it brings to mind the joni mitchell song, paved to parad e paradise, put up a parking lot. paradise took its revenge. >> the house stuck out from the ridge quite a bit, blocked the view. >> reporter: today dave bettes' construction crew crushed a 65-foot home on belvedere home. >> it was 65 years old. >> reporter: it was basically a carriage home from when this was a sprawling estate. over the years, it had not been used. they paid $4 million to buy it and have it demolished. the winslows didn't want to talk on camera, but they said they plan to replace their panoramic view. the view snapped to life. >> a week ago you couldn't see anything from here except the gable end of the house. and now we've opened it up for everybody to enjoy. >> reporter: everybody included neighbor roger snow whose house sat just up the hill to the demolished property. >> the view valley nice now. we sit right across the bay. it's really improved the view. when the america's cup is on, we'll have a really good view. >> reporter: even the planning department couldn't find anything historic about it,

we were managed by david geffen, and they had joni mitchell, neil young, jackson browne, so we said,rite some good songs, and we had better write them a pretty quick or they will not want us around with these other people who are so talented, so don henley and i decided we would try to write songs together, and this is when i discovered what a poet he was. the first time we wrote desperado and tequila sunrise. the first week. something clicked, and we have been able to write songs ever since. i felt comfortable with him. he is very bright. he wants to get it right. we will work on two or three lines for a month or two to try to get more meaning, to try to get the lines right. he is very tenacious, and you have to be comfortable with somebody you are writing the songs with. i felt it was a good thing. if you are writing songs by yourself, who is going to tell you if it is good or not? i immediately started to trust him, and i think he trusted me, too. now if he said, i do not want that, i was never offended. he would say carmine -- he would say maybe we should work on this a little mo

he was representing joni mitchell, crosby stills and nash, he was the song writer's agent, so he was right. at 22 or 23 years old i was not ready to make a solo album. i was just getting going, so he was right. we got bernie to jam. we got randy to jam, and then i called randy and said, i just told them i know you, and i am not sure if they believe me, so i said, can we get together? i walked into his office. he was released earlier -- was really surly. he said, do you want us or not? david did not know what to say for a minute. he said, here is what i want to do. the first thing they did was send us to colorado to play in a ski bar for four weeks and get our act together. we got the british producer to produce this. imagine, i take it easy, desperado, all of those things were recorded in london with their california country rock. tavis: one thing i want to go back to, geffen gives his critique that being in a band you can hide your weaknesses and play your strengths. gradin vice, but you have to know what your strength -- great advice, but you have to know what your strengths and we

and crosby is lying on this couch, not only is he playing incredible music, he just introduced joni mitchell's his hands. that's great. so how do you -- what do you do? csn 2012, you guys are playing, it's interesting. some artists, usually, it's younger artists, i'm 49, that's anybody younger than me -- >> you're a baby. >> i'm a baby. sometimes, they're too proud to play what happened 20 years ago. the radio would be so reluctant to play the songs that everybody wants to hear. >> see, we have a different opinion about that. >> so how do you get charged up to play the same songs that you're playing because elton john says it's even more special when somebody comes up and says, your song -- >> it's what it means to the audience. there is a reason why they buy a seat to watch us. all this stuff that they love, our audience know that they may hear a song that was written this morning. and we've always been that way. always. >> what's your favorite moment out of this dvd? >> i think when we go through the entire show, 2 1/2 hours, come back and to, you know, however many encores that we thought w