Mexico is AMAZING
Grace's piano balladry on Baxter's is also AMAZING. it is oddly one of their albums i listen to most now but in the past i was definitely into the earlier stuff.
― surm, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
sorry no apostrophe intended. "two heads" kills me
― surm, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
omg and actually i meant VOLUNTEERS when i was talking about Grace's piano balladry -- HEY FREDERICK is one of my most memorable moments from her.
#geekingout
― surm, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
All the airplane love makes me happy
― Eris (Ross), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
Great Society is worth checking out too, I do love Darby Slick's guitar. Wish there was a lot more of it.The solo Grunt label lps are pretty great too, or maybe that's trio plus and solo.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
Hey Fredrick is such a stunner
― bedraggled vorticist (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 6 April 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
Surm Im not quite sure this is up yr alley but you ever hear Silver Spoon?
Grace inventing goregrind w a grand piano in 1971, thats all..
― bedraggled vorticist (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 6 April 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
https://youtu.be/7Is2OeUZ6Sg
Sunfighter is a great alb
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Friday, 6 April 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
Haven't listened to the whole thing since I bought it (30 years ago?), but the one song I love and keep on the hard drive is "When I Was a Boy I Watched the Wolves."
― clemenza, Friday, 6 April 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
I was listening to it a couple of years ago around the same time i was listening to Howlin Rain and thinking it shared some qualities like a near gospel feel.THink I was really thinking Manhole and Baron Von Tollbooth when I was saying Grunt label stuff. So should listen to it some more.
― Stevolende, Friday, 6 April 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
Manhole rules. So does Baron Von Tollbooth. And Dragonfly. And yeah, Sunfighter. I grew up on this stuff.
― brimstead, Friday, 6 April 2018 23:10 (five years ago) link
& the very early live sets by Jefferson Starship have the band playing tracks from at least Manhole live. I'm thinking of a few from 1974 that I have.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 7 April 2018 06:25 (five years ago) link
I looked at a bunch of albums over the weekend that a friend's brother was scrapping, and ended up taking about 50. Best of all was a perfect copy of Flight Log, poster/book included. I've got all the JA albums except 30 Seconds Over Winterland, so I already have most of it, but it's something I always wanted and never bought at the time. I really noticed "Have You Seen the Saucers" for the first time--I've had Early Flight for ages, but somehow it escaped my attention. (I love "Mexico" so much, I guess I got sidetracked.) Great song. Christgau praises it in one CG entry, makes fun of it the next. He got it right the first time.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 00:55 (five years ago) link
Oops--it's not "Have You Seen the Saucers," it's "Have You Seen the Stars Tonite?" from Blows Against the Empire. Which I don't have, so that explains it.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 00:59 (five years ago) link
That whole LP is klassic!
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 01:19 (five years ago) link
that album is great! it's a trip!
― brimstead, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 01:47 (five years ago) link
Blows really is a great album - I especially get a kick out of 'Mau Mau Amerikon' cause it's like everyone assumed 'We Can Be Together' was the pinnacle of Kantner's revolution-speak lyrics and he went 'pff, I was just getting started', haha. "Rabid lover-feelin' the starch in your grin Callin' for acid cocaine and grass" etc
― whitehallunity, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 02:39 (five years ago) link
Just listened to Manhole for the first time. This is killer! I feel as if - especially on the title track - this is how I always wanted to hear Grace Slick sing. Her obsession with Spanish music is right up front on those first two tracks.
― Josefa, Friday, 13 April 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
RIP Marty Balin
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jefferson-airplane-guitarist-marty-balin-dead-76-730912/
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 28 September 2018 22:49 (five years ago) link
RIP Marty, goddamn what a voice.
― brimstead, Friday, 28 September 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
RIP, gonna spin "Coming Back To Me" when I get home
― sleeve, Friday, 28 September 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link
What a voice, yes.
― clemenza, Saturday, 29 September 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link
Today...I feel like pleasin you...more than beforeMarty!
― calstars, Saturday, 29 September 2018 01:45 (five years ago) link
If you only you believe in Miracles...such a smooth yet haunted sounding voice.
― earlnash, Saturday, 29 September 2018 04:50 (five years ago) link
so long marty, will always love those airplane records
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Saturday, 29 September 2018 06:07 (five years ago) link
Really saddened by this... such an amazing, smooth, sultry, sweet voice - whether on his own or as such a perfect counterpoint to Grace Slick. And an excellent songwriter too.
― Lee626, Saturday, 29 September 2018 10:35 (five years ago) link
Damn, RIP
― The nexus of the crisis (Sund4r), Saturday, 29 September 2018 13:16 (five years ago) link
There's a nice Facebook post from Jorma Kaukonen that showed up on my wall twice removed. It's a little long...would it be a breach of some sort to post it here? It looks like it was meant to be widely disseminated.
― clemenza, Saturday, 29 September 2018 14:19 (five years ago) link
Easily my favorite vocalist of that group. Grace tends toward stridency and Paul couldn't sing a lick. His was a fine, blue eyed soul voice. Besides the obvious JA material, i always liked, nay loved his mid to late 70s JStarship tunes also. And even his solo hit Hearts, which would make a fine song for Al Green himself!
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Saturday, 29 September 2018 14:24 (five years ago) link
Went down into the crowd to try to stop things at Altamont and got punched
― timellison, Saturday, 29 September 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link
Not only that, it looks like he got shoved off the stage @ around 4:40 in the clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLWhRDkJSWE
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 29 September 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link
I love his voice, yeah. The combination of his and Slick's really makes some of the early Jefferson Starship stuff for me.
― The nexus of the crisis (Sund4r), Saturday, 29 September 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link
Seems like the world would have had a lot fewer people had "Miracles" not been written.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 1 October 2018 03:08 (five years ago) link
It's an amazing song, the way it builds and swells, and yeah the sexiness of it. Very unique. I remember precisely where I was when I first heard it and probably so do a lot of people
― Josefa, Monday, 1 October 2018 03:16 (five years ago) link
Today and With Your Love are my faves. eerie transcendent power of love.
― Paul, Thursday, 4 October 2018 10:29 (five years ago) link
Old enough that I bought Spitfire on release, just as I was beginning to love the Airplane via Worst Of.
― clemenza, Thursday, 4 October 2018 11:50 (five years ago) link
After Bathing at Baxters is yer man innit.Quite quite scrumptuous.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 4 October 2018 13:54 (five years ago) link
Long John Silver is a really solid album... sick guitar, great songs throughout.
Stash box 4 ever!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/Jaljs.jpg
― jeanie bueller energy (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 21:51 (four years ago) link
I bought a vinyl copy a couple months ago; the older clerk who checked me out paused to show his millennial employees the jacket photo of the weed and told them how lucky they were to not have to deal with such dirty, earthy pot.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:02 (four years ago) link
Lol. A teachable moment
― jeanie bueller energy (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
Listening to their Woodstock set now....
"All right, friends, you have seen the heavy groups... now you will see morning maniac music."
― jeanie bueller energy (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
https://www.grammy.com/sites/com/files/styles/news_detail_header/public/jefferson_airplane_woodstock-51240095_1.jpg
― jeanie bueller energy (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
the 21-minute performance of “Wooden Ships”... 🤯
― jeanie bueller energy (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link
The previous night's/that early morning's lineup was (in order) Creedence, Sly, the Who, and then the Airplane. Pretty decent stretch of entertainment.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:55 (four years ago) link
I didn't seriously get into (or even hear a whole album by) Airplane until a year ago, and then suddenly I couldn't listen to anything but Baxter's, Crown, and Volunteers for weeks on end.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:59 (four years ago) link
always had the toughest time finding my way into these fools but man i'm fucking pretty hard w Volunteers.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, 13 February 2020 03:03 (four years ago) link
That’s the gateway.
― Mocha Sauce (morrisp), Thursday, 13 February 2020 03:10 (four years ago) link
dig it. also
I am listening to Volunteers and I'm here to tell you that Nicky Hopkins is THE SECRET WEAPON.
― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy),
otm
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, 13 February 2020 03:25 (four years ago) link
watched some clips of Slick on Letterman in the early-mid 80s. honestly she does seem cool af
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, 13 February 2020 03:26 (four years ago) link