Celebration At Big Sur Prt. 5 - CSNY Sea Of Madness, 4+20

BIG SUR Calif. 1969

A musical documentary of the 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival, filmed in a chaotic style reminiscent of Woodstock. It features performances by Joan Baez, John Sebastian, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and the Combs Sisters.

Some of the finest folk singers and musicians in the world positioned themselves on the edge of some of America's most glorious scenery for a farewell to summer and a celebration of nonviolence in mid-September. It was the sixth annual Big Sur Folk Festival.

The festival, held on the tree-shaded lawns of Esalen, also differed from other recent celebrations in that here the "scene" did not eclipse the music, but merely served as a complement. According to its producers, Nancy Carlen and Paula Kates, Big Sur was designed as a "performers festival," an opportunity for artists to come together after a hectic summer on the festival circuit for some peace and solitude.

Crosby Stills Nash and Young played the final set, as on Saturday, repeatedly bringing the thinning crowd to it's feet. For a finale - with the audience pushed forward around the pool, closer to the performers now - everyone at the festival reprise "Oh Happy Day".

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Joni
• Mitchell
• David
• Crosby
• Steven
• Stills
• Neil
• Young
• Graham
• Nash
• Joan
• Baez
• Folk
• Festival
• Big
• Sur

[loudampsfastbikes]

@wallofvideo if you want to know, all you have to do is listen to Steve's song at the end.

[loudampsfastbikes]

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.

[FlauntussFloyd]

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.

[TB09ish]

great song.......who cares about the ediotorials....

[rob16248]

And the guy at 05:05 played the part of Crackers in Pink Flamingos.

[rob16248]

@wallofvideo Doolittle from the film Dark Star? Graham Chapman in disguise?

[wallofvideo]

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]

can anyone positively identify the man who appears @ 4:24?

[scgcom]

Have another drink, Stephen!

[PeterCRissKISSgod]

"stephen, if you push him in the pool i'll never forgive ya!" lmfao.