studio was in use in the afternoon, so often the setup had to go up from scratch, and in this case they didn’t wait for the mics to be set up neatly. Musicians were already in place and rockin’, so they got mic’d where they sat (including the drums), which meant I couldn’t walk in there afterwards and set up gobos anywhere. Fortunately, the drummers could play dynamically.
Pat Long wrote:
Someone responded the problem is that the mix is only 5.0. I only have sattelite cube speakers on my system.
I know that Stephen Barncard used to monitor these lists - if he still does, I have question for him. I bought the 5.1 version of David Crosby\’s If I Could Only Remember My Name. However, when I play the DVD-A version through my RCA jacks I do not get any sound through the bass module of my 5.1 system. If I play through the optical cord and play the normal DVD version I do get bass, but I know that I am not getting the highest level of sound. The menu of the DVD does not give one the option to play the DVD-A or the dolby digital version as most DVD\’s do.
So my question is - how do I play the DVD-A version through my RCA jacks and get sound through the bass module?
commentary by Stephen Barncard
(previously on the web)
IICORMN is finally out in surround. It’s been a long haul, but we’ve finally made it. I’m not totally happy about the way it’s been promoted, however. WB/Rhino seems to want to keep the surround portion of the new release some kind of secret!!
With online DVD sales houses hawking the product as a CD/DVD package with lyrics and ‘Bonus Track’ and nothing about surround being mentioned, how would anyone know?
Anyway, it’s been quite an experience remixing this music and delving into the time machine and the inner workings of a very amazing David Crosby Experience.
I will have an email address for you to share your experiences with this quite uniqUe recorded work.
stephen barncard
12/09/06