Kantner says "coat", not "coke" - clean out them ears!!! These folks shared houses, studios, practice spaces, etc. with The Grateful Dead, Quicksilver, JA, CSNY, etc. There was tons of "cross pollination" between these artists.
This was originally written by Crosby & Stills. Kanter got a writing credit because he changed "I can see by your coat.." to "I can see by your coke..."
This song is so freakin great...with JA's and CSNY's versions all so richly done that no matter which version one hears, the response is a deep stirring...love it!
Reading through the comments of this awesome song, I noticed how many lament the loss in direction and quality of music today. I agree. Considering that today the conditions that caused Jefferson Airplane, and so many others, to write such powerful songs are even worse than they were in the late '60s and early '70s, one must ask serious questions about the efforts by the Powers that Be in manipulating and preventing the younger generation from rising up.
Music today is about fucking greed and money. There's no meaning to music today. It's so very fucking sad that less then 40 years music has gone to shit.
@Shortyrock1972 there are enough small labels, selfpromoted music and bands that just pop up in the subgenres when they really feel like publishing music , with enough passion (and different jobs) to not bow to publishers or public demand, so there is plenty if you dig..
The studio version has some things that are missing from this performance. Yet somehow, this live performance seems so much better overall than the studio version. And monotony doesn't kill you here like it does in the stuido version. Really neat to watch.
both versions of this song (Jefferson airplane, csn&y)came out in the same year. The melody written by Crosby and the lyrics by Paul Kantner and Stephen Stills. All of these folks were friends and played on each others albums. I think they referred to themselves as the planet earth rock n roll orchestra. See Mickey hart's rolling thunder, David crosby's if only I can remember my name, Jefferson starship's blows against the empire.
This song rules! So timely right now! All you haters need
Anybody who feels that jorma and jack were not the guiding forces of this outfit needs to hit replay..Loved this whole thing..but it's quite easy to see why Hot Tuna was born.
@localguitarlegend1 Sorry I really have to disagree. I firmly believe that Kantner was the force that drove the band forward. Having said that though, I also believe that it was Jack and Jorma who made Kantner's vision come to life.
@localguitarlegend1 Jorma and Jack were fine instrumentalists, but really, the vocals are what made this band what it was. Marty and Grace created a dynamic/dialoguge that was unique in rock history. Without Marty and Grace, what would they be? Yeah, right...Hot Tuna? Please.
@localguitarlegend1 I think EVERY member of a band plays the driving force to some extent. They all contribute something. I never listened to 'Hot Tuna' actually, but heard they were great,
This is the closest Paul Kantner ever got to writing his SF masterpiece. The _idea_ of the song is certainly a post-nuclear nightmare, with some hope in there for good measure. It is the cold war at its height. Obviously Crosby did quite a bit for it musically but the story-line is good old Paul.
Both versions are great but the Airplane had a certain Grace, and a certain Jorma and Jack, that CSN lacked.
What is that crap up the front? Yes, this song is a Kantner/Crosby creation and here you have a great JA version of it. It's a mega mind-expanding song for those able to interface. ... Hey-ho!: try your best!, ... and come alive or not, according to your choice! ...
I'm not the kind of person who say things like: "things used to be better". But in terms of music, hell popular music really used to be better. 60's and 70's Rock forever!
This song is about the aftermath of a nuclear war. Those in the ships are escaping from the devastation. The purple berries reference concerns radiation sickness while the "silver people" are wearing protective suits. The images of desolation on the video are perhaps from the nuclear bomb tests at Bikini. A similar but bleaker theme was pursued in The House at Pooneil Corner. Those of us who were adults in the Sixties were always aware of the threat of nuclear annihilation - Cuban Crisis 1963.
wagging the nuclear dog all those years ago controlled generations of folks, i recall the pricks having us hide under our seats. the only real threat by nuke other than a terrorist act would have been from the japanese who actually developed the bomb before us but used their heavy water up in production and were unable to replenish it quickly enough, that folks would have been a bad thing
this is greenwater i had a dream about in 1969- it was the up coming war in and across the Ocean in the east,so our peace freaks hung in there and remember peace,i will think "we" always tried to help- That's what our brotheras and sisters dreams are about-Douglas
Always loved this song since I heard it on the CSN debut album. And on the Airplane's Volunteers album. Great sci-fi rock which Paul did well also with Crown of Creation although he did lift some verbatim lines from the Chrysalids. Don't blame him, loved the book myself. Thanks for the posting Aurora.
The guitar mostly. He played a Gibson 345 stereo guitar. He could set the 2 different channels offered by stereo sound to different things. The first channel he put through a wah pedal (crybaby), and the second through an Ampeg Scrambler fuzzbox. he could use one channel or the other, or both. He used Fender twin amps.
Growing up with that fear of being nuked formed our personalities. as a kid I stood in a field ninety miles from San Francisco and watched the sky filled with bombers. It was called an exercise by the radio and TV. Found out thirty years later that it was the real thing. They were called back thank God. This song gave me hope that someone out there was sane!
I would have to lean towards the CSN version but Airplane does an admirable job here... its darker and raw as hell but that's what's cool about it. Guitar solo is great too.
@cristipardi89 i think it was written by stills,crosby and kantner, even though kantner is not credited on the original booklet of the album "crosby,stills &nash" where the song appeared for first time
@francescovitrani Kantner wasn't credited on CSN's version because of legal issues. In the 2006 re-release of the CSN version, Kantner's name is added.
This particular recording is far from the Airplanes (pretty rough) best. Listen to a other recordings of this on albums then pass judgement. CSNY and the Airplane are different...CSNY's beautiful harmonys and a distinctively mournful sounding Grace Slick on the Airplanes more psychedelic version.
WOW!! Thanks for posting. This video is magical, especially the last minute and a half. Lead solos were too long back then, but still, what a great version!! CS&N were cool, but boring compared to the Airplane IMO. Great drumming and bass at the end too.
A better time? Yeah cose we didn't have arthritis. What was so good about the early 70? Pollution (Ohio River on fire). Vietnam. 3-mile Island. A crook in the Whitehouse. Troops firing on Students in Ohio. The FBI taking pictures and "filing" anybody who had long hair... It was the same old crapola... Except we were much younger and didn't care.. all we cared about was the music... Love and Peace...
Indeed ... not much has changed since then ... it is still all about money, power and greed ... very frustrating that the learning is soooo slow ... however, the effort back then was unique, in that it became a universal movement in its fundamental thought about Love and Peace.
@joegilbert31 we stopped doing anything. get out the vote, or get the frying pan and the wooden spoon, go for a walk, talk to your neighbor, go jam with your neighbor....who m i to tell you
all the bands you mentioned as crap 40 years ago were 100 percent better than most of todays music ! i dont think you know any thing about music ! your just trying to be a ass hole !
its hard to belive that we went from such absoulutly wonderful music like this to the crap we have today ! etc. rap , hip hop, country , even the new pop music like american idol is such awful music ! sob !
Look at who some of the top-selling artists of 1970 were - Ray Stevens, Bobby Sherman, Tom Jones, The Jackson 5. We listened to just as much crap 40 years ago on AM radio as there is today on American Idol. Now as then you can find the artists who are making great music but you will have to:
1. stop listening to the crap, and
2. search for the good stuff.
This wonderful JA video has less than 14,000 views. Most of my favorites aren't very popular. That's okay, I found them anyway.
by labling all of those genres crap you only show how narrow minded and ignorant you personally are about music. hip hop for example probably doesn't appeal to you because you are incapable of empathizing with the culture and the hardship that fuels the lifestyle..maybe i'm wrong, i don't know you, but i'd also assume you just listen to the wrong hip hop. try the Roots for musicianship. you don't have to like it obviously. but jefferson airplane wasn't pop music. it was lovely freak music.
Of all the groups that emerged from San Francisco in the mid to late sixties, the airplane's music most embodied the tribal anguish with war-time spiritually dead america, the camaraderie of psychic survivors, their longing for a union with nature and love and ecstasy in a world far from napalm, madison avenue and the church pew on sunday.
This song is about the aftermath of a nuclear war. Those in the ships are escaping from the devastation. The purple berries reference concerns radiation sickness while the "silver people" are wearing protective suits. The images of desolation on the video are perhaps from the nuclear bomb tests at Bikini. A similar but bleaker theme was pursued in The House at Pooneil Corner. Those of us who were adults in the Sixties were always aware of the threat of nuclear annihilation - Cuban Crisis 1963.
yeah thats the way I had always took it, Paul being a big SF fan probably had read "On the Beach";
I grew up in the 60s scared shitless about being nuked by the Ruskies, then later as an adult living in a state capital I just assumed I was on ground zero - it was always in the back of my mind somewhere probably until the wall came down in Berlin, what an odd sense of relief that was...
@aurora1957A "On The Beach" and "Alas, Babylon"......I agree, I was terrified in 1962, wondering if I'd make my 11th birthday, and how long the canned food in our basement would last.
for many many years now, I have always assumed the songs I dont get are a product of someones drug induced hallucinations. In this song, when Marty sings about eating purple berries, well, if he isnt referring to drugs then I REALLY dont know
mightymack: it`s about hoping that this stupid careless society ends soon...and that on the other side of all this stupidity and gross human behaviour (2009 and ongoing...) there will be some sort of redemption. the metaphor used is a 3rd world war where nobody even knows who has won; as there`s only the 2 characters in the story left on earth.
if you want to go into further detail, I would suggest googling "wooden ships lyrics"; if you still don`t get it then, well...dunno.
DaveH001 is spot on. It was so easy to take everything for granted in the 60s and assume that the same levels of achievement would continue. Such disillusion that was to follow and not only in rock music.
As far as I'm concerned this is as good as rock music gets. Combine a classic song and fabulous talent and magic happens. I don't think we appreciated the musical riches we enjoyed in the late 60s and early 70s nearly as much as we would have if we could have foreseen the mindless stuff that would follow. Thankfully more and more footage from the era keeps being discovered. Many many thanks to aurora for posting this treasure.
We were going to winterland to see CS& N, but Crosby's girlfriend was killed in a car accident right before the gig. the Airplane repaced them that night & Stills & Nash did this with the Airplane than night. Great show.
Finally a live version with the original band members! I have been searching for something like this for years! The reunion clip in probalby the early 90's of Paul, Grace and Marty was up for awhile here on youtube but I cannot find it anymore. If someone has it post it up!
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Federockeer 6 days ago
My soul was there...
Federockeer 1 week ago
a nice version but I must say that the CSNY version is better
gdiddy56 1 month ago
beautyfull song and grat video.
LEPRASE 1 month ago
wow. my eyes welled-up with tears listening to this version. brought back so many memories from the period.
andrewlesser 1 month ago
a very good song. Thank you for posting it.
rutabagasteu 3 months ago
I might piss off some people here.......but.....JA's version is more art......CSN's version is more pop.
yumpladukfoo 5 months ago
Kantner says "coat", not "coke" - clean out them ears!!! These folks shared houses, studios, practice spaces, etc. with The Grateful Dead, Quicksilver, JA, CSNY, etc. There was tons of "cross pollination" between these artists.
altscribe 5 months ago
the cameraman was tripping. he couldn't focus the lens.
gsantoliquido 5 months ago
This was originally written by Crosby & Stills. Kanter got a writing credit because he changed "I can see by your coat.." to "I can see by your coke..."
jg90278 6 months ago
@jg90278
That ain't the way Kantner tells the story lol
aurora1957A 6 months ago
@jg90278 It was originally written by Crosby and Stills had a line or two and then Kanter added a couple of lines.
keaton1895 3 months ago
@jg90278 That wasn't what changed. It is at the end of the song.
keaton1895 2 months ago
AURORA1957A THANK YOU,Merci pour cette sublime chanson.
cheedimed 1 month ago
"We are leaving
You don't need us"
Yep. That's what we did, because that's how it was. Grace could really sing when she reached down into her soul and gave it everything she had.
ecoputsch 6 months ago
gorgeous version most of us only knew csns
vagabondrecon 6 months ago
I'm 23 and watching the history "woodstock Generation" made back in the 60s I realize WORLD IS SICK AND NEEDS TO BE HEALED.
peace everyone.
PFloyd87 6 months ago
I personaly think this version is better
diszkidwaszheresz 6 months ago
It all worked for a short while.
15bluethings 6 months ago
@15bluethings Yeah, for a minute or two there it was something, wasn't it?
beachdog67 5 months ago
Brilliant, timeless, powerful, and more urgent than ever (the message that is).
jstraw4 6 months ago
is Balin singing some Delfonics?
roomserviceband 7 months ago
♫♪ ♫♪ ♫♪ If you smile at me you know I will understand. Cause that is something everybody everywhere does. In the same language. ♫♪ ♫♪ ♫♪
t43700 7 months ago
Grace Slick proved that she can look good even in priest chasuble.
takataminna 7 months ago
This song is so freakin great...with JA's and CSNY's versions all so richly done that no matter which version one hears, the response is a deep stirring...love it!
tvswnet 8 months ago
Reading through the comments of this awesome song, I noticed how many lament the loss in direction and quality of music today. I agree. Considering that today the conditions that caused Jefferson Airplane, and so many others, to write such powerful songs are even worse than they were in the late '60s and early '70s, one must ask serious questions about the efforts by the Powers that Be in manipulating and preventing the younger generation from rising up.
Ilaab1995 8 months ago
3:13 - 3:19 CHILLS DOWN MY BAAACK!!!
3li0tZ 8 months ago
Music today is about fucking greed and money. There's no meaning to music today. It's so very fucking sad that less then 40 years music has gone to shit.
Shortyrock1972 9 months ago 2
@Shortyrock1972 there are enough small labels, selfpromoted music and bands that just pop up in the subgenres when they really feel like publishing music , with enough passion (and different jobs) to not bow to publishers or public demand, so there is plenty if you dig..
lezvarthok 8 months ago
The studio version has some things that are missing from this performance. Yet somehow, this live performance seems so much better overall than the studio version. And monotony doesn't kill you here like it does in the stuido version. Really neat to watch.
pq02lamzo 9 months ago
jerry garcia played in this video?
rmrider46 10 months ago
The words of this song chill me ... do bands think anymore today?
hanaleiroad 10 months ago 3
both versions of this song (Jefferson airplane, csn&y)came out in the same year. The melody written by Crosby and the lyrics by Paul Kantner and Stephen Stills. All of these folks were friends and played on each others albums. I think they referred to themselves as the planet earth rock n roll orchestra. See Mickey hart's rolling thunder, David crosby's if only I can remember my name, Jefferson starship's blows against the empire.
This song rules! So timely right now! All you haters need
coyotesister 10 months ago
φιλε αλκη , αυτο πρεπει να το δεις
arisbooyook 10 months ago
It brings me so back.............
shel99 10 months ago
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE LOS MAS GRANDE DELROCK PSICODELICO JUNTO A CHARLY GARCIA Y ROLING STONES SAY NO MORE
claumaquina 11 months ago 2
The pure concept of "beauty" and "emotion" in music
clarius1973 11 months ago 2
Anybody who feels that jorma and jack were not the guiding forces of this outfit needs to hit replay..Loved this whole thing..but it's quite easy to see why Hot Tuna was born.
localguitarlegend1 11 months ago 6
@localguitarlegend1 Sorry I really have to disagree. I firmly believe that Kantner was the force that drove the band forward. Having said that though, I also believe that it was Jack and Jorma who made Kantner's vision come to life.
lavenderjane1967 10 months ago
@localguitarlegend1 Jorma and Jack were fine instrumentalists, but really, the vocals are what made this band what it was. Marty and Grace created a dynamic/dialoguge that was unique in rock history. Without Marty and Grace, what would they be? Yeah, right...Hot Tuna? Please.
zoznack 7 months ago
@zoznack They were a POP band after Jorma and Jack left.
ichupichu 6 months ago
@ichupichu Did they become a pop band BECAUSE J and J left or was that simply the direction in which they wanted to go? I think the latter.
J and J = fine sidemen. Period. They didn't sing or write and barely moved on stage. They did what good sidemen do.
zoznack 6 months ago
@zoznack Yeah, and that's why they were still called the Jefferson Airplane after two sidemen left........Oh, wait a minute......
ichupichu 6 months ago
@localguitarlegend1 I think EVERY member of a band plays the driving force to some extent. They all contribute something. I never listened to 'Hot Tuna' actually, but heard they were great,
MrCarl220 1 month ago
Awesomeness simply drips from every note ... thanks for posting this!
neilyoungwrotemylife 11 months ago 2
Good song but; I do slightly prefer the CSN version myself.
Bearhawke42 1 year ago
This is the closest Paul Kantner ever got to writing his SF masterpiece. The _idea_ of the song is certainly a post-nuclear nightmare, with some hope in there for good measure. It is the cold war at its height. Obviously Crosby did quite a bit for it musically but the story-line is good old Paul.
Both versions are great but the Airplane had a certain Grace, and a certain Jorma and Jack, that CSN lacked.
WillInNewHaven 1 year ago
Maravilhoso
fernandovgp 1 year ago
who ever hates it f*%^ u
david83924 1 year ago
THE PATH TO THE NEW LIFE...
ysbnnews 1 year ago
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Jeffersons torturing a real good CS&N song, it hurts.
robertodarapallo 1 year ago
What is that crap up the front? Yes, this song is a Kantner/Crosby creation and here you have a great JA version of it. It's a mega mind-expanding song for those able to interface. ... Hey-ho!: try your best!, ... and come alive or not, according to your choice! ...
HighFlyinDragon 1 year ago
I like both versions them & CSN -both a little different in their own way..
tomk773 1 year ago
I'm not the kind of person who say things like: "things used to be better". But in terms of music, hell popular music really used to be better. 60's and 70's Rock forever!
Fcblover 1 year ago 2
This song is about the aftermath of a nuclear war. Those in the ships are escaping from the devastation. The purple berries reference concerns radiation sickness while the "silver people" are wearing protective suits. The images of desolation on the video are perhaps from the nuclear bomb tests at Bikini. A similar but bleaker theme was pursued in The House at Pooneil Corner. Those of us who were adults in the Sixties were always aware of the threat of nuclear annihilation - Cuban Crisis 1963.
reaper3366 1 year ago 6
What a great version, so high, so beautiful. I never knew Paul had part in writing it.
TheRabidPosum 1 year ago 3
wagging the nuclear dog all those years ago controlled generations of folks, i recall the pricks having us hide under our seats. the only real threat by nuke other than a terrorist act would have been from the japanese who actually developed the bomb before us but used their heavy water up in production and were unable to replenish it quickly enough, that folks would have been a bad thing
pilesmcgee 1 year ago
wow! I loved this stuff and to see it a long time later, Paul, Grace, Jorma - all of them...almost too good.
timle53 1 year ago
I'm a big fan of both the Airplane & David Crosby (and C,S,N&Y).
The C, S & N version is far superior.
kerrgal 1 year ago
@kerrgal In your opinion. :)
Realitytourist 1 year ago
this is greenwater i had a dream about in 1969- it was the up coming war in and across the Ocean in the east,so our peace freaks hung in there and remember peace,i will think "we" always tried to help- That's what our brotheras and sisters dreams are about-Douglas
knuckles0Z 1 year ago 2
Always loved this song since I heard it on the CSN debut album. And on the Airplane's Volunteers album. Great sci-fi rock which Paul did well also with Crown of Creation although he did lift some verbatim lines from the Chrysalids. Don't blame him, loved the book myself. Thanks for the posting Aurora.
MilSepic60 1 year ago 3
This is one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs ever. It almost brings tears to my eyes.
threeby8887 1 year ago 2
Intelligently constructed vid that does credit to the great music of the Airplane. Well done aurora, thanks for posting.
noel2711 1 year ago
Can anybody explain Jorma's sound? The texture is magnificent. Is it the guitar or amp?
dreama505 1 year ago
@dreama505
The guitar mostly. He played a Gibson 345 stereo guitar. He could set the 2 different channels offered by stereo sound to different things. The first channel he put through a wah pedal (crybaby), and the second through an Ampeg Scrambler fuzzbox. he could use one channel or the other, or both. He used Fender twin amps.
threefive00 1 year ago
Great!!!!
HIDEKIAMPZZILA 1 year ago
Growing up with that fear of being nuked formed our personalities. as a kid I stood in a field ninety miles from San Francisco and watched the sky filled with bombers. It was called an exercise by the radio and TV. Found out thirty years later that it was the real thing. They were called back thank God. This song gave me hope that someone out there was sane!
hippyd50 1 year ago
Jorma's leadbreak is hot. Tasteful and has great feeling ............and that's what it's all about.
dreama505 1 year ago 2
I would have to lean towards the CSN version but Airplane does an admirable job here... its darker and raw as hell but that's what's cool about it. Guitar solo is great too.
BuonoBruttoCattivo77 1 year ago
Great background effects !! One of my favorite Airplane Classics.
nedarc 1 year ago
this song has always reminded me of the book 1984 for some reason
threefive00 1 year ago
the song was wrote by crosby and stills or grace slick?
cristipardi89 1 year ago
@cristipardi89
Kantner, Crosby, and Stills
aurora1957A 1 year ago 14
@cristipardi89 kantner, not slick
SmackeralJoe 1 year ago
@cristipardi89 Crosby, Stills and Paul Kantner.
DarthKazi 1 year ago
The song was wrote on a boat during a 4july if i´m not wrong. Funny fact: Both versions (CSN and JA) are registered as "Original Version"
Deco420 1 year ago
@cristipardi89 i think it was written by stills,crosby and kantner, even though kantner is not credited on the original booklet of the album "crosby,stills &nash" where the song appeared for first time
francescovitrani 1 year ago
@francescovitrani Kantner wasn't credited on CSN's version because of legal issues. In the 2006 re-release of the CSN version, Kantner's name is added.
Realitytourist 1 year ago
@cristipardi89 ...was written by Crosby, Stills, and Kantner for Grace Slick.
duganrushes 3 months ago
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ddoukopou 1 year ago
@ddoukopou This is a different version. Check out the album version from Volunteers.
Smron 1 year ago
@Smron Its a really good recording, but its better live i think. i wasnt sure bout balins humming in the intro tho.
SmackeralJoe 1 year ago
It's just as good as the CSN version.
tage92 1 year ago
love this song!
grandmadeath86 1 year ago 2
beautiful
klevis17 1 year ago 2
Go ride the music
WillInNewHaven 2 years ago 4
I'm ridin'.
GetBackJack123 1 year ago 2
I like their verion better than Crosby, Stills and Nash's version.
1Samh666 2 years ago
Great song, thanks for posting this version!
biminitwst 2 years ago 4
Did Marty shop at a different clothing store than the rest of the band? Love it!
apemanstreetwalker 2 years ago 3
lol probably
leadzeppbelly 2 years ago
marty balin and grace! respect them for the eternity! BONE CHANSON!
breakstyleevolutionc 2 years ago
This particular recording is far from the Airplanes (pretty rough) best. Listen to a other recordings of this on albums then pass judgement. CSNY and the Airplane are different...CSNY's beautiful harmonys and a distinctively mournful sounding Grace Slick on the Airplanes more psychedelic version.
rvguy79 2 years ago
You would have had to have been there... and I was...
rclere1 2 years ago
se me pone la piel de gallina
que cancion increible
thelittlegirlblue 2 years ago
csn version is better
abercrombiegun 2 years ago
Apples & oranges dude...just different. Both versions are superb.
heyjudy1 2 years ago 11
@heyjudy1 I disagree. I like CSN's version, but apples and oranges? Life is not that easily comparable. Sorry.
yumpladukfoo 5 months ago
@yumpladukfoo Well heck, i like apples and oranges...diff sure...but both delicious!
heyjudy1 5 months ago
@heyjudy1 hah, but they`re all a bunch of fruits. hahahahah.
;) don`t mind me, I`m having too much fun.
Charlytrippo 4 months ago in playlist Grace Slick
goosebumps
dose79 2 years ago 2
Marty the best voice ever
pdondini 2 years ago
excelente material; 5*****
vangelisideras 2 years ago
WOW!! Thanks for posting. This video is magical, especially the last minute and a half. Lead solos were too long back then, but still, what a great version!! CS&N were cool, but boring compared to the Airplane IMO. Great drumming and bass at the end too.
hobedog1 2 years ago
Did Grace have relations with the band members
grimgrimdeath666 2 years ago
Does a Pope shit in the woods? Is a bear Catholic?
WillInNewHaven 2 years ago 2
So is that a yes or no no need to be sarcastic lol
grimgrimdeath666 2 years ago
You make a hell of a Caucasian Jackie.
dogrey 1 year ago
You're a dandy if you do
revrusty2000 1 year ago
Everyone but Marty, or so he said.
duanedtate 2 years ago
what?
laxrulez7 2 years ago
Yes.
Marty Balin and Paul Kantner.
ftwsmp 2 years ago
This is cool. But I prefer the CSN version. The guitar solo is really cool in this version.
PageandPlant4Life 2 years ago
You can tell by watching and listening that their primary goal was to MAKE GREAT MUSIC!!!
Think about how musicians today think like that....
curiousnomad 2 years ago 3
Surely one of the Best song ever. This one is MUCH better than the original C.S.&N. One (imho)
clarius1973 2 years ago 4
this was written by several musicians like David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Paul Kanter, Jerry Garcia and Jorma Kraukonen
lootfreak101 2 years ago
WOW A MASTERPIECE, A TRUE MASTERPIECE...yes compared to today;s standard of music. it is not prepackaged, but HOLY SHIT it is REAL.......
alsindaniabch 2 years ago 37
Yup, real music played by real musicians. That's the difference - these guys know what they're doing!
magicminstrel 2 years ago 4
that be a mean wave to surf!!!!!1
neosoullover2000 2 years ago
CSNY's studio version was better.
scarface20141 2 years ago
I suppose you don't like the sound
of a Ship's Creaking at Anchor/slip.
It really set the stage.
Artificial maybe but so appropo!
autodelete66 2 years ago
Wow, Grace didn't sound like herself at the beginning. In any case, she has a beautiful voice!
PaulReveresNiece 2 years ago
saw jorma jack kantner and bromberg acoustic on the pier of the hudson in manhattan do a very special performance back in the 90s
hftaom14 2 years ago
Another thing the CSN version of this song didn't have, besides Grace and Jorma and Jack, was Jerry Garcia. But it was also great in its own right.
What a great, great video of a fantastic song. Thank you for posting it.
WillInNewHaven 2 years ago
You must try my purple berries.
pinkstarburst95 2 years ago
a better time-a better USA, what happened to us?
joegilbert31 2 years ago 30
A better time? Yeah cose we didn't have arthritis. What was so good about the early 70? Pollution (Ohio River on fire). Vietnam. 3-mile Island. A crook in the Whitehouse. Troops firing on Students in Ohio. The FBI taking pictures and "filing" anybody who had long hair... It was the same old crapola... Except we were much younger and didn't care.. all we cared about was the music... Love and Peace...
blue2elmer 2 years ago
Indeed ... not much has changed since then ... it is still all about money, power and greed ... very frustrating that the learning is soooo slow ... however, the effort back then was unique, in that it became a universal movement in its fundamental thought about Love and Peace.
Beverly2108 2 years ago 3
@joegilbert31 True man. True... Music Died.
DixieSolo 1 year ago
@joegilbert31 we stopped doing anything. get out the vote, or get the frying pan and the wooden spoon, go for a walk, talk to your neighbor, go jam with your neighbor....who m i to tell you
mdimbi 1 year ago
Beautiful video, beautiful song.
threeby8887 2 years ago
"WITHGRACESHALLWE..."
firstbooob 2 years ago
the music of now it's simply crap thats it, and the way of thinking of the artists now is only sell them dics D:, that's not be a good musician
maegringo 2 years ago
you just have to look harder- but there is always good music- i am a big 70's fan but i find great music all the time-
fezzappa 2 years ago 3
all the bands you mentioned as crap 40 years ago were 100 percent better than most of todays music ! i dont think you know any thing about music ! your just trying to be a ass hole !
kevooom 2 years ago
its hard to belive that we went from such absoulutly wonderful music like this to the crap we have today ! etc. rap , hip hop, country , even the new pop music like american idol is such awful music ! sob !
kevooom 2 years ago
Look at who some of the top-selling artists of 1970 were - Ray Stevens, Bobby Sherman, Tom Jones, The Jackson 5. We listened to just as much crap 40 years ago on AM radio as there is today on American Idol. Now as then you can find the artists who are making great music but you will have to:
1. stop listening to the crap, and
2. search for the good stuff.
This wonderful JA video has less than 14,000 views. Most of my favorites aren't very popular. That's okay, I found them anyway.
DaveH001 2 years ago
by labling all of those genres crap you only show how narrow minded and ignorant you personally are about music. hip hop for example probably doesn't appeal to you because you are incapable of empathizing with the culture and the hardship that fuels the lifestyle..maybe i'm wrong, i don't know you, but i'd also assume you just listen to the wrong hip hop. try the Roots for musicianship. you don't have to like it obviously. but jefferson airplane wasn't pop music. it was lovely freak music.
FreeJigsawEarth 2 years ago
Jorma is probably my favorite guitarist. Has anyone listened to his playing on Crown of Creation?
GetBackJack123 2 years ago 7
Oh yeah!! My favorite living guitarist! But Jack's bass defines the title song from that album. IMHO
:)
aurora1957A 2 years ago 3
@GetBackJack123 Yes.
Johns805 1 year ago
@GetBackJack123 Crown Of Creation was always my favourite
TheRedHippie74 1 year ago
Of all the groups that emerged from San Francisco in the mid to late sixties, the airplane's music most embodied the tribal anguish with war-time spiritually dead america, the camaraderie of psychic survivors, their longing for a union with nature and love and ecstasy in a world far from napalm, madison avenue and the church pew on sunday.
dogen522 2 years ago 5
Grace had such a beautiful voice
862431 2 years ago 3
hell yeah
laxrulez7 2 years ago
Before anyone else does, I'll correct my error - Cuban Crisis was 1962,
vonroon23 2 years ago
This song is about the aftermath of a nuclear war. Those in the ships are escaping from the devastation. The purple berries reference concerns radiation sickness while the "silver people" are wearing protective suits. The images of desolation on the video are perhaps from the nuclear bomb tests at Bikini. A similar but bleaker theme was pursued in The House at Pooneil Corner. Those of us who were adults in the Sixties were always aware of the threat of nuclear annihilation - Cuban Crisis 1963.
vonroon23 2 years ago 6
yeah thats the way I had always took it, Paul being a big SF fan probably had read "On the Beach";
I grew up in the 60s scared shitless about being nuked by the Ruskies, then later as an adult living in a state capital I just assumed I was on ground zero - it was always in the back of my mind somewhere probably until the wall came down in Berlin, what an odd sense of relief that was...
aurora1957A 2 years ago 2
On the Beach is a great book.
GetBackJack123 2 years ago
@aurora1957A "On The Beach" and "Alas, Babylon"......I agree, I was terrified in 1962, wondering if I'd make my 11th birthday, and how long the canned food in our basement would last.
teenonator 1 year ago 2
@vonroon23 And thats your interpretation. But not what
David and Paul intended with the song. Yes we had to live in fear then
and now. It's the Republican control of the people. We may never rest.........
sfaster 1 year ago
jes open yer heart sweety and let that light shine
:)
aurora1957A 2 years ago
Call me stupid or whateveryou like , I'm
sure there was a message to wooden
ships but I dont get it Someone help me out here ,please!
mightymack99 2 years ago
for many many years now, I have always assumed the songs I dont get are a product of someones drug induced hallucinations. In this song, when Marty sings about eating purple berries, well, if he isnt referring to drugs then I REALLY dont know
Nina2560 2 years ago
mightymack: it`s about hoping that this stupid careless society ends soon...and that on the other side of all this stupidity and gross human behaviour (2009 and ongoing...) there will be some sort of redemption. the metaphor used is a 3rd world war where nobody even knows who has won; as there`s only the 2 characters in the story left on earth.
if you want to go into further detail, I would suggest googling "wooden ships lyrics"; if you still don`t get it then, well...dunno.
shotdonkey 2 years ago 2
So long as we have things like youtube these incredible songs can live on forever.
roundbo 2 years ago
fantastic
zaezen 2 years ago
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FansFiltration 2 years ago
DaveH001 is spot on. It was so easy to take everything for granted in the 60s and assume that the same levels of achievement would continue. Such disillusion that was to follow and not only in rock music.
vonroon23 2 years ago 2
As far as I'm concerned this is as good as rock music gets. Combine a classic song and fabulous talent and magic happens. I don't think we appreciated the musical riches we enjoyed in the late 60s and early 70s nearly as much as we would have if we could have foreseen the mindless stuff that would follow. Thankfully more and more footage from the era keeps being discovered. Many many thanks to aurora for posting this treasure.
DaveH001 2 years ago 4
sweeet!!
acerb45666555 2 years ago
i just don't know why spencer dryden left the band
Axloooo 2 years ago
Because Grace stopped sleeping with him?
aurora1957A 2 years ago
and give thanks...
firstbooob 2 years ago
RAISE THE AWARD INTO THE AIR...
firstbooob 2 years ago
This simply just blows me away. Great song. People need to get a clue.
wtgLisa 2 years ago 3
Well TheDutchHippie we also want a time machine so we could go back and appreciate it more.
'67 was heaven
ZildjianRider 2 years ago
I wish I had a time machine so I could experience what all you lucky old have experienced.
TheDutchHippie 2 years ago 2
We were going to winterland to see CS& N, but Crosby's girlfriend was killed in a car accident right before the gig. the Airplane repaced them that night & Stills & Nash did this with the Airplane than night. Great show.
Baddoggone 2 years ago
Thanks, Aurora! That wave in the background is cool!
And it's a fair wind, blowin' warm,
Out of the south over my shoulder,
Guess I'll set a course and go...
Bazzaland 2 years ago
Finally a live version with the original band members! I have been searching for something like this for years! The reunion clip in probalby the early 90's of Paul, Grace and Marty was up for awhile here on youtube but I cannot find it anymore. If someone has it post it up!
bigdbc 3 years ago
With the exception of the new drummer as the video poster indicated.
bigdbc 3 years ago
wild
as200s 3 years ago
Listen to this song. And commit yourself to peace before this lonely reality is realized. Get activist and tear down the Military Industrial complex.
Stills - Crosby - Kantner got it right on this one. Can I have some of your purple berries?
Lowdosage 3 years ago 5
Strange and beautiful video ... I love this song. Thanks for sharing.
I want to marry Grace, was so pretty... I love her!
dustasdu 3 years ago
It's nice, though Grace was out of tune(as frequently did) Peace!
elarqui55 3 years ago
sounds ok for live performance.
After tuning a few pianos I got used to the stretch etc.
drilett 3 years ago