love this song. it's been in my head for about 3 days.i'm 59 and still love toys.A good friend and I were shopping in Wal-Mart,we were seperated, she found me in the toy department.She shook her head and your worse than a kid.I was 50.
I was fortunate enough to meet the original airplane twice - once at a show in '67, and another the following year. Of all the bands I've seen before or since, none of them had the sheer juice of JA. It's true that the Eagles, CSN, Who, Cream, Fleetwood Mac, Little Feat, The Dead, and a number of others were great, but at their peak, JA had very few peers. The word 'magic' ain't enough. And for the record, whatever you may say about Grace now, she was "Smoking-hot" back in the day.
Oh for the love of "blank" please people, this is not the place for Gaga comparisons! Go to the "I have roots and have turned myself into a pop diva freak show category" for that!
Grace and the Airplane defined an era of changing morals, social and political views. Yes, the Airplane did go commercial with the changing times but not before laying down a powerful statement!
And just to finish my thought, if you listen to any Jefferson Airplane Album, Grace Slick sang three songs and they were all significantly better than any other songs.It was like they treated her as a back up. Finally, this was the 60's. I mean people were focused on partying and not being great all the time. She became a legend, but a reluctant one.
The greatest female vocalist of all time only produced a handful of hits, but we can't forget the era she peaked in. The grotesquely narcissistic pop stars of this generation rely on lip synching, sex and circus shows as distractions from the actual music, Grace slick was from a generation that didn't offer a fraction of the opportunities that exist in today's 24/7 wired media. The mass music marketing machine was still in the growth stage, especially for divas. The equipment was primitive
What a great Jeffersong. :) If anybody's interested in original 60's style songs, check out my profile. If not, Jefferson Airplane is better anyway. :)
thanks martislick for this great tune. Chilling lyrics and great performance. I remember seeing that Smothers Bros episode.
And young and old dudes note that there is music of this caliber. Ytube is full of it in the playlists of discerning folk like yourselves. I've found stuff that I can't believe.
On Letterman Grace Slick told a story about the time she was invited to a White House luncheon for successful women who went to the same college as Trisha Nixon when Nixon was prez because she went to the same college as Trisha, Grace said she brought Abbie Hoffman as her date and security refused to let them into the White House.
@WytZox1 -you are my better in years and insight. I can only claim 50 years of age but my parents were flower children and I grew up fast listening to 60's music and it sticks with me till this day. From the lost generation I hope that this post makes sense.
I won't laugh out loud since music of this caliber is gone forever!
I was part of a three man wedding Party and we went to a Titty-Bar in LA to celebrate the Groom's last day as a single man. I bellied up to the bar to buy a Pitcher of Stella Artouis. I casually mentioned to the Bar Maid that today was my birthday and I just turned 30. Everyone started crying and started Singing LATHER. I had naked strippers comforting me, women in ashen faces wailing---then the groom came over and shouted "WTF, Mick!!! I sent you to get the beer 1/2 hr ago. I was so bummed
@PapaMurphey1 -- Years ago I saw a 60s trivia test. A question was "What was the most famous salute of the 60s?" I thought the black power fist salute was the correct answer. After all it was adopted by various counter culture and anti establishment types as a general/universal gesture of protest. However I was wrong. The correct answer was JFK,Jr. saluting at his dad's funeral.
@WytZox1 That's all nice, but i say this because i was sure that it was during this Jefferson Airplane television appearence she made the black power fist salute.
If you are a truth seeker, search "Truth Contest" in Google and click on the 1st result, then open The Present and read what it says. Everyone needs to see this. The Present will turn this world right-side up if it reaches enough people. You will see what I mean when you read the first page.
If you are a truth seeker, search "Truth Contest" in Google and click on the 1st result, then open The Present and read what it says. Everyone needs to see this. The Present will turn this world right-side up if it reaches enough people. You will see what I mean when you read the first page.
When I was a young man, after being introduced to new coworkers, I would always ask them if they knew that Lather was thirty years old today. Only 2 ever knew what I was talking about and one stunned me by responding "and his mother took away all of his toys." He and I have been best friends ever since.
If you were familiar with the song Lather, you were definately a Jefferson Airplane fan. It's one of my favorite songs.
This is the original lead singer, Signe Anderson. This Live Performance has to be from early 1966. In 1967, the Grace Slick fronted Jefferson Airplane performed "White Rabbit" and "(Don't You Want) Somebody to Love."
I read somewhere that this song is about Spencer Dryden, the drummer in the Airplane- or at least inspired by how Grace Slick saw him. A beautiful song, isn't it. Very poignant.
I really like this song, it has an almost medieval touch and such a great overall feeling. Her voice is great. never get tired of this song. I'd like to invite all of you folks with good taste in music (if you're here and you like this :) to check my band's music on this channel - Mob of God. We're a new band, just recorded a first EP, but our main influences are the 60's and 70's plus the 90's. Thanks in advance for any views, it's an honour to have some views from JA fans.
i love the medieval or 18th cnetury sound mixed with a druggie sound too .
what is this song about? it sounds like it's about a guy getting old, who has become washed up from drugs, who is ,depressed and who is experiencing a mental breakdown.
"Grace Slick wrote/sang the wonderful, overlooked, funny ballad “Lather” about [the Airplane's drummer] Dryden, who was her primary squeeze during the 1967-68 creative sweet spot, spanning “Surrealistic Pillow,” “After Bathing at Baxter’s,” and “Crown of Creation.” An overgrown child, or lost child, or tripping child." from James Kobielus' Blog of [January 13, 2005] Spencer Dryden's obituary {a great read; google: rip Jefferson Airplane Drummer Spencer Dryden Dies... - JKobielus}
The 50s was the time to be born .free concerts in hyde park ! 50p to see the floyd play with no security so you could approach them and get you vinyls signed !! plus acid made the world around you melt !! I WANNA GO BACK !!!!!!!!!!1
@TebanaSankichi Good call. If it Jefferson Airplane never did this song, and Lady Gaga came out with the exact same thing today, all these people saying "Amazing" and "Incredible" would say it sucks.
Personally, I do hate most of today's music... but I think this sucks, too. I'm sorry, but there's nothing overly talented about the music going on here, and the lyrics are just bad. Jefferson Airplane had a few good songs. This isn't one of them.
@dancing0being You seemed to miss my point all together. It wasn't about Lady Gaga. Let's put it this way:
If it Jefferson Airplane never did this song, and *insert name of current pop star* came out with the exact same thing today, all these people saying "Amazing" and "Incredible" would say it sucks.
In case you didn't notice, it was a reply to TebanaSankichi's comment saying "Getting kind of sick of all these "todays music suck" comments though".
TebanaSankichi's says "Getting kind of sick of all these "todays music suck" comments though".
I say (paraphrasing) "Yeah. If this song were to come out today (hypothetically speaking), the same people on here praising this song would say it sucks, just because it would be "today's music" (hypothetically speaking)."
Get it? It's called a "hypothetical situation". And It's about people saying "today's music sucks".
@sangreturquesa I'm not being a troll. I checked out a song and had a legitimate opinion about it. I decided to post that opinion. I'm sorry if you find that sort of behavior unacceptable.
@DarthMohammed you ropinion, if you even equate something like "Lady" Gaga with Grace Slick...well your opinion is laughable. Sorry man, that's my opinion. Not being a troll, you just have Zero Taste.
@welcome2myhell And your opinion's based on your ignorance of context.
I didn't equate Grace Slick to Lady Gaga. I don't like or listen to Lady Gaga. If you actually read what I said, I was only putting this in context of today's music, whatever it may be. And as I said before, it's in response to TebanaSankichi's comment "Getting kind of sick of all these "todays music suck" comments though". The same people liking this would think it sucks if it came out today.
@DarthMohammed Exactly! And in 30-40 years from now, today's youth is going to complain about the music of that time and claim how all the music in their time was so much better. Its a little silly really : )
If you have the LP and a turntable, or even a CD of the original album mix, check this song out today after 40+ years. It's not only beautiful music and vocal, it's a very nice acoustic feel for the day and sounds even better now. Listen to the words. goosebumps. Incredible band in its day and context.
Heard this song for first time the other nite.It was on the album 'hits' from jeff airplane.Found it so fascinating, played it about 5 times.Great music *
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SPECIAL THANX to the Smothers Brothers for their guest performers and broadcasting groups like Jefferson Airplane or Buffalo Springfield on national television. Thats also how albums & 45's were advertised and sold to 1960's youth culture.
this was great. she put makeup on hoping it would appear she was in blackface but on camera it didn't show up & she just looked like she had a dark tan.
I love the Airplane and I think I love virtually every other song of theirs, but I HATE this! What's with Grace singing like a hey-nonny-no English folk singer??
@OrangeSaint420 purple microdot was the best, no wait, I ate something orange once, then there was that "pick a color" barrel, oh yes, the blotter, never tried the windowpane, but my buddy stuck it under his eyelid.
@pent0thal87 OOOh, sorry that i can't appeal to the music you people like. If it doesn't have any rhythm or any proper structure to piece of music then i find it shit, I'm sorry. The fact that you guys eat shit with your ears is embarrassing, but it's not like I'm complaining about it.
@pent0thal87 -- WRITED?!?!?!?!? No such word! Try WROTE. You WROTE. You've WRITTEN. But there's no such word as "Writed" ... Other than that, I agree with you. Folks not old enough to have lived through that era just can't appreciate what we lived through!
WOW, does this bring back some great memories of the 70"s I forgot just how HOT Grace was....Great song Great album Great Band, Live long and fly high Airplane!!!!!!!
Amazing song...one of Grace Slick's best...and no Grace is not black. She put on dark make-up and black gloves to most likely show support for Africans in America struggling for their civil rights...there is a video on here of Crown of Creation from the same TV show where at the end she holds her fist up in a black power salute. I heard that the whole thing was kinda spontaneous and came together when she was in the dressing room messing around with all the make-up...sounds like Grace :)
@fearrock1 Maybe because it makes you feel like you're waaaaaaayyy the heck someplace else? I mean, besides where you were when the song started. AND you don't have to be stoned or drunk for the song to take you there:) --
@artiebarnes It doesn't, good music is harder to find these days. Somehow instead of the perspective on artists in the 60's and 70's that they just are as they want to be made room for the mainstream artist nowadays that are as the fans want them to be.
Any artists out there be yourself, not the reflection that the fans think they see of you.
@artiebarnes this is brilliant I think a lot of folks miss the point. As far as music SUCKS how about Hurt? NIN and Johny Cash? JA is one of the best all time. There is still good music for us.
One of my fav Airplane song ever, so stoned out the whole thing is. And as tranchula points out, those were golden times, and yeh, we were hippies, but I think that that was a good thing to be, and still cherish it
Lather will turn 64 in January, child is the best of the compliments that you can lay on me, because no, I'm not old, and I continue to smile baby wide!!!
It makes me laugh to think that Lather was 20 years younger than I am when he asked "Is it true that I'm no longer young?". The children don't call me famous, and the old men don't call me insane, because I like the same music they do. But sometimes I still feel nameless. And I still don't know which game to play, which words to say.
Is what music producers do not understand today is that you can have a pretty face and great music. I give you Grace Slick, Linda Ronstadt and Carol King! if this were understood, we could all listen to the radio again! To hell with Lady Ca Ca, Shinia Twat and Average Lavigne.
When you can earn billions of dollars with a pretty face only, it's completely stupid and not acceptable by investors to spend additional company resources to create nice music.
The worst thing is that all pop stars today are pretty ugly, face and body. I didn't mention their music.
@ThirdStoneOdyssey I am new at this method of communication, John Lennon was hooked by Yoko Ono because he climbed a ladder to the ceiling and found the word "yes", I am equally intrigued! more, please!
Jeff and I used to trip on purple haze and orange sunshine to his sister's albums. This was one of them. We were what? 14? Yes, we were little freaks.
Dang. OK, granted I've not heard this before. But this IS Grace singing lead, right? Sure doesn't sound like her big, ballsy voice. But it's still impressive to hear her reining in the power for a more delicate statement:) --
@djCsyck She had triads with millions of long haired boys in those days, as the song says. Back then, who cares? No consequences for balling your brains out with nameless, faceless hordes of people. It was fun. Today, you fuck one time, and you get AIDS.
Grace has gone a little heavy on the fake-tan.
RayL1983 1 week ago
@RayL1983 Yeah, but she still looks a hell of a lot better than those whores from the Jersey Shore.
kozmicblues14 4 days ago
Lather was 60 years old today and his mother returned all his toys
DorjeDharma76 1 week ago
Grace Slick looks weird and creepy in that make-up...
minhhale 1 month ago
Hari Kari?
MsThebeMoon 1 month ago
Even with all that makeup on her face Grace was still hot.
ianb3432 1 month ago
love this song. it's been in my head for about 3 days.i'm 59 and still love toys.A good friend and I were shopping in Wal-Mart,we were seperated, she found me in the toy department.She shook her head and your worse than a kid.I was 50.
jimlivs 1 month ago
I was fortunate enough to meet the original airplane twice - once at a show in '67, and another the following year. Of all the bands I've seen before or since, none of them had the sheer juice of JA. It's true that the Eagles, CSN, Who, Cream, Fleetwood Mac, Little Feat, The Dead, and a number of others were great, but at their peak, JA had very few peers. The word 'magic' ain't enough. And for the record, whatever you may say about Grace now, she was "Smoking-hot" back in the day.
Lman9552 1 month ago 5
They Wrote this for the Drummer no shit...
TheDrummingBoss 2 months ago
Oh for the love of "blank" please people, this is not the place for Gaga comparisons! Go to the "I have roots and have turned myself into a pop diva freak show category" for that!
Grace and the Airplane defined an era of changing morals, social and political views. Yes, the Airplane did go commercial with the changing times but not before laying down a powerful statement!
One guys opinion only!
Tull29 2 months ago 4
I love this ancient, folky, medieval, style music.
reminds me of Donovan and his magic.
TheDrunkenHer0 2 months ago 2
And just to finish my thought, if you listen to any Jefferson Airplane Album, Grace Slick sang three songs and they were all significantly better than any other songs.It was like they treated her as a back up. Finally, this was the 60's. I mean people were focused on partying and not being great all the time. She became a legend, but a reluctant one.
ycanada 2 months ago
The greatest female vocalist of all time only produced a handful of hits, but we can't forget the era she peaked in. The grotesquely narcissistic pop stars of this generation rely on lip synching, sex and circus shows as distractions from the actual music, Grace slick was from a generation that didn't offer a fraction of the opportunities that exist in today's 24/7 wired media. The mass music marketing machine was still in the growth stage, especially for divas. The equipment was primitive
ycanada 2 months ago 2
~*~With Much Love, Peace And Many Blessings To Grace On Her Birthday~*~
littlewing19380 2 months ago
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What a great Jeffersong. :) If anybody's interested in original 60's style songs, check out my profile. If not, Jefferson Airplane is better anyway. :)
theflowerisrising 3 months ago
Gracie!!!!! One of the best female singers in Music History!
JM13121 3 months ago
thanks martislick for this great tune. Chilling lyrics and great performance. I remember seeing that Smothers Bros episode.
And young and old dudes note that there is music of this caliber. Ytube is full of it in the playlists of discerning folk like yourselves. I've found stuff that I can't believe.
MilSepic60 3 months ago
I played this song when I got up today. I have just turned 30.
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TheServiceWeb 4 months ago
On Letterman Grace Slick told a story about the time she was invited to a White House luncheon for successful women who went to the same college as Trisha Nixon when Nixon was prez because she went to the same college as Trisha, Grace said she brought Abbie Hoffman as her date and security refused to let them into the White House.
WytZox1 4 months ago
I remember when I 1st heard this song. I was 21 and 30 seemed old! Now I'm 62 and wish I was 30 again. LOL☺
WytZox1 4 months ago
@WytZox1 -you are my better in years and insight. I can only claim 50 years of age but my parents were flower children and I grew up fast listening to 60's music and it sticks with me till this day. From the lost generation I hope that this post makes sense.
I won't laugh out loud since music of this caliber is gone forever!
Tull29 4 months ago
I was part of a three man wedding Party and we went to a Titty-Bar in LA to celebrate the Groom's last day as a single man. I bellied up to the bar to buy a Pitcher of Stella Artouis. I casually mentioned to the Bar Maid that today was my birthday and I just turned 30. Everyone started crying and started Singing LATHER. I had naked strippers comforting me, women in ashen faces wailing---then the groom came over and shouted "WTF, Mick!!! I sent you to get the beer 1/2 hr ago. I was so bummed
Armydicked 4 months ago
FANTASTICA!!!!!!!!!
janisfolk 5 months ago
Where's the black power fist?
PapaMurphey1 5 months ago
@PapaMurphey1 -- Years ago I saw a 60s trivia test. A question was "What was the most famous salute of the 60s?" I thought the black power fist salute was the correct answer. After all it was adopted by various counter culture and anti establishment types as a general/universal gesture of protest. However I was wrong. The correct answer was JFK,Jr. saluting at his dad's funeral.
WytZox1 4 months ago
@WytZox1 That's all nice, but i say this because i was sure that it was during this Jefferson Airplane television appearence she made the black power fist salute.
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SeekTruthN0w 5 months ago
Grace had the most powerful female voice that I have ever heard!
Tull29 5 months ago
Is that Mike Love "snorting the best licks in town"?
HugoMasekela 5 months ago
Reminds me of a Bjork song.
liford 5 months ago
freaking BRILLIANT.
TheWildswan69 5 months ago 2
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vividDC 6 months ago
When I was a young man, after being introduced to new coworkers, I would always ask them if they knew that Lather was thirty years old today. Only 2 ever knew what I was talking about and one stunned me by responding "and his mother took away all of his toys." He and I have been best friends ever since.
If you were familiar with the song Lather, you were definately a Jefferson Airplane fan. It's one of my favorite songs.
89pleiades 6 months ago 24
same here
rip7051 1 week ago
Amy Winehouse died today! Im Glad it was not Grace slick!! She lived till 72 & has made amazing music!!
67psych 6 months ago 5
@wutumad
I think you are forgetting just how rich you really are-(puts on monocle)
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stanleyfreeze2011 6 months ago
whats with the black makeup ?
soumyaaymous 6 months ago
thanks for the post. great. man, airplane was a sensational band and they gave it all away ....
tiniesttown 7 months ago
This is the original lead singer, Signe Anderson. This Live Performance has to be from early 1966. In 1967, the Grace Slick fronted Jefferson Airplane performed "White Rabbit" and "(Don't You Want) Somebody to Love."
memojuez 7 months ago
@memojuez - sorry this most definitely is not Signe Anderson.It is The Grace Slick....in "black face" if you will...
judimoon 7 months ago
Great song from one of the all time great albums, Crown Of Creation. Brings me back to my youth!
atbglenn 7 months ago
Astounding
madogofwales 7 months ago
很喜欢JA的歌，尤其是是这首Lather。
rootsongjc 7 months ago
Wonderful voice of one of the most beautiful singers in the history of music!
lalala84009 7 months ago 3
one of my most favorite songs since I was about seven years old.
cilantroification 7 months ago
@cilantroification
I read somewhere that this song is about Spencer Dryden, the drummer in the Airplane- or at least inspired by how Grace Slick saw him. A beautiful song, isn't it. Very poignant.
written12 7 months ago
wow. amazing song
bustballz 7 months ago in playlist Jefferson Airplane
Is that the same typewriter Jorma's wife used in the Janis Joplin tapes?
shermnduke 8 months ago
This will always be one of my favorite songs even in 2090 (if Im alive) lol
Checkerz300 8 months ago
I really like this song, it has an almost medieval touch and such a great overall feeling. Her voice is great. never get tired of this song. I'd like to invite all of you folks with good taste in music (if you're here and you like this :) to check my band's music on this channel - Mob of God. We're a new band, just recorded a first EP, but our main influences are the 60's and 70's plus the 90's. Thanks in advance for any views, it's an honour to have some views from JA fans.
mobofg 8 months ago 37
@mobofg
i love the medieval or 18th cnetury sound mixed with a druggie sound too .
what is this song about? it sounds like it's about a guy getting old, who has become washed up from drugs, who is ,depressed and who is experiencing a mental breakdown.
The096757 5 months ago
cool
rip7051 1 week ago
una de las mejores canciones de este grupo
dioschilote1986 8 months ago
The line "To lie about in the nude" was a reference to Jack Cassady getting busted for public nudity on a beach in Santa Cruz
RayNDeere 8 months ago
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RayNDeere 8 months ago
Not done live. Mouthed to the original recording.
music2comment 8 months ago
@GewrCullen
"Grace Slick wrote/sang the wonderful, overlooked, funny ballad “Lather” about [the Airplane's drummer] Dryden, who was her primary squeeze during the 1967-68 creative sweet spot, spanning “Surrealistic Pillow,” “After Bathing at Baxter’s,” and “Crown of Creation.” An overgrown child, or lost child, or tripping child." from James Kobielus' Blog of [January 13, 2005] Spencer Dryden's obituary {a great read; google: rip Jefferson Airplane Drummer Spencer Dryden Dies... - JKobielus}
☯
jcrx69 9 months ago
like if you think this song is one of their best!! <3 JEFFERSON AIRPLANE <3 :D
so beautiful lyrics! does anyone know for what is about?
GewrCullen 9 months ago
Im having a flashback!! Its that good of a song and video by these great hippie rockers.
Tombstoneblues19 9 months ago
people who make comments about today's music need to shut up and listen to the song
immortalraven17 9 months ago
30 seems seems so young but yes you're finally not a boy
irvpav 9 months ago
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JM13121 9 months ago
Did Grace Slick Slather herself in Sea&Ski for this clip ?
IExposeMormonism 9 months ago
I know it wont work, but i'd like see this wearing 3d glasses.
BoIoko 9 months ago
@BoIoko fuck 3d glasses take eat some shrooms or drop some acid man.
SpunkBurnsTreesDaily 9 months ago
@BoIoko yah and tripping, y0
welcome2myhell 9 months ago
amazing
9988776698 9 months ago
Fuckin' incredible footage - the very definition of Psychedelia!
rjinblack1970 9 months ago
26 people grew old in the mind.
albatross7677 9 months ago
Can anybody please tell me what is that unusual sound that guy appears to be making with his nose?
lankygeek 9 months ago
The sounds are on the record. This is a lip-sync.
milo066 9 months ago
are those extra sounds in the video supposed to be part of the music?
winggoddess 9 months ago
It's a fantastic song with beautiful overtones. The early Airplane was truly awesome!
stcruz007 9 months ago
That instrument is a nose!
MrRobertding 9 months ago
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MrRobertding 9 months ago
What instrument sounds from 1:17 to 1:30 minutes?, please someone help me
bibiana22069011 9 months ago
this song is very creepy and gave me chills lol good song...
pinoydts91 9 months ago
The 50s was the time to be born .free concerts in hyde park ! 50p to see the floyd play with no security so you could approach them and get you vinyls signed !! plus acid made the world around you melt !! I WANNA GO BACK !!!!!!!!!!1
reaperon 10 months ago
@reaperon man, I wish i was there too ...if only...
sweethippy67 9 months ago
I saw this group (the original lineup) in late 80s (I'm too young to have seen them in the 60s) and they were still incredible. A great show...
stevepwood 10 months ago
Fantastic song!
Getting kind of sick of all these "todays music suck" comments though : ( Come on guys, be open to it, there is good music! Dont be prejudiced
TebanaSankichi 10 months ago
@TebanaSankichi Good call. If it Jefferson Airplane never did this song, and Lady Gaga came out with the exact same thing today, all these people saying "Amazing" and "Incredible" would say it sucks.
Personally, I do hate most of today's music... but I think this sucks, too. I'm sorry, but there's nothing overly talented about the music going on here, and the lyrics are just bad. Jefferson Airplane had a few good songs. This isn't one of them.
DarthMohammed 9 months ago
@DarthMohammed
Lady Gaga sings only monotonous gay disco songs for smurfs, so there's no chance this song could ever be in his repertoire.
Jefferson Airplane had at least 2 great albums and this is one for me.
Today's music is not Lady Gaga. He's a sad thing from the past that all people on earth would like to forget and get rid of.
dancing0being 9 months ago
@dancing0being You seemed to miss my point all together. It wasn't about Lady Gaga. Let's put it this way:
If it Jefferson Airplane never did this song, and *insert name of current pop star* came out with the exact same thing today, all these people saying "Amazing" and "Incredible" would say it sucks.
In case you didn't notice, it was a reply to TebanaSankichi's comment saying "Getting kind of sick of all these "todays music suck" comments though".
DarthMohammed 9 months ago
@DarthMohammed
There are billions of Lady Gaga like "artists" today. There is no chance all of these to sing this song.
Even good artists of today can't sing like this. This style is 60s exclusive. It happens only once (this is the best reason why i love music).
Don't be prejudiced (>>>great comment<<<).
dancing0being 9 months ago
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@dancing0being Let's go over this one more time:
TebanaSankichi's says "Getting kind of sick of all these "todays music suck" comments though".
I say (paraphrasing) "Yeah. If this song were to come out today (hypothetically speaking), the same people on here praising this song would say it sucks, just because it would be "today's music" (hypothetically speaking)."
Get it? It's called a "hypothetical situation". And It's about people saying "today's music sucks".
*sigh*
DarthMohammed 9 months ago
@dancing0being -- Lady Gaga is a SHE (born Joanne Angelina Germanotta). Why do you refer to her as HE?
WytZox1 4 months ago
@DarthMohammed haha
man,lady gaga never gonna do a great work like this,i think the same,''gay disco songs for smurfs''
hahahahhahahaa
and if you think this sucks,dont be such a troll..
sangreturquesa 9 months ago
@sangreturquesa I'm not being a troll. I checked out a song and had a legitimate opinion about it. I decided to post that opinion. I'm sorry if you find that sort of behavior unacceptable.
DarthMohammed 9 months ago
@DarthMohammed you ropinion, if you even equate something like "Lady" Gaga with Grace Slick...well your opinion is laughable. Sorry man, that's my opinion. Not being a troll, you just have Zero Taste.
welcome2myhell 9 months ago
@welcome2myhell And your opinion's based on your ignorance of context.
I didn't equate Grace Slick to Lady Gaga. I don't like or listen to Lady Gaga. If you actually read what I said, I was only putting this in context of today's music, whatever it may be. And as I said before, it's in response to TebanaSankichi's comment "Getting kind of sick of all these "todays music suck" comments though". The same people liking this would think it sucks if it came out today.
LEARN TO F'N READ, PEOPLE!
DarthMohammed 9 months ago
@DarthMohammed Exactly! And in 30-40 years from now, today's youth is going to complain about the music of that time and claim how all the music in their time was so much better. Its a little silly really : )
TebanaSankichi 9 months ago
Nobody noticed she's in black face?
bigdog1271 10 months ago
@bigdog1271 60`s spray on tan.
chanctonbury63 9 months ago
HAS ANYONE EVER TRIED TO PLAY THE BASS LINE IN THIS,FUK
pattycat100567 10 months ago
i wish i was a child of the 60s!! D:
Horrayformusic 10 months ago 8
Grace was so incredible. Oh to have been old enough back then.
Still, as a child of the 70's instead of the 60's I suppose I can't complain. Still better than what came later.
ajabberwock 10 months ago
If you have the LP and a turntable, or even a CD of the original album mix, check this song out today after 40+ years. It's not only beautiful music and vocal, it's a very nice acoustic feel for the day and sounds even better now. Listen to the words. goosebumps. Incredible band in its day and context.
drmikenyc 10 months ago
Heard this song for first time the other nite.It was on the album 'hits' from jeff airplane.Found it so fascinating, played it about 5 times.Great music *
Rustylad85 10 months ago
one of the best songs to emerge from that time.
".....hari-kari ?...."
MrKirkenstein 10 months ago
No one would put a song out like this today. No one.
wickser 10 months ago
is the washed out s sounds caused by a bad pickup or worn out record? im just curious. thanks for uploading this classic
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bass109 10 months ago
SPECIAL THANX to the Smothers Brothers for their guest performers and broadcasting groups like Jefferson Airplane or Buffalo Springfield on national television. Thats also how albums & 45's were advertised and sold to 1960's youth culture.
fabioster1 10 months ago 2
Like if you think this song is as beautiful as Grace Slick herself.
ZeppelinFloydRoses 10 months ago 108
@ZeppelinFloydRoses Ouch.
Saytahne666 8 months ago
Amazing song and lyrics and voice!
noshitdude 11 months ago
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE LOS MAS GRANDE DELROCK PSICODELICO JUNTO A CHARLY GARCIA Y ROLING STONES SAY NO MORE
claumaquina 11 months ago
ak you had to be there
Naerughiazk 11 months ago
this was great. she put makeup on hoping it would appear she was in blackface but on camera it didn't show up & she just looked like she had a dark tan.
Anglynn74 11 months ago
I love the Airplane and I think I love virtually every other song of theirs, but I HATE this! What's with Grace singing like a hey-nonny-no English folk singer??
AK2927 11 months ago
I saw them do a reunion show in the late 80s (as close as I could ever get to seeing them - I'm a little young!) and they sounded incredible.
stevepwood 11 months ago
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godmaster81 11 months ago
Putting drumsticks on either side of his nose!!!!!!!! Can't you just see it?
zellazoom 11 months ago
You goddam hippies with your long hair and rock n roll bullshit. Country and rap are so much better (yeah, right).
ebonics4everyone 11 months ago
@spogelse
I bet youve never done or even seen acid in your whole life
OrangeSaint420 11 months ago
@OrangeSaint420 purple microdot was the best, no wait, I ate something orange once, then there was that "pick a color" barrel, oh yes, the blotter, never tried the windowpane, but my buddy stuck it under his eyelid.
blugularis 11 months ago
Wow man, watching this I don't even need to take that acid.
spogelse 11 months ago
@spogelse LOL, my Dad would have thought the TV was acting up again.
Great Video Marti! Rare footage.
WillyHeinExperience 11 months ago
This is so good.
fasfadsfsd 11 months ago
R.i.p. old lsd
1904skate 11 months ago
Sunday night right after Ed Sullivan. LOts of good bands appeared on the Smothers Brothers.I just wished they played live.
jjordan370 11 months ago
What can you say about a song where the highlight is a guy blowing his nose? Terrible.
tiekbane 1 year ago
this is shit
TomsGuns 1 year ago
@TomsGuns That coz Grace Slick didnt write it
greg0058 1 year ago
@TomsGuns U are shit....idiot
pent0thal87 11 months ago
@pent0thal87 OOOh, sorry that i can't appeal to the music you people like. If it doesn't have any rhythm or any proper structure to piece of music then i find it shit, I'm sorry. The fact that you guys eat shit with your ears is embarrassing, but it's not like I'm complaining about it.
TomsGuns 11 months ago
@TomsGuns If u dislike this music just go to listen and comment lady gaga's links....leave us in this "shit" that writed history of music.
IDIOT
pent0thal87 11 months ago
@pent0thal87 -- WRITED?!?!?!?!? No such word! Try WROTE. You WROTE. You've WRITTEN. But there's no such word as "Writed" ... Other than that, I agree with you. Folks not old enough to have lived through that era just can't appreciate what we lived through!
WytZox1 11 months ago
@WytZox1 i can't speak english,it's true......i'm italian,so the most important thing is that the concept arrived(i hope is right this time) :)
pent0thal87 11 months ago
WOW, does this bring back some great memories of the 70"s I forgot just how HOT Grace was....Great song Great album Great Band, Live long and fly high Airplane!!!!!!!
bradschuitema 1 year ago
With LSD you see all in 3d!!!
mixmanpowered 1 year ago
LSD vs MDMA winner is LSD
Branx51 1 year ago
Grace! I love you, and your magic voice! You are best forever!
Burnrecorder 1 year ago
Amazing song...one of Grace Slick's best...and no Grace is not black. She put on dark make-up and black gloves to most likely show support for Africans in America struggling for their civil rights...there is a video on here of Crown of Creation from the same TV show where at the end she holds her fist up in a black power salute. I heard that the whole thing was kinda spontaneous and came together when she was in the dressing room messing around with all the make-up...sounds like Grace :)
californiaportugee 1 year ago
want to ask a question
What makes a psychodelic song a really good psychodelic song?
fearrock1 1 year ago
@fearrock1 Maybe because it makes you feel like you're waaaaaaayyy the heck someplace else? I mean, besides where you were when the song started. AND you don't have to be stoned or drunk for the song to take you there:) --
stevevandien 1 year ago
The only thing that messed me listening to this music is the publicity for Justin Bieber on the side..
When I heard this song, I want be Hippie..
sevekids 1 year ago
some of the best music ever made. music SUCKS today, people!
artiebarnes 1 year ago 65
It's weird, because Irish folk music sounds exactly like this and probably has for 10,000 years.
ebonics4everyone 11 months ago
@artiebarnes It doesn't, good music is harder to find these days. Somehow instead of the perspective on artists in the 60's and 70's that they just are as they want to be made room for the mainstream artist nowadays that are as the fans want them to be.
Any artists out there be yourself, not the reflection that the fans think they see of you.
lauwie0 10 months ago
@artiebarnes yea this is just amazing..im a underground hip hop fan 1st but this is some of the best
fdation 9 months ago
@artiebarnes this is brilliant I think a lot of folks miss the point. As far as music SUCKS how about Hurt? NIN and Johny Cash? JA is one of the best all time. There is still good music for us.
damekowalski 9 months ago
@artiebarnes
well i thought metal was cool..=P
PsyphaX09 9 months ago
This song & video is so psychedelic you don't need acid or shrooms!
whofan1965 1 year ago
oh, marty at the end <3 call me crazy.
rooneyisRAD 1 year ago
One of my fav Airplane song ever, so stoned out the whole thing is. And as tranchula points out, those were golden times, and yeh, we were hippies, but I think that that was a good thing to be, and still cherish it
fubar50cat 1 year ago
saunds like an irish folk song
toppguun 1 year ago 2
Lather will turn 64 in January, child is the best of the compliments that you can lay on me, because no, I'm not old, and I continue to smile baby wide!!!
redtailspirit 1 year ago
Who the hell is that black lady?
jspaz0 1 year ago 2
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I'm gonna watch it again.
ZeppelinFloydRoses 1 year ago
I'd say Lather was either autistic or took one too many bad acid trips!
ChrissieE5 1 year ago
Well now I'm in my 50's and I STILL don't know what I want to do when I grow up!
icmajik 1 year ago 2
It makes me laugh to think that Lather was 20 years younger than I am when he asked "Is it true that I'm no longer young?". The children don't call me famous, and the old men don't call me insane, because I like the same music they do. But sometimes I still feel nameless. And I still don't know which game to play, which words to say.
jeanhartely 1 year ago
Is what music producers do not understand today is that you can have a pretty face and great music. I give you Grace Slick, Linda Ronstadt and Carol King! if this were understood, we could all listen to the radio again! To hell with Lady Ca Ca, Shinia Twat and Average Lavigne.
fiendish67 1 year ago
@fiendish67
When you can earn billions of dollars with a pretty face only, it's completely stupid and not acceptable by investors to spend additional company resources to create nice music.
The worst thing is that all pop stars today are pretty ugly, face and body. I didn't mention their music.
dancing0being 1 year ago
okay, is he playing a kazoo?
ThirdStoneOdyssey 1 year ago
@ThirdStoneOdyssey yes
redtailspirit 1 year ago
@ThirdStoneOdyssey I am new at this method of communication, John Lennon was hooked by Yoko Ono because he climbed a ladder to the ceiling and found the word "yes", I am equally intrigued! more, please!
redtailspirit 1 year ago
Jeff and I used to trip on purple haze and orange sunshine to his sister's albums. This was one of them. We were what? 14? Yes, we were little freaks.
okra7000 1 year ago
mindcheese
Zachthesmack 1 year ago
Grace is a hottie!
dosan89 1 year ago 3
wow she is beautiful. not at beautiful as Vik Ashmore though!
ZeppelinFloydRoses 1 year ago
Dang. OK, granted I've not heard this before. But this IS Grace singing lead, right? Sure doesn't sound like her big, ballsy voice. But it's still impressive to hear her reining in the power for a more delicate statement:) --
stevevandien 1 year ago
My favorite song on album ! Excellent album ! Love love Jefferson <3
eSkargOtte 1 year ago
im getting sick of seeing Lady Gaga and Justin Beiber comments on every music video clip i watch on youtube
scrawnyscream 1 year ago
@scrawnyscream absolutely. What the fuck is going on with people now.
alice1cmd 1 year ago
Can you believe that this was a TV show? We need a variety show now more than ever.
jedwing 1 year ago
plastic fantastic lover
i fall in love again by this sentimental song
this white rabbit is looking for somebody to love
where have all the good times gone
thanks for this great clip from the netherlands
ruudlist 1 year ago
She was so beautiful MY GOD !
djCsyck 1 year ago 35
@djCsyck did you know she is a direct descendant of one of the pilgrims on the mayflower? true story.
laidback4sho72 1 year ago
@laidback4sho72 No I didn't know that . . .
djCsyck 1 year ago
@djCsyck She had triads with millions of long haired boys in those days, as the song says. Back then, who cares? No consequences for balling your brains out with nameless, faceless hordes of people. It was fun. Today, you fuck one time, and you get AIDS.
ebonics4everyone 11 months ago