To the people watching in 2124 - a hundred years ago, I was watching this video before bed on a Sunday night. This video made me smile - and I hope it does the same for you.
I'm 74 and can't really sing any more but I still have their original albums.....brings back so many bittersweet memories of my youth. We'll never see this golden age of great music, hope and great dreams ever again
It's like watching and listening to a 9 minute divine miracle of absolute perfection. Stuff like this does not happen anymore. We lived in a golden age.
As one person said, we absolutely lived in a golden age of music! The harmony of CSN (&Y) sooves the soul. I'm 68 now and so thankful to be born at the right time. For the GREATEST MUSIC EVER! Thank God for these guys, and yes, David may you rest in peace. You're in one hell of a rock n roll band now in heaven.
I can’t stop with this! The best of all their live performances of the magic SUite Judy Blue Eyes. The looks they give each other, Nash hopping all around, Crosby still as stone, til he starts the hand clap at the dizzying end. And well my goodness, Mr. Stills...the vocals lead, free but contained, and the smoke coming from the frets in the bridge. And I don’t care who was a tool to whom. We’re all pretty broken, and walking wounded, and a kind and loving Universe brought these voices together, and wrapped it up like a gift, and gave it to all of us. We are all so deeply flawed; David Crosby offers perhaps the most perfect middle-voice harmony in the history of recorded bands. I thank them all. This just hits the spot, for these perilous times. I’m 63. WE HAD THE BEST MUSIC.
Peggy Deffley Wow! " . . . A kind and loving Universe brought these voices together, and wrapped it up like a gift, and gave it to all of us." That's about the most eloquent comment and description of anything I've ever seen anywhere. I wish they could see this. It's the sort of response real musicians live to hear, and hope to inspire with every performance.
RIP David Crosby, a legend amongst legends. I'm 36 so these guys were a few generations before me. But this was the music I was brought up with. I will forever be grateful to my Dad for this
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Yup, I got their ad too! But at least we can still come here to see them on YT, any time we want,,,,just goes to show ya, nothing is free, not even to watch the videos on YT that's the price of admission to watch them. I guess it's better than having to pay, to watch the videos, as annoyiny as the ads are when they interrupt the video, right in the middle of it. I wish they could just show the ads at the beginning & the end of them. I always just fast forward the ads....
I'm 72 years old. This one will never fade. It rises into the stratosphere as other songs fade into the mists of time. I feel so lucky and grateful continuing to pass through this amazing era, from Chuck Berry, The Everly Brothers, and Elvis onward.
Please remember, this trio did it all with no synthesizers, voice auto-tune, electronic enhancements. This is just music in its purest form. If you can, purchase their self-titled first album, Crosby, Stills & Nash and travel back in time. Or, better yet, if you have just discovered them, buy it and prepare to be changed forever.
One of the best live performances by a rock band I've ever heard. Absolute perfection and a truly remarkable song. What a great acoustic guitar solo as well!
We lost Jeff Beck and David Crosby the past month, there are no replacements! Watching this I realize how precious it is. An original song arranged by them and performed live with a virtuoso acoustic guitar accompaniment by Stills. I'll not wait until they're dead to thank and praise them for the beauty and inspiration.
Stills the guitar man. Jammed with jimi and slowhand. Nash the English man, singing the high notes in the stratosphere. And Crosby, standing like a stone, the rock in the center with his harmonies. Was lucky to see them 6 times through the years, always a joy to hear....
If all Stephen had ever written and sung was this one song, he would have still deserved to be in the Hall of Fame. Epic in every way - songwriting, composition, voicing, harmony, performance. A song for the ages.
Yeah but he didn't though did he? For those who came in late, check out Carry On, 4+20, Love the One You're With and Southern Cross for songs. Steve is a legend - always will be.
I will forever love them. Fly free now, Croz.....This music will live on forever. still, I am so sad. Each time we lose someone like this from this golden era of pure, creative, organic music, it's like losing a piece of one's youth.
Summer 1970. Imagine a whole darkened Montreal Forum packed with excited little ones, closing in on around eleven at night, right after the first few bars of this one, suddenly, all 20,000 of us dead quiet, such silence, literally you could hear the ol' adage, hear a pin drop beside you ... what unbelievable reverence from that stoned youthful lot: not a whistle, not a shout, not a peep, nothing, like you're the only one in the audience. Niel Young was there too: four guitars, four voices, not to happen again. When they finished, we would not let them go. The Forum turned on their lights. But not for us, no one left, we stood and applauded and applauded, until they had to come back on stage and continue with more. David Crosby, gone forever, but in our hearts, he will live on and on.
They started in 1968 as Crosby, Stills & Nash, formed from former members of three prominent 1960s groups: The Byrds (David Crosby), Buffalo Springfield (Stephen Stills) and The Hollies (Graham Nash). 3:33 Suite: Judy Blue Eyes. The title is a play on words. "Suite" is a reference to a part of a classical composition, but it can also be interpreted as "sweet." The full-length version of the song can be considered a suite, with lots of musical changes. Source: Songfacts
Well, I guess...Somehow I am Lucky...Cause I was Blessed to see CSN at Woodstock. I was 16 and just about 4 months shy of joining the Army and going to Vietnam. They saved my life several of times...as I would listen to their music in my head all through my first tour. Suite Judy Blue Eyes was the one I loved the most. If I could stand before Steve Stills today, I would give Him the medels I won in VN. He saved me...Not good luck.
Bless you, sir, and thank you for sharing that amazing story. 58,000+ of your brothers never made it home. I saw them in 1990 in a small park in Manchester, NH when I was only a few years older than you were then.
I never forget about you Viet Nam guys, always wonder how you have done since then. Glad to see you here, glad to know Stills saw you through. He is seeing me through a rough time now.
Look up Foxes and Fossils. Graham Nash wrote them a note complimenting them on their performance. It was the first song they had ever performed and the ladies were just 16 and 15 at the time.
I went to a concert after David got His health back.I was keeping my fingers crossed.I was concerned worry over nothing.They nailed the harmonies still magical experience
This is the best encapsulation of middle-aged life as a three-body problem. Stills a buttoned-down master. Crosby not sure what we're doing, but amused and engaged. Nash barefoot, yearning, exuberant. Inspiring no matter the time.
Maybe Lindsay Buckingham, another underrated guitarist. AND AND Stevie Winwood. =. Heck Can’t find my way home. Hauntingly beautiful and magnificent. IMO
I am 52. My grandma taught me to harmonize to bluegrass music. These men are as important to music theory as The 3 Tenors and Motzart. Helplessly Hoping is a tribute to Musical alliteration
Can't get enough of this song since my high school days in the late 70s !! Great harmony, voicing, & dynamics.. just awesome!! Brings back so many wonderful memories😊😎👍👍🙏
Brilliant version. Each a huge talent on their own, bring them together and it's astounding and just as mind blowing decades later. Crosby, the glue holding it together. RIP Croz. ♥️
I am so glad this video exists. The performance is incredible. They were dialed in that night. Stephen Stills guitar playing is so incredible. if there is such a thing as a perfect song, this is it.
Absolutely the most beautiful group ever. I saw them at the Concord Pavillion 15 years after this song was first released. A very young girl was sitting next to my wife and I. The girl had tears in her eyes when this song was played. I remember thinking that she was a baby when the song first came out, and wondered why she was so emotional. Then I realized that the passing years had nothing to do with the emotion. Beauty is timeless.
Oh, you were so lucky to see them at that small outdoor forum. In 1996 I had recently moved to the Bay Area, a couple miles from Concord, when I read to my amazement that Bob Dylan and Van Morrison would be teaming up for a joint concert there. Of course I was in the audience. It was a beautiful summer California night. I had dreamed of living in California while growing up in Ontario, walking to school when it was 20 below zero and humming Brian Wilson songs in my head. It took a while but my dream came true. And at this tiny venue, I got to hear two of my favorite artists. Van was a bit grumpy that night, but Dylan rocked the place to its foundations. And I’m sure CSN were just as legendary.
Wow never saw this concert video before. Is it embarrassing to say I had to listen to this CD with headphones on in the time I was in the maternity ward - water broke and was supposed to be trying to calm down wait for contractions to subside for surely I would have a long labor ahead. My one contraction lasted an hour and my daughter was born before my doctor made it to the hospital. I barely made a noise and meditated listening to / zoning out to their music and harmonies always made me so happy within - it’s hard to describe, so I’ll just let their music speak for me. My Nichole (and only child) will turn 20 years old 9 days from now. Time almost doesn’t seem to have passed at all since the day she was born and yet it was world’s away to where we are now.
