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# Stop! Hey, what's that sound?
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# Everybody look
what's going down... #
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I saw dollar signs. I thought,
"These guys will do something great!"
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#..Stop! What's that sound...? #
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There was sort of
a whole marketplace.
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These guys were doing something
purely unique and wonderful
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that I really loved.
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That was it.
It was like the moment of truth!
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Whether or not any one group
could hold that much talent...
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Don't forget, in Buffalo Springfield,
on top of Neil and Stephen you had Richie Furay and Jim Messina
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and, er...
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It was...
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It was explosive!
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Despite producing three albums
and a hit single,
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a combination of incompatible egos
and bad management
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made Buffalo Springfield's demise
inevitable.
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And by 1968,
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Stephen Stills and Neil Young
were once again solo artists.
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If you're political, I guess
it means a political revolution
283
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and, to some people,
it's a spiritual revolution.
284
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I like to believe that maybe people
are getting more together.
285
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# I've looked at clouds
from both sides now... #
286
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When Judy Collins sang, "I've looked
at life from both sides now..."
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#..It's clouds' illusions
I recall... #
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"Clouds' illusions".
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We'd never used words like that,
and so we discover a new songwriter
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named Joni Mitchell.
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# Rows and flows of angel hair... #
292
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#..And ice-cream castles in the air
293
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# And feathered canyons everywhere
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# I've looked at clouds that way... #
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By 1967,
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Joni Mitchell, a Canadian
folk singer based in New York,
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had already found success
as a writer.
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But a chance meeting
with David Crosby, following his unceremonious exit from the Byrds,
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would draw her west to LA.
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#..Oh, I've looked at clouds
from both sides now... #
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Walked in to a coffee house
in Florida.
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She was singing.
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My heart nearly stopped.
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#..I really don't know life... #
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I'd never heard anybody play
like her, anybody sing like her.
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I most especially had never heard
anybody write like her, and I still haven't.
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For about a year after that, we...
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..stayed together. It was good.
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David Crosby had been thrown out
of the Byrds
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and hadn't found Crosby,
Stills And Nash yet,
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so he was bumming around town
in a VW bus with a Porsche engine.
312
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And one night, David says, "Come on
up to the house and we'll get high."
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He always had the best dope.
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It was like being invited for a
wine tasting at Baron Rothschild's.
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About three or four in the morning,
we're pretty wasted and David said,
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"Oh, there's someone
I want you to hear..."
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..and comes back downstairs
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with Joni Mitchell -
live, with a big guitar.
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# Light up
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# Light up
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# Light up your lazy blue eyes
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# Moon's up, night's up
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# Taking the town by surprise... #
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She played songs
that hadn't even been recorded yet.
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Nobody had heard that music.
Nobody had heard that voice.
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For us, it was like a hallucination.
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But by the time Crosby had finished
producing her first album,
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everybody in LA knew
about Joni Mitchell.
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I did not do a very good job
of producing her record.
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But I did do one wonderful thing,
which was keep everybody else off it.
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THAT'S a good thing.
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We have the power.
We have the tolerance.
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We can go in front of a TV camera,
we can go on the air
334
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and we can say with definition that
Hitler was wrong, Rockwell is wrong,
335
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people who hate Negroes are wrong.
336
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We can get up there
and shout it to the world, Pete!
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# I thought I was dreaming
But I was wrong, yeah, yeah, yeah
338
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# Oh, but I'm gonna keep on schemin'
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# Till I can make you
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# Make you my own... #
341
00:23:46,032 --> 00:23:49,593
I spent years with the Hollies
perfecting the pop song.
342
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#..Yeah, yeah, yeah... #
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Frivolous is not the right word,
344
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but certainly a little shallower than
the stuff I was feeling personally.
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#..Oh, oh
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# Just one look... #
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So, at one point, the Hollies
were not wanting to do my stuff -
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I'm talking about Marrakesh Express,
Teach Your Children,
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Lady Of The Island, the first Sleep
Song - and it kinda made me feel bad,
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because I thought
they were decent songs.
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At the beginning of 1968,
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Graham Nash was a highly successful
but thoroughly discontent Mancunian pop star.
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By the end of the year,
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he'd joined Joni Mitchell,
David Crosby and Stephen Stills on the musical trail to LA.
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# Don't you know we're riding
on the Marrakesh Express...? #
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00:24:40,548 --> 00:24:43,752
Stephen is at loose ends
after Buffalo Springfield.
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David has been thrown out
of the Byrds.
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He and Stephen tried
to cut some songs.
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Graham, as it turns out,
meets up with Joni
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while he's on tour with the Hollies.
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#..I smell the garden
in your hair... #
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00:25:02,952 --> 00:25:04,673
Joni and I spent the night together
in Ottawa
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and I fell completely in love.
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Listening to his high harmonies
on the Hollies records, David and Stephen
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have conspired to kidnap him.
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00:25:14,712 --> 00:25:18,477
#..Let me hear you now... #
"That's just the thing we need!"
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#..On the Marrakesh Express... #
David shows up at a Hollies show in England.
368
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Crosby came, with his cape
and his cane and his attitude.
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"Hmm. Having a hard time with all
these drinking guys who don't wanna cut Marrakesh Express."
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He had the best drugs.
He had the best grass.
371
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He had the prettiest women,
who were always naked.
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#..All aboard the train... #
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Crosby said,
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"They're crazy. We'll record it.
Come on over."
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#..Come aboard... #
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If Nash had any doubts, they were
banished after a musical gathering in the Hollywood Hills.
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My memory is
that we were in Joni's living room
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and David said, "Hey, Stephen,
play that song."
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And it was, um...
You Don't Have To Cry.
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#..Cry, my baby
381
00:26:16,272 --> 00:26:19,077
# You don't have to cry... #
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And he said, "Sing it again.
That's fabulous!"
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#..You don't have to cry... #
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00:26:24,032 --> 00:26:28,473
"OK, one more time.
Just sing it one more time."
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#..You don't have to cry... #
386
00:26:30,313 --> 00:26:34,152
The third time, I put my harmony
in there and my world changed.
387
00:26:34,187 --> 00:26:37,878
#..In the morning... #
388
00:26:37,913 --> 00:26:40,752
Stephen and I both had the same
thought, which rarely happens.
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We both thought, "Oh! We know
what we're gonna be doing."
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I heard that sound and that's what
I wanted. I wanted that sound.
391
00:26:49,952 --> 00:26:54,912
And I left everything. I left
the Hollies, I left my band, I left my family and I went to America.
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#..Cry, my baby
393
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# You don't have to cry... #
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00:27:00,952 --> 00:27:04,712
Graham Nash was the latest addition
to a communal Who's Who of LA music
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that had made its home in
the most tranquil of city settings.
396
00:27:11,753 --> 00:27:16,438
Los Angeles is unusual in that it has
a mountain range running through it.
397
00:27:16,473 --> 00:27:21,953
There are several canyons that slice
through it in a more or less north to southerly trace.
398
00:27:21,988 --> 00:27:26,193
Laurel Canyon was settled
at the turn of the 20th century -
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in the early 1900s -
by land speculators.
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It was a place where, mostly, people
would come to hunt on the weekends -
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a bucolic canyon in the middle
of this unsparing urban environment.
402
00:27:41,472 --> 00:27:46,673
Since the 1920s, Los Angeles
had traded on the contrasting
allure of sun and surf by day
403
00:27:46,708 --> 00:27:49,518
and Hollywood glitz by night.
404
00:27:49,553 --> 00:27:53,317
But the spiritual Shangri-La
for a generation
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00:27:53,352 --> 00:27:57,478
collectively committed
to going back to the garden
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00:27:57,513 --> 00:28:02,033
was Laurel Canyon,
a rural paradise nestled right behind Sunset Strip.
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00:28:04,233 --> 00:28:06,132
# I'll light the fire... #
408
00:28:06,167 --> 00:28:07,997
I lived across the street
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00:28:08,032 --> 00:28:10,312
from Mark Volman of the Turtles.
410
00:28:10,347 --> 00:28:12,477
On my street alone
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00:28:12,512 --> 00:28:17,832
was Mama Cass, Henry Diltz,
Joni Mitchell, Carl Wilson.
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00:28:17,867 --> 00:28:20,489
Jim Morrison right up the hill.
413
00:28:20,524 --> 00:28:22,838
#..Staring at the fire... #
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00:28:22,873 --> 00:28:25,118
Tim Hardin was living there.
415
00:28:25,153 --> 00:28:28,953
There was Frank Zappa and the
Mothers. There was Frazier Mohawk.
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00:28:28,988 --> 00:28:31,038
Stephen Stills, David Crosby.
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00:28:31,073 --> 00:28:35,433
I'd been living there
since the Byrds. Jackson Browne.
418
00:28:35,468 --> 00:28:36,272
Micky Dolenz lived round the corner.
419
00:28:36,307 --> 00:28:38,833
#..Such a cosy room... #
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00:28:38,868 --> 00:28:40,398
Tim Buckley
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and Larry Beckett
lived somewhere else,
422
00:28:43,393 --> 00:28:46,373
but they were at our house really,
really a lot.
423
00:28:46,408 --> 00:28:49,318
Eric Burdon was living
in the canyon.
424
00:28:49,353 --> 00:28:53,273
The Doors had a place in canyon.
John Mayall lived in the canyon.
425
00:28:53,308 --> 00:28:55,478
Crazy Horse had a house
in the canyon.
426
00:28:55,513 --> 00:29:00,953
The late, great record producer Paul
Rothschild had a house in the canyon,
427
00:29:00,988 --> 00:29:05,913
with the late Fritz Richmond,
who was the jug player...
428
00:29:05,948 --> 00:29:07,917
#..Our house
429
00:29:07,952 --> 00:29:10,353
# Is a very, very, very fine house
430
00:29:10,388 --> 00:29:12,850
# With two cats in the yard
431
00:29:12,885 --> 00:29:15,277
# Life used to be so... #
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00:29:15,312 --> 00:29:21,472
Graham Nash found himself in the
midst of an extraordinary community of songwriters.
433
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But his alliance with David Crosby
and Stephen Stills was hampered
434
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by a series of contracts binding
all three to their previous bands.
435
00:29:29,507 --> 00:29:32,389
They needed professional help.
436
00:29:32,424 --> 00:29:35,237
We knew that we needed a manager,
437
00:29:35,272 --> 00:29:40,832
and we thought we had met one
that was intelligent, that we liked, in Elliot Roberts.
438
00:29:40,867 --> 00:29:43,958
He was already managing Joni,
and we liked him.
439
00:29:43,993 --> 00:29:47,272
But we also knew that we were going
into the big leagues,
440
00:29:47,307 --> 00:29:50,470
and, essentially, the big leagues
are a shark pool,
441
00:29:50,505 --> 00:29:53,598
so we thought it would be good if
we had our own shark.
442
00:29:53,633 --> 00:29:58,992
I think I liked music.
Whatever strikes me as being good is something that I wanna record.
443
00:29:59,027 --> 00:30:02,958
I don't think that every record
we make is a hit,
444
00:30:02,993 --> 00:30:05,333
or that every artist that we record
is going to be a star,
445
00:30:05,368 --> 00:30:07,673
but I think that all the music we
put out is very valid.
446
00:30:16,473 --> 00:30:19,632
First of all, I had
no contracts with my clients.
447
00:30:19,667 --> 00:30:21,718
They could all leave at any time.
448
00:30:21,753 --> 00:30:24,633
As it happens,
none of them ever left.
449
00:30:29,992 --> 00:30:35,233
It was my job to stand like a dam
against the river of shit that was coming down on these people,
450
00:30:35,268 --> 00:30:37,518
and that was a difficult job.
451
00:30:37,553 --> 00:30:40,993
I don't think THEY had a sense of how
difficult it was,
452
00:30:41,028 --> 00:30:44,437
but I certainly did
and, given how young we were,
453
00:30:44,472 --> 00:30:47,673
how inexperienced we were,
I think we did a pretty great job.
454
00:30:59,392 --> 00:31:05,593
David Geffen and Elliot Roberts
set up shop on Sunset Strip in 1969,
455
00:31:05,628 --> 00:31:08,630
and set about challenging the
balance of power
456
00:31:08,665 --> 00:31:11,598
in LA's increasingly outdated
music industry.
457
00:31:11,633 --> 00:31:15,513
Most of the business was still
centred in New York,
458
00:31:15,548 --> 00:31:19,597
so...we had an advantage
over the people
459
00:31:19,632 --> 00:31:22,512
who were surfing
and smoking a lot of pot out here.
460
00:31:22,547 --> 00:31:26,993
Our metabolisms ran
at a much higher speed.
461
00:31:30,233 --> 00:31:33,917
New York's Tin Pan Alley
and Brill Building -
462
00:31:33,952 --> 00:31:40,473
songwriting factories churning out
hits for artists considered disposable by their record labels -
463
00:31:40,508 --> 00:31:43,170
had dominated the industry
for decades.
464
00:31:43,205 --> 00:31:45,798
Geffen and Roberts had
a different model,
465
00:31:45,833 --> 00:31:49,878
in which the artist was the centre
of the musical world.
466
00:31:49,913 --> 00:31:56,032
There were deals for artists
with the record companies that were, you know, horrible,
467
00:31:56,067 --> 00:31:59,958
and David and Elliot, in particular,
changed the dynamic.
468
00:31:59,993 --> 00:32:04,192
Up until then, the artists were
getting screwed in a profound way.
469
00:32:04,227 --> 00:32:08,392
After them, they only got screwed
in a less-than-profound way.
470
00:32:11,033 --> 00:32:16,398
In 1969, David Geffen set about
negotiations
471
00:32:16,433 --> 00:32:20,633
to release David Crosby, Graham Nash
and Stephen Stills from their previous commitments,
472
00:32:20,668 --> 00:32:25,192
and allow them to begin work on
their eagerly anticipated first album.
473
00:32:25,227 --> 00:32:28,117
He's a rapacious businessman.
474
00:32:28,152 --> 00:32:31,752
Once you give him
something to work with,
475
00:32:31,787 --> 00:32:35,318
he will, you know, tear it up,
and he did.
476
00:32:35,353 --> 00:32:39,273
Elliot and I were baby doctors
helping them deliver their baby,
477
00:32:39,308 --> 00:32:40,998
but it was about them.
478
00:32:41,033 --> 00:32:43,078
They were genuinely exciting.
479
00:32:43,113 --> 00:32:46,117
When you heard them sing,
you were blown away.
480
00:32:46,152 --> 00:32:50,513
When Stephen wrote Suite -
Judy Blue Eyes, about Judy Collins,
481
00:32:50,548 --> 00:32:53,433
who he was having a relationship with
at the time,
482
00:32:53,468 --> 00:32:56,032
and you heard them sing that song,
483
00:32:56,067 --> 00:32:59,989
it was awesome.
484
00:33:00,024 --> 00:33:03,912
# Friday evening
485
00:33:06,432 --> 00:33:09,672
# Sunday in the afternoon
486
00:33:12,992 --> 00:33:16,192
# What have you got to lose? #
487
00:33:17,673 --> 00:33:19,733
They had wonderful songs,
488
00:33:19,768 --> 00:33:21,758
exquisitely roving melodies,
489
00:33:21,793 --> 00:33:24,593
and the simplest of arrangements.
490
00:33:24,628 --> 00:33:27,152
The whole thing was so pure.
491
00:33:27,187 --> 00:33:29,569
And it sang.
492
00:33:29,604 --> 00:33:31,917
And it worked.
493
00:33:31,952 --> 00:33:33,033
And it touched your heart.
494
00:33:36,633 --> 00:33:39,478
Just like their LA predecessors,
495
00:33:39,513 --> 00:33:42,318
the Beach Boys
and the Mamas And Papas,
496
00:33:42,353 --> 00:33:45,552
Crosby, Stills And Nash were
a harmony group,
497
00:33:45,587 --> 00:33:48,277
but they encapsulated a new spirit -
498
00:33:48,312 --> 00:33:52,957
the laid-back acoustic sound
of Laurel Canyon.
499
00:33:52,992 --> 00:33:56,352
We wanted to engage the listener
and put the listener on a journey
500
00:33:56,387 --> 00:33:59,369
where you smoked a big one,
took the shrink-wrap off,
501
00:33:59,404 --> 00:34:02,352
put the record on the record player,
and you were gone!
502
00:34:02,387 --> 00:34:09,873
# Guinevere had green eyes
503
00:34:11,313 --> 00:34:17,712
# Like yours, milady, like yours... #
504
00:34:20,553 --> 00:34:26,597
People say, "I don't know how many
hours I stared at that picture."
505
00:34:26,632 --> 00:34:32,753
I had a musician from England say,
"We used to sit and look at that Crosby, Stills And Nash cover
506
00:34:32,788 --> 00:34:35,910
"and say, 'What is it like
to be there in California?'
507
00:34:35,945 --> 00:34:39,033
"and just stared at that thing
while the music played."
508
00:34:39,068 --> 00:34:42,997
#..Peacocks wandered aimlessly
underneath... #
509
00:34:43,032 --> 00:34:47,472
The '60s counterculture
had been dominated by the strident psychedelia
510
00:34:47,507 --> 00:34:51,197
of acts like Jimi Hendrix, Cream
and the Grateful Dead,
511
00:34:51,232 --> 00:34:56,993
but LA had produced a new sound
that was both commercial and politically credible.
512
00:34:59,472 --> 00:35:02,793
FM radio, which was our path
to the marketplace,
513
00:35:02,828 --> 00:35:05,878
was all hard-ass rock'n'roll,
you know,
514
00:35:05,913 --> 00:35:10,953
and then along came acoustic guitars
and three harmonies,
515
00:35:10,988 --> 00:35:13,490
and it just changed everything.
516
00:35:13,525 --> 00:35:15,958
# Da-da
Da-de-dum-de-dum... #
517
00:35:15,993 --> 00:35:20,153
They had a hit album,
a formidable manager
518
00:35:20,188 --> 00:35:22,757
and were planning a live tour,
519
00:35:22,792 --> 00:35:26,472
but Crosby, Stills And Nash
also had a problem.
520
00:35:27,233 --> 00:35:32,153
Stephen played both guitar
and keyboard on the record, and you can't do that on stage.
521
00:35:32,188 --> 00:35:36,078
Stephen talked to Ahmet Ertegun, who
owned Atlantic Records at the time,
522
00:35:36,113 --> 00:35:42,473
a dear friend and a great supporter
of Crosby, Stills And Nash, and he said, "Why don't you talk to Neil?"
523
00:35:42,508 --> 00:35:45,490
# He's a perfect stranger
524
00:35:45,525 --> 00:35:48,473
# Like a cross of himself
525
00:35:48,508 --> 00:35:49,752
# And a fox... #
526
00:35:51,592 --> 00:35:55,392
Less than a year after the collapse
of Buffalo Springfield,
527
00:35:55,427 --> 00:35:59,158
Neil Young had already begun
to make his mark as a solo artist.
528
00:35:59,193 --> 00:36:06,513
Now he was the fourth front man
in a supergroup overflowing with individual talent.
529
00:36:08,952 --> 00:36:10,917
Even then,
530
00:36:10,952 --> 00:36:12,957
Neil was powerful.
531
00:36:12,992 --> 00:36:17,313
You weren't sure if you wanted
to be competing with that power or co-operating with it.
532
00:36:17,348 --> 00:36:20,112
# It's the loner... #
533
00:36:22,593 --> 00:36:27,113
It was inevitable that
that band would be as big as it turned out to be.
534
00:36:27,148 --> 00:36:28,797
No question about it.
535
00:36:28,832 --> 00:36:34,553
And it was also inevitable
when Neil joined the group
536
00:36:34,588 --> 00:36:37,512
and it became
Crosby, Stills, Nash And Young,
537
00:36:37,547 --> 00:36:40,149
that, inherent in that greatness,
538
00:36:40,184 --> 00:36:42,717
was the seeds of its destruction.
539
00:36:42,752 --> 00:36:47,612
# I'm not going back to Woodstock
for a while... #
540
00:36:47,647 --> 00:36:52,473
Crosby, Stills, Nash And Young's
mutual ambition
541
00:36:52,508 --> 00:36:55,078
had brought them fame and fortune,
542
00:36:55,113 --> 00:36:59,652
but over the next ten years, their
early potential would be squandered
543
00:36:59,687 --> 00:37:04,157
amid clashing egos, drug addiction
and the trappings of celebrity,
544
00:37:04,192 --> 00:37:10,992
and as the collective spirit of the
'60s gave way to an age that would come to be known as the Me Decade,
545
00:37:11,027 --> 00:37:14,912
LA's solo singer-songwriters
found their voice.
546
00:37:35,993 --> 00:37:37,918
When listening to music,
547
00:37:37,953 --> 00:37:41,832
look at the social forces that
surrounded it when it came out.
548
00:37:44,472 --> 00:37:46,352
Look at what happened that year.
549
00:37:50,152 --> 00:37:53,557
In the summer of 1969,
there was a genuine feeling
550
00:37:53,592 --> 00:37:58,512
that the collective values
of the Woodstock generation might change the world.
551
00:37:58,547 --> 00:38:02,592
By the end of the year, that
optimism would be all but shattered.
552
00:38:04,392 --> 00:38:07,512
The assassinations
of Martin Luther King
553
00:38:07,547 --> 00:38:10,918
and Robert F Kennedy
554
00:38:10,953 --> 00:38:12,832
so shook our world in America...
555
00:38:14,952 --> 00:38:17,958
..but in '69...
556
00:38:17,993 --> 00:38:22,072
Charles Manson
visited Los Angeles,
557
00:38:22,107 --> 00:38:26,117
and that changed the entirety
for ever.
558
00:38:26,152 --> 00:38:31,712
# Now we live in a trailer
at the edge of town
559
00:38:32,952 --> 00:38:37,518
# You'd never see us
cos we don't come around... #
560
00:38:37,553 --> 00:38:42,233
'The Manson family has become the
most notorious of hippy groups...
561
00:38:42,268 --> 00:38:45,798
'It is said they were
a pseudo-religious cult.
562
00:38:45,833 --> 00:38:49,752
'People who worked on the ranch said
they were heavy users of drugs.'
563
00:38:49,787 --> 00:38:52,872
We went horseback riding out there
at that farm.
564
00:38:52,907 --> 00:38:54,913
We knew some of the people.
565
00:38:56,953 --> 00:38:58,957
It was just terrifying.
566
00:38:58,992 --> 00:39:02,072
'Among his followers,
members of the family,
567
00:39:02,107 --> 00:39:04,473
'Manson is regarded as a saint.
568
00:39:04,508 --> 00:39:05,478
'Many call him Jesus.'
569
00:39:05,513 --> 00:39:09,993
It was the commune gone wrong,
wasn't it?
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