We Built This City [On Rock an' Roll]

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We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll

Say you don't know me, or recognize my face
Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place
Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight
Too many runaways eating up the night

Ma Coley plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll

chorus

Someone's always playing corporation games
Who cares they're always changing corporation names
We just want to dance here, someone stole the stage
They call us irresponsible, write us off the page

Ma Coley plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll

chorus

It's just another Sunday, in a tired old street
Well if you got the toco, oh, then we just lost the beat

Who counts the money underneath the bar
Who writes the wrecking ball in two wild guitars
Don't tell us you need us, 'cos we're just simple fools
Looking for America, coming through your schools

(I'm looking out over that Golden Gate bridge
Out on a gorgeous sunny Saturday, I've seen that low amount of traffic)

Don't you remember (remember)

(Here's your favorite radio station, in your favorite radio city
The city by the bay, the city that rocks, the city that never sleeps)

Ma Coley plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll

chorus repeats 2x

(We built, we built this city) built this city (we built, we built this city)
(repeats out)

― the starfox, Thursday, 4 December 2003 14:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

Hward on Ken Bruce today at c.10:55 - he let it play all the way through to the news.

What a lengthy and enjoyable piece of exuberance it is.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 4 December 2003 14:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

[Hward = Heard]

― the popfox, Thursday, 4 December 2003 14:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

it is very hard to work out why i ever disliked this song right now i must admit

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 14:43 (9 years ago) Permalink

I always thought it was "Marconi plays the mamba". Which doesn't make much sense, but ties up w/ the radio whatsis business.

WTF is Ma Coley anyhoo? Byron's mother?

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 4 December 2003 14:45 (9 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, I thought that too. (about the Marconi thing).

Ken Bruce plays some spectacularly great records sometimes. It's one of the things I may enjoy about being unemployed.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 4 December 2003 14:48 (9 years ago) Permalink

I thought it was "Marconi plays the number" Why would anyone be playing a mamba if it's supposed to be about rock and roll?

― BrianB, Thursday, 4 December 2003 14:50 (9 years ago) Permalink

I never wanted to hear this song *ever* again. Now I'm going to have to listen to it to find out what the damn words are. Shit.

Well if you got the toco, oh, then we just lost the beat

Translation anyone?

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 4 December 2003 14:54 (9 years ago) Permalink

"The 'Dirty Harry' soundtrack involved police-radio chatter mixed in with the instruments. So I invented sampling, in a way" - Lalo Schifrin

― Qrown of Qreation, Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:48 (9 years ago) Permalink

I thought it was Marconi too, as recently as just now.

I didn't know that wee Ailsa like me enjoyed the Scots dryness of the Bruce.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:49 (9 years ago) Permalink

Oh yes, a splenid splendid record. I always thought it was Marconi also. Thanks for clearing that one up, P-fox!

― harveyw (harveyw), Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:51 (9 years ago) Permalink

Someone's always playing corporation games
Who cares they're always changing corporation names
We just want to dance here, someone stole the stage
They call us irresponsible, write us off the page

and

Who counts the money underneath the bar
Who writes the wrecking ball in two wild guitars
Don't tell us you need us, 'cos we're just simple fools
Looking for America, coming through your schools

surely this wins the Assinane, Hypocritical, And Just Really Fucking Awkward lyrics award of some kind.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:52 (9 years ago) Permalink

In fact, it *is* Marconi.
http://www.amiright.com/misheard/song/webuiltthiscity.shtml
http://www.airplane.freeserve.co.uk/lyrics/kneedeep.htm

― harveyw (harveyw), Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:53 (9 years ago) Permalink

My pony plays my momma
Listen to the raving ho

My God, that could've been the finest couplet Grace Slick ever wrote. If only!

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:06 (9 years ago) Permalink

yes, donut bitch, assinine and really awkward lyrics (i think they would have to actually have a discernible point to be hypocrtical, and i can't quite work out what that might be)

but that all adds to the secret, guilty, marvellous pleasure. the musical equivalent of masturbation - cheap, tawdry and best enjoyed when there's nobody around to look...but kinda fun...

the 80s were full of such hidden delights. they were crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy nights.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:16 (9 years ago) Permalink

there was a period in the 80s when this ghastly slick AOR rock was on heavy rotation on the radio alongside bands like: Mr Mister, Toto and Chicago

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:25 (9 years ago) Permalink

Hell jesus i hate this song. They played it constantly.

― Shaun (shaun), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:27 (9 years ago) Permalink

IT'S MARCONI!!!!!! MARCONI! MY SISTER THOUGHT IT WAS "CODY PLAYS THE MAMBA"...

― MANDEE (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:49 (9 years ago) Permalink

assinine cause it is a synth driven song! the city is built on rock???

― kephm, Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:49 (9 years ago) Permalink

Me and Mrs The Nipper once sang this as a duet at a hotel bar in South Dakota. Naturally we changed the lyrics to "we built Rapid City on Rock and Roll".

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:50 (9 years ago) Permalink

I'm still troubled by the whole playing-the-mamba thing. The dance is the 'mambo' surely. A mamba is a venomous snake. Why is Marconi playing a reptile?

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:56 (9 years ago) Permalink

OH NO, THE GIANT DICE WILL CRUSH US ALL

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:00 (9 years ago) Permalink

xp: Marconi was gifted in the art of snake impersonations

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:00 (9 years ago) Permalink

the sample on the Diplomats' "Built This City" has given me a whole new appreciation for the song.

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:29 (9 years ago) Permalink

is there anything they can't do?

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:30 (9 years ago) Permalink

the Dip Set? ...no, not really.

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:36 (9 years ago) Permalink

I like that they managed to work in "hoopla."
Hoopla is nice to say.

― Christian Rawk (Christian Rawk), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:48 (9 years ago) Permalink

you could probably say it's hypocrital to complain about 'changing corporate names' when they'd, er, just changed their name to Starship. if you could be bothered.
in my memory this song is absolutely horrible, but i'd now be intruiged to hear it again

― adam b (adam b), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:50 (9 years ago) Permalink

another song andrew wk should cover.

― brian badword (badwords), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:52 (9 years ago) Permalink

Is the "Taupin" listed in the writing credits to this song Bernie Taupin?

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:55 (9 years ago) Permalink

I like that they managed to work in "hoopla."
Hoopla is nice to say.

Agreed, but "Knee Deep In the Hoopla" was the name of the record.

Now that I think about it, "We Built This City" just might be the ULTIMATE corporate rock song.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:29 (9 years ago) Permalink

>Now that I think about it, "We Built This City" just might be the ULTIMATE corporate rock song.

It is indeed, if only because of the band's infamous gambit of sending it to radio stations with a blank spot where the DJ spiel goes (near the bridge), so each town's "rockinest" DJ could insert his own name and the station's call letters into the song.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:52 (9 years ago) Permalink

it is very hard to work out why i ever disliked this song right now i must admit
Why do I hate this song?
Let me count the ways.

1) Pompous, self-congradulatory lyrics by the withered husk of an overrated also-ran burnout hippee band who used...
2) The most overcooked, lowest common denominator "new wave" (cough cough) productuion that was
3) Inexpertly done by someone who obviously didn't give a shit and didn't warn the band that
4) The song was monotonously played and repetitively arranged in a way that doesn't cover up
5) the hopelessly cheesy guitar work or
6) the vacuous synth/keyb or
7) the lobotomized drumming or
8) the lackluster singing or
9) the dreadful lyrics (yes, I mentioned the lyrics already, but there is such a thing as bad lyrics and pompous lyrics. I already dealt with the pomposity of the lyrics, now I deal with the overall badness of the lyrics.) But the four worst things about this godawful song are
10) That they actually kept recording even after any sane person would've realized that it deserved to be deleted.
11) That they actually put in on the album even after any sane person would've realized that it didn't even deserve to be an obscure B-side.
12) That they actually put plugged it as a single even after any sane person would've realized that it didn't even deserve to be on the radio at all. and absolutely worst of all....
13) That it actually became a fluke smash hit and will forever be immortalized on every Sounds of the 80s Compilation until the end of time. Probably between a track by Toto and a track by REO Speedwagon.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:44 (9 years ago) Permalink

You can't list 12 reasons for its success, and then call it a 'fluke'!

― dave q, Thursday, 4 December 2003 21:07 (9 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

By "fluke" I mean the kind of nasty flatworm that lives in your liver and gives you jaundice.
And the above isn't "12 reasons for it's success", it's 12 reasons that -- in a just universe -- it would've been deleted, all the equipment smashed, all the session musicians summarily shot, and all the band members banished to garbage barge circumnavigating Antarctica.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

Sarah!
Sar-ar-ah! No
Time
is a
good
time for
good
bye!

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:13 (9 years ago) Permalink

I must mention the excellent Chevy Heston song "We Built This City."

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:38 (9 years ago) Permalink

If I sort of let my eyes cross, I read the thread title as We Built This City [On Organ Donors]

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

The Huckle-Buck, what is the name of that song?

― Acid! Polizei! (ex machina), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:43 (9 years ago) Permalink

Sarah?

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:46 (9 years ago) Permalink

Starship played a casino here in ontario about 2 months ago - a few of us went down for the hell of it.

Almost got kicked out before the show started for no real reason other than the fact that we were nearly 20 years younger than the next youngest person.

So basically it sucked but it was f'n hillarious. They were tight on sarah and we built this city - almost like they've been playing it for 30 years.

not reccomended

― rs, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:48 (9 years ago) Permalink

Not every bad song is actually a good song waiting to be rehabilitated. I understand the impulse, and Blender makes it very tempting. But sometimes junk is just junk.

― spittle (spittle), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 22:42 (9 years ago) Permalink

Thanks. This song was in my head all last night while I was trying to sleep, and now I look at this and it's back again. I don't want to be alive anymore.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 22:43 (9 years ago) Permalink

"Now that I think about it, "We Built This City" just might be the ULTIMATE corporate rock song."

The M.W.U.A. (I can't remember exactly, If I'm wrong someone else might be able to give me the correct union) features stickers with the southern cross flag and 'We Built This City!' down the bottom.

Also, some of you will be pleased to know this song got voted the worst song ever.

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 00:56 (9 years ago) Permalink

I've had a fascination with the song for several months now. I find it really depressing somehow, esp. the break when the DJ is meant to record his or her voice over... I find it affecting in a way that I know it was never meant to be.

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 04:08 (9 years ago) Permalink

i have hated this song for a very long time.i feel betrayed, grace! how could you sing such UTTER CRAP? How? Why? *collapses into sobs clutching copy of Surrealistic Pillow*

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 04:11 (9 years ago) Permalink

I've heard that the song was Co-written by Bernie Taupin. It was the first "hit" by Taupin without Elton John.

― Nancy, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:27 (9 years ago) Permalink

that dj break makes it impossible for me to hate this song - one of the better 80s 'guaranteed to get radio airplay' gimmicks, along with the geospecific versions of "The Heart of Rock n Roll".

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:30 (9 years ago) Permalink

Also, if you sing this song out loud in your office, you will put smiles on people's faces.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:31 (9 years ago) Permalink

It's a fact.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:31 (9 years ago) Permalink

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As somebody who grew up in Marin County in the 80's, there is not a single song by Journey or Starship that doesn't set my teeth on edge. I think I went to high school w/Slick's daughter but I can't recall her name.

― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 15:24 (4 years ago) Permalink

Oil Slick.

― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 15:27 (4 years ago) Permalink

I think her name was China. I shall, of course, name one of my daughters China, too.

― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 15:29 (4 years ago) Permalink

Starbucks version for the win

― worm? lol (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 15:56 (4 years ago) Permalink

Was Grace's daughter's first initial R?

― Enemy Insects (NickB), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 16:03 (4 years ago) Permalink

No, her name is China. I looked it up.

― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 16:11 (4 years ago) Permalink

i really like the album cover

― QE II, Thursday, 7 May 2009 05:50 (4 years ago) Permalink

would look better if they had omitted the bottom text and just called the album "Starship", though

― QE II, Thursday, 7 May 2009 05:50 (4 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

This is actually pretty great, isn't it?

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

This song makes me want to murder people

― blurgh (jjjusten), Sunday, 22 January 2012 21:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

It is wonderful and djp agrees case closed.

― ENBB, Sunday, 22 January 2012 21:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

"Hey guys, I've been thinking...remember how we appeared in The Star Wars Holiday Special? I actually think we have it in us to do something more embarrassing and potentially damaging to our already-shaky legacy! Whaddya say?"

― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 22 January 2012 22:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

Wait, there's no Ma Coney on the internet (vs. Marconi or even Mascone).

― do you not like slouching? (Eazy), Sunday, 22 January 2012 22:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

mascarpone lady mumble, obv

wretched song. a friend brought it up the other day as a guilty pleasure, and i was utterly appalled.

― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

I used to love it as a kid. Now I hate it.

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

The defunct magazine Blender's ranking of the song as the worst song ever was in conjunction with a VH1 Special of The 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs...Ever.[7] In order to qualify for the distinction, the songs on the list had to be a popular hit at some point, thus disqualifying many songs that would by consensus be considered much worse. Blender editor Craig Marks said of the song, "It purports to be anti-commercial but reeks of '80s corporate-rock commercialism. It's a real reflection of what practically killed rock music in the '80s."[8]

However, an article in the Sydney Morning Herald pointed out that "Blender's list - compiled via an arbitrary and anecdotal data collection process and ranked by Marks - included several whimsical criteria. One was to go easy on novelty songs." In a discussion with the band's manager, Bill Thompson, he was surprised at the ranking, but also "thrilled" because of the other high-profile groups on the list, saying, "I wish Blender had called us for a group shot. I'd love to have my picture taken with Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney."[9] Mickey Thomas, one of the singers of Starship, stated in regards to the review from the, by then folded, Blender magazine, "From what I heard, they got so much flack about it that they sort of retracted their statements in a way about the song. And not only that, but Blender's folded, and we're still here."[10]

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

ah sixties survivors:

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

Stay gold, Jefferson Wheelchair

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

I really want to hear the whole track of the version they did for Milken - "We built this city - on high yield bonds!"

― carson dial, Monday, 23 January 2012 01:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

WE BUILT THIS CITY ON FEED YOUR HEAD

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

The only thing missing from that picture is Pat St. John.

― BIG JOJO aka the road runner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

(For reference: Can we be shown weirdos + Mike Love?)

― BIG JOJO aka the road runner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

― buzza, Monday, 23 January 2012 02:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

Thurs Mar 8 2012: Jefferson Starship @ Reggie's

Jefferson Starship, created by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Jefferson Airplane founder Paul Kantner, embarks on tour in 2011 marking 40 years since the release of their first album "Blows Against the Empire." "Blows" was the first ever rock music recording nominated for literary science fiction's prestigious Hugo Award and represented a pinnacle of collaboration for Kantner's "Airplane camp". Jefferson Starship takes flight again in 2011, reprising a 40 plus year repertoire that is the soundtrack to a generation. Paul Kantner's music has appeared in numerous films including "Forrest Gump" and "A Serious Man" and his plans include producing, composing and touring well into the future. In 2011 he will be 70 years young. The version of the Starship features Kantner, David Freiberg, Cathy Richardson, Chris Smith, Slick Aguilar and Donny Baldwin.

― La Lechera, Monday, 23 January 2012 03:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

Thu, March 8, 2012
7:00 pm
Reggies Rock Club
Chicago, IL
--> $30.00 - $80.00 <--

― La Lechera, Monday, 23 January 2012 03:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

This Reggie?

― BIG JOJO aka the road runner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 January 2012 03:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

Different Reggie, in Chicago
Books all kinds of stuff, nice venue, a lot of mid level metal shows are there afaik (never cost more than $12 ime)...and also 2012 Jefferson Starship, at those prices!

Unbelievable.

― La Lechera, Monday, 23 January 2012 03:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

Well, believable, but give me 1 break pls

― La Lechera, Monday, 23 January 2012 03:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

I pulled it out after it was referenced on both How I Met Your Mother and New Girl. It's really crammed full of hooks and the production is uber-gloss. Nice synths.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 23 January 2012 03:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

I remember the first time the local FM rock station played this. Jefferson Starship records were always in heavy rotation (especially "Jane" and "Miracles"), so expectations were high. As the song ended, the DJ hilariously slipped out of his DJ Voice and said, "What the hell was that?!" and went straight into a commercial.

― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 23 January 2012 04:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

Sorry--I've been called in to perform an exorcism on this thread.

― clemenza, Monday, 23 January 2012 04:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

(Btw, I listened to Surrealistic Pillow and Red Octopus before I got around to this one, if that makes anyone feel better.)

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 23 January 2012 04:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

It's really crammed full of hooks and the production is uber-gloss. Nice synths.

This track has been stuck in my head for days at a time. It probably could have used fewer hooks - the outro alone has three or four songs' worth of ideas. The lyrics really are horrible though. They were obviously overly proud of the "knee deep in the hoopla" lyric and the corporation segment is pathetic.

― skip, Monday, 23 January 2012 05:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

The drum program has no bottom. The best synth is Grace Slick's imitation on the line CUZ WE'RRRRE DE SHIP OF FOOOOOOOOOOLZ

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 January 2012 12:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

Sand is a safer foundation

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

DID NOT remember Willie Brown being in this.

― pplains, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

The best part of the video is Mickey and his punk army singing to the Lincoln Memorial, Abe standing up, no one reacting, Abe turning back to stone.

― President Keyes, Thursday, 26 January 2012 02:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

Grace Slick's leaning over the side from 3:51-3:55 is the gif I want played at my funeral, it is a thing of profound beauty and limitless meaning

― we don't wanna miss a THING!!! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 2 September 2012 13:21 (8 months ago) Permalink

Another example (think: Mr Mister, Heart) of a song sold as a band performance when no one except the singers showed up to sing over an engineer's programming.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 2 September 2012 13:23 (8 months ago) Permalink

There should be a 33-1/3 book about this. Not the album, just the single. From inception to writing to recording to video shoot to legacy. It would be amazing.

― Darren Robocopsky (Phil D.), Sunday, 2 September 2012 14:06 (8 months ago) Permalink

I agree - there is something vast about it. I remember where I was the first time I heard it - at a youth AIDS awareness meeting SE Portland

a guy whose face I remember super-clearly was casually lipsyncing the bridge while the speaker told us about condoms

― we don't wanna miss a THING!!! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 2 September 2012 14:21 (8 months ago) Permalink

Another example (think: Mr Mister, Heart) of a song sold as a band performance when no one except the singers showed up to sing over an engineer's programming.

I can't think of any time in the last half century when this wasn't a common practice for pop records

― Lee626, Sunday, 2 September 2012 14:33 (8 months ago) Permalink

oh sure (hey we're the Monkees!) -- this is the eighties edition, during which Emulators replace session men.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 2 September 2012 14:36 (8 months ago) Permalink

One of many reasons why the '80s sucked, musically and otherwise

― Lee626, Sunday, 2 September 2012 14:45 (8 months ago) Permalink

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/starship-lead-guitarist-mark-abrahamian-dies-of-heart-attack-after-concert-in-nebraska/2012/09/03/0843a824-f62c-11e1-a93b-7185e3f88849_story.html

― how's life, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:44 (8 months ago) Permalink

Abrahamian joined Starship 11 years ago. Starship’s history goes back to the 1960s with Jefferson Airplane and in 1980s Jefferson Starship.

"The stage was now set for the Alan Parsons Project, which I believe was some sort of hovercraft."

― Darren Robocopsky (Phil D.), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:50 (8 months ago) Permalink

Jefferson Starship just played a gig here two nights ago. I just learned Starship and Jefferson Starship are now two completely different bands.

― Lee626, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 05:33 (8 months ago) Permalink

It's easier if you just categorize it all under Jefferson Wheelchair and leave it at that

The less you think about it, the easier it is

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 05:35 (8 months ago) Permalink

jefferson airplane ended up the anti-fleetwood mac somehow, like FM floating on a cloud of awesome despite constant changes for decades after their founding and JA watering down into starship.

― omar little, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 05:37 (8 months ago) Permalink

Marconi plays the mamba

― Intent to Distribute (buzza), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 05:40 (8 months ago) Permalink

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