there's only slight evidence in that video that grace slick knows how to blink
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:45 (seven years ago) link
fuck now i've got this stuck in my head
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 9 March 2017 17:10 (seven years ago) link
Oh my days... I work in aviation (incredibly pretentious way of saying I'm cabin crew tbph) and it's going to take all my mental fortitude to stop this from being a permanent fixture in my head.
Also, Grace Slick's come-with-me gesture at 1.55 has got to be the most one of the most uninviting things I've ever seen my life. She looks like she really wants to show you a dead body.
― Girl with Curious Hair, Thursday, 9 March 2017 18:37 (seven years ago) link
wait so i just realized this is billed as Jefferson Airplane? what was the deal w/going back to that?
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 March 2017 20:48 (seven years ago) link
oh duh the lineup nevermind
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 March 2017 20:49 (seven years ago) link
Okay this is good -- part of why I remembered this thing so 'fondly' is that 1989 had a plague of reunions going around from bands that I mostly didn't care about. A quick search in Google turned up what (at least in its archives) was the one contemporaneous newspaper profile on the JA reunion, in the New York Times itself:
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/29/arts/on-again-off-again-jefferson-airplane-is-on-again.html
And it starts:
Just because every rock band anyone remembers from the 1960's and 1970's has chosen this summer to regroup and tour doesn't mean the reunited Jefferson Airplane planned to jump on some bandwagon.''It just sort of slopped together, in the usual fashion we do everything,'' said Grace Slick, who joined the Jefferson Airplane in 1966 for its second album, ''Surrealistic Pillow,'' and who sang such psychedelic anthems as ''White Rabbit'' and ''Somebody to Love.''
''It just sort of slopped together, in the usual fashion we do everything,'' said Grace Slick, who joined the Jefferson Airplane in 1966 for its second album, ''Surrealistic Pillow,'' and who sang such psychedelic anthems as ''White Rabbit'' and ''Somebody to Love.''
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 March 2017 21:09 (seven years ago) link
The drummer for the tour is Kenny Aronoff, a member of John Cougar Mellencamp's band, and the touring band also includes auxiliary keyboardists and guitarists.
Hmm.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 March 2017 21:10 (seven years ago) link
And this bit!
''It started out as a joke on Paul,'' Ms. Slick said. ''We hadn't even talked for a year, and we were battling legally - in fact, there are still some standing lawsuits between me and Paul, something to do with the Airplane. But then, there are at least 15 or 20 active lawsuits now between managers, record companies, agencies, a morass of stuff that comes from all different angles."
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 March 2017 21:11 (seven years ago) link
Haha, holy shit!
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall when this track was recorded/the video was made...
― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Thursday, 9 March 2017 21:39 (seven years ago) link
if there was a fly on the wall, Grace probably ate it
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 March 2017 21:39 (seven years ago) link
In the video, the behavior of the band members makes sense if you assume that they think you dropped thirty minutes ago, and they're trying to test if you're tripping. They're all "yeah, we're the jeffersonmotherfukinairplane and we're back blowin' minds and do you feel smaller yet Alice" rather than "yup, we're on the plague of reunions bandwagon". They're feeling it.
― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Thursday, 9 March 2017 22:02 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 10 March 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-tcLVzpnP4
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 March 2017 00:08 (seven years ago) link
Anyway, how much you want to bet this song was just them being all "Gee this Pink Floyd reunion single was a hit"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCB_INs2E24
The song doesn't work but I can't help thinking that the creative impulses driving it are similar impulses regarding expression and pushing the structural envelope behind something like "The Ballad of You, Me, and Pooneil." Not anywhere near as inspired, I totally grant that. But those are impulses for which I admire them a lot.
― timellison, Friday, 10 March 2017 00:39 (seven years ago) link
I was just watching a video of them playing "Eskimo Blue Day" from 1970 yesterday. Their songs were so experimental.
― timellison, Friday, 10 March 2017 00:41 (seven years ago) link
That spring break video is a weird as hell mix of things. Easy to see why Grace Slick might had to down quite a varied cocktail of chemicals to get through an abstract day like that one.
― earlnash, Friday, 10 March 2017 04:35 (seven years ago) link
I can't decide who is less comfortable looking at the camera, Grace or Jorma. Compensating in different ways obv
― El Tomboto, Friday, 10 March 2017 12:39 (seven years ago) link
I love plaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanes - JET AIRCRAFT
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 18 September 2017 04:11 (six years ago) link
i still believe i hallucinated this song and video
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 18 September 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
Wasn't Paul Kantner always terrible though? That's what I surmised from my investigations into JA.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Monday, 18 September 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
No.
― timellison, Monday, 18 September 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link
I love planes, jet aircraftI love planes, sensual aircraftHere come the planes.They're American planes. Made in America.Smoking or non-smoking?
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 03:39 (six years ago) link
I LOVE PLANES
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 03:09 (five years ago) link
Sensual aircraft
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Monday, 17 June 2019 01:39 (four years ago) link
jet, jet, jet aircraft
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 13:58 (four years ago) link
And the little boy is still like a little boy, and he met anotherLittle girl, and they made another little boyAnd the new little guy still loves planes and flying thingsAnd both his mother and father love him andHold him and hug him whenever he needs it andSoon will send him lovingly to the centre of the sky,
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:52 (four years ago) link
I like to pretend Jefferson Airplane broke up after Surrealistic Pillow and all of the members of the band retired into a hippie commune
― octobeard, Thursday, 7 November 2019 04:58 (four years ago) link
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 November 2019 10:17 (four years ago) link
This is one of the most horrific videos ever. The way they are just hamming it up and mugging at the camera is so cringeworthy. The part when Clarke Gable creeps into the little boy's room while he is sleeping . . . .
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Thursday, 7 November 2019 11:49 (four years ago) link
and I don't know wtf Grace Slick is doing with her eyes
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 November 2019 11:49 (four years ago) link
sensual aircraft
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Thursday, 7 November 2019 13:55 (four years ago) link
https://j.gifs.com/XLVqRg.gif
― del griffith, Thursday, 7 November 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link
The part when Clarke Gable creeps into the little boy's room while he is sleeping . . . .
Leo as Howard Hughes protests.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 November 2019 22:51 (four years ago) link
I LOVE PLAINSES
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Monday, 18 January 2021 04:06 (three years ago) link
Hideous Lump at 11:39 18 Sep 17I love planes, jet aircraftI love planes, sensual aircraftHere come the planes.They're American planes. Made in America.Smoking or non-smoking?
― peace, man, Saturday, 28 August 2021 01:57 (two years ago) link
And his mother didn't want him and his father was always working, so he/Just set his head to the center of the sky and
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 00:19 (two years ago) link
some of the superimposed backgrounds are done as awkwardly as a driving scene in a 40s Dick Tracy movie.
also omg, the opening riff kinda sounds like it's gonna be badass, then "I love planes" comes in and ruins the momentum.
lol @ Grace pointing at the plane as if we don't know what it is.
also why is the song clearly about flying airplanes and we keep seeing rockets flying
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 5 November 2022 23:59 (one year ago) link
planes and wings and flying things, tbf
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 6 November 2022 01:52 (one year ago) link
also, could be the song takes place in a world where the goal of the Apollo program was to reach not the Moon, but "the center of the sky"
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 6 November 2022 01:56 (one year ago) link
^love this theory
― (We're Not) The Experimental Jet Set (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 November 2022 01:58 (one year ago) link
i don't get it do they want to fuck the plane
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 04:40 (eight months ago) link
MONEY PLANE
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 04:42 (eight months ago) link
The Song of Elon
― dow, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 04:52 (eight months ago) link
Hello edgelords my old friends
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 05:00 (eight months ago) link
What is that shot at 3:44 (right after “sensual aircraft”), where Jack is palling around w/some kind of Moses figure(?)
― Cone of uncertainty (morrisp), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 05:10 (eight months ago) link
Btw – the KBC Band “America” video (which timellison posted on March 7, 2017) is a masterpiece, and that song should be the f’n national anthem.
― Cone of uncertainty (morrisp), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 05:13 (eight months ago) link
I managed to make it to the ripe old age of 52 without actually hearing this song; I actively avoided everything about it at the time. And . . . why did you do this to me? WHY?
― J, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 16:55 (eight months ago) link
and his mother didn't want him and his father was always workin
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:47 (six months ago) link
This song, to me, has a genetic link with "Future Pilots," by The Red Crayola w/Art & Language (lyrics here):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEF5vuoxpAE
― Rhoda Morgenstern stan account (morrisp), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 21:16 (six months ago) link
It’s genuinely sad that the “little girl” from the beginning of the song doesn’t get the boy… he meets “another little girl”I feel like we need another song about the original girl
― Hippie Ernie (morrisp), Thursday, 7 March 2024 04:08 (one month ago) link