I travel by Airplane . . . . JEFFERSON AIRPLANE

 

SIXTIES SPECIALS | Classic rock revisited | JEFFERSON AIRPLANE : If You Feel Like China Breaking (Live in Hamburg, 05/10/1968) + JEFFERSON STARSHIP : You Can Count On Me (rehearsal) 1978| TWILIGHTZONE

 Jefferson Airplane - If You Feel Like China Breaking

Thanks to Twlightzone

as ever . . . . . . . .

loose as ever and you always wonder what the ahem ‘influence’ was on any given performance but this is a unique number rarely played live . . . . . . 

Jefferson Starship - Count on Me - Live Rehearsal Version (1978)

Morning Maniac Mewsic! | This is how to wake up in the morning . . . . . . . Somebody to Love & White Rabbit : JEFFERSON AIRPLANE

 I don’t think I will ever NOT post this from the Plane. . . . Grace at her peak (and peaking?)

 

"Ok you’ve heard all the hippy groups now its time . . . . . . . . . GOOD MORNING PEOPLE!" "

Jefferson Airplane | 1968-1970 Outtakes, Rough Mixes, Live, Demos, Studio Sessions | Floppy Boot Stomp - A Jeremiah Special

Jefferson Airplane 1968-1970 Outtakes, Rough Mixes, Live, Demos, Studio Sessions

 Jefferson Airplane

1968-1970

Outtakes, Rough Mixes, Live, Demos, Studio Sessions

Various Locations

Jefferson Airplane Outtakes 1968 - 1970 | FLOPPY BOOT STOMP

01. Share A Little Joke 

02. Greasy Heart

03. Ice Cream Phoenix Jam

04. Good Shepherd

05. Lather

06. Chushingura

07. Triad

08. Star Track

09. Ice Cream Phoenix 1

10. Ice Cream Phoenix 2

11. Frozen Noses (Grace Slick Demo)

12. Mexico (Grace Slick Demo)

13. Mexico (Full Band Version)

14. Been So Long (with Overdubing)

15. A Song For All Seasons

16. We Can Be Together (Paul Kantner Demo)

17. Last Wall Of The Castle (Jorma Kaukonen Demo)

Tracks 1-2,4-10 - Crown Of Creation Outtakes & Rough Mixes, 1968

Track 3 - Hot Tuna Live

Tracks 11-14 - Demos & Outtakes, 1970

Tracks 15-16 - Demos & Studio Sessions, 1969

Track 17 - Demo, 1968

From Jeremiah at Floppy Boot Stomp! 

(he’s a Bullfrog you know!?)

and remember kids just say “No!’ 

One pill makes larger and one pill makes you small and the one’s that mother gives you don’t do anything at all!

Paul Kantner: Planet Earth Rock And Roll Orchestra 1983 | URBANASPIRINES

PAUL KANTNER’S Second SOLO Album 

from Kostas at the URBANASPIRINES

On January 28, 2016, Kantner died of multiple organ failure in his beloved San Francisco at the age of 74

In his prime he was up there (and out there) with the best. We miss him and as a species are the poorer for his no longer being around

Paul Kantner – vocals, guitars, banjo, glass harmonica, synthesizers on "Circle of Fire", lead guitar on "Underground"
Grace Slick – vocals, piano on "The Mountain Song" and "The Sky Is No Limit"
Jack Casady – bass
China Kantner – vocals on "Declaration of Independence" and "The Sky Is No Limit"
Alexander Kantner – vocals on "Underground"
Craig Chaquico – lead guitar
Pete Sears – piano on "The Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra", "Lilith's Song", and "Science Friction", bass on "Circle of Fire"
Aynsley Dunbar – drums
Scott Mathews – guitar, percussion, pedal steel guitar, Linn drums, glass harmonica, vocoder, synthesizers on "Circle of Fire", saxophones on "Circle of Fire" and "The Sky Is No Limit", vocals on "Esperanto", mandolin on "Esperanto", harmonica on "Esperanto", piano on "Esperanto", organ on "Esperanto", bass drum on "Esperanto"
Ron Nagle – piano on "Esperanto", vocals on "Esperanto"
The Dūrocs – sound effects on "The Mountain Song"
Ronnie Montrose – lead guitar on "(She Is A) Telepath"
Flo & Eddie – vocals
Mickey Thomas – vocals on "Circle of Fire"
David Freiberg – synthesizers and vocals on "Circle of Fire"
John Blakeley – 2nd rhythm guitar on "Let's Go”

Here . . .

'HAL’S DEATH' by JEFFERSON AIRPLANE | FLOPPY BOOT STOMP | A JOBE Special!

 Wow!! . . . .  now my brother from another mother, Jobe over at HQ, has turned up trumps (no NO not THAT one!!) and no mistake. I pretty much have all I needed I thought of Jefferson Airplane recordings but this is new and exciting and well worth checking out. Despite the somewhat off-putting title around the producer's nomenclature ( Hal’s Death?!? ) compiled and produced as they are by Hal Broome, this five disc collection is great quality and highly collectable, eminently playable and really interesting to boot

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Hal’s Death by Jefferson Airplane - FLOPPY BOOT STOMP

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Enjoy!

I am and there’s even a Fairport Convention cover!

Jefferson Airplane - 1970-09-15 - San Francisco, CA | Heavy Bootz

About time we had some more Airplane . . . . . I may already have this and posted before but whilst we download and play it, I will check the vaults here at Swapper’s Mansions . . . you know working on the basis that whatever the old man does is always right!!?

Jefferson Airplane - 1970-09-15 - San Francisco, CA

Jefferson Airplane
Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA
1970-09-15 (early show)

sbd
mp3 @ 320 [118 mb]
sq: A+

artwork included

01 Somebody To Love

02 Crown Of Creation

03 Mexico

04 Whatever The Old Man Does (Is Always Right)

05 Have You Seen The Saucers?

06 Uncle Sam Blues 

07 Emergency

08 3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds

09 We Can Be Together >

10 Volunteers

tt: 51:23

Grace Slick - vocals
Marty Balin - vocals, percussion
Paul Kantner - vocals, guitar
Jorma Kaukonen - lead guitar
Jack Casady - bass 
Joey Covington - drums

LAST FLIGHT TONIGHT : The Last Jefferson Airplane (bought when they came out series!) |PLAIN & FANCY

Jefferson Airplane - Bark

 (1971- 2013 remaster)

this was the last album by the Airplane that I bought (when it came out as it goes)  and after Blows Against The Empire I pretty much gave it up there . . . . . . . 

 JEFFERSON AIRPLANE - When The Earth Moves Again

Bark is the beautiful unraveling of Jefferson Airplane. Founding member Marty Balin had bailed, following the departed Spencer Dryden (who actually left during Volunteers), and the remaining members (which now included violinist Papa John Creach from Joey Covington’s previous band) embarked on their strangest journey to date. The Airplane had essentially splintered into three different parts: Jorma Kaukonen’s inner battle between Jimi Hendrix and gentleman farmer, Grace Slick’s trained monsters and Paul Kantner’s groupthink apocalypse. 

On a paper-bag poster, it might have looked messy. On vinyl, it was exciting as hell. In my opinion, this is the first Jefferson Airplane album that could be filed under progressive rock, as the psychedelic label has now completely worn off. You’ll hear the influence of Frank Zappa (“Wild Turkey” is their approximation of Hot Rats), Santana (compare “Pretty As You Feel” to “Oye Como Va”) and even The Beach Boys (on both Kantner’s “Rock And Roll Island” and Covington’s “Thunk”). And then there are Grace Slick’s songs, which defy description. “Crazy Miranda” is in line with earlier songs about foolish girls, but “Law Man” is like a shotgun blast of rock & roll in the face and her “European Song” is Marlene Dietrich genius mit more than a touch of madness. That the band couldn’t sustain this level of intensity is made plain in Kaukonen’s “Third Week In Chelsea,” which explains his change of heart in a song that might have stepped off a Lou Reed record. 

Kantner tries to rally the troops one more time for “War Movie,” but it’s clear that the Airplane’s journey is coming to an end. Yet Bark also makes clear that the band members still have plenty to say. I find myself wishing they’d extended this into a double album so I could hear more from Slick, Kaukonen, Kanter and even Covington, with Jack Casady and his unbreakable bass holding it all together.

by Dave Connolly, April 25, 2018

Tracks

1. When The Earth Moves Again (Paul Kantner) - 3:53

2. Feel So Good (Jorma Kaukonen) - 4:36

3. Crazy Miranda (Grace Slick) - 3:22

4. Pretty As You Feel (Joey Covington, Jack Casady, Jorma Kaukonen) - 4:28

5. Wild Turkey (Jorma Kaukonen) - 4:44

6. Law Man (Grace Slick) - 2:41

7. Rock And Roll Island (Paul Kantner) - 3:43

8. Third Week In The Chelsea (Jorma Kaukonen) - 4:33

9. Never Argue With A German If You’re Tired or European Song (Grace Slick) - 4:32

10.Thunk (Joey Covington) - 2:58

11.War Movie (Paul Kantner) - 4:42

Jefferson Airplane

*Jack Casady - Bass Guitar, Bass Balalaika

*Joey Covington - Percussion, Drums, Vocals

*Paul Kantner - Guitar, Vocals

*Jorma Kaukonen - Lead Guitar, Vocals

*Grace Slick - Piano, Vocals

*Papa John Creach - Violin ((Tracks 1, 4, 5) 

With

*Bill Laudner - Vocals (Track 11)

*Will Scarlett - Harmonica (Track 8)

*Carlos Santana - Guitar (Track 4)

*Michael Shrieve - Drums (Track 4)

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE LAST FLIGHT TONIGHT :: Jefferson Airplane - Long John Silver | ROCKASTERIA

Jefferson Airplane - Long John Silver 

(1972, 2013 audiophile remaster)

I finished my flight with The Airplane with Bark as I have said and this was the last album that I didn’t even bother with until years later . . . . . . . 

 Jefferson Airplane - Eat Starch Mom!

Long John Silver is the last adventure of the Jefferson Airplane. The album cover was designed to shock: it converted into a box to store your weed. The music is also designed to shock: “Easter,” “Son of Jesus,” “Eat Starch Mom.” If you haven’t been offended by Grace Slick already, I can’t imagine being offended now. I felt that Bark showed a band moving in different directions, while LJS is the same band expending the last of its increasingly directionless energy. 

The record does make a strong case for bringing Papa John Creach on board, as his violin mixes sweetly with the rest of the band and gives the songs a strange, spectral and almost elegiac quality. It had become clear, however, that Slick, Kantner and Kaukoken, Casady had split into separate factions. Kaukoken’s “Trial By Fire” and Kantner’s “Alexander The Medium,” for example, sound like the work of different bands. Slick and Kantner had grown long in the tooth by this stage, writing meandering protest songs and science-fiction fairy tales that felt like Hawkwind transported to an alternate, acoustic universe. As unfocused as it is, LJS is seldom less than interesting. 

The opening pair of tracks, “Long John Silver” and “Aerie,” are fearless in their freedom and artfully conceived in spots. You’ll find exciting instrumental passages, thought-provoking themes and blows against the establishment—in other words, the same ingredients that are synonymous with the best of Jefferson Airplane. What you won’t find on here is a hit single or definitive moment in the history of the Airplane, making it one of the least essential (if not the least essential) -  album from the original group. But even a bad Jefferson Airplane album is better than most things, including nearly all of the Jefferson Starship albums that came after.

by Dave Connolly, June 16, 2018

Tracks

1. Long John Silver (Jack Casady, Grace Slick) - 4:22

2. Aerie (Gang Of Eagles) (Grace Slick) - 3:52

3. Twilight Double Leader (Paul Kantner) - 4:41

4. Milk Train (Papa John Creach, Grace Slick, Roger Spotts) - 3:17

5. The Son Of Jesus (Paul Kantner) - 5:26

6. Easter? (Grace Slick) - 4:00

7. Trial By Fire (Jorma Kaukonen) - 4:30

8. Alexander The Medium (Paul Kantner) - 6:37

9. Eat Starch Mom (Jorma Kaukonen, Grace Slick) - 4:33

Jefferson Airplane

*Grace Slick - Vocals, Piano

*Jack Casady - Bass

*Paul Kantner - Vocals, Rhythm Guitar

*Jorma Kaukonen - Lead Guitar, Vocals

*Papa John Creach - Electric Violin

*John Barbata - Drums, Tambourine 

*Joey Covington - Drums (Tracks 3,5)

POP HISTORY REVISITED | We Can Be Together · Jefferson Airplane 1969

 The Woodstock Experience

"WE CAN BE TOGETHER!"

sadly it turns out we can’t - all the problems seem to come when we all try to get along, share, and divide things up quality!  (note the remastered version doesn’t play here in the UK so here’s the original at some gig or other on Yasgur’s Farm . . . . . !?

still I can fly my freak flag high still eh?

Jefferson Airplane - Live in Toronto 1967 - Albums That Should Exist

 This is fun and as Paul says should exist . . . . . . 

"In February 1967, Jefferson Airplane released their classic album "Surrealistic Pillow." At the same time, they released "Somebody to Love" as a single. It soon became a big hit, along with "White Rabbit." So by the time this concert took place, the band was breaking out all over. They were booked for over a week at the O'Keefe Center, in a double bill with the Grateful Dead, to help spread the San Francisco psychedelic sound into Toronto, which was probably the most receptive city in Canada. "

Jefferson Airplane - Live The O’Keefe Centre, Canada 1967 - Albums That Should Exist

head on over you Airplane freaks . . . . . .

01 Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane)
02 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
03 She Has Funny Cars (Jefferson Airplane)
04 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
05 Two Heads (Jefferson Airplane)
06 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
07 Young Girl Sunday Blues (Jefferson Airplane)
08 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
09 Fat Angel (Jefferson Airplane)
10 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
11 Come Back Baby [Edit] (Jefferson Airplane)
12 The Other Side of This Life (Jefferson Airplane)
13 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
14 Let's Get Together (Jefferson Airplane)
15 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
16 It's No Secret (Jefferson Airplane)
17 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
18 Two Heads (Jefferson Airplane)
19 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
20 She Has Funny Cars (Jefferson Airplane)
21 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
22 Martha (Jefferson Airplane)
23 Jorma's Blues (Jefferson Airplane)
24 Rock Me Baby (Jefferson Airplane)
25 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
26 Today (Jefferson Airplane)
27 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
28 Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane)
29 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
30 Outro [Instrumental] (Jefferson Airplane)

31 Comin' Back to Me (Jefferson Airplane)

There’s cool and then there’s Marty Balin at the Monterey Pop Festival cool! 

Marty Balin, Jefferson Airplane, Monterey Pop Festival, CA, 1967 

Photographer: Elaine Mayes