Paul Kantner - Have You Seen The Stars Tonite - XM (Blows Against The Empire - 1970) HD

[r51collins]

I bought this album back in the days and sitting in a bar in Krabi in Southern Thailand I was thinking about this song, came back and found this, total brilliance mate, the images are something else and to see Garcia, Kantner and Slick et al, excellent, you have a real eye, thanks a lot and now I feel in need of a few more lemonades!!!

[POBulkhead]

I got my first copy when I was 14 in 1973. You could still get good acid then. My copy was a little brown and floppier than a standard vinyl LP and looked freaky under a black light.

[PumaTwoU]

I have watched many You Tube videos- this is one of the best ones I have seen. Thanks!

[NeebruM]

Garcia = pedal steel NOT a slide guitar

[TMGLost]

@NeebruM This is true - Pedal Steel is TYPE of guitar that employs a slide, but Pedal Steel Guitar is the accurate description. Garcia masted this very challenging instrument in unbelievably short time and displays a most creative use of it on this song - my absolute favorite track from this wonderful album. @ocnarfeara Great Video - thanks!

[animascat]

very different and wonderful music. if i could only remember my name.

[grigliafredda]

Listening to the Jeffersons I have visited places that (you human you could not even imagine). Hi

[1AGRIPPINA]

Lovely !



[icarosilva16]

there must be a glue on this screen.....my eyes can't go away..the power of the beauty??

[ocnarfeara]

@icarosilva16 hehe thanks man ..and thanks for subbing..be welcome to my channel..hope you enjoy my other Jefferson Tuna Starship uploads...

[ykwhitehead]

The best album by Starship - one of my alltime fav albums, still own it & still play it. Thanks for putting this song on....sure brings back great memories. think I'll go up on A Deck and look at them tonight.....*grin*

[photoslum]

discovered this lp at 17 back in 84. every night after that i came home, went to my basement room, smoked and drifted. i still get goosebumps. this album is my spirituality, along with crosby's if i could only remember my name.

every note, every space between notes, every sound is perfect.

out in the pines at night, stoned or shrooming in the fall- priceless

[terrikitties]

I'm sitting there on A Deck looking at the stars. It's beautiful! Thank you so much OC.

[hswatnik]

beautiful presentation-

[sneakonproductionz]

I assume the "xm" is the next part when it gets all dead style space

[Barefeet200]

Would stagger home and fall asleep at night with the headphones on, listening to this. Still have the original LP, and most of the groups other LP's too.

You have done an outstanding treatment of this well loved song. It is a stand out on you tube.

[ocnarfeara]

@Barefeet200 Thank you very very much my friend for your awesome comments ...hope you enjoy as well my other Kantner/Airplane uploaded material.

[BanjaraHillbillies]

This album expanded my mind further than any other...there are others that are "close"... but - - Dear God....this was the key. BTW to @NickandSlick - try doing a Grace Slick tune at karaoke!! You will find that the girl had a range to beat all!!

[RATTLEY67]

Love it Thankyou

[NicksandSlick]

I have always thought that Grace Slick is an absolutely under-rated talent, A great person and an incomparable singer and lyricist.after listening to this again i have realised that one of the thing i love so much about Grace is her unique piano playing. The moment you hear the piano there is absolutely no doubt who is playing.I could listne to Grace play without ever hearing her sing and that is saying a lot!!!

Thank you so much for posting this wonderful vid.

[aidanohanful]

Favorite song and album. Paul Kantner still gives me chills. I my friends have a wake, please play for me. Cannot believe BLOWS AGAINST THE EMPIRE was in a "cut out" bin. Bury my ashes to this music.

[HVYMETL]

@aidanohanful

Bury my ashes to this music. Yes. You hit the true feeling of this for me. This is majestic.

[brian1861]

...absolutely amazing. If my Memory serves me well this won an award for Science Fiction. I can not remember the name.

...this was the Music on the Bus when I got on.

[55kudu]

@brian1861 It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Science Fiction in 1971 but lost. But it was an achievement that it was even nominated acknowledging the real sci-fi element present in the work. I don't think there has ever or will ever be an album quite like it. One of my top ten and I like a lot of albums.

[55kudu]

This album is the true meaning behind "Space Rock" as the Starship ascends into space on a stolen ship... misgivings as the crew prepare for the slingshot around the sun and head out of our solar system. Ocnar, thank-you for your beautiful video.. I love the shots of the moon as if they are traveling past... hippies starting a new life not on our planet but far beyond the stars. A friend of mine has jammed with Kantner and told me they all stopped sessions to watch Star Trek in the 60s.

[ocnarfeara]

@55kudu Thank you my friend. It would be fantastic if Paul stopped sessions to watch my video too :) It's great that you really enjoyed my work. The album is one of my favorites if not my favorite from all Airplane work as well as Crown of Creation. I had fantastic experiences listening to this album in very special and peculiar ocasions :)) Kantner Slick albuns had beautifull artwork . Thanks again.

[55kudu]

@ocnarfeara Kantner would definitely dig this video alot and I will check out your other video. You are very creative like the Starship. I remember my friend Cathy Jenkins and I would listen to this album in 1970 and she thought it was so cool that they basically used piano and guitar and not all spacey stuff to convey their ideas and we were so impressed with the creation of XM. So cool. The album I think is more than we realize it to be... like it's magical or something. It's thriling!!

[stillustronic]

Excellent!

I put this on my facebook profile during the Supermoon, the whole medley, though.

Nice upload of the audio, you must have a nice system. What an incredible album.

[djohn4096]

This one surely stands the test of time. It's Kantner's masterpiece and, since it has all of JA in it except for Jorma and Marty, it can be considered the last great Airplane album. Every song is special, especially this one and "A Child Is Coming" with its wonderful backing vocals by David Crosby. Man, it don't get no better than this!

[55kudu]

@djohn4096 You truly understand and appreciate this masterpiece and that's what it is. It is so cool that the "Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra" (PERRO) are present as they are on David Crosby's first solo album "If Only I Could Remember My Name" released in 1970. Do you know that album, I'm sure you must. I love Crosby and followed him for many years. Stellar performer. Keep on listening, man!!

[JourneyHome]

one of my all time favorites - featured on my old radio show many, many times - thanks George!

[dwcdaid]

One of the best songs ever, and one of the best video adaptations on youtube. Kudos.

[dwcdaid]

One of the best songs ever, and one of the best video adaptations on youtube. Kudos.

[ocnarfeara]

@dwcdaid Thank you very much my friend!!

[ClaireSapphyck]

This is one of my favourite pieces of all time, listened to it the first time I ever got really stoned! Paul K signed my original vinyl a few years back, he's a trailblazer if ever there was one! Thanks Paul for all the good times:-)

[genfebmar]

I'm buying lp o cd since 1970, Blows, in my opinion is surely in top ten.

The last track is one of the greatest song ever played.

[WebMichi]

Beautiful. One among the best albums of the era. 

[albatross7677]

Whoever played the vacuum on XM did a great job!!!

[GandalfDaBlack]

excellent vid. loved this album, had to buy it twice because it never came back, but that's okay.

[followingtheplanets]

Jerry Garcia – banjo on "Let's Go Together", pedal steel guitar on "Have You Seen the Stars Tonite",

Garcia on steel guitar

[bookerdann]

I've been a blues player for forty years. I don't play anything that remotely sounds like this. But damn, this is my favorite album of all time. It takes me to a special place every time I hear it. When I die, maybe I'll get to visit that place for real. This album is the embodiment of pure joy.

[ocnarfeara]

@bookerdann This album and Crown of Creation are my favorite Airplane/Starship recorded material. Thanks a lot for your awesome comment my friend.

[Dreadlockswampy]

@ocnarfeara Note quite Airplane/Starship realy, it was more of a side project as was the other Album, Sunfighter. Blows against the Empire was another side project for Slick/Kanter all fantastic albums non the less :)

[55kudu]

@ocnarfeara Where did you get so many wonderful images of our solar system and the Starship players. I had to return to watch it again I love it so much. Good sound, too, That XM was such a mind blower when I was 17, all we had was Star Trek and 50s sci-fi most of which was monsters attacking us. This really made me feel like I left this planet in whatever form - corporeal or mind-altering. Take your pick. Thanks for keeping the spirit of this piece alive in the computer age.

[ocnarfeara]

@55kudu Thank you again my friend ...You're welcome..I found those images searching in webs like google images ,yahoo.. etc...Feel free to watch it over and over again heheh did you watch my first upload for that album? "Have you seen the the stars after Sunrise?" I mixed the instrumental intro to Have you seen the stars as a complementary end to Sunrise...

[pekoe]

@bookerdann ~~~Blacklight...and Bong Hit to This Classic~~

[pbrucpaul]

No doubt the JA tripped out to create something like this. At 2:26 The Eagle Nebula. Way way out there.

[SkopTeocratico]

Great vid, beautiful images.

[ocnarfeara]

@SkopTeocratico Thank you.

[1smokie1]

Rock msg music began changing my life with the Byrds "Mr. Tambourine Man". "Blows Against the Empire" sped the process. Music has been the catalyst for many of my social and political ideas. Thanks for this hopeful tune and the video. Great job.

[ocnarfeara]

@1smokie1 Thanks really a lot for such a nice comments.

[ocnarfeara]

@1smokie1 Thanks really a lot for such a nice comment.

[jbirenz]

Nicely done!

[ocnarfeara]

@jbirenz Thanks a lot my friend

[ocnarfeara]

@jbirenz Thanks a lot 

[bassbob42]

Beautifully done.

[ocnarfeara]

@bassbob42 Thanks a lot.

[aurora1957A]

nice job!!

:)

[ocnarfeara]

@aurora1957A Than you my friend!

[Ondelay]

this takes me back, early 70's, awesome music. Nice job with the visuals.

[ocnarfeara]

@Ondelay Thanks!

[mylluy]

lindos acercamientos

[ocnarfeara]

@mylluy Gracias amigo!

[WEIR4EVER]

Just awesome! First sub i watch on my new obscenely big 27" mac, and SO good! Thx Eduardo, glad to see you back in action :-)

[ocnarfeara]

@WEIR4EVER Hi Thanks a lot for your awesome comment. I would like to watch it on 27" mac and see the effects :)) Yes, back in action ...hehehe.thanks

[hecate55]

One of my absolutely favourite songs by Paul Kantner & Starship. It's like falling in love all over again for the first time. Listen for the late Jerry Garcia's guitar work in the background. Thank you for this!

[ocnarfeara]

@hecate55 You're welcome friend !

[dearbrummus]

Thank you...I wish I could assemble such a visual montage as you have in the Airplane/Starship videos you've posted.

[ocnarfeara]

@dearbrummus Thank you very much !