@talypollywaly Ive always gotten chills from this. Since I was 14 or 15. It opened up something....dunno what it was then. Not sure what it is now. But this reminds me of winter time. My brother was alive and things were so much more simple but at the same time- very hard and complicated. I remember my bedroom window...where no curtain hung. For real. We loved this band. Just somethin about this song huh? RIP Desmond ♥
When this album came out in 1967? we knew that it was an extremely good piece of work. It, and the debut of the Doors, were the hot topics of discussion in the happenings of the world of music. What I didn't know then, but have come to appreciate over time, is how truly inspired this was as an artistic creation. Musical artistry of this quality is lucky to be seen more often than once in a couple of generations.
Haunting and beautiful. Marty Balin in November of '66 was in L.A. doing "Surrealistic Pillow" and got a bit stoned (Dynamite Weed from Paul Butterfield) and ran down to the studio and did this. Very very creative and '60's with that Flute.
"music of today . . . " blah, blah, blah. "music business today . . . " blah, blah, blah. "Lady Ga Ga . . . Justin Bieber . . ." blah, blah, blah. "Today is crap, then was beautiful because . . . blah blah blah. Different band, different song, same old Youtube claptrap. The tune that needs to change is that sung by the commenters. Cliche.
@probrojeffro We have the right to say what we want. I guess you feel like a big shot because you used a word like "cliche". Go lube up for Bieber. Get off our backs you square.
Like stepenwolf7, this cut reminds me of my first love. She had left me for the drummer of a rock band. This song triggered a wishful daydream, and it is very dreamy music. I think this may have been what Marty Balin was thinking of too, when he wrote this song.
watch?v=g1DjUtQLMko please spread the word asmap, super crucial project and super nice after a safety break! Enlightenment through remembering your original face!!
the thing is, there's music just like this being made out there TODAY, but the music business of today doesn't care about those people. the true artist means nothing to business people. it's all about what sells; it's no longer about what's real and true. that's what was so beautiful about that era.. or at least from what i hear. i wasn't born yet.... but there are still people with that same heart and soul. we just have to keep it alive.
I was hiking at Point Reyes Station in Marin County, California on a breezy near dusk evening in '77 with the Sun going down out there on the Pacific in a blue yellow scene. IMy friends and I had some Lebanese blonde Hash, that had that just right tingling affect and lovely sensation. This sound put a Crest on all of it. Peace Man.
@fossil6591 I'm only 34...but I wish I could go back too...I think I would have preferred a life without all of the technology that has "made life so much better" and I miss life before internet and FB, etc.
seeing the airplane in the 60s was a very radical experience, Grace in her girl scout uniform, paul threatning to tear down the venues if the cops kept busting people in the free clinics, you had to be there AMAZING
for some reason this song, more than any, conjures up memories of just wandering around the village. if you were anywhere near late teens and up, wow, the 60's were such an amazing time to live through. and, if you were like myself, a musician back then, it was just super. so much inovative rock music came out of that era than any other.
The music soothing in an angry scary world. All times have their share of terrible events. I believe that a revolution is on the very near horizon and it will be terrible for all, sorry to seem to be a bum head in a space you come to relieve all the bs in this life , but what made the decade of the 60's such shift was what seemed to be that everyday people would not let a very few truly evil people in this world ruin it for all, too much party not enough true desire for a better life for all
one of the first beatle songs had this guitar element. that song was, "i'll be back again". the beatle influence was pervasive in all hip music- they were the source. now i smoke medical pot... as the beatles and dylan were completely correct.
fortunate in life,i lived then, VERY TURBULENT, sitting under tree's playing recorders,smoking weednot always,I DID INDEED HAVE THE LUCK TO MEET,AND TALK TO THE ARTIST,MUSICIAN GRACE SLICK,at a "rock star gallery" i was amazed by her art,we talked,WE TALKED FOR NEARLY TWENTY MINUTES,till i realized this amazing,sexy woman was truly a goddess,i was in THE PRESENCE OF A DIVINE GODDESS,she's older now,who isn't and san francisco has so changed,but that sexy deep erotic voice,i shall never,forget
When I hear this song, I'm 18 again, living alone in a tiny apartment, and dreaming of the day I'd have a big house, marriage, kids, the whole 9 yards. Now that I have all that, I fantasize about living alone in an apartment again. (A bigger one than I had then.)
Surrealistic Pillow is probabaly my favorite all time album. Mainly because I was going through a sad time after breaking up with,TB, a girl I didn't know I loved until later. I have wished for a do over of August 1972 more times than I can count........
Paul Kantner is a principled voluntaryist anarchist. He's a genius compared to most of the idiots who supposedly oppose the government / wars these days. If you're looking for music with similar principles, check out "Vennaskond" "Leon Czolgosz Song". If you're looking for the core of revolution in America, it all revolves around the lost rights of the jury. Google Fully Informed Jury Association, and International Society for Individual Liberty. Also, read about "Freeborn" John Lilburne.
Paul Kantner is a principled voluntaryist anarchist. He's a genius compared to most of the idiots who supposedly oppose the government / wars these days. If you're looking for music with similar principles, check out "Vennaskond" "Leon Czolgosz Song". If you're looking for the core of revolution in America, it all revolves around the lost rights of the jury. Google Fully Informed Jury Association, and International Society for Individual Liberty. Also, read about "Freeborn" John Lilburne.
Paul Kantner is a principled voluntaryist anarchist. He's a genius compared to most of the idiots who supposedly oppose the government / wars these days. If you're looking for music with similar principles, check out "Vennaskond" "Leon Czolgosz Song". If you're looking for the core of revolution in America, it all revolves around the lost rights of the jury. Google Fully Informed Jury Association, and International Society for Individual Liberty. Also, read about "Freeborn" John Lilburne.
Man we're on the same level. I'm sure if Hunter s Thompson was still alive and read this he would call us idiots I'm sure. Good/Bad part of peoples life. But I still wish I could have been there...
ahh..long week. sitting on back porch watching the sun drop...looking at over the pond. bottle of red wine, some good buds and ladies...and this song.
I was 17 when this album was released, and I played it until the grooves wore out. I had forgotten how sublime some of this music was, how spectacular this album was. The lyrics are poetry, the music is so layered and melodic, strong and unique. Thanks for this wonderful trip for my memories.............
This song is so pure. I had the album in 1967 - of course back then I loved 'Somebody to love' but I came to call this my favorite cut on the album. It's hard to listen to and deal with the flood of memories. Thanks for posting!
the thing about recorded music is that it lives on. you didn't/don't have to live in the sixties to appreciate great music such as this. music is one of the treasures of mankind. the good stuff shall never die.
Someone once told me that the music of the sixtys was so good because the artists of that era were all born during the age of aquarius. I wonder if there might be something to that
im really starting to get sick of seeing people complain about the year they were born in just because of the music they like. if you only listen to old music, you need to open your ears and realize good music is good music despite the year it was made.
@circa73skater You are right; good music is good music regardless of the year it was released. So, why is it that the music produced over the last 25 years or so is, generally, so mediocre (or just plain shitty)?
@conurelover Oh yeah, I agree. It was SUCH a different era. I first read "The Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound" during the summer of 1973, between my eighth-grade graduation and my freshman year in high school. Thanks very much for responding:). Best, Steve
Surrealistic Pillow is my favourite Jefferson album. And this is my favourite song from that LP. I think this should be heard in total darkness. And I think that the recorder background is the best thing Grace Slick ever did.
Remember this song was playing when my father passed away. I dropped out of college for a year to gather myself. Whenever I hear it now and again, I immediately become that 19 year-old again. Bitter sweet.....
yes dont we all wish we we born in the 40 n 50s n live in the sixties...its happening again ina different way..histiry repeats its self ina differnt way..spirituals beings...im tripping
@fossil6591 I will be 62 in October, a true dinosaur of immense proportions. When I was young (yessa, I was once, a long, long time ago...but that is a different story, or is it?) anywho, my friend and I worked in a nice South San Francisco restaurant and would walk the street called LOVE after work on the weekends then crash at his dad's beach house in Pacifica. I remember the beautiful people, the feeling of being truly free and the music in my head that has not left me in all these years.
They were infused with love then, extending a hand, a kind word. Sharing a beautiful song, the fog recedes from Golden Gate Park and the sun begins to warm the day.
@sethroganlegend I'm not sure. Why, I think surely the right course of action would be to tell everyone that your music preferences are superior to theirs, they'll sure get it then. Thanks for spreading peace and love.
P.S. Make sure to rant about how no one who writes music "nowadays" is a legitamite artist and how the only true music came from a 10 year span of our history, 60 years into the 20th century. Guess there's no point in my playing music. Damn
@homermoo The early boomers have always been like this. They're insufferable that way. When I was in my peak music days in the 1980s that attitude was highly annoying, and now it is just downright stupid. Music in the 1960s had a crap to gold ratio no different than times subsequent. They don't make songs like this anymore, yep, and it should be that way. The 2010s generation should be making its own sound.
@icebox766 everu generation has its music.. my mom called most of what I listened to in the late 60-eary 70's noise.. she liked Glenn Miller, my brother was the Elvis generation.. to put something down simply because you dont like it is immature.
My dtr is 26 she discovered Jefferson Airplane, CSY, Buffalo Springfield on her own and her kids love it to... perhaps some music is timeless. grow up, learn some manners.
@svmaja You assume I don't like this music. But I do, I just don't think its the be all and end all. Sure, every generation has it's music. There's good 40s big band, good 50s doo-wop, good 60s rock etc. But it just seems that some particularly vocal early boomers more so than most think their music is the best ever and everything else since is crap. That's plain wrong too. BTW, when I said "it should be that way" I'm just saying that the song is properly of a different time and place.
@icebox766@icebox766 everu generation has its music.. my mom called most of what I listened to in the late 60-eary 70's noise.. she liked Glenn Miller, my brother was the Elvis generation.. to put something down simply because you dont like it is immature.
My dtr is 26 she discovered Jefferson Airplane, CSY, Buffalo Springfield on her own and her kids love it to... perhaps some music is timeless. grow up, learn some manners.
Listening to this song brings back such vivid wonderful memories of my first love. We played this lp over and over again as we explored each others bodies. What a beautiful time it was.
This song makes me think of my first true love, the one that I lost, the one that I wish I saw comin back to me. Maybe the autumn leaves will fall harder than my tears.
i was born in 77. still....i was born too late. either way...it doesnt make a difference....the music is still awesome, and it will never change. what there is out today? it sucks.....THIS is what had meaning....was deep.. was beautiful.....im SORRY to have to be a part of this generation as far as music goes. it sucks.
I miss music like this it was deep it was someones feelings it was like a experience im 15 now my perents were born in the 50s they showed me this music and i have much thanks =]
mesmorizing, song echoes through my head, saw JA perform it at Fillmore 67, what an end to a family vacation that summer...from one National Park to another...
Dear Rosie, I was born in 1964. All the while I was in my mother's womb it was the height of Beatlemania. I'm still paying for it. Trust Jesus---He never lies.
someone played and sang this epic song flawlessly with supreme soul live from his guitar and heart for himself and me, face-to-face-- having heard Jeff play this transcendental gem for so many year, this experience was penultimate and will be with me crystal clear evermore -- we need to do that for each other -- changes the story, gives the story meaning
I sooo know rosie me too! I was born in the wrong decade too, but we must teach the children of our lifetime!!" the shape of sleepy music and suddenly your hooked". sooo in love with Marty.
I would give ANYTHING to live this era (i'm 17). The 60's all the way thru the 80's This was the golden era of american music. and I missed it =/ now i'm stuck here in 2010 listening 2 criminals -_- I would love to meet, jim morrison, jimi hendrix, and date Grace Slick. She is sexy, Lol. All i could do now is Watch youtube and imagine =/ Fabian V. 72
@datpuma ////////////// We, who lived back in those wonderfully disturbing times, can close our eyes and re-live every one of the days moment-by-moment. Alas, we too can now only follow your lead and watch youtube. Lead on, Captain; through the fog of present discontent toward the unfaltering hope of recapturing the slightest glint of days past.
Be thankful! Some of the good ones are dead, but Grace is still around... ! Don't regret what you can't ever get- and, realize, that you DO have their music!!
@datpuma i dont know man, to be a male in the 60's could mean sloggin thru some dense jungle foliage being shot at by someone who you have no personal beef with, just to make a profit for some shadowy corporation...oh wait. change that to a desert or mountainous desert and you have today's youth. yeah never mind
@datpuma i can relate to everything you just said... even the age haha. it sucks dude... but we're lucky that this music is still golden. it's timeless. i know im going to force my children to listen to this
@datpuma It was fantastic. I'm an old fogey now, but I still live on those memories. The good news is, the music will always be here, available. If you haven't seen it, rent "Fly Jefferson Airplane," a great documentary with many of their classic performances, interspersed with interviews. It was made in the Nineties, after they were inducted into the Hall of Fame. Also, there's a Doors film which basically documents the making of their first (and best) album. Both films available on Netflix
@datpuma You're getting the best of the era by listening to the music. Remember: the 60s had Vietnam, the 70s had Watergate and inflation, the 80s...well, the 80s had bad hair. Just keep listening to those tunes!
I'm glad i grew up in the 60's and experienced this era first hand. I feel so sorry for all of you that have to grow up with the garbage of rap and the hate it professes. Hip-Hop is for Kangaroos and rap is nothing more than "CRAP" withour the "C"
This was my "sad" song. I lost my first true love to Viet Nam & my Mother via geography and more. I would sit in front of the fire in snow covered RI (after having been born and raised in CA) and play this over and over. Crying buckets and staring out the window at the ice cold Atlantic ocean...wishing...I could see him. boo hoo, hey, I was 16!
I dont like to think about good times in the past... I like to rather look at the future good times.. The past is gone, some friends, family, things that happend back then arent around now, nor will they be in the future. To live in the past is to hide from the future, and the thought that I can never go back hurts more then the good memories can heal.
@juicev420 Gee,I am so sorry you feel that way! The music i listened to years ago gives me a great comfort from within. I know that people and family are no longer around,but,they remain forever in my heart and the music reinforces this. I still look to the future and what it possibly holds. But,all of the memories are entwined along with music and I find it impossible to separate one from the other.
@katnalikat you are right. What has come before makes us who we are now. I'm a self-identified punk, but I was also listening to this beautiful music before I got into punk. I still love this album and band. The memories are always brought into sharp focus when I hear these songs...
its called 'melancholy'. Play "our" music, wear your jeans and t-shirt, light one up if you so desire. We are still here, it is still a beautiful world, made better by YouTube allowing us access to our 'roots'. peace
chill out???? I was as much a part of the anti-war/peace movement as I could be.I guess I sounded defensive, I have nothing to defend,no regrets,and my life is/as always dedicated to the peace movement. peace.
whatever happened to wishes made on a star? I was 13 when this album came out, LSD and SF were my world. AND!!!! I survived and became a professional career woman and Mother and wife. I sure wish I could get some of those flasbacks I was promised(warned) about.
I fell in love with this song when I watched "Flashback" a movie from 1990, the same year as I was born...funny enough I feel I get flashback to the 60's, a decade where my parents were just kids :)
@rosielovesrock all the music made back then is still available today, in addition to great new stuff like Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver etc. Just turn off the top 40 and explore this stuff in your own way.
@rosielovesrock With Bell bottom jeans, vietnam, civil rights and hippie self-awareness the '60's had so many roles to follow to explain purpose. As a teen during that time, so much was happening and it was both exciting and a little terrifying. I don't see many roles happening to youth these days, and that's a little sad.
@rosielovesrock 14 is the age I was when this LP was first released; when this song made the charts. Feel privileged to appreciate such beauty, such poetry, such legacy :-)
I get "it". it is very simple....someone is missing their lover....hoping they will return. I was 15 when this came out. I saw them in SF.
TheRubyRedRose1000 25 minutes ago
Who else gets it because they're high?
ForeverClimbingAir 5 days ago
I got chills when he first started singing.
talypollywaly 1 month ago 2
@talypollywaly Ive always gotten chills from this. Since I was 14 or 15. It opened up something....dunno what it was then. Not sure what it is now. But this reminds me of winter time. My brother was alive and things were so much more simple but at the same time- very hard and complicated. I remember my bedroom window...where no curtain hung. For real. We loved this band. Just somethin about this song huh? RIP Desmond ♥
NoRosesForMe 4 weeks ago
When this album came out in 1967? we knew that it was an extremely good piece of work. It, and the debut of the Doors, were the hot topics of discussion in the happenings of the world of music. What I didn't know then, but have come to appreciate over time, is how truly inspired this was as an artistic creation. Musical artistry of this quality is lucky to be seen more often than once in a couple of generations.
videomaniac108 1 month ago
I cried after minute of this melody...
TheIllow 1 month ago 3
*****
Bruno47602 1 month ago
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Radonwings 1 month ago
Haunting and beautiful. Marty Balin in November of '66 was in L.A. doing "Surrealistic Pillow" and got a bit stoned (Dynamite Weed from Paul Butterfield) and ran down to the studio and did this. Very very creative and '60's with that Flute.
pbrucpaul 2 months ago
"music of today . . . " blah, blah, blah. "music business today . . . " blah, blah, blah. "Lady Ga Ga . . . Justin Bieber . . ." blah, blah, blah. "Today is crap, then was beautiful because . . . blah blah blah. Different band, different song, same old Youtube claptrap. The tune that needs to change is that sung by the commenters. Cliche.
probrojeffro 2 months ago
@probrojeffro
agreed
NormbrettaMod 2 months ago
@probrojeffro
Ye agreed, theres gorgeous music today aswell, it just doesnt chart.
fsol13 2 months ago
@probrojeffro We have the right to say what we want. I guess you feel like a big shot because you used a word like "cliche". Go lube up for Bieber. Get off our backs you square.
NoRosesForMe 4 weeks ago
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probrojeffro 4 weeks ago
@NoRosesForMe So do I. So shut your moronic, vapid pie hole. Idiot. LMAOROTF
probrojeffro 4 weeks ago
@probrojeffro oh wow you used a fancy word there..."vapid". Gold star for you. IDIOT. Har har har har har har eat me har har har har harrrr
NoRosesForMe 4 weeks ago
JUSTIN BIEBER? NAY
ANONPWNING 3 months ago
50 cent i say NEVER!! ..lol
ANONPWNING 3 months ago
Holland park with sally tender 17 year old adverse to shoes riding around on a rag and bone cart to bye lino the floor cover choice of the time
michael56d 4 months ago
Like stepenwolf7, this cut reminds me of my first love. She had left me for the drummer of a rock band. This song triggered a wishful daydream, and it is very dreamy music. I think this may have been what Marty Balin was thinking of too, when he wrote this song.
turdy3birdy 4 months ago
To my mind, "Surrealistic Pillow" is one of the finest recordings
ever, and "Coming Back to me" the finest ballad. The collection
of talent ,here, in this one band was remarkable.
TheCeliaLewis 5 months ago 3
I Know Who Did This Dislike It Must Be Lady Gaga or Someone In The Same Level, , This Song Is The Best Ever..
charlesdarwin93 5 months ago
watch?v=g1DjUtQLMko please spread the word asmap, super crucial project and super nice after a safety break! Enlightenment through remembering your original face!!
BOUNDLESSEARTH 5 months ago
1 dislike?? I can't believe it.
bassmanjoe 5 months ago
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bassmanjoe 5 months ago
the thing is, there's music just like this being made out there TODAY, but the music business of today doesn't care about those people. the true artist means nothing to business people. it's all about what sells; it's no longer about what's real and true. that's what was so beautiful about that era.. or at least from what i hear. i wasn't born yet.... but there are still people with that same heart and soul. we just have to keep it alive.
mellowlemonmoon 6 months ago 26
@mellowlemonmoon HOW right you are.
neonindigo 2 months ago
I want to take that effing flute out of her face and jump up and down on it.
marvy1118 6 months ago
@marvy1118 What are you talking about?
jumpinjoe88 5 months ago
I notice that most of the comments to JA songs are about how someone got high a lot and had a lot of unmarried sex.
marvy1118 6 months ago
Brings back memories of lost and found love.
stillrockn3 6 months ago
I was hiking at Point Reyes Station in Marin County, California on a breezy near dusk evening in '77 with the Sun going down out there on the Pacific in a blue yellow scene. IMy friends and I had some Lebanese blonde Hash, that had that just right tingling affect and lovely sensation. This sound put a Crest on all of it. Peace Man.
pbrucpaul 6 months ago
@fossil6591 I'm only 34...but I wish I could go back too...I think I would have preferred a life without all of the technology that has "made life so much better" and I miss life before internet and FB, etc.
sssnakelover 6 months ago
This song reminds me of the wonderful memories of when I pushed my penis into the vaginas of many women during the summer of love.
lollerz16 7 months ago
@lollerz16 You should go to the Free Clinic quickly!
zarcangel 6 months ago
Timeless....good music is & always will be...
BALDONEable 7 months ago
Fuckin' beautiful, man.
FarmerBrown010 7 months ago 22
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LovePeaceRnR 7 months ago
Is it because I smoked last night or this song that I am high right now?
hesteaeble 8 months ago
@hesteaeble I didn't smoke last night and I am feeling high, but it could be a flashback from the '60s.
Wow, look at the colors!
zarcangel 6 months ago
This song means a lot to me. It's my musical cure to all the world diseases and inequities.
Ashluke80 8 months ago
seeing the airplane in the 60s was a very radical experience, Grace in her girl scout uniform, paul threatning to tear down the venues if the cops kept busting people in the free clinics, you had to be there AMAZING
allensteck 8 months ago
one of the Best Frisco bands !!!!!
allensteck 8 months ago
oh god, this is amazing.
ProfessorWalty 8 months ago
for some reason this song, more than any, conjures up memories of just wandering around the village. if you were anywhere near late teens and up, wow, the 60's were such an amazing time to live through. and, if you were like myself, a musician back then, it was just super. so much inovative rock music came out of that era than any other.
notebender49 8 months ago
no live footage of this ?
pouidg 8 months ago
The music soothing in an angry scary world. All times have their share of terrible events. I believe that a revolution is on the very near horizon and it will be terrible for all, sorry to seem to be a bum head in a space you come to relieve all the bs in this life , but what made the decade of the 60's such shift was what seemed to be that everyday people would not let a very few truly evil people in this world ruin it for all, too much party not enough true desire for a better life for all
mikeoli 8 months ago
one of the first beatle songs had this guitar element. that song was, "i'll be back again". the beatle influence was pervasive in all hip music- they were the source. now i smoke medical pot... as the beatles and dylan were completely correct.
cshargeit 8 months ago
I totally forgot this song existed until I saw it used in the movie "without limits"...now it has over 200 plays on my iTunes :P
traphikk 9 months ago
Did Marty Balin write this song? He was always soooo sent a mental.
bwanna23 9 months ago
fortunate in life,i lived then, VERY TURBULENT, sitting under tree's playing recorders,smoking weednot always,I DID INDEED HAVE THE LUCK TO MEET,AND TALK TO THE ARTIST,MUSICIAN GRACE SLICK,at a "rock star gallery" i was amazed by her art,we talked,WE TALKED FOR NEARLY TWENTY MINUTES,till i realized this amazing,sexy woman was truly a goddess,i was in THE PRESENCE OF A DIVINE GODDESS,she's older now,who isn't and san francisco has so changed,but that sexy deep erotic voice,i shall never,forget
alezander666 9 months ago
When I hear this song, I'm 18 again, living alone in a tiny apartment, and dreaming of the day I'd have a big house, marriage, kids, the whole 9 yards. Now that I have all that, I fantasize about living alone in an apartment again. (A bigger one than I had then.)
Joannakathryn 9 months ago
Aaahhh, I love nothing more than this song. I think I have replayed it 23456789 times. XD
localnatiive 9 months ago 2
Wonderful song. I don't wish it was the sixties again. I enjoy this song in the present. It makes the world a special place.
RHutton2710 9 months ago
Surrealistic Pillow is probabaly my favorite all time album. Mainly because I was going through a sad time after breaking up with,TB, a girl I didn't know I loved until later. I have wished for a do over of August 1972 more times than I can count........
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libertarianjury 10 months ago
wonderful song. crops up in ace movie "indian runner"!!
Sundragon457 10 months ago
All those memories I've had.....................slowly dimming! What wonderful days!
Granlizzar 10 months ago
All those memories I've had.....................slowly dimming! What wonderful days!
Granlizzar 10 months ago
Man we're on the same level. I'm sure if Hunter s Thompson was still alive and read this he would call us idiots I'm sure. Good/Bad part of peoples life. But I still wish I could have been there...
jburns2550 10 months ago
@datpuma @safte7860 ... I'm 14 and i feel exactly the same way... =/
MrWillpinto 11 months ago
ahh..long week. sitting on back porch watching the sun drop...looking at over the pond. bottle of red wine, some good buds and ladies...and this song.
PERFECT
txeire 11 months ago 3
I was 17 when this album was released, and I played it until the grooves wore out. I had forgotten how sublime some of this music was, how spectacular this album was. The lyrics are poetry, the music is so layered and melodic, strong and unique. Thanks for this wonderful trip for my memories.............
buckize68 11 months ago
This song is so pure. I had the album in 1967 - of course back then I loved 'Somebody to love' but I came to call this my favorite cut on the album. It's hard to listen to and deal with the flood of memories. Thanks for posting!
eoj2495 11 months ago 3
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relynam 11 months ago
the thing about recorded music is that it lives on. you didn't/don't have to live in the sixties to appreciate great music such as this. music is one of the treasures of mankind. the good stuff shall never die.
zoeruls 11 months ago 2
Someone once told me that the music of the sixtys was so good because the artists of that era were all born during the age of aquarius. I wonder if there might be something to that
spennell001 11 months ago
im really starting to get sick of seeing people complain about the year they were born in just because of the music they like. if you only listen to old music, you need to open your ears and realize good music is good music despite the year it was made.
circa73skater 11 months ago 2
@circa73skater You are right; good music is good music regardless of the year it was released. So, why is it that the music produced over the last 25 years or so is, generally, so mediocre (or just plain shitty)?
zoznack 11 months ago
@conurelover Oh yeah, I agree. It was SUCH a different era. I first read "The Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound" during the summer of 1973, between my eighth-grade graduation and my freshman year in high school. Thanks very much for responding:). Best, Steve
stevevandien 1 year ago
i wish we were in 60's...
rawencrow 1 year ago
Surrealistic Pillow is my favourite Jefferson album. And this is my favourite song from that LP. I think this should be heard in total darkness. And I think that the recorder background is the best thing Grace Slick ever did.
greatbighand 1 year ago 4
Remember this song was playing when my father passed away. I dropped out of college for a year to gather myself. Whenever I hear it now and again, I immediately become that 19 year-old again. Bitter sweet.....
jo47dy 1 year ago 2
I'm almost 61 now and sure did LOVE being there in the '60's!! What a great Decade!! I saw it all (almost)................ (sigh)
dfh1950 1 year ago 2
yes dont we all wish we we born in the 40 n 50s n live in the sixties...its happening again ina different way..histiry repeats its self ina differnt way..spirituals beings...im tripping
mushroomsbelieve420 1 year ago
To rosielovesrock...I'm 54 years old. I wish we both could go back.
fossil6591 1 year ago 32
@fossil6591 Hey fossil, I'm 62. When do we leave???
usm7j 10 months ago
@fossil6591 I can only imagine how amazing the 60's were. You can always go back in your mind. :)
realgaylog 9 months ago in playlist 60's 70's
@fossil6591 I will be 62 in October, a true dinosaur of immense proportions. When I was young (yessa, I was once, a long, long time ago...but that is a different story, or is it?) anywho, my friend and I worked in a nice South San Francisco restaurant and would walk the street called LOVE after work on the weekends then crash at his dad's beach house in Pacifica. I remember the beautiful people, the feeling of being truly free and the music in my head that has not left me in all these years.
zarcangel 6 months ago
Damn, now that I finally got a turntable... I GOTTA BUY THIS LP!
pedroca2424 1 year ago
They were infused with love then, extending a hand, a kind word. Sharing a beautiful song, the fog recedes from Golden Gate Park and the sun begins to warm the day.
uradragon 1 year ago
The winter looked the same as if it never had gone...
celebrant9 1 year ago 2
I love all Jefferson Airplane music but this song is one of the most beautiful songs ever written .
MrWerdna66 1 year ago 4
only 35,000 views and will.i.am gets 1000000 a day fuck sake.... where did the world go wrong??
sethroganlegend 1 year ago
@sethroganlegend I'm not sure. Why, I think surely the right course of action would be to tell everyone that your music preferences are superior to theirs, they'll sure get it then. Thanks for spreading peace and love.
P.S. Make sure to rant about how no one who writes music "nowadays" is a legitamite artist and how the only true music came from a 10 year span of our history, 60 years into the 20th century. Guess there's no point in my playing music. Damn
homermoo 1 year ago
@homermoo The early boomers have always been like this. They're insufferable that way. When I was in my peak music days in the 1980s that attitude was highly annoying, and now it is just downright stupid. Music in the 1960s had a crap to gold ratio no different than times subsequent. They don't make songs like this anymore, yep, and it should be that way. The 2010s generation should be making its own sound.
icebox766 1 year ago
@icebox766 everu generation has its music.. my mom called most of what I listened to in the late 60-eary 70's noise.. she liked Glenn Miller, my brother was the Elvis generation.. to put something down simply because you dont like it is immature.
My dtr is 26 she discovered Jefferson Airplane, CSY, Buffalo Springfield on her own and her kids love it to... perhaps some music is timeless. grow up, learn some manners.
svmaja 1 year ago
@svmaja You assume I don't like this music. But I do, I just don't think its the be all and end all. Sure, every generation has it's music. There's good 40s big band, good 50s doo-wop, good 60s rock etc. But it just seems that some particularly vocal early boomers more so than most think their music is the best ever and everything else since is crap. That's plain wrong too. BTW, when I said "it should be that way" I'm just saying that the song is properly of a different time and place.
icebox766 3 months ago
@icebox766 @icebox766 everu generation has its music.. my mom called most of what I listened to in the late 60-eary 70's noise.. she liked Glenn Miller, my brother was the Elvis generation.. to put something down simply because you dont like it is immature.
My dtr is 26 she discovered Jefferson Airplane, CSY, Buffalo Springfield on her own and her kids love it to... perhaps some music is timeless. grow up, learn some manners.
svmaja 1 year ago 2
Listening to this song brings back such vivid wonderful memories of my first love. We played this lp over and over again as we explored each others bodies. What a beautiful time it was.
stepenwolf7 1 year ago 41
@stepenwolf7 God in wich of understood miracles trough a flashback
ake2293 7 months ago
@stepenwolf7
YES! BEAUTIFUL!
lateforthesky61 7 months ago
@stepenwolf7 OMG THAT IS GROSS- DON'T SHARE THAT WITH THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!
jackiscool50 7 months ago
@jackiscool50 poor you...................(_x_)
binkyslapass1 7 months ago
One of the great classic opening lyrics,, "The summer had inhaled and held it's breath too long,,,, "
william3231954 1 year ago 4
This song makes me think of my first true love, the one that I lost, the one that I wish I saw comin back to me. Maybe the autumn leaves will fall harder than my tears.
PurpleCloud619 1 year ago 4
Best song on the album. As a rule, I like the Katner era better. But if there's any song that could make me question that it's this one.
pq02lamzo 1 year ago
There are some of us who have lived this song. We continue to live it as long as we have memories of loves we have lost.
dickidoo123 1 year ago
i wanna fuckin fuck this song
EK00LM 1 year ago 3
i was born in 77. still....i was born too late. either way...it doesnt make a difference....the music is still awesome, and it will never change. what there is out today? it sucks.....THIS is what had meaning....was deep.. was beautiful.....im SORRY to have to be a part of this generation as far as music goes. it sucks.
jenday28 1 year ago 3
I really love this song, It's just so lovely and the same time melacholic <3
victoria141291 1 year ago
Beautiful and baleful
jnsii 1 year ago
Perfect song for a nice rainy day. I love life, that must be why i hate myself so much.
iowafilmdude22 1 year ago 3
@iowafilmdude22 i think im in love with you.....beautiful music makes you hate yourself...
jenday28 1 year ago
this song makes me cry....
yikescat56 1 year ago
@yikescat56 oh, me, too. it has a very haunting and emotional sound that gets me every time. i believe it was used in the movie moonlight mile.
thebjm1967 1 year ago
I miss music like this it was deep it was someones feelings it was like a experience im 15 now my perents were born in the 50s they showed me this music and i have much thanks =]
MightyZumba23 1 year ago
@MightyZumba23 enjoy .... theres so much to appreciate....
jenday28 1 year ago
mesmorizing, song echoes through my head, saw JA perform it at Fillmore 67, what an end to a family vacation that summer...from one National Park to another...
tommymasontml 1 year ago
Dear Rosie, I was born in 1964. All the while I was in my mother's womb it was the height of Beatlemania. I'm still paying for it. Trust Jesus---He never lies.
loblut 1 year ago
Just one of those amazing songs that no matter how many times I play it I never get bored of it :)
corpusstalker 1 year ago 4
someone played and sang this epic song flawlessly with supreme soul live from his guitar and heart for himself and me, face-to-face-- having heard Jeff play this transcendental gem for so many year, this experience was penultimate and will be with me crystal clear evermore -- we need to do that for each other -- changes the story, gives the story meaning
davidfaubion 1 year ago
It's absolutely magic when they use this song in that powerful gripping film Indian Runner. Such a great movie, such a great song. Kudos to Marty.
bajen377 1 year ago
@bajen377 that's where i head this too! that was such a good movie. love the song as well
azn88hunni 1 year ago
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Glad 2 see that people in the younger generation can appreciate real music... Produced in the time of the vietnam war :)
318Sunshine 1 year ago
Glad 2 see that people in the younger generation can appreciate real music... Produced in the time of the vietnam war
318Sunshine 1 year ago
Somebody to Love, White Rabbit, Embryonic Journey - truly one of the great albums of the rock era.
gemini7ca 1 year ago
More like rosielovescock
ITSAJACKAL1111 1 year ago
I sooo know rosie me too! I was born in the wrong decade too, but we must teach the children of our lifetime!!" the shape of sleepy music and suddenly your hooked". sooo in love with Marty.
Mfeller21 1 year ago
From a beautiful time of Love and Hope . . . a truly beautiful song, when I was 16 and still now . . .
agourabb 1 year ago
I think it's "...rain upon the trees that kisses on the run'''
CriticalListener 1 year ago
rap isnt that bad guys... youre just picking the wrong rappers >_<
jesusmobile2 1 year ago
wishful crap.
TheSpottyBody 1 year ago
I would give ANYTHING to live this era (i'm 17). The 60's all the way thru the 80's This was the golden era of american music. and I missed it =/ now i'm stuck here in 2010 listening 2 criminals -_- I would love to meet, jim morrison, jimi hendrix, and date Grace Slick. She is sexy, Lol. All i could do now is Watch youtube and imagine =/ Fabian V. 72
datpuma 1 year ago 32
@datpuma
I was your age during this era... I was a remarkable and amazing experience!
warrenlester 1 year ago
@warrenlester Thanx for rubbing it in -____________- lol Fabian V. 72
datpuma 1 year ago
@warrenlester
You were?
Finko00 1 year ago
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heltb770 1 year ago
@datpuma ////////////// We, who lived back in those wonderfully disturbing times, can close our eyes and re-live every one of the days moment-by-moment. Alas, we too can now only follow your lead and watch youtube. Lead on, Captain; through the fog of present discontent toward the unfaltering hope of recapturing the slightest glint of days past.
heltb770 1 year ago
@datpuma
Be thankful! Some of the good ones are dead, but Grace is still around... ! Don't regret what you can't ever get- and, realize, that you DO have their music!!
Finko00 1 year ago
@datpuma quit bitching and get yourself to a grateful dead show
TheTwinLights 11 months ago
@datpuma i dont know man, to be a male in the 60's could mean sloggin thru some dense jungle foliage being shot at by someone who you have no personal beef with, just to make a profit for some shadowy corporation...oh wait. change that to a desert or mountainous desert and you have today's youth. yeah never mind
txeire 11 months ago
@datpuma I'm 17 too and i feel exactly the same way man. would do anything...
safte7860 11 months ago
@datpuma i can relate to everything you just said... even the age haha. it sucks dude... but we're lucky that this music is still golden. it's timeless. i know im going to force my children to listen to this
aero1zepp12 10 months ago
@datpuma It was fantastic. I'm an old fogey now, but I still live on those memories. The good news is, the music will always be here, available. If you haven't seen it, rent "Fly Jefferson Airplane," a great documentary with many of their classic performances, interspersed with interviews. It was made in the Nineties, after they were inducted into the Hall of Fame. Also, there's a Doors film which basically documents the making of their first (and best) album. Both films available on Netflix
wbaranful 9 months ago
@datpuma Tell me about it... I'm 15.
corrosotalapluja 9 months ago
@datpuma You're getting the best of the era by listening to the music. Remember: the 60s had Vietnam, the 70s had Watergate and inflation, the 80s...well, the 80s had bad hair. Just keep listening to those tunes!
goback3spaces 9 months ago
I'm glad i grew up in the 60's and experienced this era first hand. I feel so sorry for all of you that have to grow up with the garbage of rap and the hate it professes. Hip-Hop is for Kangaroos and rap is nothing more than "CRAP" withour the "C"
Keyboardman88 1 year ago 4
Soothing. Done in time where there was so much passion and self-realization. Haunting.
pbrucpaul 1 year ago
For Stephen RIP
julbez 1 year ago
masterpiece....
LUTHASUN 1 year ago
Is that a recorder- that beautiful eerie sound
sound unlike any recorder i've known.. but i'm told it's a type of recorder played by grace slick.
anyone know what type of recorder it is..?
finx2much 1 year ago 2
@finx2much
That is very probably a Tenor Recorder.
Baggs4299 1 year ago
....one begins to read between the pages of a look.......the shape of sleepy music....and suddenly you're hooked......
OlymPigs2010 1 year ago
the shape of sleepy music and suddenly you're hooked :O)
as good at 55 as it was at 13
just wish I had known then what I know now :O(
CraigX1allen 1 year ago
This was my "sad" song. I lost my first true love to Viet Nam & my Mother via geography and more. I would sit in front of the fire in snow covered RI (after having been born and raised in CA) and play this over and over. Crying buckets and staring out the window at the ice cold Atlantic ocean...wishing...I could see him. boo hoo, hey, I was 16!
TheSpottyBody 1 year ago
I dont like to think about good times in the past... I like to rather look at the future good times.. The past is gone, some friends, family, things that happend back then arent around now, nor will they be in the future. To live in the past is to hide from the future, and the thought that I can never go back hurts more then the good memories can heal.
juicev420 2 years ago
@juicev420 Gee,I am so sorry you feel that way! The music i listened to years ago gives me a great comfort from within. I know that people and family are no longer around,but,they remain forever in my heart and the music reinforces this. I still look to the future and what it possibly holds. But,all of the memories are entwined along with music and I find it impossible to separate one from the other.
Lynda Lee:)
katnalikat 1 year ago
@katnalikat you are right. What has come before makes us who we are now. I'm a self-identified punk, but I was also listening to this beautiful music before I got into punk. I still love this album and band. The memories are always brought into sharp focus when I hear these songs...
nicademus666 1 year ago
its called 'melancholy'. Play "our" music, wear your jeans and t-shirt, light one up if you so desire. We are still here, it is still a beautiful world, made better by YouTube allowing us access to our 'roots'. peace
TheSpottyBody 1 year ago 2
I love to sit back, and close my eyes and remember the days of better things to this song. I miss those times.
gnome41 2 years ago
t59788 you of all people should understand the peace movement that this music is about love. chill out.
spazrocks420 2 years ago 2
chill out???? I was as much a part of the anti-war/peace movement as I could be.I guess I sounded defensive, I have nothing to defend,no regrets,and my life is/as always dedicated to the peace movement. peace.
TheSpottyBody 1 year ago
whatever happened to wishes made on a star? I was 13 when this album came out, LSD and SF were my world. AND!!!! I survived and became a professional career woman and Mother and wife. I sure wish I could get some of those flasbacks I was promised(warned) about.
TheSpottyBody 2 years ago 4
Gee,I was 6 when this albulm came out in 1967,I think I kind of remember this on the radio, when I was a boy,nice song.
AncilWayneSmith 2 years ago
I fell in love with this song when I watched "Flashback" a movie from 1990, the same year as I was born...funny enough I feel I get flashback to the 60's, a decade where my parents were just kids :)
DeathWarrant90 2 years ago
Best f'ing album ever....
astronorm111 2 years ago
with all the problems and discord in the world today its really nice to be able to escape it if only for 5minutes and 26 seconds
iamther 2 years ago 3
I really wish I wasn't 14 now. I want to live in the 60's. :( I love this music so much.
rosielovesrock 2 years ago 80
Weird, I felt exactly that way when I was 14 myself, some 25 years ago :^) That's kind of sweet.
xpietrfed 2 years ago 4
@rosielovesrock so do i im 46 and was just a little guy then but i remember hearing this beautiful music then...aahh what memories:(
waylo4526 1 year ago
@rosielovesrock all the music made back then is still available today, in addition to great new stuff like Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver etc. Just turn off the top 40 and explore this stuff in your own way.
jimmythefish 1 year ago
@rosielovesrock amen to that, brah.
mariella13579 1 year ago
@rosielovesrock With Bell bottom jeans, vietnam, civil rights and hippie self-awareness the '60's had so many roles to follow to explain purpose. As a teen during that time, so much was happening and it was both exciting and a little terrifying. I don't see many roles happening to youth these days, and that's a little sad.
pbrucpaul 1 year ago
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MonaLisaSmileOTJ 1 year ago
@rosielovesrock 14 is the age I was when this LP was first released; when this song made the charts. Feel privileged to appreciate such beauty, such poetry, such legacy :-)
MonaLisaSmileOTJ 1 year ago
@rosielovesrock It's still around, friend-o.
withoutremorse 1 year ago