Neil was the deal. He wrote this one. But damn, I have never seen Steve Stills be so amazingly true and honest as he is at the end of this clip. I used to think he was just a hard-headed jerk, like some of these comments seem to reflect. I think understand that short song completely. The "editorials" are not important; agreed. However, if you want to "save the planet" and all that other stuff, it's not too late. It's not gonna be a "party", though, in either definintion of the noun.
I think 'Sea Of Madness' could get noticed by a remake. It's just a fun time, overlooked, hippie song. Those older late 1990s hippies, would dance to it.
Wow .....what a perfect opportunity for Dopafornia to crack off and tumble right into the ocean......sad thing is though,the EPA would have to clean the ocean up from all the dirty hippies.
"we look at these fur coats and pretty guitars and fancy cars and say, wow man, what, what am I doing? so when someone get up and freaks out like that..you know? it kinda strikes a nerve.. and you end up back in that old trap. And where that guy is at, is in that same trap and that's getting mad about something, and that ain't nothing and I had some guys around to love me out of it, I was lucky. We gotta just let it all be, cause it all will be how it's be gonna"
Stephen Stills is the most talented member of CSN&Y in every way. He is the best musician, the best singer and the best song writer. Just listen to his solo albums "Stills," "Stills 2," and "Manassas." Stephen Stills was also the most talented member of Buffalo Springfield. Most of their best songs were written and/or sung by Stephen.
FYI for all those people who think the man in the red shirt is "tripping" or 4+20 induced as I read in many comments.... surprise surprise he's not... it's good old alcohol folks... and the point of the ranting has nothing to do with whether they charged for that concert in particular it had to do with material possessions and profit in general. All though it's obviously the ranting of a drunk you really have to take it in a broader spectrum of profit not just that concert it's self.
FYI for all those people who think the man in the red shirt is "tripping" or 4+20 induced as I read in many comments.... surprise surprise he's not... it's good old alcohol folks... and the point of the ranting has nothing to do with whether they charged for that concert in particular it had to do with material possessions and profit in general. All though it's obviously the ranting of a drunk you really have to take it in a broader spectrum of profit not just that concert it's self.
Steven's peace and love stance was always a front as many people in the LA music community knew him as "The Sarge" because of the strong authoritarian streak he had due to being part of a military family and also attending military school at the Admiral Farragut Academy in St Petersburg, FL during his early years. Not to say he isn't a good guitarist which wouldn't be giving him his due, just that he was always a first rate asshole, especially when him and Neil would get into it.
@mrbag6 0 Watch that crack about "first rate ass**le, okay. He spoke up and defended the rights of all the folks there to have a good time and even his son told me he was a "wrestler" and size did not matter Stephen would take on all comers' What ah Hero!!
@GTWHITEFEVER Stills was half the temperament among his colleagues. Ironic that that they got this challenge during a FREE concert. If you listen, Crosby tells him emphatically to shut up "because we're not civilized". Nash offers him the mike, and Young calls up Stills, who takes the guy on. Their handlers break it up. Hendrix respected Stills' talent, and almost hired him away from his white colleagues.
@damagedangel08 ; Is english your second language ? I'll say whatever i like ..its called free speech ...you dont like my opinion ? Too bad ... do yourself a favour n get a life ..mkay ?
@damagedangel08 ; Is english your second language ? I'll say whatever i like ..its called free speech ...you dont like my opinion ? Too bad ... do yourself a favour n get a life ..mkay ?
@FlauntussFloyd He was heckling them for performing for money (at a free concert), calling them privileged spoiled white boys on drugs. The attack was
aimed at CSNY who just finished performing. The bad karma dude was higher
@christoJihad2 Take the video above for an illustration; do you have any idea what typical Muslims, in any of their predominantly Muslim theocracies, would do to a group of free sprits like the Big Sur crowd? It's no secret, you just want to hate 'the right' who tolerated you much more than Islam ever will.
@christoJihad2, quote "Since the war on terror and 9/11 we've made tens of millions of new Islamist enemies"_____we didn't do it, they did it ,because they hate our Jews and our support for Israel. (this according to Saudi prince right after 911) They hate you, they don't just hate republicans, they hate us all.
Been waiting to see this again for years. Love the irony of an ambassador for 'peace & love' wanting to take on the stoned heckler. Nice one Stevie boy.
What a trip, only Nash still has most of his hair, the little kids dancing are now in their mid-forties. Time really does march on, stepping on even the quickest, smartest, and richest. As Jim Morrison said, "No one here gets out alive." Stephen still gets pissed but he's too heavy to do much, though. He's cool though, a great songwriter and player.
Even though we had leaders assassinated, civil rights and anti-war battles, and of course, Vietnam, it still seemed a less complicated, frightening time than now. The cold war was way more fun than the war on terror. The music was infinitely better, too. The 70's, 80's, and even the 90's had some great music. Y2K+1-10 sucks, though. Bring back the USSR!!!
@christoJihad2 "A less complicated, frightening time than now"? Puh-leez! Don't be deceived by nostalgia. We eventually did make it through those days, but they were terrifying and uncertain when they were happening. If you think today's world is so much scarier, just imagine what it would be like if Obama were assassinated (which would probably have the effect of JFK, RFK and MLK combined) and young people were being drafted by the tens of thousands to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.
@DrPratfall Yeah, they were uncertain times. I was in two drafts before the war ended, and by that time draftees, and even professional soldiers were just trying to survive. Officers and NCOs were "fragged", shot or blown up, by their own soldiers stoned on pot or china white heroin because they knew the war was lost and a waste. I voted for Obama, but his assassination being the equivalent of JFK, RFK, and MLK? Puh-leez! And didn't you get a hint of sarcasm in my comment?
When I said less complicated and frightening I meant the tea party assholes, this mini-depression, 12 trillion $ debt, rogue nuts in North Korea and Iran and the fact that most of what we buy isn't made here, but in China. At least in the Cold War we knew who and where they were. The only safer time, to me, was the few years before and after the fall of the USSR and the Iron Curtain. Since the war on terror and 9/11 we've made tens of millions of new Islamist enemies.
@christoJihad2 They hated our ways for years....go back in history. The Christian and Muslim wars of centuries past was not about religion but about money and having control over it. You do that by controlling people and the way they think. Orwell's 1984 was not ahead of it's time. It was a reflection of things that have already been happening.
@christoJihad2 I'm sorry that you had to go through those 2 drafts - it must have been awful. I'll still stand by the remark about JFK/MLK/RFK as an estimate of how Obama's untimely passing would affect the national psyche. A new generation would learn first-hand that even the leader of the free world is vulnerable. Many African Americans would be tempted to say that "White America" had done it again. And a voice of hope and reconciliation in a troubled time would be silenced.
@DrPratfall You could be right about Obama, but I don't believe it would just be blacks rioting and taking vengeance. The majority who voted for him were white like me. So many Americans are fed up with government, especially how Bush got into office to begin with, it was a coup d'etat, made possible by Jeb Bush, and the Supreme Court. Our country is in deep, deep trouble because of Bush, and I think the Tea Party assholes are seriously dangerous to our country. Take care my friend.
Stills' famous temperament on display here. His colleagues all have a word for this guy. Crosby tells him to shut up, Nash offers him the mike, and Young calls Stills out. Stills is into it until Dallas and roadies pull them apart. Stills can preface his solo with a pacifist comment to a sympathetic, stoned out crowd.
That rendition of 4+20 was so poignant in the context. If it was a spontaneous addition to the program, it was an ingenious rebuttal to the heckler, reminding everyone that: 1) being poor sucks; 2) to earn money you have to "work like the devil" (and that applies not just to Stephen's father but to all of these musicians); and 3) money doesn't save you from being lonely and miserable. If the song was already programmed, Id be tempted to wonder if the confrontation was staged to set it up.
this is so "Of the Time", Being a young hippie . as a Kid, I thought the world was really gonna change, and this music was the key. in a way it did. young people are still digging it.
it's the whole Altamont-Isle Of Wight-your only it for the money thing. When the people start cutting the musicians short, then the tempers get in the way and the whole peace and love thing flies out the door.
hes the worst in the group. they were better without neil young. he tainted their original harmonic sound. with his brutal singing and sub par guitar playing. I liked him better as a solo artist. like "Live Rust" or with carzy horse.
@nardo363636 Are you on drugs? Neil Young has surpassed CSN in every respect. He has had the longest run than all of them and still cranks out tunes and fills up stadiums.
BRUTAL SINGING? HE's got a uniquely wonderful voice and he plays a mean guitar. Maybe not with precision but primitive and simple. It works for his style.
Out of the foursome, he by far had the worst voice. When it comes to guitar which Nash and Crosby played more as rythym guitarists Neil doesnt match up to Stephen Stills' intricate renowned playing. Watch neil attempt a solo then watch stills its night and day. Neil excels in the writing department, dont get me wrong I like some of his solo work but traditionally his voice sucks and his guitar playing is nothing special. Ive always enjoyed songs like Hey Hey My My ro After the Goldrush.
Neil Young is on the keyboard - a Hammond organ - and singing lead vocals. Graham Nash is standing, singing backing vocals, and playing some kind of shaker.
Can anyone tell me exactly what that red shirted guy is saying. I can kind of make out something like "You guys are doing this for money!" And then I hear him say "Hippies!" and then when Stills tries to push him in the pool, I hear "Leave me alone". What else does he say?
It is good to see this film ..again. They show "Monterey" and "Woodstock"and "Gimme Shelter"..but this is the first film I say of the genre..and it still is simple ,raw....and the best...thanks for bringing back this film. I was 7 when it was filmed...saw it when I was a teenager. :0)
If God grants us memories so we may have roses in December, one of my bouquets has to be working maintenance at Balboa Park in 1969, and Stephen Stills climbed the stairs in front of my friend Marisol and me. She grabbed my arm and hissed, "¡Ooooh, mire ese culo! ¡Es como ver el paso de la catedral de Notre Dame!"
(Ooooh, look at that ass! It's like seeing Notre Dame Cathedral pass by!")
all of these videos are fantastic. I don't think Stills should have bothered with the gentleman; it's not his bag. And the comments into the mike were uncalled for too. Anyway, I think he embarrassed himself in front of the crowd and knew it. That's human. And the naked guys cavorting in the pool and dancing with the children - really? Dancing nude with the kids in front cause that's not a problem for anybody cause everything is groovy here in Big Sur...wtf?
wtf is right. The music was peaking but this was right at the point when the bullshit of the late '60s sent the whole scene up its own asshole. I don't know who was more in love with themselves at this heady post-Woodstock moment: the hippies or the bands. They were all full of dope, full of themselves and full of shit. Unfortunately, it took the rest of the country 10 years before they realized it, and a lot of kids spent the '70s trying to play a version of this out in their own little lives.
You can't just pass judgement on the whole "scene" unless you were there! Man! ;) Seriously though, you don't know that their commitment to change the world was just a delusion and excuse to do sex and drugs. Maybe they DID inspire SOME people to decadent, addictive lifestyles but you know what, maybe they also inspired some people to think they mattered and maybe they could run for an office and maybe they could be the countries first Black President!
Vintage Stills: just like CSNY to be heckled at a FREE concert. Crosby tells the heckler to shut up, Nash offers him the mike, Young calls Stills out - "oh Stephen, what's his name, Stephen! - and Stills punches the heckler in the head before Dallas Taylor and
What I love about Stills is that he can burn hot leads, pick fights, and then go right into an incredibly beautiful acoustic piece. The man can do it all. Still.
i hate easalen , one time in the 60's , i went there in the middle of the night , the only time you could use the hot-springs , and it was chock full of fags , one who asked me if he could suk my dik , i offered this prevert a fast trip off the cliff and a free bath in the pacific ocean , he backed off then ..
i love this neil young song (sea of madness). wonder why it was never released on record (other than the live performance recording of Woodstock). great rare performance caught here at the big sur celebration.
TruiteCoquine, Mr. Steven Stills is from a Particularly "ROUGH" part of TAMPA,FL. He Came up When'Ruskin'Fl. Was Still Famous for Tomatoes,PRE-DISNEY World & Universal Studios,Orlando.HIS PEOPLE Were Agrarian and very Committed to 'Truck -Farming' and He came up Tough and the contributer feels he was called to a Life away from Farming...That Life was Music and Songwriting! He has Always had Life Plotted in Music!He'retroed'when he saw the "GIG"being Threatened,and No one else gonna'do Anything!
I'm and old broad who lived through all the peace and love and sharing, and I gotta tell you - a lot of it was as boring as last night's dishwater. Aside from his brilliance as a musician, Stills was hot because he was such a nasty boy. Keep your gentle choirboys. . .I perfer the hellions.
if you are interested i do have a dvd csny live 1969-77 140 minutes which has four songs from this concert as well as other solo and group performances. Other csny dvd's are available.44 songs dvd csny from 73/74,neil &crazy horse from76,greendale tour 2hr 20 min version,csny freedom of speech tour ny 8/06 two disc dvd and a great two disc dvd bridge school benefit with csny,springsteen,petty and others.please send me a message via youtube if you are interested in details and full list.
Still threw a bitch punch!...LOL! If you are gonna throw a punch make sure that you connect solid...The dude is a great guitarist, but a bad-ass he is not! It is kinda funny!
sTEPHEN WAS SO GRACIOUS HE WAS LOVED BY ME OUT OF THE SITUATION AND I WASNT EVEN THERE SOME OF MY FRIENDS WERE THERE AND BIY DID THEY TELL ME WHAT MY BEAUTIFUL WARRIOR DID THAT DAY AND IM GLAD THAT HE DID AND THEY TOLD ME ABOUT HIS SPEECH AND I WOULDVE EXPECTED NOTHING LESS THAN WHAT HE SAUD WHAT A TRASURE THIS MAN WAS AND IS IF THIS WAS NOW I DONT THINK STEPHEN WOULD HAVE USED THE SAME RESTRAINTS HE WOULD HAVE GONE FOR IT A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT WISDOM COMES WITH MATURITY
Those musicians were getting fabulously rich at a time when most of their audience was eschewing the trappings of a materialist society and tending more to spiritual values. I suppose it is difficult when one is accustomed to being idolised then seen to be pushed about by someone perceived as something quite less. I would have much preferred him to do what he does well and write a song about it. He never did and I wonder if he ever will.
THE Contributor ...STILL FEELS...to Solve TH' Whole WROWE (Like OL.TIME VAUDVILLE... The "HOOK" for this CLOWN...Would have been VERY Appropo! A REAL GONG SHOW!!
watch what a an angel sounds like that is what he is a fallen angel that God gave us to make us happy and one we can believe in listen to him kids this man was and is an inspiration to behold
Reading all these comments about Stills and the scene with the bearded guy and then watching Still deliver a wonderful "4+20" just goes to prove the old axiom-
sTEPHEN STILLS IS A HERO AND A WARRIOR IM GLAD HE WENT IN THERE AND TOOK CARE OF BUSINESS EVERY ONE WAS HAVING A GREAT TIME AND THAT GUY WANTED TO RUIN IT YOU SHOULD BE PRAISING STEPHEN NOT RUNNING HIM DOWN EVERYBODY BETTER BE GLAD I WASNT THERE I WOULD HAVE TAKEN HIM OUT MY SELF FOR TRYING TO HURT MY STEPHEN THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN NOW THATS FOR SURE!
Neil was the deal. He wrote this one. But damn, I have never seen Steve Stills be so amazingly true and honest as he is at the end of this clip. I used to think he was just a hard-headed jerk, like some of these comments seem to reflect. I think understand that short song completely. The "editorials" are not important; agreed. However, if you want to "save the planet" and all that other stuff, it's not too late. It's not gonna be a "party", though, in either definintion of the noun.
loudampsfastbikes 2 months ago
I think 'Sea Of Madness' could get noticed by a remake. It's just a fun time, overlooked, hippie song. Those older late 1990s hippies, would dance to it.
FlauntussFloyd 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
great song.......who cares about the ediotorials....
TB09ish 3 months ago
And the guy at 05:05 played the part of Crackers in Pink Flamingos.
rob16248 3 months ago
instead of stills going out there and giving that guy a hard time, why didn't the band just launch into another uptempo song?
wallofvideo 5 months ago
@wallofvideo if you want to know, all you have to do is listen to Steve's song at the end.
loudampsfastbikes 2 months ago
can anyone positively identify the man who appears @ 4:24?
wallofvideo 5 months ago
@wallofvideo Doolittle from the film Dark Star? Graham Chapman in disguise?
rob16248 4 months ago
Have another drink, Stephen!
scgcom 5 months ago
"stephen, if you push him in the pool i'll never forgive ya!" lmfao.
PeterCRissKISSgod 5 months ago
Wow .....what a perfect opportunity for Dopafornia to crack off and tumble right into the ocean......sad thing is though,the EPA would have to clean the ocean up from all the dirty hippies.
fpopee 6 months ago
he's a better person than I am that he can go sing after that, I'd still be punching a wall lol
Anglynn74 7 months ago
"we look at these fur coats and pretty guitars and fancy cars and say, wow man, what, what am I doing? so when someone get up and freaks out like that..you know? it kinda strikes a nerve.. and you end up back in that old trap. And where that guy is at, is in that same trap and that's getting mad about something, and that ain't nothing and I had some guys around to love me out of it, I was lucky. We gotta just let it all be, cause it all will be how it's be gonna"
Drugs? what a statement lol
kantucky 9 months ago 2
i think i spyed a hells angel on security carry that one guy off
able506 11 months ago
Groovy...
alexnesic66 11 months ago
STEPHEN WAS AND IS MY HERO BRAVO
damagedangel08 11 months ago
Abbie should've gotten his ass kicked.
BassGuyGG 1 year ago
Does anyone know how to make that giant bubble at 6:50 ????
hawaii021 1 year ago
whoa steve... is that the first drunk you ever encountered??? shit man.. you got to have better control than that....
jtooke0166 1 year ago
Stephen Stills is the most talented member of CSN&Y in every way. He is the best musician, the best singer and the best song writer. Just listen to his solo albums "Stills," "Stills 2," and "Manassas." Stephen Stills was also the most talented member of Buffalo Springfield. Most of their best songs were written and/or sung by Stephen.
aseventh 1 year ago 2
FYI for all those people who think the man in the red shirt is "tripping" or 4+20 induced as I read in many comments.... surprise surprise he's not... it's good old alcohol folks... and the point of the ranting has nothing to do with whether they charged for that concert in particular it had to do with material possessions and profit in general. All though it's obviously the ranting of a drunk you really have to take it in a broader spectrum of profit not just that concert it's self.
roseykyakrrr 1 year ago
FYI for all those people who think the man in the red shirt is "tripping" or 4+20 induced as I read in many comments.... surprise surprise he's not... it's good old alcohol folks... and the point of the ranting has nothing to do with whether they charged for that concert in particular it had to do with material possessions and profit in general. All though it's obviously the ranting of a drunk you really have to take it in a broader spectrum of profit not just that concert it's self.
roseykyakrrr 1 year ago
this guy is my dad I am the little boy standing in the shots of the naked dancers
jessemuson 1 year ago
Steven's peace and love stance was always a front as many people in the LA music community knew him as "The Sarge" because of the strong authoritarian streak he had due to being part of a military family and also attending military school at the Admiral Farragut Academy in St Petersburg, FL during his early years. Not to say he isn't a good guitarist which wouldn't be giving him his due, just that he was always a first rate asshole, especially when him and Neil would get into it.
mrbag60 1 year ago
@mrbag6 0 Watch that crack about "first rate ass**le, okay. He spoke up and defended the rights of all the folks there to have a good time and even his son told me he was a "wrestler" and size did not matter Stephen would take on all comers' What ah Hero!!
damagedangel08 11 months ago
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mrbag60 1 year ago
dont bust on him ,,thats no better than that guy ,,
TheVermont420 1 year ago
Stehen Stills is a cunt .... how Jimi liked him is a mystery ...Stills full of COKE ON THIS IMO ...White ass muthafucka ...
GTWHITEFEVER 1 year ago
@GTWHITEFEVER It'sk...we heard the first time....why do you think that?
apemanstreetwalker 1 year ago
@GTWHITEFEVER Stills was half the temperament among his colleagues. Ironic that that they got this challenge during a FREE concert. If you listen, Crosby tells him emphatically to shut up "because we're not civilized". Nash offers him the mike, and Young calls up Stills, who takes the guy on. Their handlers break it up. Hendrix respected Stills' talent, and almost hired him away from his white colleagues.
bookkeeper57 1 year ago
@GTWHITEFEVER GO TO YOU KNOW WHERE PUNK. IF YOU NEVER MET HIM AND LOVED HIM YOU DON'T KNOW HIM LIKE WE DO. WATCH WHAT YOU SAY IN PRINT OKAY?
damagedangel08 11 months ago
@damagedangel08 ; Is english your second language ? I'll say whatever i like ..its called free speech ...you dont like my opinion ? Too bad ... do yourself a favour n get a life ..mkay ?
GTWHITEFEVER 11 months ago
@damagedangel08 ; Is english your second language ? I'll say whatever i like ..its called free speech ...you dont like my opinion ? Too bad ... do yourself a favour n get a life ..mkay ?
So much for love n peace
GTWHITEFEVER 11 months ago
Stehen Stills is a cunt .... how Jimi liked him is a mystery ...Stills full of COKE ON THIS IMO ...
GTWHITEFEVER 1 year ago
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Stehen Stills is a cunt .... how Jimi liked him is a mystery ...
GTWHITEFEVER 1 year ago
I wish I knew what the bad karma dude was saying.
FlauntussFloyd 1 year ago
@FlauntussFloyd HE was trying to tell Stephen Stills that Justin Bieber is the anti-Christ.
blitzwurfel 1 year ago
@FlauntussFloyd He was heckling them for performing for money (at a free concert), calling them privileged spoiled white boys on drugs. The attack was
aimed at CSNY who just finished performing. The bad karma dude was higher
than the people he was attacking IMO.
bookkeeper57 1 year ago
@christoJihad2 Take the video above for an illustration; do you have any idea what typical Muslims, in any of their predominantly Muslim theocracies, would do to a group of free sprits like the Big Sur crowd? It's no secret, you just want to hate 'the right' who tolerated you much more than Islam ever will.
FlauntussFloyd 1 year ago
@christoJihad2, quote "Since the war on terror and 9/11 we've made tens of millions of new Islamist enemies"_____we didn't do it, they did it ,because they hate our Jews and our support for Israel. (this according to Saudi prince right after 911) They hate you, they don't just hate republicans, they hate us all.
FlauntussFloyd 1 year ago
Been waiting to see this again for years. Love the irony of an ambassador for 'peace & love' wanting to take on the stoned heckler. Nice one Stevie boy.
beardsiolli 1 year ago
Jesus Christ, Stephen, it's just one guy.
ifhgsfj 1 year ago
what was that stuff that guy was blowing that big white bubble out of?
smigme29 1 year ago
What a trip, only Nash still has most of his hair, the little kids dancing are now in their mid-forties. Time really does march on, stepping on even the quickest, smartest, and richest. As Jim Morrison said, "No one here gets out alive." Stephen still gets pissed but he's too heavy to do much, though. He's cool though, a great songwriter and player.
christoJihad2 1 year ago
Even though we had leaders assassinated, civil rights and anti-war battles, and of course, Vietnam, it still seemed a less complicated, frightening time than now. The cold war was way more fun than the war on terror. The music was infinitely better, too. The 70's, 80's, and even the 90's had some great music. Y2K+1-10 sucks, though. Bring back the USSR!!!
christoJihad2 1 year ago
@christoJihad2 "A less complicated, frightening time than now"? Puh-leez! Don't be deceived by nostalgia. We eventually did make it through those days, but they were terrifying and uncertain when they were happening. If you think today's world is so much scarier, just imagine what it would be like if Obama were assassinated (which would probably have the effect of JFK, RFK and MLK combined) and young people were being drafted by the tens of thousands to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.
DrPratfall 1 year ago
@DrPratfall Yeah, they were uncertain times. I was in two drafts before the war ended, and by that time draftees, and even professional soldiers were just trying to survive. Officers and NCOs were "fragged", shot or blown up, by their own soldiers stoned on pot or china white heroin because they knew the war was lost and a waste. I voted for Obama, but his assassination being the equivalent of JFK, RFK, and MLK? Puh-leez! And didn't you get a hint of sarcasm in my comment?
christoJihad2 1 year ago
When I said less complicated and frightening I meant the tea party assholes, this mini-depression, 12 trillion $ debt, rogue nuts in North Korea and Iran and the fact that most of what we buy isn't made here, but in China. At least in the Cold War we knew who and where they were. The only safer time, to me, was the few years before and after the fall of the USSR and the Iron Curtain. Since the war on terror and 9/11 we've made tens of millions of new Islamist enemies.
christoJihad2 1 year ago
@christoJihad2 They hated our ways for years....go back in history. The Christian and Muslim wars of centuries past was not about religion but about money and having control over it. You do that by controlling people and the way they think. Orwell's 1984 was not ahead of it's time. It was a reflection of things that have already been happening.
The Meltdownman
meltdownman1 1 year ago
@christoJihad2 I'm sorry that you had to go through those 2 drafts - it must have been awful. I'll still stand by the remark about JFK/MLK/RFK as an estimate of how Obama's untimely passing would affect the national psyche. A new generation would learn first-hand that even the leader of the free world is vulnerable. Many African Americans would be tempted to say that "White America" had done it again. And a voice of hope and reconciliation in a troubled time would be silenced.
DrPratfall 1 year ago
@DrPratfall You could be right about Obama, but I don't believe it would just be blacks rioting and taking vengeance. The majority who voted for him were white like me. So many Americans are fed up with government, especially how Bush got into office to begin with, it was a coup d'etat, made possible by Jeb Bush, and the Supreme Court. Our country is in deep, deep trouble because of Bush, and I think the Tea Party assholes are seriously dangerous to our country. Take care my friend.
christoJihad2 1 year ago
Stills' famous temperament on display here. His colleagues all have a word for this guy. Crosby tells him to shut up, Nash offers him the mike, and Young calls Stills out. Stills is into it until Dallas and roadies pull them apart. Stills can preface his solo with a pacifist comment to a sympathetic, stoned out crowd.
bookkeeper57 1 year ago
That rendition of 4+20 was so poignant in the context. If it was a spontaneous addition to the program, it was an ingenious rebuttal to the heckler, reminding everyone that: 1) being poor sucks; 2) to earn money you have to "work like the devil" (and that applies not just to Stephen's father but to all of these musicians); and 3) money doesn't save you from being lonely and miserable. If the song was already programmed, Id be tempted to wonder if the confrontation was staged to set it up.
DrPratfall 1 year ago
Already Graham's Hollies traits stand him in good stead - he leads the musicians to a clean cut off at the end of 'Sea of Madness'.
NewHopeNashFan 1 year ago
this is so "Of the Time", Being a young hippie . as a Kid, I thought the world was really gonna change, and this music was the key. in a way it did. young people are still digging it.
moby406 1 year ago
Stills you cunt,fuck him up.
qsergyuko 2 years ago
it's the whole Altamont-Isle Of Wight-your only it for the money thing. When the people start cutting the musicians short, then the tempers get in the way and the whole peace and love thing flies out the door.
PeterCRissKISSgod 2 years ago
can any of you spell hippie right?
PeterCRissKISSgod 2 years ago
H elp
I n
P roducing
P eaceful
I ndividual
E xistence
alligayda 2 years ago
Groovey!
ziggy36 1 year ago
It's Bubbs from "The Wire."
jtk0212 2 years ago
Anyone got studio of this song?
apemanstreetwalker 2 years ago
Neil is the best.
andrewcasarsa 2 years ago 14
hes the worst in the group. they were better without neil young. he tainted their original harmonic sound. with his brutal singing and sub par guitar playing. I liked him better as a solo artist. like "Live Rust" or with carzy horse.
nardo363636 1 year ago
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forthelivingcity 1 year ago
@nardo363636 Are you on drugs? Neil Young has surpassed CSN in every respect. He has had the longest run than all of them and still cranks out tunes and fills up stadiums.
BRUTAL SINGING? HE's got a uniquely wonderful voice and he plays a mean guitar. Maybe not with precision but primitive and simple. It works for his style.
blitzwurfel 1 year ago
@nardo363636 Neil was not the worst in the group, just different. He knew
he was not always a fit. He also had a big backlog of unreleased songs he
knew CSN, with their squabbling, might not help him produce.
bookkeeper57 1 year ago
Out of the foursome, he by far had the worst voice. When it comes to guitar which Nash and Crosby played more as rythym guitarists Neil doesnt match up to Stephen Stills' intricate renowned playing. Watch neil attempt a solo then watch stills its night and day. Neil excels in the writing department, dont get me wrong I like some of his solo work but traditionally his voice sucks and his guitar playing is nothing special. Ive always enjoyed songs like Hey Hey My My ro After the Goldrush.
nardo363636 1 year ago
@nardo363636 Young was hardly a "sub par guitar" player.
bookkeeper57 1 year ago
Stephen Stills makes neil young seem like an amateur when it comes to guitar.
nardo363636 1 year ago
stills u are a GOD almost smash some un happy hippie then just talk the word of peace and just chill to your music
momogosecow 2 years ago 6
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Tamrons 2 years ago
Nash is playing the shit out of that shaker!
abacaba1977 2 years ago 3
he's playing the piano
redeigrezzi 2 years ago
Neil Young is on the keyboard - a Hammond organ - and singing lead vocals. Graham Nash is standing, singing backing vocals, and playing some kind of shaker.
abacaba1977 2 years ago
But who does the organ then?
xavierbaudet 2 years ago
@xavierbaudet Neil Young played the organ, sang the lead and wrote Sea of Madness. Really appropo for Big Sur.
bookkeeper57 1 year ago
Charles Manson at :55
timin770 2 years ago
14gilbertst 2 years ago
neil on b3? the song rocks, the drama is perfect, what better venue?
wellspout 2 years ago
where can i get a copy of this video! I am planning to go to big sur in august.
blacky44 2 years ago
Can anyone tell me exactly what that red shirted guy is saying. I can kind of make out something like "You guys are doing this for money!" And then I hear him say "Hippies!" and then when Stills tries to push him in the pool, I hear "Leave me alone". What else does he say?
willruddock 2 years ago
CSNY deal with a possibly stoned heckler, who accuses them of being money grubbing hippies at a free concert.
Crosby tells him to shut up, Nash offers him the mike, Young calls Stills out: "if
Stephen pushes him in the pool, I'll never forgive him. Oh Stephen!" Stills,
easily 50% of the temperament in CSNY,
asks him to leave before throwing a punch. He's pulled off by Dallas Taylor and some roadie, while others take the
heckler off.
bookkeeper57 2 years ago
it was actually nash that calls stills out and tells him he'll never forgive him if he pushes him in the pool.
irvinga 2 years ago 2
It is good to see this film ..again. They show "Monterey" and "Woodstock"and "Gimme Shelter"..but this is the first film I say of the genre..and it still is simple ,raw....and the best...thanks for bringing back this film. I was 7 when it was filmed...saw it when I was a teenager. :0)
FAYCHI69 2 years ago
love seeing Stephen getting pissed off. hahaha. Beautiful boy that one.
charlotia 2 years ago 9
lol that hippy dude in the middle was trippin hard
kingcrimson1972 2 years ago
Was it true that the recording of Sea Of Madness on the Woodstock soundtrack was recorded at The Fillmore East in early 1969?
PeterCRissKISSgod 2 years ago
yes
buffalo123456789 2 years ago
Stills thought himself the James Dean of rock.
Good think Neil Young came into the life of CSN when he did....or they'd have been toast with jam.
catndryer 2 years ago
Stephen Stills has the best set of pipes I have ever heard!
krossy88 2 years ago
Was Henry Miller telling them to keep the damn noise down?
muziktrkr 2 years ago
what's up with that rat flag behind Nash??
crosbystillsnash68 2 years ago
No reflection on Graham. It may have been the year of the rat....
ItsAllAboutNash 2 years ago
lol Stills punched that red guy in the arm? and id be pretty pissed off if some skanky old hippie was blowin bubbles on my martin D-45
crosbystillsnash68 2 years ago
If God grants us memories so we may have roses in December, one of my bouquets has to be working maintenance at Balboa Park in 1969, and Stephen Stills climbed the stairs in front of my friend Marisol and me. She grabbed my arm and hissed, "¡Ooooh, mire ese culo! ¡Es como ver el paso de la catedral de Notre Dame!"
(Ooooh, look at that ass! It's like seeing Notre Dame Cathedral pass by!")
QuietSunday 2 years ago
Notre Dame? Stills was pretty skinny then. . .
YetWeWillMakeHimRun 2 years ago
YetWe: nothing to do with the size of ah. . .Notre Dame. It was ah. . .the exquisite construction. . .
QuietSunday 2 years ago
@YetWeWillMakeHimRun wAS TOLD SIZE DID NOT MATTER STEPHEN WOULD TAKE EM ALL ON AFTER ALL HE WAS A JOCKEY!
damagedangel08 11 months ago
0:58: DAD???!!!
septip123 2 years ago
At 1:48 I hear the utopian ideals of the 60's stand up PROUDLY and float away...
gtar101 2 years ago
they're just trying to throw him in the pool not fight
randall642 2 years ago
I love that bullshit rap that Stills gives afterwords.
stargate121 2 years ago
Stills was the one person in the group who would stand up and bite your head off; all that "peace, man" business quite aside.
bookkeeper57 2 years ago
Stephen Stills have a really nice's groovy voice i love the last sung and sea of madness is so Funky!
I'll push my Funky Attestation!
antosplit 2 years ago
Does anyone know the album that this song has been recorded on?
larchmont44 2 years ago
Did CSNY ever record 'Sea of Madness'? Nice song.
ItsAllAboutNash 2 years ago
There was never a studio recording as far as I know, but a killer version is on the Woodstock soundtrack album.
ShipwreckTownBand 2 years ago
i love these guys so much, i cant stop listening to this one
Goatmonkey48 2 years ago
did stephen get punched in the face... it looked kinda like it
razmanaz011 3 years ago
@razmanaz011 NO NO NO GUY NEVER LAID A FINGER ON HIM
damagedangel08 11 months ago
all of these videos are fantastic. I don't think Stills should have bothered with the gentleman; it's not his bag. And the comments into the mike were uncalled for too. Anyway, I think he embarrassed himself in front of the crowd and knew it. That's human. And the naked guys cavorting in the pool and dancing with the children - really? Dancing nude with the kids in front cause that's not a problem for anybody cause everything is groovy here in Big Sur...wtf?
wraitheful 3 years ago
wtf is right. The music was peaking but this was right at the point when the bullshit of the late '60s sent the whole scene up its own asshole. I don't know who was more in love with themselves at this heady post-Woodstock moment: the hippies or the bands. They were all full of dope, full of themselves and full of shit. Unfortunately, it took the rest of the country 10 years before they realized it, and a lot of kids spent the '70s trying to play a version of this out in their own little lives.
gpc 3 years ago
You can't just pass judgement on the whole "scene" unless you were there! Man! ;) Seriously though, you don't know that their commitment to change the world was just a delusion and excuse to do sex and drugs. Maybe they DID inspire SOME people to decadent, addictive lifestyles but you know what, maybe they also inspired some people to think they mattered and maybe they could run for an office and maybe they could be the countries first Black President!
Yapostadodat 3 years ago 4
Ain't nothing wrong with a little naked dancing. I mean, we were born that way. Peace out.
willruddock 2 years ago 2
Steeeven, if you push him in the pool i'll never forgive you! Push him in, steeeven!!!
yourisaforever 3 years ago 2
"We gotta just let it all be 'cause it all will be however it's gonna"
That's my favorite quote right there.
quedellem 3 years ago 2
stephen was a real cool person real moody too. hes really highly respected by me!
yourmybestfriend101 3 years ago 3
this is my kind of music man.folk-rock.some of my most favorite musicians ecspecially neil young.hes one of my idols
folkrockm14 3 years ago 2
stills had a terrible temper as is, but strung out on coke he'd kick yer ass
crosbystillsnash68 3 years ago
Vintage Stills: just like CSNY to be heckled at a FREE concert. Crosby tells the heckler to shut up, Nash offers him the mike, Young calls Stills out - "oh Stephen, what's his name, Stephen! - and Stills punches the heckler in the head before Dallas Taylor and
a few others pull him back.
bookkeeper57 3 years ago
@crosbystillsnash68 HE WAS NOT HIGH HERE REALLY!
damagedangel08 11 months ago
@damagedangel08 Everybody, including Stills, was HIGH at Big Sur. How delusional can you be? Very, obviously.
wizardwarriordrone 11 months ago
@wizardwarriordrone Not Neil Young, he was of the dope cuz of his epilepsy...
psychodudu 10 months ago
wow! Neil Young on organ!?
JFguitar22 3 years ago
Neil Young played keyboards and harmonica in addition to electric or accoustic guitar.
bookkeeper57 3 years ago
he also plays banjo
raymieo 3 years ago
The good old days
galba1836 3 years ago
A Miliion thanks for posting this, as I saw this many years ago,
gttorino68 3 years ago
i cannot believe I'm seeing this! thank you for posting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
june32 3 years ago 2
What I love about Stills is that he can burn hot leads, pick fights, and then go right into an incredibly beautiful acoustic piece. The man can do it all. Still.
Jasontis 3 years ago 8
Whose property were they on? I saw a swimming pool! How cool is that...
BrunetteLiana76 3 years ago
Just checkin in that Crosby still sucks right?
jatsar 3 years ago
Rubbish - Crosby is way, way under-rated!
misspopanoche 3 years ago
He doesn't suck. Listen to Guinnevere and tell me that that song sucks.
willruddock 2 years ago
is neil playing organ? groovy... this number is very souly. sounds nothing like neil's songs today but his versatility as a song is impressive.
Alabama3000 3 years ago 2
Neil Young wrote Sea of Madness and does organ here at this Big Sur performance.
bookkeeper57 3 years ago
This song is really cute!!! I love it!!!!
arkiteta 3 years ago
hmmmmmm , i wonder if it was neil young ?
GodfreRayKing 3 years ago
i hate easalen , one time in the 60's , i went there in the middle of the night , the only time you could use the hot-springs , and it was chock full of fags , one who asked me if he could suk my dik , i offered this prevert a fast trip off the cliff and a free bath in the pacific ocean , he backed off then ..
GodfreRayKing 3 years ago
the pacific sea of madness ( steve stills attacking helpless fans )
GodfreRayKing 3 years ago
i love this neil young song (sea of madness). wonder why it was never released on record (other than the live performance recording of Woodstock). great rare performance caught here at the big sur celebration.
Stockwrock 3 years ago
Sea of Madness a Neil Young song.
bookkeeper57 3 years ago
Jeeze, let's hope Stills has mellowed. . .or insured those hands.
TruiteCoquine 3 years ago
TruiteCoquine, Mr. Steven Stills is from a Particularly "ROUGH" part of TAMPA,FL. He Came up When'Ruskin'Fl. Was Still Famous for Tomatoes,PRE-DISNEY World & Universal Studios,Orlando.HIS PEOPLE Were Agrarian and very Committed to 'Truck -Farming' and He came up Tough and the contributer feels he was called to a Life away from Farming...That Life was Music and Songwriting! He has Always had Life Plotted in Music!He'retroed'when he saw the "GIG"being Threatened,and No one else gonna'do Anything!
BILLPERKS5 3 years ago
Crosby insulted the heckler, Nash offered him the mike, and Young called Stills out. Stills
was the one to actually thrash him, or take him on. He was the scrapper. The guy was out of order: free event. Young on keyboards here.
bookkeeper57 3 years ago
I'm and old broad who lived through all the peace and love and sharing, and I gotta tell you - a lot of it was as boring as last night's dishwater. Aside from his brilliance as a musician, Stills was hot because he was such a nasty boy. Keep your gentle choirboys. . .I perfer the hellions.
YetWeWillMakeHimRun 3 years ago 2
Oh, I'll take Graham's good sense and peacemaking, any day - and his ability to harmonize. Stills should NOT have escalated the situation
ItsAllAboutNash 2 years ago
Heckler scraps like this were not uncommon in the vaudeville music hall days.
Kind of a throwback, really.
noahf67 3 years ago
HELL ol' TIME VAUDEVILLE...O.K. Where was "The HOOK?" Who Had IT!?
BILLPERKS5 3 years ago
I agree with Irishcalifornian...Let's just focus on the smoke bubble...
wonderfreakinwoman 3 years ago 3
Can anyone get me tabs for the guitar solo?
deepislandboy 3 years ago
Peace and Love just flew out the window..damn it all to hell
justKev65 3 years ago
Steve Stills could have torn that man apart had it not been broken up.
jcdelpaggio 3 years ago
How cool was that smoke bubble?
Irishcalifornian 3 years ago
poor steve, shouldnt fight when your 5'1. Its just not his bag man.
jimbolene 3 years ago
if you are interested i do have a dvd csny live 1969-77 140 minutes which has four songs from this concert as well as other solo and group performances. Other csny dvd's are available.44 songs dvd csny from 73/74,neil &crazy horse from76,greendale tour 2hr 20 min version,csny freedom of speech tour ny 8/06 two disc dvd and a great two disc dvd bridge school benefit with csny,springsteen,petty and others.please send me a message via youtube if you are interested in details and full list.
btrjr007 3 years ago
yes I would be interested im me if you like well discuss it
damagedangel08 3 years ago
Hi,
Please send me details of your CSNY at Big Sur dvd stuff, plus others available. Jon
buzbyindahouse 3 years ago
Still threw a bitch punch!...LOL! If you are gonna throw a punch make sure that you connect solid...The dude is a great guitarist, but a bad-ass he is not! It is kinda funny!
jerseypaul2007 3 years ago
sTEPHEN WAS SO GRACIOUS HE WAS LOVED BY ME OUT OF THE SITUATION AND I WASNT EVEN THERE SOME OF MY FRIENDS WERE THERE AND BIY DID THEY TELL ME WHAT MY BEAUTIFUL WARRIOR DID THAT DAY AND IM GLAD THAT HE DID AND THEY TOLD ME ABOUT HIS SPEECH AND I WOULDVE EXPECTED NOTHING LESS THAN WHAT HE SAUD WHAT A TRASURE THIS MAN WAS AND IS IF THIS WAS NOW I DONT THINK STEPHEN WOULD HAVE USED THE SAME RESTRAINTS HE WOULD HAVE GONE FOR IT A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT WISDOM COMES WITH MATURITY
damagedangel08 3 years ago
Those musicians were getting fabulously rich at a time when most of their audience was eschewing the trappings of a materialist society and tending more to spiritual values. I suppose it is difficult when one is accustomed to being idolised then seen to be pushed about by someone perceived as something quite less. I would have much preferred him to do what he does well and write a song about it. He never did and I wonder if he ever will.
lightspeed47 3 years ago
THE Contributor ...STILL FEELS...to Solve TH' Whole WROWE (Like OL.TIME VAUDVILLE... The "HOOK" for this CLOWN...Would have been VERY Appropo! A REAL GONG SHOW!!
BILLPERKS5 3 years ago
watch what a an angel sounds like that is what he is a fallen angel that God gave us to make us happy and one we can believe in listen to him kids this man was and is an inspiration to behold
damagedangel08 3 years ago
Reading all these comments about Stills and the scene with the bearded guy and then watching Still deliver a wonderful "4+20" just goes to prove the old axiom-
"Trust The Art, not The Artist..."
Hanksalot 3 years ago 5
Its on WOODEN NICKEL everyone's favorite bootleg to hate including CSN. Neil didn't care.
yahowa57 3 years ago
Its on WOODEN NICKEL everyone's favorite bootleg to hate including CSN. Neil didn't care.
yahowa57 3 years ago
this has to be one of neils rawest performances! wish i was there! great song... sounds better live! sea of madness!
genius!
legend whoever posted this up.
Reid Zappa aged 24.
reidzappa 4 years ago
sTEPHEN STILLS IS A HERO AND A WARRIOR IM GLAD HE WENT IN THERE AND TOOK CARE OF BUSINESS EVERY ONE WAS HAVING A GREAT TIME AND THAT GUY WANTED TO RUIN IT YOU SHOULD BE PRAISING STEPHEN NOT RUNNING HIM DOWN EVERYBODY BETTER BE GLAD I WASNT THERE I WOULD HAVE TAKEN HIM OUT MY SELF FOR TRYING TO HURT MY STEPHEN THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN NOW THATS FOR SURE!
damagedangel08 4 years ago 2
Neil Young plays Hammond Organ... awesome!
mattar35 4 years ago