Yeah, this one hits close to home. He was in the decade ahead of me that created all the great music that came from Laurel Canyon and elsewhere.

And he lived the life as an artist and as a producer, including for Joni Mitchell.

CSYN harmonies helped break the hold on American radio and album sales held by the great Brit Invasion bands at the time.

He sang like an angel and lived life to the fullest.

And Lee's right, they're all going soon. Ian Anderson, Joni, and lots more artists of their short era.

SIP Cos. (sing in peace)

Oh, and Lee... just to make you feel better:

"The death came as a surprise to those who followed his very active Twitter account, which he'd kept tweeting on as recently as Wednesday.

One of Crosby's final tweets the day before he died was to make a typically jocular comment about heaven: "I heard the place is overrated ... cloudy."