Celebration At Big Sur Part 1
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- BIG SUR Calif. 1969
A musical documentary of the 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival, filmed in a chaotic style reminiscent of Woodstock. It features performances by Joan Baez, John Sebastian, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and the Combs Sisters.
Some of the finest folk singers and musicians in the world positioned themselves on the edge of some of America's most glorious scenery for a farewell to summer and a celebration of nonviolence in mid-September. It was the sixth annual Big Sur Folk Festival.
The festival, held on the tree-shaded lawns of Esalen, also differed from other recent celebrations in that here the "scene" did not eclipse the music, but merely served as a complement. According to its producers, Nancy Carlen and Paula Kates, Big Sur was designed as a "performers festival," an opportunity for artists to come together after a hectic summer on the festival circuit for some peace and solitude.
Crosby Stills Nash and Young played the final set, as on Saturday, repeatedly bringing the thinning crowd to it's feet. For a finale - with the audience pushed forward around the pool, closer to the performers now - everyone at the festival reprised "Oh Happy Day". - Hudba
I was there. Wow. What a memory. Big Sur, the very special Esalen Institute, spent 2 days there photographing and ended up selling a back cover for Kris Kristofferson's album, what a gas..what a time it was....
where can i see your photographs of those 2 days !?
I was there, too! What a festival it was!
Just got back from Big Sur, you can still feel the vibe decades later. I was too young to go on my own but was so aware of the movement. The 60's cant be replicated by anything but some young people who weren't even born yet can dig the scene and the music, My son in law is so in tune, knows the Beatles songbook better than me! That's how powerful the music and culture was.
This was my youth. So precious! We shifted the consciousness of America!
Yes we did Terry and thank god we did. It needed shifting
It's so nice to read the comments from people who, like me, were there at the time. Reading down this page is like a cosmic class reunion. In so many ways, I still remember that weekend as one of the happiest times of my life - in spite of having lived a wonderful, successful and fulfilling life since. I am so happy and grateful to have been in this world at this time.
Wow, I was there. Like it was yesterday in a different life.
man. bet you have some stories.
I was there, too. A senior in high school at the time. Yes, it was pretty magical in a way. There were these well known performers right in front of us. Unlike the many dozen concerts I had attended near where I lived in Southern California where the bands were ‘up on stage’ .
Glad I found this video.
i was there too. a wonderful memory.
I was there too.
Lucky u two
@@lastnamefirst4035 how awesome. i mean really. being there. so cool.
You know what they say, if you remember it you weren't there. I remember being there but not much else. I do recall Joan's acapella version of Amazing Grace. After each line we could hear the echo off the mountain behind us.
I was there. A bunch of us drove down from Marin County. I don't remember who I was with, but we stopped in Santa Cruz. I remember Joan singing and the sun coming out of the clouds behind her. And seeing Stephen and Joni having an argument. Or maybe I was just high.
I was there too!
Hilarious opening. The fuzz was still rather unnerved by us,
@Thomas Phillips, I was there too & wish I could find that acapella version! So powerful still remember to this day!!!
BTW, also knew Richard Farina. Such wonderful times, miss so much!
I was a bit young at the time but was drawn as so many San Franciscans at the time, to the unique music, the creativity in dress (I made my own bell bottoms) if poor, and yes, a non-conformist conformity. Anti-war, pro-environment, pro-civil rights, feminist, and why conservatives to this day hate the 60s and blame all ills on it. It was by no means perfect (especially the goofy dancing LOL) but so much good came of it -- that cannot be denied.
So true Minnie. I was a hippie chick too and proud of what we strived for and accomplished much more than getting high
I have it on an old vhs too. CZcams saved me the searching through the bin of music video tapes I made way back when
Thanks so much for posting. I will never forget this amazing musical day.
they better bring this out on DVD.
Clear it with the Sheriff first.............that's awesome dude.
i want to be there now.
The 1970 Big Sur Folk Festival took place at the Monterey fairgrounds and featured Joan Baez, Beach Boys, Kris Kristofferson, Country Joe McDonald, Linda Ronstadt, and John Phillips.
Barry, do you mean Monterey Pop Festival?
When I get my time machine running I'll let you know.
I was there ...
So was I.
I was there!
So was I.
I wasn’t
i was reading about this in the new CSN book and was just thinking to mysef..."i wonder if it's on youtube...."
The woman at the end of the clip - Aussie, Kiwi or Brit? lol Can't us down, we're everywhere. For the record, audio is recorded separate to film, on a tape to tape recorder, so that's why that massive boom is in shot. Wasn't there for show. Of course its the cop's voice. Anyway, thanks for posting. A beautiful record.
muito muito muiiiito loko ....very nice...!
since we don't have time machines... the closest thing I know of is Bonnaroo :D can't wait for the summer
Yes, where is my time machine!!!!! I was born in the wrong time!!!!!!!
That's LIlian Roxon (Australian) girl at the end of this clip!!!!
You lucky dawg :) wish we could have a drink and some smoke while you tell me everything. If only I'd been born ten years sooner.
I wonder if the policemans voice was overdubbed later as he asked about getting clearance for "videotape him". Noone was really using videotape at that time. It was film. He would have said "film him" in 1969, not "videotape him".
Videotape was used long before '69. If he thought it was television he might well have said videotape.
nice
Why has this not been released on DVD?
Wow.
This was just a few weeks after Woodstock.!
Never was much of a Joan Baez fan.....
I'm still not a fan of Baez. But I was there, all right.
Something I've noticed with concert footage from the 60's and 70's is the absence of overweight young people. I guess the internet, video games, and having a MacDonalds on ever corner is partly to blame.
They had McDonalds (and Burger Chef, Dog & Suds, A&W, Dairy Queen & many, MANY locally-owned) on every corner back then. Not to mention all the soda fountains in drugstores. Everyone ate burgers & fries, & had ice cream for dessert. Ken Kesey wrote extensively about fast food culture in the 50s & 60s - the neon-glowing drive-in hamburger stand around which teenagers congregated. Back then, sedentary people tended to be underweight, not overweight. My money is on additives in prepackaged food, or different types of ingredients (corn oil as opposed to coconut oil they used to use all the time). Maybe even things they put in with the best of intentions, but it has a side effect.
When they made "Taking Woodstock" the guy casting for the crowd scenes said he had a hard task to find people with non-overweight bodies as in the 60s because everyone who auditioned was "toned, waxed and bronzed to perfection". People did not do that in the 60s. The exercise frenzy started in the mid-70s with jogging.
@@ksol1460tv Also young people tend to be in better shape than older
Or maybe beauty standards for celebrities is about the same?
My commune ate macrobiotic with occasional hamburger interruptions. Ha ha ha ha ha , @@ksol1460tv
sure was Lillian -- look her up in Wikipedia -- she was a pen-pal of mine.
Roger that ten 4
Right behind you ........next stop 69!
@foxysquirrel ... I wonder where the footage is that didn't make the film... ...I was there and the very first song was sung acapella by Joan Baez.... ...It echoed back from a canyon behind the audience... ...Breathtaking,...beautiful,...and surreal,...all at once...
...Almost put a Porsche into the ocean...Had a flat on the way up...
Does anyone remember which singer got pushed into the pool?
Which song is that?
I shall be released by dylan
It's on Music from Big Pink too.
Video tape, much like colour film, is really not as new as people seem to think. Also, I shall Be Released if sped up a bit is quite a good song, not that I don't like old commie Joan but this is to slow for a film opening song.
I never liked Joan Baez much. But I remain a socialist to this day. And I was there.
I remember first seeing this and it solidified to me what hedonist, core of poseurs a certain group of folkie/peace fighter singers were. It was an elite hedonist club that really stood for nothing.
Well, hooray for your sad pathetic life.
Lee Ann Achterberg Oh boy. I hit a sore spot with someone. I'll try to refrain from opinions that differ from yours and your sad pathetic delusion of a life.
my spirit isn't at all jaded. Of the people of that era I have real respect for Neil young is one of them. I think you might notice he kept a bit of a distance from those swept up in the fantasy. The band CCR I have high regard for as well. It is the fight with the bum that exposes Stephen Stills as a narcissist and nothing more.
corvette290 I was there also and I remember, maybe I wasn't there if I remember anything about it. If this was the same festival and I think it was, I remember my friend Zeeb picking up Lily Tomlin and jumping into the pool with her. That was the 60s in BS. Patrick Cassidy was there moaning and crying and generally making a scene over the loss of his girlfriend. She was a beauty. I also worked at Deetjens.
I totally agree with you, This was when all those guys of his ilk were living in the "Valley" and rooming together. Jackson Browne, the Eagles etc. They were all getting rich and famous from guys like Dave Geffen. They were blowing a lot of dope and were anointed the generation's leaders of Peace, Love and Understanding.
The kids in the video were aimless waifs, runaways, con-artists and all that turned out bad when the devil let loose the likes of Manson. Then everything turned ugly very fast.
His picture on the cover of Time magazine was the beginning of the end of the Flower Power.
I was there. Sorry, I can't stand Joan Baez's voice, so I won't listen to this segment.