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!
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.
@@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.
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. 🆒☮️💗🤙
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!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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!!!!
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,
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.
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.
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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!!!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
@@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
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...:+))
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
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?
@@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 😢
@@rft2001 Yeah, more than 50 years since I got into the scene the music is still amazing. I was extremely fortunate to be a SF native and attending college in the city from '67. A truly mind expanding era.
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.
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.
+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.
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.
I remember being a really little kid off a train in a ghost town in a cafe the first time I heard this song elderly people protested wow NASA has advanced a lot since then
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.
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
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.
Jorma and his massive hair for such a skinny frame. God he kills it though. Jack's bass too. Gracie as well. And Kanter. That can't be Dryden can it? Fuckin' can't get enough of the Airplane live!
The only band I never got bored with….Still exciting to hear !
Даааааааааа❤❤❤❤❤
Psychedelia was kind of obsolete entering the 70's but the Airplane still sounded great doing it and I loved it.
Ни хера не устарела😊 это хит fm 😊
My favorite band when young. Who sounded like the Airplane? No other band. Vocals, musicianship, originals.
Still unique to this day! One of my all time favourites for sure.
Oasis tried to copy them
@@drabolit I never knew that. Thanks!
Each time I listen to the Airplane time stops. Fine splendid joy...
Grace Slick was the most beautiful woman in rock n roll ❤❤❤
53 yrs later Jorma an Jack are still playing together
Grace Slick's voice it's one-of-a-kind love it
and with a mind like a steel trap too
I've always thought her voice has the sound of an electric guitar.
Y Amy,es flipante.
Beautiful all around. Brings me to tears. What presence. What a voice. Bless you, Grace.
Briliant, briliant band. One of the greatest, most groundbreaking bands of all time. Still sound GREAT. I love the Airplane.
I love the swastika Jorma is wearing on his breast.
@@johanvandermeulen9696 must be a reverse swastika, which is a Buddhist symbol. Can’t imagine Jorma wearing a Nazi swastika.
This video is 50 years old! Jorma is still doing shows!😊😀😁
Jorma is great!!!
Listen to the quarantine cocerts
Jorma is 80
Watched Jorma’s Q concerts 2020-2021.
And Grace Slick, they are all so concentrated in their music without any egotic attitude.
They were my go to band for just about every mood or circumstance that occurred & I still love them.
I saw them 50 (gulp) years ago at the Boston Music Hall. Still remians one of my best shows ever. Jack is the BEST!
I saw them in 1969 just after the Volunteers album dropped- Grace’s voice was fantastic and the band tight and just incredible.
I (gulp) was there with ya!
you are so lucky!!!!
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.....
@@sharan4700 Tremont St in the theater district
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!
De drummer dude jim keltner continues.
“eel fantastic snake”
“Redwoods talk to me.”
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.
The most completely one of a kind, innovative, original rock band of its day... they imitated or copied no one.
Copy that!
Jett Rink Wooden Ships....there was some discussion about who really wrote it.....but I don’t care.....it’s all beautiful ❤️✌️
You can say this with the beatles and hendrix too
Grateful Dead ??
@@edstyer2566 It was a collaboration between Kantner (lyrics) and Crosby (music), with one verse by Stills.
This song is terrific Grace is such a fantastic singer ! So is the band so good !
R.I.P Paul Kantner, Marty Balin, Spencer Dryden, Papa John Creach, and Signe Anderson
And Skip Spence
And Joey Covington
Only Grace Slicks is alive ?? 😟
Completely forgot Jack and Jorma 😅
@@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.
Grace will always and forever be the most mesmerizing woman in rock history
I love the way Jorma looks at Grace in this piece
It's like he's conducting an orchestra.
We see Cassady do the same once in this.
What a band they were!
@@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.
A reminder.. through the radio hits, of why J.A. was the top band for a while.. never to be forgotten.
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. 🆒☮️💗🤙
Paul Kantner did some of his finest rhythm guitar work on this song. Jack as always only enhances others with his bass work.
Jack was one of the best Bass players of the late 60's
Met and talked to Paul. A nice really cool guy. 1969
@@pygmy358 Agreed, but I'd add that Jack was one of the greatest bassists of all time.
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.
Too true
To me they had the best vocals of any band from the coast
Intersex within the group messed them up.
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!!
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 😍
That opening riff tutored every 90s indie-rock band that existed.
What a voice ...Grace!!! For ever, no one like you, !!! And yours boys , big team ...big machine !!!!
This is total perfection.
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.
hitting on all cylinders here
I could look into grace's eyes all day!!
@@risseldyrosseldy910 Yes! Her eyes are intese. Probably because she has Sun and rising in Scorpio.
My God, I love Grace Slick!
Grace-incredible talent, incredible voice and gorgeous
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.
Beautiful woman and beautiful song.
Love this tune by grace,sound of the guitars and bass glorious and drums and everthing airplane is cool.
One of my favorite JA songs!
How Airplane was one of the best, coolest rock bands of all time and Starship morphed into that godawful ear candy deserves scientific study.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
Starship was an absolutely incredible band. Earth is a freaking masterpiece.
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!!!!
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,
Eskimo Blue Dog!
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.
Per la rivista Rolling Stone non esistono .....
I like how Grace listens to the band...
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.
Is it the whole concert?
@@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.
So cool their attitude on stage, never played the "Rock Stars" game.
One of the more enigmatic Airplane songs....can't imagine why it wasn't a top 40 hit.
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.
One word
@@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
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.
she is just amazing.. so is jack and Jorma
I always liked the "doesn't mean shit to a tree" part.
Love this song! And this band! Such a high quality video. Thanks for posting!
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.
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.
This is a great one. Totally original! jA at their best
Real music! What a voice! ♥♥♥
Star Trek is another one of their Best Lyrical pieces.
Grace at the end, off-mic, "That was pretty good."
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!!!
No, she is first an amazing singer and also beautiful woman
@@Methilde touche - you are right!!!
Great moment at the end of the vid where Grace looks over at Jorma and says "Not bad"
I remember. I was there.
Glad to see some of us still around. This music has been my being for 53 years.
I could swear this was Fillmore East, May 7, 1970, three days after Kent State. I was there.
And then at 4:05 along comes Mr Cool and steals the show !! Who could fail to love Jack Casady ?
As he similarly does throughout their performance of "The Ballad of Me, You & Pooneil" that night, inc. remarkable solo at 2:25 mark
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made me look and yep i agree RU still alive
Always one of my bass heroes.
It seems so much of Grace's gift as a writer was overlooked e.g. Eskimo Blue Day among so many others.
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.
If I'm reading her lips accurately, I think Grace says "not bad" at end of tune. Not Bad Indeed!
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.
impresionante la mirada de Grace Slick
R.I.P. Paul Kantner
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.
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.
Fantástico rock psicodélico.
"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.
A quote from Alice in Wonderland?
@@crmcrmll Yes, all White Rabitt is about Alice, Grace obviouly appreciated Lewis Carroll.
Grace looks pretty loaded . . . Jorma and Jack still nail it.
I think she's flying .. it's a beautiful thing.
@@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
obviously you've never seen Grace loaded.
When wasn't Grace loaded?
"Doesn't mean shit to a tree". Only Grace Slick could write lyrics like that. Love the Airplane.
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...:+))
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.
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
@@xstensl8823jorma's methedrine days
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?
@@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 😢
Thanks for the upload. The music gives me goosebumps.
Oh this song alwys melts my soul
Grace Slick is a real piece of work.
oh my God the beauty. Grace was a looker.
Moonpie Shane She was so sexy back in the day.
Now, she's a babushka.
Jefferson Airplane was soooo far ahead of its time!
Fucking far ahead of their time, but, then, the whole scene was.
@@donaldgehre5964 Yes, the whole psychedelic/underground/hippie scene was so far ahead of it's time. These bands are still cutting edge.
@@rft2001 Yeah, more than 50 years since I got into the scene the music is still amazing. I was extremely fortunate to be a SF native and attending college in the city from '67. A truly mind expanding era.
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.
one of the most underrated bass players of all time.
Stunning as Grace was visually, I agree 100%...
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.
+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.
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.
Wow great thanks so much for posting!
La mia band....la mia super band!!!...Grace Slick più bella creatura mai concepita. Lunga vita alla mia principessa!
Nice. Very nice.
A big help this Band,there was days in the Middle of turmoil was life coming around, Great Always
WHEN MUSIC WAS MUSIC!!!!!!
Jefferson uma das melhores bandas que já existiu !!!
Concordo.uma das melhores dos anos 60. 70 junto com o te doors.curto esse sons desde os 15 anos
drugs can only get you so far, and love sometimes runs out
doesn't mean shit to a tree.
@@svenolleyThat line from Eskimo Blue Day was unnecessary.
Never saw this footage before. Incredible. Any Airplane pro footage with great sound is to be treasured. Not nearly enough of it.
My first "big" concert;The Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead and It's A Beautiful Day, 1967.
Damn, what a great show that must have been.
Loved em all. Saw the Jeffs and Big Bro and the Quick at S.F. State in about 67.
Grandi! Magici! Meravigliosi!
amazing how tight they were considering they were f-in BAKED! lol...hence their greatness
Grace Slick is amazing woman. I love her!
Amazing and scary. A bit on the crazy side but many genius' are like that.
I remember being a really little kid off a train in a ghost town in a cafe the first time I heard this song elderly people protested wow NASA has advanced a lot since then
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.
thanks
Spectacular. close-ups of Jorma and Jack.
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.
Super post! Good video and outstanding music. "Doesn't mean shit to a tree" sums up a lot.
An unnecessary line just like "Up against the wall m-f er", and other throwaway lines by otherwise great poetry set to music.
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
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.
Jorma and his massive hair for such a skinny frame. God he kills it though. Jack's bass too. Gracie as well. And Kanter. That can't be Dryden can it? Fuckin' can't get enough of the Airplane live!
Perfect
Sure do hope that was Spencer Dryden on the drums. I know later he went to the New Riders of the Purple Sage.
Yes my friend! Very good quality! Thank you!
Grace was a poet! Those lyrics...
So true, she wrote wonderful songs and she is still underated as lyricist.
Fucking amazing. In the and of the clip you can see some girl crazydancing in the back, and it's awesome. May them fly forever [2]
One of my fave bands. Grace was a good match for the band. Love her version of White Rabbit.
Grace wrote White Rabbit before she was with the Airplane. It's her song.