Jefferson Airplane - Greasy Heart

[hermitcrabbot]

Oh, No! Lady Ga Ga just got blasted off the stage!

Power vs Posturing.

[madcustard02]

The four horsemen of the Apocalypse?? In SF musical terms, they were: Tom Donahue ( KSAN ), who played the music, & set up Autumn records, Ralph Gleason, who gave the movement legitimate media credibility, Bill Graham, the mover & shaker of hippy backsides, & Marty Balin; he dreamed up the Airplane, but created the Matrix, wtih some friends, for all the SF bands to play. What happened in the mid sixties in SF would not have happened without them. Only Marty lives. God bless them all!!!

[djepsonatmastnet]

Man, I am sitting here captivated by listening to this song, just like I did over 40 years ago when it came out. The music then was just soooo much better. The Airplane had good music to mellow out on, even this one. (No, I don't use.)

[waywardrose1]

Happy Birthday Ms. Slick!

[ycanada]

Grace Slick ranks as #1 female vocalist of all time on my list. Her voice is so pure and powerful. Although she really only had a handful of hits, you can't forget the era she peaked at. There didn't exist all the programmed mass marketing machines you see today. She didn't lipsynch or sell sex. What's amazing about this CD is how the only three good songs were the three songs she sang! She was treated as a backup. Grace Slick was born in the wrong generation. But i prefer it that way

[IamPapaAlpha]

@ycanada In fact, for almost all Jefferson Airplane songs on all albums, the truly GREAT tracks are always Grace Slickś.

[McGJane]

Love love love this song!!

[UpSky2]

Amazing that this song is about odious things and yet it isn't an odious song... obviously it conveys a certain appreciation of its tawdry subject matter.

Sort of like Robert Frost saying he had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Or else my own viewpoint is odd. I'm open to that.

[peaceloveandrockism]

@UpSky2 it's cool man I dig it.

[behindXblueXeyez]

in school we were told to do a report on any famous person that we wanted.... naturally im writing mine about Grace Slick :)

[tapeduk]

Glad this song is back on-one of my favorites

[TheLadybeans]

amazing!!!!!!!!!! <3 

[TheStingray12002]

Grace was so hot here! 

[131KrisKelmi]

probably best their song

[DntApply45]

Grace your voooooiiiiiiceee

[dontchokeonthesmoke]

You laugh so hard you crack the walls"

I think she sang with so much soul that she cracked the walls!! amazing how much passion I can feel in this song

[Bluesdirections]

What a Fender bass tone. Jack Casady. My main man.

[wakarusarat]

straight ahead rock....the airplane way!!

[mobyboy]

delicated noise ! great mysterious voice. Greacy Legand!

[tsomer07]

Probably the best lyric, and best vocal performance of that decade.

Grace at the pinnacle.

[vectortemple]

@tsomer07 - if I was into rating, I'd agree - this cut is off the charts great.

[fluxstringer]

Do young people comment about how phony society people are? Or are they more concerned with being society people or at least emulating their ways? That is what this song is about.

Plastic people, phonies, unnatural zombies walking the Earth and driving sports cars (hey I'll take a Ferrari!) In current terms, the Snookies and the Guido's, Britneys and da " Gankstahs". Beauty is only as fine as the social and ethical conciousness it holds.

[frankgump]

@fluxstringer

I agree with your insightful comments on the song.

By the way, did you know Grace drove an Aston Martin?

[fluxstringer]

@frankgump No, I didn;t know that. And I would drive an Aston too if I could. But In Grace's case a DB 6 of the '70s was not the proportional chunk a modern Aston is.today. And if she sang about it I doubt it would have 26 inch wheels with spinners.

I listen to my god daughter's music in the car. Every other song is about how expensive the singer's life is and how they lord it over everyone. The one's in between are mostly descriptions of sex acts. Then the bare few that even hint at romance.

[cxmafia]

@fluxstringer ahhh yes. Modern "music" - designed and engineerd, having rarely seen a record studio, mostly with dumb, mindless lyrics. The engineers behind this scheme are greedy old men, who coulden't care fuck less about the music quality, as long as the puppet performs enough mindless stupitities to keep the cash rollin' in. These days, "music" is mostly mads to earn money, not to make statements like way back in the days.

PS: I doubt, Grace would find 26" chrome rims very interresting

[hermitcrabbot]

@cxmafia

Well, Grace was known by the band as the 'Chrome Nun', so maybe she'd wear one of those 26" rims as a hat.

[WillInNewHaven]

@frankgump She walked into the dealership and none of the lot monkeys wanted to work with her; they _knew_ someone like her couldn't afford one of her cars. She ended up buying the car with cash.

[micromike737]

this is a great acid song.

[SeanGavinOHara]

Absolutely in my opinion, the most fantastic, underrated rock chick song of the late 60's.

[astronorm111]

My fav next to Surrealistic Pillow...

[flyboysky]

My all time favorite airplane song!!!

[aminorchacha]

A Grace Slick song.

Her lyrics and vocals had a cutting edge that added a rather acerbic antedote to the more hippy trippy aspects of 1960s pyschedelia.

Great stuff.

[vectortemple]

aminorchacha - well spoken! She makes more sense to me now than she did 40 years ago. LOL!

[allienato]

wha... that's great.

[kingsuji]

The Jorma sound through a wahwah is the Airplane sound to me.

[JoaniePH51]

I always loved this album. There was a lot there that was well done and had a half life of about 100 years.

[autodelete66]

Don't ever change people

Your face will hit the fan

Don't change till the empire falls!

How appropo, 40 years later?

[autodelete66]

This is the sequel to Plastic Fantastic lover

[vectortemple]

Don't think so. This is a Gracie song - if it's a sequel to anything, it's Two Heads on Baxter's - another song about a lame (impotent..), narcissistic guy....

[threefive00]

@vectortemple

I always thought of it as Grace's version of Plastic Fantastic Lover.

[PennyTraition]

Love it.Thanks for the share pataphysician66! Five stars X

[mikedtw]

When I was a kid I picked up Thirty Seconds Over Winterland, then HAD to backtrack all the earlier releases. Loved this on vinyl and now loving it, like brand new loving it, on this fantastic CD re-release. HOT STUFF so well done. Its a kick that there's a whole new appreciation for the band out there.

[phantompalindrome]

Love this song.

[tapeduk]

2 grams now for a one man abstract show

[KMGDA49]

A great review of this LP when it came out circa 1968 said that Jorma 'must have gotten a wah-wah pedal for his birthday'...Always sounded great to me!

[iamasmodai]

Jorma got a bunch of talent too on his birth-day...

I wanted so much to be as good as him on the acoustic guitar.

[Axloooo]

do you know what pedal is jorma using? because i want to buy one that gives me a similar effect

[apemanstreetwalker]

skills!!! and a little wahwah would be my guess....

[autodelete66]

Wah-Wah??? LoL!

[Gitars5]

a wah wah pedal, never heard of it?

[autodelete66]

Gitars5 :

Floor pedal that creates a Wau-wau sound of varing audio depth depending on pressure level.

[Gitars5]

lol i know i have one :P

[cira92]

THe only way to listen to this song is when you're high and you turn the volume to the max

[autodelete66]

I survived the late 60's,

and still remember it well.

A Magical era!

[JoaniePH51]

I was there...I had to be! I sure do not remember much about it though! Wooo-hooo!

[OrangeSunshine2]

"Boys shes got more to play with in the way of toys"

[pyrophore]

Jorma's buzzsaw guitar at the start just cuts into my brain.

Grace's observations of herself and living in a cosmetic society. Don't take it too seriously or your face (sh*t) will hit the fan.

[elwoodc]

This is an incredible song. I can't believe it's forty years old it still sounds fresh.

[eric5906]

@elwoodc AMEN. Aftter all these yrs. it still moves. Hare Krishna.

[Karsburg]

FANTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASTIC!!!!­!!!! Heil from Brasil!!!

[dapc59]

these are some great tracks from a classic album, any chance of a similar job with surrealistic pillow?

good work and thanks.

[joeyrider]

Grace at her best! a drivin' force.. respect

[kjkj74]

crown of creation and surrealistic pillow are my favorite jefferson airplane albums.

This music is awesome, grace slick rocks!!!

[jamal49]

One of many great songs from one of the best albums of the Sixties and of the Airplane. Love the line "don't change before the empire falls". Still relevant.

[godsavethequeef]

the best song ever, lyrically

in many other ways too, its so great

[louiseduvee]

I want to thank you for your archives. I'm not a hit song person. I never buy an album unless it's good all through.

[trogus2]

amazing how many of these jefferson airplane/starship songs i know from listening to albums! maybe thats why the stack of albums is taller than me!Gotta get a turntable.

[eguitard]

damn this is a rockin' song!

[FreedomHotel]

This is perfect! - and the Airplane have achieved perfection several other times too; so can't say what my favourite Airplane song is; but this is perfect!

[autodelete66]

Still Topical after 40 years.

Eccept "made in China" now.

Don't change before the Empire falls!

[KaylaxMercedes]

I friggin' love THIS SONG!

[hillcrestjh]

hittin on all cylinders