david crosby. what voices, what music. david crosby. graham nash. applause ] david crosby and graham nash! >> dvd! >> jimmy: oh, they've got a dvd coming out in the fall called -- >> what's it called? >> jimmy: "famous behavior." you got to check that out. >> thank you. thank you. >> jimmy: give it up for the roots. right there, you guys! [ cheers and applause ] >> roots! >> jimmy: stay-tuned for "cn

performing a song for the people of japan, please welcome david crosby and graham nash!ntion ♪ ♪ you open up the earth you could lose control this place is full of stuff that kills ♪ ♪ maybe us and maybe you it's true ♪ ♪ you can dig for diamonds in the dust ♪ ♪ and you can dig forever if you must but if you dig this mountain high and clear ♪ ♪ there's much to fear just don't dig here ♪ ♪ ♪ we considered ourselves a powerful culture the corporations waved the flag on high ♪ ♪ we're feasting on mother earth like vultures ♪ ♪ across the land the bones will be piling high ♪ ♪ across the sky then we filled the mountain to the brim and sealed it in ♪ ♪ just don't pull the pin you can dig for diamonds in the dust ♪ ♪ and you can dig forever if you must but if you dig this mountain high and clear ♪

and had a great time on your show a couple of weeks ago. >> david crosby, of crosby, stills, and nashzes like those guys. >> jimmy: but, it's like playing a piano. it's like their harmonies are so tight -- i was like -- i'm doing my neil young impression and trying to be funny. >> but no. you can play. like -- >> jimmy: well, we sang -- we did a version of "parties in this usa." >> i know, which was so great. [ laughter ] i've got these young kids that make me listen to radio disney all day long and i know that song all to well. >> jimmy: we did a sad version and a really beautiful version. "party in the usa" with crosby and nash and it was like -- >> you had to be there. >> jimmy: you gotta see it. youtube it. it's youtubable. but, so you guys are buddies? you get to hang out on the weekend? >> yeah, we're unlikely friends, i know. but we've known each other for 10 or 12 years and he's been trying to teach me guitar. >> jimmy: are you good? >> no, no. i'm terrible. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: really? >> i thought i would surprise him by learning "mr. tambourine man," which is an early byr

david crosby has written and performed some of the most powerful music of the past 35 years. throughout his solo career and his years with the byrds; crosby, stills, nash, and young; and now cpr, he's demonstrated that music can make a difference. now he's teamed with david bender, a founding contributing editor for george magazine, to write stand and be counted: making music, making history. welcome, gentlemen. it's a book about courageous musicians and courageous music, and at a time when i read on the front page of the new york times that record companies are routinely self-censoring themselves to enhance marketability of music, why this project, why the book, and why the television show now? well, to pick one of your words, courage. we are both very taken with human courage. our heroes have been people who had the guts to stick up for what they believed in, and we saw that there had been no one looking at music being used to gather people in a cause as a phenomenon. the two biggest events in the last 50 years in american history were civil rights movement and the vietnam

it's been a pleasure to visit with david crosby and david bender, coauthors of the book stand and be counted: making music, making history. i'm ken paulson, back next week with another conversation about the first amendment, the arts, and american culture. i hope you can join us then for speaking freely. captioning provided by the freedom forum first amendment center captioning by kristi at captionmax www.captionmax.com >> the san francisco cons tri of flowers in golden gate park is now showing a new exhibit that changes the way we see the plants around us. amy stewart's best-selling book, "wicked plants" is the inspiration behind the new exhibit that takes us to the dark side of the plant world. >> i am amy stewart. i am the arthur of "wicked plants," the weeds that killed lincoln's mother and other botanical atrocities. with the screens fly trap, that is kind of where everybody went initially, you mean like that? i kind of thought, well, all it does is eat up bugs. that is not very wicked. so what? by wicked, what i mean is that they are poisonous, dangerous, deadly or immoral or m

crosby is taking his time. >> i know you cannot get hockey out of your head. david johnston was a former soccer player -- hockey player at his university. >> david johnson was a very good hockey player, too. still a couple of minutes away from the governor general or writing. we have time to slip back inside the senate chamber with rosemary barton. >> i have the speech but i am not allowed to tell you anything about it, but here is a copy of it. i am here with the liberal leader i nn the senatae. e. neither of us have seen a majority government. how will that change what you do? >> we will do what we do and that is look at legislation carefully. what it will give us a chance to do is conduct serious long-term studies on major issues. so i'm looking forward to that part of it . >> but you no longer have a majority int the senate, neither. you will not prevent anything from happening and you do not have the power you had before. is that discouraging? >> no, that is not discouraging at all. we have a lot of good people. we have to measure success or failure differently

i'm just really proud that sidney crosby has taken the eyes. >> i know you can't get hockey out of your head. and not just because of vancouver, but as you know david will -- >> and david johnston was a very good hockey player, too. thanks very much. still a couple of minutes away from david johnston, the governor general are right on parliament hill. we have time to slip back down to the senate chamber where rosemary barton is with us. rosa, what do you have? >> i have this feature but i'm not allowed to do anything about it until the governor general start. but here's a copy of it. either with a liberal leader in the senate now. so we were joking that neither of us have seen a majority government before, and i do my job and not in your job. how do you think it would change what you do? >> i think we'll still do what we do and that is look at legislation carefully, but i think what it will give us a chance to do as a sin is conduct some serious long-term studies on major issues. that's what the senate does best. so i'm looking forward to that part. >> but you know longer have a majority in the senate either. so you aren't necessary going to preven