More Wine! Louder Music! Ah . . . . nothing like a good bacchanal! Everybody GET IT ON! Now that we're Old Folks, it's still fun to GET IT ON every once and a while. Whew! And those of us who have had to put aside dope . . . well . . . the Fun is still there for everyone who has always been grounded. Dope is a better servant than master, and for all of us who have managed to live that and keep it together . . . cheers!
Paul Kantner WAS the founding member and anchor of JA. He had the most intense lyrics that, IMO, truly represented the band as a whole. Not to say that the others were insignificant, not at all, Jorma, Jack, and Grace (all equally awesome) made up the rest of the band.......Marty? Eh.
I adore Marty's vocals (especially on Baxter's)......an amazing singer....and fit well with Grace. But, I look at Marty's music before, and after JA. "Hearts"? Maybe you're right, he must have lost something, or rediscovered his true sense of cheese.
@yumpladukfoo No, no, you don't understand. Marty has ALWAYS been a ballad singer. Like, And I Like It of Come Up The Years from the first album, Today, Coming Back To Me from the second, and so on. Hearts is WAY better than the Starship shit the rest of the band started playing in the 80's!!
I love to see Marty dueling with Grace onstage. The bass solo, the lead guitar, the competition between the vocalists... that's the reason this band was the BEST.
6:24 Marty Balin has trancended the boundaries of space and time and sent a powerful signal, of a form unclassifiable by human knowledge. This signal, moving at speeds which defy comprehension, entered my cerebrum via the optical nerves, travelled down my spinal column, bypassed the heart (it would have surely exceeded the human bpm limit had it made contact) and ended up as a stain on my pants.
I'm sure anyone who looked this up has seen the documentary Fly. I'm only a youngster but some of the trippiest moments in my life were saved by this band. I mean that literally and figuratively. So I looked up that documentary and for those who haven't seen it, I'd recommend it. A lot of awesome live performances and fun facts :]
extremely rare phenomena of being excellent in the studio, and being able to deliver the goods, in spades live. after bathing at baxter's and bless it's pointed little head!!!!!!!!!!
Are we ready to Party Yet!!! Jack Casady in my opinion the best Bass Player, In the Bay... Love this Sh%t... And lets not forget Jorma's the Man! what a Jam>>>
When I was 16, I would take breaks from my dishwashing job to crank up Baxter's. I still get the same thrill today at age 59 when I hear this tune. I saw the Airplane on August 17, 1969 ("Morning Maniac Music") and later at the Fillmore East. Caught the first show of their reunion tour in 1989 and through it all, I have always thought they were the most powerful band I ever saw. Four years ago, I sat five feet from Jack/Hot Tuna in Austin. We shared a shit-eating grin that said it all.
Aside from the brilliant percformance, I just love how everyone seems sooooo into the music. I mean seriously, check out Grace at 1:55 or Jorma at 6:40 and so on and so on. You can attribute it to drugs, I say these people were true artists.
@celebrant9 Great comment C9 - here's the band in total self-belief mode - Jorma and Jack harmonise on steel and bass just as Grace , Marty and Paul harmonise vocally - I love how Grace gazes at Casady's serene playing - she's such an antidote to the ridiculously writhing out-of-sync go go dancer. Thanks beograund - great upload.
again, for you neophytes, check "bless it's pointed little head" lp excellently recorded live from fillmore east 1970, which will illustrate quite nicely just how stellar the jefferson airplane was live. this audio sucks! the footage is however priceless...
Never mind Pooneil , who is the hot dancin' hippie girl at 1:18...Damn, Grace looked sooo beautiful and Jorma and Jack were really ahead of their time. Paul was the political soul of the band and Marty had some of the best vocal chop of all the rock singers!
I really enjoyed the Airplane, but, man, could they get sloppy live...This actually sounds pretty good...Some great shots of Paul & Grace smoking while Jorma & Casady go off...Good quality video...Yeah, entertaining.
Casady is SO under-rated. All anyone has to listen to "After Bathing At Baxter's" album/cd to see.Grace...well, what more needs to be said. :) Jorma's guitar is
perfect for the band. Marty, Paul, Skip are under-rated iMO>
Amazing. And the Pooh and you and me together make three. This was about the audience or everybody together anyway at least for a bit and not just the band and about the ecstasy - Bachannalian frenzy there as the song ascends descends and then takes you back up there. The band is just fucking great. Jesus they get slow sometimes but it's traveling music. Opium den. Thanks.
Try this for a laugh - Go to 6:10 and watch Marty emerge from behind Jorma playing a tambourine. He's really giving it the shake, rattle and roll. Then suddenly it switches to a different angle and shows the same thing in slow motion, but for a couple of seconds you can't see the tambourine and it looks like he's doing some sort of weird belly-rubbing thing.
this was an AM radio hit in the sixties; a bit of the change from the bubblegum. the opening note on the 45 single was awesome, not even Hendrix ever got a note like that. wonder how Jorma did it. none of the opening notes on the live versions sound as good., and the album version isn't as good either.
Jack Casady was the greatest Rock bass player of his era...he created sounds, feedback, chords, that nobody had even thought of at the tyme...Paul McCartney was a great fan of his, say I no more? I saw him in concert, several times, and believe, me he was incredible....
@49Lourdes Jimi Hendrix once said that Jack Cassady was one of the greatest bass players and his favorite. I never got to see him(Jack)in person but have always admired his talent and ingenuity
@rclere1 Same here, picked up bass in 1967 (and still play) cause Jack sounded so great that just listening didn't get me close enough to it. He roars in this arrangement yet has the subtlest taste and touch in acoustic Hot Tuna from the same time period. He's been a heck of a great influence.
@49Lourdes the only person that i rate on par with jack casady is obviously the great John Entwistle. i'm definitely more preferential toward Casady, so aggressive but concise, but Entwistle was a legend
@49Lourdes Couldn't agree more! Even though Jack is recognized as great, I still have to say that he is the most underrated rock bass player of all time.
@49Lourdes Jack Bruce too. Both had the ability to play the same riff as lead guitar and traditional bass backbone. Jack C. was called to the stage by Hendrix for killing fields, what a jam. Was at a Radio City concert for Starship that was cancelled, hung out, Jorma , Jack came out hours later, gave us a private concert about a hundred of us, fabulous.
@49Lourdes I agree,.....his style of playing bass is so unique,......I also love the way he raises his eyebrows up and down when he's really gettin' into it.............
I saw them play about three months before this video, in November 1969. At that point I had just heard the Who a month before, and they were at their powerful peak and were amazing. And had heard Hendrix, Cream and the Doors the year before that and all were fantastic. But the Airplane were most interesting live band I had ever heard, it was rock but sort of jazz-like, eastern sounding, maybe early world music.. they were never exactly singing in tune, but it worked. Chemistry, not drugs.
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Wow, what an awful bass solo. This guy is supposed to be a prodigy? Great looking singer, but that's most of what Jefferson Airplane had going for them. Next.
@spotmaticfanatic Cassidy is widley regarded as a great bass player by many other great players but you are entitled to your opinion for what it's worth.
What a band these cats were. A powerhouse. Okay, the sound recording of this gig wasn't the best but that wasn't their fault. At this point they stood alone at the top of the mountain. The future possibilities were endless but it's amazing to think that just months later the magic just upped and died. Gone. Everything post mid-1970 was just meaningless. Such a shame.
Can anyone tell me the importance of "armadillo"? You can hear Grace kinda say it in this song. I'm not sure if you can hear it in this live version, but I've heard it in this song!!! WTF is armadillo?!
For those who love Jack's performance here, with all the overlapping and
cascading waves of bass POWER, give his performance on Grace's 'Silver Spoon'
a try. Jack is only accompanied by a drummer, Grace's piano and a sparse touch
from a rhythm guitar; but the sound is similar to a herd of rampaging elephants mixed together with Novi engines in full song down the backstreach at the Indy 500. It makes the ground shake. Jack is still the greatest rock 'n roll bassist.
Fortunate to have seen JA three times at their peak. Fell in love with Grace first time I saw her picture and an original poster from 66 of her in the Great Society adorns my kitchen wall so I get to see her every day.
Family Dog was the hot spot back then, I might have been at this one. When the Avalon Ballroom was closed they used Playland at the Beach. I saw the the Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, & the Electric Flag there.
this is my favorite period of JA. their music was a lot more mature sounding and solid than their total-psychedelic period, and much stronger and not convoluted like the BARK and Long John Silver period.
@bullikins According to JA legend, "POO" refers to A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh. "NEIL" refers to folk musician/songwriter Fred Neil. Winnie the Pooh and Neil were the heroes of Paul Kantner (author of both "Pooneil" songs.) He seemed to consider the two yin-yang opposites - Pooh symbolizing childlike innocence and wonder, and Neil representing adult sophistication and angry attitude.
@vectortemple I heard the Doors at the Fillmore in San Francisco in January 1968 and nobody danced and hardly anyone applauded because they were so incredible. It was a case of a collective "Oh...my...god..." during and after each song. You applaud entertainment, but this wasn't entertainment any more, this was beyond all that. I always hoped the band understood their quiet audiences. (Of course, some folks were too loaded to put their hands together very loud, but that's another matter.)
Jack is terrific on bass but I must confess, right from the start as early as '66' when Grace was with her brothers in ' The Great Society '. I have been enchanted & enamered with her beauty, I love her look in this video as she listens to Casady. I know she was intimate with Kantner and Balin, but I am wondering about Jack.
@vectortemple Nonsense -Jorma's a legend even now, just not hugely popular with illiterates. Leo Kottke, for one, thinks he's grand.
The problem with Jorma, as with so many old rockers, is their taste is often scattered. One moment he's awesomely imaginative and creative, the next he's jacking his guitar off. Then he's back to being awesome again. Why? Who knows, that's Jorma.
very un lonely sunday . put my pijama back to front !
MrCosmos69 1 week ago
lo mejor de jefferson
santer1909 2 weeks ago
Wonderful musicians. Shame the male vocals are so dischordent! (I mean too much intonation problems)
willscaldwell 1 month ago
Great performance - beautifully documented - thanks for posting.
moffat691 1 month ago
Casady's Solo is unearthly.. The Man can play.
davidh2136 1 month ago
i want to be jack casady when i grow up
PinkFloydrulez 1 month ago
Grace at 4:09...the hit just kicked in!
earinsound 2 months ago 4
More Wine! Louder Music! Ah . . . . nothing like a good bacchanal! Everybody GET IT ON! Now that we're Old Folks, it's still fun to GET IT ON every once and a while. Whew! And those of us who have had to put aside dope . . . well . . . the Fun is still there for everyone who has always been grounded. Dope is a better servant than master, and for all of us who have managed to live that and keep it together . . . cheers!
StoneFredFlint 3 months ago
@StoneFredFlint Talkin to me???
oreokookie1000 2 months ago
Now THAT"S a real Bass player!
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love that smile at the begining jorma
KimDoors 3 months ago
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KimDoors 3 months ago
Jorma is one of my heroes. He's still doing it.
jd51452 3 months ago
jack casady and phil lesh were the best bassists of the era. coincidentally, they were also the coolest looking.
PinkFloydrulez 3 months ago 5
That was just incredible!
pjl1015 4 months ago
This is a BAND!
BobBerkeley 4 months ago 3
Was she pregnant?
JanisBurron 5 months ago
After bathing at Baxters was the the first LP I bought when I was a strapping young lad. Never looked back.
coal4life 5 months ago
Paul Kantner WAS the founding member and anchor of JA. He had the most intense lyrics that, IMO, truly represented the band as a whole. Not to say that the others were insignificant, not at all, Jorma, Jack, and Grace (all equally awesome) made up the rest of the band.......Marty? Eh.
yumpladukfoo 6 months ago
@yumpladukfoo Marty lost a piece of his soul when Janis Joplin died, couldn't do the Winterland concert.
JimboLAngeloMysterio 6 months ago
@JimboLAngeloMysterio
I adore Marty's vocals (especially on Baxter's)......an amazing singer....and fit well with Grace. But, I look at Marty's music before, and after JA. "Hearts"? Maybe you're right, he must have lost something, or rediscovered his true sense of cheese.
yumpladukfoo 6 months ago 2
@yumpladukfoo No, no, you don't understand. Marty has ALWAYS been a ballad singer. Like, And I Like It of Come Up The Years from the first album, Today, Coming Back To Me from the second, and so on. Hearts is WAY better than the Starship shit the rest of the band started playing in the 80's!!
CookieOfTheHousie 4 months ago
@yumpladukfoo Marty was the founding member. But I do think Paul Kantner was the heart and soul of the band.
keaton1895 5 months ago
slapper dancing
slimturnpike 7 months ago
so far down the road.
ReneODeay 7 months ago
I love to see Marty dueling with Grace onstage. The bass solo, the lead guitar, the competition between the vocalists... that's the reason this band was the BEST.
CookieOfTheHousie 7 months ago 4
Of all the womens lib bulshit I had to put up with, "burning the bra" was a good thing.God, Grace was hot!
toadabc 7 months ago
The Airplane is Takeing off !! Yeah!
MrFederico61 8 months ago
i love Marty Balins face and movment from 6:19 to 6:38
its tooo funny
bluefromanairplane 8 months ago
Cassady is great but it all starts with Jack Bruce
evphibes 8 months ago
@evphibes Starts with Jack Bruce? Please explain?
bassmanjoe 5 months ago
Your not wrong when you say BASS
DanielBowden1975 8 months ago
Jefferson Airplane in hall of fame??
TheTtomo 9 months ago
@TheTtomo
Yes, they're in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
EIFanGirl 8 months ago
i don't think anyone gives Spender Dryden enough credit for his work with the airplane.
morvelification 9 months ago 12
@morvelification most underrated drummer of his time
Billykid514 9 months ago
@morvelification I'll give him credit. He was awesome. Very appreciated with Airplane fans I know.
pouchfreeman 3 weeks ago
Fly Jefferson Airplane; get you there on time ( Donovan sang that). They sure be flying here.
soaringvulture 10 months ago
6:24 Marty Balin has trancended the boundaries of space and time and sent a powerful signal, of a form unclassifiable by human knowledge. This signal, moving at speeds which defy comprehension, entered my cerebrum via the optical nerves, travelled down my spinal column, bypassed the heart (it would have surely exceeded the human bpm limit had it made contact) and ended up as a stain on my pants.
Jahoobano 10 months ago 5
I'm sure anyone who looked this up has seen the documentary Fly. I'm only a youngster but some of the trippiest moments in my life were saved by this band. I mean that literally and figuratively. So I looked up that documentary and for those who haven't seen it, I'd recommend it. A lot of awesome live performances and fun facts :]
BloodlessToque 10 months ago
as a bass player I get the chills when jack launches off at about 2:37!!!
UncleVinty 10 months ago
@TheDamnDamian Well said
HelterSkelterForum 11 months ago
Grace Slick was hot back then!
pat1981lux 11 months ago 4
damn that bass!!!
UncleVinty 11 months ago
This band was a shambles
robmatlivingstone 1 year ago
Fuckin love that jam!!!!!
RATTLEY67 1 year ago
extremely rare phenomena of being excellent in the studio, and being able to deliver the goods, in spades live. after bathing at baxter's and bless it's pointed little head!!!!!!!!!!
wellspout 1 year ago
Best rock bass player ever. No question. Maybe even best musician.
blindvulcan 1 year ago
What a fantastic performance. If only I'd gone to see them in the 60s. One of many "If onlys"
vonroon23 1 year ago
Most excellent!!
stigletto 1 year ago
LOVE IS FREE
KodOdessa 1 year ago
God rules!
allergic2pretense 1 year ago 2
jack casady's bass playing gives my ears a boner
PinkFloydrulez 1 year ago 27
The best Airplane tune ever! Even their studio version is outstanding, but this live version can't be beat!
tberrardy 1 year ago 2
Whos the dancer?
KarKingJack 1 year ago
merci
MissGabiLove 1 year ago
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Grace Slick was so beautiful during the hey day of the Jefferson Airplane. I just love look at her captivating face (8:23).
Doleafol 1 year ago
Grace Slick was so beautiful during the hey day of the Jefferson Airplane. I just love look at her captivating face.
Doleafol 1 year ago 4
jorma's solo is just INCREDIBLE.
way batter than santana's, from the same night...
keo774 1 year ago
Are we ready to Party Yet!!! Jack Casady in my opinion the best Bass Player, In the Bay... Love this Sh%t... And lets not forget Jorma's the Man! what a Jam>>>
afjeff56 1 year ago
I'm from 1970, and I like this.
BucketFurter 1 year ago
When I was 16, I would take breaks from my dishwashing job to crank up Baxter's. I still get the same thrill today at age 59 when I hear this tune. I saw the Airplane on August 17, 1969 ("Morning Maniac Music") and later at the Fillmore East. Caught the first show of their reunion tour in 1989 and through it all, I have always thought they were the most powerful band I ever saw. Four years ago, I sat five feet from Jack/Hot Tuna in Austin. We shared a shit-eating grin that said it all.
sugarhollowdaddy 1 year ago 3
This is smokin' hot! One of my favorite songs of theirs done up to the fullest. Thanks for posting this, made me feel young(er) again!
almishti 1 year ago
looks like 4 people forgot to bathe after visiting baxter
dradlebomb 1 year ago
Fucking epic; the Dryden/Casady/Kaukonen team is incredible here. Thank you public broadcasting.
doughnutbreath 1 year ago 3
it's hard to believe that it's been 40 years
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francofrogg 1 year ago
Primal psychedelia at it's best.
francofrogg 1 year ago 30
I love all the great comments about Jack Casady. He had the gutsiest sound and got into his instrument like no one else except maybe Jack Bruce.
49kasey 1 year ago 2
Aside from the brilliant percformance, I just love how everyone seems sooooo into the music. I mean seriously, check out Grace at 1:55 or Jorma at 6:40 and so on and so on. You can attribute it to drugs, I say these people were true artists.
celebrant9 1 year ago 4
@celebrant9 Great comment C9 - here's the band in total self-belief mode - Jorma and Jack harmonise on steel and bass just as Grace , Marty and Paul harmonise vocally - I love how Grace gazes at Casady's serene playing - she's such an antidote to the ridiculously writhing out-of-sync go go dancer. Thanks beograund - great upload.
mickigoe 1 year ago 2
Boy I wish I was there to see and listen to this, pure magic!
atlantic1952 1 year ago 3
again, for you neophytes, check "bless it's pointed little head" lp excellently recorded live from fillmore east 1970, which will illustrate quite nicely just how stellar the jefferson airplane was live. this audio sucks! the footage is however priceless...
wellspout 1 year ago
Never mind Pooneil , who is the hot dancin' hippie girl at 1:18...Damn, Grace looked sooo beautiful and Jorma and Jack were really ahead of their time. Paul was the political soul of the band and Marty had some of the best vocal chop of all the rock singers!
Iconman3 1 year ago 2
Jack he's a smokin' hot bassist
RATTLEY67 1 year ago
Jorma Kaukonen was a role model for me growing up. I wanted to be just like him
shelbydawkins 1 year ago
besides the amazing music, i love how you can see how much they enjoy just playing for people. you dont see that much today.
v0lquete 1 year ago
I really enjoyed the Airplane, but, man, could they get sloppy live...This actually sounds pretty good...Some great shots of Paul & Grace smoking while Jorma & Casady go off...Good quality video...Yeah, entertaining.
frankdialogue 1 year ago
GRACE SLICK IS SOOOO SEXY
BeechwoodSilasLang 1 year ago 7
oops I meant Spencer.
CadillacL 1 year ago
Casady is SO under-rated. All anyone has to listen to "After Bathing At Baxter's" album/cd to see.Grace...well, what more needs to be said. :) Jorma's guitar is
perfect for the band. Marty, Paul, Skip are under-rated iMO>
CadillacL 1 year ago 2
Let's give Spenser Dryden some credit here.
BobBerkeley 1 year ago
@BobBerkeley
Dryden is the shit! But it's so easy to overlook him with Jack and Jorma constantly ripping it up.
mandoharmony 1 year ago 2
@mandoharmony Hey, somebody has to keep the beat while Jack's boppin' all over the fretboard.
BobBerkeley 1 year ago
woooww thats a trippy beginning groovy
TheHippieTeenager 1 year ago
i love how grace i just standing there around 3:50 staring at jack like "hoooly shit"
PinkFloydrulez 1 year ago 3
Amazing. And the Pooh and you and me together make three. This was about the audience or everybody together anyway at least for a bit and not just the band and about the ecstasy - Bachannalian frenzy there as the song ascends descends and then takes you back up there. The band is just fucking great. Jesus they get slow sometimes but it's traveling music. Opium den. Thanks.
JoeBarone93 1 year ago
Try this for a laugh - Go to 6:10 and watch Marty emerge from behind Jorma playing a tambourine. He's really giving it the shake, rattle and roll. Then suddenly it switches to a different angle and shows the same thing in slow motion, but for a couple of seconds you can't see the tambourine and it looks like he's doing some sort of weird belly-rubbing thing.
BicPentameter 1 year ago
the slo-mo bits are annoying but to be expected for the times, great, great extended version of a good song,
squinkque 1 year ago
I used to fuck the girl in the crochete mini dress!
raukzenta 1 year ago
haven't made it past the midway point, but still added it to my favorites
SilveryScreen 1 year ago
this was an AM radio hit in the sixties; a bit of the change from the bubblegum. the opening note on the 45 single was awesome, not even Hendrix ever got a note like that. wonder how Jorma did it. none of the opening notes on the live versions sound as good., and the album version isn't as good either.
54markl 1 year ago
Jack Casady was the greatest Rock bass player of his era...he created sounds, feedback, chords, that nobody had even thought of at the tyme...Paul McCartney was a great fan of his, say I no more? I saw him in concert, several times, and believe, me he was incredible....
49Lourdes 1 year ago 74
@49Lourdes , you're 100% right! Many people don't realize this! Then again, it was many years ago!
MrSharkey11 1 year ago
@49Lourdes Jimi Hendrix once said that Jack Cassady was one of the greatest bass players and his favorite. I never got to see him(Jack)in person but have always admired his talent and ingenuity
8aPeach2 1 year ago
@49Lourdes
Yes, Jack is an amazing player..
stigletto 1 year ago
@49Lourdes Yeah man, I hear ya! Jack was the whole reason that I started playing bass back in 1968 and continue to this day!!! Jack is GOD!!!
rclere1 1 year ago 2
@rclere1 Same here, picked up bass in 1967 (and still play) cause Jack sounded so great that just listening didn't get me close enough to it. He roars in this arrangement yet has the subtlest taste and touch in acoustic Hot Tuna from the same time period. He's been a heck of a great influence.
wtaylor0 11 months ago 2
@49Lourdes
Agreed, The greatest.
MrAndersoncouncil 10 months ago
@49Lourdes I saw him with Hot Tuna and he is indeed a pioneer! Him, and John Entwistle were the best rock bassists in the 60's
Noseheros 10 months ago
@49Lourdes the only person that i rate on par with jack casady is obviously the great John Entwistle. i'm definitely more preferential toward Casady, so aggressive but concise, but Entwistle was a legend
morvelification 9 months ago
@49Lourdes Yeayeayeayea man! He also plays on the euphoric 15 min. long JImi blues track "Voodoo Child"!
hesteaeble 7 months ago
@49Lourdes Couldn't agree more! Even though Jack is recognized as great, I still have to say that he is the most underrated rock bass player of all time.
yumpladukfoo 6 months ago
@49Lourdes Jack Bruce too. Both had the ability to play the same riff as lead guitar and traditional bass backbone. Jack C. was called to the stage by Hendrix for killing fields, what a jam. Was at a Radio City concert for Starship that was cancelled, hung out, Jorma , Jack came out hours later, gave us a private concert about a hundred of us, fabulous.
JimboLAngeloMysterio 6 months ago
@49Lourdes RIGHT ON!!!
PsyPhiRevolution 6 months ago
@49Lourdes I agree,.....his style of playing bass is so unique,......I also love the way he raises his eyebrows up and down when he's really gettin' into it.............
zappafreek1963 4 months ago
jorma is just PERFECT on this one!
have you eard his accompaniament on jack's bass solo?
and His solo?
THE PERFECT GUITAR!!!!
keo774 1 year ago
I saw them play about three months before this video, in November 1969. At that point I had just heard the Who a month before, and they were at their powerful peak and were amazing. And had heard Hendrix, Cream and the Doors the year before that and all were fantastic. But the Airplane were most interesting live band I had ever heard, it was rock but sort of jazz-like, eastern sounding, maybe early world music.. they were never exactly singing in tune, but it worked. Chemistry, not drugs.
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Wow, what an awful bass solo. This guy is supposed to be a prodigy? Great looking singer, but that's most of what Jefferson Airplane had going for them. Next.
spotmaticfanatic 1 year ago
@spotmaticfanatic Cassidy is widley regarded as a great bass player by many other great players but you are entitled to your opinion for what it's worth.
6749er 1 year ago
@spotmaticfanatic jerk
sirigi22 1 year ago
What a band these cats were. A powerhouse. Okay, the sound recording of this gig wasn't the best but that wasn't their fault. At this point they stood alone at the top of the mountain. The future possibilities were endless but it's amazing to think that just months later the magic just upped and died. Gone. Everything post mid-1970 was just meaningless. Such a shame.
jakeenan 1 year ago
Splendida Grazia!!!
sehmir79 1 year ago
love this.
mseriiiica 1 year ago
Can anyone tell me the importance of "armadillo"? You can hear Grace kinda say it in this song. I'm not sure if you can hear it in this live version, but I've heard it in this song!!! WTF is armadillo?!
meggles650 1 year ago
@meggles650 I think armadillo is a reference to the way LSD makes things look. The way the walls breathe.
49kasey 1 year ago
i have a house where i can go when theres too many people around me. beautiful harmony to that. armadillo!
octopuii 1 year ago
For those who love Jack's performance here, with all the overlapping and
cascading waves of bass POWER, give his performance on Grace's 'Silver Spoon'
a try. Jack is only accompanied by a drummer, Grace's piano and a sparse touch
from a rhythm guitar; but the sound is similar to a herd of rampaging elephants mixed together with Novi engines in full song down the backstreach at the Indy 500. It makes the ground shake. Jack is still the greatest rock 'n roll bassist.
hermitcrabbot 1 year ago
just wow!
Juanplate00 1 year ago
My God, Grace is Sooooooooo Beautiful! This group is absolutely the GREATEST EVER! This was an all out performance by ALL!
ggreenwood4 1 year ago
As high as Grace looks, not sure how she knows when and what to sing. Amazing.
krstnlhjt 1 year ago
Thanks for saving these treasures
captspock1 1 year ago
Man these folks were unbelievable musicians and singers.
threeby8887 1 year ago
Hot Tuna is still kicking ass. Saw HT on 6/18/2010 w/ G.E. Smith in Falls Church VA
tunarat2 1 year ago
my favourite album was after bathing at baxters,what a great video,from my fav band,grace is still amazing!!! so intresting!!! I LOVE THAT WOMAN!!!
thesyd1975 1 year ago
@thesyd1975 Baxter's was the best Jefferson Airplane album of all time.
threeby8887 1 year ago
i was a marty balin stalker back in the day.
henrypeckstv 1 year ago
anyone else tripping here tripping now jefferson airplane oh i love you
popwarskatemore7 1 year ago
never heard this version - absolutely classic JA - Now THIS is my kind of music.
elps84 1 year ago
Such a perfection... now lost.. :(
EdenEast18 1 year ago
grosisimoo
davidencoh 1 year ago
JA is such a good jam band
BakinBacon91 1 year ago 4
Grace was a total hottie. Very cute.
AwesomeBeatles 1 year ago
F*cking A man, this is a GEM. This is my fav "new" video. Better than the NYC rooftop version. Jorma and Jack rule!
LesbianVampireLover 1 year ago
i fucking love this band
Robarapa 1 year ago 3
I have never been the same after listening to "After Bathing At Baxters" on LSD.
Exumaishere 1 year ago 4
If there was ever a musician whp slept with their instrument, it was Jack Casady.
Exumaishere 1 year ago
Psychedelic Rock Yeah!
mrsepa 1 year ago 2
amazing bass solo
love it, can't go a day without listening to this masterpiece
MCSin2007 1 year ago
antmichb, sphinxcol....I agree..
TheDave107 1 year ago
Fortunate to have seen JA three times at their peak. Fell in love with Grace first time I saw her picture and an original poster from 66 of her in the Great Society adorns my kitchen wall so I get to see her every day.
And Jack Casady - simply great.
gommecourt 1 year ago
Grace is the best!!! Love her!!!
womaninhardrock 1 year ago
Family Dog was the hot spot back then, I might have been at this one. When the Avalon Ballroom was closed they used Playland at the Beach. I saw the the Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, & the Electric Flag there.
Baddoggone 1 year ago
this is my favorite period of JA. their music was a lot more mature sounding and solid than their total-psychedelic period, and much stronger and not convoluted like the BARK and Long John Silver period.
threefive00 1 year ago
Is that Duane Allman sitting behind the dancing girl around 1:22 ?
vectortemple 1 year ago
Great!!!!!!
HIDEKIAMPZZILA 1 year ago
beograund, excuse my ignorance: is this concert still on sale on dvd? all i could get so far has been the average doc "Fly JA". thanks for the video!
Beatstranger 1 year ago
NICE!!!! Thank you
rubyrose456 1 year ago
I never knew that thanks !!
bullikins 1 year ago
someone, hand grace a tambourine or something...
geekorthodox9 1 year ago
Yeah, Jack was/is a MONSTER!! And Jorma, wow baby, you blow me away!
Grace was stunningly beautiful. She looks good and high
rayjmama 1 year ago
Okay, who is Pooneal ?
bullikins 1 year ago
@bullikins According to JA legend, "POO" refers to A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh. "NEIL" refers to folk musician/songwriter Fred Neil. Winnie the Pooh and Neil were the heroes of Paul Kantner (author of both "Pooneil" songs.) He seemed to consider the two yin-yang opposites - Pooh symbolizing childlike innocence and wonder, and Neil representing adult sophistication and angry attitude.
beograund 1 year ago 19
@beograund Meaning The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil and The House at Pooneil Corners.
JimmyPage968 1 year ago
that was some very weak applause afterwards...
karatekween33 1 year ago
@karatekween33 - by contemporary standards, agreed. But the audiences then were too wasted to applaud - and it wasn't cool either.
vectortemple 1 year ago 3
@vectortemple I heard the Doors at the Fillmore in San Francisco in January 1968 and nobody danced and hardly anyone applauded because they were so incredible. It was a case of a collective "Oh...my...god..." during and after each song. You applaud entertainment, but this wasn't entertainment any more, this was beyond all that. I always hoped the band understood their quiet audiences. (Of course, some folks were too loaded to put their hands together very loud, but that's another matter.)
BobBerkeley 8 months ago
Love the Go-Go Dancers!
hodadsmusic 1 year ago
I want a bride like Slick!!!
SeniorConcha 1 year ago
@SeniorConcha But sure not a wife like her. According to anyone who's been around her, she's kee-razee!!
audadvnc 1 year ago
Jack is terrific on bass but I must confess, right from the start as early as '66' when Grace was with her brothers in ' The Great Society '. I have been enchanted & enamered with her beauty, I love her look in this video as she listens to Casady. I know she was intimate with Kantner and Balin, but I am wondering about Jack.
nedarc 1 year ago
The story goes that Marty Balin sang so loud that in the early days, sometimes they'd make him sing with his back to the microphone.
Whatever, he had it going on!
biminitwst 1 year ago 2
What's up with Jorma's swastika necklace?
zada000 1 year ago
@zada000
Jorma said he wore it for shock value and because it's a Navajo symbol. He recently admitted it was a "dumb ass move"
threefive00 1 year ago
LSD
faisalroute66 1 year ago
how could the beetles play this good
reywilliamr 1 year ago
Wow!!
emersontotalyconfuse 1 year ago
awesome
eeayt 1 year ago
Jorma was the key. He should be considered legendary
pbesmer 1 year ago
@pbesmer - 'considered legendary' - hmm - but it's 40 years later and he's not a legend....
vectortemple 1 year ago
@vectortemple Nonsense -Jorma's a legend even now, just not hugely popular with illiterates. Leo Kottke, for one, thinks he's grand.
The problem with Jorma, as with so many old rockers, is their taste is often scattered. One moment he's awesomely imaginative and creative, the next he's jacking his guitar off. Then he's back to being awesome again. Why? Who knows, that's Jorma.
audadvnc 1 year ago 2