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  • I love how at 4:20 the guy is rolling a doobie. Love it. and Love the music. Those moments in time, music was truly something soulful. Special. Soft, mad children running around, just trying to express themselves. We've seemed to have lost that gift.

  • Joan & Mimi at 3:15 radiant !!

  • If you remeber it, you weren't there

  • Is that David Letterman in the background?????????????

  • vibrações de geração espontanea ainda ecoam em sintonia com aquario .

    peace

  • Great performance by CSNY, but the guy with the gourd beats all.

  • Wish this documentary were on video. I even have an original "one-sheet" from its theatrical exhibition.

  • @kcolpaer

     Its at Pink Roberts site via rapidshare or somesuch

  • The dude at the end is the shit !

  • dude rolling a joint at 4:20 is priceless!! Neil Young is a freaking genius by the way!!

  • great tune, neil is amazing.

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  • This is true hippie music. lol@ 1:59 chick really tripping hard

  • neils a demon on the guitar

  • sorry with the stupid question, but who is that guy at the end?

  • Anyone here listening to the music?

  • @cj402 Yes, Its ALL GOOD!!!!

  • Wtf the keyboardist looks like me kinda if my hair was more fucked up and brown

  • @consityis Graham Nash it is. 

  • Calling him Tiger Woods was being kind.

    You should see the 1969 television version where the guy's wearing a lady's blouse.

  • Great version ... rivals any Crazy Horse version -- when you have CSN and Greg Reeves on bass, and of course Neil Young, you have musical magic circa 1969.

  • @rjciccone What ever happened to Greg Reeves??

  • 0:22 Tiger Woods!! Who knew?!

  • @DigitalGrotto ... slightly racist....

  • slightly sensitive. Grow a bigger pair, dweeb.

  • hey! i said it was "slightly"

    aw, fuck it...

  • this man who look like he belongs to the planet of the apes is the most successful of all them!

  • @elpilloloco planet of the apes lolololololololol

  • esalen.

  • Not playing at some corporate-named stadium facility, where we are robbed by Ticketmaster, StubHub etc to overpay for tickets to listen to some lip-sinked, masked, an over-produced pop-culture crap. These guys are playing at someone's house, by their pool, at Big Sur, and just jamming, and look at them, they love it. They are so into it.  It's not just about a check, or a contract. They are clearly into what they are doing. Listen to the music. It's awesome.

  • How are the performance payments laid for this concert or any other. Does Neil get 80%, Stephen 10%, David 5% and Graham 5%? It should be based on what they bring to the show! I "just cut my hair" and "our house" please biatches!!!

  • Another Neil Young fan who thinks he's doing him a service by ripping on three of his best friends.

  • i like neil young, i like the stuff he he did with CSN but lets face it he looks like he belongs on the planet of the apes lol

  • This is the poncho I have been looking for for over 40 years I would suppose there is one in Tiajuana as it was rumored it was there that he bought two of everything as Stephen was reported to buy two of everything he liked. There is a black and white one and a navy blue and wheat colored one he wore at Woodstock.

  • i have one. i took it from him at a party in LA in 1971.

  • Refresh my memory you have one of Stephen,s ponchos?? do you really if you do send me a jpeg of it and you may have a deal for me to but it from you. I have been looking for that pattern for over 30 years.

  • Greg Reeves???

  • yes he is Greeg Reeves

  • who's on bass?

    Rick James?

  • @jclev99

    It's the same guy that always played bass for them. I don't remember his name.

  • Is this recorded at Esalen? It appears so. Love it!!

    Thanks for posting it. Peace and Love Q

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  • David Letterman makes an appearance @ 4:56 .........there trying to make it with his first hippy chick.....

  • FUNNY!

  • Oh, wow; this had to be the very peak of the psychedelic love generation. I can barely imagine what it would have been like to have been there. I bet even the people who were there can hardly imagine what it was like.

  • Hey, just wanted to say thanks for posting this footage!

  • Let your freak flag fly baby!

  • Hi, nobody's pissed but no way josey Mr. PageandPlant4life, both are excellent electric g. players.

    Stills"go back home" with Clapton is one of the best electric songs in my book.

    Young's electric perfrormances belong in the rock hall of fame (sothern man, cortez the killer), many more.

    As a duet they were known for they elctric duels (four way street electric side).

    Not all is the faster you play but the high quality in Technique as well as the personal sound and style the player has.

  • I'm gonna look up that stills/clapton song. Stills played some good guitar with CSNY, but i've heard some playing at live concerts that wasn't so great.

  • Yeah, hope you like it man.

    Me too when Iwent to a Stills concert by himself he didnt play as well as with Neil, they kind of compensate for eachother.

    Is just the way a singer songwriter and still guitar player, you know for me is the escence of the Rock and roll hero.

  • Stills was a terrific technical player. But prsonally, i'm always much more into sound, feel & "vibe". i know that sounds kind've dopey.. but there's something extra heavy & palpable about Neil's playing that has always gooten me off WAY more than anything Stills has ever done. e.g. Keith Richards (with exception of his unique tuning) is super simple.. essentilly a riff & rhthym player.. & while I repect what a nice note player, Mick Taylor was.. Keith is where it begins & ends for their sound

  • not to piss anyone off, but neither one of them is that great of a electric guitar player, They are great at playing acoustic, but electric, not so much in my opinion. I still love this song and they have their own unique playing style, kinda like Robbie Robertson.

  • These guys are my favorites but yeah I can't disagree with that. I love the guitar work but it's not about skill...it's about feeling.

  • My friend Baird Bryant, who passed last year, is the cinematographer.

  • Stills was and is more skilled at playing the guitar...Neil is quite simplistic and its really apparent when he plays with Crazy HOrse. But then, thats what he likes to play....and he is very entertaining. Get a hold of the documentary called Year of the HOrse . Its awesome. The thing is, as good as he is on the instrument , I was always most impressed by Stephen's voice.What a great singer.

  • hey im having a little despute with my dad. I think stephen stills is a better guitarist than young, but my dad thinks young is better. theyre both great. but i just think stills is much more complex. so what does everyone else think, state ur opiniopn cuz i wanna know honestly. no hate comments

  • Learn to spell before you start trying to sound intelligent.

    Okay?

    Thanks.

  • Peace love music, you people!

  • Also if this continues to occur it will be bad for youtube in ways I'm not at liberty to discuss.

  • I made a comment about the struggle for individuals' rights/economic equality/labor movements and how these issues aren't dead. It was removed. Not only were these comments relevant they certainly belong on a CSNY page. The comment was there yesterday and had two thumbs up. Now it's gone in what can only be described as a fascist plot to make us all into nazis. To whomever or whatever deleted my comment "Your dark secrets are known! No more back-ally 'conservative value' pushing for you!"

  • This is awesome! It looks like it's in someone's backyard.

  • wicked version - sounds great. Thanks for posting :)

  • nonsense

  • @Joolmk - yea most ppl are spoonfead bullshit and the majority of them eat it up. but real rap/ hip hop is about reality. peace and love is long dead brother, sad but true.

  • WOW! You and Joolmk are both full of the bs your referring to. To assume entire genres of music have single cohesive messages like peace and love or "reality"?!?!? Or that they can be represented through crimes which have nothing to do with music at all. Who's reality am I to listen to? 50 cent or Common? Lil Wayne or Mos Def? Some music has social conscience like Csny or Talib Kwali and adresses real issues. And some is make believe garbage like Vanilla Ice.

  • (To: Praying4tidalWaves)The other thing is there isn't anything dead about civil rights, labor movements, or economic equality. Just because your not actively working towards securing these things for yourself and eventually you children doesn't mean they are dead issues. These things can be taken away from the people with the stroke of a pen (Just Look At The Patriot Act). There is an on going war for you mind, denial is how they win.

  • i really like the guitar in this live version. It's awsome! I wish I could be there to witness it

  • I was there. It was awesome - one of the great musical experiences of my life.

  • It's nice to see you have retained your 1950s flavor racism.

  • all during the 60's my cousin in Eliiizabeth Nj was attacked repeatedly by Blacks that had just comeup from the south.All his friends that were also attacked became cops,THE first slaves were Europeans enslaved by Africans that invaded Spain.Blacks are just as rascist as whites&some a whole lot more.

  • this is the most absurd argument i've ever heard...obviously racism isn't a race specific thing, its an old as fuck way of thinking that has no place in the modern world. why the hell are you pointing fingers? where does that get us? your just being racist dude, straight up and down

  • no peabrain the people who START THE ATTACKS ARE THE RACISTS.

    In Elizabeth,1965 it was some BLacks in that neighbor that started the attacks

  • you said it was black people who started the attacks, and black people that enslaved white people first. sorry dude, your being racist. your piling the facts on one side of the argument

  • you got it all wrong...rap doesnt destroy everything its these damn red cars man! red carss screw us all over! rise up against their evil hue!

  • Who is the cool guy at the end of the video from 6:41 onwards?

  • what a gift to be able to see this whenever we want love this song

  • Thanks for posting this video. I have never seen.

  • wish i was in the audiance

  • best musical performance of all time

  • well said ayinger

  • New bands dont jam like this anymore...5 stars

  • There are some, you just have to look for them.

  • @jemen19762007 ummmm....what about Moe., Phish, Umphrey's McGhee, Disco Biscuits, The Breakfast, Widespread Panic, just to name a few of the more popular "jam bands" out there these days!

  • glad this has 5 stars, great youtube video.

  • a true day in our sun love it forever

  • Been to that pool....in Esalen.

  • To think this was The Early Days an amazing vignette of the late 60's, & 40-years one Neil is STILL rockin' one hell of an achievement... Thanks for posting a real gem of recent music/social History...:)

  • They are TIGHT!! in jam mode.

    Like Big Brother and the Holding with J.J.

  • interesting mode of crowd control. Play in front of a swimming pool.

  • If the guitar solo dies than so do I.. ha ha

  • The absolute best jam I have ever seen, bar none!

  • I read in the paper a few days ago that the guitar solo is out of fashion in music today. Hmmm?

  • only because no one can play leads any more

  • For about the past 25 years, it seems no one can write a song with melody or with meaningful lyrics. 1964-1974 was the golden area of quality pop music that we will probably never see again.

  • i agree!!! the best music, every band was pushing themselves to make good albums

  • I play lead guitar pretty well. But kids these days are stupid and only listen to Pop, Rap, or Heavy metal.

  • neil's from canada

  • Erm, why -5 for loving southern rock? You people are retarded.

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  • Sadly, yes. Too many musicians get lucky in the music business before they even know their instruments enough to do such things as that. It's rather sad.

  • this is so fucking epic i love it

  • This was my first concert, and my father took me...

    Thank you!!

  • The Joint appears at 4:20

  • Pity he can't roll it.

  • So that was done at Elysian or however you spell it?

  • What a great video..thank you!! Would have loved to have been there, but  I was only 7 years old. Big Sur..the guys are jamming..and Joan and Mimi are dancing!Where has this spirit gone????

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  • A bunch of half toasted hippies at an elitist club getting stoned and fornicating in the bathrooms and hot natural spas an stuff....getting stoned out of their minds.....listening to millionaire musicians play and sing about "freedom". Then the rest of us poor saps drove home flat broke, borrowing gas for the trip back only to face going back to school and getting a job and actually working for a living. Yeah, it was real fun...for a day. LOL Of course, this is what concerts are for. ;)

  • I was there man! This was in 1969, middle of October, weekend during my senior year! We paid like 4 or 5 bucks with the proceeds to benefit world peace or something that was to be taught at the Institute there. The best part was during this "peaceful concert" in front of 12,000 people at the Esalen Institute (where Joan Baez was living at the time) was when Stephen Stills attacked a loudmouth heckler in the crowd during there performance. He was making fun of Steve's fur jacket. How Ironic!

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  • one of the best vidz on the tube...

  • where is Big Sur at?

  • Big Sur is a region in central california on the coast about 50 miles south of Monterey, I think...

  • I would have loved to been around that era. LOL would have loved being a hippie!!

  • FUCK yeah. Look at those people, from all walks of life, coming together. It didn't matter your religion, the color of your skin, who your family was, or where you were from. Nowadays we have a hard time making eye contact with people, and in this video you have total strangers with all sorts of different backgrounds joining hands and embracing the virtues of peace and love amongst each other. That is a powerful scene....what the fuck ever happened to this country?!!

  • Ronald Reagan

  • HellzYeah!!! It woulda been awsome

  • is this in woodstock?

    i see joan dancing?

  • Go back and look at the video. Does the coastline look like Woodstock in upstate New York?

  • joan dances like Elaine Benes

  • Why isnt the beautiful/talented Mimi Farina in the mix...does anyone have Mimi footage from Big Sur...please come forth...

  • I think it's her dancing with Joan Baez

  • What a wild time to be around! Too bad I was an infant then.

  • What the heck is a swimming pool doing there? Was Neil Young hosting a pool party complete with wasted hippies and crazy horse music.

  • This is from the movie "Celebration at Big Sur" (1969). CSNY, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and others played. I was held at the Esalon Institute. There are natural hot springs there and it became a big hippie hangout in the 1960's. Look it up.

  • Thanks

  • I think it was an "electric Koolaid" swimming pool ... at least, that is what I want to believe... :-)

  • the arrangment of this live version is a bit like Southern Man on the 4 Way Street albums.. Somewhere in the middle of the solo they decided to pick up the tempo. They brought it back down just in time for the last verses. THANK YOU for this posted version of a great Crazy Horse song!

  • So great to see them back at the time they were all getting along and could smile at each other, before musical differences separated them.

    Of course some people have written it all came down to Still's being envious of Neil's music being "Up front," more often than the other's and that is a human nature reason for their split.

    Still, today, they can stil gather to give us something that is and always will be timeless.

  • 60's energy coming back so say astrologers saturn with uranus repeating... Bring it back yeh!

  • what exactly was nash's job in this band again?

  • He's playing keyboards here. He wrote some decent songs. He harmonised well with the others. I think he made a lot of what CSNY did happen.

  • He keeps the peace and keeps the others ego's in check...except Young...his own Mamma dont get any respect!

  • look. They are at big sur and playing in front of a swimming pool. Sweet

  • i want to kill myself

  • the guy at 0:08 is destroyed

  • hahahahah yea he is

  • You got that right - he is STILL trying to recover...

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  • I love Neils solo !

  • WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE BASS PLAYER

  • Played with steven Stills in Mannasas band aftre CSN and Y.

  • Yes, but after Mannasas. Always liked this

    bass player. Greg Revees i think his name is.

  • This should inspire all of us to greatness, not drooling on the past.

    All these guys are still playing...

  • ...crackling energy, sadly never to be repeated...

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  • By these guys,you mean?

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  • Awesome !!!!!

  • looks like a crazy time, everyone says they would have never taken bushes 2000 election, i think it would have gone doen. Chicago 08

  • this is jamming at its best

  • Neil for Prime Minister yeehah. This is an incredible performance!

  • Crazy Horse was the backing band for Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, that's why it kicks so large.

  • did he record this with crazy horse or CSNY, cause wikki lists the track being from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, and that was neils second solo album, can sumone clairify?

  • with crazy horse

  • Neil young performs the song alot with CSNY but he recorded it in the studio with Crazy horse

  • you just can't put on shows like this any more - love this video :)

  • I think I saw that lib beeotch Nancy Pelosi dancing in the crowd there.

  • WELL! Most Assuredly, THE Esalen Institute,in BIG SUR CA., The contributer,had Seen A Still Photo that was B&W when he was in High School!

    Its' REAL COOL to see this Posting(One of Several)of Actual Footage of the Performance Itsself! The More Amazing stuff and Footage appears to be taken from a Small Single-Engine Aircraftor a Glider riding the Air Current Adjacent to Mt. Tamelpice! Really Incredible Footage!! THANX for the Posting, Cadyaroop! (Also- who is the 'ACE' @the End of the TAPE??)

  • Actually my friend, it's Mt Tamalpais and the mountain shot here ain't it. Mt Tam is in Marin county about 100 miles North but you're right about the footage.Beautiful.

  • WOW!!!!!!

  • These guys are so great at what they do.

  • ¡ Qué documento de una epoca, la música además es excelente !

  • joan and mimi are FINE!

  • neil ans john? huh? no no no not right.john and david well, hmmm or graham? but no your idea is the clash of isolation/independency. not right sorry. joni and john instead of yoko-I better stop

  • imagine the music that neil young and john lennon could've made if they had partnered up

  • Even though Lennon said he would rather rust than burn out, he also said he admired Neil's music. What a great combo that could have been.

  • Would have been interesting to see what would have become of a Young, stills, nash project at this time.

    And yes...Neil has gone on to be the only viable member of this group.

  • i dunno stills may not have mad album success but he is still seen as a monster guitarist

  • Yeah, you're right - no album success at all. Thats if you don't count the 30 million album sales worldwide. LOL

  • chupa your a fag csny is the best band no matter what there clothing looks like.They could have on barney an power ranger suits on and i wouldnt give a flying fuck.

  • idk911, I think the grateful dead did get away with that one.

  • ok man but thats what was popular at that time... these guys had so much freekin money they didnt know where to spend it, they had all the sweet cars, guitars, and drugs they could ever wont so they bought wild cloths, in my opinion i think the sideways hats and pants down below your ass and white kids acting black is more "faggy" then these cloths...