Today is such a jam.
― wilter, Sunday, 14 February 2010 04:35 (fourteen years ago) link
also this photo: http://i48.tinypic.com/16bg4zs.jpg
― wilter, Sunday, 14 February 2010 04:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw Jorma with David Bromberg two weeks ago tonight. always a treat. he did "Keep your Lamps" and "Hesitation Blues" for all you Hot Tuna fans out there. listened to that 'Sweeping Up the Spotlight' Cd for a week straight afterward .. so f'n good. The "Good Shepherd" on there is amazing..
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 14 February 2010 04:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Surmounter is right by the way (tends to be right a lot actually); "Hey Fredrick" is godlike.
One of my favorite bands (mostly bcz of Slick.)
― ha! (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 14 February 2010 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
after checking out the dead last week thought i should get more into jefferson airplane
picked up volunteers for a couple bucks on vinyl
basically jorma is a guitar god, he is absolutely killing every second he plays on this....the seems like their most dead-like record kinda "back to the country" jive and stuff but parts are downright amazing...it's funny how great grace can be at times and how hectoring and bad she can be at times.
we should be together is a jam....the version of wooden ships rules
― coo coo khal (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 5 May 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Would like to have that version of "Wooden Ships" with the vocals stripped out. Hate the lyrics.
― Stomp! in the name of love (WmC), Thursday, 5 May 2011 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
not feeling very free & easy?
yeah JA is almost like a parody of "hippie", they are the most hippie band i think, cassidy looks like a "hippie" halloween costume you buy at a party store on the back cover photo
― coo coo khal (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 5 May 2011 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
also kinda weird: not a very well produced album, kinda muddy even on the orig vinyl...which is weird cuz most big rock stuff from that era is so well recorded
Beginning totally sounds like Balin is singing La La Means I Love You by The Delfonics over the chord changes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBbJufztxeg
― Hardcore Bangage (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 5 May 2011 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
it kinda blows my mind that jorma isn't mentioned in the best guitarists of the 60s discussions more often. he's just electrifying on volunteers
― coo coo khal (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 5 May 2011 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
have you heard after bathing at baxters
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 5 May 2011 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
that is my jam, sometimes
no honestly i've always had a hard time w/JA....i have surrealistic pillow on beat up vinyl somewhere, never really clicked w/this band until recently with volunteers?
baxter's one of the good ones?
is crown of creation good? that was one of my pop's fav records he always talked about it
― coo coo khal (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 5 May 2011 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Crown of Creation is great, especially this time of the year.
― Handjobs for a sport (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 5 May 2011 19:05 (thirteen years ago) link
pillow is good but overrated
best one is
http://bestmediaportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/jefferson-airplane-takes-off-1.jpg
― am0n, Thursday, 5 May 2011 19:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Regardless of their topical content, there's something undeniably mythical about the Airplane for me.
― timellison, Thursday, 5 May 2011 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Slick is a p great songwriter; one of my favorites of the decade, not v prolific but there's a still a lot of classics there: obv White Rabbit, but also Lather, Hey Fredrick, Eskimo Blue Day...ABAB has two--Rejoyce & Two Heads, and both are keepers imo; another one of my favorites is Wild Tyme. And of course Won't You Try/Sunday Afternoon is a perfectly serviceable closer...
also, re: muddy production, Simon Reynolds said it best:
also that shrill, treble-bright, highly-strung feel running through the record seems a lot closer to the acid experience than more blissy gambolling through the meadows type stuff
― blissblogga, Monday, February 7, 2005 12:43 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark
― schizophrenics think I'm hilarious (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 6 May 2011 00:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Not that that's really appealing (to the extent that it might be true). I think a big part of what's appealing about them sonically is actually their warmth.
― timellison, Friday, 6 May 2011 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link
They truly rock like no one else. Not big on riffs, just great instrumental interplay and searing lead guitar/vocals.
― blank, Friday, 6 May 2011 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
wow I think Reynolds actually nailed it right there, can't imagine those records sounding like anything other than what they do. One of my favorite bands, and yes, Jorma is a god .. I *so* wanted to fly out to New York last December for his 70th! birthday bashes at the Beacon, but alas the funds just weren't there ... saw him like three times in 2010 otherwise, tho -- two Hot Tuna sets, one set with Dave Bromberg
― Stormy Davis, Friday, 6 May 2011 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't know much of this band's stuff but I absolutely love 'Have You Seen the Stars Tonite?' (which I think may have been Starship anyway)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl1PkH2D9EI
― groovypanda, Friday, 6 May 2011 08:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Blows Against the Empire and the other 70s pre-Starship solo Kantner albums are definitely all on my 'stuff to get' list
― schizophrenics think I'm hilarious (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 6 May 2011 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
SAAATUUUURRRDAAAAaaaAAYY AAAFFTERRNOOOOON
― Trip Maker, Friday, 6 May 2011 13:27 (thirteen years ago) link
still digging volunteers a lot. need to get more stuff by them.
i think i like them more than the dead so far, both bands i never really checked out too much. while the dead have a lot of good things, airplane "goes for it" a little bit harder which i like
― coo coo khal (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 May 2011 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
btw,
what exactly does marty balin do in this band?
ululates, takes good publicity stills
― Stomp! in the name of love (WmC), Friday, 6 May 2011 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
according to wiki, has mild autism
― am0n, Friday, 6 May 2011 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ia2YcPwNVo
― am0n, Friday, 6 May 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
just watched the clip of airplane from gimme shelter...god, forgot how chilling that movie is.
props to balin for being the only one of the performers that day that just didn't stand up there say "hey be cool everyone"
― coo coo khal (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 May 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Fidelity and panning make me wonder if After Bathing at Baxter's was recorded on four track.
― timellison, Saturday, 7 May 2011 02:18 (thirteen years ago) link
matt if yer into JORMA, as you should me, you should check out some hot tuna LPs. my fave is 'burgers.' i love the airplane. think surrealistic pillow is my favorite, but really love baxter's, crown of creation, and volunteers too. blows against the empire is fun, and takes off is fine but a bit primitive by the the standard of their later heights...
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 7 May 2011 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm surprised there's only been three mentions of Bless Its Pointed Little Head in this long thread. That's where they sound completely on top of their game - the scorching version of "Plastic Fantastic Lover," the revamped version of "Somebody to Love"... almost a swaggering vibe to the whole record.
― Josefa, Saturday, 7 May 2011 04:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Ended up writing a little something on "Young Girl Sunday Blues":
http://thisiheard.blogspot.com/2011/05/jefferson-airplane-young-girl-sunday.html
― timellison, Sunday, 8 May 2011 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
matt if yer into JORMA, as you should be, you should check out some hot tuna LPs. my fave is 'burgers.'
This one song (from Burgers) is as great as even the greatest Airplane:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nHgt13nCrg
― clemenza, Sunday, 8 May 2011 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh man, hell yeah. god, Hot Tuna >>>>> Starship ( and I actually like almost all Starship stuff)
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 8 May 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
*J* Starship , i guess i should have said ( i forgot that, in the case of this collective, it is key not to casually drop-off a modifier when making references)
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 8 May 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
What do y'all think of the Great Society?
― Mark, Sunday, 8 May 2011 22:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Indeed. The way the band come in piecemeal on Somebody To Love, until the bass part comes in properly and the whole thing locks together, is great.
― B-Boy Bualadh Bos (ecuador_with_a_c), Sunday, 8 May 2011 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
versh of "Sally Round the Roses" is all psych heaven!!
― Stormy Davis, Monday, 9 May 2011 00:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm surprised there's only been three mentions of Bless Its Pointed Little Head
also .... fucking "BEAR MELT"!!
― Stormy Davis, Monday, 9 May 2011 00:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Great Society is good stuff but doesn't get nearly the play around my place as the prime Airplane records.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 9 May 2011 04:41 (thirteen years ago) link
this is actually one of my fave JA documents:
http://www.amazon.com/Sweeping-Up-Spotlight-Live-Fillmore/dp/B003W77U88/ref=sr_1_5?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1304916426&sr=1-5
seriously, if you dig Jorma, you gotta get that CD.
it rules.
"Good Shepard" appears early on. gets better and better
― Stormy Davis, Monday, 9 May 2011 04:49 (thirteen years ago) link
not sure which version I like more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LPDCdtjkx0
― schizophrenics think I'm hilarious (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 9 May 2011 05:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Seems like it must have sounded pretty crazy and evil in 1966.
― Mark, Monday, 9 May 2011 11:33 (thirteen years ago) link
The one Great Society song I love is "Free Advice."
I wanted to post my favourite weird Airplane song, "Thunk," but it's been removed from YouTube. It pretty much stands apart from anything they ever did. This is pretty great too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K8FucBj_q8&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
― clemenza, Monday, 9 May 2011 11:39 (thirteen years ago) link
that hot tuna song posted above is pretty hot stuff
― end to end berners (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 9 May 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Inspired by this thread, I played side 2 of "Crown Of Creation" last night. I also went to the record store today in search of "Bless Its Pointed Little Head", which I thought I had but didn't. They were out as well.
― sleeve, Monday, 9 May 2011 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey guys: as part of what I assume is the gradual folding of the Collector's Choice label, Deep Discount is offering the 4 JA live albums CC music dropped last year for the total price of around $11 here.
― Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 1 September 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
woah ... awesome find! Thanks, C. Grisso/McCain!
― Stormy Davis, Thursday, 1 September 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks--ordered five non-JA CDS (shipping to Canada: ugh, but still cheap overall).
― clemenza, Thursday, 1 September 2011 22:44 (twelve years ago) link