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David Crosby Reviews Hüsker Dü’s “Eight Miles High” Cover: “Didn’t Get Me”

LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 09: Musician David Crosby performs onstage during the International Myeloma Foundation's 7th Annual Comedy Celebration Benefiting The Peter Boyle Research Fund hosted by Ray Romano at The Wilshire Ebell Theatre on November 9, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mike Windle/Getty Images for IMF)

David Crosby‘s Twitter feed, our primary outsider-news source, served up another morsel of microdrama today. When former bandmate Roger McGuinn encouraged him to weigh in on ’80s alt-rock icons Hüsker Dü’s snarling, almost-unintelligible punk cover of the Byrds’ 1966 hit “Eight Miles High,” Croz was unsparing.

This kind of poetic pith–well, it’s how David Crosby singlehandedly redeems the website Twitter.com anew every day.