This track and "Everybody's Been Burned" are my all~time favourite David Crosby Lead Vocal performances!

At times like low notes on a flute...

Apparently his ears were so prominent that they used to stick them back with chewing gum. . . or was that Bing?

@@MisAnnThorpe Not sure, maybe it was Dumbo!

I like the way you worded that.

Rubbish

Mmm, not quite. I do hear Roger McGuinn's 12 string though.

I think the vocal performance on David's live performance of Triad on CSN&Y's Four Way Street is even better, it's really soulful and emotional with great phrasing.

It is now!

Also for getting on stage with buffalo Springfield at Monterey pop

Crosby was a pain in the ass, it happened over time first getting Gene to jump and then trying to take over leadership of group

The Byrds didn't deserve him

After I heard the sad news I immediately thought of "Teach your children".

Preferisco questa versione dai Byrds.

You are so right!

Yes, it was a song that definitely defines the ethical non-monogamous community!!!

Joe Giersher, Not sure about that dismissal of the remarkable coda to the album. My God, it's the first ever "space shanty" (not an instrumental, by the way, as McGuinn sings it) and is, arguably, more timeless with its folky drone than "Triad", great though Crosby's paean to three-way-love is. "NBB" has perfect running order as it is and I, for one, can't see where it would sit with the other tracks. Same with "Lady Friend", great song though that is. It really could only ever be a single as it post-dated "YTY" but pre-dated "NBB" sessions.

1. Artificial Energy 2. Goin' Back 3. Natural Harmony 4. Draft Morning 5. Wasn't Born to Follow 6. Get to You 7. Bound to Fall (instrumental) 8. Change Is Now 9. Old John Robertson 10. Triad 11. Tribal Gathering 12. Dolphin's Smile

I totally agree with you brother Joe it sounds so beautiful and Lovely😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.

@@3rdUncleBob brother Bob every one of those Byrd masterpieces are phenomenal and beautiful and very soothing to the senses i truly love the Byrd's whole heartedly wholesome goodness peace to you kiddo😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.

Triad should certainly have been on the album,but Space Odyssey is one of the great album closers.

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A truly sublime performance of the song is indeed just Crosby and his guitar on 4 Way Street.

Considering how they felt about him at the time, I'm surprised that they didn't put the other end of that horse in the window.

Guy Webster, photographer for The Notorious Byrd Brothers album, tells on the cover shooting: "The picture was done up in [Topanga] Canyon. The group was going through changes. I got a call to shoot the album cover. They wanted to go out to the country, since their first album cover was shot in a studio. So I found this abandoned barn with four open windows. There was a horse in the field. I put each one of the guys in the windows. And in the last window I put the horse. I was mistakenly accused of denigrating David Crosby. It wasn’t to replace Crosby, who had been fired; it wasn’t to insult anyone. It was just to balance the composition. It was just a space and a horse. And what an image!"

​@@jeb909I shouldn't laugh, but I can't stop! 😂 I'm not taking sides though. Crosby himself confessed the reason he was fired from the birds was because he was an @$$hole. He confessed his ego at the time was "larger than the Washington Monument".

When Grace sings this it`s about two guys and a girl. When David sings it it is about one guy and two girls. Am I right ?

@@franzllattner who can really say for sure, this was the time of "free love"

@@squidboii It was, but I've never heard or read anything about either of them ever having an attraction for the same sex. Both at the time and today, I think two guys and one girl is probably a lot harder for most people to accept. Men are expected to be territorial and fight for dominance, people often assume if you're not like that it's because you're weak.

thomas edwards ...Grace Slick’s subtley powerful vocal makes Jefferson Airplane’s version so hauntingly beautiful.

​@9twoblacklabs904 : I agree with your asessment 100%.

He said that? How disappointing. That's not what the song sounds like. And since when do rock stars get thrown out of bands for having sex with more than one person at a time? The outrage over the song only makes sense if you're talking about three people having an ongoing sexual *relationship*.

@@bronwynbeistle8317 ''That's not what the song sounds like'' - Really? ...''Why can't we go on as three'' 2:09

@@furion.. "Go on..." not "fool around". It's about loving two different people, not screwing two different people.

Why are people even in denial about this lol

@@brucetucker4847 what world do you live in where people are collecting boyfriends and girlfriends and yet not being physically intimate with any of them

I would argue that his best song is cowboy movie, but it's an amazing song indeed

Grace does a pretty good version with Jefferson Airplane.

*_One_* of his best - I agree - but I prefer his live *_4-Way Street_* rendition: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y9KgaLKhypyZnYU.html

honestly my first time hearing this today and it is incredible, best thing i ever heard David sing.

Not to mention Gram Parsons short lived arrival and departure from the group

Any band relationship is difficult. I dont see it as the negative part on jim side of things. The band was largely his and gene s concept any way. Gene left because of fear of flying

I'd say. As a lead singer, without the vocal guardrails of Crosby and Clark, he was not to be tolerated for long and the songwriting skills were nothing if not ho-hum. McGuinn and his guys in the post-Notorious era were a guitar band for performance purposes and a sort of lugubrious electric country band for what seemed like an eternity, in the recording studio.

It was also really difficult to be in a band with Crosby. Just ask Stephen or Neil.

What?

They all deny the horse was supposed to represent Crosby.

I bet you're into all sorts of degeneracy.

@@chriswakefield9538 I bet you're a bigoted homophobe & transphobe. Did you even pay attention to the message of the song, it's about a consensual polyamorous relationship.

@@chriswakefield9538 he's right. Crosby even said it himself in RS.

@@chriswakefield9538 Wouldn't you like to know.

I don't know about that, but at the same time, they fired Gram. Can't really blame them for that one, but I guess one can only speculate.

lol Crosby is the best singer but definirely not the most talented

in The Byrds, at the time? Yep. Gene Clark wins overall best songwriter though

Gene Clark was by far the most valuable and indispensible member of the band. Crosby the greatest high harmony singer in or outside the band. Together they could and should have assumed control and direction of The Byrds future. Clark and Crosby were worlds apart in every way. The former underrated his massive talent, the latter, as is evidenced by this thoroughly atrocious track, greatly overvalued his. A multitude of other reasons for The Byrds demise are well documented.

@@rogermurray8553 Atrocious? Whatever you think of the subject matter of the song, Crosby sings like an angel!

Nah. People are more open minded now. I've been in a "triad" all comes with boundaries and respect.

@@betterfasterstronger0 Jerry talked George Costanza out of it lol!

Not if your a Rock Star

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@@betterfasterstronger0 . . . and ends in acrimony all round.

He's a changed man from how he was during the years he was addicted to heavy drugs. Not creepy at all. In fact he is one of the nicest people I know. Same for his wife, Jan.

@@markplummer8493 Ok...point well taken. True this song was written by a 20 something back in the mid/late 60's....and yes we do grow up(some of us). And that's cool you have got to hang out with him and his wife...and get to know them. I can also say that I'm not the same guy as I was in my 20's...I'm a better person and not the big dick/asshole I was back then too. So to just address the song and the context it was made...it sounds like it was written by a 20 something/ creepy misogynist guy....justifying his desire to have 2 girls at the same time(have his cake and eat it too). Obviously the one girl he is addressing in the song does NOT want a "Triad"...and he is trying to talk her into it. I've had friends' who I would call creeps back in our 20's....that tried to do the same thing. I was always disgusted with them....hence my using the word "creep" haha! ; )

I think Crosby is the definition of a 60’s counterculture dude... Might be off putting to some, but he wasn’t afraid to speak his mind and I think he had influence in the bands he was in... just to test his musical power, take away his voice and songs from the byrds and CSN and they are just not the same. I think he cringes when he sees how he took it a bit too far... I’m wondering how most folks would handled that much fame and stimulation? I think a lot of people might crack too. He got a little too big for his britches, but I for one can relate and I still like the guy. To me, he’s the real hippie in the bands he was in... the other guys were more conservative and slowly became activists over time... Those hippy dudes are the first to be kicked out of the commune:) doesn’t mean they are not leaders and important... probably just irritating after a while. I dig him and can’t believe how good his singing is. Out of all of his contemporaries, he managed to abuse his body more, yet still retain his voice!

@@Philmod68 I've the same feeling about it. The reason why I find the Grace Slick's version with JA less disturbing. It's not the same coming from a woman than a man who, I agree, may only try to not have to choose between 2 girls he wants to get. A woman might have the same cynical intention but much less likely in the structured machist society we live in.

That’s a pretty stupid thing to say

It has a Madchester vibe about it 🙂