Joni Mitchell (Crosby, Stills, Nash, Sebastian) - Get Together (Live 1969)
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2014
- Joni Mitchell (Crosby, Stills, Nash, Sebastian) - Get Together (Live 1969)
Big Sur Folk Festival - Esalen Institute Big Sur, CA
Joni performed solo and was also accompanied by Crosby,
Stills & Nash and John Sebastian. Portions of her performances
were subsequently featured in the film Celebration at Big Sur.
September 14, 1969
Just watched Joni at the 2024 Grammys. 55 years later, bowed but not defeated or forgotten.
You probably should give credit to Brandi Carlisle for that..... 😎✌️
@@gus473 Her encouragement is a big part of it!🥰
Think there's an upcoming "Joni Jam" in CA.
Yep, definitely has lost her pipes, but nice to see she's still with us
@@squirrelbutler2119 2 packs a day would do that..
Dacid Crosby just died today. Joni is struggling with her recovery from a stroke. These were the people who defined my generation. I owe them so much but I can never repay it.
...amen brother, amen
She was in love-
Darid
"The past still exists", Sabine Hossenfelder, physicist
R.I.P. David Crosby & continued blessings & recovery to Joni. This is a wonderful version of Get Together by the Youngbloods. I never seen or heard it before, but what a great message & vibe they create here with the crowd! Pue 1960's!!! Love it!!! ❤😮😊
People of all walks of life. All ages, all races coming together with no judgement but all with the same goal. Music is a beautiful thing.
I was there in Big Sur for this concert. I’d just arrived in California and my brother whisked me down to this festival. A great introduction to California living. I was just 17
Great story -- I feel it as though I were there with you.
remarkable !!!
This is why I'm a hippie at heart.
I was there too. I was 20 years old. Great time. Slept on the beach.
We all have our time. Nice to look back to remember. Time is a river. We've been so lucky in the west.
MItchell, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Sebastian! That was a serious dose of hippy happy right there!
Yes! I thought that was John Sebastian!! Yay!!
Don't forget Dallas and Calvin
We need this more than ever now .
All who are watching this I wish you well and hope that things change for the better.
From the 🇬🇧
We will know in November!
This song was one of the anthems of my youth. It's great to see this spirited rendition of it by Joni Mitchell and Crosby, Stills, & Nash! That was a joyous, wonderful time in our lives...
BOOMER!! 🤣🤣
Sorry dude. I'm not to blame for the date of my birth.@@hansemannluchter643
@@hansemannluchter643 Knuckle dragger!! 🦍🦍🦍🦍
Jesse Colin Young
@countryandnorthern1
Jesse Colin Young's version is the standard, way better than this.
Joni had such an incredible voice. I miss those times
I was born in 1952 and we're just coming of age during this time of Woodstock peace love and everything else and now when you watch these old videos they're so precious and so innocent compared to constant vitriol and bickering we live in today. We have all aged now and the innocence is gone
It is the end of the innocence, and perhaps of humanity as well.
Yes, I so agree, there seemed to be so much hope.
You are forgetting though that the young people who are exactly this age right now - they are full of the SAME dreams aspirations and hopes you were back then. They desperately need the support and wisdom of the boomer generation to stand up for them and fight for them to have a future not sit back and give in. I work with them and they need you to not forget that they should have a future like you got to have.
So thankful we still have our Joni! I have loved her music since I was 9 years old! I’m now 63! 🩷
What a precious video. Did not know it existed. 1969 was an extraordinary year in the history of humanity. The love is palpable.
Love for all, unless you were a conservative. Then they mocked you. True story. Hippie is short for Hypocrisy.
I'm 70. The hippies that hated America back in 69 are the parents and grandparents of the Woke and Climate Alarmists that hate America/Americans now. It was never about love. All these musicians ended up hating each other, by the way.
@@linjicakonikon7666 Indeed.
The hippy movement was the worst enemy of the traditional family.
Peace and Love, I felt it when I was 19!!
@@crapotin59 or it simply created a new fabulous traditional family
Just beats the hell out of what “they” call current music!
Aww, you poor man.
Comments like these just show where the selfish boomer stereotype comes from. Not to be critical!
@@unclewalt1 Chill
😬dang@@unclewalt1 , lol!
@@unclewalt1 good comment . Thank you for mentioning the the romantics . The audience looks like they were foreshadowing fentanyl.
Joni was a force of nature. God bless her.
She still is! Newport 2022.
She’s a goddess! I love her❤❤❤❤
Still alive!!!!
*is!
I can't believe I've never seen or heard this before! This is a spectacular performance by Joni Mitchell (whom I've always loved) and CS&N! It was held at Big Sur - September 14, 1969. I was always a big CS&N fan too which makes it incredible that today was the first time I've seen this! I was 16 when this was done...I'm 68 now...how did I miss this?
Me also!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
film wasn't well distributed at time, at least internationally
I stumbled across the film on TV late at night in 1988, when I was 16. It was a few years later that I became a fanatic of this genre of music and realized how lucky I was to catch any of this on TV.
I too am baffled I've never seen this clip before! It was worth the wait..fantastic!
I'm 72 and, I too don't recall seeing this . Wow!
... if we ever needed a planet full of hippies.. it would be ..Right Now
☮️✌️
They are here. They just don't know it.😎
I agree!!!✌️💗
Reminding me that I'm still a hippy at ❤️
"Out on the road today I saw a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac."
ME TOO !
Janice taught me that you could still be cool and pretty with bad hair!
ME TOO
Me too!
I was born too late for this. I'm sooooo happy that someone was able to capture this incredible moment in time, musical history, and humanity.
You know, you seldom hear or feel JOY in today's music anymore. Rare.
Oxymoron: today's music
Music is ALWAYS Music
Brahms will call yours the same, it's a generational acquired conditioning
And it may be encroached by your age too, to don't enjoy other Music forms but own "new" from long ago, when you were still OPEN TO MUSIC _young. Age has taken from you more than that
you're right !!...I really do feel JOY when listening to this
This was a song by Jesse Colin Young. King of defined the Flower Child Let's Get Together Era. So much for that...
In Spain there are many fans CSNY, beautyfull songs beautyfull years, a real hippie dream magic is still alive
Marvelous years. Miss them. Things are too canned today
Voices, guitars and evergreen music....love them
Make the absolute most of this people because we unfortunately will never go back to this. The world is a horrible place in 2024
I feel like there is a lot we can learn from this. People of all ages and ethnic backgrounds gathering as one to enjoy the rhythm and harmony of these gifted musicians. No negativity or judgement at all. Just people letting out whatever they're going through at the time. Whatever happened to people these days..
Same generation spawned dirty Donald Trump though, so ?
It was just a bunch of rich kids escaping from their parents for a weekend to smoke week, take LSD and fuck each other. No poor people, no black people, no Asians or Hispanics. Just woke self loathing rich white people lecturing others.
The fact you don't see that is why dickheads like you are ruining the west. You think you know best bit you are the actual bigots.
Most of them are also high as the sky, that contributed to the free love atmosphere…we didn’t yet know how dangerous drugs were, as we know, tragically so many of these brilliant musicians eventually died of overdose
None of the people on that stage did. You’re quite a party pooper, aren’t you?
@@AS-youTube "Many"? None of these musicians did.
Magical music helped us get through some pretty ugly times.
I was in Boston in '69. Never saw Joni live (she was west coast as I had travelled to the east coast) but I did catch CSNY in 1970 at a small, vintage theater in Chicago, shortly after Woodstock, where they played 3+ hours non-stop in an unforgettable concert. Truly - A lifetime highlight. It was drop dead FLAWLESS!
So much good music. Thish is absolutely one of the stand out songs of my youth. A beautiful anthem to our hopes and dreams. The dream is still good. Just need more dreamers
Brings me back to gentler times. Jesse Colin Young was such an inspirational artist!
He didn't write it. Chester Powers wrote it.
ridiculously mind blowing.
I know, right?
take me back to those simple times...please take me back
What a great song, with a great group of great musical artists.
Joni Mitchell, that sweet pure voice.
Lucky 🍀 those of us in our 70’s now 👍
BOOMER!! 🤣🤣
Joni Mitchell is mesmerizing she’s a woman in love . She transforms everything around her....
I would have liked to live this music in those years. In the nowadays there is almost only commercial music without soul and emotions.
A time when optimism was the message in so many songs. Wonderful clip.
Today is the day that people should be singing out against the government way more sinister than it was in the 60s
what a beautiful amazing time that must have been. while i was too young at the time. being born in 65, this is the first music i was ever really exposed to thanks to my Aunt Marlene, who was/is married to Jerry Yester.
i can only imagine how much love was in the air during this perfect performance. as it is so rare to see love on such a high level as this.
THIS is exactly what is needed today.
the young people dont understand love like the past generations of the 60s thru 90s once did.
I met and interviewed Jerry Yester on Maui when he was with The Modern Folk Quartet.
convoluted connection, My best friend was Alan Merrill (wrote /recorded I Love Rock N Roll years before Joan Jett), well his first serious girlfriend Kathy ended up married to Jim Yester
I was born in '63, an absolute hippy at heart. Travelled all the way to London in 78 or 79 to go to the only cinema showing Woodstock!! Everyone looked so beautiful then, for some reason.
A beautiful rendition of Jesse Colin Young's great song. The loving joy we see in these folks' faces was in stark contrast to the daily reports of death in Vietnam, and the resounding impact of the deaths of JFK, and later MLK and RFK. It was not all incense and grooviness because things were so good, it was positivity in the face of hostility, racism and hatred ... just as it is today in America. "Come on, smile on your brother, everybody get together, love one another right now" are timeless words for us to keep working for. “We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Beatiful comment! Thought provoking. thank you
Young popularized the song written by Chester William Powers, aka Dino Valenti, lead singer for the Quicksilver Messengers Service.
@@CharlesVersaggi Thanks for this information Charles! I was on a quest to understand the authorship of this song, the Young Blood version had such a catalysing effect when it first appeared! That Dino Valenti wrote it is a delight! I can't wait to hunt down his version!
@@CharlesVersaggi Chet powers AKA Dino Valenti taught the song to Buzzy Linhart and Jesse Colin Young learned it from Buzzy
Wish I had been there. I was 16 and living in Mendocino village, but had no transportation most of the time, and not much money, but I had her album
Man, what a voice she had!!! Ethereal and powerful at the same time.
Unparalleled voice for her genre of music!
Joni Mitchell is surely the star of all times
Celebration at Big Sur 1969. The greatest concert I've ever attended.
I remember seeing that movie/doco? when I was about 13 on TV in my country. Crosby in a jacuzzi. I just thought - gotta go there. I finally got to Big Sur in the '80s and I'm going back soon probably for the last time.
Thanks for posting, so many videos have no details on the whys and wherefores. This is magic. Stills' guitar, sometimes he would play in the wrong key, then save it
Thanks for that, I couldn't tell which concert this was. :)
HOW JEALOUS AM I??? I was 10 at the time but I already loved Joni and CSN.
Yes mate..I Was there too...that day is etched forever in my mind..I was sitting pretty close to the edge of the big hot springs pool....Owsley was there and keeping everyone dosed..thats fer sure!. I think I was camping out near Lime Kiln
Billy Peck you were lucky If i was a little order i would of been there, Later in the early 80s i got to go on the road with them for a week then i had to get back to my daughter.was alot of fun. My name is Ellen My roomate is dave Lol
Joni Mitchell is a country mile ahead of all of her contempories
In the arena of female singer/songwriter, I'll put Carly Simon at even height with Joni. Singer, Linda Ronstadt on top.
@Gino Furzi Me either, but simply a method of analogy. As Linda R. herself said on this very topic "racing is for horses" !
And she's still alive... haha
NO. Joni herself had stated in the late 90's that it took her still all the 70's to figure out a lot of things from the Music World boulders and corruption, to force her to Tango around and twist and jump over her way to realize she had to focus in what's above and will remain in her legacy centuries after Her time on this Earth has passed. I owe it to The Arts and Higher Spirits and my own Creations to remain like your children after Mom is gone. I was beyond impressed to hear her such sobriety of Vision and respect and deep reverence to her Art and Life contribution she so hard had labor for, to leave for others and inspire their Souls and hearts not just having a good passing time, even if they don't remember her name. The humbleness that just flattens you, and she's a Music star.
This entire concert is on DVD "Celebration At Big Sur" , just a few weeks after Woodstock.
Thanks
That was then, now it's, "come on everybody let's Hate everyone and everything, and, we're all in it for ourselves!!" Oh Yeah!!!!
That is why it’s important to vote blue and keep our right to voice our concerns!
I was there, sitting on the other side of the pool that separated us from the performers; I just happened to be hitchhiking and stumbled across this and was let in for free ...
That's amazing man! cherish it for the rest of your life.. I would do anything to live through this time.
How cool is that !
That was definitely a Sparkle Moment!
Probably one of the most influential moment in your life, Richard Thomas! I envy you, Man! I was 8 goin on 9; my awesome lovin bi-racial parents left their 3 lil ones @ home! As hippies, I soooo much wanted to swirl topless @ these festivals as shown on the eyewitness news on channels 2, 4, 7, & 11, . . . after all, we only had 13 channels! Dag! How simple life was back in those days!
Oh, btw, where was it @ that were so effinly lucky & blessed to just "stumble upon 'em while hitchhiking"? Incredible! Also, THANKS for sharing! Made my week!💚
The Youngbloods. Beautiful song. Beautiful rendition.
WHY do people keep repeating this untruth? Jesse Colin Young sang it beautifully, but he no more wrote this, than Joni Mitchell. Chester Powers wrote it in 1963. Look it up, if you don't believe it.
I so miss those days.
Just fantastic.
Stills just killin it !!
Literally.
This is SO beautiful!!!! I LOVE the way they re-arranged the Young bloods hit "Get Together". Joni Mitchell has a voice that instantly touches your Soul. Her voice is like an "instrument". It's unlike ANY others and personally it gives me instant positive vibes. My FAVORITE song of hers is Free Man in Paris. 😀😀😀😀
JESSE COLIN YOUNG didn't write this. Chester Powers wrote it.
1:12 That note that Joni holds out forever ... what a voice
50 years later we have forgotten everything we built here
Joni is the best, and they had the very best audience.
Joni is on peak form here-fabulous vocal, and guitar. what a beautiful melding of wonderful music and beautiful images of people getting together and loving one another. Blessed!
They soon learned that love couldn't feed them or keep them warm and the communes for the most just faded away. Lived it, they became parents and responsibility absorbed them into the system they tried so hard to avoid.Now they are reaching retirement age all this is just is great memories.The generation that was never going to get old is now old, bummer!
Oh for chrissake, we all survived and are peace loving older adults now. Why so negative about a group that I doubt you really know very much about?
I was seven years old when this happened.
I was aware of the movement because of older siblings were into it.
I naturally thought things were about to get alot better. When this generation came to its own. I am still waiting still hopeful.
Not disrespectful or disregarding the progress that has been made as am adult I can see why it is not so easy but still inside, my inner child wants to live in the kind of world that they were trying to foster.
my inner child still lives in the time that bloomed back then. my outer child exudes it. had a client say the other day i always seem so happy. i smiled. it's true. my core is happy. i was set free back then and still am. i hardly feel like i am 65, although some days after a long hard work i think i may now be 28 and not 23 anymore, ha! the beauty of that time was it taught me i can be anything, feel anything, do anything i want and be incredibly happy. ha, i could say it's like i have that "stoned" grin on me now without "being stoned".....
Not mentioned in the description: this classic song of the '60's was written by Chester Powers, aka Dino Valenti (stage name), a Greenwich Village folk musician who wrote "Let's Get Together" in 1963, and later joined the Quicksilver Messenger Service. It was also recorded and played regularly by The Kingston Trio but was really made famous by Jesse Colin Young and the Youngbloods, who shortened the name to "Get Together."
Thank you. Everyone thinks it was written by Jesse Colin Young....he performed it beautifully, made a fortune off it, but didn't write it.
I remember this time period so well, peace and love and great musicians. Love this performance.
I appreciate the sentiments. The problem with our generation was we thought we could change things with music and positive attitudes. To defeat evil takes a lot more. It can cost all you have. That’s what the previous generation, the World War II generation, learned and what we’re learning now.
Exactly!! I was born in '63 and lamented that I had missed the 60's once I started caring about such things. While I can see that many of the people at this gathering were having a deep expression of joy and connection, it feels hollow to me as I doubt that the majority of the young people at that time were able to sustain such an open heart.
Youth; and untrammeled idealism, often walk hand in hand. There were some 'rude awakenings' later on....
The 70s were great😊
Love the smiles around that wee bit of odd feedback near the start. What a happening ! Imagine being there ... but don't forget to be where you are ;)
I have never seen this footage before but its great that its come out of the wood work. An unusual, but cool version of a Youngblood's song. Joni takes it to a different place.
3:27 - the harmony at the end here is off the charts. With Jodi's voice towering ..and just dancing around the higher registers.
had such a 'deja vu' flash seeing this and then realized and remembered that I was there at that show, having driven up from the Santa Cruz mountains, as a teen from Pacific High School on my old BMW to study Yoga by the amazing and great resident teacher and father of American Yoga, Joel Kramer!
All those who have come before have shined their light of hope, and humanity has reawoken from its long sleep: the dream is still the same through the veil of time…✨
Unfortunately for me, I was working that summer one of the most amazing musical celebrations of my generation. All the same, I did get to see the Doors, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, the Lovin’ Spoonful and best of all an outdoor concert by Joan Baez at which Bob Dylan made a surprise appearance and they performed together. Totally unexpected and absolutely wonderful for a teenage folk fan. I spent some time performing at our local coffeehouse in Hartford, Connecticut as an aspiring blues singer before heading to Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY to pursue a career as an artist. It was a terrific era for a female nonconformist to pursue creative goals and begin life as an independent woman and I’m glad I wasn’t born any later!
What a voice and brilliant musical interpretation Joni had.
Joni is the most talented person on that stage....and I absolutely love Steven Stills, but she's a force of nature on her own !
Amen to that!
With respect, John Sebastian is a tremendous talent.
I agree...she created her own style
You should re-listen David Crosby, then. An absolute master of acoustic guitar.
@@OhioTilly certainly but from here he's one of many. She's unique, and as Allmusic said "when the dust settles, probably the most important female musician of the second half of the twentieth century.
I was at this festival at Big Sur 1969.
Que bella época, y Joni Michell la pintó con sus mejores colores. Un amor, eterno amor
That's rare footage! Thanks so much for posting.
Everyone’s smiling and naturally beautiful ❤
Just found this, one of my favorite songs, by the great Jesse Colin Young, sung by my favorite singer of all time, and love Crosby, Stills, Nash & Sebastian!!! I watched The Big Sur Festival in the Art Theater in Southern California as a teenager, it was great!! Especially Joan Baez singing Sweet Sir Galahad for her sister Mimi Farina.❤❤❤❤
Not written by Jesse Colin Young....Chester Powers wrote it in 1963. look it up.
Great music, great songs and great singers in the one place.
Stills came to play. And he did.
Met Stephen stills on sunset when I was homeless back in 77,but I met a lot of people you wouldn't normally meet
so much talent darlinks !!!
Joni Mitchell, such a great artist! She kills it. Stills looks like he’s on something.
This was a time of hope ..now we are so divided
The late 60s were equally as divided as now. Most American voters supported Nixon or George Wallace not the peace and love crowd- MLK and RFK were murdered a few months before this was recorded.
Stop getting your news from cable tv. Uneducated opinions should not be posted.
They were all high and pathetically useless
mike hoont Actually I don't have cable.
Not so sure bout that ..most american that voted supported Nixon a minority supporter Wallace. But I think we are more divided now. Family members aren't speaking to each other because of politics
Tommy Haynes ...Blacks don't agree with your assessment, Tommy. Huge Divisiveness during this "peacenik, flower power" era.
Artists sang more about it then. Look to the artists now! Not a lot smiling on your brother or getting together. The artists are listened to as are in the film industry. Both arenas pretty much suck now.....
What a gem of history, first time I have ever seen this one! Very rare indeed, should be preserved at all costs. Thank you for posting!!
What else can you get when these guys get together (even today!) GOOD MUSIC!!!!!!! always!!!!!!
listened to them all growing up ❤❤❤
Wow! What a gem. Such a contrast to the "Diva" crap proliferating the airwaves today. I was blessed to be just coming of age at that time.
@wavygr No
@wavygr ... No
Yep.....and she did it all without sexing it up.....didn't twerk even once!!!
Joni has a 4th vocal range: Lunar Orbit
The way they sing the "right now" part is just perfect
With John Sebastian, too. OMG, nice archive footage.
Ahhhhhh…..The days of innocence and youth and no fear ❤ I’m afraid the children of today and the future will never get to experience this …..😢
I'm glad I was born in 1951 and so glad to live to make it into the 1960s early have all this music that meant something I feel truly blessed
Thanks for this look back in time. I see the faded colors of old film but in our memories it's digital clear. Wonderful time in history.
Big Sur ----September 13-14, 1969
My sweet angel... She sings me to sleep with her beautiful voice and the next thing I know it's morning... I love it and her... Sweet little woman... The best... Jay😈😇
the best days of music ever
Joni: you are indisputably the Man.
From the look and the vibe, it's definitely California, and probably Esalen Institute or somewhere very near. Incredible. Young hippies. Even before they got their teeth done.😅 I had several friends in that ever-widening circle...Mill Valley, early Topanga, La Honda, etc...all ring similar bells in their own way. Joni's voice and spirit was just amazing then! So precious...
It is Esalen...
In the 80s we'd drive down at night, park on the road and walk down and enjoy the tubs from 12 to dawn, $5. Sea crashing below, didgeridoo into a conch, mild sulfur steam, stars, incredible.
Back when we still believed everything would be okay....
sebastian , crosby , stills , nash , and mitchell sing youngbloods get together ....says it all ......still a great message , seems like we need it more today ........rebuke the creed of greed , and VOTE american progress
Deed, before Creed! From the Ethical Society in America.
Surely we have lost our way.And yet this is a reminder of who we can be again if we want it enough.
Nature runs in cycles. Prosperity & Peace, then decadence & war, then more P&P, then more d&w. What Carly Simon sang "Coming Around Again".
Yep
What makes you think we knew our way back then? We were just grooving with the good times available and avoiding the nastiness when possible. There were serious bad events but I managed to navigate pretty well and generally had a great time. I graduated high school in 67 and have always thought that to be great good fortune of timing. The music scene was rampant with talent.
Times have definitely changed from when I would walk through our housing area with my shotgun and dog to go hunt in the surrounding fields. The only way to recreate the attitudes would be to have a very large drop in population. The denser people are the more the pot boils.
By the way, according to the electrician for Family Dog, who I worked with for several years, Joni was very free with her favors going with the times.
Silly delusion...
We've lost our way? And you think these bunch of hippies knew the way?😂 where are they now? Are they still protesting against the 'man' the system? are they still fighting the establishment? Nah, they're all part of the machine now, this kinda garbage makes is pathetic. These Artists were the judas sheep
I’d never seen this before… what a treat ❤
I'm crying now. Joni , thank you.
Phil