Just bought the best of Jefferson Airplane for a fiver. It is fantastic. Oh how I wish i was a child of the sixties....

/me puts on flares, flowery top and sunglasses and sits crosslegged in a field making daisy chains, all of this under the influence of LSD.

:D

Don't you want somebody to love.......

Check these lyrics:


White Rabbit

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small,
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all.
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall.

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall,
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call.
Call Alice
When she was just small.

When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving slow.
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know.

When logic and perception
Have fallen sloppy dead,
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head"
Remember what the doorknob said:
"Keep your head. Keep your head."


Flower power rocks..

You'd have had a job putting on flares in the 1960s :D

Late 60's..

The only thing that bugged me about Airplane Jefferson Starship Jeff is what they went on to become. Those stupid changes of name and image. It did for them what McCartney's career did for the Beatles ie damaged it irreparably.

White Rabbit is absolutely brilliant. I have "Surrealistic Pillow" myself. Somebody To Love is of course ace too. But White Rabbit is special. And its more than the lyrics, though they themselves are fantastic. Just the mood of the song. Wonderful.

Agreed bro..

When the truth is found to be lies
and all the joys within you dies
don't you want somebody to love
don't you need somebody to love
wouldn't you love somebody to love
you better find somebody to love

When the garden flowers baby are dead yes
and your mind is full of red
don't you want somebody to love
don't you need somebody to love
wouldn't you love somebody to love
you better find somebody to love

your eyes, I say your eyes may look like his
but in your head baby I'm afraid you don't know where it is
don't you want somebody to love
don't you need somebody to love
wouldn't you love somebody to love
you better find somebody to love

tears are running ah running down your breast
and your friends baby they treat you like a guest
don't you want somebody to love
don't you need somebody to love
wouldn't you love somebody to love
you better find somebody to love

I see "We Built This City" was named the worst song ever by some magazine. From 'Mannequin' wasn't it?
I quite liked it actually, in an ironic post-modern kinda way of course, but why was it SO hated? It's surely not the most offensive of songs.
Btw, is Grace Slick still alive?

Funny you posted this, I was contempating the same. Recently pulled out the JA Long John Silver album for a listen. Good stuff, I like music from that era, have a lot of Grateful Dead as well.
Uno: a good book to read that deals extensively with that era is Papa John (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440167833/qid=1083115702/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-6897405-6064064?v=glance&s=books), by John Phillips of the Mamas and Papas. He was behind the whole Monteray Pop festival, and such a drug user that he bought a pharmacy to insure a steady supply.
As far as I can tell, Grace (http://www.starship.pp.se/bio/grace_slick.html) is still around, leading a somewhat quiteter life.

I like ..........

have you seen the saucers?
have you seen the saucers?
do you know the people out there
who aren't happy with the way that we care
for the Earth Mother.
have you seen the saucers.
Tranquility Base
there goes the neighborhood
american garbage dumped in space and no room left for brotherhood
have you seen our saucers?
see our lights in your western skies, California?
The rainbow skies
The government tells you another missle is flying
have you any idea why they're lying to you?
to your faces
did they tell you?
have you seen our saucers?

your mother needs you, now she's getting old
her face was pretty, but you let her go
have you seen our saucers?
star children on the back road to salvation
children of the forest, child of the woodstock nation
have a care for the needs of your planet
catch the dawn that once was there
first-born atomic generation
open the door, don't you know what it's for
come and join us on the other side of the sun

I'm going to the Dead (minus Jerry) Robert Hunter and the Allman Brothers on July 3rd.............
:)

Oddly I ordered Surealistic Pillow yesterday, mainly to prove to all my uni friends that the recent extremly shitty trance mix of somebody to love used to actually be a good song.

Before it was raped of course.

When people do that to brilliant music it really pisses me off.

Blaggard spouted:
Oddly I ordered Surealistic Pillow yesterday, mainly to prove to all my uni friends that the recent extremly shitty trance mix of somebody to love used to actually be a good song.

Before it was raped of course..

I have only heard snippits of it but isnt the core of the song the same? I know it was a bit of a no brainer just to trance it up a bit but... meh. Its a good song. More people can hear it now.

Actually Ill go download it and check for myself. I may well be making a minor tit out of myself...

'Bout time we got some decent music in here. Jack Casady is one of the best bass players of all time.
And I like Jefferson Starship. And Starship, actually. Meh.

Check out the original version of "White Rabbit" by "The Great Society", the band that Grace Slick was in before Airplane

unordinarychild spouted:
Just bought the best of Jefferson Airplane for a fiver.

Been sitting on my Amazon wish list since March of last year. Hmmmmm, maybe time to invest.

bscba spouted:
Check out the original version of "White Rabbit" by "The Great Society", the band that Grace Slick was in before Airplane

Where can one pluck this supposed jewel ?

I won't swear to it, but I'm pretty sure the last two lines of White Rabbit, are:

'Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head. Feed your head. Feed your head"'

stoke_fields spouted:


I have only heard snippits of it but isnt the core of the song the same? I know it was a bit of a no brainer just to trance it up a bit but... meh. Its a good song. More people can hear it now.


Cracking Video. ;)

I've always liked Aerie (gang of Eagles), although I don't pretend to understand it.

"How he knows where he's going -
Never lost -
No one, well there's no one faster
Direction born in his brain
He's got no reason to hide
He's got no laws to cross
He's got
Well he's got no master
Freedom born in his name
Aerie (3x)
Well you can't fly human master
No you can't fly - fly by yourself
You can't fly dying master
Without a rifle on your shelf
Aerie (3x)"

Christ, even WoW has jumped the fence! It's left to me to say that Jefferson Airplane are rubbish, and that We Built This City is baby-boomer arrogance at its worst. Hanson were more innovative and better musicians than JA. They made Wings look like understated genius. Feed your head indeed.

Agreed cor-innit. JA were bandwagon-jumpers in the 60s and White Rabbit is psychedelia for the under 12s. And don;t get me started on We Built This Fucking City.