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The Life and Times of David Crossbeat
I was playing these Beatles kind of songs at the Cafe Playhouse and people weren't going for it. I thought this is embarrassing. So I flew out to LA and I got a gig at the Troubadour opening up for Hoyt-Axton. Nobody liked it there either except for Gene Clark. He came backstage and said, hey, I get what you're doing. I like folk music. Let's try some songs and see what happens. And then Crossbeat came in. Now I had met David Crossbeat years earlier when I was with the line letters and we played the Ashgrove. The night before the play went on called End Game by Samuel Beckett. There