Some of us had to watch it on TV, as all the news broadcasts said something about NY State Thruway being closed? OMG! What a youth we had!!!! And we still keep evolving! Namaste', y'all! :)
This scares the fuck out of me. We were so young then. My big problem is that I still believe this stuff, and I still believe in love and peace, and hope. Shit, this was 2/3 of my life ago. It certainly became part of my soul. Is there anyone around who still feels this way??
I had 2 very young sons when woodstock happened and I was blown away. Those were the days when you could hear great bands for free in GG park in S.F. at the polo grounds. I just took those babies with me and now they are both musicians.
I dont think its religious, the,"stardust " i think comes from the theory that life was kickstarted from dust and debris from another star far away going supernova and the, "garden" i think is about reconnecting with nature and going back to the start and the devil is ol' uncle sam's system, well there's my 2 cents either way its a fantastic song, nice upload ;)
@4everaplayer You can think what you want. We are carbon based life forms. Carbon is the product of combustion. Stars are fire. Being a part of nature is what we all are. Uncle Sam came LONG after life, long after the devil. She is singing about our imperfections, and realizing there is more to life. This is a spiritual song, sung by a beautiful woman, inside and out. You can play, but you can't hide. If you hate the US, get out. See where it is better!
i often wondered if joni has native american blood in her, something to do with the high cheek bones maybe. i hear the undercurrent of an 'indian' chant in this song.
sounds to me like she is singing about transcendence..i.e. getting back to the garden...but I wasn't even born yet when she sang this, she can't be talking about Madison Square, help me out here...
@sfm992002 don't you think that doesn't fit...if we are stardust, then this is a naturalistic world-view, why would we want to get back to the garden of Edan, a supernatural world-view. My interpretation of the first two lines is that we are born out of dust, and therefore we are all gods. Just not sure what the garden reference refers to. Although, she does reference the devil's bargain, but this could simply be used as an expression with not religious meaning, thanks for your reply.
@turbobrain It fits perfectly. I came upon a child of God. Meaning, we are all children of God. We are NOT all Gods. Stardust means carbon. Carbon is the product of combustion. Stars produce carbon. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. The Devils original bargain was to give Eve, then Adam, God like qualities, by eating the Apple of Knowledge. I do not push any religion. If you can give me a better reasoning, I am happy to hear it. It beats Madison Square Garden. Transcendence? Go to the Garden of God!
@turbobrain Further, the Garden of Eden was a place on the natural world. Why would you not want to get back to the supernatural Garden of God? She says, "... get my soul free." Do you think God or the Devil wants to keep your soul? Would a mother give all her love, then trap her child? Or would a devil want to trap your child? Would you want your child to come back to you freely, or would yo make your child, now an adult, do it? Everything points to the Garden of Eden. More...
@turbobrain She says. "I dreamed I saw the bombers, Riding shotgun in the sky, ...turning into butterflies, above our nation." That line is about war. Joni is speaking about love. Two different things, believe me. Joni's voice, lyrics, are inspired. The Garden can mean anything to you, me, or others. I wish you peace, love, family, rights, and freedoms. Please, if you can enlighten me, do so. If I can provide light, see your way.
Thank you Joni, love you! The Woodstock Generation is needed now more than ever. We need to take the banner of freedom forward as the last great export of the U.S. Not just democracy, but sexual freedom, womens rights, artistic expression and freedom to live without goverment oppression.
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@aBaDaBaDoh What about white males rights? We have less civil rights than any other group in America. Affirmative Action does not provide for white males.
When will I be free of government oppression?
When will you fight for my EQUAL RIGHTS?
I fought, killed, and saw my friends die in foreign lands for YOUR rights.
@sfm992002 Hey whiner, STFU!! My brother was killed in Iraq and he was NOT a white man. But he was an American. Nobody's going to fight for YOUR 'equal' rights or mine. We have it great in the USA and out of respect for your 'friends' who died in foreign lands (and my brother and hundreds of thousands of others throughout the life of OUR country), you need to MAN-UP and build YOUR piece of the promise. Shit, you sound like a little girl at a tea party!
@surflat56 Hey bitch, STFU. Lot's of people have fought for your rights, as well as mine. So take your racist rant to someone else. You need to not be a hypocrite, stop living through your brother, and believe in equal rights, freedoms, and protections under the law, regardless of sex or race. Man up yourself, you sound like a NBPP member. I have manned up, I am a combat arms, combat decorated, VFW, feces talker.
we are so unaware that we are so much more than just stardust and joni knew it always thumbs up if you feel mankind is mystic and should find it´s way back to clarity....
not so bubba, the beatles were able to do it, the stones were able to do it, quickly the managers got in and started raking the money off the top, thats when the corporations said, we can make a killin here!, mass marketing, and the bands wanted on that bandwagon,so everybody started thinking, "commercial"hendrix died broke, wondering,"where did my money go?"funny, he died while he was in the middle of tryin to getting all his master tapes back
Hye quazi. You are the cluess one. utterly without a clue. Her catalog of songs does dwarf all of them and, as a matter of fact, I have heard Crosby, Nash, Taylor, all say as much. Stills had his moments but not as many. She is a better poet than anyone of them. And I have forgotten more about music than you will ever know. Young is the best of the lot but still not in her league. James Taylor is a fine singer /guitarist and may have written an album worth of good material.
parachuteman4, you are clueless...to say she dwarfs those other artists just shows your ingorance of music. All of those other artists are incredible musicians and songwriters. At that level, they are all on equal footing-it's just that everyone has different individual preferences for certain artists. She dwarfs James Taylor.....LOL
As far as all the discussion on James Taylors version, or Crosbys production of one of her albums, or whatever. Let me just say that Joni dwarfs CSN, and Y. She dwarfsJames Taylor,Baez collins and just about anyone else. David Crosby may be a sperm donor but who wants to hear any of his songs now. Same with stills, or nash. And yes she also dwarfs Neil Young though hes better than the rest of that lot. Joni is just so much better than all of them that is not even close to close
I used the lyrics; "we are billion year-old carbon" "we are caught in the Devils' Bargain" in a recent essay. Her words were prophetic in 1969...of what few knew.
@archonticpower Ha ha, I didn't know that, but I can see it happening. Joni was at odds with the record companies before she even had a record deal. Even before the masses of musicians started getting their music hijacked by corporations, business sharks were trying to get into Joni's head and take over. She adamantly and repeatedly refused to let it happen, her disgust with all of it is why she got her boyfriend David Crosby to produce her first album.
I first heard this just after it came out as a 45rpm single on vinyl when I was i high school , and I cried it was so beautiful .I'm 57 now and I still cry when I hear it ! One of my all-time heart rending songs .
We are stardust - it's true. Anyone that has studied astronomy should know that the elements beyond hydrogen and helium were created from fusion within a star and cast out into space when the star nears its end in a supernova. All the elements within us are possible because of that, hence, we are stardust.
This is an excellent performance of a seminal rock anthem by one of the all time best. The CSNY version is more widely know. Joni Mitchell wrote it and peforms it best.
To echo Streetscaper69's comment, totally agree with that, back then it was it was about creativity and individualism, now it's about possessions, money and people being a slave to money and mortgages, such a shame.
Such a beautiful song in a time of discovery and creativity . . .. A time of true hope for real change . . .. Shamefully ended by corporate america, buying out a revolution of peace & love with war, & comsumerism . . .
Others have done it...and better. Don't get me wrong, Joni sure can write beautiful music but she is just too damn depressing and her voice is God-awful.
Others have tried it - to Joni's testament. If you can't hear the hope in her voice that is your loss. Last time I checked God was good, not awful. Your opinon is free speech but so is mine.
Sorry bassbole but gave a listen to JT's version and he is not even close to Joni. Joni's voice is like love itself. Pure of soul and heart. She wrote it and she owns it!
Further to those words of wisdom... I despair that my children of God have not experienced music like this, like my upbringing and belief. And don't blame me either, there's just too much too much booty and shit around modern music these days. This requires patience and an ear!!
crosby stills and nash did great with this song, but it is nothing compared to the feeling in this version. the original version is much more powerful. this is how this song should have always been performed. amazing, simply amazing.
I gotta meet Joanie, She and I were born the same year in Fort McLeod Alberta, She got all the talent...Seriously I'd love to meet her as I am a big fan, and yes the top part is accurate, my fellow Fort mcLeod "native"
You mean DICK Cavett.That was what she said on the show I saw when I found out she wrote the song.Joni Mitchell is a great talent & from everything I ever heard,a good person.
...and I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shotgun in the sky turn right into butterflies, above our Nation... THE lyric of the 60's for me...followed on by that other great Canadian Neil Young (Ten soldiers and Nixons coming, four dead in Ohio....) Love her to bits and thanks for posting.
I adore Joni Mitchell. That said, I also have to say that I think it's hilarious that she thinks the audience is going to be able to sing along with her on that very challenging chorus. And it's even funnier that she gives them the lyrics twice, as though it were the words that would trip them up.
This movie used to be on TV every year around new year. Haven't seen it for almost 30 years. Can't believe it's here. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING THIS.
When my sister died in 2007, all I could think about was the line, "We are stardust." This is one of many incredible songs by Joni Mitchell, whose work (especially The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Hejira and Mingus) was a huge influence on my writing.
You see "We" once controlled the music because "We' are the source or spring of creativity. But you see "We" didn't have the profit motive..because you see...that's not how we roll. Anyway...once upon a time...music meant something to the artists and they communicated through it.
Loved Joni, always, and still do. I'm 62, played in many a band, been to Woodstock (drugs, music & rain). By the time Hendricks played, not too many of us left. I was in the middle of all this (but only as a follower & listener), and I will second what the dead said..."what a long strange trip its been". We passed through those times like we were playing a part in the Shyamalan "sixth sense" movie. There was no life outside of the music, and we didn't realize that.
Love you Joni! Also love Eva Cassidy's version. For a real treat, check it out! And while you are at it, check out "Stormy Monday" and other Cassidy songs.
You're right. The subsequent generations were cheated. In the early days of rock, record companies let the artists handle the artistry because it's their thing. When enormous corporations started buying up the record companies, they changed the game. The goal was no longer to blow people's minds. The goal was to get as many people as possible to like the albums just enough to buy them. They would do tons of research on how to do that. So pretty much everthing got watered down and sucks.
Thanks to the Internet, we can also find, mind-blowing modern music. Or even great music of the 80s or 90s.
People who care about music will always make good music. They don't go extinct. ;P
People who really care about music are not the ones, who hear the lame big radio stations, or watch Music Television. You mustn't use that as implication, that all music after the 60s or 70s was bullshit. :P
Well, I say all that, but I still feel the same as you. -.-
@thimoneus for the sake of the world, i hope that isn't the whole truth. i would like for my mind to be continually blown from things in my generation.
@thimoneus, right. But a big amount of money is a common need in our short life. The role of musical critics is crucial, but they say every critic has a cemetery, artistically speaking. I loved your comment, I'm the 39th one.
Id have to disagree with your GRUBBY comment. For one that was born in 79, I think it has aged very very well. From 65-70, that music has stood the test of time. Probably the greatest music of the 20th century.
Some of us had to watch it on TV, as all the news broadcasts said something about NY State Thruway being closed? OMG! What a youth we had!!!! And we still keep evolving! Namaste', y'all! :)
jamcar7 2 months ago
This scares the fuck out of me. We were so young then. My big problem is that I still believe this stuff, and I still believe in love and peace, and hope. Shit, this was 2/3 of my life ago. It certainly became part of my soul. Is there anyone around who still feels this way??
auntiezanne 4 months ago 8
@auntiezanne yes we are still around. keep beliving, love and peace to you.
ahknanowt 4 months ago
@auntiezanne absolutely!
I had 2 very young sons when woodstock happened and I was blown away. Those were the days when you could hear great bands for free in GG park in S.F. at the polo grounds. I just took those babies with me and now they are both musicians.
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@auntiezanne I wasn't even alive then, but it's still become part of my soul, and I dearly wish I'd been there.
alleycat241 1 month ago
Happy 42ND birthday Woodstock...
1959child 5 months ago 2
Thank you joni for writing this song.
waynecainusa 6 months ago
i just LOVE Joni's short, little laughs, like the one @ 0:09 :)
alldane1 6 months ago
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Did a little cover of this, check it out at my channel and tell me what you think.
sacomusic 7 months ago
We are That "Garden" from which Stardust appears in,
Stardust refers to the elements of the body,and the Universe,that is not who we are.
Nore are we the mind, the brain,the emotions ,senses.
We are Self ,Spirit,Super consciousness,and all the names for Truth.........we must and will return to that garden someday..........
Its a beautiful song,sung by a beautiful Realized soul.
eaglerock999 8 months ago
I dont think its religious, the,"stardust " i think comes from the theory that life was kickstarted from dust and debris from another star far away going supernova and the, "garden" i think is about reconnecting with nature and going back to the start and the devil is ol' uncle sam's system, well there's my 2 cents either way its a fantastic song, nice upload ;)
4everaplayer 9 months ago
@4everaplayer You can think what you want. We are carbon based life forms. Carbon is the product of combustion. Stars are fire. Being a part of nature is what we all are. Uncle Sam came LONG after life, long after the devil. She is singing about our imperfections, and realizing there is more to life. This is a spiritual song, sung by a beautiful woman, inside and out. You can play, but you can't hide. If you hate the US, get out. See where it is better!
sfm992002 6 months ago
i often wondered if joni has native american blood in her, something to do with the high cheek bones maybe. i hear the undercurrent of an 'indian' chant in this song.
brudwiser 9 months ago
@brudwiser, no, not any from what I have checked. Her ancestry is native to Europe only, making her a white woman.
sandinyourshoes 4 months ago
where the FUCK is the studio version
BuyBenco 10 months ago
@BuyBenco Joni's studio version is on the album Ladies of the Canyon i believe
neilnriley 8 months ago
sounds to me like she is singing about transcendence..i.e. getting back to the garden...but I wasn't even born yet when she sang this, she can't be talking about Madison Square, help me out here...
turbobrain 10 months ago
@turbobrain If you research the lyrics, from the start, "I came upon a child of God," etc, my opinion is that she means the Garden of Eden.
Of course, that is just my opinion, but it fits.
sfm992002 10 months ago
@sfm992002 don't you think that doesn't fit...if we are stardust, then this is a naturalistic world-view, why would we want to get back to the garden of Edan, a supernatural world-view. My interpretation of the first two lines is that we are born out of dust, and therefore we are all gods. Just not sure what the garden reference refers to. Although, she does reference the devil's bargain, but this could simply be used as an expression with not religious meaning, thanks for your reply.
turbobrain 10 months ago
@turbobrain It fits perfectly. I came upon a child of God. Meaning, we are all children of God. We are NOT all Gods. Stardust means carbon. Carbon is the product of combustion. Stars produce carbon. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. The Devils original bargain was to give Eve, then Adam, God like qualities, by eating the Apple of Knowledge. I do not push any religion. If you can give me a better reasoning, I am happy to hear it. It beats Madison Square Garden. Transcendence? Go to the Garden of God!
sfm992002 10 months ago
@turbobrain Further, the Garden of Eden was a place on the natural world. Why would you not want to get back to the supernatural Garden of God? She says, "... get my soul free." Do you think God or the Devil wants to keep your soul? Would a mother give all her love, then trap her child? Or would a devil want to trap your child? Would you want your child to come back to you freely, or would yo make your child, now an adult, do it? Everything points to the Garden of Eden. More...
sfm992002 10 months ago
@turbobrain She says. "I dreamed I saw the bombers, Riding shotgun in the sky, ...turning into butterflies, above our nation." That line is about war. Joni is speaking about love. Two different things, believe me. Joni's voice, lyrics, are inspired. The Garden can mean anything to you, me, or others. I wish you peace, love, family, rights, and freedoms. Please, if you can enlighten me, do so. If I can provide light, see your way.
sfm992002 10 months ago
She's so pretty, and her voice is beautiful.
thepersona100 10 months ago
Try to sing like her, its like almost breaking your legs stumbling over the notes.^^
BrinkmannDr 11 months ago
Joni expressed something in this song which will never go away.
Asymmatrix 11 months ago
beautiful.... this really brought tears to my eyes :)
was this footage from a documentary?
WaterLilyDreams 1 year ago
@WaterLilyDreams IT'S FROM A MOVIE CALLED CELEBRATION@BIG SUR. I'VE GOT THE WHOLE MOVIE ON MY PLAYLISTS,LOVE. HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL PIANO...
CRAXYFINGERS76 1 year ago
I really dislike ignorance.
Love Joni Mitchell.
sfm992002 1 year ago
Thank you Joni, love you! The Woodstock Generation is needed now more than ever. We need to take the banner of freedom forward as the last great export of the U.S. Not just democracy, but sexual freedom, womens rights, artistic expression and freedom to live without goverment oppression.
aBaDaBaDoh 1 year ago
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@aBaDaBaDoh What about white males rights? We have less civil rights than any other group in America. Affirmative Action does not provide for white males.
When will I be free of government oppression?
When will you fight for my EQUAL RIGHTS?
I fought, killed, and saw my friends die in foreign lands for YOUR rights.
You are a RACIST, SEXIST, HYPOCRITE!
Prove me wrong.
sfm992002 1 year ago
@sfm992002 Hey whiner, STFU!! My brother was killed in Iraq and he was NOT a white man. But he was an American. Nobody's going to fight for YOUR 'equal' rights or mine. We have it great in the USA and out of respect for your 'friends' who died in foreign lands (and my brother and hundreds of thousands of others throughout the life of OUR country), you need to MAN-UP and build YOUR piece of the promise. Shit, you sound like a little girl at a tea party!
surflat56 1 year ago
@surflat56 Hey bitch, STFU. Lot's of people have fought for your rights, as well as mine. So take your racist rant to someone else. You need to not be a hypocrite, stop living through your brother, and believe in equal rights, freedoms, and protections under the law, regardless of sex or race. Man up yourself, you sound like a NBPP member. I have manned up, I am a combat arms, combat decorated, VFW, feces talker.
VFWFVFW
sfm992002 1 year ago
Happy 68th birthday to the great Joni Mitchell, November 7th, 1943.
ZAGGLETON 1 year ago
What a fantasticly talented lady. Regardless of your taste in music, Joni Mitchell should be able to captivate you.
This is music,
Spotfarm666 1 year ago
Love Joni Mitchell's work! This is a beautiful song!
ThePunisherFreak 1 year ago
This song makes my skin melt down to million of pieces.
KasumiSakebigoe 1 year ago
we are so unaware that we are so much more than just stardust and joni knew it always thumbs up if you feel mankind is mystic and should find it´s way back to clarity....
Via2Quito 1 year ago
Jeez, Joni. You're some woman for one woman!
pinkashram 1 year ago
I have come to see the light. It took me too long to appreciate her.
LOL @ 1:30!
buckskipper 1 year ago
these effects and such are cool, but i kinda just wanna see Joni.
she is beautiful in this video when we do get to see her, but it is only here and there.
tattoofthesun 1 year ago
not so bubba, the beatles were able to do it, the stones were able to do it, quickly the managers got in and started raking the money off the top, thats when the corporations said, we can make a killin here!, mass marketing, and the bands wanted on that bandwagon,so everybody started thinking, "commercial"hendrix died broke, wondering,"where did my money go?"funny, he died while he was in the middle of tryin to getting all his master tapes back
jlambert321 1 year ago
@jlambert321 The Greenheads were in the front row at Monterey Pop. They were early.
bagoona 1 year ago
her voice and lyrics penetrate my soul.....JONI!! nuttin like u babe,love much!
frankie0girl9 1 year ago
Six feet Under brought me here!
mando1491 1 year ago 20
Hye quazi. You are the cluess one. utterly without a clue. Her catalog of songs does dwarf all of them and, as a matter of fact, I have heard Crosby, Nash, Taylor, all say as much. Stills had his moments but not as many. She is a better poet than anyone of them. And I have forgotten more about music than you will ever know. Young is the best of the lot but still not in her league. James Taylor is a fine singer /guitarist and may have written an album worth of good material.
parachuteman4 1 year ago
Joni I love you.
lightgearwire 1 year ago 2
parachuteman4, you are clueless...to say she dwarfs those other artists just shows your ingorance of music. All of those other artists are incredible musicians and songwriters. At that level, they are all on equal footing-it's just that everyone has different individual preferences for certain artists. She dwarfs James Taylor.....LOL
quazi111 1 year ago
I was late Missed Woodstock by a minute (Darn). I got the vibe though. :D
XrayQueen69 1 year ago
wish I could have voted "love it" rather than just "like".
crashtestkarma 1 year ago 2
.........blow my mind..every time
sikzerSZR1 1 year ago
As far as all the discussion on James Taylors version, or Crosbys production of one of her albums, or whatever. Let me just say that Joni dwarfs CSN, and Y. She dwarfsJames Taylor,Baez collins and just about anyone else. David Crosby may be a sperm donor but who wants to hear any of his songs now. Same with stills, or nash. And yes she also dwarfs Neil Young though hes better than the rest of that lot. Joni is just so much better than all of them that is not even close to close
parachuteman4 1 year ago
@parachuteman4 no. just no.
ninjacowboy32 1 year ago
LOVE THIS!!!
1Natasya 1 year ago
Gorgeous!
leonardoboy2 1 year ago
simply wonderful
valleyblue1 1 year ago
I am so incredibly jealous that I was not born early enough to experience woodstock and the early 70s. So so jealous. Joni has a beautiful voice.
annievaughan21 1 year ago
I used the lyrics; "we are billion year-old carbon" "we are caught in the Devils' Bargain" in a recent essay. Her words were prophetic in 1969...of what few knew.
LillyGrillzit 1 year ago
A wonderful song and yet a sad song, it took capitalism only three years to catch up und the Hippie Spirit became a commodity.
Be blessed Joni
opiumrebel 1 year ago
Just love.
pinkashram 1 year ago
love.
littleheidiband 1 year ago
@archonticpower I think what Crosby did gave the album an enchanting and trippy edge. I also think it is possibly the greatest album ever recorded.
thimoneus 1 year ago
@archonticpower Ha ha, I didn't know that, but I can see it happening. Joni was at odds with the record companies before she even had a record deal. Even before the masses of musicians started getting their music hijacked by corporations, business sharks were trying to get into Joni's head and take over. She adamantly and repeatedly refused to let it happen, her disgust with all of it is why she got her boyfriend David Crosby to produce her first album.
thimoneus 1 year ago
she looks really beautiful here
mark1800 1 year ago
damn
AHoust58 1 year ago
she's beyond sexy in this clip and man that lady knows how to write a good song.
if you like joni check out my demo i am looking for a band!!! (sacomusic)
sacomusic 1 year ago
I first heard this just after it came out as a 45rpm single on vinyl when I was i high school , and I cried it was so beautiful .I'm 57 now and I still cry when I hear it ! One of my all-time heart rending songs .
mrhuxter 1 year ago
We are stardust - it's true. Anyone that has studied astronomy should know that the elements beyond hydrogen and helium were created from fusion within a star and cast out into space when the star nears its end in a supernova. All the elements within us are possible because of that, hence, we are stardust.
cabnguiness 1 year ago
I'm such a hippie for this song, love it!
"We are stardust, we are golden!!"
I'm a geek too- reminds me of the Pillars of Creation at M16 :-)
fiks9000 1 year ago
One of my all-time favourite singers.
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brunonozferaz 1 year ago
This is an excellent performance of a seminal rock anthem by one of the all time best. The CSNY version is more widely know. Joni Mitchell wrote it and peforms it best.
svimburg 1 year ago 2
I love the guy at 1:28
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salvymd23 1 year ago
To echo Streetscaper69's comment, totally agree with that, back then it was it was about creativity and individualism, now it's about possessions, money and people being a slave to money and mortgages, such a shame.
Gary1497 1 year ago
love joni's voice
"we are gloden"!!!!!!
peace n love~
lizardkingvoodookid 1 year ago
This song and this song only gets my animal wound up everytime. That's is alot since I play this all the time.
Love to Joni!
sfm992002 2 years ago 2
Surely the greatest singer / songwriter / musician in the past couple of generations !
tonto4848 2 years ago 2
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sfm992002 2 years ago
Such a beautiful song in a time of discovery and creativity . . .. A time of true hope for real change . . .. Shamefully ended by corporate america, buying out a revolution of peace & love with war, & comsumerism . . .
streetscaper69 2 years ago
A true tragedy... The corporations have raised a bunch of well-trained "Customers" over the past generation. :(
pyrosies66613 1 year ago 4
@buckskipper...for real, Joni Mitchell is a musical Goddess. If you have any idea what music is--then you know that no one can touch her.
laurini01 2 years ago 3
we are golden / stardust ,...how about that? Love that song,...;-)
thismoment23 2 years ago 3
no we're not, we are golden
jono4242 2 years ago
We are star dust.
APRIL141958model 2 years ago
Now this is music.
haircutalex 2 years ago
Others may have done it - but Joni wrote it. It's her song.
jokeromni 2 years ago
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@jokeromni
Others have done it...and better. Don't get me wrong, Joni sure can write beautiful music but she is just too damn depressing and her voice is God-awful.
buckskipper 2 years ago
Others have tried it - to Joni's testament. If you can't hear the hope in her voice that is your loss. Last time I checked God was good, not awful. Your opinon is free speech but so is mine.
sfm992002 2 years ago
maybe you're just afraid of her
ben909ben 2 years ago
That's an understatement. Eww...!
buckskipper 2 years ago
or something...
I find ben909ben insightful.
sfm992002 2 years ago
one of the best Canadian musicians ever.
kent6667 2 years ago
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'cept for celine dion, natch
jono4242 2 years ago
you have got to be kidding me--this song INHABITS the divine feminine--not too offend james or anything but this is a WOMAN's SONG!
cuddlebuttons 2 years ago
There is no other version. Not JT, not CSN... This is heavenly Joni, there's no other.
ElectricLabel 2 years ago
Sorry bassbole but gave a listen to JT's version and he is not even close to Joni. Joni's voice is like love itself. Pure of soul and heart. She wrote it and she owns it!
sfm992002 2 years ago
awesome and most amazing!
cuddleyduddley 2 years ago 2
love joni, but james taylor's version of this... well.. there's just no competing with it
bassbole 2 years ago
Wow. I wasn't even born, in my current life, when this happened, but i feel connected in love.
easynrg 2 years ago 3
Jame Taylor does a version of it on Howard Stern.. its amazing.
gargamel55 2 years ago 2
Hello people!
Bellissima song di Joni in una delle interpretazioni che preferisco.
Che tutte le armi si trasformino in farfalle (butterflies), e che l'amore ci avvolga in un dolce sopravvento.
Il Futuro Noi lo costruiamo!
Peace, Love, Freedom
Pace , Amore, Libertà !
Ma anche Rispetto e Ammirazione!
Lunga vita Joni!
Ciao!
gnirogniro 2 years ago 2
And I dreamed I saw the bomber death planes
Riding shotgun in the sky,
Turning into butterflies
Above our nation.
We are stardust, we are golden,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden. ~ one of a kind Joni Mitchell
RonnieAtCloseRange 2 years ago 7
Her voice speaks to my soul.
sfm992002 2 years ago 33
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Her voice hurts my ears.
Killthehorde 2 years ago
electric: hell yeah. This chick kicks ass. I've been hearing her since I had ears.
marshal3corps 2 years ago 4
the people on american idol should learn how to sing like this-then it might be worth watching.
electricrevelations 2 years ago 6
I was only a baby in ''69.
aartvegan 2 years ago
Further to those words of wisdom... I despair that my children of God have not experienced music like this, like my upbringing and belief. And don't blame me either, there's just too much too much booty and shit around modern music these days. This requires patience and an ear!!
mark22isaking 2 years ago 3
Yeah right.
We are all children of God.
sfm992002 2 years ago
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I did Joni ion early '69
I am the Child of God she is singing about ..
WaldoCW 2 years ago
Chills.
KnittyGrittyNatch 2 years ago 2
crosby stills and nash did great with this song, but it is nothing compared to the feeling in this version. the original version is much more powerful. this is how this song should have always been performed. amazing, simply amazing.
snow1snow1 2 years ago 2
I gotta meet Joanie, She and I were born the same year in Fort McLeod Alberta, She got all the talent...Seriously I'd love to meet her as I am a big fan, and yes the top part is accurate, my fellow Fort mcLeod "native"
Our dad were fighting the ""Nasties"
Dr Mike
Ottawa
PILONMIKE 2 years ago
I wish I was there :-(
smobe12 2 years ago 2
Joni's rendition is much closer to Mathews Southern comfort than CSN.I didn't know she wrote this song until a few days ago.
dlsofsetx 2 years ago
She wanted to be at Woodstock and her agent booked her at Dave Cavett Show.
So talking to Graham Nash about it and watching it on TV she wrote this song and sung it here 1 month after Woodstock.
PinkPrism008 2 years ago 3
You mean DICK Cavett.That was what she said on the show I saw when I found out she wrote the song.Joni Mitchell is a great talent & from everything I ever heard,a good person.
dlsofsetx 2 years ago
dick cavett
weed4smoker20 2 years ago
I think it would have been more accurate to sing, "I drove across a child of God, it was passed out in my field"
andrelebaron 2 years ago
Peace and Love ya'll
Wasaweg 2 years ago
40 years today, something magnificent started, a true revolution, peace and love everyone!
imflyinn 2 years ago 2
What a beautiful voice. What a chill I get listening to you Miss Joni. Peace :-))
nwartist1 2 years ago 2
Thank you!!!!! I cannot believe it's been 40 years!!!! Yikes! More beautiful and relevant now than ever!!!
windrose777 2 years ago 3
Joni was on fire at that concert. It is mind boggling how phenomenal her voice sounded.
thimoneus 2 years ago
Heaven Sent us Joni Mitchell!!! Thank You!!! MarLa :)
whatwasthatsong 2 years ago
Joni sings down the Stars!
ellynlvx 2 years ago 2
magical...
HeckTo 2 years ago
Thank you for this gem of recording of her early voice.
smsneath 2 years ago
...and I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shotgun in the sky turn right into butterflies, above our Nation... THE lyric of the 60's for me...followed on by that other great Canadian Neil Young (Ten soldiers and Nixons coming, four dead in Ohio....) Love her to bits and thanks for posting.
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MsJules299 2 years ago
This puts chills up my legs. Brilliant.
leslietrav 2 years ago 2
I adore Joni Mitchell. That said, I also have to say that I think it's hilarious that she thinks the audience is going to be able to sing along with her on that very challenging chorus. And it's even funnier that she gives them the lyrics twice, as though it were the words that would trip them up.
timrob64 2 years ago 5
Joni has a strange magic in her singing. By every traditional measurement, her voice is hopeless, but why is it such a pleasure to listen to her!
WeeWyllie 2 years ago
Yes WeeWyllie Simon Cowell would boot her off, just shows what he knows lol lol lol
alfiesgirluk 2 years ago
Brilliant!!!!
I heard Richie Havens perform this live last weekend
"Wow"!
I did hear Joni perform this in Williamsburg in the mid 70's!
Never forget it.
voodookook 2 years ago
This movie used to be on TV every year around new year. Haven't seen it for almost 30 years. Can't believe it's here. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING THIS.
louis34997 2 years ago
the first time i heard this in 1969 it took my breath away....and it still does. What a treasure she is.
KEEGAN1953 2 years ago
i love you Joni!
LoveJoyHouse 2 years ago
When my sister died in 2007, all I could think about was the line, "We are stardust." This is one of many incredible songs by Joni Mitchell, whose work (especially The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Hejira and Mingus) was a huge influence on my writing.
singleword 2 years ago 2
Wonderful. Takes some getting used to, as all I knew was the CSN lick, but goddam is this something else.
klarmer 2 years ago
You see "We" once controlled the music because "We' are the source or spring of creativity. But you see "We" didn't have the profit motive..because you see...that's not how we roll. Anyway...once upon a time...music meant something to the artists and they communicated through it.
Ipluckithard 2 years ago 3
Beautiful! Thanks for posting this amazing song. I only wish I could have been there. :-)
JenellSolo 2 years ago
joni is a goddess
0WeAreThePeople0 2 years ago 2
.....tears & goosebumps....no one sounds like Joni....her voice just transports you to another time...amazing....:) thank you for posting this....
lavender880 2 years ago
Lovely song.She looks beautiful here.Canadian treasure.
habdon 3 years ago
linda!!
carpegiane22 3 years ago
A completely transcendent song.
Ntone606 3 years ago
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Loved Joni, always, and still do. I'm 62, played in many a band, been to Woodstock (drugs, music & rain). By the time Hendricks played, not too many of us left. I was in the middle of all this (but only as a follower & listener), and I will second what the dead said..."what a long strange trip its been". We passed through those times like we were playing a part in the Shyamalan "sixth sense" movie. There was no life outside of the music, and we didn't realize that.
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wodstock1969 3 years ago
Thats prbably one of the best songs iv ever heard in my life.
potla5 3 years ago 2
outstanding-great melody, Joni really has a wonderful voice- for sure
JIMMIESURFS 3 years ago
i used to believe in this stuff and to tell the truth i'm 61 and i guess i still do. confession maybe?
regolio 3 years ago 3
Her looks are at least as beautiful as Her singing
canada2love 3 years ago
"last night the ghost of my old ideals re-ran on Channel 5" - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
jackhillty 3 years ago
She is the BEST!!!
helderejan56 3 years ago
ACE
freeatlast1963 3 years ago
gosh joni mitchell's music is some of the few music that i can watch over and over and never get tired of it!
halfmoonrise 3 years ago
Love you Joni! Also love Eva Cassidy's version. For a real treat, check it out! And while you are at it, check out "Stormy Monday" and other Cassidy songs.
mwhigha 3 years ago
Watching people like Joni Mitchell play music, I keep feeling like subsequent generations, like mine, were somehow cheated.
Quag7 3 years ago 2
You're right. The subsequent generations were cheated. In the early days of rock, record companies let the artists handle the artistry because it's their thing. When enormous corporations started buying up the record companies, they changed the game. The goal was no longer to blow people's minds. The goal was to get as many people as possible to like the albums just enough to buy them. They would do tons of research on how to do that. So pretty much everthing got watered down and sucks.
thimoneus 2 years ago 42
Most of the pop(ular) music perhaps.
Thanks to the Internet, we can also find, mind-blowing modern music. Or even great music of the 80s or 90s.
People who care about music will always make good music. They don't go extinct. ;P
People who really care about music are not the ones, who hear the lame big radio stations, or watch Music Television. You mustn't use that as implication, that all music after the 60s or 70s was bullshit. :P
Well, I say all that, but I still feel the same as you. -.-
jIInyouSuckers 2 years ago 2
@thimoneus and thus was our collective soul sold to the devil.
bprana7 1 year ago
@thimoneus for the sake of the world, i hope that isn't the whole truth. i would like for my mind to be continually blown from things in my generation.
gotgreg92 1 year ago
@thimoneus
total cliché, but on those two three years everybody was free and unlimited. So our forefathers where better off than we are now.
morphinlounge101 1 year ago
@thimoneus Yes!
And, unfortunately the People allowed all of this just as 'We' do today.
We are the grease for the machine: We can change it or shut it down as We choose... do We?
myklmusic 1 year ago 2
@thimoneus, right. But a big amount of money is a common need in our short life. The role of musical critics is crucial, but they say every critic has a cemetery, artistically speaking. I loved your comment, I'm the 39th one.
monicadumitre 1 year ago
Woman of Heart and Mind DVD is crap compared to this!
fartbender 3 years ago
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Wow the hippie thing really hasnt aged well - it all looks so GRUBBY looking at it now
Joni's a genius - she was wise to move away from the whole "peace love and flowers" vibe and get more grown-up
grai 3 years ago
Id have to disagree with your GRUBBY comment. For one that was born in 79, I think it has aged very very well. From 65-70, that music has stood the test of time. Probably the greatest music of the 20th century.
I agree, Joni is a genius.
dvs1572 3 years ago 4
Music was differant then. Much less premeditated and more raw. It fell together with us. We were part of it. My how far away we have become.
Find Joni's Blue album
TR5T 3 years ago
I only knew Joni Mitchell by name. Now I want to know her by heart.
endicott3 4 years ago 2
Theres something so cute about her....a kind of meekness....in a good way
iluvmanu123 4 years ago
perfect song
bbaarrtteekk 4 years ago 2
wow..
mudybech 4 years ago 4
Thank you thank you thank you for posting this,, I have seen it before, and it keeps disappearing!!
UpFromEden 4 years ago 2