What the...? It’s about Woodstock! Joni Mitchell wrote the song but wasn’t actually there, yet she captured the spirit perfectly. First verses are on the road to the show, last verse is the show, obviously. Many people saw the pilgrimage to Woodstock and the concert itself as a spiritual, if not religious, experience. And yes, the Garden of Eden is an appropriate interpretation.
Just for comparison you gotta check out Joni's original. If you hear that, you will see what an amazing arranger Stephen Still is. Vastly different. Both are great but I prefer the cover.
🤠Yes, Joni wrote this song but did not actually go to or perform at Woodstock. She had a recording session scheduled and could not get out of it. Also, Graham Nash wrote "Our House" about him and Joni. You could say they were all quite a tight bunch back then. 😂 👍
It was actually The Dick Cavett Show she was booked on and her manager was afraid she would miss it if she went and thought that the show would be better exposure for her. As it turned out, Jefferson Airplane and CSN managed to show up on the same show meaning Joni could have done Woodstock and still made Dick Cavett. At least we got a great song out of it.
spicy321 but I think in the end she said she was actually happy she didn’t go, because it might’ve changed the romanticized view of Woodstock that she had created in her mind, and she never would’ve written this song
dkjrn. Since Daniel’s channel got hacked and compromised this past September in 2022. He has not been reacting to any songs from the 70’s or any songs to speak of for his Legion, which has been a big disappointment this year for me and downright depressing. Not one! Not one good Live Stream since Sept! Not one Unboxing this year. It sucks! So I go back to rewatch those other Live Streams. I miss the 16,17, and 18 yr old Daniel. He was super fun. Super cool. But he’s taking a completely different turn with his channel on his creative channel and I’m not loving that. I’m going on an tangin. I’m sorry. Goodnight.
CSN&Y, WOODSTOCK. I'VE BEEN WATCHING REACTIONS FOR OVER A YEAR . FINALLY THE SONG WOODSTOCK GETS ITS WELL DESERVED RECOGNITION, WRITTEN BY JONI MITCHELL.... ONLY BY DETH, I EXPECTED NOTHING LESS. WELL DONE.. A JUST FANTASTIC SONG IN REGARDS TO THE GREATEST CONCERT EVER....✌
They were all in love with Joni Mitchell, James Taylor was too. Great reaction. The Hippie movement was rooted in a spiritual quest. Joni Mitchell’s song Carey would be a good song to do .
Daniel, so glad you reacted to "Woodstock"!!!! This Deja Vu album is one of my top ten favorite albums of all time, and The Beatles are included in that list. The song was written by Joni Mitchell, who was dating Graham Nash at the time. "... turning into butterflies above our nation". So many more great songs on this album but also looking forward to your reaction of "Ohio", which is about one of the most tragic days in our country's history.
When Neil Young does a song with the acoustic guitar he melts your heart but when he plugs in and does a song with a electric guitar he melts your brain.............
A lot of the electric guitar work in this song (and many of their songs) was done by the very underrated Stephen Stills... a fantastic guitar player. Young would often play off of what Stills put down. They were great playing off of each other.
I was 19 the summer of Woodstock ~~ a magical time to come of age in a very different world ~~ Enjoyed your questions and reaction , for some of the answers I think you simply had to be there in those times ~~
The song is a pretty straight forward tale of the 1969 hippy love peace fest called Woodstock. Viet Nam was raging, lots of social upheaval going on - it was interesting times for sure. They had to close the NYS thruway.
Thanks so much for the trip back in time for me. Best of the best music back then. I was too young to go to Woodstock, but my ex-brother-in-law was there, and he said it was the most amazing time of his life, and something he would never forget. They tried to re-create it in 1994, but there is only one Woodstock. On the subject of CSN&Y, Graham Nash has an album called "Songs for Beginners" from 1970 or 71 (I don't have the LP in front of me to give exact date), and there is not one song on that album which isn't great. I Use To Be a King, Better Days, Man In The Mirror, There's Only One, are a few that you should take a listen to. You will not be dissapointed. Always enjoy watching you react, and really does this old heart good when young people appreciate the music from a time when there was an over-abundance of great talent. There is so much more for you to explore on this amazing journey.
I was busy watching my mother die, slowly, of cancer. I was eleven. Woodstock haunted my happier dreams, where I was a hippie flower child, getting lost in the joy of the music. Then I’d get up, get my brother and sister and myself off to school, come home, fail at the housework, and then my father commenced the beatings. 1969 was grim for me. 2020 is that same sort of surreal, insecure shock, but now euverybody feels that way, and it’s Trump we’re all dreading. I’m 63 and I live in a nursing home, under strict quarantine. No family visits, for 6 months, no end date. I’ve watched some of my friends die here, recently, unable to see their families, except for one family I know of who were smuggled in by staff. I am married, and this is no way to run a marriage! We only see each other through a window, talking by telephones, just like in jail. Music is my refuge. I am on my iPad about 14 hours a day, escaping. But my TV is locked on MSNBC all day long. RIP RBG. So, Daniel, tell me about yourself. You have a truly interesting mind.
"Garden" is a metaphor. What they're searching for is an agrarian Utopia, where life is simple and peace and justice rule, and there are no bombers flying in the sky. She is playing on the Garden of Eden theme but you're not supposed to take it literally -- unless you want to! Lots of people had set up agrarian communes in the late 60s and early 70s, that were going to be self-sustaining and not partake of the American war machine.
You're a year older than my only granddaughter, and I'm very impressed with you going man. Thank you for your interest and presentation of music from my growing up years. I was your age then, and it was a great time. This song is the yearning for peace during the Viet Nam war. Unfortunately we can't get back to the Garden of Eden without Christ. Right yearning, wrong attempt, though Woodstock was fun. And lots of rain. See the movie.
This was the beginning of the environmental movement.....getting back to the garden....being stewards of Creation....back to loving your neighbor... anti-war, anti violence....this was the hippie counter culture in a nutshell. The whole commune movement was a LITERAL attempt to get back to the land and away from the Machine of modern society. Written by Joni Mitchell. She has her own version
Written by the great lyrical-Goddess of Reveal, Joni Mitchell (she and Young were Canadians, both stricken with polio as adolescents, Graham was British). Joni was a wordsmith and a musical rebel (she is also a noted painter). Railing against the music industry more and more as she asserted herself. The Vietnam War controversary was raging. I was 11, and I could feel that the war and racial tension was thick in the air. Bomber planes turning into butterflies sounded like a great dichotomy to me, at the time. It really is a great visual dichotomy. Leave it to the painter! Someday, you will run across her music. If, and when that should happen, start towards the beginning, as she had major changes across her musical arc, but next: Try Wooden Ships (CSN) and Almost Cut My Hair (CSNY)! Studio versions, please!
Do “Déjà vu” and “Almost Cut My Hair” from this album. Young is the most talented piece in this band but he left the band as far as i know for his intentions to bring folk music to the group. Woodstock in 1969 man it’s legendary, for me only one thing is better, the “Isle of Wight 1970” and i know you love Jethro Tull, have a live version of “My God” in Isle of Wight, consider see this man, and from Woodstock a good experience it’s Santana “Soul Sacrifice”.
@@doulbledee9758 Yes Stills is a great guitarist but with Young they reached another level, most of this album "Déjà Vu" is devastating; and always when I see a live video of the band's early years I am impressed with Young's skills on guitar and he brought a lot of material to the group because before joining the band he was already an amazing songwriter.
@@romariosouza3895 I love young, but his song contribution to Déjà Vu is very poor in my opinion. I well well do without them. There's some good dueling between him and Stills, but Stills is a fantastic guitarist.
I love this version of Joni's song because it rocks. Lyrically I always have taken this from the God perspective, so when she writes ,"We are caught in the devil's bargain", I remember the ",bet" the devil tries to make with God about Job where he is allowed to inflict tragedy and pain on Job to get him to curse God and God says ",go ahead, but you can't kill him." The line about "we've got to get ourselves back to the Garden" is absolutely about restoring the one relationship that will make all the others able to function again and that is with God. He says through the prophet Isaiah "I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me." And when Jesus showed up He reiterated "Seek and you shall find." Great advice and a great song.
The guitar solo, and lead guitar on the fade out is Neil Young. If you type in "joni mitchell dick cavett" on Y.Tube, you'll see her, Jefferson Airplane, Stephen Stills, and David Crosby (who had made it back) on the talk show talking about the festival. Actually, she was going with Graham Nash at the time. The CSN song "Our House" was written in a house they were living in at the time.
CSNY is an interesting study: CSN is in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a trio. CSNY as a quartet is not. Neil Young is in the RRHOF as a solo artist but the other three are not. (And all 4 were inducted as part of previous bands they were in). The guitar solo in the middle is Neil Young. The guitar in the outro is initially Stephen Stills and then Young comes in on top. Neil's guitar tone is rather distinctive because 90% of his electric guitar work is done on a heavily modified Les Paul known as "Old Black". This guitar is absolutely unique - it has its own Wikipedia entry. Anyway, this song is unique in that none of them wrote it - they did very few songs by other writers. Joni Mitchell is an amazing composer and lyricist.
I was too young to go to Woodstock; have known a few folks who went, and the answer I always get when I ask "How was it?" is "I don't remember much." Ah, the good old hippy days- love them. I noticed others have suggested checking out other versions of the song, and I agree wholeheartedly. I'd also like to suggest watching Richard Thompson's performance at the Joni Mitchell tribute concert- it's here on UA-cam. Richard is one of the finest guitarists ever, IMO- I like his voice a lot, too. CSN &Y have much to offer, individually and collectively. I HAVE to add another vote for "Ohio". Have fun!
I suggest you listen to Joni Mitchell’s two very different versions of Both Sides Now. She wrote the song at age 24 and recorded it herself in 1969...it’s a masterpiece. She re-recorded it in 2000 at the age of 57. After watching you with both versions of Hurt, I would love to see/hear your reaction to these vastly different interpretations by the same amazing artist.
ok, suggestion. I'd listen to "wooden ships" by CSN&Y, then listen to the version of the same song by jefferson airplane. then maybe "triad" by jefferson airplane, then go to "eskimo blue day" by again - jefferson airplane. at that point, you may have just reached the height of peak acid. :) btw - I think the devil's bargain they are talking about in the song is the adam and eve thing with the apple. and you can probably tell that I'm a jefferson airplane fan..
Joni Mitchell is a poet that ranks with the best ever. All the heavy elements are formed during the final stages of massive stars which then supernova when the radiation pressure is exceeded by gravitational force. Carbon is also present from previous reactions, hence all the ingredients for Earth' type planets are recycled from previous enormous stellar explosions, which get captured by surrounding stars, such as our own sun. Hence : We are stardust We are golden And we've got to get ourselves Back to the Garden Now, what is absolutely incredible to me is Blake's penultimate stanza of the Tyger, which prefigures any sort of knowledge of stellar evolution by over 200 years, yet seems to echo the same ideas: When the stars threw down their spears And watered heaven with their tears Did He smile his work to see? Did He, who made The Lamb, make thee?
Hey Daniel if you find the time checkout Don McLean the song American Pie I think you will enjoy him also he does a song called Vincent a song about Vincent Van Gogh pretty sure you will enjoy both.
I look at the line of getting back to the garden of meaning the desire to return to a kind of innocence and simplicity and away from the evil of the world, this was during a time when there was a lot of protest against the war in Vietnam and hippie culture was wanting peace, love, and rock & roll, "make love not war"
You have some of the best analyzing and commentary I have heard. Love your take on Edmund Fitzgerald from Gordon Lightfoot. In this . . . I believe he is referencing the earth itself when he says, "we are billion year-old carbon," (the earth being possibly a billion years old - who knows how old, really?). Of course, following the biblical narrative being "made from dust," we are simply . . . from the earth. Gotta get back to "the garden" (peace, tranquility etc) and rise above the framework of evil - that was what Woodstock was all about!
From the viewpoint of the watcher, music reactions are most fun to watch when the reactor hears for the first time a band he's never heard, or, for that matter, never heard of, before. Your stopping this video to discuss stardust has provided me with the chance to suggest on of the top five epic prog songs of all time, "Stardust We Are", by The Flower Kings. The preceding comments don't fully express the emotioal impact of the Woodstock event. All across America kids here and there had rebelled against a society's effort to ram them into the only existing mold of obedient corporate servants. The effort that went into that rebellion was constant and tremendous, as the will of the great majority in power was just as committed to see to it that they succumbed and obediently entered the terrible forge to leave on the other side the sort of automaton desired by the powers that be. The hardest part was the isolation. The feeling you were alone in your resistance, your battle, and that you had no hope of success. All you had was the new music on underground FM radio stations. Then one day, you heard a commercial about a planned music festival in upstate New York. Some decided to go. Others could not get there for a multitude of personal reasons. But the masses of young people who did go, whether or not they had purchased tickets, became a massive news story. Whether you were there, or just watching the news stories, you realized you were not alone, and would never be alone, that you were not unsane in your ideas as to how your life should be spent, but that tens of millions of young people all across America felt the same was you did.
The Neil Young difference. That song is a piano ballad (gorgeous) in Joni Mitchell's hands. I heard Neil in an interview talk about the revelation of Woodstock being the knowledge that there were more people like us than just the 20 freaks in your home town.
From a Joni interview, reflecting on those transitional years, from the 60's to the 70's: " We were raised on Disney: someday my prince will come. We came up in affluence unprecedented. (...) And it led to an unhealthy world... So whatever it was, the breakdown of that dream, out of it came this liberated, spoilt, selfish generation into the costume ball of it; free love, free sex, free music, free, free, free, free, we're so free. Woodstock was the culmination of it. Then the straights started to grow their hair and get love beads and get a Nehru suit. My generation, for most of the '70s, fell into a state of apathy; heavy drugs followed light drugs; the thing got darker and they didn't know where to take it. When the Reagans got into power, it went hippie, yippie, yuppie. They were converted into consumers. They went right into the thing their parents had - but on a bigger scale." In 1979, she sang the last verse like this: We are stardust Billion year old carbon We are golden Caught in the devil's bargain And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden To some semblance of a garden...
It is both literal and metaphorical. Hippies were considered more "Christian" like than many "straight" church going preachers who didn't live that life they preached. Came upon a "child of God" , well aren't we all? Especially a hippie recognizing a kindred spirit walking down the road to go to the music festival. Remember, the NY State highway was closed because so many vehicles (with a large proportion being VW buses) were backed up on the road that they literally ABANDONED them and walked dozens of miles. This gathering was more important than any material things, this was the youths "protest" against the Vietnam War and all the injustices by the establishment. However, we are human, we are fallen, we are caught in the devil's bargain (Eat this and ye shall be as God)......mmm.... nice retrospective there..... learned that from family and church (especially in those days) but also learned from school about evolution, coming from startdust and billion year old carbon.... WHO AM I? Life is for learning. Anyone not just a drone of society (so many more like this today that don't even try to figure out who they really are) would ask these questions when raised Christian but taught evolution right? Add some mind "expanding" (the popular description of those time) substances to the mix and the questions are amplified. All of these concepts layered between a journey to the biggest music festival in history make for a great song. Thank you Joni Mitchell. (You really should hear her live version with just her on piano in England just a little later on, it's sooo haunting!) Of course Joni and Graham Nash had a relationship and she gave the song to them to record. Awesomeness.
It's about getting back to living closer to the earth, as opposed to living in high-rise buildings and driving vehicles, most of us not knowing where our food comes from, for example. We are dependent on all the systems we have created. This song was written in the late '60s before cordless phones, personal computers, and the internet - not to mention cell phones! We have gotten even farther from the earth since then, for better or for worse. Neil Young is the lead guitarist on this track - a unique person with a unique style. David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash were born to sing harmonies together.
Yes their first concert was in front of a half a million people ! If you want a performance to remember please check out this request ! Cosby, Stills, Nash & Young with Tom Jones singing - Long Time Gone ! The power of Tom Jones with the beautiful voices of C,S & N with Neil Young shreading away is amazing ! The amount of talent on that stage for this performance... you will never forget this one ✌😎
I believe you can find that Dick Cavett episode on utube. Crosby, Stills, and Nash were also on the show, so they were able to get back in time. They actually took a helicopter to get to Woodstock, landing directly at the farm. Joni Mitchell performed the song for them on that show.
I was exactly 12 (Aug.15th) during Woodstock so I was a few years too young and my parents were a few years too old to appreciate it for the festival that it was. A bummer to this day!
As I understand it, Jimi insisted om being the closing act, ended up being the closing act to an audience after 99.9% had left...so virtually no one. Ego is not one's best friend. I wasn't there...I didn't know it was a thing until the album came out... But I did go to a concert with three bands: The Band, The Allman Brothers and The Grateful Dead, Summer Jam at Watkins Glen where there were twice the crowd of Woodstock (600,000 in the concert area) built for 150,000, and another 600,000 who couldn't get in...1.2 million...anyway, that was awesome! Being a Dead Head, a fan of the Allman Bros and the Band!
Woodstock was some sort of spiritual experience for those who went and those who reported it on TV. Me? I was a Marine Field Artillery Fire Controlman in Vietnam. Mostly I read about in Navy Times.
The Woodstock festival was held, not in Woodstock, but closer to Bethel, on Max Yasgur's farm, hence the reference in the lyrics. You can see footage of Max in the Woodstock film. He passed away in 1973.
My Godmother wanted to take me there. She was 20, I was almost 3. My mom sayed no f&%@ing way! I did get to see Nirvana, so there is that. Peace & Love.
Getting closer and closer to Joni... James Taylor also covered her (besides being everything everybody else said in the other comments). Jimi Hendrix's version was released last year. CSN&Y were separetely contributors on many of Joni's albums up to the 90's. It is unescapable Daniel: you GOT to get some Joni. But be aware that depending on what period of her career you choose from, you will be getting a completely different artist. She went from neo-folkish at the beginning (1968) to full-on jazz (1979), an artistic progression that few artists have matched then or now. Her albums often need repeated listenings to reveal their treasures; my favourite, Hejira, sounded a little boring to me the first time i heard it. It slowly became my favourite of hers. If you do take the plunge, I'd go with something from her middle-period: A Case of You, Cold Blue Steel & Sweet Fire, or Free Man in Paris for guitar songs, or For Free, Blue, or Down to You for piano tunes. (Science - we are stardust: a fact - and religious imagery or even beliefs are not in themselves contradictory.) (Oh, and CSN first sang together at Joni's house in Laurel Canyon back in 68.)
And Led Zeppelin (recent reaction) paid homage to Joni in "Going to California". And Joni tends to led to Leonard Cohen. Leonard Cohen to Jeff Buckley. Not a bad direction to head.
@@ms.chuckfu1088 Yes, you're right, it's endless fun: Jimmy Page (in Rolling Stone) said in 1974 that his favourite album of that year was Joni's Court & Spark; Leonard & Joni were an item for a short while - she wrote Rainy Night House about him, and he covered her The Jungle Line; AND Jeff Buckley covered her People's Parties etc etc etc...
I’m 62, so I was 11 during Woodstock. I remember wanting to go but what parent in their right mind would let an 11 year old go to something like that? Large crowd concerts like this were virtually unheard of, so it was quite the undertaking to put it all together. And certainly not everything went as planned, but they pulled it off. Certainly do watch the movie if and when you get a chance!
Daniel, you can experience Woodstock. They made a movie of it and it has to be on a DVD so go rent it. You can see some of the iconic performances and performers of the time, including some that people have requested of you.....eg., Santana (Soul Sacrifice and the full version with the drum solo that they've cut from the UA-cam videos), Alvin Lee, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker and on and on and on. And oh, one more thing.....I see someone else has requested that you do Southern Man (Neil Young) but make sure you do the live version off of the CSNY 4 Way Street album......incredible guitar work by Stills and Young.
The devil's bargain, remember, was the offering to man of wisdom, knowledge, for which you trade your innocence... basis of Xtian theology. "Getting back to the Garden" is regaining your innocence. We didn't, of course, but an awful lot of young people thought it was possible to live simply and innocently if their intentions were good. It didn't work for long. See: Haight Ashbury...
It captures the whole woodstock experience. It was like a separate world in the UK we listened to radio reports saying the highroads were closed so many people on the move.
Great song. Love the album. The other songs I like on the Deju album is the Deju Vu song, Our House which charted #20 and Teach your Children which has a country music feel and it charted at #16.
Joni Mitchell wrote this song, you should also look into some of her songs also. This is the song that brought these guys together, before this they all were part of other bands. Stills and Young were Bufflao Springfield, Nash, Hollies and Crosby The Byrds. This was about the Woodstock Festival which was near Yasgar's Farm somewherein upstate NY. Woodstock just had it's 50th anniversary last year. It was a drug infused occasion Lots of LSD and other of those sorts explaining the bombers turning into butterflies. There were people were dancing and living on the land, literally. Joni was not at Woodstock, but she was living in Los Angeles at the time she wrote this song.
OMG. PLEASE look up Woodstock and you will “ get it.” I love you Daniel. Just seeing your reactions and being totally honest when u r clueless makes it PERFECT. I was there. Part of my young teen soundtrack growing years. Best music EVER,
That guitar that you loved so much is Neil Young, which by the way, is a "rabbit hole" you might want to explore. May I recommend "Down by the River" & "Cowgirl in the Sand".
That guitar work is the "Y", Neil Young! His contributions completely transformed the sound of Crosby, Stills and Nash. From his early work with Buffalo Springfield , through CSN&Y and on into his long and fruitful solo work, he's a top tier artist.
The young people and "hippies" of that era grew out of a grassroots movement that did have several streams - the Jesus movement, the anti-war movement and the ecological movement. It was definitely anti-war, anti-establishment, anti-corporate, and it's a shame it devolved into basically a popular culture (sex, drugs and rock and roll) because now we are at that place again.
I have to add my voice to lobbying for you to do some Joni Mitchell. Extraordinary talent and person. I was in 9th grade in ‘69 so too young to even think about going to Woodstock. I was actually unaware until it hit the news. I was more into Apollo 11 and the moon landing at the time. But if you listen to CSNY on the Woodstock album, Stephen Stills tells the crowd, “this is our second gig. This is only the second time we’ve played in front of people. We’re scared shitlless, man!”
Yes, it's two different word views brought together in one line. Its not about the formation of CSNY, it was written by Joni Mitchell about her spiritual experience being and performing at the Woodstock music festival
It was amazing to be at Woodstock and we realized at 1/2 million strong we could end the Viet nam war. It was difficult to sit in the rain and stay up to watch everyone but I did see them. Thank you for doing this.
First, there was only one Woodstock. Other festivals only attempted to become another Woodstock, but I don't believe that ever really happened. The stardust reference is where carbon comes from which is from the fusion which takes place in stars. Some of the confusing lyrics in the song have to do with the hippy philosophy present in the 1960's and still present in some old hearts even today. Don't make the lyrics more complicated than they are. Joni's version of this song is a very different interpretation. The CSN appearance in the Woodstock movie really rocketed them to the level of musical icons. The song Ohio is about a truly shocking event which the Nixon administration tried to make go away for the most part or at least attempted to. Today's news is only history repeating itself. If you're going to react to Ohio (Neil Young's song), here's a good link. Just be warned, this true story is quite shocking even by today's standards. ua-cam.com/video/TRE9vMBBe10/v-deo.html Good luck with your channel. I really don't believe you'll need any luck to be successful at this.
You should listen to Joni Mitchell's version, who wrote this song, it's totally different, but at least as good as this one! The lyrics is maybe about that we have a material body, but we have soul too, and we have to find that innocence, what we had in the garden of Eden? I don't know.
I grew up hearing a version by Matthew Southern Comfort. I had thought that was the real version. Much more dreamy. Check it out sometime. The lyrics are slightly different.
That was written by Joni Mitchell. Personally I think they’re genius lyrics that capture the spirit of the gathering, especially considering she wasn’t there.
According to the Woodstock museum "Jimi Hendrix’s was the most anticipated Woodstock performance, but by the time he and his newly formed band, Gypsy Sun & Rainbows, started their two-hour set at 9:00 a.m. Monday morning, the half-million-person audience was down to roughly 40,000. Those who stayed for the festival finale witnessed one of the most memorable and legendary performances of the entire decade."
@@Straydogger Ooops, I left out a zero (fixed). What's interesting is there is a rear shot for a few seconds and there's not that many in front of the stage. Maybe 10-15 deep. It just doesn't look like that many were still there.
Hmm didn't I just comment about Joni Mitchell on your James Taylor postt? Coincidence? No way! Lol Now you see how everything is connected more or less. Joni's version of Woodstock is pure and simple, electric piano only and just her soprano voice. Over the years as her music and vocal styles evolved (folk, pop rock, jazz rock, then straight up jazz), her rendition of Woodstock ages like a fine wine. There was a band called Matthews Southern Comfort who recorded a mellower pop/ rock version of Woodstock that's quintessential "hippie" listening. You nailed it with the metaphors for "the garden". The garden of Eden represented a place of peace, pureness, harmony and no shame. Joni would later admit "it was just a dream some of us had"...
Just found your channel and love that you are reacting to the music I grew up with. I suggest that you react to "I Put a Spell On You" performed by 9 year old Angelina Jordan. Many people, including myself, believe Angelina is the only vocal prodigy of our lifetime. She has always created her own arrangements for the songs she covers. Angelina recently was signed by Republic Records at age 14. I Put a Spell On You was written by Screamin Jay Hawkins in 1956. Angelina gives a performance that will blow your mind and she pays respect to Screamin Jay Hawkins by filming the video in black and white. ua-cam.com/video/nwFloCPXzCs/v-deo.html By the way I was just shy of age 11 for Woodstock. Loved your reaction and will likely be back to suggest other songs. I just subscribed to your channel. By the way, you are likely to get more than 10k views for Angelina.
My mom wanted to take us kids, but my dad just joined the FBI, so we did not go. As a kid, I would have loved all the mud ! I have already suggested my pick of a Joni retrospect of her treatment and revisit on one of her tunes in a previous comment. Thank you!
MUST check out a few of the top Woodstock performances. Breakout performances by CSN (Suite Judy Blue Eyes) and Santana (Soul Sacrifice), helped to launch both of their careers.
Joni Mitchell (who wrote this) is really something to dig into!❤
And she never went. She based it off of Graham Nash's description of it. He was her boyfriend at the time.
I think I prefer her version. It's such an evocative song. Very representative of the times for me. We all wished we'd been there at Woodstock.
Matthew Southern Comfort also did a great version.
I mentioned Coyote with Jaco Pastorious sometime ago. But yes. JONI.
Joni Mitichell, the greatest female musical artist of the 20th century.
What the...? It’s about Woodstock!
Joni Mitchell wrote the song but wasn’t actually there, yet she captured the spirit perfectly. First verses are on the road to the show, last verse is the show, obviously. Many people saw the pilgrimage to Woodstock and the concert itself as a spiritual, if not religious, experience. And yes, the Garden of Eden is an appropriate interpretation.
Just for comparison you gotta check out Joni's original. If you hear that, you will see what an amazing arranger Stephen Still is. Vastly different. Both are great but I prefer the cover.
CSNY and Joni were on Dick Cavette show
Joni used to go out with Graham Nash, from Crosby, Stills, Nash ( CSN). That’s where the song Our House is a Very, Very , Fine House
It's been a favorite album of mine since 1970. Every song is great on Deja Vu.
🤠Yes, Joni wrote this song but did not actually go to or perform at Woodstock. She had a recording session scheduled and could not get out of it. Also, Graham Nash wrote "Our House" about him and Joni. You could say they were all quite a tight bunch back then. 😂 👍
@Gerald H can't get that with Netflix in Sweden 😪
It was actually The Dick Cavett Show she was booked on and her manager was afraid she would miss it if she went and thought that the show would be better exposure for her. As it turned out, Jefferson Airplane and CSN managed to show up on the same show meaning Joni could have done Woodstock and still made Dick Cavett. At least we got a great song out of it.
@@spicy321 🤠Thanks for the correction. Now that I think about it, I remember. That's just the '60's 🌻 affecting my brain cells, lol. 👍😂
spicy321 but I think in the end she said she was actually happy she didn’t go, because it might’ve changed the romanticized view of Woodstock that she had created in her mind, and she never would’ve written this song
@@johnnybags2324 🤠It's akin to a classic work of literature, Johnny. It's something everyone wants to have read, but no one wants to read! 😂🤢
Daniel, you give this child of the 70’s hope for our future. Cudo’s to you and your parents❣️
dkjrn. Since Daniel’s channel got hacked and compromised this past September in 2022. He has not been reacting to any songs from the 70’s or any songs to speak of for his Legion, which has been a big disappointment this year for me and downright depressing. Not one! Not one good Live Stream since Sept! Not one Unboxing this year.
It sucks! So I go back to rewatch those other Live Streams. I miss the 16,17, and 18 yr old Daniel. He was super fun. Super cool.
But he’s taking a completely different turn with his channel on his creative channel and I’m not loving that.
I’m going on an tangin. I’m sorry.
Goodnight.
CSN&Y, WOODSTOCK. I'VE BEEN WATCHING REACTIONS FOR OVER A YEAR . FINALLY THE SONG WOODSTOCK GETS ITS WELL DESERVED RECOGNITION, WRITTEN BY JONI MITCHELL.... ONLY BY DETH, I EXPECTED NOTHING LESS. WELL DONE.. A JUST FANTASTIC SONG IN REGARDS TO THE GREATEST CONCERT EVER....✌
They were all in love with Joni Mitchell, James Taylor was too. Great reaction. The Hippie movement was rooted in a spiritual quest. Joni Mitchell’s song Carey would be a good song to do .
I was 12... My Mom pulled me off the van of neighborhood kids heading out to Woodstock... Missed it by that much 😂.
"Wooden Ships" from the first CSN album has great, enigmatic lyrics.
Daniel, so glad you reacted to "Woodstock"!!!! This Deja Vu album is one of my top ten favorite albums of all time, and The Beatles are included in that list. The song was written by Joni Mitchell, who was dating Graham Nash at the time. "... turning into butterflies above our nation". So many more great songs on this album but also looking forward to your reaction of "Ohio", which is about one of the most tragic days in our country's history.
When Neil Young does a song with the acoustic guitar he melts your heart but when he plugs in and does a song with a electric guitar he melts your brain.............
A lot of the electric guitar work in this song (and many of their songs) was done by the very underrated Stephen Stills... a fantastic guitar player. Young would often play off of what Stills put down. They were great playing off of each other.
Neil young " Southern Man " ✌️♥️ he the guy that Ronnie Van zant mentioned in Sweet home Alabama
Yes, they were pissed at Young for that song.... that's why their reference in the song.
Thanks for taking the time to show the lyrics and for finding out the backstory of these songs. Really enjoy your channel!
I was 19 the summer of Woodstock ~~ a magical time to come of age in a very different world ~~ Enjoyed your questions and reaction , for some of the answers I think you simply had to be there in those times ~~
Congratulations on 5K.
The song is a pretty straight forward tale of the 1969 hippy love peace fest called Woodstock. Viet Nam was raging, lots of social upheaval going on - it was interesting times for sure. They had to close the NYS thruway.
What is this song about? Seriously? It's about WOODSTOCK!
@ITCJon omg that was funny lol
SO YOU NEED TO DO JONI'S SONG SOMETIME FOR SURE, BESIDES YOU'D LOVE HER VOICE I'M SURE! :)
Love Joni
Thanks so much for the trip back in time for me. Best of the best music back then. I was too young to go to Woodstock, but my ex-brother-in-law was there, and he said it was the most amazing time of his life, and something he would never forget. They tried to re-create it in 1994, but there is only one Woodstock. On the subject of CSN&Y, Graham Nash has an album called "Songs for Beginners" from 1970 or 71 (I don't have the LP in front of me to give exact date), and there is not one song on that album which isn't great. I Use To Be a King, Better Days, Man In The Mirror, There's Only One, are a few that you should take a listen to. You will not be dissapointed. Always enjoy watching you react, and really does this old heart good when young people appreciate the music from a time when there was an over-abundance of great talent. There is so much more for you to explore on this amazing journey.
Recommend watching Martin Scorsese’s documentary Woodstock. Don’t take the brown acid!
He was a credited editor on Woodstock, Michael Wadleigh was the director. Martin directed The Last Waltz.
Or they'll send you to the Hog Farm.
The kosher bacon was fine though.
Songs really were too short back then. Radio stations wouldn't play anything that interfered with their advertising revenue.
I was busy watching my mother die, slowly, of cancer. I was eleven. Woodstock haunted my happier dreams, where I was a hippie flower child, getting lost in the joy of the music. Then I’d get up, get my brother and sister and myself off to school, come home, fail at the housework, and then my father commenced the beatings. 1969 was grim for me. 2020 is that same sort of surreal, insecure shock, but now euverybody feels that way, and it’s Trump we’re all dreading.
I’m 63 and I live in a nursing home, under strict quarantine. No family visits, for 6 months, no end date. I’ve watched some of my friends die here, recently, unable to see their families, except for one family I know of who were smuggled in by staff. I am married, and this is no way to run a marriage! We only see each other through a window, talking by telephones, just like in jail.
Music is my refuge. I am on my iPad about 14 hours a day, escaping. But my TV is locked on MSNBC all day long. RIP RBG.
So, Daniel, tell me about yourself. You have a truly interesting mind.
"Garden" is a metaphor. What they're searching for is an agrarian Utopia, where life is simple and peace and justice rule, and there are no bombers flying in the sky. She is playing on the Garden of Eden theme but you're not supposed to take it literally -- unless you want to! Lots of people had set up agrarian communes in the late 60s and early 70s, that were going to be self-sustaining and not partake of the American war machine.
You're a year older than my only granddaughter, and I'm very impressed with you going man. Thank you for your interest and presentation of music from my growing up years. I was your age then, and it was a great time. This song is the yearning for peace during the Viet Nam war. Unfortunately we can't get back to the Garden of Eden without Christ. Right yearning, wrong attempt, though Woodstock was fun. And lots of rain. See the movie.
PeAce love and Jesus
This was the beginning of the environmental movement.....getting back to the garden....being stewards of Creation....back to loving your neighbor... anti-war, anti violence....this was the hippie counter culture in a nutshell. The whole commune movement was a LITERAL attempt to get back to the land and away from the Machine of modern society. Written by Joni Mitchell. She has her own version
I highly recommend "Down by the River" by Neil Young. Great guitar solo!
I would suggest doing Down by the River, the original by Neil Young, then the Buddy Miles version. Both awesome!
Written by the great lyrical-Goddess of Reveal, Joni Mitchell (she and Young were Canadians, both stricken with polio as adolescents, Graham was British). Joni was a wordsmith and a musical rebel (she is also a noted painter). Railing against the music industry more and more as she asserted herself. The Vietnam War controversary was raging. I was 11, and I could feel that the war and racial tension was thick in the air. Bomber planes turning into butterflies sounded like a great dichotomy to me, at the time. It really is a great visual dichotomy. Leave it to the painter! Someday, you will run across her music. If, and when that should happen, start towards the beginning, as she had major changes across her musical arc, but next: Try Wooden Ships (CSN) and Almost Cut My Hair (CSNY)! Studio versions, please!
Do “Déjà vu” and “Almost Cut My Hair” from this album. Young is the most talented piece in this band but he left the band as far as i know for his intentions to bring folk music to the group. Woodstock in 1969 man it’s legendary, for me only one thing is better, the “Isle of Wight 1970” and i know you love Jethro Tull, have a live version of “My God” in Isle of Wight, consider see this man, and from Woodstock a good experience it’s Santana “Soul Sacrifice”.
CSN did well without him. Sure he is talented, but Stills guitar?Obviously not the the most talented some CYS.
@@doulbledee9758 Yes Stills is a great guitarist but with Young they reached another level, most of this album "Déjà Vu" is devastating; and always when I see a live video of the band's early years I am impressed with Young's skills on guitar and he brought a lot of material to the group because before joining the band he was already an amazing songwriter.
@@romariosouza3895 I love young, but his song contribution to Déjà Vu is very poor in my opinion. I well well do without them. There's some good dueling between him and Stills, but Stills is a fantastic guitarist.
@@tonypotts1644 But what really matters is that they got together and created these songs, giving their soul to create this unique sound.
Tony Potts imo CSN was the better album compared with déjà vu. Maybe I’m in the minority but in much prefer the 3 piece version of this band!
I love this version of Joni's song because it rocks. Lyrically I always have taken this from the God perspective, so when she writes ,"We are caught in the devil's bargain", I remember the ",bet" the devil tries to make with God about Job where he is allowed to inflict tragedy and pain on Job to get him to curse God and God says ",go ahead, but you can't kill him." The line about "we've got to get ourselves back to the Garden" is absolutely about restoring the one relationship that will make all the others able to function again and that is with God. He says through the prophet Isaiah "I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me." And when Jesus showed up He reiterated "Seek and you shall find." Great advice and a great song.
Amen
2 am. OH well, sleep is overrated. Must watch Daniel react to more timeless music. Great choices tonight.
The guitar solo, and lead guitar on the fade out is Neil Young. If you type in "joni mitchell dick cavett" on Y.Tube, you'll see her, Jefferson Airplane, Stephen Stills, and David Crosby (who had made it back) on the talk show talking about the festival. Actually, she was going with Graham Nash at the time. The CSN song "Our House" was written in a house they were living in at the time.
CSNY is an interesting study: CSN is in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a trio. CSNY as a quartet is not. Neil Young is in the RRHOF as a solo artist but the other three are not. (And all 4 were inducted as part of previous bands they were in). The guitar solo in the middle is Neil Young. The guitar in the outro is initially Stephen Stills and then Young comes in on top. Neil's guitar tone is rather distinctive because 90% of his electric guitar work is done on a heavily modified Les Paul known as "Old Black". This guitar is absolutely unique - it has its own Wikipedia entry. Anyway, this song is unique in that none of them wrote it - they did very few songs by other writers. Joni Mitchell is an amazing composer and lyricist.
I was too young to go to Woodstock; have known a few folks who went, and the answer I always get when I ask "How was it?" is "I don't remember much." Ah, the good old hippy days- love them. I noticed others have suggested checking out other versions of the song, and I agree wholeheartedly. I'd also like to suggest watching Richard Thompson's performance at the Joni Mitchell tribute concert- it's here on UA-cam. Richard is one of the finest guitarists ever, IMO- I like his voice a lot, too. CSN &Y have much to offer, individually and collectively. I HAVE to add another vote for "Ohio". Have fun!
Richard Thompson - Woodstock - JM Tribute 2000
Yeah, "the garden" that they're trying to get back to might be the ideals of the Summer of Love (1967).
Love your enthusiasm Daniel to CSNY😀👍
I suggest you listen to Joni Mitchell’s two very different versions of Both Sides Now. She wrote the song at age 24 and recorded it herself in 1969...it’s a masterpiece. She re-recorded it in 2000 at the age of 57. After watching you with both versions of Hurt, I would love to see/hear your reaction to these vastly different interpretations by the same amazing artist.
And Joni's the River
One of my top 5 albums of all time. Still not tired of it since it’s release. Please hear more of this Daniel
Always thought "Ohio" was their most important song, but this was to me always their best song.
The Garden certainly could be Eden. I always felt it was more about getting back to the simple things that nourish our lives every day.
ok, suggestion. I'd listen to "wooden ships" by CSN&Y, then listen to the version of the same song by jefferson airplane. then maybe "triad" by jefferson airplane, then go to "eskimo blue day" by again - jefferson airplane. at that point, you may have just reached the height of peak acid. :)
btw - I think the devil's bargain they are talking about in the song is the adam and eve thing with the apple. and you can probably tell that I'm a jefferson airplane fan..
And along those lines (or perhaps from), don't skip over Hot Tuna (both acoustic and electric Tuna) as well as Jorma's solo album Quah.
Hey Frederick is a great Airplane song
Joni Mitchell is a poet that ranks with the best ever.
All the heavy elements are formed during the final stages of massive stars which then supernova when the radiation pressure is exceeded by gravitational force. Carbon is also present from previous reactions, hence all the ingredients for Earth' type planets are recycled from previous enormous stellar explosions, which get captured by surrounding stars, such as our own sun.
Hence :
We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the Garden
Now, what is absolutely incredible to me is Blake's penultimate stanza of the Tyger, which prefigures any sort of knowledge of stellar evolution by over 200 years, yet seems to echo the same ideas:
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears
Did He smile his work to see?
Did He, who made The Lamb, make thee?
Hey Daniel if you find the time checkout Don McLean the song American Pie I think you will enjoy him also he does a song called Vincent a song about Vincent Van Gogh pretty sure you will enjoy both.
I look at the line of getting back to the garden of meaning the desire to return to a kind of innocence and simplicity and away from the evil of the world, this was during a time when there was a lot of protest against the war in Vietnam and hippie culture was wanting peace, love, and rock & roll, "make love not war"
You have some of the best analyzing and commentary I have heard. Love your take on Edmund Fitzgerald from Gordon Lightfoot. In this . . . I believe he is referencing the earth itself when he says, "we are billion year-old carbon," (the earth being possibly a billion years old - who knows how old, really?). Of course, following the biblical narrative being "made from dust," we are simply . . . from the earth. Gotta get back to "the garden" (peace, tranquility etc) and rise above the framework of evil - that was what Woodstock was all about!
it was the planes from Griffith's AFB which flew over the concert
You got it. And those elements return to the universe when we die.
From the viewpoint of the watcher, music reactions are most fun to watch when the reactor hears for the first time a band he's never heard, or, for that matter, never heard of, before. Your stopping this video to discuss stardust has provided me with the chance to suggest on of the top five epic prog songs of all time, "Stardust We Are", by The Flower Kings.
The preceding comments don't fully express the emotioal impact of the Woodstock event. All across America kids here and there had rebelled against a society's effort to ram them into the only existing mold of obedient corporate servants. The effort that went into that rebellion was constant and tremendous, as the will of the great majority in power was just as committed to see to it that they succumbed and obediently entered the terrible forge to leave on the other side the sort of automaton desired by the powers that be. The hardest part was the isolation. The feeling you were alone in your resistance, your battle, and that you had no hope of success. All you had was the new music on underground FM radio stations. Then one day, you heard a commercial about a planned music festival in upstate New York.
Some decided to go. Others could not get there for a multitude of personal reasons. But the masses of young people who did go, whether or not they had purchased tickets, became a massive news story. Whether you were there, or just watching the news stories, you realized you were not alone, and would never be alone, that you were not unsane in your ideas as to how your life should be spent, but that tens of millions of young people all across America felt the same was you did.
The Neil Young difference. That song is a piano ballad (gorgeous) in Joni Mitchell's hands. I heard Neil in an interview talk about the revelation of Woodstock being the knowledge that there were more people like us than just the 20 freaks in your home town.
Well, Neil spent time growing up time in Winnipeg in the 50s. I imagine it was a bit insular for him.
From a Joni interview, reflecting on those transitional years, from the 60's to the 70's: " We were raised on Disney: someday my prince will come. We came up in affluence unprecedented. (...) And it led to an unhealthy world... So whatever it was, the breakdown of that dream, out of it came this liberated, spoilt, selfish generation into the costume ball of it; free love, free sex, free music, free, free, free, free, we're so free. Woodstock was the culmination of it. Then the straights started to grow their hair and get love beads and get a Nehru suit. My generation, for most of the '70s, fell into a state of apathy; heavy drugs followed light drugs; the thing got darker and they didn't know where to take it. When the Reagans got into power, it went hippie, yippie, yuppie. They were converted into consumers. They went right into the thing their parents had - but on a bigger scale." In 1979, she sang the last verse like this:
We are stardust
Billion year old carbon
We are golden
Caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves
back to the garden
To some semblance of a garden...
It is both literal and metaphorical. Hippies were considered more "Christian" like than many "straight" church going preachers who didn't live that life they preached. Came upon a "child of God" , well aren't we all? Especially a hippie recognizing a kindred spirit walking down the road to go to the music festival. Remember, the NY State highway was closed because so many vehicles (with a large proportion being VW buses) were backed up on the road that they literally ABANDONED them and walked dozens of miles. This gathering was more important than any material things, this was the youths "protest" against the Vietnam War and all the injustices by the establishment.
However, we are human, we are fallen, we are caught in the devil's bargain (Eat this and ye shall be as God)......mmm.... nice retrospective there..... learned that from family and church (especially in those days) but also learned from school about evolution, coming from startdust and billion year old carbon.... WHO AM I? Life is for learning. Anyone not just a drone of society (so many more like this today that don't even try to figure out who they really are) would ask these questions when raised Christian but taught evolution right? Add some mind "expanding" (the popular description of those time) substances to the mix and the questions are amplified.
All of these concepts layered between a journey to the biggest music festival in history make for a great song. Thank you Joni Mitchell. (You really should hear her live version with just her on piano in England just a little later on, it's sooo haunting!) Of course Joni and Graham Nash had a relationship and she gave the song to them to record. Awesomeness.
It's about getting back to living closer to the earth, as opposed to living in high-rise buildings and driving vehicles, most of us not knowing where our food comes from, for example. We are dependent on all the systems we have created. This song was written in the late '60s before cordless phones, personal computers, and the internet - not to mention cell phones! We have gotten even farther from the earth since then, for better or for worse. Neil Young is the lead guitarist on this track - a unique person with a unique style. David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash were born to sing harmonies together.
Yes their first concert was in front of a half a million people !
If you want a performance to remember please check out this request !
Cosby, Stills, Nash & Young with Tom Jones singing - Long Time Gone !
The power of Tom Jones with the beautiful voices of C,S & N with Neil Young shreading away is amazing !
The amount of talent on that stage for this performance... you will never forget this one ✌😎
I believe you can find that Dick Cavett episode on utube. Crosby, Stills, and Nash were also on the show, so they were able to get back in time. They actually took a helicopter to get to Woodstock, landing directly at the farm. Joni Mitchell performed the song for them on that show.
I was exactly 12 (Aug.15th) during Woodstock so I was a few years too young and my parents were a few years too old to appreciate it for the festival that it was. A bummer to this day!
As I understand it, Jimi insisted om being the closing act, ended up being the closing act to an audience after 99.9% had left...so virtually no one.
Ego is not one's best friend.
I wasn't there...I didn't know it was a thing until the album came out...
But I did go to a concert with three bands: The Band, The Allman Brothers and The Grateful Dead, Summer Jam at Watkins Glen where there were twice the crowd of Woodstock (600,000 in the concert area) built for 150,000, and another 600,000 who couldn't get in...1.2 million...anyway, that was awesome! Being a Dead Head, a fan of the Allman Bros and the Band!
Woodstock was some sort of spiritual experience for those who went and those who reported it on TV. Me? I was a Marine Field Artillery Fire Controlman in Vietnam. Mostly I read about in Navy Times.
The Garden is the space we all share as humans to grow things, plants and peace and love. Very hippie very cool.
The Woodstock festival was held, not in Woodstock, but closer to Bethel, on Max Yasgur's farm, hence the reference in the lyrics. You can see footage of Max in the Woodstock film. He passed away in 1973.
Man, how I wish I was 17 again and hearing this for the first time.
My Godmother wanted to take me there. She was 20, I was almost 3. My mom sayed no f&%@ing way! I did get to see Nirvana, so there is that. Peace & Love.
CSN Harmonies to die for!!
Getting closer and closer to Joni... James Taylor also covered her (besides being everything everybody else said in the other comments). Jimi Hendrix's version was released last year. CSN&Y were separetely contributors on many of Joni's albums up to the 90's. It is unescapable Daniel: you GOT to get some Joni. But be aware that depending on what period of her career you choose from, you will be getting a completely different artist. She went from neo-folkish at the beginning (1968) to full-on jazz (1979), an artistic progression that few artists have matched then or now. Her albums often need repeated listenings to reveal their treasures; my favourite, Hejira, sounded a little boring to me the first time i heard it. It slowly became my favourite of hers. If you do take the plunge, I'd go with something from her middle-period: A Case of You, Cold Blue Steel & Sweet Fire, or Free Man in Paris for guitar songs, or For Free, Blue, or Down to You for piano tunes. (Science - we are stardust: a fact - and religious imagery or even beliefs are not in themselves contradictory.) (Oh, and CSN first sang together at Joni's house in Laurel Canyon back in 68.)
And Led Zeppelin (recent reaction) paid homage to Joni in "Going to California".
And Joni tends to led to Leonard Cohen. Leonard Cohen to Jeff Buckley. Not a bad direction to head.
@@ms.chuckfu1088 Yes, you're right, it's endless fun: Jimmy Page (in Rolling Stone) said in 1974 that his favourite album of that year was Joni's Court & Spark; Leonard & Joni were an item for a short while - she wrote Rainy Night House about him, and he covered her The Jungle Line; AND Jeff Buckley covered her People's Parties etc etc etc...
I’m 62, so I was 11 during Woodstock. I remember wanting to go but what parent in their right mind would let an 11 year old go to something like that? Large crowd concerts like this were virtually unheard of, so it was quite the undertaking to put it all together. And certainly not everything went as planned, but they pulled it off. Certainly do watch the movie if and when you get a chance!
Daniel, you can experience Woodstock. They made a movie of it and it has to be on a DVD so go rent it. You can see some of the iconic performances and performers of the time, including some that people have requested of you.....eg., Santana (Soul Sacrifice and the full version with the drum solo that they've cut from the UA-cam videos), Alvin Lee, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker and on and on and on. And oh, one more thing.....I see someone else has requested that you do Southern Man (Neil Young) but make sure you do the live version off of the CSNY 4 Way Street album......incredible guitar work by Stills and Young.
The devil's bargain, remember, was the offering to man of wisdom, knowledge, for which you trade your innocence... basis of Xtian theology. "Getting back to the Garden" is regaining your innocence. We didn't, of course, but an awful lot of young people thought it was possible to live simply and innocently if their intentions were good. It didn't work for long. See: Haight Ashbury...
Woodstock was an amazing event. I’ve always wished I’d been old enough to attend.
It captures the whole woodstock experience. It was like a separate world in the UK we listened to radio reports saying the highroads were closed so many people on the move.
Great song. Love the album. The other songs I like on the Deju album is the Deju Vu song, Our House which charted #20 and Teach your Children which has a country music feel and it charted at #16.
Joni Mitchell wrote this song, you should also look into some of her songs also. This is the song that brought these guys together, before this they all were part of other bands. Stills and Young were Bufflao Springfield, Nash, Hollies and Crosby The Byrds. This was about the Woodstock Festival which was near Yasgar's Farm somewherein upstate NY. Woodstock just had it's 50th anniversary last year. It was a drug infused occasion Lots of LSD and other of those sorts explaining the bombers turning into butterflies. There were people were dancing and living on the land, literally. Joni was not at Woodstock, but she was living in Los Angeles at the time she wrote this song.
OMG. PLEASE look up Woodstock and you will “ get it.” I love you Daniel. Just seeing your reactions and being totally honest when u r clueless makes it PERFECT. I was there. Part of my young teen soundtrack growing years. Best music EVER,
Their first concert was in Chicago. Their second concert was Woodstock .
That guitar that you loved so much is Neil Young, which by the way, is a "rabbit hole" you might want to explore. May I recommend "Down by the River" & "Cowgirl in the Sand".
That guitar work is the "Y", Neil Young! His contributions completely transformed the sound of Crosby, Stills and Nash. From his early work with Buffalo Springfield , through CSN&Y and on into his long and fruitful solo work, he's a top tier artist.
I was at the first Atlanta Pop Festival where they announced Woodstock coming up.
The young people and "hippies" of that era grew out of a grassroots movement that did have several streams - the Jesus movement, the anti-war movement and the ecological movement. It was definitely anti-war, anti-establishment, anti-corporate, and it's a shame it devolved into basically a popular culture (sex, drugs and rock and roll) because now we are at that place again.
I have to add my voice to lobbying for you to do some Joni Mitchell. Extraordinary talent and person. I was in 9th grade in ‘69 so too young to even think about going to Woodstock. I was actually unaware until it hit the news. I was more into Apollo 11 and the moon landing at the time. But if you listen to CSNY on the Woodstock album, Stephen Stills tells the crowd, “this is our second gig. This is only the second time we’ve played in front of people. We’re scared shitlless, man!”
When I was a teen there wasn’t a single person who didn’t have this album or wait for it......8 track !!!!!! LOL...
Yes, it's two different word views brought together in one line.
Its not about the formation of CSNY, it was written by Joni Mitchell about her spiritual experience being and performing at the Woodstock music festival
It was amazing to be at Woodstock and we realized at 1/2 million strong we could end the Viet nam war. It was difficult to sit in the rain and stay up to watch everyone but I did see them. Thank you for doing this.
First, there was only one Woodstock. Other festivals only attempted to become another Woodstock, but I don't believe that ever really happened. The stardust reference is where carbon comes from which is from the fusion which takes place in stars. Some of the confusing lyrics in the song have to do with the hippy philosophy present in the 1960's and still present in some old hearts even today. Don't make the lyrics more complicated than they are. Joni's version of this song is a very different interpretation. The CSN appearance in the Woodstock movie really rocketed them to the level of musical icons. The song Ohio is about a truly shocking event which the Nixon administration tried to make go away for the most part or at least attempted to. Today's news is only history repeating itself. If you're going to react to Ohio (Neil Young's song), here's a good link. Just be warned, this true story is quite shocking even by today's standards. ua-cam.com/video/TRE9vMBBe10/v-deo.html Good luck with your channel. I really don't believe you'll need any luck to be successful at this.
You should listen to Joni Mitchell's version, who wrote this song, it's totally different, but at least as good as this one! The lyrics is maybe about that we have a material body, but we have soul too, and we have to find that innocence, what we had in the garden of Eden? I don't know.
Yes it was about their experiences of woodstock.
That’s what they are talking about
Cool reaction, little bro! 👍😁✌️
I grew up hearing a version by Matthew Southern Comfort. I had thought that was the real version. Much more dreamy. Check it out sometime. The lyrics are slightly different.
That was written by Joni Mitchell. Personally I think they’re genius lyrics that capture the spirit of the gathering, especially considering she wasn’t there.
You need to do "Almost Cut My Hair". Crosby unleashed. Peace & Love!
I can't imagine the shock of hearing this for the first time! Amazing!!
Yes. There were roughly 50,000 ppl left when Hendrix took the stage around 7am Monday morning .
According to the Woodstock museum "Jimi Hendrix’s was the most anticipated Woodstock performance, but by the time he and his newly formed band, Gypsy Sun & Rainbows, started their two-hour set at 9:00 a.m. Monday morning, the half-million-person audience was down to roughly 40,000. Those who stayed for the festival finale witnessed one of the most memorable and legendary performances of the entire decade."
@@Straydogger Ooops, I left out a zero (fixed). What's interesting is there is a rear shot for a few seconds and there's not that many in front of the stage. Maybe 10-15 deep. It just doesn't look like that many were still there.
the Woodstock Festival was also called 'the Garden'
Great to see you rocking to music of my generation. Love it.
Hmm didn't I just comment about Joni Mitchell on your James Taylor postt? Coincidence? No way! Lol Now you see how everything is connected more or less. Joni's version of Woodstock is pure and simple, electric piano only and just her soprano voice. Over the years as her music and vocal styles evolved (folk, pop rock, jazz rock, then straight up jazz), her rendition of Woodstock ages like a fine wine. There was a band called Matthews Southern Comfort who recorded a mellower pop/ rock version of Woodstock that's quintessential "hippie" listening. You nailed it with the metaphors for "the garden". The garden of Eden represented a place of peace, pureness, harmony and no shame. Joni would later admit "it was just a dream some of us had"...
Just found your channel and love that you are reacting to the music I grew up with. I suggest that you react to "I Put a Spell On You" performed by 9 year old Angelina Jordan. Many people, including myself, believe Angelina is the only vocal prodigy of our lifetime. She has always created her own arrangements for the songs she covers. Angelina recently was signed by Republic Records at age 14. I Put a Spell On You was written by Screamin Jay Hawkins in 1956. Angelina gives a performance that will blow your mind and she pays respect to Screamin Jay Hawkins by filming the video in black and white. ua-cam.com/video/nwFloCPXzCs/v-deo.html By the way I was just shy of age 11 for Woodstock. Loved your reaction and will likely be back to suggest other songs. I just subscribed to your channel. By the way, you are likely to get more than 10k views for Angelina.
My first "grown up" date was a high school crush I took to see Woodstock (the movie) when it was still a first run in 1970.
Also sung by Joni Mitchell and the Mathews Southern Comfort Band which you really need to hear and react to for comparison.
Knew you'd like this one!
First Album I ever bought ( Baby sitting money)
People crap on the fashion and music of the 70s, but I was in my 20s and just discovering life. I treasure the memories.
My mom wanted to take us kids, but my dad just joined the FBI, so we did not go. As a kid, I would have loved all the mud ! I have already suggested my pick of a Joni retrospect of her treatment and revisit on one of her tunes in a previous comment. Thank you!
MUST check out a few of the top Woodstock performances. Breakout performances by CSN (Suite Judy Blue Eyes) and Santana (Soul Sacrifice), helped to launch both of their careers.