Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young last night......WHAT A SHOW!!!!!!!

[Sacajawea]

It was at the Jones Beach Marine Theatre (yes, actually on the waterfront) on the south shore of Nassau County, New York.

THEY WERE SPECTACULAR!!!!!!!! Mix of new songs from the "Living With War" album and some of the acoustic oldies. They did sing "The Ohioan" (not sure that's the exact title - the song about the Kent State killings), "Teach Your Children", "Our House". The graphics were unbelievable!!!!!! Much of the time the only thing showing on the screens was a huge peace symbol. During one song they showed photos of the 2609 American service members who have been killed in Iraq (with the ever-increasing number running across the bottom of the screen as the song progressed). During another song they showed clips of Commander Codpiece with his lying words written out underneath.

BUT....AND THIS WAS INCREDIBLE.....Late in the show they finally did the song about impeaching the president. For this song - and this song only - they had all the words clearly written out (white on black screens) to make extra sure EVERYBODY got the message. IT WAS FANTASTIC. Many people were singing along (I was as loudly as I could).

I wore my "WORST PRESIDENT EVER" tee shirt with the photo of * holding the tiny flag on the front, and the words DEMOCRATICUNDERGROUND.COM in large letters on the back. Got a bunch of thumbs up (but not nearly as many as I would have expected).

The tickets are pricey (ours were $126 each for dead center, just a little ways up from the orchestra, i.e., just slightly elevated)...but if they're coming near to where you live and if you can manage it, SEE THIS SHOW!!!! It ended with "Rocking in the Free World."

I'm not even a rock 'n' roll concert goer. Normally I go hear Baroque music concerts. And up until last night, the greatest thing I ever saw LIVE was when I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov dance (and also Rudolf Nureyev).

ANYHOW...IF YOU CAN GO, GO!!!!!! :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

P.S. No opening act. No encore. Just them....for about 3 1/2 hours with a brief 20 break. WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Freedom_from_Chains]

1. I saw them last time they went on tour together, which was in 2000

and they were unbelievable. Glad to see that they are still putting out the same type of show.

And the correct name of the song is just "Ohio".

[WinkyDink]

12. Likewise, in Philly. AWESOME 3-hour+ concert! Young was WILD!

[Freedom_from_Chains]

54. Yeah Young just tore it up when I saw them

and they had Russ Krunkel, session guy, on drums and Donald (Duck) Dunn, Blues Brothers, on Bass. One of the best shows I have ever seen. And that's going on 35 years of rock and roll shows.

[Sacajawea]

26. FfC...I've been out at the library for a few hours...wow..so many replies!

And thank you for the correct title.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

55. My pleasure. Glad you got to see the show

On of the all time great rock and roll bands.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. $126?

I saw them free three or four times back in the very early '70s. The times they are a-changin'. LOL.

Seriously, I would love to see them again, but very few big groups come to Alaska, unless they're just going fishing and want to do a show for fun. Or unless they're Ted Nugent and want to murder a moose.

[Sacajawea]

27. Hi BIA...We met in DC last Sept.24...because of that same tee shirt!

I am sorry that they're not coming up your way. Maybe they'll release a DVD eventually.

[Blue_In_AK]

33. I do believe I remember you.

:hi: I met so many people down there, it was hard to keep everybody straight, but I do remember the T-shirt. :)

[NotGivingUp]

3. I'm getting the chills! How very cool!!! I love CSN&Y!!!

[babylonsister]

4. Excellent summary, thanks for sharing, and that sounds like

such fun! CSNY were one of my favorite bands in my misbegotten youth!

[cal04]

5. thanks for the post. Better summary than my boss

gave me. She went and told me they were terrific and you really knew how they felt
I have two boss's, one a dem and one a repuke, they never talk politics with each other though

[Sacajawea]

28. My pleasure, cal04. Glad you enjoyed it! I just HAD to share!!!

[teriyaki jones]

6. I've got lawn tickets for Chicago show

Wish I could have afforded real seats, but we have binoculars--and reading glasses in case there's a program ;) !

CSNY's Deja Vu album was one of the first two albums I got when I got involved in the "counter-culture" in 1970, so they are near and dear to my heart. I never go to concerts anymore, but this one was a MUST-SEE. Thanks for the preview.

tj

[Sacajawea]

37. tj....you're welcome. And I used binoculars, too.....I like to see things

really close up! And as I said elsewhere...the screens enable you to see pretty much of everything anyhow! ENJOY!!!!!

[davidwparker]

7. I'll bet it was. How loud did it get when they did Let's Impeach the

President?

[Sacajawea]

30. Hi davidwparker....Hard to tell how loud when you're in the midst of it...

but I was certainly screaming my lungs out!!!

[Brian Stevens]

8. That song was called "Ohio"

Written on the spot several hours after the Kent State shooting.

[Sacajawea]

35. Brian.....thank you for telling me that. I LIVED through those times.....

In fact, Kent State happened about five weeks before I graduated from college. But I was strangely, inexplicably oblivious to a great many things back then.

[Brian Stevens]

67. Wanna find a funnier sounding straight out version

Check out Devo's cover of Ohio

[liberalmuse]

9. I'm so jealous!

I LOOOOOVE these guys. I've always liked them, but in the past several months I've been listening to their stuff non-stop and reading up about the band history. I wish I weren't so damn poor!

[loudsue]

10. Does anyone have a schedule for their tour??

My husband would LOVE this! I'd love it, too, but he'd go nuts!

:kick::kick::kick:

[DesertRat]

16. here's the schedule

http://www.csny.com/tourdates

[loudsue]

18. Thanks, Desert Rat!

:hi: I'll go take a look see!

:kick:

[RebelOne]

69. Darn, they're not even coming near Atlanta.

[Serial Mom]

11. We're going Sept 6

Can't wait ... saw Neil Young on Colbert Report the other night and that was good too! Out tickets were $76 (purchased before I lost my job) and are left side of side, but should be OK.

Thanks for the info

[Sacajawea]

34. Hi cmt928.....Most likely you'll be able to see/hear them from anywhere!

It WAS incredibly loud!!! And there are those giant screens!!!

Sorry you lost your job. Hope you get another one soon! As it happens, I was fired yesterday afternoon at about 12:30 pm. But it didn't diminish my enjoyment of the evening one bit. I'll (eventually) find another job......but I'm SURE I'll NEVER EVER see another concert like that one!!!

[shanti]

13. i saw them in irvine on 7/30

awesome doesn't even begin to describe it! neil stole the whole dang show! did he break "old black's" strings at the end while doing "rocking in the free world?

[Sacajawea]

39. Hi shanti..Yes, I think he did do that..I was watching through binoculars

and I was trying to figure out what was going on. As I mentioned in my original post, I'm a rock'n'roll concert newbie (unless you count seeing the Beatles at the Paramount in Brooklyn(?) back around 1965). So I wasn't aware of this apparent tradition of his. But in retrospect, I guess that WAS what was going on. Thanks for the info!

[shanti]

60. hi!

you must have been on the "lawn" (more like the hill) like me! i was there with my sister, BIL, nephew and two of my sons. i probably won't see another show there (cause i live in sacramento and was just visiting), but man, that hill climb was a killer!

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

66. The Hill At Irvine Meadows Is Something Else.

I HATE the lawn at Irvine.

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

56. I Was At Irvine Also

Neil Young was absolutely On Fire!

Don't get me wrong, I love all of them, but it was like seeing Neil Young with guests Crosby, Stills & Nash.

[shanti]

59. exactly!

(don't tell anyone, but i really only went to see neil young!) ;-) :hi:

[QuestionAll...]

14. wow! nice, exciting account/post! did they...

play

For What It's Worth?
my fave of theirs.

There's somethin happen' here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Tellin' me I got to beware...

Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down...

edit:
WAIT, I'm getting allmixed up.
that was Buffalo Springfield!
but Neil was there and sure some of the others...

oiy. memory banks are overdrawn with worryng about Bush stuff...

[Sacajawea]

41. Hi QA......and YES, YES, YES....they did sing it (and the crowd roared)!

But as for who wrote it or sang it originally.....boy, are you asking the wrong person!!!!!! (But I am quite familiar with Mozart's K. 626)

[lfairban]

68. It was written by Stephen Stills.

More on Buffalo Springfield:

http://members.tripod.com/~Buffalo_Springfield/

[orpupilofnature57]

15. I've seen them many times, an education every time! They still apply!

As a youngster without S.P.A.C. (Saratoga Performing Art Center} I would of had zilch for Affluence or influence and consider myself and our community better off because of CS&N!

[deaniac21]

17. I had no idea that those guys were still alive. I'll bet that was

GREAT!!

[longislandAnnie]

19. I think I saw you last night, section 9L? I was in your row!

What a phenomenal show, they were so powerful, putting it all out there and sounding amazing. They were excellent and the sold out crowd loved them. The last time I saw all four of them together was at a venue in New Jersey the night Nixon resigned. They announced it from the stage and pandemonium broke out. I was hoping history would repeat itself thirty two years later. That did not happen, but I didn't go home disappointed. Great night. And after more than three years of reading DU daily, I was finally prompted to post, so thanks!

[Democrat 4 Ever]

20. Welcome longislandAnnie to DU - I am so jealous you got to see and

hear the concert. Would love to hear them live just once.

Anyway, Welcome.

[welshTerrier2]

21. welcome to DU!!

well, you still get a newcomer welcome to DU!!!

i used to live in Merrick about 100 years ago ... Jones Beach was my home away from home ...

3 years without posting, eh? by my count, you owe us at least 1500 posts to catch up ... fork 'em over ...

[annabanana]

23. Welcome to DU!!

(from another Long Island Annie) I wished I could have gone, but circumstances just didn't allow. I am sooo jealous.

The Concert was just a hop, skip & jump from my house.

[TahitiNut]

24. Welcome to DU! One of the BEST 1st posts I've seen on DU for years!

As a fellow (pre-)boomer who "came of age" with CSN&Y, The Moody Blues, and Three Dog Night, I welcome you to DU!

:hi: :party:

[Sacajawea]

42. longislandAnnie......YES, that was I (grammar police might be nearby)!!!

Section 9L, wearing the XL tee shirt (or is it XXL???? OMG, gotta go on a diet). If you had seen the DU logo on the back of the shirt, I sure wish you would have come over to say hi...I would have been thrilled to meet another DUer!!!!

But wow....you can't top your experience in '74! That announcement at a CSNY concert is one sure definition of AWESOME!!!

Anyhow, let me add my "Welcome to DU" to the long list above this post!!!
:hi: Glad my intense desire to share the experience with DUers got you to post, and I look forward to seeing you post again before 2009!!!!

[blues90]

22. My wife and I saw them july 31st at the hollywood bowl

i have not seen them in 30 years but they still have what it takes . They took us back to the past and brought us back and still the songs are valid for these times . Ohio and Chicago , rocking the free world and impeach the idiot .

We did not have the best seats but we could see them ok , they have large screens if you are far back . Really just being there and hearing them live was all that you need . I can't say if the crowd entered into the sing along much or the political position of the 18,000 people in the seats but I was into it .

We live less than a half mile from the bowl and had to go back during the day a week later just to try to get the feeling back from that night . We were just trying to hold onto what little we have to keep hopeful which their music certainly inspires .

[Sacajawea]

53. blues90.....so much food for thought in your post......

As I indicated above, I had never seen them before. The first time my SO and I went to a concert together was around 1970 and it was mostly Beethoven's music. It was at that point that we discovered that he didn't care for classical music. We have NEVER been to a concert together since (though I go to classical concerts alone quite frequently, and he doesn't go to any at all).

Around last April or so I read somewhere here on DU about Neil's new album and its title caught my attention....enough to go to his web site and to look at the schedule of concerts.

So the next day I casually mentioned to my SO about the concert being rather close to where we live and MUCH to my total astonishment, he said he's always liked CSNY and he would try to get tickets. Amazing. I had already known him at least 35 years when I first found out about two years ago that he loves orchids (and we've since been to two orchid shows at the magnificent New York Botanical Gardens or whatever it's called, in the Bronx, NY.)

And yes, they did sing Chicago.

But the main point I wanted to make is that I totally agree with the very last line of your post, and I share your feelings. SOMEONE out there has to have what it takes to stop this neverending insanity. Thanks very much for writing.

[Ishoutandscream2]

25. Neil Young is moody, unpredictable, and sometimes rude

And he is pure genius. He is certainly in my top 5 of songwriters (behind Lennon and Mccartney, Dylan, and Jagger/Richards).

[EVDebs]

29. They've gotta get it on PBS or a DVD quick ! nt

[edhopper]

31. I was at that show too.

Simply great. I sat in the nosebleed seats, only paid $50.
Funniest thing that happened is that when they started singing Let's Impeach the President (now this came very late in the show , after they had already sung several songs from Young's new album, "Living with War" and made quite a few anti-Bush statements.)
Some asshole in my section gets up and leaves, shooting the band the bird while he goes.
I mean WTF, did this guy have a clue as to who CSNY are or what they've done for 40 friggin years.
Great show.

[Sacajawea]

45. Hi ed! Now THAT'S funny!!! What WAS he thinking.....that he was going to

see "Rush Limbaugh Live?" Yes, yes, yes.....GREAT SHOW!!!!!

[proud2BlibKansan]

32. Were they wearing IMPEACH BUSH t-shirts?

A lady I know from Camp Casey sells them and she got a call from one of their managers wanting shirts for the whole band.

Here is her picure.


And here is how you can order one of these t-shirts.
http://www.wavelengthclothing.com/impeach_bush.html

[Sacajawea]

50. No, proud2Blib, they weren't. They were just wearing what for them are

I guess regular clothes (though Neil's shirt did have the look of Army fatigues and he had a similarly colored Army-looking hat on). Crosby and Stills had (really garish) Hawaiian-type shirts on, and Nash was dressed very blandly (rather like the crew of the Starship Enterprise from the original Star Trek, but without the little logo on the shirt).

[proud2BlibKansan]

52. Well they have them

and I would love to be at a show when they wear them. :)

[shanti]

61. steven still's voice

is pretty much shot. did you notice that?

[Sacajawea]

63. Hey, shanti.....well, no, I wouldn't have noticed that.

As I've mentioned above, I've never been to a rock concert before, so I don't know what he sounded like when he was younger.

Also, before the concert, the only one of them I could have identified by sight would be Crosby (because of the white flyaway hair). I had no idea who was who of the other three.

I will say that Crosby's voice sounded particularly strong (strong like an older opera singer, may be the best way I can describe it). Rather powerful at times (when needed that way), and other times very, very gentle.

[Initech]

36. Argh, I'm pissed I missed the LA date!

:banghead:

[natrat]

38. sounds like fun-i think the song is called "Ohio"

[im10ashus]

40. I am SO jealous!!!!

3 1/2 hours would fly by in that show, I am sure. :hi:

[Cleita]

43. Wow! Let the Revolution begin!

[Swamp Rat]

44. Even if they came to New Orleans I could not afford to go

:(

[Cleita]

46. I hope if they go to New Orleans that they will do it for free.

They are good guys. I once worked for a business who had them as clients.

[Swamp Rat]

47. I thought about writing to them and suggesting that when I first heard

about the tour. Maybe they could let in people from New Orleans for free with NOLA driver's licenses? :shrug:

If they came, I would make a custom Swamp Rat t-shirt to wear... and one for each of them! :D

[Cleita]

49. Do it Swampie. It's worth a try. Maybe they just need a bug in

their ear to help them think about it.

[Sacajawea]

48. SR.....If a DVD comes out, PM me your address and I'll send it to you.

That's a promise.

I hope you're doing OK down there. That's such a wimpy thing for me to say after what you've lived through. I wish CSNY would have scheduled a concert for NO and that it would have been a FREE concert. If that thought occurred to my puny brain, surely it should have occurred to CSNY!!!!! Actually, a free concert in NO would have been still another slap in the face of those mofos in DC.

P.S. I always keep my promises.

[longislandAnnie]

51. Thank you for your warm welcome and right back at you!

Sacajawea, I would have definitely come over if I had seen DU on the back of your shirt.It would have been such a treat to meet a fellow DUer! Oh well, but doesn't it feel good to know we're out there?

[Sacajawea]

58. Yes, it certainly does. And thanks to EVERYONE for posting here....

It was so very, very enjoyable to hear YOUR experiences from all over the country and from CSNY's earlier days.

Dorothy only had it partly right: "There's no place like DU home." :grouphug:

[WinkyDink]

57. I just checked the next Philly show: I pulled up Row M, left front floor-

$255!
I passed.

[Olney Blue]

62. I just got the Living with War album. It is amazing!

[blues90]

64. The first time I saw them

Was before they were CSNY , it was buffalo springfield with young and stills . there was a small club for the youth between 16 and 19 called the dark spot in a suburb called roselle in Illinois . Young had this buffalo bill jacket on and at the end youg was so into his guitar that stills finally pulled the guitar cord out of youngs amp and young kept going . This was back in the days of a bit of drug use .

I can't believe it's been so long ago , time flies now look where we are , in some kind of hell .

This concert was the only thing since 2000 that I looked forward to .

[GreenTea]

65. bartcop.com would love it if you have a photo wearing the "T"

[Sacajawea]

72. Hi Green Tea!

Except that it wasn't Bart's Worst President Ever shirt.....It's the one made by DU!!!

And besides, to be totally truthful, not only don't I have a scanner hooked up to my computer (I don't have a PRINTER even) and I don't own a digital camera. They're going to have to pry my 35mm Minolta out of my cold dead hands before I give it up.......or until they stop manufacturing film! :)

[Atman]

70. Sounds like the show I saw in Philly

Opening night of the tour...it was equally superb, and ranked up there with my all-time favorite concert experiences (I can't remember most of my other all-time favorite shows, which means they all must have been GREAT! -- LOL! Child of the seventies, you know!). I've seen Neil Young several times, in all his incarnations, from pure accoustic at Tanglewood to kickin' ass with Sonic Youth and Crazy Horse in Hartford, but I'd never seen all four of them perform together. I expected the worst, like one of those perpetually touring Chicago or Beach Boys shows that turn up every summer -- ugh -- but the boys were TIGHT and the harmonies were as sweet as ever.

I agree with your assessment. Coughing up $126 a ticket officially made it my most expensive concert ever, but I think they figured on the demographic being lots of 40-something professional people with plenty of spare cake, as opposed to struggling kids who hitchhiked across the state with five bucks in the torn Levi's. I mean, if anyone told me a few years ago that I'd spend $45 on a t-shirt and $32 on a cap (which someone has already stolen! -- the awesome one with the peace sign, no-W, and No War symbols on the front) I'd say "pass the spliff, dude!" But how could I not? I have to mail order a replacement cap. The looks I'd get while wearing it were always fun, be the reaction negative or positive!

Thanks for the review. I hadn't heard much about the tour since we saw it. It breezed through Boston without hardly a mention out here in Hartford. Go see it if you can, people. Even if CSNY was never your favorite group, this show will send chills down your spine, and give you some real pride in your country again. It was a very "patriotic" show, and the a capella tribute to the fallen soldiers, while their pictures filled the big screen behind the stage, was a real tear-jerker!

[lfairban]

71. Classic

If it ain't Baroque, don't fix it.