Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Woodstock

[theresters1]

born in '49. dont care for mr. young, but this ballad is harmonically perfect, thumping bass, stephen tearin' that six string a new ass love it love them dave crosby my favorite, southern cross my favorite, judy blue eyes too.

[dixiedoll53]

I was born in 53 in the South. i didn't hear this song until the 70's.

and, no, i'm not a redneck.. i'm educated and i LOVE this song!!!

i didn't even hear about Woodstock til then

[PortSedona]

@crystaldpaxson Enjoyed your comment - I was born in '60 and wish I was born in '50 so I could have gone to Woodstock! Go figure, my parent's wouldn't let me go, I was 9. Always something - at least "we" have access to the best of all music, of all time, I used to think the '1920's or so would have been fun, but no Great music until the '60's!

Cheers to you Crystal, xo!

[cole12890]

i prefer America's version but this one kicks ass too.

[BenjaminFranklin99]

We cannot and will not let the Republicans destroy this beautiful vision!

[1949Jens]

I was born in 1949..and back in 1969..I guess I have " Left " my Heart..to me..all is ..not a matter of " Age " but a " Stage og MInd "..and in so many ways..I never left the feeling...my kids don´t understand..YET ;)

[crystaldpaxson]

Wow lol! It must have been wild! I wasn't born till 78 so I was young in the 80s & was a teen in the 90s. There was some good music from the 90s I guess but I don't care for 80s music or lifestyle much

[MindMyLost]

@crystaldpaxson The late 60s were fun. They had this place called Pandoras Box near where I lived in Hollywood. People were having sex in front of it. It was on Sunset Blvd. They also had Hippies with empty school buses from the 50's looking to take any suckers to the desert to live in communes. They tried to get me on the bus in 67 and I was only 9. They told me that a revolution was coming. This was on the sunset strip. I was on my red Schwinn racer 3 speed bike at the time.

[stirrednotshaken4]

@MindMyLost Beautifull memory!... Thanks so much for sharing. I was born in the 80's, but I wish I had lived already to witness these times.

[MindMyLost]

I bought this in 69 I think. I played the hell out this record. I was 12. When I graduated the 6th grade I got off early and went home and played this song on my console stereo in my bedroom. I was celebrating no longer being in grade school and now going to Jr. High in September.

Hey I was pretty cool huh? A 12 year old kid blowing the speakers loud with woodstock.  Everyone else thought I was a nerd. My Father got pissed off when he heard the song teach your children.

[Vox572X]

When I listem to this song I Say to all this:

-"Make me Dream..."

and this is it all.

[eltorocal]

PeaceFrogMan1 I know it's been over 2 yrs. since you posted/uploaded this song & lyrics, but you left out the words after "And I feel myself a cog in somrthin' turnin'..." next is " Well, then maybe it's the time of year," ... but, then maybe it's the time of man...

Thanks Joni, Thanks CSN&Y.

[Broadsidejohn]

I like the song, but too many in my gen. were spoiled and bored and searching for meaning in their lives. Our parents and grandparents built such a successful society that provided the most prosperity and comfort of any nation or time. The spoiled brats rejected it and thought that our (USA) absence creates peace. Newsflash-the world is full of evil and man made genocide and starvation. We produce enough food to feed everyone, but the tyrants and socialists wield power to make misery.

[CGSeever]

Glad you posted the lyrics, but you missed a line.

...And I feel myself a cog in something turning. And maybe it's the time of year  Yes and maybe it's the time of man...

[mourningmom]

I heard the war ended this week, and all our troops will be home by Christmas~~was I dreaming or did everyone hear that as well??? We gotta get ourselves back to the garden!! LOVE THE MUSIC!!~~~Meme~~

[kemlo]

the right song, the right place, the right time. a true classic. for a generation of kids wanting PEACE.!

[rmtmiller]

A truly great group.

[BrianKCrawford]

I am of the right age, but I missed Woodstock too. I went to a music festival in Denver a few weeks before and the crowd got tear-gassed and I got my ass kicked. When my friends left for Woodstock, I said, "No way, man, it's going to suck." Yet another of my predictions that went wrong - like we'll have achieved world peace by 2000. Still got my hair, but now it's a white tail. Keep the faith, oldies and youngies!

[TenaciousTeun]

@BrianKCrawford Never lose you Faith my Brother, Keep the Fire Burning! So shine one my Stardust brother.

[WVSUfan]

Get up, stand up! Stick your fist in the air...even if only in your mind. This is the day they in the '60s was fighting for. TODAY! Do what you can for those you can help. It''s a revolution, not of guns and violence (leave that to the fascist) You feed the hungry, read to the blind, clothe the naked, love and hug a child! TODAY! Don't let the machine take your soul. Love and charity is our weapon. Fight with the weapons you have and they can only hate you for that love,as I was once a warrior.

[stonedandfree]

@WVSUfan thats some groovy words. i dig that.

[SidneyBroadshead]

@WVSUfan Acid trips are pretty hard to ride out, aren't they? Just breathe through your nose slowly and focus on a point directly in front of you. Imagine you are in a peaceful garden and that a perfect rose is blooming in the midst of a green verge and that it requires your attention to thrive. Just remember that the cockroaches under your skin are just imaginary and the itching is psychosomatic; ignore them and don't scratch. Drink plenty of liquids and keep calm. Good luck and god bless.

[SidneyBroadshead]

Not that many people were at Woodstock. Several bands bowed out because the music industry saw it as a minor concert and bigger venues were scheduled at the same time. Many people who claim to have been there (and some who were there, but have faulty memories) talk about seeing bands that weren't there or who weren't scheduled on the same day or didn't jam with each other. It was hyped by the media into something and later immortalized by the concert album and film and bootlegs made afterward.

[Broadsidejohn]

@SidneyBroadshead Right you are. I was 18 at the time of Woodstock. A few years back I bought the DVD and boy, what a disappointment. The music was mediocre and the other stuff was infantile. And I still like the music of the era. Spoiled kids searching for meaning in their lives. Like it meant something more than too many young people overcrowding a concert venue. Pathetic.

[BenjaminFranklin99]

@Broadsidejohn - You may just as well climb onto your funeral pyre, like the last Guardian of Gondor, and light it, because your soul is dead.

[dictator54]

Yur rite the best thing neil young did was to go solo had more talent than the rest of them put together.

[romanbrough]

A lot of shit has been happening in my life. I have been trying to come to terms with it. today I was singing this to myself at work, and I realised I was deaing with it OK. You cant sing this, while having bad thougts.

[kidsfallout]

the party was inside my head during the summer of my 24th year which was just last year, i just wish it'd been "half a million strong" still.

[bulldogssf]

i wish i was at woodstck

[aellarex]

is there anyone who can get 1/2 million people in one place for any reason now except for trying to kill other folks?

[MachineDanceCake]

@BabiiuuUteja689

Oh damn learn to write, fucking fag, I don't know why you write this shit on this wonderful song.

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[grooveechick61]

@MachineDanceCake

Who were you talking about?

[57roberts]

any been watching on vhi and caught woodstock: then and now? great accept for all the bleeping out of the words and the "furry" images

[NatashaLallMusic]

dudes please vote for me. sorry to spam. but there is too much lame music in the world atm. there is need for more folk music like this^^^.

there's a link on my page to vote for natasha lall...

i hope to record an album at the roundhouse soon..

so look out for it please!

ps i also did a woodstock cover...

[peacefrog2100]

great song...and i like your name!

[ipodtouchgirl2468]

wow. just think. my dad, and his dad listened to this. and now his daughter gonna go see neil in a month. wow my generation sucks. :( (i'm 24)

[frenchie2alfalfa]

im turning into a liberal.

[Dawnmariegrasso]

great song i wish i could have went to woodstock but i was born to late 1977

[aellarex]

@Dawnmariegrasso I was in viet nam. we both missed the party.

[CosmicEuphoria]

I echo the comment that this is one of the best songs ever. It's inspirational. I'm currently germinating some tomato and pepper seeds. I'm getting back to the Garden!

[bcseibert]

Does anyone remember the flowers dropped from the helocopters, and the peace sign drawn from the skywriter plane?... or did I get the GOOD acid??

[StupidNoobFace]

@bcseibert aha man, that's awesome.

I'd remember if they did that. Nothing I've read about it mentions it. (I wasn't around back then unfortunately.) But, the acid might of help a little bit.

Nice to hear about someone that was actually there. 

[bcseibert]

@StupidNoobFace Just kidding about the acid. I assure you, what I described happened. Just two memories of a serendipitous event.that was the end of peace, love and music and the beginning of it's mainstream commercialisation.

[StupidNoobFace]

@bcseibert Oh wow, that's really beautiful.

[hutchieboy5]

Love it.

[skywize]

One of the greatest songs of all time.

[cizanopen]

who play lead on this one Stills or Young. anybody knows?

[guilhermevideira17]

@cizanopen Neil Young Plays the solo guitar!!!!

[nhford07]

@cizanopen doesn't sound like Stills. on this version, I'm thinking its Young and Still sings the part that Nash does on the CSN version. I'm a CSN fan...Y is okay but prefer CSN over CSNY.

[24Reanimation]

We owe hippies quite a bit as far as civil liberties go. I loves meh pronz, However, AID's and Hep C aren't so awesome. the generation should be CONDEMNED and PERSECUTED.. maybe even the leader of the supposed "free love movement" hanged like the Nazi leaders.. they've killed more then they have!... sry, you all know it's true... Conservatives where right all a long...

[hazyphotos]

@24Reanimation

U make no sense whatsoever...Hep C and AID's (its AIDS btw) were here long before hippies were. Thanx to those same hippies people use protection now. Something your beloved conservatives think is wrong 'cause some imaginary man in the sky told them so...Hope you were just kidding, if not you should be hanged for your comparison with Nazi's, We've got to get rid of ignorant people like you.

[MrBluesrules]

@24Reanimation

You are wrong and a moron.

[the3rdjoker]

@24Reanimation your arguement is so circular and confusing it made my brain hurt, AID's and Hep C yes spread from that time, but I think the conservitive right overf all have killed more people the any hippy

[inthebiscuits]

@24Reanimation Right, everyone knows how evil and damaging love and respect for humanity are, clearly comparable to eugenics, genocide, and world domination. I guess some people don't need drugs to experience their own realities. Four decades seem to prove conservatives were right about some things: most people can be bought off and convinced that greed is good, denial is far more useful to people than empathy, and the end of days may very well be at hand... if they keep getting their way.

[guilhermevideira17]

I Need one Time Machine Now!!!!

[vreutele]

I own this album, believe it or not. Yep, back in my hippie days! Along with the Woodstock album and Jimmy Hendrix and Long John Baldry. Wow, brought back a lot of memories......

[neosandy]

From Woodstock to privatized prisons...We've come a long way, baby!!

PEACE!!

[MsHans33]

@crookhunter

you are so right , there is no more place for freedom in this world 

[crookhunter]

Only idiots would take kids to Woodstock. Man it was loud as hell and could have caused hearing damage. Not to mention exposing them to all the drug and alcohol abuse and elicit sex.

[minoxman1]

I was a teenager during Woodstock. The only regret I have was not going,because I had a ride. I went to a house party instead.The 60s music is timeless,and is even listened to by teenagers today. Will the next generation listen to Rap,,I think not.

[bratrat]

@minoxman1

I was at Woodstock(I was 9); what an AMAZING experience!

[MrDOWNDABAY]

I WAS 8 YEARS OLD REMEMBER BEING AROUND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE RUNNING AROUND PLAYING WITH OTHER KIDS BLACK WHITE RED EVERYONE WAS THERE FREE IT WAS GREAT! STILL FIGHTING MY MOTHER AND FATHER FIGHT EVERYDAY FOR REAL.,

[MrDOWNDABAY]

I WAS 8 YEARS OLD REMEMBER BEING AROUND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE RUNNING AROUND PLAYING WITH OTHER KIDS BLACK WHITE RED EVERYONE WAS THERE FREE IT WAS GREAT! STILL FIGHTING MY MOTHERS AND FATHERS FIGHT EVERYDAY FOR REAL.,

[david510152025303540]

@MrDOWNDABAY How did you get there? I was 4 years old when woodstock happened. It was a great time. I remember watching the moon landing and Micheal Jackson on ed Sullivan. and mini skirts and afros and vietnam, and water gate. Man that time was magical.

[joeyess]

FSM bless the DFH's.

[wichitarick]

Hi not High! Thanks, I have this cranked on 9 on the stereo ,My 12 yr. old d.d smiling! !,Emotional and beaten from physical probs It is days like today that I say THANK GOODNESS I WAS BORN A HIPPIE!!!!!!!! Rick

[dmwpot]

Thanks, man - this is so great!

[TakerFan72]

Thank you,PeaceFrogMan,this is one of my all-time favorite songs..not just by CSN,but favorite period..and amazing feeling washes over me when i hear this,a song of hope and brotherhood...something we need today,so we find our way back to the Garden..so we may all be a family again,forever....Peace n Love,Blessed Be.

[stclairjm]

I am a conservative from Texas and I know CSN were/are flamin' liberals but they are awesome artists!! Undisputed ectascy..

[Skyman46]

@stclairjm you mean you're a hypocrite nazi fascist from texas....and what the hell is a flaming liberal anyways...someone who believes in equal rights for everyone even neanderthals like you.

[stclairjm]

@Skyman46 better plug that hole in your open mind there freakazoid...you're about to lose your last ounce of brains. By the way, how about curbing your habit so they'll stop killing people in Mexico, eh?

[Skyman46]

@stclairjm what the fuck are you talking about...another Schizophrenic totally out of his mind is claiming that he's conservative when he doesn't know the meaning of the word.

[xbertocoaylax]

@stclairjm Drug lord Gangsters are only there because people can't grow it themselves in the US. End the drug war and end prohibition and you will kill the business of the cutthroats. Just like there are no Al Capone's in the beer industry.

[stclairjm]

@xbertocoaylax agree

[Rbenson1979]

This is the Best version, ya.

[crookhunter]

Stills was CSN...

[jmtappenden]

great music.thanks a lot.

[UChamberlain]

So Great! Thank you!

[overban888]

wonderful

it's funny how the tempo actually slide a bit faster and slower during the song. it's a part of dis freakin music

[1951tank]

I too bought this on vinyl all those years ago and still have it. I loved CSNY then and i still love them--------for better or worse. They have been through many things during this time but they have emerged through it stronger than ever. Keep rockin' boys. WONDERFUL MUSIC!

[bartje11]

we are stardust we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden aaahhhhhhhh youth, wasted on the young!! haha enjoy I love this still

[inbox0003]

I'm an old dog and I bought this album on vinyl shortly after it came out... I love this song nearly 40 years later...

[pillroller88]

Gee I can't decide if this music from my day is better than slappin yo ho of a bitch aroun music coming thru the radio today. If only CSNY had had some real choreography or grabbed their crotches all at the same time-then maybe they could have made something to remember.

[Hippie01973]

Outstanding ! That's when music was REAL !!! Today's young musicians just can't seem to cut it. Seems like the CULTURE, CREATIVITY, and REALITY are missing ! :(

[citylovergirl22]

@Hippie01973 definitely so true! :(

[AJ1952Chats]

@Hippie01973 Good reason for that! Their brains have been pickled in Ritalin before they're even old enough to grow their first pubic hair or lose their final baby tooth!

[paulal325]

The most magnificent harmony and lyrics from an old hippie Peace and Love

[juliannisaakfan]

I've been singing "and I feel myself caught in something turning", (not 'and I feel myself a cog in somethin' turning'), for the past forty years, lol.

.......Learn something new every day!

[AleksiAlexi]

Awesome - quintessential '69; brings back so many memories ... good times ...

[yourharlequinaffair]

so i'm supposed to listen to this song for an assignment...this is the original song right?

[Asiablue]

Yes.

[whoaablanch]

@yourharlequinaffair thats one hell of an assignment

[FunWithANun]

not quite. original was by Joni Mitchell.

[wesleytj]

@yourharlequinaffair wow i wish i had that assignment.

[1lemurian]

One of the best covers ever!

[randy95023]

Thanks Joni, and thanks CSNY!! Depending on my mood I listen to either version. Both beautiful, neither is "better" because they're art. Art is in the eye of the beholder...  -Peace-

[Guitar76er]

Stills is from Texas, Graham from England.

This band is "top shelf"

[brassmaster11]

have not researched it but i understand that mr. neil younge is from canada. anyway wow what a distinct guitarist, vocalist, lyricist, band! wonder if d. crosby and/or steven still/ grahm nash are from canada as well?

[TheThomasgray]

stardust and carry on are more then songs to me they talk about the celabration in 1969s woodstock and what it meant to them even if they were to have another woodstock it wouldnt be anything like that one when i die i wish to go back and be at that woodstock

[kitkatrockz2]

i love crosbey stills nash and young!!!! aweswomest band ever! my dad saw them in concert a couple times in the 60's along with zepplin the who and loads of others!... i respect him so much more now...!!!

[motownmaniax]

♫ Still the best version of the song. ♫

[nardo363636]

I wish i wa sthere to witness this, apperently this wa stheir second performance togetehr at woodstcok 69.

[mapscannotcontainme]

They didn't perform this song at Woodstock. This is a Joni Mitchell cover which she wrote because she was unable to attend Woodstock. It's such an amazing song.

[TheHippyMike]

To quote an old magazine article, "an awful lot of guitar hero antics for a folk song" May there be many more such "antics" before we blow ourselves to hell

[metrostationrocks]

what an amazing fucking time! i really hope that all us young hippies can try and make a difference in today's world like the hippies in the 60's tried to do. god knows that everyone in today's world needs some loving and harmony.

[msague1]

@metrostationrocks A seed was planted at that time whose harvest is here in you and all of your generation. It was epochal and timeless and it is a blossom that will never die. I am 58 now but when i hear this song I am 19 again!

[frankenboston]

@msague1 bet yer still as hot as ever too, lol

[MagneticProductions1]

@msague1 I'm 14 and when I hear this song i'm 16 in the 60's.

[Thiago1950]

We are caught in the devils bargain

[metalcoffin]

This shall be played when I'm laid to rest, everyone celebrating my next quest, no need for your Sunday best, that would be my last request. ;-)

[sunflowerchic1979]

This is a very good song!!!!

Unfortunately, I was not born when Woodstock was going on, but I do know that it is a very important part of the Rock N Roll era!!

[marshallsimon]

This song is the best. It's reminds me of the days I was living in Ontario.

[GietjeM]

Crosby Stills and Nash live at 25 Years Rock and Roll hall of fame ;) watch it!

[PageandPlant4Life]

Neil! I wanna party with you! I wanna party with you!

[samoyed966]

the best version ive found on youtube!

[3984ja]

Yep, this one's the best.

[richardwilson1977]

I wish that I could have been about 17 in 1969. I would have PARTIED it up and enjoyed true freedom. We just don't have true freedom anymore

[theschumanity]

In my opinion, Matthews Southern Comfort does it best.

[JamesAllan9]

You missed a line in the second verse

[ArmyOfRock11]

you always know when neil young is playin dont you. haha

[miznerowns]

i wish i was alive in the 60's. i would go to the haight, and definetly woodstock

[1997jsc]

This is awesome!

[GUIDOBRAT]

Joni wrote this in David Geffen's apartment while watching WNEW news pieces on the opening stages of the festival...I prefer her own version even over CSNY's definitive cover..

peace, kjm

[midyrvette]

Who ever posted this THANKS! Brings back a lot of memories...........5*****

[avengerOFthe141]

I wish i could have been at woodstock, so much music and drugs and girls good times.

[AustinBoyGenius95]

no this version is actually 30 thousand times better so ur dumb

[silentsniperrr]

yeah seriously......

[dlphcoracl]

I'll settle this!! :) Two VERY different version and both are superb in very different ways. Joni's is dreamy, haunting, contemplative. CSNY's version is wired, passionate and driven. Matter of taste but I grew up in this era (late 60's) and the CSNY version TRULY captures what Woodstock was about ---- put my vote with AustinBoyGenius95 on this one. This is the version I always remember.

[lepongosalsa]

@AustinBoyGenius95 I agree..we are living the same world..my best regards

[JSVanEtten]

@AustinBoyGenius95 really dumb, for real!

[sfm992002]

Joni does it best!

[ultramagnus58]

JONI'S IS KICK-ASS

[lagpressure]

It's amazing how much better I like Joni Mitchell's original version of this song.. (she did write it for those who didn't know) so haunting and moving...

[marinehn]

And then i woke up in this world of late generations and i never regret this era the best one for me it's the start of The Real Generation my Fore fathers are real hippies and now they call me A Class Hippie Shake the father of a new generation still Woddstock Remains.

[artbycheri]

cool. It is so good to see "original" album covers and the "original" studio versions. It is helpful to show my children what it was like int the "day". Keep up the good work. Having the lyrics to sing by helps too. Even though I have been singing along with this song for forty something years I didn't know all the words and now, I do. The contex of these lyrics are very meaningful if you look into them. It was such an era of statements and opinions that changed a generation. Thanks Peace to all