@BIGGjamzz I like both versions. The Jefferson Airplane gives me a more haunting feeling, but a good haunting feeling. Tom Scott's version has a more upbeat vibe but it retains a certain special impact to the listener. I probably prefer the Jefferson Airplane version, but I don't know whether that makes Tom's version inferior.
@SpadeMate Yeah I get you, I can't really say one is better than the other to be fair.. its personal preferance. They both are musicaly very good in there own genre.
Jerry on the guitar riff intro is a great touch, plus according to "The History of the Grateful Dead" written by the long time publicist for the dead, Dennis McNally, Jerry was also given credit for creating the name of this album, Surrealistic Pillow.
What if someone came up to you and said: "Out of all Rock n Roll songs, from 1955 to 2012, pick the most beautiful one of all." I would say: "There's several candidates." But if you pressed me, if you insisted i choose just one, I would HAVE to pick this one right here. Because it Truly Is! Just listen. Now write something more beautiful than this. You can't. And no one can. Thank you, Marty and Grace, I am grateful to hear this.
"We were expecting Haight-Ashbury to be special, a creative and artistic place, filled with Beautiful People, but it was horrible - full of ghastly drop-outs, bums and spotty youths, all out of their brains." George Harrison
@probrojeffro I went to Rio de Janerio cause they sold me a Fred and Ginger Ballroom waltz. It was more like a gang rape in a laundromat.. My cabbie said in a moment of repose, "I`m sorry we`re not what they told you we were"...
I've read that Jerry Garcia, unbilled, performed that introductory and then-repeated guitar lick. Anybody know if that's true? Just curious. Either way, this is a lovely record of a lovely song --
@bloodshotcomedy to true love. to a kind of love that only comes once in a lifetime. There is a particular person that comes to mind for me when I hear it.
"to be living for you,... is all I want to do...." Today. Today. (G-D how I wish I could live in that moment. Today. Right now. Forever finding just that moment) "When my dreams come true" But I have never changed. Never changed. I only want to please you. But you imagine I have changed, you imagine... and my words fall cold..... "today".....(I'm in love with you....)
@psychesoap Did work on Baron Von Tollbooth too. Spacey Gracie learned to use her voice as an overlay like Papa John used his fiddle, great stuff on that album.
@iowkidd I dunno...I'm an American and I have AT LEAST two bands from your country that are better at psychedelia than we are, here in America. lol (hint: "....hanging on in quiet desperation is the Englsh way" <-- that is their lyric, hope you instantly know it this time)
LISTON TO THIS SONG MARCIA DIANE ARGUELLES I WISH YOU WELL SORRY FOR THE PAST, THIS SONG IS MY SORRY. E-MAIL ME AT davejthomson66@yahoo.ca. I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO YOU. IF YOU CAN WE CAN TALK ON THE E-MAIL OR PHONE. I WISH YOU PEACE AND GOOD WILL. DOWN THERE IN SEATTLE. STILL LOVING YOU DAVE.
Summer of '67. Living in the Bay Area, just graduated HS, listening to this on KFRC, the draft was a million miles and a couple years away. Listening to this gave me a brief but wonderful "flashback."
@iowkidd I don't. u don't have to be high to dig this song..their music resonates with the inner being on an incredible and domestic level , i think someone in that band saw it that way. its no accident..lots of rappers have sampled this song too..it sounds enchanting wherever it goes, whatever length its played, and no matter what accompanies it..even gunshots.
Given this album Surrealistic Pillow as a Christmas present by my older brother around 1970 and got into Jefferson Airplane and the West Coast music scene. I was around 14 years.......and just fell in love with Marty Balin and Jefferson Airplane. Today just fills me with emotion and sadness and all kinda stuff makes me feel about my past life and people I once knew.
anyone remember the movie "Coming Home", with Jon Voight as the disabled Vietnam vet and Jane Fonda as his lover?...this song played while he ate her out.
I play... so the harmonics are great. Also check the alternate tuning on Jorma Kaukonen's "The Water Song."I had it at one point and it brings the finger picking in more tightly...go to his website or Google "water song alternate tuning."
You master this song, you will literally be loving life...my favorite song. Period.
I saw my teacher dead in a coffin when I was in 2nd grade.This song was on my dad's turntable which at the time was the "The Worst of Jefferson Airplane" -- fast forward, I love this band and they wrote great melody with the most dire themes...to this day, I love every song by JA ...check 2400 Fulton ST. (where they lived in San Fran in 66-69.)
Bottom line--- gifted songwriters collaborated with great musicians + acid =
some really thought provoking and soul satisfying music...
@lateforthesky61 I actually think Marijuana did more for their music..Marty talks about writing Comin' Back to Me instantly after smoking a joint and I doubt you can write music on acid.. at least not amazingly mellow music like that and this..I'm sure acid was a major part of changing their whole mindset so it would always be part of it but when writing music I bet they were often just smoking joints. Performing live they would more likely be on acid or at least grass but I could be wrong.
Good points Fried. A few shots and some very potent weed are always inpirational.
The stronger stuff creates different reactions in different people. Just making a general statement.
However, slightly off topic, listen to "3rd Stone from the Sun" by Hendrix or all of "Axis Bold as Love" on the major stuff--- an utterly transformative experience not necessarily accessible without the DCBA-25.
An "epiphany," but I'm viewing through the lense of a much younger version of myself!
@lateforthesky61 yea I could tell you were just making a general statement but I just couldn't help but be a smart ass know it all lol yea I totally agree both 3rd Stone and Are You Experienced are really spacey and trippy definately a good example of acid type songs, Hendrix has alot.. Check out the Wolfgangsvault website for alot of live Airplane and Hendrix if you haven't already discovered it.
These folks can re-ignite memories so easily. An enjoyable time in my life...no responsibilities, no constraints, and no foreseeable end in sight. Thank you, Jefferson Airplane.
This is going to makeme cry forever... I can't avoid... is simple... I start to cry... Today I know what I want to do but I don't know what for To be living for you is all I want to do To be loving you it'll all be there when my dreams come true (...) Today you'll look into my eyes, I'm just not the same To be anymore than all I am would be a lie I'm so full of love I could burst apart and start to cry Today everything you want, I swear it all will come true
i remember the monterey music festival- this song was poorly miked. only half of the instrumentation is heard. but the music is so well composed- it did not matter... i was only eleven at the time (1967) but i should have left home for frisco. my family was a torture chamber. i live knowing the difference and how we are all surrounded by lies and fear still today.
I can't even remember how many times I heard and saw them in concert. They always played their best at the Filmore in SF! Grace was the first person I met in the Haight!
I can't even remember how many times I heard and saw them in concert. They always played their best at the Filmore in SF! Grace was the first person I met in the Haight!
@TheCrazydeath1 I don't get high anymore but I can say that this song makes me high! It always takes me back to a special place and time! Glad you love it too!
@satellite121362 me to,i live in my mind in the sixties evertime,the sounds of today makes me angry,memories are the best way to travel in our minds and enjoy this everytime!
@satellite121362 AMEN!! I can remember standing in the local record shop circa 1967 and only had a couple of dollars, trying to decide whether to buy "Surrealistic Pillow" or "Are You Experienced". I bought the Hendrix album...
I think, perhaps, that some of the people incessantly complaining of how modern music is shit simply don't understand the evolution of the modern mind. Sure, older music still feels 'deep', especially if you have a lot of memories tied to it, but music evolves with people. Some people just refuse to evolve.
@mhickey84 But back then people actually did put time and hard work into making something good with quality, something they really belivede in. Today there are so many "artist" who's only in it for the money. They don't give two shits about the music they put out there, as long as its selling to the stupid "tweens" and teens who buys it.
Paul Kantner is a principled voluntaryist anarchist. He's a genius compared to most of the idiots who supposedly oppose the government / wars these days. If you're looking for music with similar principles, check out "Vennaskond" "Leon Czolgosz Song". If you're looking for the core of revolution in America, it all revolves around the lost rights of the jury. Google Fully Informed Jury Association, and International Society for Individual Liberty. Also, read about "Freeborn" John Lilburne.
I love this song and the album is a good fellow for me
LSMFTbitch 6 days ago
Not as good as Tom Scotts version. No disrespect.
BIGGjamzz 1 week ago
@BIGGjamzz I like both versions. The Jefferson Airplane gives me a more haunting feeling, but a good haunting feeling. Tom Scott's version has a more upbeat vibe but it retains a certain special impact to the listener. I probably prefer the Jefferson Airplane version, but I don't know whether that makes Tom's version inferior.
SpadeMate 6 days ago
@SpadeMate Yeah I get you, I can't really say one is better than the other to be fair.. its personal preferance. They both are musicaly very good in there own genre.
BIGGjamzz 2 days ago
They were Riding a magnificent Wave and it finally washed against the shore and rolled back. It's about to happen again soon.
Nicholsontheatre19 1 week ago
Jerry on the guitar riff intro is a great touch, plus according to "The History of the Grateful Dead" written by the long time publicist for the dead, Dennis McNally, Jerry was also given credit for creating the name of this album, Surrealistic Pillow.
lostsailordesign 1 week ago
I used to go out with a Native American girl - and - this song would pop into my head. Damn the memories!
MegaHusker22 1 week ago
BEAUTIFUL!
MrThorndawg 1 week ago
godlike.
deniki4 2 weeks ago
Se emotional, so real. Can't stop listening to this=3
TheLuvecerviere 2 weeks ago
this song has so much positive vibes i could literally see happiness floating through the air
dakinedakineman 2 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos 5
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midmodgal 2 weeks ago
I wish I could sing this to my beautiful wife; but I suck at singing so that's out.
Tombstoneblues19 2 weeks ago 4
What if someone came up to you and said: "Out of all Rock n Roll songs, from 1955 to 2012, pick the most beautiful one of all." I would say: "There's several candidates." But if you pressed me, if you insisted i choose just one, I would HAVE to pick this one right here. Because it Truly Is! Just listen. Now write something more beautiful than this. You can't. And no one can. Thank you, Marty and Grace, I am grateful to hear this.
54markl 2 weeks ago 3
I'm gonna give up what I am doing, go back to college, study physics, invent a time machine so I can listen to this one song live
kvrk2000 2 weeks ago 2
@kvrk2000 Can I give up my shitty factory job and travel back with you?! x hehe!
NoRosesForMe 1 week ago
Great copy-book hand!
Bruno47602 2 weeks ago
Jerry Garcia playing with Jefferson Airplane. Now all we need is Janis Joplin.
Slohand1993 2 weeks ago
Tom Scott's was better in my opinion. It just feels too strong in my chest... so strong it's truly indescribable.
ScienceGamesMusicGod 3 weeks ago
I can't decide which one is better, the original or the one Tom Scott did.
408Laced 3 weeks ago
Check out Sludge9509, a band trying to bring back the music everybody in the 60s/70s loved, with it's own unique twist!
Radonwings 3 weeks ago
This song is like a drug
TheLuvecerviere 3 weeks ago 2
im on the crack of music :)
love2swimgirl 4 weeks ago
BRING BACK WOODSTOCK RAINBOWS!!
asktheanswer424 1 month ago 3
beeen listenin to this all morning hippie healin
asktheanswer424 1 month ago 4
im high as fuck
RoBeRtOroflz 1 month ago 30
Correct Performer Listing for this Song is: Marty Balin - Lead Vocals, Tambourine
Grace Slick - Vocals
Jorma Kaukonen - Guitar
Paul Kantner - Guitar, Vocals
Jack Casady - Bass
Spencer Dryden - Drums
Jerry Garcia - Lead Guitar
dracula9 1 month ago in playlist More videos from JeffersonJukebox
@dracula9 Jerry Garcia plays in this song? Holy shit, Jerry Garcia + Jefferson Airplane=psychedelic awesomeness
agking50 1 month ago 2
What a Minute, that opening lead is played by Jerry Garcia, why is he not listed in the credits? (Yes he was a guest player on this Song)
dracula9 1 month ago in playlist More videos from JeffersonJukebox
You don't just SEE God when you hear this song. Terrifying.
54markl 1 month ago
The Most Beautiful Rock 'n Roll Song Ever Written. You can't touch this.
54markl 1 month ago 3
Black Sheep - Similak Child
You're The Woman
Jamal249999 1 month ago
Very emotional music, this took some talent to write.. that is why no one makes music like this anymore
boneyardhunter 1 month ago
thats all.
Islingtonians 1 month ago
One of the BEST of all albums, up there with Pepper, White Album, Disraeli Gears, Pet Sounds, Zoso
SeattleLA 1 month ago 2
The angels in Heaven are singing. It makes me cry.
54markl 1 month ago
Devastatingly beautiful. Possibly the most beautiful thing ever written. ;(
54markl 1 month ago
One long drunk night got it last night when I heard this song.
You should have heard the house.
It was bizarre, but it brought so many people closer together.
kaylunxxx 1 month ago
How long will it be until we can not find this? seems this site has gone way too commercial. Too bad for the young ones who may miss this.
abidnessman 1 month ago
You're only as pretty as you feel...oh, those fantasies of Grace Slick....
jtelefunken7 1 month ago
Hear that opening riff?/ pure Jerry......later to be used on "friend of devil"......love it when the airplane flew with the dead
iorioriorio 1 month ago 2
"We were expecting Haight-Ashbury to be special, a creative and artistic place, filled with Beautiful People, but it was horrible - full of ghastly drop-outs, bums and spotty youths, all out of their brains." George Harrison
probrojeffro 2 months ago
@probrojeffro I went to Rio de Janerio cause they sold me a Fred and Ginger Ballroom waltz. It was more like a gang rape in a laundromat.. My cabbie said in a moment of repose, "I`m sorry we`re not what they told you we were"...
Kharkovkid 1 month ago
@Kharkovkid Interesting.
probrojeffro 1 month ago
great tune, a little melancholy for my tastes here but i LOVE the tom scott version.
BigDipper13 2 months ago
I recommend everyone to check out the Monterey performance of this as well. It has a sublime, psychedelic keyboard riff on it.
TheOneartist 2 months ago
I've read that Jerry Garcia, unbilled, performed that introductory and then-repeated guitar lick. Anybody know if that's true? Just curious. Either way, this is a lovely record of a lovely song --
stevevandien 2 months ago
Got this album when it came out - I was 22. Still listen regularly to my sixth copy. This is a fantastic album, but don't sell "Baxter's" short.
66pigman 2 months ago
In 1975ish at a free concert in SF JA played this, with Marty Balin, and I was10 feet away,will always remember that and this great song.
abidnessman 2 months ago
great song, great album
jacks36172 2 months ago in playlist jacks36172's favorites 3
great song!
Riethian 2 months ago in playlist Blues
This song gives me such a heavy feeling inside,..my heart starts beating hard and all I can think about is surrender.
DZgirl837 2 months ago
@DZgirl837 very well put, i feel the same. but surrender to whom... or what?
bloodshotcomedy 2 months ago
@bloodshotcomedy to true love. to a kind of love that only comes once in a lifetime. There is a particular person that comes to mind for me when I hear it.
DZgirl837 1 month ago
The greatest non Grace Slick song that Jefferson Airplane produced.
ycanada 2 months ago 4
1998thatperson1998 3 months ago
This song is the signature song for me of the first real love of my life.
davmil51 3 months ago
Did you know that Jerry Garcia (of the Grateful Dead, if u didn't know) did session musican work on this track?
psychesoap 3 months ago
@psychesoap Did work on Baron Von Tollbooth too. Spacey Gracie learned to use her voice as an overlay like Papa John used his fiddle, great stuff on that album.
JimboLAngeloMysterio 3 months ago
@iowkidd I dunno...I'm an American and I have AT LEAST two bands from your country that are better at psychedelia than we are, here in America. lol (hint: "....hanging on in quiet desperation is the Englsh way" <-- that is their lyric, hope you instantly know it this time)
psychesoap 3 months ago
I always expect to hear white rabbit immediately after this song ends per The Worst of JA
jackhillty 3 months ago
Why cant the world be like this song , im so in love with this masterpiece ! xxx
trickykid73 3 months ago
LISTON TO THIS SONG MARCIA DIANE ARGUELLES I WISH YOU WELL SORRY FOR THE PAST, THIS SONG IS MY SORRY. E-MAIL ME AT davejthomson66@yahoo.ca. I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO YOU. IF YOU CAN WE CAN TALK ON THE E-MAIL OR PHONE. I WISH YOU PEACE AND GOOD WILL. DOWN THERE IN SEATTLE. STILL LOVING YOU DAVE.
davejthomson 3 months ago
This is life ....
lymnocryptes1 3 months ago
Summer of '67. Living in the Bay Area, just graduated HS, listening to this on KFRC, the draft was a million miles and a couple years away. Listening to this gave me a brief but wonderful "flashback."
83rrsou 3 months ago
More reverb!
clucaspik 3 months ago
Oh god! Why doesn't music sound like this anymore?
Ayannafuckingnichole 3 months ago 44
@Ayannafuckingnichole They took the soul out of it and trampled it flat, that´s why.
Livsangel 3 months ago
@Ayannafuckingnichole Thank you for being on this planet at this time in history--you are glorious
jach07 3 months ago
@Ayannafuckingnichole -- why? one answer.. computer technology
spiritparaclete 2 months ago
@Ayannafuckingnichole Because it's evolved......Great song, but you can't live in the past...........
Univermag 1 month ago
@Univermag says who so ur saying where stuck in a time warp
cfazekas0441 1 month ago
@cfazekas0441 No....probably stuck on a prolonged acid trip if you're listening to this song...lol
Univermag 1 month ago
@Ayannafuckingnichole because music changes but at the same time it's timless
llamasarus1 1 month ago
@Ayannafuckingnichole because people don't want to feel emotional and care
dy30n 3 weeks ago
@Ayannafuckingnichole Times changed...consciousness morphed...I was lucky
I was there ...and I'll never forget ...
I'm playing this at my wedding
andyrauf 2 weeks ago in playlist My True Love
oh how i wish it did
NateCST 2 weeks ago
gorgeous..a sublime rock song.
DavidChaseDance 4 months ago
A *favourite* of mine ♥
ButterflyRoseX 4 months ago
This is one of my all time favorite songs!!! Brings back too many memories to count.
sinfullone216 4 months ago
i just wonna thanks brothers Coen... for a "A Serious Man" cuz probably if not them... i would never heard this song.
franchi123 4 months ago in playlist Ulubione filmy użytkownika franchi123
@franchi123 SAME HERE. Coen brothers forever. If I had never seen A Serious Man (awesome film BTW) I never would have found Jefferson Airplane.
blaaairVideos 4 months ago
I LOVE THIS FUCKING SONG~~STILL....TODAY.
Islingtonians 4 months ago
I LOVE how this song has evolved! From this version to Tom Scott and then to Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth...all three are amazing :)
caramellocutie 4 months ago
so chill :)
sonicsteev 4 months ago
Grace Slick was a sexy hippy girl.
Hunter S. Thompson had good taste.
ThePoliticalPugilist 4 months ago 3
@ThePoliticalPugilist I read that he used to drive down to the Matrix all the time because he had a crush on her. Aww
yoorheinez 4 months ago
What truly wonderful time we had listening to such magical music
stepenwolf7 4 months ago
@stepenwolf7 Today's songwriters should be made to listen to this. The simplicity of it works so well. Don't need alot of "bells and whistles".
Johnmadwiscclem 4 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Jefferson Airplane
@iowkidd I don't. u don't have to be high to dig this song..their music resonates with the inner being on an incredible and domestic level , i think someone in that band saw it that way. its no accident..lots of rappers have sampled this song too..it sounds enchanting wherever it goes, whatever length its played, and no matter what accompanies it..even gunshots.
majest33 4 months ago
watch?v=g1DjUtQLMko please spread the word asmap, super crucial project and super nice after a safety break!
BOUNDLESSEARTH 4 months ago
Given this album Surrealistic Pillow as a Christmas present by my older brother around 1970 and got into Jefferson Airplane and the West Coast music scene. I was around 14 years.......and just fell in love with Marty Balin and Jefferson Airplane. Today just fills me with emotion and sadness and all kinda stuff makes me feel about my past life and people I once knew.
worldwonders1 4 months ago
I love this album, one of my favorites. this song alone is just awesome.
Flamekid507 4 months ago
Why do I have tears in my eyes when I hear this song?
scris4u 4 months ago
i was born at the wrong time i missed all the greats
phreestylesk8r 5 months ago 2
Yes I was born in '78, but this is music...
emander2001 5 months ago
This song is one of the most beautiful masterpeices ever created for the human ear..
manutdtreble7 5 months ago 85
@manutdtreble7
I quite agree! Balin was/is a fine songwriter and WOW, his voice at this time was at its PEAK of beauty and power!
Babyhowdy233 4 months ago
Full of love...I could burst apart...If my novel "Still Life" becomes a film---this song will open the credits.
007johnc 5 months ago
thumps up if you are a neo hippie
dhani7165 5 months ago
@dhani7165 ...and know that that is not the same as being a hipster, mind you!
HappyHumanism 5 months ago
@HappyHumanism uhm...duh
dhani7165 5 months ago
See Black Sheep "Similak Child" (1991)
mjn76 5 months ago 2
@mjn76 SO GOOD!
Letuce195 4 months ago
This is my very favorite song from that time... magical, soooo romantic...beautifully executed...brings tears to my eyes.
eaglepose1 5 months ago
The hippies on that Star Trek episode sounded better than this.
marvy1118 5 months ago
Played this song at my wedding when hubby and I were married 2001.
stillrockn3 5 months ago
Yes, I refuse to outgrow these songs too! Great song to cover.
lisalandy7 5 months ago
anyone remember the movie "Coming Home", with Jon Voight as the disabled Vietnam vet and Jane Fonda as his lover?...this song played while he ate her out.
rowdymax1 5 months ago 2
@rowdymax1 jon voight in a sex scene scares me, i'll pass.
joojoojuice 5 months ago
@rowdymax1 @joojoojuice I haven't seen it but think they both won Oscars for that movie
TechLinkOnline 5 months ago
I like this...so much emotion so much love...to feel this way about someone is one of the best feelings in the world. Love each other people...
funtyme2007 5 months ago
Their Most Sacred Love song !
autodelete66 5 months ago
Jerry Garcia plays the simple, repetitive but poignant lead guitar riff on the song.[2]
Phanstern1 5 months ago
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im a 14 year old who cant get enough of jefferson airplane
XxLexiLuvsDaPandazxX 5 months ago
beautiful
jimmyk19581 6 months ago
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won't you try.
animascat 6 months ago
I play... so the harmonics are great. Also check the alternate tuning on Jorma Kaukonen's "The Water Song."I had it at one point and it brings the finger picking in more tightly...go to his website or Google "water song alternate tuning."
You master this song, you will literally be loving life...my favorite song. Period.
lateforthesky61 6 months ago
I love that intro..very easy yet very fun to play on guitar..the open A to the 12th fret A harmonic part at :05 is so awesome
FrequentlyFried 6 months ago
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FrequentlyFried 6 months ago
I saw my teacher dead in a coffin when I was in 2nd grade.This song was on my dad's turntable which at the time was the "The Worst of Jefferson Airplane" -- fast forward, I love this band and they wrote great melody with the most dire themes...to this day, I love every song by JA ...check 2400 Fulton ST. (where they lived in San Fran in 66-69.)
Bottom line--- gifted songwriters collaborated with great musicians + acid =
some really thought provoking and soul satisfying music...
lateforthesky61 6 months ago
@lateforthesky61 I actually think Marijuana did more for their music..Marty talks about writing Comin' Back to Me instantly after smoking a joint and I doubt you can write music on acid.. at least not amazingly mellow music like that and this..I'm sure acid was a major part of changing their whole mindset so it would always be part of it but when writing music I bet they were often just smoking joints. Performing live they would more likely be on acid or at least grass but I could be wrong.
FrequentlyFried 6 months ago
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lateforthesky61 6 months ago
@FrequentlyFried
Good points Fried. A few shots and some very potent weed are always inpirational.
The stronger stuff creates different reactions in different people. Just making a general statement.
However, slightly off topic, listen to "3rd Stone from the Sun" by Hendrix or all of "Axis Bold as Love" on the major stuff--- an utterly transformative experience not necessarily accessible without the DCBA-25.
An "epiphany," but I'm viewing through the lense of a much younger version of myself!
lateforthesky61 6 months ago
@lateforthesky61 yea I could tell you were just making a general statement but I just couldn't help but be a smart ass know it all lol yea I totally agree both 3rd Stone and Are You Experienced are really spacey and trippy definately a good example of acid type songs, Hendrix has alot.. Check out the Wolfgangsvault website for alot of live Airplane and Hendrix if you haven't already discovered it.
FrequentlyFried 6 months ago
Haunting. And beautiful.
devtrev 6 months ago 14
I'm sober and I like this song. And all their other songs,... always have.
aaa567ify 6 months ago
@aaa567ify Sobriety is for people that can't handle alcohol.
whoopyourasstonite 6 months ago
@whoopyourasstonite That was real fun to type I bet. Have fun watching the video.
aaa567ify 6 months ago
Today I realized how much I'm in love with you....gorgeous lyrics - this song means so much to me!
celtica99 6 months ago
amazing.
FrequentlyFried 6 months ago
una delle canzoni d'amore più belle di sempre.. mi piange il cuore dall'emozione
ake2293 7 months ago
Beautiful!
thegizable 7 months ago
Check out the Tom Scott & the California Dreamers version. The horns are something else.
KingRizlaa 7 months ago
These folks can re-ignite memories so easily. An enjoyable time in my life...no responsibilities, no constraints, and no foreseeable end in sight. Thank you, Jefferson Airplane.
Bluebonnett52 7 months ago
Herjos 7 months ago
Tears.
triplettam 7 months ago
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andredashiznit1 7 months ago
@andredashiznit1
seriously!?!?! Jefferson Airplane wrote and created this majesty that Tom Scott covered you can pretty much hear their vocals in his song lol
Logik420films 7 months ago
Marty Balin fucking rules! I love this song..pure and simple.
ThePharmakia 7 months ago
i think all the world needs a "reset"...isn't right?
andino444 7 months ago
blaze it
MySkyizBlue 7 months ago
amazing vocal duet with Marty Balin and Grace Slick
MikeRes52 7 months ago
This is the definition of real, pure love to me. mmhm
fersholol 7 months ago
@fersholol I wish to listen to this song with my woman while on LSD
coppurt 7 months ago 2
Life has changed, I wished there was an apocalypse in 2000
dublife43 7 months ago 4
i love weed...........
rath223 7 months ago 2
i remember the monterey music festival- this song was poorly miked. only half of the instrumentation is heard. but the music is so well composed- it did not matter... i was only eleven at the time (1967) but i should have left home for frisco. my family was a torture chamber. i live knowing the difference and how we are all surrounded by lies and fear still today.
cshargeit 7 months ago
I have the original royaly contract and lead sheet for this and several other JA songs from this album. All with original signatures.
anthonytorelli 7 months ago
@anthonytorelli Wow! How did you come across those??
boomshine87 7 months ago
@boomshine87 Auction
anthonytorelli 7 months ago
my god jerry's guitar playing makes this song
MixmasterFizzle 7 months ago
-I'm the King...
...
apreciatte this music makesme feel like a King of Kings...-
Herjos 8 months ago
This song and others on the album are used to great effect in the movie A Serious Man.
x24z26 8 months ago
Wow what great song the LP Surealistic Pillow was such a great album.
Takes me back to 1967 and the Summer of Love.
jbibb66 8 months ago 3
I can't even remember how many times I heard and saw them in concert. They always played their best at the Filmore in SF! Grace was the first person I met in the Haight!
One of their best songs ever!
ggreenwood4 8 months ago
I can't even remember how many times I heard and saw them in concert. They always played their best at the Filmore in SF! Grace was the first person I met in the Haight!
ggreenwood4 8 months ago
I love getting high to this song
TheCrazydeath1 8 months ago 75
@TheCrazydeath1 ..... and making love .... :)
Ilaab1995 8 months ago
@TheCrazydeath1 me too
slutypet 6 months ago
@TheCrazydeath1 The most powerful part is when it's getting to "Today everything you want I swear", do you fell it too?
Lorcar12 6 months ago
@Lorcar12 Do I fell it? Don't know, but I definitely feel it.
Amhlair 5 months ago
@Amhlair I didn't know that... but it makes sense.
rainereric 5 months ago
@TheCrazydeath1 Jefferson airplane and boston are my two favoret bands to listento when im high
pigmouth22 5 months ago
@TheCrazydeath1 With this song, I get High naturally !
autodelete66 5 months ago
@TheCrazydeath1 I don't get high anymore but I can say that this song makes me high! It always takes me back to a special place and time! Glad you love it too!
laverne899 5 months ago
its all ready made for radio bs. only need 5 min of fame to cash in.
theseeker6966 8 months ago
This is one of my favorite songs by Airplane. They were so awesome!!! I refuse to outgrow the hippy inside me. lol
satellite121362 8 months ago 64
@satellite121362 me to,i live in my mind in the sixties evertime,the sounds of today makes me angry,memories are the best way to travel in our minds and enjoy this everytime!
mick59707 8 months ago 2
@satellite121362
Oh so totally... this whole album is a real epiphany!
lateforthesky61 6 months ago
@satellite121362 AMEN!! I can remember standing in the local record shop circa 1967 and only had a couple of dollars, trying to decide whether to buy "Surrealistic Pillow" or "Are You Experienced". I bought the Hendrix album...
fscap811 6 months ago 2
@fscap811 Ah, you did well.
marvy1118 5 months ago
@satellite121362 correction you cant outgrow a hippy thats already inside of you :D
bluz1231 5 months ago 3
I'm so fool of love
zampadeorso24 8 months ago
I think, perhaps, that some of the people incessantly complaining of how modern music is shit simply don't understand the evolution of the modern mind. Sure, older music still feels 'deep', especially if you have a lot of memories tied to it, but music evolves with people. Some people just refuse to evolve.
mhickey84 8 months ago
@mhickey84 But back then people actually did put time and hard work into making something good with quality, something they really belivede in. Today there are so many "artist" who's only in it for the money. They don't give two shits about the music they put out there, as long as its selling to the stupid "tweens" and teens who buys it.
safte7860 8 months ago 3
This song really creates a a powerful mellow vibe throughout my body.
t33spoon 9 months ago 2
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libertarianjury 9 months ago
Feel the wave
NicoPepperFunk 9 months ago