TALKING HEADS - THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (NAIVE MELODY) SPEAKING IN TONGUES
OFFICIAL VIDEO
DIR DAVID BYRNE
NOTE: this film begins and ends with cake
Saturday, September 19, 2026
Jefferson Airplane - Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 9-14-1970 | Albums That Should Exist
Jefferson Airplane - Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 9-14-1970
By the way, the people who posted this (David Minches and Charlie Miller) also posted a soundboard recording of Jefferson Airplane in the same venue the very next day, September 15, 1970. I decided to only post this one because they have very similar setlists. But you might want to download the other one at Guitars101. I picked this one because I had a slight preference for the few songs that were different. Most notably, this was the only one with a performance of "Starship."
In 1970, at the time of this concert, Jefferson Airplane was coming apart. They were using a lot of drugs, especially cocaine, and the band members were having increasing conflicts with each other. The drummer, Spencer Dryden, was fired from the band in February 1970, and was replaced by Joey Covington. More importantly, Marty Balin, a key singer and songwriter in the band, was increasingly estranged from the other band members. He would quit the band in early 1971.
The band didn't release a new album in 1970, the first time that happened since it got started in 1966. They only released a single, "Mexico" backed by "Have You Seen the Saucers," both of which were performed here. But their record company released a popular greatest hits album, "The Worst of Jefferson Airplane," so they were touring to support that.
However, the band had come up with a bunch of new songs that were unreleased at the time. Some of them were performed here: "Emergency," written by Balin, "Up or Down," sung by Balin but written by Peter Kaukonen, brother of lead guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, "You Wear Your Dress Too Short," a blues cover sung by Malin, "Whatever The Old Man Does (Is Always Right)" by Covington, and "The Man (The Bludgeon of the Bluecoat)," also by Covington. When the band finally released their next album, "Bark," in 1971, none of those songs were included. The Balin-sung songs weren't included because he had left the band by then. I don't know why the two Covington-sung ones weren't included. Maybe he wasn't important enough in the band, being merely the new drummer, or maybe they weren't deemed good enough. Either way, it's interesting to hear them here.
Additionally, the song "Starship" performed here is from the album "Blows Against the Empire." It was released about a month after this concert. Technically, it was billed to "Paul Kantner and the Jefferson Starship." That the first use of the name "Jefferson Starship." The name would return into 1974, replacing "Jefferson Airplane." Although it was billed as a Kantner solo album, it also had lots of involvement from Grace Slick, who wrote or co-wrote some songs, and sang lead vocals on many of them.
I noticed that there's a version of "Blows Against the Empire" with some bonus tracks. One of them is the exact version of "Starship." I think it's the only officially released song from this concert.
Also at this time, two band members, lead guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady, had formed their own spin-off group, "Hot Tuna." Since they were on friendly terms with other band members, Hot Tuna often served as the opening acts to Jefferson Airplane concerts, or there would be a Hot Tuna section in the middle. For this concert, the first four songs are effectively a mini Hot Tuna set.
As I mentioned above, this is an excellent sounding soundboard. However, I think I improved it still further. It had one problem that is common to excellent sounding soundboards: they record what happened on stage wonderfully, but don't get much of the crowd cheering. That was very much the case here. So I ran every single song through the MVSEP program, boosting the cheering dramatically at the end of each song. Now, it sounds like a normal concert, with the expected amount of audience reaction.
It sounds like the recording for about the first thirty seconds or so of "We Can Be Together" was wonky. I improved it a bit, but most of it was beyond my ability to fix.
This album is two hours and 19 minutes long.
01 talk(all tracks Jefferson Airplane)
02 Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning
03 talk
04 New Song [For the Morning]
05 Been So Long
06 Hesitation Blues
07 We Can Be Together
08 Mexico
09 Crown of Creation
10 talk
11 Whatever the Old Man Does [Is Always Right]
12 The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil
13 talk
14 Emergency
15 Come Back Baby
16 talk
17 Somebody to Love
18 Wooden Ships
19 talk
20 Up or Down
21 talk
22 Have You Seen the Saucers
23 talk
24 The Man [Bludgeon of a Bluecoat]
25 The Other Side of This Life
26 Volunteers
27 talk
28 Greasy Heart
29 talk
30 You Wear Your Dress Too Short
31 talk
32 Freight Train [Instrumental Version]
33 Starship
34 talk
35 3-5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds
Really worth a read as Paul knows his stuff . . . . but download it and the companion from Guitars101 and see what you think. Being a soundbaord and all the tweaks Paul has done make this a doozie for Plane heads (like me!)
Jefferson Airplane - featuring Papa John Creach - San Francisco, 1970
"In 1970, Dean and Dudley Evenson moved to San Francisco with their newly purchased Sony Video Portapack. Their very first video with their new camera had been of Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore East in NYC. Once in the Bay area, they became involved with Jefferson Airplane and set up a meeting at their mansion near Golden Gate Park with their manager, Bill Thompson. They were sufficiently impressed with this media form and gave a few hundred dollars to purchase a 16-foot camera cable so their concerts could be videotaped.
That opportunity came up rather quickly with a big event at Winterland which brought together the Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, and Quicksilver Messenger Service. The concert the night before had been broadcast live on PBS but this night they were allowed to videotape it. There was an intensity surrounding the evening because the day before, Janis Joplin's death had shocked the tight knit San Francisco rock world. Marty Balin had been a close friend of Janis and was not going to perform, but the other band members felt the show must go on.
It was an electrifying concert with everyone in rare form. The Quicksilver Messenger Service and Grateful Dead played first. The "Workingman's Dead" had become very popular over the summer so the crowd was wild with excitement. Then the Airplane came on. An additional twist was the introduction of Papa John Creech, an elderly blues fiddler who added an incredible power improvising on his violin as Grace Slick wailed away in a song dedicated to Janis. Dean was on the stage in all sorts of contortions, getting weird angles at the feet of the performers. No one seemed to mind our presence in the midst of all this energy.”
#JeffersonAirplane
Desmond Dekker and the Aces - Too Much Too Soon (1968) | GUESS I'M DUMB
Desmond Dekker and the Aces - Too Much Too Soon (1968)
Brilliant soulful early reggae
Your actions are clear that you wanted too much and too soon
GUESS I'M DUMB
Bob Dylan - Country Pie (Demo) 1969 [Nashville Skyline ] |HERBERG DE KELDER
Country Pie (Demo) 1969 | Nashville Skyline
Bob Dylan, “Country Pie,” Nashville Skyline outtake, from The Bootleg Series Vol. 10—Another Self-Portrait.
“Raspberry, strawberry, lemon and lime,What do I care?
Blueberry, apple, cherry, pumpkin and plum,
Call me for dinner
Honey, I’ll be there”
HERBERG DE KELDER
How we roll!? Shall we?
I think we should . . . . .
$5.00
Don’t mind if I do!
Shall we?
here we go at the WEEKEND hey?!
You dancin’?
"You askin’?”
I’m askin’!
“I’m dancin’!!"
Friday, September 18, 2026
JAMES RIGBY - MYA ZOHYA
Another from James (Rigby that is . . . . ) and maybe sign off the day with this beauty from James
MYA ZOHYA - BY JAMES RIGBY
TUNED - DADDAD
SONGS FROM THE WATCH - A Compilation of 25 Original Guitar Fingerpicking Pieces in Open Tunings, Taken from 7 Albums, Written over the last 6 years by James Rigby
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