www.beograund.com CSNY live at Big Sur, California, September 14, 1969. DOWN BY THE RIVER Be on my side, I’ll be on your side, baby There is no reason for you to hide It’s so hard for me staying here all alone When you could be taking me for a ride. Yeah, she could drag me over the rainbow, send me away Down by the river I shot my baby Down by the river, Dead. You take my hand, I’ll take your hand Together we may get away This much madness is too much sorrow It’s impossible to make it today. Yeah, she could drag me over the rainbow, send me away Down by the river I shot my baby Down by the river, Dead.


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@clickswitchh You kiddin’? That’s not an ego battle – that’s some serious MAN love goin’ on between those two.
@blinkziggy was just thinkin the same thing!
Too bad the video stopped where it did…
look at 5:04 there’s a dude walking around with headphones in. what a stoner
funky drummer
@tonyrosam hippies are specifically people who act counter culture but don’t do anything about it. All a hippie is is his superficial rebellion. What? you work for a company and want to sleep well at night all of a sudden?
great video…dang. Wonder if all those people in the crowd went back into corporate america, told their kids not to do drugs, voted like sheep, raised their kids like pets, and for sure by now have not changed the world for the better but instead only been the ghost of an inspiration…like obama…oh!!! shit how’s it feel to be the old tight ass hangin’ on to yesterday’s bs?
Good ole days what more can I say……Peace
I’m looking for their song called “Wasted on the way”. From 1982.
haha…check out the tambourine man at 5:00…then again, the way these rock gods play, i’d nosebleed, lose all my good sense and imagine i could whistle my way into their peership if i’d been that near them myself…
The new hippies know how not to look like hippies. they are still here
@KoxxMobilhome Yes they do big time… And I need a hippie girl too! lol
@bigsbyfreak Yes your right,it can be very lonely these days sharing this music with friends.Where are the hippies?One of these they’ll come out again.The world needs them.
@busterbone hehe lol
This is classic…. todays music for the most part is forgettable & throw away…. this is still COOL after 40 years. How I wish for simpler times.
I rembember dancing like Joan Baez at 0:34
where are all the hippies gone……?
Great concert!
@christcomesalive it’s an excerpt from the film called “Celebration at Big Sur.” It was shot at Esalen Institute, in Big Sur around 1969ish.
wonderful
Born in ’63, grew up with this stuff.
Great video, thank you for putting it up!
epic footage; great song and a great live performance”
Anyone know where I can get a more complete copy of this performance? Hopefully in slightly better quality…
@Piritu
I THINK it’s Lyle Lovett, it looks like him!!