🎵 Crosby, Stills & Nash - Southern Cross REACTION

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@randytorres8211 Год назад

The "Southern Cross" is a constellation also known as the Crux Constellation that can be viewed from most of the Southern Hemisphere. The four brightest stars within the constellation form a cross pattern. Sailors have relied on the Southern Cross to help in navigating their boats; it appears on the national flags of Australia and New Zealand. The song was written by Stephen Stills with help from Richard Curtis and Michael Curtis. In the CSN boxed set, Stills explained: "The Curtis Brothers brought a wonderful song called 'Seven League Boots,' but it drifted around too much. I rewrote a new set of words and added a different chorus, a story about a long boat trip I took after my divorce. It's about using the power of the universe to heal your wounds. Once again, I was given somebody's gem and cut and polished it." Since this is based on a song called "Seven League Boots," it bears mentioning that seven-league boots are a common magical artifact which crops up repeatedly in many European folk and fairy tales. They're a pair of boots which allow the wearer to take strides that are seven leagues (21 miles, 33.8 kilometers) long. The same concept of footwear that greatly increases one's traveling speed or stride is adapted into many role-playing and video games. (Songfacts.com)

@estoy1001 Год назад

I'd like to add to this, concerning Black Sabbath's song The Sign of the Southern Cross. My head cannon concerns the original explorers who sought out the lands to the southern hemisphere, and the only guide those ships had was Crux. While that might not have been Dio's original intention for the song, it feels as though it could have been.

@hellscornalien8286 Год назад

Thanks for sharing that tidbit of information. Peace.

@jccook5353 Год назад

I believe it's also the name of CSN's sail bought, that they bought together as a group.

@DawnSuttonfabfour Год назад

I went up on a hot air balloon in Oz, at daybreak. I accidentally took a photo which looks very like it and I do believe it is. Great song.

@KevDaly Год назад

Yeah, what he said :)

@jamiepuente481 Год назад

This song has my favorite verse of all time. “ I have my ship and all her flags are a fly’n, she is all that I have left and music is her name”.

@deborahcornell171 Год назад

Pure poetry.💙

@RicoBurghFan Год назад

Stephen Stills is one great songwriters of all time.

@duncandavenport7007 Год назад

Man, right there with you. That was the verse that did me in from the first moment I heard it! It never ceases to amaze me how great music & lyrics can pull on the heart strings of so many of us no matter who we are, where we are, or when we were born. What a reminder of our common humanity.

@bendyrland7213 Год назад

The preceding "So I'm sailing for tomorrow. My dreams are a-dying. And my love is an anchor tied to you, tied with a silver chain." is pretty wonderful as well. Such a beautifully written song.

@leetroy3129 Год назад

I love the chorus. 🎶Think about how many times I have fallen. Spirits are using me. Higher voices calling.🎶

@robertfindley921 Год назад

Southern Cross is a constellation of stars only seen in the southern hemisphere. Great song.

@Wolverines77 Год назад

Seeing the "Southern Cross" is one of my bucket list items, whether it be in Patagonia, New Zealand or Tahiti...

@qadgopthemercotan Год назад

It's visible in the northern hemisphere too. I've seen it in Costa Rica, which is close to, but still north of the equator. It's an amazing sight, frankly. Huge and bright.

@bendyrland7213 Год назад

It can be seen from Key West at certain times of the year.

@nicknam8478 Год назад

In 1967 I was in Vietnam and a guy who knew what seemed to be a good deal of astronomy pointed it out to me.I think we were about 10 degrees above the equator at the time.

@t0dd000 Год назад

I love Stills' voice and rhythm in this in particular. That play with the harmonies where he solos for a beat and a half before the harmony cuts in is brilliant craftsmanship.

@vickiroman189 Год назад

This is my favorite song. Ever. I don't know why, but it speaks to me in a way no other song has.

@dggydddy59 Год назад

Boy, this song really takes me back. Soon after I moved to L.A. from the Midwest, I was working at Graham Nash's recording studio in Hollywood when CSN were making this album. They were my musical idols growing up so the fact that I was there every day with them while they worked on a new album just constantly blew my mind!! I do remember them working on this song in particular because the buzz around the building was that this was everyone's favorite and it would be the first single and they finally recaptured some of the old magic on the choruses. Those were incredibly amazing times for me. Cherished memories, absolutely!

@jaycorby Год назад

You do realize how lucky you were...right?

@dggydddy59 Год назад

@@jaycorby Oh, believe me, the whole thing was so incredible to me. I mean Stephen drove me home a few times, one day I was just noodling on the office piano when David comes in with his guitar and sat down next to me and we sat there improvising a song together. I was floored, naturally. Twenty years later Graham sent me backstage passes to a CSN show when he should have forgotten I even existed. My then-GF was blown away. Yes, I was amazingly fortunate! Cheers!

@michellehaff3041 Год назад

Head east young man.

@josephgrijalva9395 Год назад

the thing about CSN is their harmonies. they are instantly recognized.

@jackndew2 Год назад

Not your fault of course, but the version you chose is missing the entire last verse, which may be the most important part in understanding the lyrics. "So we cheated and we lied and we tested, and we never failed to fail, it was the easiest thing to do. You will survive being bested, somebody fine will come along make me forget about loving you And the Southern Cross"

@surlechapeau Год назад

Brad & Lex, you’ll love CSN’s “Marrakesh Express” and “Helplessly Hoping!!!! edit- When you get back to CSN&Y, you’ll love their “Teach Your Children”, "Our House", "Find The Cost Of Freedom" and "Deja Vu"!! I saw CSN in concert August 1982, and Graham Nash open for Joan Armatrading in July 1986.

@tedcole9936 Год назад

Oooh... Nash , Armatrading. Must have been sweet. I'da loved that!

@surlechapeau Год назад

@@tedcole9936 oh man, summer, outdoor venue on a pier. It was my second time seeing Joan as well, she is special.

@tedcole9936 Год назад

Sounds perfect, I’m jealous. 🙂

@johndbrandhorst4434 Год назад

As a sailor who has been at sea in the southern hemisphere and stood in the catwalk of our aircraft carrier listening to this on my walkman and staring at the star's and seeing the southern cross in a ocean of star's I have a reverence for this song many understand but many more have no idea.

@shanefraser7764 Год назад

🇳🇿✌️

@jimcarlson6157 Год назад

my wife and I honeymooned in Aus and the first thing I saw in the night sky. this song flooded into my mind and I got really emotional. it's so unmistakable. my only regret was failing to absorb Uluru. the dances of shadow and light are mesmerizing, and I wanted to feel it close up. that was 30 years ago. I could identify with how an old (you did say walkman) sailor felt something unforgettably moving, enough so that author that comment. I got discharged from the hospital 2 days ago after 4 days in ICU and 4 more on the ward. your words evoked feelings and memories

@jimcarlson6157 Год назад

and, silly as it may sound, the happiness felt just a bit healing. thank you, sir.

@curiousman1672 Год назад

Definitely a yacht-rock favorite.

@SportsFront Год назад

So we cheated and we lied and we tested And we never failed to fail It was the easiest thing to do You will survive being bested Somebody fine Will come along, make me forget about loving you In the Southern Cross… last verse

@classic-kool Год назад

Classic verse to a classic song 😎.....

@vickiroman189 Год назад

So incredibly beautiful.

@jamesdavis4598 Год назад

This great verse was omitted to cut the song to "radio length". I hate when the song ends without it.

@baggerlegend3995 Год назад

@@jamesdavis4598 Yip - Like cutting out the beginning guitar and part of the guitar solo in 'I was only joking' Rod Stewart version!! Really annoying!! 😠

@paulrogers4483 Год назад

Yeah it kills me when people do the video!!!! The intro, solo, and that last incredible verse is the best part of the song.

@trishferris7355 Год назад

40 yrs on and their harmonies still give me chills.

@philipdickey6460 Год назад

A fabulous group of four legendary singers, with great harmony and songs, Suite Judy Blue Eyes is a beautiful song

@jameskirchner2655 Год назад

Southern Cross is a star constellation in the southern hemisphere

@ferdinandjimenez346 Год назад

when we saw the "southern cross" for the first time. We were in Frazier Island (Australia)... We understood why we came this way.

@tonybaldwin9314 Год назад

As Floridians I can't believe you haven't reacted to some Jimmy Buffett

@jamesdignanmusic2765 Год назад

It's a song about someone getting away after a major break-up in a relationship and coming to terms with the fact. The Southern Cross is a constellation in the southern hemisphere that is the equivalent of the north's Big Dipper/Great Bear and was widely used for navigation. It's shown on the flag of my country (New Zealand) and on that of several other southern countries (Australia, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, and Brazil). The song mentions several Souther Hemisphere Pacific Island locations in the lyrics - Papeete (the capital of Tahiti) and the Marquesas Islands. This was one of CSN's later hits, of a lovely album called "Daylight Again" - it came several years after their "peak period" of songs like "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes", "Marrakesh Express", and "Teach Your Children Well".

@baggerlegend3995 Год назад

Shot James... Where in NZ?👍

@jamesdignanmusic2765 Год назад

@@baggerlegend3995 Dunedin, in Otago in the southern South Island.

@mikehenderson1509 Год назад

@@jamesdignanmusic2765 hiya James, from Lower Hutt, in the southern North Island!

@baggerlegend3995 Год назад

@@jamesdignanmusic2765 Hiya James, from chch - digging that these young ones get into the sounds i grew up on... 😄

@klaptongroovemaster Год назад

Another great Breakup Song. The song is about the healing power of the sea.

@cynthiaschultheis1660 Год назад

Watch "WOODSTOCK" For great live performances including CSNY..😍

@revaflowers3115 Год назад

The Southern Cross is the navigational mark in the night sky in the Southern hemisphere the same way the Polaris (the North Star )is used in the north night sky by seamen.

@richard_n Год назад

This song is in my top twenty of all time. If you have ever sailed the southern hemisphere and seen the Southern Cross, you know exactly what he's talking about in this song.

@russallert Год назад

All the members of CSN/CSNY are avid sailors in their spare time and have written some great songs based on their sailing experiences. Stephen Stills wrote this one, David Crosby wrote The Lee Shore, Graham Nash wrote Wind On The Water and Neil Young wrote Through My Sails, and there are several others. Crosby once observed that sailing on the ocean was an excellent way of keeping his massive ego in check, pointing out that the ocean allows you maybe two mistakes, and usually only one. As he put it "The ocean never heard of Crosby, Stills & Nash. Or Young. It doesn't give a damn". Note: there is an extra verse to this song at the end of the album version (after the guitar solo, which fades out here). Reactors always have the unenviable choice between the full-length album cut (no video) and the AM radio cut with a great video.

@williamwhalen746 Год назад

With all the traveling my dad did with the military and all the problems that life had thrown at him, this is one of the songs we played at his funeral. Thank you for a great song choice.

@peterhineinlegen4672 Год назад

I knew a Whalen on the USS Wasp. Fair winds and following seas my friend.

@williamwhalen746 Год назад

@@peterhineinlegen4672 Dad and I were Army, but Grandpa was Navy in WWII. Thanks for your service, sailor.

@vrvaughn Год назад

Beautiful song… the harmonies, the lyrics… just beautiful…

@Plymouth888 Год назад

Look up Suite: Judy Blue eyes from Woodstock first time they performed together. Truly epic Harmonys.

@jamesdavis4598 Год назад

The Southern Cross is the Southern hemispere's version of the north's Big Dipper. Their constellation that contains the "south star" that always stays in the very same spot of the sky, indicating true south, while all of the other stars circle around it, just like our north star does in the northern hemisphere. These are both used by sailors to determine their position on the map.

@firedoc5 Год назад

My absolute favorite CS & N song! The references between the sea, love, and adventure are so closely related. I believe you've already done "Brandy" by Looking Glass, if not please do.

@CdnTrader1 Год назад

One of the best harmonies in all of music. My 16yr old daughter absolutely loves this song. It is usually in her mix right before or right after “September “. I raised her right.

@carlastanley1138 Год назад

Yes you did😉

@TheJoshuaPimentel Год назад

Yep

@DENVEROUTDOORMAN Год назад

Nope Carry On from 4 way street way better harmonies and not wimpy top 40 for losers.....and 4 way street Neil and Stills trade leads whereas this was a lousy sellout record

@catserver8577 Год назад

@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN Shhhh. Quiet down baby troll. This is about music, not life or death. Look inwards and find out why you sound so butthurt about a song. Then keep it to yourself.

@philiplabossiere3421 Год назад

Absolutely Yacht Rock, and it’s awesome

@RockDocNeal Год назад

I've loved this song since it was first released. Every part of the song fits so perfectly...the chords, melody and the awesome vocal harmonies in the chorus. BTW, that is Steven stills giant sailboat.

@ausfuhrpramienjagar 8 месяцев назад

And "Music" is her name!

@SGC511 Год назад

Few things move me like those voices raised together. What a blessing to have had them with us for so long.

@southernbella6535 Год назад

One of my favorite songs , sad you didnt get the full song :( . The last verse explained a lot but it was not in this version. Go listen to the whole song . Keep playing great music guys :)

@floorticket Год назад

I can see someone busking at a Farmers Market strumming this song. Lex is right again.

@bkm2797 Год назад

You from the U.K.? I ask because the the fist time I ever heard the word buskers was there while walking through the underground. Over the intercom they would ask us not to support buskers. It was in the early 90's, and I ignored the intercoms request,lol. Cheers

@your_huge_ego_bores_me Год назад

And you know it will.

@bennemer489 Год назад

If you haven't sailed in open water far away from land, it's hard to comprehend the meaning of the song. Your priorities change when you're out there.

@aks4204 Год назад

I love this song! They were a little before my time,but they made amazing music!

@roydownes2458 Год назад

there is a final verse omitted from this version: "So we cheated and we lied and we tested/And we never failed to fail, it was the easiest thing to do/You will survive being bested/Somebody fine will come along/Make me forget about loving you/And the southern cross..."

@brentlee1043 Год назад

Just a wonderful and beautiful song

@aaronarnold7653 Год назад

Aloha, I've seen it..at certain times of the year in Hawaii you can vividly see it above the southern horizon ...a hui hou

@aaronarnold7653 Год назад

"Wooden Ships" should be next...

@atdeacon Год назад

I love this video because it shows the silhouettes of these powerful voices singing in harmony

@jwaldhelm Год назад

Me too, except they cut the last verse.

@shellzmoe8966 Год назад

Smooth ass song from my childhood!! Love it!! I got a chance to see the Southern Cross once, on my honeymoon in Australia. I hope you guys see it one day too!

@Jules-um4yy Год назад

Such a cool song and vibe with the harmony - makes me want to travel! Can't go wrong with any of the songs from this band. Thanks so much Lex and Brad for posting this beautiful tune!🦋

@jasonremy1627 Год назад

This was ABSOLUTELY yacht rock

@chernobyl68 Год назад

The southern cross is a star constellation used for navigation in the southern hemisphere. North of the equator, you can see the north star. You can't down south. It's depicted in the flags of Australia and New Zealand, Samoa, New Guinea, and with other constellations on the flag of Brazil.

@wildgreek1 Год назад

Sadly, the person who uploaded the song cut the last verse. You will find it in the comments below.

@oldenslo4141 Год назад

To help you along with the sound, the major rhythm parts are played on a 12 String Acoustic Guitar (most likely a Martin guitar). It's a beautiful song and R. Torres got the story straight (at least the way I heard how it was developed).

@jackiedoyle3692 Год назад

The verse,when you see the southern cross for the first time ,you understand why you came this way.I first seen crux on the way to Australia from the stern of my ship.Sailing on open water gives such peace.I got the southern criss tattoed on my left calf to remember it by.

@tylerhackner9731 Год назад

Best yacht rock

@vinsgraphics Год назад

My favorite CSN song. Being so far away from home (Australia), it brings about feelings of nostalgia, a whole other life many years ago.

@shanefraser7764 Год назад

Home will always be there🇳🇿✌️🇦🇺❤

@markbryant5965 Год назад

This evolved out of another song called "Seven League Boots" by The Curtis Brothers from 1975 with lead vocal help from Stevie Nicks.

@tonkatoy3636 Год назад

Maestro Fresh Wes - Let Your Backbone Slide

@johntremmel3949 Год назад

Yacht rock is chill😳

@Wolverines77 Год назад

This song and "Lodi" always calm me down whenever life gets too stressful, so soothing.

@proudmoon3 Год назад

Another really great song by Crosby, Stills & Nash (along with Neil Young) is "Our House."

@stevenblock9712 Год назад

A good selection, but you need to turn your volume up a bit. It was too low to be fully appreciated

@FantomWireBrian Год назад

I must've been in a whole different music world. I was born in 56 and with severe ADD. I think I was always for something different. During the height of classic rock I got into Punk and anything progressive . CSN fell into the same groove to me . Maybe it's why Young moved on . I'm core Stones out of the Classic bands . No" Moss "and no" Rust" yet .Still alternative 😎

@robbiezee5256 Год назад

The video shortened the song. There is still a few lines or bars left. Some of these videos never fail to fail. I guess it's the easiest thing to do.

@gkiferonhs Год назад

The North Star isn't visible in the southern hemisphere so mariners used another constellation (the Southern Cross) for navigation.

@ugaais Год назад

I would gently sing this to my daughter when she was a baby ….she still loves it and I think of her when I hear it….

@michaelmiller9452 Год назад

When sailing my 26 footer, this song was never far from my mind.

@mvellis3863 Год назад

Stephen Stills is my favorite singer/songwriter and he's an incredible guitarist

@NeutronDance Год назад

"looking for that woman girl" always seemed like a funny line to me. Gotta keep that rhythm I guess

@rodneysmith457 Год назад

Should react to Beth hart am I the one live at paradiso

@katerailey524 Год назад

My sweet, summer children, the Southern Cross is a cluster of stars that can only be seen in the southern hemisphere of this planet.

@lcpharm Год назад

“And we never failed to fail,it was the easiest thing to do,” so poignant.. you reacted to the edited version, this verse is missing

@jamesholder9926 Год назад

Any genre of the 60's, 70's and 80's are really what made life. Music is very relatable today but only because of the wide spectrum. Music found back then was like discovering a new invention... it was almost as if each and every single last song from those times created the road we have today for music. Think about it.

@brokervc1 Год назад

Next Lex, Brad their "Cathedrals" one of their greatest composers.

@lindehughes2011 Год назад

This was always my favorite by CSN the harmony ❤️

@bryanforis1839 Год назад

Every group has good songs

@donray6277 Год назад

That harmony brought tears to my eyes.😊

@suedehead00 Год назад

Love this song. Thanks for the reaction guys...

@musicalchairs777 Год назад

I play all summer in Newport R.I., Lots of sailboats, lots of yachts. This song is like their national anthem....I will say though, driving over the Pell bridge to the island around noon on a Saturday with the windows down, right around Memorial Day, the whole summer ahead of you, sun gleaming off the bay, this song captures that feeling better than any other I can think of. It's like a little slice of Heaven.

@ugaais Год назад

I live in SWFL now but I grew up and lived in RI my first 34 years…Newport was an amazing place to hang with my friends in our 20’s back in the 1980’s and 90’s…

@musicalchairs777 Год назад

@@ugaais It's still a blast. I used to play down SWFL, Stayed in Englewood and hit a bunch of spots from there. THAT was always the best, flying down there in Jan./Feb. It was like time traveling to summer. Great times!

@spadams999 Год назад

This is poetry. It's about life.

@Klm242 3 месяца назад

Southern Cross. Remember when it came out. Beautiful harmony. CROSBY STILL Nash and Young was a great band. .

@richardsmith5477 Год назад

Southern cross is a Constellation

@debramyer6055 Год назад

One of my favorites!

@mjweber0313 Год назад

Def yacht rock 🛥️🎵

@jameskirchner2655 Год назад

Great Band especially the harmonies

@markrinehart8813 9 месяцев назад

Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) was a folk rock supergroup made up of American singer-songwriters David Crosby and Stephen Stills, and English singer-songwriter Graham Nash.

@AppStateSpanky Год назад

The "Southern Cross" is what you navigate by ) nautically) in the Southern Hemisphere. The North Star 'Polaris" is what you navigate by in the Northern Hemisphere.

@paulrogers4483 Год назад

AAAAGGGHHHHHH NOT THE VIDEO!!!!!! LOL I understand why reactors do it, to see the band and all that BUT videos are always the single version and usually are missing the best parts of the song. You just got robbed of a beautiful intro, 1/2 of the solo, & a INCREDIBLE last verse. It's that last verse that ties the song together and lyrically and poetically the best verse of the song. Sports Front typed it out already but i'll add it too because it's a very important part of the song....... So we cheated and we lied and we tested And we never failed to fail It was the easiest thing to do You will survive being bested Somebody fine Will come along, make me forget about loving you In the Southern Cross Peace

@kenvarnold3659 Год назад

Maybe my favorite CSN songs...the best harmonies you could find...

@jakeelliot2868 Год назад

The Southern Cross is the alignment of the stars while out in the ocean better known as the constellation of the southern sky that is centered on four bright stars in a cross-shaped asterism. It lies on the southern end of the Milky Way's visible

@TheRealCitizenGhost Год назад

CSN came back years later and added a verse to this song. Here's the link to the updated version. It was written by Stephen Stills, Rick Curtis, and Michael Curtis. The song was based on another song written originally by Rick and Michael Curtis under the title "Seven League Boots". ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IHL-6cUtZj0.html

@chantellecline6945 Год назад

What a great song.

@jollyrodgers7272 Год назад

The smallest of the known 88 constellations in the Milky Way galaxy, and used in celestial navigation - The Crux, or Southern Cross can only be seen in the southern hemisphere, except briefly in winter north of the equator. Featured in the flags of Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and Papua New Guinea because of its importance in maritime navigation, Stephen Stills used it as a metaphor for 'finding one's way' and/or universal healing after he had gone thru a divorce. Sailing on a reach before a following sea is a nice way to be in a sailboat. Pape'ete is the capital of Tahiti, French Polynesia, so he's making for the trades (tradewinds which will carry him southwesterly). The Marquesas Islands are also in French Polynesia, North of The Society Islands (Tahiti) and his boat has 80 feet of waterline, so it's a good size boat(and it's nicely making wake). A noisy bar in Avalon (on Santa Catalina Island, California) is where he tried calling her - which was probably his jumping off point before the long Ocean Transit to Pape'ete. The midnight watch, sometimes called 'the Dog Watch' can be very peaceful and some serous soul-searching can be had, and on one of those he realizes why twice she ran away. You can figure the rest OK, I'll bet. As an old salty dog, this has been one of my favorites since it first came out.

@gordowg1wg145 Год назад

Because of the Souther Cross reference, I'd always thought it was a bay in NZ, but listening more carefully, seems not? Anyone know what the bay is actually called, and where it is? NM - seems to be Papeete Bay, Tahiti, which would put 'The Cross', at best, low on the horizon.

@pammickle3935 Год назад

"Who knows love can endure. And you know it will." Lex's joy is fun to see.

@struttintime Год назад

Yeah these ppl are correct. Stills reworked a song called Seven League Boots into this song he said was about sailing the French Polynesian (where the constellation can be easily viewed) to help his healing of a divorce from French singer-songwriter Veronique Sanson. Just a great flowing Acoustic Guitar song. Now YOU know! Lol

@thefalloutshelter7799 Год назад

Southern Cross or Crux is a star constellation that can be seen in the Southern Hemisphere......used for sailors to navigate

@argonwheatbelly637 Год назад

You need to listen to the entire album.

@jamielandis4308 Год назад

Part of a trio of personal favorites with “Slow Change” by Little River Band and “Come Sail Away” by Styx.

@lelandbrucehall6572 9 месяцев назад

Hey you two, this group played at the first Woodstock Festival. They played at some of the biggest places in the world. All three came from other good bands.

@bencool8239 Год назад

Vh-1 video..nice

@d_Howard Год назад

Yep! In the Northern Hemisphere (where we are in the US - north of the equator), we have several star constellations that most people know. The Big Dipper (all year long), The Little Dipper, (all year long), Orion (only in winter months), and a few others. If you don't know any of them, you probably spend too little time outdoors at night, or in a place where there's too much light pollution and smog, like in cities. Hard to make out stars in cities, unless maybe you can get up on a rooftop on a clear night There are cell phone apps for newbie astronomers. iPhone has "Star Chart" which is amazing! You launch the app then point your phone at the sky like you're about to take a photo. The sky appears on the app with almost everything labeled! This app is so cool it even works indoors! It shows the positions of stars, constellations, planets, meteors, along with the names of many things. Amazingly enough, it also shows things that are below the horizon, like planets that aren't up yet, but will be soon. If you go outside and look around the sky, you might not recognize anything. Then open "Star Chart" and point it at something that catches your eye. Like maybe an especially bright star. You can then look at your phone to see the name of it. Couldn't be easier! Do this a couple times a week, and you will start to become familiar with what's up there. If you do it for a couple months, you may notice the cycles of the moon, the movement of planets, the stars that are always in the same position (relatively) and the time of day when things rise above the eastern horizon, or set below the western horizon. The beginning of a great hobby! Amaze your friends! Take that special friend out strut your stuff! 😇 Watch for meteorites flashing across the sky (they are FAST!) Lots of possibilities!! Anyway, in the Southern Hemisphere (south of the equator), one of their most familiar and well-known star constellations is the Southern Cross. We can't see it from here in the Northern Hemisphere Anyway, great song!

@Mike_Daddy 10 месяцев назад

This has always been my favorite CSN song. Unfortunately, this video cuts the final verse that explains the breakup that inspired this song. It's comforting and uplifting, despite it being about a divorce. The Southern Cross is a guide for sailors, so they don't get lost and Stills uses it ambiguously as a spiritual guide to find yourself if you feel lost in life.

@mikenorton632 Год назад

They have a live concert video called "Daylight Again" that is excellent! Their second concert appearance was at Woodstock in 1969 in front of 500,000 people!

@timothybush9633 Год назад

Good song then Neil Young joined the band too and pissed off Lynyrd Skynyrd with Southern Man, and they replied with Sweet Home Alabama where they mentioned Neil

@bobschenkel7921 Год назад

Stephen Stills at the helm of his boat, sailing off to the Southern Hemisphere, where the Southern Cross constellation is visible, and used by navigators to keep on course at night. In the video, left to right, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Stephen Stills. No Neil Young on this one.