harmonized with the momma s and the poppa s house, and graham nash and steven stills knew. nash stills and crosby sounds like a law firm. and kneel young came by at joni mitchel s house and he said i want to join the band, and they were like, what can you do, and they brought him on. but, at the end they weren t talking to one another anymore, either it was insulting a spouse. but, cros said he had a huge ego. when you look at woodstock, the second set ever was at 3:00 a.m. on a monday. the beauty of that that s the little trio on stage there, so, i asked cros about the breakups.
times soothing and brilliant. our randi kaye has more. reporter: he helped shape the sound of 1960s folk recognize as a founding member of the birds. but david crosby will always be best known as a founding member of crosby, stills and nash. the wildly popular group was made up of crosby, steven stills and graham nash. their sound distinctive for its melody and harm days. i am yours, you are mine, you are what you are reporter: in the midst of the late 60s laurel canyon scene in california, their debut album went multiplatinum. it s an absolute joy. it s what i was born to do. i love it more than anything except my family. it s the most fun you can have. and yes, i m including sex. it s really, really a joy. you re communicating to people. you re making them feel something. reporter: in 1969, neal young
well, you know, these were years of big personality. and, you know, bands are hard. as everybody explains to me. cameron crowe and others could explain more than. crosby was kind of i wouldn t say a solitary soul, but somebody who really knew what he wanted and didn t always get along well with others. he himself said he was all ego back then. yeah, right. the birds literally fired him. roger and gene clark and the other members pushed him out of the band. he had already taken one step out of the band because in 1967, at the monterey pop festival, he had performed with buffalo springfield, which was going through its own kind of breakup spasm. and that s where he and steven stills got together. and the two of them got together. and then graham nash was dating joni mitchell, and he shows up at her house one days and stills and crosby are there. they start singing together, and he said he realized at that