Jefferson Airplane live 1970-- Eskimo Blue Day

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  • @robertspencer2647
    @robertspencer2647 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    The only band I never got bored with….Still exciting to hear !

  • @MundaSquire
    @MundaSquire 2 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    My favorite band when young. Who sounded like the Airplane? No other band. Vocals, musicianship, originals.

    • @LC-ur8gv
      @LC-ur8gv ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Still unique to this day! One of my all time favourites for sure.

    • @drabolit
      @drabolit ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Oasis tried to copy them

    • @MundaSquire
      @MundaSquire ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@drabolit I never knew that. Thanks!

    • @fabrikk60
      @fabrikk60 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If JA was your favourite when you were young, who's your favourite now?

    • @jamesschpeiser4326
      @jamesschpeiser4326 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Of nirvana In corporates red hot Chili Peppers and Lydia Pence.

  • @HungryH1951
    @HungryH1951 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Jefferson Airplane could never be mistaken for any other band. They had a unique sound that is near impossible to imitate. Great songs, great band.

  • @jorgefiguerola1693
    @jorgefiguerola1693 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Beautiful all around. Brings me to tears. What presence. What a voice. Bless you, Grace.

  • @SuzanneWhitney-j6l
    @SuzanneWhitney-j6l 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    They were my go to band for just about every mood or circumstance that occurred & I still love them.

  • @markkrathbun3415
    @markkrathbun3415 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Grace Slick's voice it's one-of-a-kind love it

    • @sexobscura
      @sexobscura ปีที่แล้ว

      and with a mind like a steel trap too

    • @luismarioguerrerosanchez4747
      @luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I've always thought her voice has the sound of an electric guitar.

    • @josebamoja9889
      @josebamoja9889 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Y Amy,es flipante.

  • @jondavid3641
    @jondavid3641 2 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    Briliant, briliant band. One of the greatest, most groundbreaking bands of all time. Still sound GREAT. I love the Airplane.

    • @johanvandermeulen9696
      @johanvandermeulen9696 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I love the swastika Jorma is wearing on his breast.

    • @jondavid3641
      @jondavid3641 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johanvandermeulen9696 must be a reverse swastika, which is a Buddhist symbol. Can’t imagine Jorma wearing a Nazi swastika.

  • @jettrink7510
    @jettrink7510 5 ปีที่แล้ว +175

    The most completely one of a kind, innovative, original rock band of its day... they imitated or copied no one.

    • @joeybenoit6269
      @joeybenoit6269 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Copy that!

    • @edstyer2566
      @edstyer2566 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Jett Rink Wooden Ships....there was some discussion about who really wrote it.....but I don’t care.....it’s all beautiful ❤️✌️

    • @jules3317
      @jules3317 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      You can say this with the beatles and hendrix too

    • @JauneDOh
      @JauneDOh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Grateful Dead ??

    • @IndyDefense
      @IndyDefense 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@edstyer2566 It was a collaboration between Kantner (lyrics) and Crosby (music), with one verse by Stills.

  • @brianht1434
    @brianht1434 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    This video is 50 years old! Jorma is still doing shows!😊😀😁

    • @nicolapagano9287
      @nicolapagano9287 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Jorma is great!!!

    • @fsimone777
      @fsimone777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Listen to the quarantine cocerts

    • @lastnamefirst4035
      @lastnamefirst4035 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Jorma is 80

    • @kellypalazzi7467
      @kellypalazzi7467 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Watched Jorma’s Q concerts 2020-2021.

    • @Methilde
      @Methilde 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And Grace Slick, they are all so concentrated in their music without any egotic attitude.

  • @chanceburger3169
    @chanceburger3169 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    53 yrs later Jorma an Jack are still playing together

    • @rayfrazier8657
      @rayfrazier8657 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yes & better than ever

    • @FlightRiskWizard
      @FlightRiskWizard 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Truly a legendary duo and friendship. I hope to have a friendship my whole life like that!

  • @alainpaum
    @alainpaum 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    This song is terrific Grace is such a fantastic singer ! So is the band so good !

  • @TheTomvaliente
    @TheTomvaliente 5 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    R.I.P Paul Kantner, Marty Balin, Spencer Dryden, Papa John Creach, and Signe Anderson

    • @389383
      @389383 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      And Skip Spence

    • @davidlenander
      @davidlenander 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And Joey Covington

    • @JauneDOh
      @JauneDOh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Only Grace Slicks is alive ?? 😟

    • @JauneDOh
      @JauneDOh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Completely forgot Jack and Jorma 😅

    • @rft2001
      @rft2001 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@JauneDOh Yes and those two cats are still playing - together. I've met them both and they are great human beings. Jorma is the nicest guy in the world and Jack is a sweet, shy man. Jorma was a wild man back in the day though.

  • @avlisk
    @avlisk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Always been one of my favorite Airplane songs. Never knew this video existed. Excellent rendition. In fact, one their most coherent, clean, well performed moments. Definite WOW!

  • @richardmindemann6935
    @richardmindemann6935 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Someone yesterday asked me what was may favorite concert? Jefferson Airplane in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1967. These people elevated rock "n" roll to a legitimate art form. Sublime.

  • @emiliacanet9960
    @emiliacanet9960 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    2023 san Francisco listening forever followed you everywhere in my young day now 66. Still rocking

  • @gratefuljeff53
    @gratefuljeff53 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Each time I listen to the Airplane time stops. Fine splendid joy...

  • @robotusa88
    @robotusa88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I saw them 50 (gulp) years ago at the Boston Music Hall. Still remians one of my best shows ever. Jack is the BEST!

    • @ronfisher5259
      @ronfisher5259 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I saw them in 1969 just after the Volunteers album dropped- Grace’s voice was fantastic and the band tight and just incredible.

    • @davidb3702
      @davidb3702 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I (gulp) was there with ya!

    • @kimikat7618
      @kimikat7618 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      you are so lucky!!!!

    • @sharan4700
      @sharan4700 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Was that place on a Side st off near the Prudential Center ?
      Or was that near the Pru ?
      Caught them twice in that area Waay Back then.....

    • @robotusa88
      @robotusa88 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@sharan4700 Tremont St in the theater district

  • @jakebrakeify
    @jakebrakeify 12 ปีที่แล้ว +175

    How Airplane was one of the best, coolest rock bands of all time and Starship morphed into that godawful ear candy deserves scientific study.

    • @Martsapso21
      @Martsapso21 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Simple. Paul Kantner started to lose control of the band and by '81 anything that wasn't written by him was total garbage. Hell, even some of his songs sounded bad because of all the synth pop bullshit they were trying to push. Thank God he left before his name got stained forever with crap like We Built This Shitty and Sara.

    • @charlesmarcone9210
      @charlesmarcone9210 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      This was the PINNACLE, except for the Beatles, I believe the airplane was the most cohesive band at this time. Volunteers is a MASTERPIECE. Starship not so much. But good things dont last forever, when CASSIDY and jorma left to big of a hole to fill.
      It was an all star team by 68, jorma jack, paul, grace, all the best at what they did and all in sync.

    • @oreokookie1000
      @oreokookie1000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      the road not taken...they keep the name after '73, go on to play psychedelic folk, like in the early days, they take on chaquico, the boy wonder who is known as "sunwolf".....kantner gets into esalen, and the law of attraction, becomes a philanthropist....they start a commune in weaverville, youngsters like me come to learn guitar, and god.....in about 1980, mickey thomas shows up in a delorean, and a blond chick with an ounce of peruvian....he attempts to sing, they banish him to the woods for 7 days... he emerges saved, and in an act of piety, him and Marty dye their hair blond.....grace declares herself the chrome nun, jerry Garcia is a floating professor emeritus of music....they make some more music like baxter's well into the 90's....after they get accused of "selling out' by the new york c.b.g.b punks, they hire Bill Ayres to burn down the rockn' roll hall of shame.....Hey man, pass the dooob.

    • @oreokookie1000
      @oreokookie1000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Martsapso21 I dunno , man, i had alot of fun hangin with them at toad's, and the bottom line in new york in 1981.....and they still played alot of early tunes, and even some weaver's covers........"built this shitty"" was starship, and as far as Sara? no time was ever the right time...i disagree, they were great years later when they had diana mangano and fried- berg, ....every band has a dark period, even the dead.

    • @benkleschinsky
      @benkleschinsky 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Starship was an absolutely incredible band. Earth is a freaking masterpiece.

  • @hopthebags
    @hopthebags 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    What a pearl of a great west coast rock tune. Fantastic musos and Grace, what can you say, plunge into those eyes and let the music take you 😍

  • @gogoyubari366
    @gogoyubari366 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    One of my favorite JA songs!

  • @meunier621
    @meunier621 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    What a voice ...Grace!!! For ever, no one like you, !!! And yours boys , big team ...big machine !!!!

  • @pmcclaren1
    @pmcclaren1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Grace-incredible talent, incredible voice and gorgeous

  • @codybluetarp
    @codybluetarp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Jorma is the concert master with the Grace's gutsy rock operatix with Jack on the bass and Kantner on rhythm. An impressive song and performance.

    • @joeblevins1058
      @joeblevins1058 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      hitting on all cylinders here

  • @pcribari87
    @pcribari87 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Grace will always and forever be the most mesmerizing woman in rock history

  • @nocount711
    @nocount711 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Thanks SO much for posting (and keeping up) this magnificent clip. Nobody writes songs like this now, sad to say. A beautiful snapshot of a great band.

  • @patrickjordan6710
    @patrickjordan6710 7 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    I could look into grace's eyes all day!!

    • @SundayBlues555
      @SundayBlues555 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@risseldyrosseldy910 Yes! Her eyes are intese. Probably because she has Sun and rising in Scorpio.

  • @jowashburn4292
    @jowashburn4292 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I love the way Jorma looks at Grace in this piece

    • @joeharris3878
      @joeharris3878 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's like he's conducting an orchestra.
      We see Cassady do the same once in this.
      What a band they were!

    • @kensolar69
      @kensolar69 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@joeharris3878 Saw them as JS in 75, Paul was being leader that night directing.
      They were different every time I saw them, but always the best.

  • @rickahale
    @rickahale 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    A reminder.. through the radio hits, of why J.A. was the top band for a while.. never to be forgotten.

  • @georgefranklin5686
    @georgefranklin5686 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wow, this is, no doubt, one of Grace Slick's finest moments, Fabulous. I am politically at odds but I just love her. Bravo!!

  • @jameschirico173
    @jameschirico173 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Paul Kantner did some of his finest rhythm guitar work on this song. Jack as always only enhances others with his bass work.

    • @pygmy358
      @pygmy358 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Jack was one of the best Bass players of the late 60's

    • @carolferguson19
      @carolferguson19 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Met and talked to Paul. A nice really cool guy. 1969

    • @rft2001
      @rft2001 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@pygmy358 Agreed, but I'd add that Jack was one of the greatest bassists of all time.

  • @scottwilliams8334
    @scottwilliams8334 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    My first "big" concert;The Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead and It's A Beautiful Day, 1967.

    • @rft2001
      @rft2001 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Damn, what a great show that must have been.

    • @ralphowen3367
      @ralphowen3367 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Loved em all. Saw the Jeffs and Big Bro and the Quick at S.F. State in about 67.

    • @spencerdawkins
      @spencerdawkins หลายเดือนก่อน

      A LOT of people had "first big concerts" that weren't as cool as yours!
      Mine was The Doors in Dallas, in 68. The backing band was The Moving Sidewalks, who became cooler when the guitarist and the drummer formed ZZ Top. 😁

    • @dougalexander7204
      @dougalexander7204 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Wow. That sounds life changing.

  • @katharinawelles6540
    @katharinawelles6540 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Love this song! And this band! Such a high quality video. Thanks for posting!

  • @tonetone7572
    @tonetone7572 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    having grown up in the 60's their music for decades- their voices, Jorma's guitar Jacks bass have been imprinted on my brain ...

  • @johngreen1776
    @johngreen1776 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Listening to them brings a tear to my eyes remembering those good times, friends and lovers.

  • @janagersten5409
    @janagersten5409 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    My God, I love Grace Slick!

  • @carolbotelho5840
    @carolbotelho5840 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This is total perfection.

  • @edwardholt5223
    @edwardholt5223 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This song and performance is awesome. I love the music of Jefferson Airplane!! I always have. First time I have seen and heard this. THis band amazes me . Fifty years after Airplane left the music scene and turned into Starship. Jefferson Starship was okay, But Jefferson Airplane was FANTASTIC!!

  • @gratefuldrifter6588
    @gratefuldrifter6588 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Love this tune by grace,sound of the guitars and bass glorious and drums and everthing airplane is cool.

  • @hudentdw2
    @hudentdw2 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Psychedelia was kind of obsolete entering the 70's but the Airplane still sounded great doing it and I loved it.

    • @АндрюшаЗвездунов
      @АндрюшаЗвездунов 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ни хера не устарела😊 это хит fm 😊

    • @TheHogsEarReport
      @TheHogsEarReport 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Psych was definitely changing by 1970. While the US was going more Hard Rock, Psych was embraced in Europe, particularly in Germany and in the UK. It was becoming much more progressive. The early Krautrock movement was simply amazing!

  • @domdom9496
    @domdom9496 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    That opening riff tutored every 90s indie-rock band that existed.

  • @davidholiday4494
    @davidholiday4494 8 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    lovely clip...thanks for posting..they are all excellent here..Grace is certainly a beauty but she also has an amazing voice...incredible..."Bear Melt" from "Pointed Head" lp still totally knocks me out. always loved this group so much!!!

    • @Methilde
      @Methilde 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No, she is first an amazing singer and also beautiful woman

    • @davidholiday4494
      @davidholiday4494 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Methilde touche - you are right!!!

  • @johnguild8850
    @johnguild8850 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I remember. I was there.

    • @johnspence919
      @johnspence919 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad to see some of us still around. This music has been my being for 53 years.

  • @carolferguson19
    @carolferguson19 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I waited on Paul Kantner in Hawaii 1969. It was at the International Bazaar in the International Market Place upstairs. He bought $80 worth of papers and candles. His credit card had Jefferson Airplane on it. Grace Slick was seen shopping at the boutique. 🆒☮️💗🤙

  • @donaldgehre5964
    @donaldgehre5964 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    That, my friends, is as close you will ever get to the Airplane alive. I witnessed many of their concerts that , really, defy description because you can't put electricity into words. I was a lucky sob.

  • @michaeligoe3935
    @michaeligoe3935 10 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    And then at 4:05 along comes Mr Cool and steals the show !! Who could fail to love Jack Casady ?

    • @robertrichman6873
      @robertrichman6873 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      As he similarly does throughout their performance of "The Ballad of Me, You & Pooneil" that night, inc. remarkable solo at 2:25 mark
      th-cam.com/video/KbDl8HkkPZk/w-d-xo.html

    • @69kimmygirl
      @69kimmygirl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      made me look and yep i agree RU still alive

    • @markhunter8554
      @markhunter8554 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Always one of my bass heroes.

  • @GodStarRevisited69
    @GodStarRevisited69 13 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    she is just amazing.. so is jack and Jorma

  • @gurusoft1
    @gurusoft1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Great environmental song. 50 years ahead of its time. Arrangement is phenomenal. Jorma out of sight, and grace is hypnotic. Such an original Rock band. When they played the Fillmores it was as though God was appearing.

  • @dougalexander7204
    @dougalexander7204 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I knew I had left home and discovered who I was when I found Jefferson Starship’s Blows Against the Empire and it resonated with my soul.

  • @pauldasen5868
    @pauldasen5868 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Gosh so cool and fresh, as if played yesterday for something played 50 years ago. Sad that JA were not given the credit, they much deserve.

  • @ZavnorZ
    @ZavnorZ 8 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    An absolutely iconic demonstration of how to play the bass guitar....a masterpiece.
    Jack Casady's crushing bass riffing at the climax of the song should have been the only thing the camera was focused on. It is one of the truly great endings to any song in the long annals of live rock performances caught on film.
    Shit, you could have left the camera on him for the whole fucking song.

    • @johnmichael1594
      @johnmichael1594 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      one of the most underrated bass players of all time.

    • @charlesveg
      @charlesveg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Stunning as Grace was visually, I agree 100%...

    • @thomasbedell4770
      @thomasbedell4770 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      John Michael Not so underrated. Beg to differ. He’s still going strong with Jorma in Hot Tuna. Anyone who loved the Airplane was mesmerized and psychedelicized by Jack.

    • @johnmichael1594
      @johnmichael1594 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +Tommy Bedwetter - ask the average rock fan to name the best bass players of all time, and you'll get a long list of names before JC comes up. i believe that's the definition of underrated, is it not? has nothing to do with whether he's still active or whether he is great. in fact, mentioning just how great he is only strengthens my assertion that he IS underrated. get a dictionary, tommy boy. or go bum a quarter and buy yourself a clue.
      btw, yes, people WERE mesmerized and psychedelicized by the airplane's sound, BUT only the musicians in the audience listening critically understood what or WHO drove the band. to the great unwashed masses, the front-men are the only ones who get any recognition. and jack always shied away from the spotlight, so there you have it. unnoticed and underrated. QED.

    • @thomasbedell4770
      @thomasbedell4770 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      John Michael Hey, John, I will agree with you that he is underrated. Being personally critical isn’t called for. Jack is great. I’ve loved the band since 66-67. After Bathing At Baxter’s is a personal favorite. Bless it’s Pointed Little Head got well worn. Saw Jack and Jorma play into the night at Fillmore East in ‘68 after the rest of the band left exhausted. But, that said, I’ll agree that probably more people don’t know Cassidy then do and he stands underrated by the vast majority. The cover of Bless it’s Pointed Little Head is my screen saver.

  • @dannyrasmussen4988
    @dannyrasmussen4988 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Thanks for the upload. The music gives me goosebumps.

  • @tedheslin9777
    @tedheslin9777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I’ve been on a roll for a few days of select TH-cam Airplane vids. I haven’t listened to Volunteers in ages.
    Viewing this Eskimo Blue Day reminds me that this song and Hey Fredrick were absolute examples of The Airplane at their goddam best.

  • @dukeallen4370
    @dukeallen4370 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    One of my all time favorite Airplane Creations. I remember first time I heard it.....way back in "The Day" and how the words truly did speak to something deep down within me. I once had an Alaskan Malamute named "Eskimo Blue Day." A smaller (by Malamute standards - they tend to be HUGE - much larger than Siberian Husky) female. One of the sweetest creatures I was ever privaledged to share a number of the years of my life with,

    • @kerrgal
      @kerrgal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Eskimo Blue Dog!

  • @Methilde
    @Methilde 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    So cool their attitude on stage, never played the "Rock Stars" game.

  • @mathstar4176
    @mathstar4176 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Grace Slick was the most beautiful woman in rock n roll ❤❤❤

    • @Spo-Dee-O-Dee
      @Spo-Dee-O-Dee 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No woman that was more beautiful sang better - no woman that sang better was more beautiful.

    • @LanceHouston-x7x
      @LanceHouston-x7x 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Before all the booze took its toll she was very pretty!

  • @Derwisz007
    @Derwisz007 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Beautiful woman and beautiful song.

  • @richardo5951
    @richardo5951 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I remember seeing this on public television when it was originally broadcast.This and their version of Pooneil (IMHO the best live version I've ever heard) from this night still blow me away.Jack Casady was magic then.

    • @kerrgal
      @kerrgal 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is it the whole concert?

    • @richardorelup2405
      @richardorelup2405 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kerrgal No, they only played two of the Airplanes songs . The band also took part in a jam at the end with Santana and the Dead.

  • @BklynBoy55
    @BklynBoy55 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Damned, sometimes I forget how Frikkin' Amazing they were! Jorma is always unbelievable as is Grace besides being beautiful. Jack is Awesome and Dryden/ Kantner...I am at a loss for words, also very high!!!!

  • @crystalcarey7282
    @crystalcarey7282 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Real music! What a voice! ♥♥♥

  • @radiomindchatter7994
    @radiomindchatter7994 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I like how Grace listens to the band...

  • @daskitten1
    @daskitten1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    If I'm reading her lips accurately, I think Grace says "not bad" at end of tune. Not Bad Indeed!

  • @dotlenhart8727
    @dotlenhart8727 8 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    R.I.P. Paul Kantner

    • @rft2001
      @rft2001 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah, I loved Paul. RIP Marty as well. Those two guys started the band. Paul was the mind and Marty was the soul. Paul kept it alive for as long as it could and it killed him. And RIP Spencer, who was the heartbeat and the best Airplane drummer.

    • @ralphowen3367
      @ralphowen3367 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hopefully, but I heard he never gave his life to Christ. But who knows what happens before you actually slip into eternity. I do hope he met the Lord Jesus.

  • @realestatefla1
    @realestatefla1 13 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Looking back, i can`t believe how lucky i was.I was able to see the Airplane perform live on 5 different occassions at The Fillmore East and Central Park as the Starship.. One of the greatest Rock and Roll bands ever...BTW: Tickets were $5.00 and you could sometimes stay for the early and late shows. The late shows would go on until the wee hours...:+))

    • @teresathomley3703
      @teresathomley3703 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was born in 1981- misplaced in decades, shoulda been born in like 1947 or something. Lucky you for getting to see the Airplane numerous times, man.

    • @xstensl8823
      @xstensl8823 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      sometimes they would refuse to leave the stage like they did at the Santa Clara gig. the cops pulled the juice and they told everyone to go over to the park where they played until the sun came up. they loved their audience and the music they made. it was not about the money

    • @lastnamefirst4035
      @lastnamefirst4035 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@xstensl8823jorma's methedrine days

    • @edwardgonczy3170
      @edwardgonczy3170 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Caught 15 shows at Fillmore East (and others at Fairleigh Dickinson and Drew) including some legendary Dead, Who and Zep. Missed Jefferson Airplane until summer of 1971 at Gaelic Park in NY. Have YOU seen the saucers??? Fresh air, psychedelics and The Airplane. Life was good back then. What happened?

    • @lastnamefirst4035
      @lastnamefirst4035 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@edwardgonczy3170 well the air isn't fresh anymore (least not where Iam. Its filled w smoke from all the wildfires, and there's no more airplane tho there is hot tuna. Psychedelics? Still plenty of that around. Plus idk about you but my joints are pretty achy these days. We got old, times changed 😢

  • @davewilliams874
    @davewilliams874 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    One of the more enigmatic Airplane songs....can't imagine why it wasn't a top 40 hit.

    • @guodade2239
      @guodade2239 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The lyrics were too controversial for any sort of single release, even if it is a sign of the era that one might - although I am not sure even of this - have heard this amazing song on FM radio. It really is amazingly catchy for what is quite a complex song, adn the way the players work together on both this and the studio version is quite amazing.
      Moreover, Slick’s politics were far more radical than any other female rocker [with which I am familiar] from not merely the 1960s, but until the riot grrls of the Bush Senior Era two decades after this song came out. As Joel Garreau said in his early 1980s ‘The Nine Nations of North America’, the political atmosphere in the Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest during the 1960s [it can be dated actually to the “Revolution of 1954”] was completely different from anything else in the continent.
      By the late 1970s, commercial radio in the United States had become radically more restrictive, and much music that would have been heard by the majority of the public in the late 1960s was not heard except in a tiny number of urban communities.

    • @mikethebike7372
      @mikethebike7372 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      One word

    • @donaldgehre5964
      @donaldgehre5964 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@guodade2239 Quite right. If that collective consciousness somehow became a bigger movement than it was the country would be profoundly different-for the better- today

    • @ralphowen3367
      @ralphowen3367 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Maybe because of the "...doesn't mean sh-t to a tree line. But then Steppenwolf got away with G-d D-m the pusherman.

  • @ChangesOneTim
    @ChangesOneTim 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Sun cuts loose from the frozen
    Until it joins with the African sea
    In moving it changes its cold and its name
    The reason I come and I go is the same
    Animal game for me
    You call it rain
    But the human name
    Doesn't mean shit to a tree
    And if you don't mind heat in your river and
    Fork tongue talking from me
    Swim like an eel fantastic snake
    Take my love when it's free
    Electric feel with me
    You call it loud
    But the human crowd
    Doesn't mean shit to a tree
    🎼
    Change the strings and notes slide
    Change the bridge and string shift down
    Shift the notes and bridge sings
    🎼
    Fire eating people
    Rising toys of the sun
    Energy dies without body warm
    Icicles ruin your gun
    Water my roots the natural thing
    Natural spring to the sea
    Sulfur springs make my body float
    Like a ship made of logs from a tree
    Oh, redwoods talk to me
    Say it plainly
    The human name
    Doesn't mean shit to a tree
    Snow called water going violent
    Damn the end of the stream
    Too much cold in one place breaks
    That's why you might know what I mean
    Consider how small you are
    Compared to your scream
    The human dream
    Doesn't mean shit to a tree.

  • @lightlyone
    @lightlyone 13 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Super post! Good video and outstanding music. "Doesn't mean shit to a tree" sums up a lot.

    • @ralphowen3367
      @ralphowen3367 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      An unnecessary line just like "Up against the wall m-f er", and other throwaway lines by otherwise great poetry set to music.

  • @kawliga55
    @kawliga55 15 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    OMG...utube Izzzzzzzzz a time machine, 4 real. thank u for this post it is clean and clear as a bell. gr8 job!!! dam, look at grace slick's eyeballs......talk about dialated pupils LOL

  • @TheWall198907
    @TheWall198907 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks for the post. That was an awesome treat

  • @DrRussPhd
    @DrRussPhd 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Grace looks pretty loaded . . . Jorma and Jack still nail it.

    • @robertpattison7988
      @robertpattison7988 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think she's flying .. it's a beautiful thing.

    • @jorgefiguerola1693
      @jorgefiguerola1693 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@haintedhouse2990
      GS IS FOCUSED. HAVE KNOWN ABOUT J AIRPLANE SINCE THE 70S BUT OVERWHELMED BY WHITE RABBIT AND SOMEBODY TO LOVE. PASSIONATE PERFORMANCE. HONEST AND UNADORNED. JUST PULLED DOWN LYRICS. POETIC AND STIRRING. 50 YEARS OLD. LOOKS LIKE YESTERDAY. SO MOVING.
      JF

    • @haintedhouse2990
      @haintedhouse2990 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      obviously you've never seen Grace loaded.

    • @rft2001
      @rft2001 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      When wasn't Grace loaded?

  • @spaclynotorious3288
    @spaclynotorious3288 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It seems so much of Grace's gift as a writer was overlooked e.g. Eskimo Blue Day among so many others.

    • @keithabney4665
      @keithabney4665 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      agree, this was one of her best, totally original while letting Jorma shine. love it.

  • @chetpogostin34
    @chetpogostin34 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I could swear this was Fillmore East, May 7, 1970, three days after Kent State. I was there.

  • @brianht1434
    @brianht1434 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    VERY RARE VIDEO-THANKS FOR THE POST!😊 NEVER SEEN JACK:S HAIR SO DARN LONG!

    • @ralphowen3367
      @ralphowen3367 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Long hair is a shame on a man. But it is the woman's glory.

  • @alanbauch2815
    @alanbauch2815 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ladies and gentlemen , the fabulous Jefferson Airplane....no one even close

  • @TheJoshuamooney
    @TheJoshuamooney ปีที่แล้ว

    Never saw this footage before. Incredible. Any Airplane pro footage with great sound is to be treasured. Not nearly enough of it.

  • @irlandos1
    @irlandos1 15 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Yes my friend! Very good quality! Thank you!

  • @bjwnashe5589
    @bjwnashe5589 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Grace at the end, off-mic, "That was pretty good."

  • @Da_Mick
    @Da_Mick ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wonderful up-close and intimate treat with the band. But where's Marty?

  • @ademeo29
    @ademeo29 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    @AcidJesus. I'm pretty sure this was recorded Live at The Family Dog... The Dead and Santana were also there this night I believe.

  • @dreamwell2020
    @dreamwell2020 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "Remember how small you are..." Some valuable advice there from Grace Slick.
    Also, the Airplane's propulsion unit seems to be firing on all cylinders here.

    • @crmcrmll
      @crmcrmll 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A quote from Alice in Wonderland?

    • @Methilde
      @Methilde 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@crmcrmll Yes, all White Rabitt is about Alice, Grace obviouly appreciated Lewis Carroll.

  • @casperguylkn
    @casperguylkn 11 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Absolutely 100% Spencer on the skins! Yeah I agree it's a shame, he had different views on things though. Didn't make it right to downplay his contributions.

    • @rft2001
      @rft2001 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jg6698 Yeah, Spencer was the best drummer that they ever had. Maybe not the most powerful but the most nuanced.

  • @marvinacklin792
    @marvinacklin792 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is a great one. Totally original! jA at their best

  • @johnallen2771
    @johnallen2771 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    They're in my Top 20 list of the '60s greatest albums with "Surrealistic Pillow" and "Crown of Creation." Sharing the list with "Sgt. Peppers," "Fresh Cream" and the Doors debut album of the same name.

  • @robertlear2712
    @robertlear2712 ปีที่แล้ว

    I saw the Jefferson Airplane in concert from the first row in 1970. It was amazing. They were my 2nd favorite live band, next to The Who.

  • @billc2147
    @billc2147 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great moment at the end of the vid where Grace looks over at Jorma and says "Not bad"

    • @keithabney4665
      @keithabney4665 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i noticed that - not bad indeed!

  • @Papandres
    @Papandres 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    impresionante la mirada de Grace Slick

  • @Leticiavarisi
    @Leticiavarisi 12 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Jefferson uma das melhores bandas que já existiu !!!

    • @caicararoots3054
      @caicararoots3054 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Concordo.uma das melhores dos anos 60. 70 junto com o te doors.curto esse sons desde os 15 anos

  • @oscar3eyes
    @oscar3eyes 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    drugs can only get you so far, and love sometimes runs out

    • @svenolley
      @svenolley 9 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      doesn't mean shit to a tree.

    • @ralphowen3367
      @ralphowen3367 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@svenolleyThat line from Eskimo Blue Day was unnecessary.

  • @pouchfreeman
    @pouchfreeman 9 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    oh my God the beauty. Grace was a looker.

    • @CooManTunes
      @CooManTunes 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Moonpie Shane She was so sexy back in the day.

    • @edlawrence5059
      @edlawrence5059 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Now, she's a babushka.

  • @stashuk7450
    @stashuk7450 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Commuting to LaSalle College when 'Volunteers' came out. All my HS friends were off to Dorm life, far afield, leaving me as alone and forsaken as I have ever felt. This album was part of my sustenance, along with some chemical help.

  • @marytresham9164
    @marytresham9164 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Beautiful

  • @sharan4700
    @sharan4700 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Star Trek is another one of their Best Lyrical pieces.

  • @1mikera
    @1mikera 12 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Yeah man, thats the it was in New Orleans at "The Warehouse" in the 60's and 70's. 3 to 5 bucks to see theses acts like Wishbone Ash, Bowie, Deep Purple, The Who, The Allman Bros, Blue Cheer, Emerson Lake & Palmer...and some shows would go on until 3 or 4 n the mornig

  • @timmit3579
    @timmit3579 11 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    At least, We got TH-cam!!

  • @miltonvieiradarocha5899
    @miltonvieiradarocha5899 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Fantástico rock psicodélico.

  • @blue-fj9ky
    @blue-fj9ky ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow great thanks so much for posting!

  • @doctorwhofan2563
    @doctorwhofan2563 9 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I hate how the second "shit" was censored...
    On a brighter note, Jorma has the best vibrato I've heard on guitar (except maybe Paul Kossoff), that Rickenbacker sounds great, and Jack Casady is, of course, brilliant.

    • @slawko67
      @slawko67 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Rickenbacker is in Paul Kantner hands, Jorma plays on Gibson or Epiphone.

    • @ant263
      @ant263 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Leslie west had a nice vibrato

    • @chetpogostin34
      @chetpogostin34 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Danny Kirwan (early Fleetwood Mac) had the best vibrato. You could look it up.

    • @389383
      @389383 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Only one shit to a customer.

    • @fantasypgatour
      @fantasypgatour 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah Kossoff's vibrato for me.

  • @johnnybradin5112
    @johnnybradin5112 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Even though the Airplane was one of the pre-eminent SF bands, they didn't make a lot of money. By the '80's the music business had changed, and the audiences wanted a more modern sound.

  • @ronkruzyk5108
    @ronkruzyk5108 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    WHEN MUSIC WAS MUSIC!!!!!!

  • @dimethaltryptamine1
    @dimethaltryptamine1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh this song alwys melts my soul

  • @lightlyone
    @lightlyone 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    What an extraordinary post and performance!