Trivia note: Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead added the pedal steel guitar that makes the song what it is. Jerry was gifted a Stratocaster by Graham Nash for his part. The Strat became known as Alligator, and was played with the Dead for many years.
Just another example of the outpouring of unique and really good kinds of music back in the 60-70's. Everyday you could hear a totally new and unique sound. Yes, that happens all the time but back then there was an explosion of it.
Nope, no Neil Young. He mostly just dropped by to cut his songs, sometimes just dropped off a tape. This song is pure CSN with Jerry Garcia, lead guitar for the Grateful Dead, on the signature pedal steel guitar licks.
Both CSN and CSNY are amongst the best music of the 1970’s.The blending of the voices of CSN is magical. Even on the album Deja Vu most of the songs are vocals by just CSN. Neil added his very fun Gguiyar work and the last song on that album, Country Girl is all Neil which you need to react to ! Neil is a tremendous force on his own with his own unique style!
Yes they’re both great, I won’t address “better” because I think that’s meaningless. CSNY has another layer of depth and richness and to me that’s about all.
On this track, you have Nash playing acoustic guitar, Jerry Garcia on pedal steel guitar and Dallas Taylor on drums. Stills probably recorded bass. Deja Vu is an album by CSNY but Neil only appears on four tracks. So this is 'the Neil Young version' but he's not on it. However, you heard him singing lead and songwriter on 'Ohio.'
Enjoyed your reaction to CSN&Y's "Teach Your Children". The country feel you mention is highlighted, IMHO, by Jerry Garcia's Pedal Steel Guitar. The tune was an anthem for 20 years olds back in the day. I don't think I've ever heard of a Neil Young version, I'll have to check.
This song was a response to what in those days was called the "generation gap." The adults were World War II veterans and older who had lived through the Great Depression and held the firm believe of the rightness of the United States in all things. Their children, on the pother hand, had experienced the Civil Rights movement, were being drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, were experimenting with illicit drugs, and the introduction of the birth control pill had freed women to experiment with pre-marital sex without the consequence of pregnancy (most of the time). Young adults were at war with their parents, and vice versa. This song is a plea for understanding between the two camps.
Helpless is the best Neil Young CSN&Y song in my opinion (the one that sounds the most like Young I mean). Our House is the quintessential Nash song. But most songs of CS&N and CSN&Y were written by Stephen Stills. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes is Stills' masterpiece.
A lot of the difference is who wrote a particular song. They were not so much a group as they were individual performers who recorded and performed together. Their music was quite fluid.
Hey great choice, good reaction. I bought this album when it first came out and I was 16, we wore that mfkr OUT - like all our favourite vinyl. Because: it was meaningful, it was important. Our parents, Boomers’ parents, experienced a GLOBAL FKG DEPRESSION as CHILDREN - not a recession. My mother, growing up on a Midwest farm, I almost can’t believe this myself, remembered when their farmhouse first got electricity (😮- Roosevelt’s Rural Electrification Project) AND when they first got indoor plumbing!) THEN they experienced a WORLD FKG WAR as TEENAGERS: my father was sent to fight in the Pacific - at age 18(!) Just imagine how terrifying. THEIR kids, we Boomers, were raised during the best economy the US has EVER seen: 1945-1973. Mass media, TV, pop culture, relative affluence. BUT we were also being sent off to a war against our will. - This is just to help give y’all a little perspective ❤ So, of COURSE our experiences of life and the world could not have been more different and there was a LOT of conflict. This track comes along and tries to help nurture just an ounce of intergenerational understanding, a little generosity. And it helped. A little. It even helped my parents. A little. To hear this again for the first time in 45-50 years, my parents now gone, is VERY moving. That’s just the content 😊 Of course the writing, the performances, the slide guitar, the harmonies, are brilliant and gorgeous.
Graham Nash wrote this one. Only CS&N are singing. This was the one you heard. Ohio was written by Neil Young, and that was CSN&Y singing. That's the difference.
Can we say, "harmony". Yea you have a beautiful journey. I love them with / or without Neil Young. He's on my top 3 musicians, but he's a great addition to c, s, n
Personally, Neil Young's whiny falsetto grates on me worse than nails on a chalkboard. Your mileage may vary, but I really love the 3 part harmony of CSN
NEIL YOUNG ONLY SANG ON HALF THE ALBUM AND THIS WAS ONE OF THE SONGS HE DID NOT , DID NOT SING ON... THIS IS ANOTHER SONG WERE YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT AND YOU ALWAYS COME OUT LOOKING VERY STUPID.. THERE IS NO VERSION RECORDED OF THIS SONG WITH NEIL YOUNG... AND THE ONLY ELECTRIC IS A PEDAL STEEL GUITAR PLAYED BY LEGENDERY GUITARIST JERRY GARCIA OF THE GRAEFUL DEAD.. YOU NEED TO REALISE THAT. OST MUSICIANS SUCH AS ME CAN. CATCH YOU SPITTING OUT FALSE CLAIMS ACTING LIKE YOU REALLY KNOW YOUR ROCK MUSIC BUT YOU DON'T , WHY CAN'T YOU JUST REACT HONESTLY INSTEAD OF ACTING LIKE YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT???? WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL????? I'VE SEEN HUNDREDS OF REACTORS ON TH-cam AND I HAVE ONLY FOUND 1 GUY WHO IS HONEST AND TELLS YOU WHAT HE THINKS AND THE ONLY ONE WHO WILL TELL YOU THAT HE DIDN'T LIKE SOME SONGS , CHECKOUT POLOREACTS... POLO REACTS HE PUT BOTH WORDS TOGETHER... WITH HIM IT'S 100% AUTHENTIC REACTIONS AND YOU CAN CAN SEE COR YOURSELF.......
Jerry Garcia on the Pedal Steel guitar !
Trivia note:
Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead added the pedal steel guitar that makes the song what it is.
Jerry was gifted a Stratocaster
by Graham Nash for his part.
The Strat became known as Alligator, and was played with the Dead for many years.
NEXT -- Gotta listen to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" CSN - It's FABULOUS!
Just another example of the outpouring of unique and really good kinds of music back in the 60-70's. Everyday you could hear a totally new and unique sound. Yes, that happens all the time but back then there was an explosion of it.
Rest In Peace Mr Crosby
Nope, no Neil Young. He mostly just dropped by to cut his songs, sometimes just dropped off a tape. This song is pure CSN with Jerry Garcia, lead guitar for the Grateful Dead, on the signature pedal steel guitar licks.
Love this one too, the harmonies are beautiful. Well done! 😊
Back in the day we used to call em "Crosby, Stills, Nash and (sometimes) Young. He did not always play with them due to artistic disagreements
Beautiful - one of my favorites growing up. Try "Love the One You're With." Fire! KP
Both CSN and CSNY are amongst the best music of the 1970’s.The blending of the voices of CSN is magical. Even on the album Deja Vu most of the songs are vocals by just CSN. Neil added his very fun Gguiyar work and the last song on that album, Country Girl is all Neil which you need to react to ! Neil is a tremendous force on his own with his own unique style!
Yes they’re both great, I won’t address “better” because I think that’s meaningless.
CSNY has another layer of depth and richness and to me that’s about all.
It could be said that this is by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Garcia. Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead played the exelent Pedal Steel on this track.
Both versions are amazing. Just different flavors
Neil only sang on 5 songs on this album and this was not one of them.
No need to compare. Different is good
Singing is what's up forever
Steven Stills drives this group. He's a genius.
On this track, you have Nash playing acoustic guitar, Jerry Garcia on pedal steel guitar and Dallas Taylor on drums. Stills probably recorded bass. Deja Vu is an album by CSNY but Neil only appears on four tracks. So this is 'the Neil Young version' but he's not on it. However, you heard him singing lead and songwriter on 'Ohio.'
Enjoyed your reaction to CSN&Y's "Teach Your Children". The country feel you mention is highlighted, IMHO, by Jerry Garcia's Pedal Steel Guitar. The tune was an anthem for 20 years olds back in the day. I don't think I've ever heard of a Neil Young version, I'll have to check.
This song was a response to what in those days was called the "generation gap." The adults were World War II veterans and older who had lived through the Great Depression and held the firm believe of the rightness of the United States in all things. Their children, on the pother hand, had experienced the Civil Rights movement, were being drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, were experimenting with illicit drugs, and the introduction of the birth control pill had freed women to experiment with pre-marital sex without the consequence of pregnancy (most of the time). Young adults were at war with their parents, and vice versa. This song is a plea for understanding between the two camps.
Carry On has great harmonies. It is from the same album as this song
Helpless is the best Neil Young CSN&Y song in my opinion (the one that sounds the most like Young I mean). Our House is the quintessential Nash song. But most songs of CS&N and CSN&Y were written by Stephen Stills. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes is Stills' masterpiece.
A lot of the difference is who wrote a particular song. They were not so much a group as they were individual performers who recorded and performed together. Their music was quite fluid.
Don't forget Neil young solo song in the 80s ....Rockin' in the free world Please try it
Hey great choice, good reaction. I bought this album when it first came out and I was 16, we wore that mfkr OUT - like all our favourite vinyl.
Because: it was meaningful, it was important. Our parents, Boomers’ parents, experienced a GLOBAL FKG DEPRESSION as CHILDREN - not a recession. My mother, growing up on a Midwest farm, I almost can’t believe this myself, remembered when their farmhouse first got electricity (😮- Roosevelt’s Rural Electrification Project) AND when they first got indoor plumbing!)
THEN they experienced a WORLD FKG WAR as TEENAGERS: my father was sent to fight in the Pacific - at age 18(!) Just imagine how terrifying.
THEIR kids, we Boomers, were raised during the best economy the US has EVER seen: 1945-1973. Mass media, TV, pop culture, relative affluence. BUT we were also being sent off to a war against our will.
- This is just to help give y’all a little perspective ❤
So, of COURSE our experiences of life and the world could not have been more different and there was a LOT of conflict.
This track comes along and tries to help nurture just an ounce of intergenerational understanding, a little generosity.
And it helped. A little.
It even helped my parents. A little.
To hear this again for the first time in 45-50 years, my parents now gone, is VERY moving.
That’s just the content 😊
Of course the writing, the performances, the slide guitar, the harmonies, are brilliant and gorgeous.
I love this song, but I don’t think Neil Young is on this track but I’m sure someone will let you who knows more than I do
Graham Nash wrote this one. Only CS&N are singing. This was the one you heard. Ohio was written by Neil Young, and that was CSN&Y singing. That's the difference.
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I believe it was the Neil Young version u listened to. It is the version I listened to as a new recording in 1970.
They had beautiful harmony.
you should listen to the cover done by kathy mattea allison krauss and suzy bogguss
This song affected my childhood . My parents thought they sang beat your children well. Really wish they had read the lyrics .
they're both excellent.
check out ' helplessly hoping' angels couldn't harmonies better.
Huge Difference Mob, Because Of Neil, He Has A Huge Library With His Band So! Neil Plays Acoustic, Electric, Piano, Harmonica, And Sings 🙂
Next up, CSN- Helplessly Hoping
Young did not play on this one. On most albums he plays only on his own songs. Jerry Garcia played the slide guitar.
Can we say, "harmony". Yea you have a beautiful journey. I love them with / or without Neil Young. He's on my top 3 musicians, but he's a great addition to c, s, n
Could it be Rusty Young playing the steel guitar who played with Poco, Richie Faray's group? Faray played with Buffalo Springfield.
Nope, Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead.
Why do ya gotta split the baby they are both equally Great! with or without Young?
Thouse dope smoking hippies could play some pretty good country music.
Burned out 💀
Hard to match their harmony
I like them both! Why choose?
Personally, Neil Young's whiny falsetto grates on me worse than nails on a chalkboard. Your mileage may vary, but I really love the 3 part harmony of CSN
No Neil Young. Just CSN on this track.
NEIL YOUNG ONLY SANG ON HALF THE ALBUM AND THIS WAS ONE OF THE SONGS HE DID NOT , DID NOT SING ON... THIS IS ANOTHER SONG WERE YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT AND YOU ALWAYS COME OUT LOOKING VERY STUPID.. THERE IS NO VERSION RECORDED OF THIS SONG WITH NEIL YOUNG... AND THE ONLY ELECTRIC IS A PEDAL STEEL GUITAR PLAYED BY LEGENDERY GUITARIST JERRY GARCIA OF THE GRAEFUL DEAD.. YOU NEED TO REALISE THAT. OST MUSICIANS SUCH AS ME CAN. CATCH YOU SPITTING OUT FALSE CLAIMS ACTING LIKE YOU REALLY KNOW YOUR ROCK MUSIC BUT YOU DON'T , WHY CAN'T YOU JUST REACT HONESTLY INSTEAD OF ACTING LIKE YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT???? WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL????? I'VE SEEN HUNDREDS OF REACTORS ON TH-cam AND I HAVE ONLY FOUND 1 GUY WHO IS HONEST AND TELLS YOU WHAT HE THINKS AND THE ONLY ONE WHO WILL TELL YOU THAT HE DIDN'T LIKE SOME SONGS , CHECKOUT POLOREACTS... POLO REACTS HE PUT BOTH WORDS TOGETHER... WITH HIM IT'S 100% AUTHENTIC REACTIONS AND YOU CAN CAN SEE COR YOURSELF.......
U Why don't the brothers?
Sing together anymore.