We should find ways to celebrate Stephen during his lifetime, he has been a treasure to multiple generations and has inspired uncountable listeners for 55+ years. There is no Hall of Fame with adequate space to ever host a pure genius like Stills. the best Right now in this moment, while he is still among all of us, is how we must step up and thank him for his wonderful enrichment of our lives though his superior gifts of words and sounds. Thanks, Stephen!
I will add my vote for Stills' genius. I am 72 and can't remember when he wasn't my favorite musician in the world! Love his guitar mastery, beautiful voice and creative abilities! 🎸❤🎼🎵
Hi Bob...such eloquent and beautiful words you have for a man like Stills that I so much admire adore and have found astonishing throughout my life with the beauty of his music. Yay to Stephen !!!! ❤️
Definitely the best of his, or any generation. Superior talents - let' call it what it is 'genius - in the vocal and instrumental realm. This morning I listened to him on UA-cam playing Robert Johnson's Crossroads, and now I'm back again this evening for "4 + 20"
@@heatherc2939 It's funny, because I always read it as "inarticulate." Really, though, he was simply speaking in the lingo of the time, which was no doubt influenced by a particular weed.
Great song, the lyric is so poetic. "I embrace the many colored beast. I grow weary of the torment, can there be no peace? And I find myself just wishing that my life would simply cease".
Among the best lyric lines I have had the pleasure of ever hearing. I was born in 1950. This song & its lyrics still--always will--make me well up. So very good...
It’s hard to imagine 24 year olds of any generation writing songs like Stills and Young did during their Buffalo Springfield era. Not sure why folks are so eager to undermine youth of today or what that has to do with Stills musical abilities.✌🏾
4 and 20 years ago i come into this life the son of a woman and a man who lived in strife he was tired of bein poor and he wasnt into sellin door to door and he worked like the devil to be more a different kind of poverty now upsets me so night after sleepless night i walk the floor and want to know Why am I So Alone?
That is from Celebration at Big Sur - 1969 just upon returning from Woodstock, sharing some of that hippie love with CA fans. The preamble is about a dust-up Stephen just had with a rowdy fan. "They loved me out of it." (There is a full-length video of the whole show.)
@@Slickdick99 Oh right... the lyrics about ho's and killing cops and my wet pu**y and all that... sheer poetry. Classics. Everyone will be listening to them in 50 years.
If you're trying to learn it, it's drop D or that :D modal' tuning he used back then. Steve Stills was a monster talent back then. Many, many hard miles ago. I'm still a fan.
Low to high, it's DDDDAD. The same tuning (except in E: EEEEBE) is used on Carry On, Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, and a few others. Supposedly Stills learned this from Springfield bassist Bruce Palmer, so it's known as the Bruce Palmer modal tuning.
Thanks for spelling it out 😊. I recall reading about it years ago ...in a Guitar Player article probably. Apparently picked up from Bruce Palmer. Wonder if it’s the same tuning he used for “Bluebird’- the endout acoustic solo? When he hits the open tuned chord once or twice during that section, it’s a beautiful sound.
@@GuiitarBilly Good question. By coincidence, I've been listening to the Springfield a lot this week. (I guess it's not really a coincidence; it's because of the Laurel Canyon documentary.) I'll listen for that the next time Bluebird comes up. What a great song.
@fenderjag114 ua-cam.com/video/szOYcHDZwUs/v-deo.html This guy did a good a job figuring out many of the licks in the song and the Still’s guitar in the instrumental endout section. He mentions he could never find tab for Bluebird but did get a version of the chords and worked it out, apparently the old fashioned way. He plays in dropped D and it’s sounds right/close- ymmv. I skipped right to the ending instrumental (😊) and it’s nicely instructional & enjoyable. With some practice and polish -depending on someone’s playing level- I think this lesson could be used to get pretty close.
And just for fun, the James Gang’s electric cover of Bluebird from their 1969 debut album. Thanks to Tom Petty’s Buried Treasure show on SiriusXM for making us aware of this one a few years ago. ua-cam.com/video/hHqdgzHRfDw/v-deo.html
Let it all be....i get the message....yet boy does it break my heart....not to let go of the hate but having to witness suffering while at yhe same time feeling connected....
This is such a cool vid of just Stills on his acoustic guitar at his best! Btw for those looking for the tuning from the original recording it’s D# A# D# D# A# D# 🙂
Isn't it D Model DDDDAD? or somewhere in the cracks going up to D#D#D#D#A#D#. I believe at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle 1975 he was nearer E#E#E#E#B#E#
@@adriantyler6911 It doesn't really matter what the 5th string is tuned to bc you never pluck it. I keep it tuned to A bc it's one less string to retune! I mean they are all the same in the end, just a couple half-steps apart. Keep rockin!
Some hippy in the audience was insulting Stephen...Stephen almost thew him in the pool and Graham Nash said: "I'll never forgive you if you throw him in the pool." So Stephen just chilled out
@aknowneemus I wholeheartedly agree! All the expensive peeps in central London like to show off by playing loud music but unfortunately it's almost always sh*t. I long for the day when i can drive through playing stephen stills at full blast!
@irelephant Don Ross uses a CGCGCC tuning and hes a more than competent guitarist. I wouldn't rate a guitarist based on the tuning they use. But I do think your right with this song inpeticular though. I don't think Stills uses the EEEEBE that everyone seems to think.
right after he beat the crap outta the guy who got on his space over fur coat and his possessions really pounded him bad. Don't mess with the still man ahahahahaa Big Sur show I almost made it there, my ride backed out over a girl issue. ie she did not want him to go..
You know I think about what Stephen is saying and I can't help but wonder if what he's saying is exactly what he is trying to convey. If you go by the assumption that Everything is Everything, then you will most likely disagree that Everything Is The Opposite Of What It Really Is. And therein lies the problem. But I believe that Stephen believed that what all of us believe is truth. Therefore, yeah I agree with him and respect his opinion, but only for what he said; not for what he was trying to convey. Peace.
'Gotta say - i'm always a little dismayed to see how hard many concerts goers work to draw attention to their no-talent selves at the expense of genuine artistry. Sad.
We should find ways to celebrate Stephen during his lifetime, he has been a treasure to multiple generations and has inspired uncountable listeners for 55+ years. There is no Hall of Fame with adequate space to ever host a pure genius like Stills. the best Right now in this moment, while he is still among all of us, is how we must step up and thank him for his wonderful enrichment of our lives though his superior gifts of words and sounds. Thanks, Stephen!
I could not agree more. Pure genius !
I will add my vote for Stills' genius. I am 72 and can't remember when he wasn't my favorite musician in the world! Love his guitar mastery, beautiful voice and creative abilities! 🎸❤🎼🎵
Hi Bob...such eloquent and beautiful words you have for a man like Stills that I so much admire adore and have found astonishing throughout my life with the beauty of his music. Yay to Stephen !!!! ❤️
I’ve bought his albums. Do you want me to blow him, or something?
So much talent
A sparkling gem of a song. Meant to be listened to alone, and late at night.
True.
That is what i am doing
Exactly as I am now
While smoking sum hashish and drinking red wine 🍷
the mental agony described in this song is bang on and chilling,and could only be written by someone who has lived through it
@at vandelay Yet I can't understand why he married such an utter fake as Véronique Sanson.
Steven has the perfect voice - so sensitive, vulnerable, mellifluous.Whenever I hear him I know I'm listening to a high end human being.
I really enjoyed this comment. This is one of my go to songs when we’re taking about favorites. I totally agree with you
With a vocabulary like that, you should be writing dime store novels.
i love him. i love this song. it has got me through all the strife in my life. it is so beautiful and has inspired me deeply.
I'm 24 and just discovered that song. It says it all. Faith is what gets me going.
A hauntingly beautiful song.
This guy is awesome, guitar, vocals, he's cool. Use to listen to this with my buddies on the way to high school. Alot of smoke in that car. 71 to 75
My favorite version of this song. Thank you thank you.
Definitely the best of his, or any generation. Superior talents - let' call it what it is 'genius - in the vocal and instrumental realm. This morning I listened to him on UA-cam playing Robert Johnson's Crossroads, and now I'm back again this evening for "4 + 20"
We obviously share a similar passion for this genius. I can listen to him 24 hours a day and even in my dreams I hear him! 🎸🎹💖
Today is April 20, (2021) That's my 4+20. Love this song. Stephen; talking, reminds me of Tom Smothers.
I out myself a an exterme Stephhen Stils fan. He's one of the best folk guitarists ever
Amazing musician ♥ driving force behind CSNY and Manassas were incredible 👏🙌
Way more than just a "folk" guitarist. Blues, R&R, Cajun, island. Name it - he played it. And played it well.
I second out myself!
That's really a little too limited to describe his guitar work.
Simply and painfully beautiful
Always loved this since I was little
Stephen in the ER third time since three weeks getting retested for C19 sucks. thanks again.
Beautiful song! Stephen puts his soul into it. Makes me feel the way he does.
By far the greatest festival I ever attended
Just saw this on the *FIFTY BY FOUR* documentary and very impressed by the texture and quality of his singing voice, passionate and real.
Haunting after all these years
such a haunting song, both in composition and in lyrics, written by someone so young... they don't make em' like this anymore... the man or the music
His best song, so true, so honest.
I love this terribly articulate man. My favourite singer song writer.
@Heather C I wonder if you meant ‘articulate’? His lyrics are poetry, I think. See the following comment.
@@leslyjmoore lesley, for 4 years that spelling error was there. Thank you for pointing it out to me. 🤩💓🤩
@@heatherc2939 It's funny, because I always read it as "inarticulate." Really, though, he was simply speaking in the lingo of the time, which was no doubt influenced by a particular weed.
Great song, the lyric is so poetic.
"I embrace the many colored beast. I grow weary of the torment, can there be no peace?
And I find myself just wishing that my life would simply cease".
Some endings say mind not life.. big difference.
Among the best lyric lines I have had the pleasure of ever hearing. I was born in 1950. This song & its lyrics still--always will--make me well up. So very good...
and a man who in strife
Most powerful part of the song
The beasts today GOP
Love this man 😘
great voice , ill always remember that i owned this album in high school when im older
Tremendous talent!
It's hard to even imagine a 24 year old in today's times writing a song of this magnitude and depth of soul. Most are still babies.
It’s hard to imagine 24 year olds of any generation writing songs like Stills and Young did during their Buffalo Springfield era. Not sure why folks are so eager to undermine youth of today or what that has to do with Stills musical abilities.✌🏾
4 and 20 years ago i come into this life
the son of a woman and a man who lived in strife
he was tired of bein poor and he wasnt into sellin door to door
and he worked like the devil to be more
a different kind of poverty now upsets me so
night after sleepless night i walk the floor and want to know
Why am I So Alone?
yes....one of the great Stills numbers
That is from Celebration at Big Sur - 1969 just upon returning from Woodstock, sharing some of that hippie love with CA fans. The preamble is about a dust-up Stephen just had with a rowdy fan. "They loved me out of it." (There is a full-length video of the whole show.)
great song , classic stills
I love playing this song on acoustic.
Brilliant. Thanks for sharing.
What if it's 2021 and I'm in love with Stephen stills?
Ok but same!
Thanks for sharing - really enjoyed seeing this footage.
Thumbs up for the many coloured beast.
This is how people spoke before the word "like" entered our vocabulary.
this song is amazing
I still have the original vinyl. It was real.
Mind blowing!
What a poet.. Most music is crap now.
Absolutely
Ok boomer
@@Slickdick99 Oh right... the lyrics about ho's and killing cops and my wet pu**y and all that... sheer poetry. Classics. Everyone will be listening to them in 50 years.
Thanks so much for posting this!!!
Favorite CSNY song hands down
truly inspiring , bieautiful
Mr. TALENT!
Embrace the many colored beast
Run thru the jungle
Keep kissing the ring
It is life and life only
Best song ever by a great artist
we were all younger then
+Dean Moriarty our age doesn't matter here...time is just experience
I performed this song with my girlfriend in 1972 at a mental hospital where I was committed for drug abuse.
We've been down the same roads I was 14 years behind you. Thanks for leaving things I needed on that road. I tried to share when I had as well
I'm rockin this!
Because, it all will be however it's gonna.....(that is spoken truth)
Aw what a virtuoso
oh my god you guys are HILARIOUS with you battling egos!!! keep it up i need to laugh tonight
there's not a reaction comment for "fuckin' awesome man!"
great song
good one thanks for sharing
If you're trying to learn it, it's drop D or that :D modal' tuning he used back then.
Steve Stills was a monster talent back then. Many, many hard miles ago. I'm still a fan.
Low to high, it's DDDDAD. The same tuning (except in E: EEEEBE) is used on Carry On, Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, and a few others. Supposedly Stills learned this from Springfield bassist Bruce Palmer, so it's known as the Bruce Palmer modal tuning.
Thanks for spelling it out 😊. I recall reading about it years ago ...in a Guitar Player article probably. Apparently picked up from Bruce Palmer. Wonder if it’s the same tuning he used for “Bluebird’- the endout acoustic solo? When he hits the open tuned chord once or twice during that section, it’s a beautiful sound.
@@GuiitarBilly Good question. By coincidence, I've been listening to the Springfield a lot this week. (I guess it's not really a coincidence; it's because of the Laurel Canyon documentary.) I'll listen for that the next time Bluebird comes up. What a great song.
@fenderjag114
ua-cam.com/video/szOYcHDZwUs/v-deo.html
This guy did a good a job figuring out many of the licks in the song and the Still’s guitar in the instrumental endout section. He mentions he could never find tab for Bluebird but did get a version of the chords and worked it out, apparently the old fashioned way. He plays in dropped D and it’s sounds right/close- ymmv. I skipped right to the ending instrumental (😊) and it’s nicely instructional & enjoyable. With some practice and polish -depending on someone’s playing level- I think this lesson could be used to get pretty close.
And just for fun, the James Gang’s electric cover of Bluebird from their 1969 debut album. Thanks to Tom Petty’s Buried Treasure show on SiriusXM for making us aware of this one a few years ago. ua-cam.com/video/hHqdgzHRfDw/v-deo.html
Let it all be....i get the message....yet boy does it break my heart....not to let go of the hate but having to witness suffering while at yhe same time feeling connected....
I am so grateful that that life did NOT simply cease....
This is such a cool vid of just Stills on his acoustic guitar at his best! Btw for those looking for the tuning from the original recording it’s D# A# D# D# A# D# 🙂
The Clagga yep!! or just DADDAD and capo 1st fret :-)
Isn't it D Model DDDDAD? or somewhere in the cracks going up to D#D#D#D#A#D#. I believe at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle 1975 he was nearer E#E#E#E#B#E#
@@adriantyler6911 It doesn't really matter what the 5th string is tuned to bc you never pluck it. I keep it tuned to A bc it's one less string to retune! I mean they are all the same in the end, just a couple half-steps apart. Keep rockin!
@@adriantyler6911 D Modal will do
@@19tractor52 yeah...bit of a typo! 😉
when I saw the film there were no blows exchanged just a shouting match with people physically restraining Stills.
And I catch myself just hopin’...
Bellissima
FACE OF JESUS CHRIST.
Poesia pura
Some hippy in the audience was insulting Stephen...Stephen almost thew him in the pool and Graham Nash said: "I'll never forgive you if you throw him in the pool."
So Stephen just chilled out
I hope to see him live again especially with david and graham
Covered this song as an 18-year-old. Maybe I wasn't old enough.
The hippie love in meڿڰۣ
bows to the hippie love in youڿڰۣ
•♫♥•☼•
ⓅⒺⒶⓒⒺ
me too mate, me too!!
happy happy day.
Fucking awesome mAN!
Yes...he's a good man, he is.
@aknowneemus I wholeheartedly agree! All the expensive peeps in central London like to show off by playing loud music but unfortunately it's almost always sh*t. I long for the day when i can drive through playing stephen stills at full blast!
Yes. I wish that my life would simply 😘😞😜👻💀
yeah
Goddamn
what was that intro speech all about?
that huge smoke bubble was pretty fuckin cool! lol
man i was born a few years too late..i feel cheated!!
@irelephant Don Ross uses a CGCGCC tuning and hes a more than competent guitarist. I wouldn't rate a guitarist based on the tuning they use. But I do think your right with this song inpeticular though. I don't think Stills uses the EEEEBE that everyone seems to think.
Smoke bubble!!!
@saibondy Damn right it is
Still true, lol..
Do you have any more clips from Big Sur? Who else was there?
DrBelser12 Joni Mitchell, for one. It was here that she introduced her song “Woodstock” to the world.
Diana Ross and Joan Baez, Manz and I believe the Bass guy with Santana, his name doesn't come to me, and Tom Lehrer was there too.
take this
with a special appearance by Rover
This song speaks so much to me
lest his politics, his music is outstanding
The tuning is eeeebe just finger pick and you got it .
right after he beat the crap outta the guy who got on his space over fur coat and his possessions really pounded him bad. Don't mess with the still man ahahahahaa
Big Sur show I almost made it there, my ride backed out over a girl issue. ie she did not want him to go..
I was there, he didn't beat the crap out of the drunk.
The film looks like he hurt the guy pretty bad.
No, he didn't. One stray punch thrown as some people stepped in. Don't exaggerate for effect or make false statements.
Great song! I used to play this song a lot! I had to change "woman" to "man", of course! Check out musicians4freedom.com. peace and happy 4/20.
You know I think about what Stephen is saying and I can't help but wonder if what he's saying is exactly what he is trying to convey. If you go by the assumption that Everything is Everything, then you will most likely disagree that Everything Is The Opposite Of What It Really Is. And therein lies the problem. But I believe that Stephen believed that what all of us believe is truth. Therefore, yeah I agree with him and respect his opinion, but only for what he said; not for what he was trying to convey. Peace.
tuning : DADDAD
'Gotta say - i'm always a little dismayed to see how hard many concerts goers work to draw attention to their no-talent selves at the expense of genuine artistry. Sad.
😴😩😫
smoke bubbles..blah hahahahaha:)
I'm sorry I said nothing mean.
Meanwhile, Neil Young was being an annoying hypocrite who wouldn't perform with the Buffalo Springfield.
Has that changed yet? Lol
It is all good
What a silly comment below this from a musical hypocrite who needs a lot more mileage before commenting.
Your weirdos and when we die let's be kind and try to die in kindness and love. Let's try🙏🙏🌞😇😇😇🌰☘☘👍🐈😢