Crosby Nash BBC - Song With No Words Teach Your Chi (3 of 5)

These videos are from a September 11 1970 half hour television performance Graham and David did for the BBC.

It was right after CSNY had finished their famous...or infamous... four way street summer tour. with stories of epic melt downs and cosmic feedings between them all, the all star endeavor which had only began two years prior had all but imploded on itself.


Fortunately, all of the guys didn't abandon their relationships all together. Neil recruited Stephen, David, and Graham for backing vocals on After the Gold Rush and Harvest. Crosby invited, among other amazing musicians, Nash, and Young to sing and play on his consummate album If I Could Only Remember My Name.

(Interestingly, of all the musicians David invited to play on his album: Nash, Young, Jerry Garcia,Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart,Bill Kreutzmann, Jorma Kaukonen, Joni Mitchell, Grace Slick, David Freiberg, Paul Kantner, Jack Casady, Gregg Rolie, and Michael Shrieve...missing was Stephen Stills)

Of all the members of CSNY David and Graham's relationship seemed to be the one that stayed most friendly. In these videos you can really see how jovial and genuinely humorous they were with each other and with their audience. not to mention their majestic vocal blending. (the two part harmonies, which sound like five part, on Guinnevere and Song With no Words are particularly mind blowing)

If you dig this flavor of Crosby and Nash i would recommend finding a copy of their 10/10/1971 live recording Another Stoney Evening if you haven't already.

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Graham and David singing swimming around one another and joking a little about the origin of the song title a tree with no leaves.

"That's why i hang out with him; a lot of trips."

The second song is Nash's Teach Your Children.
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"[Following the break up] Crosby and Nash embarked on a successful acoustic tour accompanied only by their own guitars and piano, captured for the document Another Stoney Evening.

On tour, Nash and Crosby rediscovered the joy they had felt with CSN at first, minus the egotistic in-fighting that had made the last CSNY shows so difficult. That enthusiasm led to the studio for their first album as a duo, a mix of abstract introspection from Crosby and concise pop tunes from Nash prosaically entitled Graham Nash David Crosby, which peaked at #4 on the pop album chart."

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• Children
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• Stills
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• Neil
• Young

[glencruitt]

Who cares about the ' How High ' question people. please just enjoy the music, sit back and relax and let Crosby and Nash's creativity take you on a buttered elephant trip lol.

[koriepfrank]

They performed Teach Your Children very well...It looked like Crosby sings harmony through the verse, but Nash sings it in the chorus...Wild arrangement. It's amazing people can be this talented.

[nootaramus]

yes crosby is high- everyone was high back then. why and how do you think this kind of music was conceived ? on crack ? no it was good marijuana and LSD and maybe peyote and mushrooms.

crosby's decline came from cocaine. it is an evil drug..

[BoilingHumans]

OMG! Tabs anyone, i need to learn this one! :O

[professormacdeezy]

There it is.... song with no words...... ;)

[whouston33wh]

Crosby and Nash were incredibly in touch with other more than Stills or Young. They were able to harmonize so amazingly and their guitar playing matched incredibly. These two were meant to sing together. Now I think it's about time I get high and listen to these guys all night.

[whoisgalt57]

*yearn*

[gaspo2180]

Just two guys sitting around playing for the L O V E  of it.

[zappp111]

The peace, love, dope, generation, had to be crushed! People stoned on weed won't kill people! How would we get a volunteer army of people who were not related to law makers, that could not get out of the draft?

[broudwauy]

I call it song with no words, HE calls it tree with no leaves. That shows you where HE'S at! xD

[TheEnormousPianist]

great harmonies on teach your children, and they each kept their parts from the CSNY arrangement (probably in case they re-united in the near future). Really miss the middle part but, it's a great spotlight on these two great singers.

[Fritter70]

This is the best, most beautiful version of TYC I've ever heard. How the heck did they play it in perfect tune, timing, and harmony when Crosby was so blitzed? Boggles the mind.